#196 Dot Release

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 11 to April 18.

Sovereign Tech Fund

Tobias Bernard announces

The summary blogpost about the 2023/2024 GNOME STF Project that Adrian Vovk and I have been working on for quite a while is finally out!

It’s not a quick read but that’s a good thing, there’s so much exciting stuff that was done as part of this over the past year.

Shoutout to Sonny Piers, thanks to whom all of this was possible ❤️

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/04/11/gnome-stf-2024

GNOME Releases

Jeremy Bicha announces

GNOME has announced the releases of GNOME 48.1 and GNOME 47.6.

Jeremy Bicha says

Matthew Miller has announced the release of Fedora 42 which features GNOME 48 in its Workstation Edition.

Jeremy Bicha says

Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” which delivers GNOME 48.

Jeremy Bicha announces

Manjaro has announced the release of Manjaro 25 “Zetar” with updated ISOs for this rolling release. Manjaro’s GNOME edition includes GNOME 48.

Third Party Projects

Vladimir Kosolapov announces

This week I released an adaptation of the Zenith VS Code theme for GtkSourceView library.

Zenith is a refined dark theme with cohesive colors and complete UI coverage for GTK-based text editors.

Get more information on GitHub!

Fractal ↗

Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust.

Kévin Commaille reports

Here comes Fractal 11.rc. New since 11.beta:

• Rearranged account settings, with a new Safety tab
• New setting to toggle media preview visibility
• Sessions can be renamed
• Support for login using the OAuth 2.0 API (as used by matrix.org, which recently made the switch to Matrix Authentication Service)
• Contiguous state events are grouped behind a single item

But what does RC stand for? Really Cool? Reasonably Complete? Rose Colored¹? Release Candidate, of course! That means it should be mostly stable and we expect to only include minor improvements until the release of Fractal 11.

As usual, this release includes other improvements, fixes and new translations thanks to all our contributors, and our upstream projects.

It is available to install via Flathub Beta, see the instructions in our README.

If you want to join the fun, you can try to fix one of our newcomers issues. We are always looking for new contributors!

¹ That was actually once true, with Fractal 9.rc.

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!