We take advantage of loading systemd system credentials based on smbios type 11 strings and QEMU’s vsock feature. Here is the list of recognized system credentials. The important bit passing down the following argument to qemu libvirt allow…
We take advantage of loading systemd system credentials based on smbios type 11 strings and QEMU’s vsock feature. Here is the list of recognized system credentials. The important bit passing down the following argument to qemu libvirt allow…
Time for a new Crosswords release. This is a massive one with over 1,000 changes from 18 different contributors, and is the biggest release I’ve done to date! This features major improvement to the appearance of the Player, and to the usefu…
Welcome to another update about everything that’s been happening at the GNOME Foundation. As has become my custom, this post covers a two week period, this time from 18 May until today, 29 May. As usual the Foundation continues to be busy,
With the release of 4.23.1, GTK’s renderer will come with a new feature that we’ve called snapping. Snapping is enabled by calling gtk_snapshot_set_snap(). If enabled, it will slightly adjust the placement of rectangles when drawing so that…
CVE-2026-46529 is an argument injection vulnerability in Evince, Atril, and Xreader caused by missing shell quoting when composing a command line. The reporter, João Medeiros, has published a GitHub repo for the CVE and a blog post with the…
Welcome to another GNOME Foundation update post! Today’s installment covers highlights from what’s happened over the past two weeks. Linux Apps Summit 2026 starts tomorrow! The organizing team, which includes members from both GNOME and KDE…
Yelp 49.1 fixes a significant Flatpak sandbox escape related to last year’s CVE-2025-3155. CVE assignment for this new issue is currently pending. This is not a bug in Flatpak. Flatpak allows sandboxed applications to open URIs or files, me…
It’s the first day of May, and it’s time for another update on what’s been happening at the GNOME Foundation. It’s been two weeks since my last post, and this update covers highlights of what we’ve been doing since then. This week we receiv…
At the start of the month, Bilal gave us all a giant gift with Goblint. On the first week it was already impressive. Now it’s an invaluable tool for anyone that ever interfaced with GObject, glib or GTK. It will catch leaks, bugs, or even o…
I am very happy to announce a new version of Casilda! A simple Wayland compositor widget for Gtk 4 originally created for Cambalache This release comes with several new features, bug fixes and extra polish that it is making it start to feel…
I am very happy to announce a new version of Casilda! A simple Wayland compositor widget for Gtk 4 originally created for Cambalache This release comes with several new features, bug fixes and extra polish that it is making it start to feel…