Free Software Activities November 2025
1st December 2025
Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. Hand holding the release machinery for Phosh 0.51.0 but there's more:
See below for details on the above and more:
phosh
- Better auto brightness (MR)
- Update CI to forky (MR)
- Test mobile data connection in CI (MR)
- Add
DebugControlinterface (MR) - Release 0.51~rc1
- caffeine prefs: Fix resize when adding intervals (MR)
- Robustify plugin-prefs screenshot tests (MR)
- Another build systemd dependency fix (MR)
- Gesture to tune brightness on lock screen (MR)
phoc
- Update ci to forky (MR)
- Exit cleanly on SIGTERM (MR)
- Release (0.51~rc1), 0.51.0)
- Fix segfault triggered in alpine CI (MR)
- Cancel preedit on submit (avoids resubmitted text in e.g. chatty or flare) (MR)
phosh-mobile-settings
stevia
xdg-desktop-portal-phosh
- Release 0.51~rc1, 0.50.0
- Unbreak nightly builds (MR)
- Unbreak 32bit builds (MR)
- Drop C file chooser impl (MR)
pfs
- pfs-open: Allow to open arbitrary directories and start fixing clippy warnings (MR)
- More clippy cleanups (MR)
- Allow to ship schema (MR)
- Run a smoke test in ci (MR)
- Implement
org.freedesktop.FileManager1in the demo (MR, MR, MR) - dir-view: Don't thumbnail when disabled (MR)
Phrog
- Fix osk dependencies (MR)
gmobile
- run-phosh: Allow to run headless (MR)
- Release 0.5.0 (MR)
- display-panel: Allow to take screenshots (MR)
- Add hwdb and udev rules for torch min brightness (MR)
feedbackd
- Release 0.8.7
feedbackd-device-themes
- Release 0.8.7
libcall-ui
- Ignore callaudiod deprecations as we otherwise break compilation of downstreams (MR)
- Same for 0.1.x branch (MR)
- Release (0.1.5)
wirepumber
- doc: Fix
make runinvocation (MR)
Chatty
mobile-broadband-povider-info
- Release 20251101
Debian
- stevia: Upload 0.51~rc1, 0.51.0)
- phrog: Use stevia instead of osk-stub (MR)
- meta-phosh: Modernize dependencies (MR)
- phosh: Drop osk-stub (MR)
- phosh: Upload 0.51~rc1
- phoc: Upload 0.41~rc1
- p-m-s: Upload 0.51~rc1
- feedbackd-device-themes: Upload 0.8.7
- m-b-p-i: Uplaod 20251101
- debcargo-conf: Backport ashpd patch (MR)
- xdg-desktop-portal-phosh: Get it into unstable (MR, MR)
Mobian
- librem5: Drop exponential brightness (MR)
wlroots
- input-method-unstable-v2: Fix two protocol issues (MR)
libqrtr-glib
libadwaits-rs
- Allow
Noneforparentinadw_dialog_choose(MR)
phosh-site
- Lint tools (MR)
- Add slideshow to landing page (MR)
- Add more videos (MR)
- Fix typos and links (MR)
- Update nightly details (MR)
bengalos-debs
gtk
- Drop unused defines (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!
- pfs: Create folder support (MR)`
- portal: Create thumbnails via thumbnailer service (MR)
- phosh: caffeine plugin prefs (MR)
- phosh: lower torch brightness (MR)
- phosh: wi-fi hotspot QR code (MR)
- phosh/caffeine: Close status page when selecting an interval (MR)
- phosh/caffeine: Use empty state (MR)
- bengalos-recpipes: prep supporting multiple disk layouts (MR)
- xdg-p-p: Longer test timeout (MR)
- p-m-s: Volume slider for media rols (MR)
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