Last week it was surprising that GNOME didn't publish a note with the news from the last seven days. GNOME is a software project, but they also participate in events like the recent GUADEC 2025. That's what prevented a weekly article about recent changes. Ultimately, today's article, published yesterday, covers what happened in approximately 15 days, from July 11 to 25. It's not a very long article, but many developers were present at the conference.
Now back to normal, what follows is the list with the news from the last two weeks, where perhaps the changes in GTK, Gradia and Calendar stand out, with permission from Phosh, which remains the most popular mobile GNOME.
This week in GNOME
- A bug in the Android Adreno driver that caused GTK's OpenGL renderer to crash has been found and fixed. This means that GTK should now work with GL rendering for users with an Adreno GPU (i.e., a Qualcomm SoC) on Android.
- They finally published “GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days”, which explains in detail the steps they took to transform GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible for keyboard and screen reader users starting with GNOME 49.
- Gradia moved forward with two new additions. The first is the much-requested snipping tool. It took the developer some time to define exactly what he wanted from this tool in the context of Gradia, with its background layers, annotations, and so on. He finally implemented something that's pleasant to use. The second feature is the source code snippets feature. It's designed to make it easier to share a piece of code you're particularly proud of on social media. It allows you to control things like line width, padding, themes, and more, without having to temporarily modify those settings in the code editor.
- In an ongoing effort to make typing on phones easier and faster, stevia (an on-screen keyboard for phosh) can now dynamically adjust to the output scale when in portrait mode. This ensures that the on-screen keyboard maintains the same physical size regardless of the actual display mode and scale. It can also add empty space below the keys to make typing easier on taller phones. The images show the on-screen keyboard at 2.5 and 3 scale.
- Parabolic V2025.7.0 is here. This release includes several new features and bug fixes. Here's the full list of changes:
- Redesigned the Windows app using WinUI 3.
- Added the ability to change the application translation language.
- Added the ability to remember video and audio formats individually by file type.
- Fixed an issue where pressing enter in the download dialog would not start the download.
- Fixed an issue where configuration files were not stored correctly in the portable version for Windows.
- Fixed an issue where downloads would not pause or resume on Windows.
- Fixed an issue where extra separators were sometimes left in the download list in GNOME.
- Fixed some GNOME UI elements as we get closer to joining GNOME Circle.
- Updated yt-dlp.
- Flare version 0.17.0 has been released. This change modifies the way Flare stores its data, switching to SQLite. This change is not backwards compatible, so you must relink after updating Flare. It also fixes a bug where contacts were displayed as phone numbers or "Unknown Contact" instead of their names.
- New system monitor extension for GNOME Shell. Simple interface. Compact view. Based on the GNOME System Monitor.
And this, along with other points from the foundation, has been everything this week in GNOME.
Images and content: TWIG.