This week Biblioteca was accepted into GNOME Circle. Biblioteca lets you browse and read GNOME documentation wherever you are in a sleek and convenient way. Congratulations!
Warp 0.7 has been released with QR Code scanning support 📸. This feature allows to initiate a file transfer just by scanning a code on the receiving device. Thanks a lot to GNOME Camera for providing the widgets for a modern camera stack. 🦀
Déjà Dup Backups 46.beta is out. This adds modern Adwaita dialogs, now uses rclone for cloud support (rather than disparate Python libraries for each service), and adds various smaller UI improvements. Install the beta from flathub-beta (flatpak install flathub-beta org.gnome.DejaDup) and please report any issues. Thanks!
Since rendering random documents can be dangerous, this week I added a security feature to Apostrophe. It’ll offer the option to load potentially dangerous files with html and javascript deactivated. I also landed some patches that will unblock the last remaining issue that was preventing a GTK4 release: spellchecking. Hopefully I’ll be able to draft a stable release very soon. In the meantime betatesting is more than welcome. An updated build is already available on flathub-beta
This week Televido received an update to use the new adaptive dialogs that were introduced in GNOME 46.
Televido is an app to access German-language public broadcasting live streams and archives based on APIs provided by the MediathekView project.
Since my first post here, it also got better mobile support, it supports downloading media using an external downloader such as Parabolic and the app is now available in English, German, Dutch and French.
Spring is here in Fractal land. Birds chirping, flowers blooming, and a new beta for you to try!
Staff’s picks for Fractal 7.beta:
Encryption support has been extended, with server-side key backup and account recovery.
Messages that failed to send can now be retried or discarded.
Messages can be reported to server admins for moderation.
Room details are now considered complete, with the addition of room address management, permissions, and version upgrade.
A new member menu appears when clicking on an avatar in the room history. It offers a quick way to do many actions related to that person, including opening a direct chat with them and moderating them.
Pills are clickable and allow to directly go to a room or member profile.
Many more improvements on the accessibility front, for better navigability with a screen reader.
As usual, this release includes other improvements, fixes and new translations thanks to all our contributors, and our upstream projects.
As the version implies, there might be a slight risk of regressions, but it should be mostly stable. If all goes well the next step is the release candidate!
As always, you can try to fix one of our issues. Any help is greatly appreciated!
To improve transparency, Flathub now shows an explicit “unverified” badge for community-maintained packages.
Meanwhile, I’ve been working on improving the configuration of our content delivery network. Mythic Beasts donated a new caching server, which will reduce the load on the origin server. I have enabled shielding in Fastly to further improve the cache hit ratio. I’m also looking into configuring Fastly to use segmented caching to resolve issues with installation of large applications.
The Sovereign Tech Fund is designing a pilot program for a fellowship to support open source maintainers working on open digital infrastructure in the public interest. They are asking for input from maintainers in a survey on their blog. If you are a maintainer, please take ten minutes to respond to the survey by Sunday, 7 April 2024.
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!
