After a lot of preparation, GLib has finally achieved an OpenSSF Best Practices ‘passing’ badge, which certifies that it follows a number of development and security best practices — see https://www.bestpractices.dev/en/projects/6011
It has finally happened! The long awaited major update of Fragments is now available, which includes many exciting new features.
The most important addition is support for torrent files. It is now possible to select the files you want to download from a torrent. The files can be searched and sorted, individual files can be opened directly from Fragments.
Further new features:
Added torrents can now be searched
In addition to magnet links, *.torrent links in the clipboard are now also recognized
Prevent system from going to sleep when torrents are active
New torrents can be added via drag and drop
Automatic trashing of *.torrent files after adding them
Stop downloads when a metered network gets detected
Improvements:
When controlling remote sessions, the local Transmission daemon no longer gets started
Torrents are automatically restarted if an incorrect location has been fixed
Torrents can now also be added via CLI
Clipboard toast notification is no longer displayed multiple times
Reduced CPU/resource consumption through adaptive polling interval
Improved accessibility of the user interface
Modernized user interface through the use of new Adwaita widgets
Pika Backup 0.7.2 was released. It fixes a crash on the schedule page. It also resolves an issue with pre- and post-backup scripts being unable to send desktop notifications.
We have already made lots of progress towards 0.8 which will focus on code maintainability and UI refinements. You can support Pika’s development on Open Collective.
Hello! This week I released SemantiK. It’s a word-game where you need to find a secret word, similar to Cémantix or Semantle. The default language model is in French, but you can use and import your own !
The GTK4/libadwaita-based digital audio workstation Zrythm has released its last beta version v1.0.0-beta.6.7.32 in preparation for a release candidate!
Phosh now handles devices with rounded display corners better and supports count and progress indicators in lock screen launcher entries. On the compositor side we now handle always-on-top and move-to-corner keybindings and the on screen keyboard squeekboard got a whole bunch of layout improvements.
TWIG-Bot We are ramping up for GUADEC 2024 and sponsorships are still available. We made it easier this year and put the different opportunities online! Click here for more info: https://events.gnome.org/event/209/registrations/212/
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!
