This Week in Gnome #221: Virus Season

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October 17, 2025 • 9 Notes • Curated by Felix

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from October 10 to October 17.

GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries

Podcasts ↗

Podcast app for GNOME.

alatiera reports

A new release of Podcasts is out! Version 25.3 Introduces the long awaited episode chapters! Additionally it includes performance improvements and interface polish, especially for mobile devices.

Available now only on Flathub

Third Party Projects

Alain reports

Planify 4.15.1 — A smoother, more focused experience

Planify 4.15.1 introduces a brand-new Markdown editor, Focus Mode, animated progress bars, improved keyboard navigation, and better translation management through Weblate. This release also brings numerous stability fixes and UI refinements that make task management faster, more fluid, and delightful.

Read the full release notes

Vladimir Kosolapov announces

This week I released Lenspect — a lightweight security threat scanner powered by VirusTotal.

In almost 11 years, this is the first native GUI VirusTotal client developed specifically for Linux platform and using a modern GNOME technology stack. Stay tuned for updates to try out new features in the next versions.

Check out the project on GitHub

Alexander Vanhee reports

Bazaar got a pretty big update this week. I added the in-app screenshot viewer (featuring zoom) and the featured apps carousel, as seen on the Flathub site. Kolumni worked on a custom rendering engine for app descriptions, featuring a nicer multi-line list item experience. She also added a custom animated pending state for the Global Progress Bar, shown whenever the current task has no associated percentage.

Please check out these changes on Flathub

Bilal Elmoussaoui reports

Today I have finished all the remaining missing bits of the Rust re-implementation of gnome-keyring to be spec compatible. It is only missing PAM integration for automatically unlocking the keyring when you log in, otherwise most of the features should just work. The code source is available at https://github.com/bilelmoussaoui/oo7/tree/main/server, any help with testing would be appreciated. Thanks!

Quadrapassel ↗

Fit falling blocks together.

Will Warner reports

Quadrapassel 49.1 is out! This release improves upon 49.0 by updating some of its dependencies, fixing bugs, and polishing the UI. New in 49.1:

Updated translations: Occitan, Chinese (China), Brazilian Portuguese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Georgian
Improved controller support and controller mappings
Replaced the theme dialog with one that is easier to use
Improved the scores dialog You can check it out on Flathub!

Pipeline ↗

Follow your favorite video creators.

schmiddi reports

I’ve released version 3.1.0 of Pipeline. Starting with this release, Pipeline now fetches data about YouTube videos directly from YouTube instead of proxying over Piped. This is due to pretty much no public Piped instances working anymore. If you have a private Piped instance you want to use, you can still switch back to using Piped in the settings. This change also speeds up fetching the feed of videos a lot, for my personal feed by a factor of about 20.

Fractal ↗

Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust.

Kévin Commaille reports

Ah, Autumn… The trees are wearing their warmest colors, the wine harvest is ending, developers are preparing to hibernate… and Fractal 13.rc is here!

Our repository has been relatively quiet since the beta release, with mostly work on bug fixes for our new audio player, and a bit of code refactoring.

As usual, this release includes other improvements, fixes and new translations thanks to all our contributors, and our upstream projects.

It is available to install via Flathub Beta, see the instructions in our README.

As the version implies, it should be mostly stable and we expect to only include minor improvements until the release of Fractal 13.

If you want to join the fun, you can try to fix one of our newcomers issues. We are always looking for new contributors!

GNOME Foundation

Allan Day reports

Another weekly GNOME Foundation update is available! Highlights this week include a new budget, new Circle Committee members, GIMP development grants, and more.