#219 Deciphering Hieroglyphs
October 3, 2025 • 5 Notes • Curated by FelixUpdate on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from September 26 to October 03.
GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries
Hieroglyphic ↗
Find LaTeX symbols
FineFindus reports
I’ve just released a new version of Hieroglyphic. Thanks to Brage’s redesign, the application is now responsive and can be used on mobile devices. This release also includes:
- support for blackboard bold characters
- minor accessibility improvements
- improvements to the classifier
- a switch to the industry-standard ONNX runtime, which provides some minor speed enhancements
Third Party Projects
Dzheremi announces
Chronograph 5.0 with a new player comes on October 5th On October 5th the Chronograph 5.0 release will come out with a new GStreamer player introducing a better volume control with state saving and more anticipated feature: Playback speed control. It is a good feature for such thing as lyrics syncing, which is Chronograph is used for. This update will help the syncers to more precisely sync lyrics, especially in word-by-word mode, where words could be sung really quick.
Test the new player right now by downloading a Release Candidate, so you may help to find bugs before the release.
Sync lyrics of your loved songs 🕒
Lock ↗
Process data with GnuPG
Konstantin Tutsch says
Lock v1.8.0 is out!
This release marks a milestone.
Lock’s UX and UI, as well as performance, have been gradually improved over the last year. Bugs have been discovered and eliminated. Translations have been updated and extended.
Oh, and this release also moved to the GNOME 49 runtime. So, if you need a native GPG front-end on your GNOME desktop, try Lock!
Available on Flathub
Flatseal ↗
A graphical utility to review and modify permissions of Flatpak applications.
Martín Abente Lahaye says
Flatseal 2.4.0 is out 🚀
This new release comes with support for the new USB device permission, modernized widgets from Libadwaita 1.8, a way for other third-party applications to launch Flatseal with a given APP ID selected, updated translations, and a few bug fixes.
Get it from Flathub!
GNOME Foundation
Allan Day reports
Another GNOME Foundation weekly update is available for this week. Notable highlights include work done as part of the Sovereign Tech Resilience program, touching base with Black Python Devs, and fun chasing lawyers.
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!