GTK Developers Plot Improvements To Tackle This Year - Possible Opt-In Unstable API
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GNOME developers had a busy week in preparing for the GNOME 50 beta release, many GNOME developers attending FOSDEM this weekend in Brussels, and other happenings.
This Week in GNOME is out with its newest issue with some of the highlights for the week being:
- The GTK toolkit developers are meeting in Brussels at FOSDEM for another hackfest. Among the items they are looking at over the next year include new SVG rendering code, better accessibility, icons and other assets, enhanced platform support, and other improvements. GTK developers are also weighing whether to introduce an unstable API as an opt-in experimentation feature.
- A new GTK 4.21 development snapshot was also released with GSK shaders now being auto-generated, no longer depending upon librsvg, the GTK Inspector added a heat-map generator, and other improvements.
- GNOME Papers as their modern document viewer now allows for drawing freehand annotations on PDF documents as well as adding text to them.
- GNOME Design as a 2D CAD program for GNOME now supports more commands and other functionality.
- [1]GStreamer 1.28 released this week.
More details on these changes for GNOME this week via [2]This Week in GNOME .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GStreamer-1.28
[2] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/01/twig-234/
This Week in GNOME is out with its newest issue with some of the highlights for the week being:
- The GTK toolkit developers are meeting in Brussels at FOSDEM for another hackfest. Among the items they are looking at over the next year include new SVG rendering code, better accessibility, icons and other assets, enhanced platform support, and other improvements. GTK developers are also weighing whether to introduce an unstable API as an opt-in experimentation feature.
- A new GTK 4.21 development snapshot was also released with GSK shaders now being auto-generated, no longer depending upon librsvg, the GTK Inspector added a heat-map generator, and other improvements.
- GNOME Papers as their modern document viewer now allows for drawing freehand annotations on PDF documents as well as adding text to them.
- GNOME Design as a 2D CAD program for GNOME now supports more commands and other functionality.
- [1]GStreamer 1.28 released this week.
More details on these changes for GNOME this week via [2]This Week in GNOME .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GStreamer-1.28
[2] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/01/twig-234/