Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from June 5 to June 12.GNOME Foundationmarimaj reportsThe GNOME Foundation has selected the first recipients who will receive funding through its new Fellowship program, and is delighted to announce that Peter Eisenmann and Sophie Herold will begin work as our first Fellows in July.Sophie and Peter are both long-running GNOME contributors, with many significant contributions as members of the GNOME community. Sophie is known as developer of apps, libraries, and websites, including Loupe, Pika Backup, Glycin, and welcome.gnome.org. Peter is a long-standing Nautilus maintainer (officially known as the Files app), as well as an experienced contributor to platform libraries, including GTK and GLib.Full announcement: https://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2026/06/11/announcing-our-first-fellows/MiscellaneousPhilipp Sauberzweig reportsI’m excited to share with you that I’ll be joining the Sovereign Tech Agency as a fellow for the GNOME Design Team starting in July. Check out the announcement and the full cohort of fellows in the official blogpost.During my two-year fellowship, I will support GNOME maintainers and developers with design feedback and reviews, create mockups, and coordinate efforts to standardize design patterns. My focus will be on increasing the visibility of design work, improving documentation, tools, and templates, and supporting the onboarding of new contributors.I’m looking forward to meeting many of you (again) at GUADEC and I’ll post more about my activities soon. I’m currently wrapping up projects from my previous job and taking some time off. See you all back in July.GNOME Core Apps and LibrariesMaps ↗Maps gives you quick access to maps all across the world.mlundblad reportsMaps now shows departures (and arrivals) for public transit stops/stations (when data is available in Transitous)GNOME Circle Apps and LibrariesTuba ↗Browse the Fediverse.GeopJr 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 saysThis week, Tuba was ported to Android, opening up exciting new opportunities, as we get closer to the next release!Third Party ProjectsJiri Eischmann reportsMeshy 26.06 has been released. It’s the first stable release of MeshCore client for Linux written in Python, GTK 4, and libadwaita.It has a feature parity with the official client, but provides native look & feel striving for the best possible integration with the Linux desktop, primarily GNOME.You can install stable releases of Meshy from Flathub or developoment releases from the app’s flatpak repo.Stable releases are planned at a rate of once per month.Anton Isaiev announcesRustConn 0.16 ReleasedRustConn just turned one year old, and 0.16 is out. Thank you to everyone who uses it and files reports - that feedback shapes every release.The biggest change this cycle is the move to IronRDP 0.15: bulk compression for lower bandwidth on slow links, slow-path rendering (XRDP and older Windows no longer show a blank screen), and better compatibility with GNOME Remote Desktop. Huge thanks to the IronRDP project and to all the open projects RustConn builds on for its connections.Other highlights, all requested by users:Connections with notes now show a small badge in the sidebar, so you can see at a glance which entries have documentation (search also takes into account the content of notes).Snap packaging caught up with the Flatpak build.A lot of macOS fixes (Keychain, SSH password auth, tray).A new Windows / WSL2 setup guide.Plus many small GNOME HIG refinements across the settings dialog and sidebar.Homepage: https://github.com/totoshko88/RustConnFlathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.totoshko88.RustConnaustin saysGelly 1.6 was released this week. Gelly is a Jellyfin and Subsonic/Navidrome compatible player using GNOME technologies.The last month has seen an uptick in development and contributions, with a few major features added:Gapless playbackUI polish, including a new compact modeNFC card support with the companion gelly-nfc projectFavoritesInternationalizationGelly needs help with translations! Please see the README for details. Thanks to all that have already contributed!https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.m51.GellyAns Ibrahim announcesMemento, the movie and tv tracking app, got updates this week with version 1.3.0:Backup and Restore functionality was implementedImport from Ticketbooth is supportedImport for Movary plays and watchlist is supportedUsers can add plays without dateFractal ↗Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust.Kévin Commaille reportsFractal 14 has landed and is packed with lots of small changes, that make for an even better experience. Here is a quick reminder of the changes since Fractal 13:Call rooms are identified with a camera icon in the sidebar and show a banner to warn that other users might not read messages in these rooms.Calls are rendered in the timeline and incoming calls trigger a notification. We still don’t support calls, but at least now you know when someone is calling and can open another client to answer.While we still support signing in via SSO, we have dropped support for identity providers, to simplify our code and a have a closer experience to signing in with OAuth 2.0.The sidebar room filter has been improved: Enter goes to first room result, and there’s an empty state when no results match the term.The performance of the room list has also been improved, it should be mostly noticeable for accounts that have joined a lot of rooms.Informative events (Unable to decrypt, server notices…) are now styled differently to reflect their special nature and differentiate them from regular text messages that anyone can send.Sending files & location is properly disabled while editing/replying, as it doesn’t work anyway.As usual, this release includes other improvements and fixes thanks to all our contributors, and our upstream projects.We want to address special thanks to the translators who worked on this version. We know this is a huge undertaking and have a deep appreciation for what you’ve done. If you want to help with this effort, head over to Damned Lies.This version is available right now on Flathub.This cycle, we were lucky enough to get a higher than usual number of new contributors. Most of the changes listed above come from them. If you want to join the gang, you can start by fixing one of our newcomers issues. We are always looking for new members!Shell ExtensionsCarlos Jiménez reportsNew version of Gnome Football extension, now with a calendar panel integration: https://github.com/carlosjdelgado/GnomeFootball/releases/tag/v2.0.0Arnis (kem-a) announcesKiwi (is not Apple) brings a bit of macOS feel to GNOME without getting in the way of the desktop you already use. The idea is to help people coming from macOS settle into Linux and feel at home on GNOME right away. It is fairly feature-rich and modular: macOS-style window control buttons, window controls and titles in the top panel for maximized apps, battery percentage when you are getting low, and a calendar moved to the right with notifications tucked into Quick Settings, accent colored menu entries, among others. The restyling is deliberately minimal, so it plays nice with default Adwaita theme and the rest of your setup.The latest update v1.7.0 improves the dynamic blur implementation (of course, there is blur) to the top panel, dash via Dash to Dock, and the Overview background, and adds a smoother, slowed workspace switch transition.Install it from GNOME Extensions or get it from GitHubJust Perfection saysA new rule has been added to the EGO review guidelines to prevent GNOME Shell extensions from including unnecessary keys in metadata.json.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!