#227 Circle Benefits

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from November 22 to November 29.

GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries

The benefits for GNOME Circle projects now explicitly include the participation in internship programs as well as the inclusion on the help.gnome.org, welcome.gnome.org, apps.gnome.org or developer.gnome.org pages.

The circle.gnome.org page as been redesigned to link to the respective pages instead of having its own app and component list.

NewsFlash feed reader ↗

Follow your favorite blogs & news sites.

Jan Lukas reports

Last week Newsflash 4.2 was released with the usual amount of small improvements and fixes. What makes it worthy of the minor version bump in my opinion is the new popover right above the article containing all relevant font and spacing options for a more direct interaction, a new slightly different layout for tablets (specifically the PineNote) and combining multiple image enclosures into a carousel.

Third Party Projects

Alain announces

Planify 4.16.1 is now available!

A small but polished update focused on improving the overall experience: • UX improvements and minor bug fixes • Shift+Enter is back for quick “keep adding” • Zoom links now supported in calendar events • Updated Donate page • The Planify website has been refreshed with a cleaner design and several improvements → https://www.useplanify.com

Thanks for following the journey of Planify 💙

Dzheremi announces

Mass Lyrics Downloading with Chronograph 5.3

Chronograph got an update with, as promised before, mass lyrics downloading support. Now users allowed to query LRClib to give them lyrics for all tracks in their current library. Chronograph will try to find the closest lyrics among results for your tracks. This feature expands coverage of the app usefulness for users, who doesn’t want to sync lyrics themselves, but want to just download them.

Sync lyrics of your loved songs 🕒

Parabolic ↗

Download web video and audio.

Nick announces

Parabolic V2025.11.1 is here! This release contains many bug fixes for issues users were experiencing.

A larger new feature update is in the works to address many long standing feature requests.

Here’s the full changelog:

Fixed the sleep interval for multiple subtitle downloads

Fixed an issue where low-resolution media was being downloaded on Windows

Fixed an issue where aria2c couldn’t download media from certain sites

Fixed an issue where Remove Source Data was not clearing all identifiable metadata fields

Shell Extensions

boerdereinar announces

Hey everyone, this week I’ve released my clipboard manager extension Copyous with the following features:

Supports text, code, images, files, links, characters and colors.

Can be opened at mouse pointer or text cursor

Pin favorite items

Group items with 9 colored tags

Customizable clipboard actions

Highly customizable

PakoVM announces

This week I publish Tinted Shell, a extension that simply adds a spalsh of color to the Gnome Shell theme based on the user’s current accent color while respecting the original look.

You can get it from Gnome Extensions and contribute to it on Github.

Miscellaneous

Krafting - Vincent says

Hey everyone, this week I pushed updates to use the GNOME 49 runtime, and revamping the keyboard shortcuts pages on all my apps available on Flathub :

PedantiK

SemantiK

Reddy

Playlifin

Playlifin Voyager

Hex Colordle

In addition, SemantiK got some versions bumps and PedantiK got a lot of bug fixes (including fixing the broken Wikipedia API)

Also, work started on a PedantiK English pack, to allow languages other than french.

GNOME Foundation

Allan Day announces

A new GNOME Foundation update is available, covering what has happened at the GNOME Foundation over the past two weeks. It covers a fairly long list of topics, including the recent budget report, funding for Outreachy, banking and finance changes, Flathub progress, and more.

Digital Wellbeing Project ↗

Philip Withnall reports

This week in parental controls, Ignacy is working on changing the Shell lock screen to show when a child’s screen time limit has been reached; and I’ve spent a bit of time writing up the technical details of how web filtering will work at https://tecnocode.co.uk/2025/11/27/parental-controls-web-filtering-backend/ (the backend is written, the UI integration is future work)

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!