In addition to yesterday's [1]GNOME 49 beta release marking the 28th birthday of GNOME , a lot of other exciting GNOME developments materialized this week.

This Week in GNOME #212 was published on Friday as the latest weekly report around the week's GNOME developments.

First up, the latest code for the Rust port of GNOME Disks was merged. The disk image restore dialog for flashing ISOs to USB drives is now in Rust. The Rust-ification of GNOME continues.

Following GTK landing CSS media queries support, libadwaita also now supports CSS media queries as another notable change for the week.

ALT Gnome and ALT Linux Team members this week also showed off Hashsum as a new file checksum utility built on GTK4/Libadwaita and developed in Vala.

More details on all of the interesting GNOME developments for the week via [2]This Week in GNOME .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-Beta

[2] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/08/twig-212/