Free Software Activities November 2025

Mon, 1 Dec 2025 18:52:04 GMT

Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. Hand holding the release machinery for Phosh 0.51.0 but there's more:

See below for details on the above and more:

phosh

Better auto brightness (MR)

Update CI to forky (MR)

Test mobile data connection in CI (MR)

Add DebugControl interface (MR)

Release 0.51~rc1

caffeine prefs: Fix resize when adding intervals (MR)

Robustify plugin-prefs screenshot tests (MR)

Another build systemd dependency fix (MR)

Gesture to tune brightness on lock screen (MR)

phoc

Update ci to forky (MR)

Exit cleanly on SIGTERM (MR)

Release (0.51~rc1), 0.51.0)

Fix segfault triggered in alpine CI (MR)

Cancel preedit on submit (avoids resubmitted text in e.g. chatty or flare) (MR)

phosh-mobile-settings

Test suite robustness (MR)

Update CI (MR)

Release 0.51~rc1)

stevia

Give up if we can't grab the bus name (MR)

Release 0.51~rc1 0.51.0

xdg-desktop-portal-phosh

Release 0.51~rc1, 0.50.0

Unbreak nightly builds (MR)

Unbreak 32bit builds (MR)

Drop C file chooser impl (MR)

pfs

pfs-open: Allow to open arbitrary directories and start fixing clippy warnings (MR)

More clippy cleanups (MR)

Allow to ship schema (MR)

Run a smoke test in ci (MR)

Implement org.freedesktop.FileManager1 in the demo (MR, MR, MR)

dir-view: Don't thumbnail when disabled (MR)

Phrog

Fix osk dependencies (MR)

gmobile

run-phosh: Allow to run headless (MR)

Release 0.5.0 (MR)

display-panel: Allow to take screenshots (MR)

Add hwdb and udev rules for torch min brightness (MR)

feedbackd

Release 0.8.7

feedbackd-device-themes

Release 0.8.7

libcall-ui

Ignore callaudiod deprecations as we otherwise break compilation of downstreams (MR)

Same for 0.1.x branch (MR)

Release (0.1.5)

wirepumber

doc: Fix make run invocation (MR)

Chatty

mobile-broadband-povider-info

Release 20251101

Debian

stevia: Upload 0.51~rc1, 0.51.0)

phrog: Use stevia instead of osk-stub (MR)

meta-phosh: Modernize dependencies (MR)

phosh: Drop osk-stub (MR)

phosh: Upload 0.51~rc1

phoc: Upload 0.41~rc1

p-m-s: Upload 0.51~rc1

feedbackd-device-themes: Upload 0.8.7

m-b-p-i: Uplaod 20251101

debcargo-conf: Backport ashpd patch (MR)

xdg-desktop-portal-phosh: Get it into unstable (MR, MR)

Mobian

librem5: Drop exponential brightness (MR)

wlroots

input-method-unstable-v2: Fix two protocol issues (MR)

libqrtr-glib

Fix transfer annotation to unbreak usage from Python (MR)

Move doc build to gi-docgen (MR)

libadwaits-rs

Allow None for parent in adw_dialog_choose (MR)

phosh-site

Lint tools (MR)

Add slideshow to landing page (MR)

Add more videos (MR)

Fix typos and links (MR)

Update nightly details (MR)

bengalos-debs

Fix phrog build (MR, MR)

Enable arm64 builds (MR)

gtk

Drop unused defines (MR)

Reviews

This is not code by me but reviews on other peoples code. The list is (as usual) slightly incomplete. Thanks for the contributions!

pfs: Create folder support (MR)`

portal: Create thumbnails via thumbnailer service (MR)

phosh: caffeine plugin prefs (MR)

phosh: lower torch brightness (MR)

phosh: wi-fi hotspot QR code (MR)

phosh/caffeine: Close status page when selecting an interval (MR)

phosh/caffeine: Use empty state (MR)

bengalos-recpipes: prep supporting multiple disk layouts (MR)

xdg-p-p: Longer test timeout (MR)

p-m-s: Volume slider for media rols (MR)

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