This Week in GNOME is out with the latest summary to highlight all of the interesting changes this week.

This week's installment is a bit light without any update on the latest Sovereign Tech Fund initiatives for the GNOME desktop. What was covered for this week in GNOME's development scope includes the following.

- Libadwaita has a new alert/message dialog style/layout. Here's the screenshot shared of this addition for Libadwaita 1.6:

- Support for [1]building GNOME Shell and Mutter without X11 / XWayland support if so desired for a Wayland-only desktop.

- The Deja Dup backups tool now uses Rclone for cloud support.

- As a reminder, GUADEC 2024 as the annual GNOME developer conference is happening in Denver, Colorado from 19 to 24 July.

More details on these changes via [2]This Week In GNOME .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-MRs-Without-X11

[2] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/06/twig-154/