Although they've been flirting with the idea for over two years, when Ubuntu 20.04 was released, they didn't break the news until this week. GNOME Shell will also be available on mobile devices, because no, currently it is not. What there is is Phosh, which is based on GNOME and is developed by Librem, and what we are dealing with here would be the desktop that the project would bring to mobile phones directly, without intermediate points. Something like Plasma Mobile already does (archive article).
As for the release date, they have not said anything today or during the week, when the news broke. Yes there is a rumor that ensures that it will next to GNOME 43, planned for September, and in the this week's article in GNOME they say that "could be running on your phone sooner than you think«, to later contribute a link with more information.
This week in GNOME
- GNOME Shell is coming to mobile devices. In your roadmap, we fear:
- Release a new API for gestures and screen size detection is done. The following is in preparation.
- Panel layers, with a top and bottom panel, a bit like what we have in Phosh.
- Workspaces and multitasking.
- App grid layer.
- On-screen keyboard.
- Quick settings.
- WebKitGTK 2.36.3 includes security fixes to prevent remote code execution. They are not aware that any of them have been exploited. Multimedia code has also been improved, such as GStreamer elements, hardware acceleration enabled on some devices, capturing when using PipeWire, and video playback.
- GNOME Software has added support for listing other applications by the same author.
- The calling app now supports VoIP calls to make SRTP instead of flat RTP.
- GLib has fixed a dead end in GFileMonitor.
- Gaphor, a simple tool for modeling UML and SysML, went up to v2.10.0, and activity diagrams have been extended. On the other hand, the loading of the models has been improved and it finally supports drag and drop from the tree to the diagram.
- Authenticator has received a fix update, and also migrates our keyring tokens into a sandbox so other apps can't access them.
- Flatseal 1.8.0 has arrived with the ability to review and modify the general override, among other small improvements.
- Amberol has been updated again with many UI improvements.
And that has been all this week in GNOME