AdwNavigationSplitView now has the same :sidebar-position: property as AdwOverlaySplitView, inverting the navigation when collapsed (content as the root page, sidebar as the subpage)
AdwNavigationView got horizontal and vertical homogeneous properties, meaning it will preallocate the size needed to display any of the added pages, as well as any pages within the navigation stack, rather than just the currently visible page
AdwAboutDialog now has API for linking to your other apps directly from the dialog
Delineate, formerly known as Dagger, has just been released. This sleek new app allows is designed for editing and viewing graphs using the DOT Language. For all the details and features, take a look at the release blog post.
Compared to V2024.9.0-beta3, this release adds a new Preferred Video Codec option in Preferences, an improved format selection backend, a new subtitles selection interface for individual downloads, and the ability to copy the command used to run a download when viewing its log.
These are the final changes that we intend to make for this release cycle and are aiming to release a stable version on Wednesday October 2.
Here’s the full changelog for this release cycle:
Parabolic has been rewritten in C++ for faster performance
The Keyring module was rewritten. As a result, all keyrings have been reset and will need to be reconfigured
Audio languages with audio description are now correctly recognized and handled separately from audio languages without audio description
Audio download qualities will now list audio bitrates for the user to choose from
Playlist downloads will now be saved in a subdirectory with the playlist’s title within the chosen save folder
When viewing the log of a download, the command used to run the download can now also be copied to the clipboard
The length of the kept download history can now be changed in Preferences
On non-sandbox platforms, a browser can be selected for Parabolic to fetch cookies from instead of selecting a txt file in Preferences
Added an option in Preferences to allow for immediate download after a URL is validated
Added an option in Preferences to pick a preferred video codec for when downloading video media
Fixed validation issues with various sites
Fixed an issue where a specified video password was not being used
Back to school, and Fractal is back too! The leaves are starting to cover the floor in our part of the globe, but you don’t have to shake a tree to get our goodness packed into Fractal 9.beta:
We switched to the glycin library (the same one used by GNOME Image Viewer) to load images, allowing us to fix several issues, like supporting more animated formats and SVGs and respecting EXIF orientation.
The annoying bug where some rooms would stay as unread even after opening them is now a distant memory.
The media cache uses its own database that you can delete if you want to free some space on your system. It will also soon be able to clean up unused media files to prevent it from growing indefinitely.
Sometimes the day separators would show up with the wrong date, not anymore!
We migrated to the new GTK 4.16 and libadwaita 1.6 APIs, including CSS variables, AdwButtonRow and AdwSpinner.
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!
If you have a little bit of time on your hands, you can try to fix one of our newcomers issues. Anyone can make Fractal better!
