One of the interesting GNOME-aligned application developments in recent months has been RustConn as [1]a modern GTK4-based connection manager . RustConn allows managing SSH, RDP, VNC, SPICE, and a variety of other connections from this Rust-written application. It's been steadily tacking on more features and that effort continued with more features landing.

RustConn's latest releases bring " the three biggest features since the project started ", per [2]This Week in GNOME . Among the features are Cloud Sync support for synchronizing connection configurations between devices whether through Google Drive, Nextcloud, Dropbox, a USB flash drive, or other media. There is also the SSH Tunnel Manager for managing SSH port-forwarding tunnels without terminal sessions. SSH jump host support was also extended to cover RDP, VNC, and SPICE connections.

Also significant is a rework to the tab management for RustConn. Plus a variety of other smaller features and improvements have made it into the recent flow of RustConn updates.

For broader availability, RustConn is now available as Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, and Debian and RPM packages too. There is also an AUR package for Arch Linux users. Those wishing to checkout the latest RustConn advancements for a modern Linux desktop connection manager can find the code on [3]GitHub .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-OS-systemd-context

[2] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/05/twig-247/

[3] https://github.com/totoshko88/RustConn