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August 8, 2025 • 7 News • Curated by FelixUpdate on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 01 to August 08.
GNOME Core Apps and Libraries
GNOME Shell ↗
Core system user interface for things like launching apps, switching windows, system search, and more.
swick says
Screen brightness handling has been overhauled! The immediate benefit is that the screen brightness controls in the Quick Settings menu now work in HDR mode and with multiple monitors.
Read more in my blog post: https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/gnome-49-backlight-changes/
GLib ↗
The low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK and GNOME.
Philip Withnall reports
Tobias Stoeckmann has been fixing many corner cases in array handling code in GLib, making it more robust, and has also found time to help with reformatting and improving the documentation.
We could do with help to finish the port of GLib to gi-docgen! If you can spare half an hour to tidy up a piece of the API documentation so it follows the new API doc guidelines then please pick something off #3250, thank you!
GNOME Incubating Apps
Alice (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 reports
right before the UI freeze, Papers got a new text selection style, matching the rest of the apps - selection is translucent, and the original text color is visible through it. This required an API addition in Poppler and will only work in nightly for now - if Poppler is too old, it will revert to the previous style
GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries
Tuba ↗
Browse the Fediverse.
GeopJr 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 says
Tuba v0.10.0 is now available, with many new features and bug fixes!
✨ Highlights:
- New Composer
- Grouped Notifications
- Play media from third-party services in-app with Clapper
- In-app web browser
- Collapse long posts
- Mastodon quotes
- Iceshrimp Drive
- ‘Featured’ Profile tab
- Local-only posting
- Search History
- Alt text from file metadata
Third Party Projects
Alexander Vanhee says
Gradia now has at least 127% more gradients thanks to the new gradient selector, which now supports radial and conic modes as well as custom color stops. I also took advantage of Gradia being a windowed annotation tool by implementing zooming, making it easier to draw with precision.
Try it out via Flathub.
Pipeline ↗
Follow your favorite video creators.
schmiddi announces
Pipeline version 3.0.0 was released. This release is a major redesign of the UI to be more intuitive as well as adaptive for both desktop and mobile. See the changelog for more information regarding the release. Huge thanks to lo for creating the mockup as well as helping to implement and test this version, as well as Alexander for the help implementing quite a lot of the updated UI and also testing.
If you are running Pipeline on an older device without GLES 3.0 support like the PinePhone, note that due to an update in GTK removing GLES 2.0 support the application will now be software rendered, decreasing performance and breaking the internal video player. I recommend switching to use an external video player, like Clapper, instead. There is also a setting to use cairo software rendering instead of LLVMpipe, which in my testing improves performance a bit on those devices.
GNOME Foundation
barthalion announces
GNOME Foundation members (and SSO account holders in general) have two new services at their disposal:
- vault.gnome.org, a password manager backed by Vaultwarden. Create an account with your
@gnome.orge-mail alias; it is not tied to the SSO and so accounts remain active even when the membership expires. Please keep in mind we cannot recover your password, and thus the content of your vault, unless you are a member of staff or the board.- reader.gnome.org, an RSS reader backed by Miniflux. Simply log in with your SSO account like to other services. It can also be used with Newsflash after generating an API key in settings.
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!