#262 Minor Major Update

August 14, 2026 • 9 Notes • Curated by Felix

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 7 to August 14.

GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries

Graphs ↗

Plot and manipulate data

Sjoerd Stendahl reports

This week we landed a minor update in Graphs, but with a major improvement for the user experience. In the new version, internal updates such as for the clipboard, view history and axis limits are calculated with a debounce. What this means is that these properties are no longer recalculated upon every single movement when panning or zooming the canvas, instead it will only be calculated after the motion.

The result is a major improvement in user experience on less overpowered hardware such as laptops or older PC’s. The latest update also comes with translation updates and some other bugfixes, such as the elimination of a performance regression after switching style multiple times. See the difference for yourself in the attached video, panning and zooming is significantly smoother now. Recorded on the same laptop!

GNOME Fellowship

Peter Eisenmann announces

I posted about what I did as a GNOME Fellow in July, read about it here :) https://blogs.gnome.org/p3732/fellowship-report-july-2026/

Sovereign Tech Fellowship

Philipp Sauberzweig says

I’ve completed the first month of my Sovereign Tech Fellowship for GNOME Design & Community Management. Check out my blog post for an update about what’s been going on.

Third Party Projects

Cleo Menezes Jr. reports

The new Serigy release makes your slots searchable from the overview. Press Super, type, and you get your text, images and files back as results, ready to copy without opening the app (it needs to be enabled in the Search section of GNOME Settings).

Clipboard monitoring is optional now, so you can leave it off and capture only when you press the shortcut. Copied files are kept as references and paste as files. Content marked sensitive never reaches a slot. The grid goes up to 24 slots, and a new option hides the window right after you copy.

There is also a good amount of fixing: global shortcuts survive a portal restart, saved images no longer live in the cache directory where the system could delete them, logs are rotated instead of growing until the app fell over, and clipboard capture is far more reliable.

Get it on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.cleomenezesjr.Serigy

Mikhail Kostin announces

Vinyl - music player with the best lyrics support, has been updated on v1.6.0! There is a lot of changes and fixes since v1.5.0. I tried to do as much work as possible on the optimization of the player, especially I did a lot for reduce RAM consume, since last version RAM consumes reduced almost 3 times. Also not unimportant to say about new selection mode for remove tracks from main playlist.

Changes and fixes include in this release:

  • Added selection mode for remove tracks from main list
  • Added preferences dialog for introduce more features
  • Added opportunity to auto restore playlist immediately after opening the app
  • Improved restore playlist, currently Vinyl saves host paths for directories to which it has access
  • Improved playlist optimization: large playlists no longer consume a lot of RAM
  • Fixed settings not being saved after re-opening the app
  • Fixed an issue where Vinyl wouldn’t read cover images from folders
  • Fixed minor localization problems
  • Fixed minor UI issues
  • Added Occitan localization language

Today you can see the new version of the Vinyl on Flathub

For Void Linux users Vinyl also distributes on Community-driven repository blackhole-vl in native xbps package

Rat Cornu says

ratic music player comes back after a little break with new features!

The past few weeks have seen versions 0.3.0, 0.3.1 and 0.4.0, introducing a beginning in playlists support, grouping musics by album in artists view, cover and tags export and a lot of other small features and fixes.

You can find it on flathub, or directly on gitlab for rust or nix users.

The current state of ratic stills lack a lot of features I want to see in it, but it will progressively arrive in the next releases.

Thanks to all the people that helped with the localization on weblate and the constructive issues on the repo!

Sjoerd Stendahl announces

This week I also released an update to Lockpicker, a tool to recover passwords from their hash. In the new version a notification is sent when any password is cracked, or when the application is finished. The most exciting part of the new update is a completely new logo thanks to Hylke Bons.

I also started working on a rule designer/tester for Hashcat rules. Which hopefully will be added somewhere in the upcoming weeks. You can get Lockpicker at Flathub.

Anton Isaiev announces

RustConn 0.20.0 is out - connection manager for SSH, RDP, VNC, SPICE, Telnet, Web and Zero Trust (GTK4/libadwaita).

This covers the whole 0.19.x->0.20.0 cycle since the last post. Main new features: detachable session windows, split view improvements (remove from split, local shell in pane), cluster tab groups, floating auto-hide toolbar for RDP/VNC/Web with an option to hide it entirely, GTK renderer chooser (Automatic/GPU/Cairo), session logging with rotation and redaction, automatic login for Telnet/Serial, session restore on startup, terminal history across reconnects, and signed SLSA build provenance.

Fixes: embedded RDP reconnects after sleep (TCP keepalive), X11 clipboard crash resolved, RDM/Royal TS import reworked, credential keyring handling fixed across all backends, FreeRDP 3.26+ compat, macOS tray icon preserved.

Thanks to everyone who uses RustConn, reports bugs, contributes or supports the project. I made it for myself and I’m glad it helps others. If you’d like to support development - the repo has a Sponsor link.

https://github.com/totoshko88/RustConn https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.totoshko88.RustConn https://snapcraft.io/rustconn/

Shell Extensions

🇧🇷️ Fabito02 announces

The ChromaLeon GNOME Shell extension has received updates bringing new features, bug fixes, and improvements.

Among the recent changes are:

  • Stability improvements and bug fixes: Several fixes were made, improving the overall experience and compatibility (a huge thanks to everyone who took the time to submit reports!).

  • Even more customization: You can now adjust the accent color tint level in tinted style, tweaking the interface to fit your exact taste.

  • More robust Hot Reload: Previously, Hot Reload for wallpaper colors was fixed and, while efficient, caused some bottlenecks in certain cases. ChromaLeon now defaults to a much safer method, while also giving you the option to disable it or switch back to the legacy method.

  • Enhanced compatibility (Blur my Shell, PaperWM and others): Extensions like these apply their own styles to the panel, which ended up being overridden by tinted mode. Panel tinting is now optional to prevent these conflicts.

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!