The weather locations database used by libgweather now lives in its own project. If you want to add a city, airport, or weather station to the database used by GNOME apps like Weather, Clocks, and Maps, make sure to read the documentation.
I’ve finally released Apostrophe 3.3. It features a new narrow mode, suitable even for smartphones and small displays, typst as the new default render engine, making the texlive extension unnecessary for exporting pdfs, crash recovery, inline previews, and many, many more improvements. Read the full release notes or download it from flathub
Learn 6502, the interactive environment for learning assembly through a virtual game console, just got a fresh polish! This release introduces a modern Floating Action Button for quick controls and a refreshed debugger built with Adwaita components.
Under the hood, the app now shares its TypeScript core with an experimental Android build (still in development) — while the GNOME app remains the main focus.
Due a to lack of maintainership, it has been about 4 years since the last release of Quadrapassel, and Quadrapassel’s codebase has aged significantly in that timeframe. Since I took over the project 2 months ago, a lot of work has been done to improve the game!
Here is a shortened list of recent changes:
Thanks to the translation team, many translations have been either updated or added!
Port to GTK 4
Improve the UI and use Libadwaita
Large improvements the preferences and the scoring
Hi there, greetings from the Persian GNOME community!
A little while ago, we launched https://fa.gnome.org to grow the GNOME community among Persian speakers. We’re now active and excited to connect with anyone interested in free software and GNOME.
If you know any Persian-speaking friends, please invite them to join us! You can find us on Telegram at t.me/gnome_fa and on Matrix at #gnome-fa:gnome.org
Thanks to Ignacy’s contributions, printing now works on GNOMEOS. Any IPP printer should work, but more testing is always appreciated.
Additionally, we switched our filesystem from squashfs to erofs. This new filesystem is a bit faster and enables implementing delta updates. This will allow your system to only download the parts that changed, instead of the entire system image. However, this feature will need more work before it is ready. Stay tuned for future updates.
GNOMEOS is still unstable, so testing is always appreciated. You can install it on virtual machines and most hardware. Images and installation instructions are available here: https://os.gnome.org/
Last week concluded the Summer of GNOMEOS challenge, while this week the awards ceremony was held. Each participant’s score was checked by the organizers and the final rankings are available here. We also held a meeting where we discussed further improvements and long term goals for the project.
During the challenge over 50 issues were filed, many changes were submitted and new hardware got tested. We got valuable feedback on how to improve the operating system, fixed some long standing issues and broadened our hardware support.
Thank you to everyone that participated and to all of you still sticking with GNOMEOS as your operating system even after the challenge is done, your help is invaluable.
This week, we reached 450 applications listed on AreWeLibadwaitaYet!
It’s a comprehensive list of libadwaita-powered applications available on Flathub, aimed at making it easier to discover all that this ecosystem has to offer. If you are seeking an application for your needs, or just want a new icon in your app grid, check out the website!
A GNOME Foundation update is available this week, covering what’s been happening at the GNOME Foundation over the past 7 days. Highlights include the GNOME.Asia 2025 call for papers, digital wellbeing development planning, progress around Flathub, and more.
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!
