More progress on our quest to move away from GdkPixbuf. Glycin now provides a thumbnailer that can be used to create thumbnails for all image formats for which glycin loaders are installed. This is already resulting in more supported image formats, correct support of color profiles, better support for image that have a higher bit depth than 8-bit, better support for Exif orientations, and memory safe implementation for most of the formats. You can see a comparison for some images with a before (left) and after with glycin thumbnailer (right) on the screenshot below.
This is not properly implemented for GNOMEOS yet, but we are on it.
I have released a new version of ASHPD Demo, the app for testing portals. The release adds support of the USB and Global Shortcut portals contributed with STF support.
After a long period of inactivity, Stockpile 0.5.0 has been released. This release brings the application to the GNOME 48 runtime, as well as improving user experience with a new start screen and the ability to recover corrupted data. See more information about this release on Flathub!
Pipeline version 2.2.0 until 2.2.2 were released this week. Starting from this version, Pipeline will now use all Piped instances configured in the settings in parallel to query the feed. This leads to a massive speedup for querying your feed when you have multiple instances configured (for my subscription list, this was a 7x speedup). Along this line, the Piped instance list is now managed by Pipeline automatically, which downloads a list of working instances on every startup. This should lead to a more reliable experience, and does not require manually finding working instances anymore. A bug was also fixed, where different videos replaced each other in the watch later list when they were uploaded at approximately the same time.
