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Here is a quick series of frequently asked questions about the X11 session kissing us goodbye. Shoutout to Nate from which I copied the format of the post. Is Xorg unmaintained and abandoned? No, the Xorg Server is still very much maintained, however its feature development is halted. It still recei...

The latest alpha of the upcoming Blender 5.0 release comes with High Dynamic Range (HDR) support for Linux on Wayland which will, if everything works out, make it into the final Blender 5.0 release on October 1, 2025. The post on the developer forum comes with instructions on how to enable the exper...

Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to week

Gah. Every week I'm like "I'll do a short one this week" and then I... do not.   ## New Treasurers We recently announced our new treasurer, Deepa Venkatraman. We will also have a new vice-treasurer joining us in October. This is really exciting. It's important that Deepa and I can see with absolute ...

I was reminded today that I put together some notes last year with people’s feedback about what worked well at the last GUADEC. The idea was that this could be built on, and eventually become anoth…

Hello, GNOME 49.alpha is now available. This is the first unstable release leading to the 49 series. Review the list of updated modules and changes. Use the official BuildStream project snapshot to compile GNOME 49.alpha. This is a fairly sizable alpha release and it includes a handful of nota...

## The Cat's Out Of The Bag Since some of you are bound to see this Reddit comment, and my reply, it's probably useful for me to address it in a more public forum, even if it violates my "No Promises" rule. No, this wasn't a shoot-from-the-hip reply. This has been the plan since I...

Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to week

Tracking of incubation progress for Papers. Try via nightly build

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It’s been a while, so here’s an update about Aardvark, our initiative to bring local-first collaboration to GNOME apps! A quick recap of what happened since my last update: Since December, we had three more Aardvark-focused events in Berlin We discussed peer-to-peer threat models and put together de...

## Flathub / Flatpak I've been chatting with various folks about Flathub and Flatpak for a while now, but this week was my first chance to catch up with Sebastian Wick. It was really helpful to hear the history of Flatpak tech, understand where we sit today, and discuss how we might grow Flatpak in....

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Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to week

An extension for Nautilus, adds an additional menu to the right-click menu for performing git operations on the current directory - SimBoi/nautilus-git-operations

Welcome to the mid-June Foundation Report! I'm in an airport! My back hurts! This one might be short! haha   ## AWS OSS Before the UN Open Source Week, Andrea Veri and I had a chance to meet Mila Zhou, Tom (Spot) Callaway, and Hannah Aubry from AWS OSS. We thanked them for their huge...

Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to week

This is, to some degree, a followup to this 2014 post . The TLDR of that is that, many a moon ago, the corporate overlords at Microsoft that...

As tradition has it, it's about time for the (Northern Hemisphere) summer update on the happenings around Maps! About dialog for GNOME Maps...

What do concern trolls and privileged people without visible or invisible disabilities who share or make content about accessibility on Linux being trash without contributing anything to projects have in common? They don’t actually really care about the group they’re defending; they just exploit the...

These weeks are going by fast and I'm still releasing these reports after the TWIG goes out. Weaker humans than I might be tempted to automate -- but don't worry! These will always be artisanal, hand-crafted, single-origin, uncut, and whole bean. Felix encouraged me to add these to following week's ...

Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to week

A new image loading machinery, called glycin, has been in the works for a while. It is already used by GNOME’s default Image Viewer (Loupe), as well as by a bunch of other apps. Glycin provides many security benefits over existing solutions due to the use of the Rust programming language and sandbox...

Ever wondered why GNOME's translation platform is called "Damned Lies"? This post explores the origin of the name, the connection to statistics, and how it reflects the quirks of translation workflows.

PSA for systemd-free distros about work they'll need to do to continue running GNOME

This post was contributed by Andrea Veri from the GNOME Foundation. GNOME has historically hosted its infrastructure on premises. That changed with an AWS Open Source Credits program sponsorship which has allowed our team of two SREs to migrate the majority of the workloads to the cloud and turn...

With Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka,” we are taking a significant step forward in the evolution of the Ubuntu Desktop by removing the Xorg-based Ubuntu session. Starting with this release the “Ubuntu” session in GDM will run exclusively on Wayland. This decision follows upstream GNOME’s roadmap and ...

A year and a half ago, shortly after the GNOME 45 release, I opened a pair of Pull Requests to deprecate and remove the X11 Session. A lot has happened since. The GNOME 48 release addressed all the remaining blocking issues, mainly accessibility regressions, but it was too late in the development cy...

Imagine a punchy, news-broadcast-sounding intro tune and probably some 3D text swinging around a shiny, silver globe. Dun da da dun: The June 6th, 2025 GNOME Foundation Report! Sorry. These reports need a little colour or I'm going to get bored of writing them. Also sorry this one is late again! Bus...

Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to week

## Opaque Stuff the usual policy drafting work; thank you Allan for ensuring we're on top of this moving some operational deadlines forward ("preponing") was discussed but this hasn't been confirmed yet a bunch of tactical paperwork minutiae I'll be very happy to see completed   ## Safety I publishe...

The first two weeks of my Google Summer of Code (GSoC) journey with GNOME Papers have been both exciting and productive. I had the opportunity to meet my mentors, discuss the project goals, and dive into my first major task: improving the way document mutex locks are handled in the codebase. 🤝 Ment...

Diving into Word Scoring for Crosswords In my first two weeks as an Outreachy intern with GNOME, I’ve been getting familiar with the project I’ll be contributing to and settling into a rhythm with …

After some discussion about where to announce our Pride Month celebrations, I've decided it might be easiest to do it on my own blog. It's a little more personal that way. And if I say something silly or out of turn, it's on me. Let me begin by trying to explain why Pride feels particularly...

My first two books were written online using Pressbooks in a browser. A change in the company's pricing model prompted me to migrate another edition of the second book to LaTeX. Many enjoyable hours were spent searching online for how to implement everything from the basics to special effects. After...