Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 29 to September 05.GNOME Circle Apps and Librariesrevisto announcesDrum Machine v1.5.0 is here!Now you can export your beats to WAV, FLAC, OGG & MP3 with metadata support (artist, title, cover art) and repeat counts.Available on Flathub!It would be cool if you shared what you make with Drum Machine with the community (mention me :D)!As always, we would love to have your contributions to Drum Machine to make it better.Third Party ProjectsSebastian Wiesner reportsA new release of Turn On is available. With this release you can now set the target address to send the magic Wake On LAN packet to for each device. This enables wake ups over IPv6 and supports more complicated networking scenarios. Previously Turn On always used the standard IPv4 broadcast address on port 9 which is still the default.Turn On is a small GNOME utility to turn on remote systems such as NAS devices with Wake On LAN magic packets. It’s available from Flathub.Sepehr Rasouli announcesSudoku v1.3.0 is here!Sudoku now generates puzzles with a single unique solution.You can now add notes using CTRL + number keys, thanks to @tahairavani.The pencil shortcut has been changed from CTRL + P to P for easier use.Entry cells now support keyboard input from any keyboard layout.A bug causing incorrect cell conflict highlighting has been fixed.Notes are now autosaved.Focusing on a clue cell now highlights all cells with the same number.Install it from Flathub:https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.sepehr_rs.SudokuGameeky ↗Play, create and learn.Martín Abente Lahaye saysGameeky 0.7.0 is out 🚀This new release brings several bug fixes and additions to the Python API and code editor, that improve the user and learning experience. Additionally, it has upgraded its GNOME runtime for stability and performance.If you’re interested in this mix of video games, coding and learning, reach out!Shell ExtensionsCleo Menezes Jr. reportsI present Static Workspace Background, an extension for GNOME Shell available for versions 48 and 49.Navigate between workspaces without the animation of changing the background wallpaper.Internshipslbaudin reportsWith the end of August it is also the end of Ahmed’s papers GSoC! He worked on backend isolation and managed to write a prototype that loads and renders documents in a separate process. Ahmed wrote a blog post to describe how it was carried out and how this paves the way for a sandboxed document viewer.GNOME Foundationsteven announcesSteven Deobald is stepping down as Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. Announcements are available from the Board of Directors and from Steven:https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/08/29/thanks-and-farewell-to-steven-deobald/https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/08/29/so-short-and-thanks-for-all-the-flinch/Allan Day reportsAn update is available on what’s been happening at the GNOME Foundation over the past week, including the leadership transition, budgeting, a new sponsor, support for Outreachy, and more.Read it here: https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/09/05/foundation-update-2025-09-05/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!