Like every Friday for months, GNOME published another article last night about new things you are working on and others that have already reached your world or circle. Being published already late on Friday, sometimes we echo instantly, but others, like today, we write the article already on Saturday. All things considered, it's only been a few hours and they're not specific major release items either, so it's not a tragedy.
But if this particular article has taken longer to arrive, it has been because something on the server where thisweek.gnome.org is hosted has been failing and showing the “502 Bad Gateway” error. It was known that they had published an article, but the slug of the URL did not even give us clues as to what the post would be called. For more INRI, KDE, a project that also publishes its work on weekends, has delayed its article until tomorrow. Some time later, when the GNOME domain was already accessible, we were able to consult its content and publish the news this week.
This week in GNOME
- GNOME 42 now available.
- Released libadwaita 1.1 and libhandy 1.6.
- Identity v0.2, ported to GTK 4 and libadwaita, is out. The old file switcher has been replaced with tabs that you can rearrange and drag between windows. The Video Trimmer has also been updated with new translations.
- Now available Metadata Cleaner 2.2, an application to delete metadata from files. It now uses the GNOME 42 runtime and the interface has been improved.
- Commit 3.1.0 has arrived with:
- Now with GtkSourceView.
- Syntax highlighting for Git, Mercurial, and diffs.
- New keyboard shortcuts, see Ctrl+?
- Automatically capitalize the commit title.
- Smart body wrap.
- Various fixes.
- Apostrophe 2.6 has arrived with multi-window support, dark mode support and a revamped interface using libhandy.
- Random 1.4 has completely improved the view of Roulette, and the app is easier to use.
- New version of Workbench with:
- Possibility to make a png screenshot of the preview.
- The console is now resizable.
- Redesigned the dark/light mode toggle.
- Shows the platform and dependencies in the "About" dialog.
- Update to the GNOME 42 platform.
- Various fixes.
- Portfolio 0.9.14 has arrived with improved UX for unlocking devices, among other fixes.
- Phosh 0.17.0 now has a mobile data indicator and support for
org.freedesktop.imp.portal.Access. - Lots of improvements to Fractal, which has received a major update.
And that has been all this week in GNOME