This Week in GNOME #68 New Dialogs
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from October 28 to November 04.
Tux Machines
Do you waddle the waddle?
Do you waddle the waddle?
Be prepared
Sounds obscene, it’s about money rather than local talent
Actions speak louder than press releases
Paying more for less.
he site of RMS (online since the 1990s) has been offline for about 3 days. We don’t know what’s taking so long for it to come back online.
Science and technology as codified in caselaw
Remember to save to disk, and do so very often
People In Love, probably not easy to find anymore (rare).
Too much this past week
3 years pass by just like that
Highlights of Audacity 4 include a new project manager that prompts you to select your project from the local file system or cloud, create a new one, or copy audio clips across projects, as well as support for Nyquist and VST3 plugins across Linux, macOS, and Windows, and LV2 on Linux, and Audio Units on macOS.
Linux kernel 7.1 was released on June 14th, 2026, introducing new features like a new NTFS file system implementation, which has been in the works for the last 4 years, featuring full write support with delayed allocation, iomap, and folio integration to improve write performance, and a new suite of userspace utilities called ntfsprogs-plus.
Highlights of Mozilla Thunderbird 155 include an updated S/MIME pop-up that now shows signature, digest, encryption algorithms, and key sizes, custom OAuth support for IMAP and SMTP servers, new PKCE and external browser fields for custom OAuth settings, and new Enterprise policies to disable QR export and experimental features.
The new stable Steam Client update for September 1st, 2026, is here to introduce support for HDR streaming on Steam Deck OLED via Remote Play, improve video color range on all platforms during Remote Play, and add support for changing accounts while a game is running.
The board is based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52840 microcontroller, which integrates a 64MHz Arm Cortex-M4 processor with floating-point support, 1MB of flash memory, and 256KB of RAM. Wireless connectivity from the MCU consists of 2.4GHz Bluetooth 5.0, with supported Bluetooth data rates of 2Mbps, 1Mbps, 500kbps, and 125kbps.
The Amlogic A311Y3 integrates two Arm Cortex-A78 cores running at up to 2.4GHz alongside six Cortex-A55 cores at up to 2.0GHz. Graphics are handled by an Arm Mali-G625 MC1 GPU, while the integrated neural processing unit provides up to 8 TOPS of AI acceleration with support for INT4, INT8, INT16, FP8, FP16, and BF16 workloads.
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This version includes important security updates to Firefox.
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from October 28 to November 04.