Ahead of the GNOME 49 stable release expected on Wednesday, libadwaita 1.8 released this week to incorporate all the enhancements made over the past six months to this GTK4 library that provides GNOME-specific widgets and features.

Libadwaita 1.8 brings AdwShortcutsDialog as a replacement to GTK's deprecated GtkShortcutsWindow, various shortcut improvements, full support for CSS media queries that aligns with GTK's support for it, and typography enhancements. There are also a number of other smaller changes as part of libadwaita 1.8.

More details on libadwaita 1.8 via [1]the release announcement . Next cycle libadwaita is aiming for a generic sidebar widget and a stack sidebar replacement.

[2]This Week in GNOME also covers some other GNOME improvements made this week, ahead of next week's GNOME 49.0 release on 17 September, There has been more wokr on GNOME Settings, new features for Sysprof, and more.

The Sysprof work is quite exciting with Mesa tracing integration, continued work on remote inspector integration, and other changes.



[1] https://nyaa.place/blog/libadwaita-1-8/

[2] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-216/