Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 15 to March 22.
This week we released GNOME 46!
This new major release of GNOME is full of exciting changes, such as a new global file search, an enhanced Files app, improved online accounts with OneDrive support, remote login via RDP, improved accessibility, experimental variable refresh rate (VRR) support and so much more! See the GNOME 46 release notes and developer notes for more information.
Readers who have been following this site will already be aware of some of the new features. If you’d like to follow the development of GNOME 47 (Fall 2024), keep an eye on this page - we’ll be posting exciting news every week!
Andy made a protoype to allow opening URLs with apps. The goal is for an app such as GNOME Maps to advertise support for and handle openstreetmap.org or google.com/maps URLs.
JSON-GLib, the library for parsing and generating JSON data, is now capable of strict compliance with the JSON specification. To avoid breaking backward compatibility, strictness must be explicitly enabled by setting the JsonParser:strict property, or using the --strict option for the json-glib-validate command line tool. To enforce strict compliance, JSON-GLib now includes a whole JSON conformance test suite.
Decibels is a basic audio player that is supposed to fill the gap of GNOME currently not having a Core app that is designed to open single audio files. The incubation progress will be tracked in this issue.
Railway has been accepted into GNOME Circle. It allows you to easily look up travel information across rail networks and borders without having to use multiple different websites. Congratulations!
Everybody is excited about them so I’ll start by saying you can try libadwaita 1.5 adaptive dialogs with the new “Dialog” and “Message Dialogs” demos in the Library.
Workbench now shows inline diagnostics for Rust and Python.
A new Library demo “Snapshot” was added to demonstrate one of GTK4 coolest feature.
Happy release week! Like many other apps, Fretboard has been updated to the GNOME 46 platform, taking advantage of the many platform improvements that have happened this cycle. It also recently gained the ability to notify you when there are no available variants of a chord in its internal chord set, prompting you to reach out and help improve it.
Livi 0.1.0 is now available on Flathub. Bundled with Gstreamer 1.24 and build against the GTK 4.14 it is the first desktop-targeting app to enable zero-copy Video playback by default in the Wayland ecosystem. Doing so enables highly power-efficient playback, closing the gap to other OSs or embedded environments.
We expect quite a few people to hit driver bugs in the beginning - so in order to pave the way for other apps to pick up the technology, please help testing on you devices :)
I’m happy to announce the first release of Hieroglyphic, a forked and updated version of TeX-Match, which helps to find LaTeX symbols by drawing them. It’s available for download on Flathub.
Kooha 2.3 is now released on Flathub! While there are no groundbreaking new features, this release is focused more on fixes and quality-of-life improvements.
The following features and fixes are the highlights:
The area selector window is now resizable, making selecting an area more flexible.
The previously selected area is now remembered across sessions.
The current video format and FPS configurations are now visible in the main view.
The recording done notification now shows the duration and size of the recording.
Progress is now shown while flushing the recording.
Recording in stereo rather than in mono is now more preferred.
Audio stutters on long recordings are now properly fixed.
The preferences dialog is now more descriptive and provides a more convenient FPS selection box.
Incorrect recording orientation on certain compositors is now fixed.
Flare version 0.14.1 was released. This release includes updating the dialogs to the new adwaita adaptive dialogs. Furthermore, we also have a new “new channel” dialog and channel information dialog. This release also contains a hotfix for newly linked devices not working with groups and another minor fix for an error in certain groups.
The deadline for the GUADEC 2024 Call for Participation is closing soon!
This year’s conference will take place in Denver, Colorado, from July 19th to July 24th and we encourage all interested contributors, speakers, and participants to submit their proposals before the deadline on 24th March. This is an excellent opportunity to share your insights, experiences, and ideas with the GNOME community and contribute to the success of GUADEC 2024.
Please visit guadec.org to submit your proposals. If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out to the organizing committee at guadec@gnome.org.
We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you at GUADEC 2024 in Denver and online!
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!
