GNOME 48.10 has been released. This is the final release for GNOME 48. If you are still using the GNOME 48 runtime on Flathub, you can update to the GNOME 50 runtime directly. The GNOME 48 runtime will be marked as end of life (EOL) on April 11. Apps that are still using the runtime at this point will trigger warnings for their users.
Warp 1.0 has been released, finally breaking the light speed barrier. New features include a new shortcuts dialog, runtime and translation updates. Engage!
I released Video Trimmer 26.03 with an improvement suggested by one of the users: the prefilled filename in the save dialog now includes the trimming timestamps. This way, there are no filename conflicts when extracting several fragments from a video.
I also added several CLI flags to pre-set the start and end timestamp, and the precise trim and remove audio options.
Identity 26.03 is out with a new time display when hovering the mouse over the video seek bar. I also added Ctrl+2..9 hotkeys to set the zoom level from 200% to 900%.
The window title now shows the current filename, which is helpful with many open tabs. Finally, you can pass the initial --zoom and --display mode on the command line.
Hideout is a simple, GTK-based encryption tool written in D, designed specifically for non-technical users who need to password-protect their files without complexity. It follows GNOME’s design principles to provide a clean and intuitive experience.
On Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/it.andreafontana.hideout
Nocturne has been released, it allows users to manage their local music libraries with optional Navidrome / Subsonic integration. It includes features such as:
Playlists
Automatic lyrics fetching
Play queue managing
Album and artist sorting
Fast searching
For more information visit the website or repository
RustConn (connection manager for SSH, RDP, VNC, SPICE, Telnet, Serial, Kubernetes, MOSH, and Zero Trust protocols)
Versions 0.10.3–0.10.8 landed this week with changes driven entirely by user feedback:
Security: RDP passwords no longer exposed in /proc; SSH agent passphrase files are zeroized before deletion; legacy XOR credentials
migrated to AES-256-GCM transparently
Embedded viewer performance: eliminated per-frame pixel buffer allocations (8–33 MB depending on resolution) for SPICE, VNC, and RDP by
switching to persistent Cairo surfaces with in-place updates; RDP frame extraction now uses row-based memcpy + bulk SIMD-friendly R↔B swap
HiDPI fixes: resolved blurry/artifact RDP rendering on HiDPI displays caused by double-scaling; fixed cursor artifacts from transparent
padding bleed on scaled displays
Flatpak sandbox: Zero Trust CLIs (gcloud, Azure, Teleport, OCI) now work correctly by redirecting config paths to writable sandbox
directories; fixed CLI detection using extended PATH
KeePassXC integration: fixed all vault operations failing when KDBX file is password-protected (password was passed as None in 10 call
sites)
Passbolt CLI 0.4.2 compatibility: fixed deserialization failures from field naming changes
Highlight rules: built-in defaults (ERROR, WARNING, CRITICAL, FATAL) now always apply, not just when per-connection rules exist
Thank you for the growing interest in RustConn. All of this work is driven purely by user feedback - every bug report and feature request shapes
the project. I reached what I considered “my ideal” months ago, but it turns out users know better. The result is an open-source connection
manager that, in my honest opinion, is now more capable and convenient than its commercial competitors - built by engineers, for engineers.
A special thanks to the community members who package RustConn for AUR and other distribution repositories, and to those who ported it to
FreeBSD. Seeing people take the time to bring RustConn to new platforms is the strongest signal that the project fills a real need.
Solitaire is a new app to play paitence games! It has been about a year since I started working on this, and I am excited to say that Solitaire is now avalible on Flathub.
Solitaire has a solver that will tell you if the game you are playing has become impossible to win, and provides hints that are guaranteed to lead to a win. The app features six games: Klondike, FreeCell, Tri Peaks, Spider, Pyramid, and Yukon. Solitaire will also keep track of your scores, using moves or time based scoring. It even lets you change what the cards look like, with seven card themes to choose from.
GNOME Shell extensions reviews have become delayed due to our main reviewer being cut off from the Internet. The backlog is getting long and while some community members have stepped up the progress is slow. Much appreciation to those who are stepping up. Please be aware that the review delay means that extensions being updated to GNOME 50 are being delayed.
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!
