Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from September 05 to September 12.
GNOME Core Apps and Libraries
Libadwaita ↗
Building blocks for modern GNOME apps using GTK4.
Alice (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 announces
I just released libadwaita 1.8! Read the accompanying blog post for details.
Weather ↗
Show weather conditions and forecasts.
Emmanuele Bassi announces
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.
Settings ↗
Configure various aspects of your GNOME desktop.
Hari Rana | TheEvilSkeleton (any/all) 🇮🇳 🏳️⚧️ announces
GNOME Settings underwent some last-minute changes that will make GNOME 49 an exciting release for everyone using the Orca screen reader:
- Orca will allow users to open the settings dialog while the Orca instance is running without ending its processes. It will also enable apps and services to open the dialog through D-Bus instead of using shell commands, specifically
orca -s.- GNOME Settings has introduced a button to launch Orca’s settings dialog from the Accessibility panel.
This was made possible thanks to Joanmarie Diggs, the Orca maintainer, who worked on these improvements.
GNOME Development Tools
Sysprof ↗
A profiling tool that helps in finding the functions in which a program uses most of its time.
Georges Stavracas (feaneron) says
Sysprof has been receiving a variety of new features, improvements, and bugfixes, as of lately. A few highlights:
- An important bug with counters was fixed, and further integration was added to WebKit
- It is now possible to hide marks from the waterfall view
- Further work on the remote inspector integration, wkrictl, was done
- Integration with the Mesa tracing mechanism
GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries
Apostrophe ↗
A distraction free Markdown editor.
Manu (he/they/she) announces
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
Third Party Projects
JumpLink announces
Learn 6502 v0.3.0 is out!
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.
Get it on Flathub.
Sepehr Rasouli reports
Sudoku v1.4.0 is here!
- You can now add notes by right-clicking on an empty cell.
- Fixed a bug that allowed zero as a valid input. — thanks to @tahairavani
- Fixed a bug that applied the hovered style to the pencil toggle button icon. — thanks to @Revisto
- Fixed a bug that prevented the help overlay shortcut from working.
- Added Ctrl + num to the keyboard shortcuts menu. — thanks to @devforgely
- Improved small-screen support for Sudoku.
Install it from Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.sepehr_rs.Sudoku
Jeffry Samuel says
Alpaca 8 is now available. It features folders, activities, a built-in web browser and much more.
https://flathub.org/apps/com.jeffser.Alpaca
Quadrapassel ↗
Fit falling blocks together.
Will Warner reports
Quadrapassel 49 is coming soon! This release of Quadrapassel will significantly change how the game works, looks, and feels.
Currently 49.rc.2 is out for testing (on Flathub beta and GNOME nightly).
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
- Improved controls and gameplay
- Added custom seeds
- Made the game playable on a touchscreen
- Added a minimized width UI mode for use on phones
- Fixed many bugs
You can find a full changelog in Quadrapassel’s NEWS.
GNOME Websites
Mir Sobhan reports
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
Miscellaneous
Ada Magicat ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜 announces
Thanks to Ignacy’s contributions, printing now works on GNOME OS. 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.
GNOME OS 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/
Ada Magicat ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜 announces
Last week concluded the Summer of GNOME OS 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 GNOME OS as your operating system even after the challenge is done, your help is invaluable.
Benedek Dévényi reports
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!
Arjan announces
A new release of PyGObject is out: 3.54.0.
This release mainly contains improvements and fixes:
__enum_values__/__flags_values__are back- Param specs now also return the expected enum types
- Fix regression for functions with multiple callbacks
For a full list check out https://pygobject.gnome.org/changelog.html.
PyGObject can be installed from PyPI and download.gnome.org.
GNOME Foundation
Allan Day says
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!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-216/