Malika’s Outreachy internship just ended! If all goes well, her work on improving signatures in Papers should land during next cycle. Read more about it here.
Typesetter, the minimalist Typst editor, now speaks more languages. With the latest update, you can now use it in Chinese, French, Spanish, Turkish, and German. Thanks to Dawn Chan, Philippe Charlanes, XanderLeaDaren, Roger Weissenbrunner, Sabri Ünal, and Sebastian Kern for their time and effort!
I am incredibly excited to share the latest news about RustConn, covering the massive journey from version 0.9.4 to 0.9.15! This release cycle focused on making the app’s internal architecture as robust as its features. During this time, we closed dozens of feature requests and fixed numerous critical bugs.
Here are the most important improvements from the recent updates:
Flawless Flatpak Experience: I completely resolved issues with importing Remmina configurations inside the sandbox and fixed specific SSH password prompt display bugs in environments like KDE.
Memory-Level Security: I introduced strict zeroing of Bitwarden master passwords in memory immediately after use. Additionally, I completely dropped the external sshpass dependency to enhance overall security.
Advanced Connections: The native SPICE client is now enabled by default. For RDP sessions, I added a convenient “Quick Actions” menu (one-click access to Task Manager, PowerShell, etc.), and for VNC, I introduced flexible encoding options.
Code & UI Cleanup: I completed a major refactoring of the UI modules (some became 5x lighter!), which eliminated text-clipping issues in dialogs and significantly improved application performance.
I want to express a huge thank you to everyone who uses RustConn and takes the time to provide feedback! Your positive reviews and comments are the main thing that motivates me to work on the project every single day. At the same time, your bug reports and feature ideas are exactly what make these releases possible. Thank you for being such an amazing community!
Vinyl is a new (one more :D) music player. Vinyl built on rust with relm4. The first stable version already available on Flathub and provides features:
Simple user-friendly interface inspired by amberol.
Basic media controls.
Lyrics (.lrc) support
MPRIS support for controlling Vinyl from other applications.
Save playlist and track/position of track, that played before the app close
GNOMEOS now has kmscon enabled by default. Kmscon is a KMS/DRM userspace terminal that replaces the Linux virtual terminals (the ones from ctrl-alt-f#). It is a lot more configurable. So next time you try to debug GNOME Shell from a virtual terminal and the font is too small, press “ctrl +”.
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!
