Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 24 to May 01.

GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries

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Jan Lukas announces

Hi TWIG. Newsflash can now swipe between articles. This closes off one of the oldest still standing feature requests. And hopefully makes all the mobile users happy.

Third Party Projects

xjuan reports

Casilda 1.2.4 Released!

I am very happy to announce a new version of Casilda!

A simple Wayland compositor widget for Gtk 4 and GNOME

This release comes with several new features like fractional scaling support, bug fixes and extra polish that it is making it start to feel like a proper compositor. You can read more about it at https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2026/04/19/casilda-1-2-4-released/

Anton Isaiev says

RustConn (connection manager for SSH, RDP, VNC, SPICE, Telnet, Serial, Kubernetes, MOSH, and Zero Trust protocols)

Versions 0.11.0–0.12.7 bring the three biggest features since the project started, plus a mountain of polish driven by community feedback.

Cloud Sync landed. You can now synchronize connection configurations between devices and team members through any shared directory - Google Drive, Syncthing, Nextcloud, Dropbox, or even a USB stick. Two modes: Group Sync (per-group .rcn files with Master/Import access) and Simple Sync (single-file bidirectional merge). A file watcher auto-imports changes, and the new Cloud Sync settings page shows sync status, synced groups, and available files. CLI got sync status , sync list , sync export , sync import , and sync now commands.

SSH Tunnel Manager is a standalone window for managing headless SSH port-forwarding tunnels without terminal sessions - Local, Remote, and Dynamic forwards with auto-start on launch and auto-reconnect. SSH jump host support was extended to RDP, VNC, and SPICE connections, so you can tunnel graphical sessions through a bastion host. Ctrl+T opens the tunnel manager.

Tab management was completely reworked around AdwTabView. Tab Overview (Ctrl+Shift+O) gives a GNOME Web-style grid of all open tabs. Tab Pinning keeps important tabs at the left edge. A tab switcher in the Command Palette (% prefix) provides fuzzy search across open tabs. Right-click context menu gained Close Others / Left / Right / All / Ungrouped actions.

Other highlights: custom terminal color themes with full 16-color ANSI palette editor; terminal scrollbar; font zoom (Ctrl+Scroll); copy-on-select; SSH Keep-Alive and verbose mode; Hoop.dev as the 11th Zero Trust provider; custom SSH agent socket override (fixes KeePassXC/Bitwarden agent in Flatpak); RDP mouse jiggler; terminal activity/silence monitor; host online check with auto-connect; highlight rules now render with actual colors via Cairo overlay; connection dialog rebuilt with adw:: widgets following GNOME HIG.

Packaging grew significantly. RustConn is now available as Flatpak on Flathub, Snap with strict confinement, AppImage, native .deb and .rpm packages via OBS repositories (Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.04/26.04, Fedora 43/44, openSUSE Tumbleweed/Slowroll/Leap 16.0), plus ARM64 builds. A huge thank you to the community maintainers: the AUR package for Arch Linux, the FreeBSD port, and there is an open request to include RustConn in Debian proper.

Thank you to everyone who reported issues, contributed translations, and tested pre-releases - your feedback shaped every one of these 25 releases. Special thanks to GaaChun for the complete Simplified Chinese translation, and to Phil Dodd and Todor Todorov for the support.

Project: https://github.com/totoshko88/RustConn Flatpak: https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.totoshko88.RustConn

Capypara says

Field Monitor 50.0

Field Monitor - the remote desktop viewer focused on accessing VMs - has been updated to version 50.0.

Some highlights:

• Support for multiple monitors for SPICE connections.
• Support for sharing USB devices with SPICE sessions using the XDG USB Portal (even with the Flatpak).
• KVM/QEMU VMs can now be accessed with hardware accelerated GPU rendering - if enabled.
• Field Monitor now validates server certificates and asks you for your trust if a certificate isn’t automatically trusted by your system.
• Several bugfixes to RDP and SPICE sessions, such as cursor rendering issues and overall performance.

Field Monitor is available via Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/de.capypara.FieldMonitor

Christian says

The first public release of Gitte is out!

Gitte is a GTK4/libadwaita git GUI written in Rust, built on Relm4 and git2 (no shelling out to the git binary).

What’s in the initial release:

• Browse repositories with a saved repositories start screen
• View the working copy, stage and unstage changes, commit them, amend commits
• Read the commit log and inspect diffs file by file
• Manage branches, tags, remotes, and stashes
• Push from and pull to remotes, auto-fetching remotes in the background

It’s early days, so expect rough edges. Bug reports and feedback are very welcome.

Get Gitte from Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/de.wwwtech.gitte

Parabolic ↗

Download web video and audio.

Nick reports

Parabolic V2026.4.1 is here with plenty of bug fixes!

Here’s the full changelog:

• Fixed an issue where some settings would not save correctly
• Fixed an issue where playlist downloads with a resolution limit had no audio
• Fixed an issue where portrait/vertical videos in playlists downloaded at incorrect resolutions
• Fixed an issue where downloads from sites with muxed-only streams would fail
• Fixed an issue where downloading a time frame clip from a long video produced an incomplete result
• Fixed an issue where downloading a time frame clip from a long video could hang indefinitely with aria2c enabled
• Fixed an issue where X/Twitter quoted downloads could produce the same video twice
• Fixed an issue where deno was unable to be updated in-app on Linux
• Fixed an issue where browser cookies could not be found when running via Flatpak on Linux
• Fixed an issue where Parabolic would not start on KDE desktops
• Fixed an issue where Parabolic did not open links from browser extension on Windows

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!