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July 11, 2025 • 8 News • Curated by Felix

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 04 to July 11.

GNOME Core Apps and Libraries

Calendar ↗

A simple calendar application.

FineFindus reports

GNOME Calendar now allows exporting events as .ics files, allowing them to be easily shared.

GNOME Development Tools

GNOME Builder ↗

IDE for writing GNOME-based software.

Nokse reports

This week GNOME Builder received some new features!

• Inline git blame to see who last modified each line of code
• Changes and diagnostics overview displayed directly in the scrollbar
• Enhanced LSP markdown rendering with syntax highlighting

GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries

Déjà Dup Backups ↗

A simple backup tool.

Michael Terry says

TWIG-Bot Déjà Dup Backups 49.alpha is out for testing!

It features a UI refresh and file-manager-based restores (for Restic only).

Read the announcement for install instructions and more info.

Any feedback is appreciated!

Third Party Projects

Dev Toolbox ↗

Dev tools at your fingertips

Alessandro Iepure reports

When I first started Dev Toolbox, it was just a simple tool I built for myself, a weekend project born out of curiosity and the need for something useful. I never imagined anyone else would care about it, let alone use it regularly. I figured maybe a few developers here and there would find it helpful. But then people started using it. Reporting bugs. Translating it. Opening pull requests. Writing reviews. Sharing it with friends. And suddenly, it wasn’t just my toolbox anymore. Fast forward to today: over 50k downloads on Flathub and 300 stars on GitHub. I still can’t quite believe it.

To every contributor, translator, tester, reviewer, or curious user who gave it a shot: thank you. You turned a small idea into something real, something useful, and something I’m proud to keep building.

Enough feelings. Let’s talk about what’s new in v1.3.0!

• New tool: Color Converter Convert between HEX, RGB, HSL, and other formats. (Thanks @Flachz)
• JWT tool improvements You can now encode payloads and verify signatures. (Thanks @Flachz)
• Chmod tool upgrade Added support for setuid, setgid, and the sticky bit. (Thanks @Flachz)
• Improved search, inside and out
  • The app now includes extra keywords and metadata, making it easier to discover in app stores and desktops
  • In-app search now matches tool keywords, not just their names. (Thanks @freeducks-debug)
• Now a GNOME search provider You can search and launch Dev Toolbox tools straight from the Overview
• Updated translations Many new translatable strings were added this release. Thank you to all translators who chipped in.

GNOME Websites

Victoria 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 she/her reports

On welcome.gnome.org, of all of the listed teams, only Translation and Documentation Teams linked to their wikis instead of their respective Welcome pages. But now this changes for Translation Team! After several months of working on this we finally have our own Welcome page. Now is the best time to make GNOME speak your language!

Miscellaneous

Arjan reports

PyGObject has support for async functions since 3.50. Now the async functions and methods are also discoverable from the GNOME Python API documentation.

GNOME Foundation

steven announces

The 2025-07-05 Foundation Update is out:

• Grants and Fellowships Plan
• Friends of GNOME, social media partners, shell notification
• Annual Report… I haven’t done it yet
• Fiscal Controls and Operational Resilience… yay?
• Digital Wellbeing Frontend Kickoff
• Office Hours
• A Hacker in Need

https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/07/05/2025-07-05-foundation-update/

Digital Wellbeing Project ↗

Ignacy Kuchciński (ignapk) reports

As part of the Digital Wellbeing project, sponsored by the GNOME Foundation, there is an initiative to redesign the Parental Controls to bring it on par with modern GNOME apps and implement new features such as Screen Time monitoring, Bedtime Schedule and Web Filtering. Recently the UI for the unlock page was refreshed, the user selector was reworked to be a list rather than a carousel, and navigation was changed to use pages. There’s more to come, see https://blogs.gnome.org/ignapk/2025/07/11/digital-wellbeing-contract/ for more information.

That’s all for this week!

See you next week, and be sure to stop by #thisweek:gnome.org with updates on your own projects!