Colors of Noise

Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. Phosh 0.48.0 is out with nice improvements, phosh.mobi e.V. is alive, helped a bit to get cellbroadcastd out, osk bugfixes and some more:

See below for details on the above and more:

phosh

• Fix crash triggered by our mpris player refactor (MR)
• Generate vapi file for libphosh (MR)
• Backport fixes for 0.47 (MR)
• Media players lockscreen plugin (MR), bugfix
• Fix lockscreen clock when am/pm is localized (MR)
• Another round of CI cleanups (MR)
• Proper life cycle for MeatinfoCache in app-grid button tests (MR)
• Enable cell broadcast display by default (MR)
• Release 0.48~rc1, 0.48.0

phoc

• Unify output config updates and support adaptive sync (MR)
• Avoid crash on shutdown (MR)
• Avoid use after free in gtk-shell (MR)
• Simplify CI (MR)
• Release 0.48~rc1, 0.48.0

phosh-mobile-settings

• Fix leaks and ease running under ASAN (MR), (MR)
• Run ASAN in CI (MR)
• Release 0.48~rc1, 0.48.0

stevia (formerly phosh-osk-stub)

• Release 0.48~rc1, 0.48.0
• Reject non-UTF-8 dictionaries for hunspell so avoid broken completion bar (MR)
• Output tracking (MR) as prep for future work
• Handle non-UTF-8 dictionaries for hunspell for input and output (MR)
• Fix some leaks (MR)
• Handle default completer changes right away (MR)

phosh-osk-data

• Handle stevia rename (MR)
• Supply ru presage data

phosh-vala-plugins

• Add example plugin (MR)

pfs

• Fix initial empty state (MR)
• Use GNOME's mirror for fdo templates (MR)

xdg-desktop-portal-phosh

• Release 0.48~rc1, 0.48.0

xdg-desktop-portal

• Fix categories for cell broadcasts (MR)
• Relax app-id requirement in app-chooser portal (MR)

phosh-debs

• Switch from osk-stub to stevia (MR)

meta-phosh

• Make installing from sid and experimental convenient (MR)

feedbackd

• Release 0.8.3

feedbackd-device-themes

• Release 0.8.4

gmobile

• Release 0.4.0
• Make gir and doc build warning free (MR)

GNOME clocks

• Use libfeedback instead of GTK's media api: (MR). This way the alarm become more recognizable and users can tweak alarm sounds.
• Fix flatpak build and CI in our branch that carries the needed patches for mobile

Debian

• meta-phosh: Switch to 0.47 (MR)
• libmbim: Upload 1.33.1 to experimental
• libqmi: Upload 1.37.1 to experimental
• modemmanager: Upload 1.23.1 to experimental
• Update mobile-broadband-provider-info to 20250613 (MR) in experimental
• Upload phoc 0.48~rc1, 0.48.0 to experimental
• Upload gmobile 0.4.0 to experimental
• Upload phosh-mobile-settings 0.48~rc1, 0.48.0 to experimental
• Upload xdg-desktop-portal-phosh 0.48~rc1, 0.48.0 to experimental
• Prepare stevia 0.48~rc1 and upload 0.48.0 to experimental
• Upload feedbackd 0.8.3 to experimental
• Upload feedbackd-device-themes 0.8.4 to experimental

Mobian

• Add feedbackd and wakeup timer support (MR)

ModemManager

• Release 1.25.1
• Test and warning fixes (MR)
• run asan in ci (MR) and fix more leaks

libmbim

• Release 1.33.1

libqmi

• Release 1.37.1

mobile-broadband-provider-info

• Release 20250613)

Cellbroadcastd

• Better handle empty operator (MR)
• Use GApplicaation (MR)
• Fix library init (MR)
• Add desktop file (MR)
• Allow to send notifications for cell broadcast messages (MR)
• Build introspection data (MR)
• Only indicate Cell Broadcast support for MM >= 1.25 (MR)
• Implement duplication detection (MR)
• Reduce API surface (MR)
• Add symbols file (MR)
• Support vala (MR)

iio-sensor-proxy

• Add minimal gio dependency (MR)

twenty-twenty-hugo

• Support Mastodon (MR)

gotosocial

• Explain STARTTLS behavior in docs (MR)

Reviews

This is not code by me but reviews on other peoples code. The list is (as usual) slightly incomplete. Thanks for the contributions!

• cellbroadcastd: Message store (MR)
• cellbroadcastd: Print severity (MR)
• cellbroadcastd: Packaging (MR)
• cellbroadcastd: Rename from cbd (MR)
• cellbroadcastd: Release 0.0.1 (MR)
• cellbroadcastd: Release 0.0.2 (MR)
• cellbroadcastd: Close file descriptors (MR)
• cellbroadcastd: Sort messages by timestamp (MR)
• meta-phosh: Ignore subprojects in format check (MR)
• p-m-s: pmOS tweaks ground work (MR)
• p-m-s: osk popover switch (MR)
• p-m-s: Add panel search (MR)
• p-m-s: Add cellbroadcastd message history (MR)
• phosh: Add search daemon and command line tool to query search results (MR)
• phosh: App-grid: Set max-width entries (MR)
• chatty: Keyboard navigation improvements (MR)
• phosh: LTR QuickSettings and fix LTR in screenshot tests (MR)
• iio-sensor-proxy: improve buffer sensor discovery: (MR)
• Calls: allow favorites to ring (MR)
• feedbackd: More haptic udev rules (MR)
• feedbackd: Simplify udev rules (MR)
• feedbackd: Support legacy LED naming scheme (MR)
• gmobile: FLX1 wakeup key support (MR)
• gmobile: FP6 support (MR)

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