Quiete some things made progress last month: We put out Phosh 0.50 release, got closer to enabling media roles for audio by default in Phosh (see related post) and reworked our images builds. You should also (hopefully) notice some nice quality of life improvements once changes land in a distro near you and you're using Phosh. See below for details: phosh

• Switch back to default them when disabling automatic HighContrast (MR)
• Hande gnome-session 49 changes so OSK can still start up (MR)
• Release 0.50.0, 0.50.1
• Don't forget to apply corner-shift to gear icon (MR)
• Fix startup warning (MR)
• Update doap (MR)
• DBus codegen cleanups (MR, MR, MR)
• Add Autobrightness handling (MR), (MR), (MR)

phoc

• Dispatch idle loop in prepare (MR)
• Release 0.50.0

phosh-mobile-settings

• Allow to hide plugins (MR)
• Release 0.50~rc1, 0.50.0
• Hide demo plugins by default (MR)
• Sink floating refs properly (MR)
• Simplify includes (MR)
• Allow to configure alarm sound if clock app likely supports it (MR)
• Use shared check CI images (MR)
• Release 0.50.1
• Fix ringtone role (MR)

stevia (formerly phosh-osk-stub)

• Ship sytemd user unit so things work with gnome-session 49 (MR)
• Fix fallback to default OSK size with multiple outputs (MR)
• Improve character styling a bit (MR)
• Consolidate input surface creation (MR)
• Release 0.50.0, 0.50.1
• Don't trigger backspace key repeat in keypad or emoji layouts (MR)
• Better restore layout after swipe closing (MR)

phosh-tour

• Release 0.50.0

meta-phosh

• Build shared CI image MR

xdg-desktop-portal-phosh

• Use pfs subproject for Rust portal (MR)

libphosh-rs

• Fix doc build (MR)

Calls

• Release 49.1
• Fix plugin loading (MR)
• Fix debug logging (MR)

Phrog

• Allow OSKs to run with gnome-session 49 (MR)
• Release 0.50.0 (MR)

phosh-recipes

• Fix build (MR)
• Simplify and cleanup docs (MR)
• Fix mkosi build (MR)
• Install Recommends: (MR)
• Draft: Add support for initial-setup (MR)
• Add version option (MR)
• Drop debos build (MR, MR)

feedbackd

• Fix compatiblility with systemd >= 258 (MR)
• Use meson.options (MR)
• Add phone role (MR)

feedbackd-device-themes

• Add support for Google Pixel 3A (MR)

Chatty

• Fix failing CI build (MR)

Squeekboard

• Add systemd unit to start with gnome-session 49 (MR)

Debian

• Upload phosh-tour 0.50.0
• Upload stevia 0.50.0, 0.50.1
• Upload phosh-mobile-settings 0.50.0
• Upload feedbackd 0.8.6
• Prepare phrog upload (MR)
• gnome-session Breaks (MR, MR)
• cellbroadcastd: Backport our upstream deadlock fix (MR)
• Upload wlroots 0.19.2
• Upload iio-sensor-proxy 3.8 (MR)

Cellbroadcastd

• Release 0.0.3
• Fix deadlock on start MR)

gnome-settings-daemon

• Fix brightness values (MR)

gnome-control-center

• Ignore role based loopbacks (MR)

gnome-initial-setup

• Use AdwSwitchRow to reduce horizonatal allocation (MR)
• Quit when done (and not under GDM) (MR)

sdm845-mainline

• shift6mq: Switch to mainline panel driver (MR)

gnome-session

• RequiredComponents is now gone (MR)

alpine

• stevia: Add hunspell-en-us dependency (MR)

droid-juicer

• Install sensor firmware for SHIFT6mq (MR)
• Install sensor firmware for Oneplus 6T (MR)
• Fix clippy complaints (MR)

phosh-site

• Mention mirror (MR)
• Update for hugo 150 (MR, MR)
• Embed some ouf our peertube videos (MR)
• Add donations item (MR)
• Update osk post to mention systemd unit (MR)
• Update list of distributions and users (MR)
• Switch nightly builds to forky (MR)
• Lint more markdown (MR)
• Release 0.50.1 (MR)
• Notes on audio (MR)

phosh-debs

• Switch to Debian forky (MR)
• Add g-i-s (MR)

Linux

• shift6mq: Add missing panel driver dependency (MR)
• shift6mq: Fix DTS warning (MR)

Wireplumber

• Update media-role volume MR (MR)
• Allow to set a default target for e.g. alerts and alarms (MR)

Phosh.mobi e.V. demo-phones

• Add demo videos (MR)
• Add demo epubs (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!

• phoc: Use correct format specifiers (MR)
• phoc: seat: Use the getter to access focused layer's output (MR)
• phosh: Upcoming events empty state (MR)
• phosh: Caffeine duration (MR)
• phosh: Location service quick setting (MR)
• phosh: UI check fix (MR)
• phosh: Autobrightness toggle (MR)
• p-m-s: Empty tweaks page test (MR)
• p-m-s: Symlink backend (MR)
• p-m-s: Return boolean from value setters (MR)
• p-m-s: conf-tweaks: Make setting_data a prop in Xresources backend (MR)
• p-m-s: conf-tweaks: Add gtk3settings backend (MR)
• gmobile: xiaomi-sweet support (MR)
• xdg-d-p: Use clippy (MR), MR)
• libcmatrix: various tweaks ([MR (https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libcmatrix/-/merge_requests/110))
• libcmatrix: Release 0.0.4 (MR](https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libcmatrix/-/merge_requests/115)
• meta-phosh: Add cellbroadcasts (MR)
• calls: Unload plugin test (MR)
• calls: Sip proxy support (MR)
• calls: Build system cleanups (MR)
• m-b-p-i: JP MVNO (MR)

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Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. Released Phosh 0.49.0 and added some more QoL improvements to Phosh Mobile stack (e.g. around Cell broadcasts). Also pulled my SHIFT6mq out of the drawer (where it was sitting in a drawwer far too long) and got it to show a picture after a small driver fix. Thanks to the work the sdm845-mainlining folks are doing that was all that was needed. If I can get touch to work better that would be another nice device for demoing Phosh. See below for details on the above and more: phosh

• Allow to auto-start pomodoro timer (MR)
• Improve mpris player thumbnails (MR)
• Cellbroadcast fixes (MR)
• Release (MR)
• searchd related build system fixes (MR)
• gchar vs char cleanup (MR)
• upcoming-events: Add filter icons (MR)
• Fix missing header dependency (MR)
• Release 0.49~rc1, 0.49.0
• Fix some incorrect callback signatures (MR)

phoc

• Workspace indicators (MR)
• Don't overwrite picked output (MR)
• Release (0.49~rc1, 0.49.0
• Raise nofile rlimit (MR)
• Fix gettings tarted page title (MR)
• Update cursor when layer surface moves away from under the cursor (MR)
• Support cursor-shape-v1 protocol (MR)
• pointer: Use libinput's LIBINPUT_CONFIG_DRAG_LOCK_ENABLED_STICKY: (MR)

phosh-mobile-settings

• Cellbroadcast fixes (MR)
• build: Link statically against libcellbroadcast subproject (MR)
• Release 0.49~rc1, 0.49.0

stevia (formerly phosh-osk-stub)

• Release 0.49~rc1, 0.49.0
• Fix emoji matching on big endian (MR)
• Fix emoji matching again aftr switching to GTK's embedded emoji data (MR)
• Fix scaling when adding new layouts (MR)
• Improve character popover and other fixes (MR)

xdg-desktop-portal-phosh

• Release 0.49~rc1, 0.49.0

pfs

• Let pressing <enter> save the file (MR)

feedbackd

• Release 0.8.4
• Fix important override. (MR)

feedbackd-device-themes

• Release 0.8.5
• Lower status LED brightness on sargo (MR)

libcmatrix

• Track room version (MR)

Chatty

• Warning fixes (MR)
• matrix: Show room version (MR)

Debian

• feedbackd-device-themes: Upload 0.8.5
• feebackd: Upload 0.8.4
• stevia: Upload 0.49~rc1, 0.49.0
• p-m-s: Upload 0.49~rc1, 0.49.0
• With trixie release, upload to unstable feedbackd, feedbackd-device-themes, gmobile
• phosh: Upload 0.49~rc1, 0.49.0
• phoc: Upload 0.49~rc1, 0.49.0
• meta-phosh: Fix captive portal detection (MR)
• stevia: Fix build failure on s390x (MR)
• libssc: Update to 0.2.2 (MR)
• mobile-config-firefox: Fix stray config file (MR)

Cellbroadcastd

• Fix daemon systemd target (MR)
• Ignore case when matching country when looking up channels (MR)
• Meson dependency fix (MR)

ModemManager

• Fix two country codes (MR)

gnome-clocks

• Fix sporadic wakeup due to not diposed timers (MR) also resulting in a vala issue

git-buildpackage

• Move test data to salsa and fetch it from there: deb, rpm, MR
• clone: Be less strict on vcs-git URLs (MR)

mobian-recipies

• Fail early without an ssh key (MR)

Linux

• Shift6mq: Fix clock frequency of panel driver (MR)
• Shift6mq: Set chassis type (MR)
• Shift6mq: Tried to improve the touch driver to increase the sensitivity / sample rate not success yet.

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

• phosh/upcoming-events: Allow to filter out empty days in (MR)
• phosh: keypad and search bar CSS improvements (MR)
• p-m-s: Tweaks definition parsing code (MR)
• p-m-s: osk-shortcuts: UI tweaks (MR)
• p-m-s: Add gchar check (MR)
• p-m-s: Make it a search provider (MR)
• phoc: toplevel-addons (MR)
• debian: MM stable update (MR)
• stevia: Use default font (MR)
• upcoming-events: Use filtered list model (MR)
• pms: Tweaks rename (MR)
• pms: Clang build fix (MR)
• feedbackd: Udev rule for AW86927 (FP5) (MR)
• xdpm: Allow pure rust build for using in xdg-d-p-phrosh (MR)

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Another short status update of what happened on my side last month - a lot shorter than usual due to real life events (that will also affect August) but there was some progress on stevia and it landed in Debian too now. See below for details on the above and more: phosh

• Use new, rust based) phrosh portal too (MR)
• Consistently format meson files (MR)

phoc

• Add sysprof support (MR)
• Reject input based on shell's state (MR)
• Avoid zero serial (MR)
• Allow to damage whole output on each frame (MR)
• Avoid possible crash on unlock (MR)

phosh-mobile-settings

• Use newer gmobile and make CI more flexible (MR
• Fix nightly build (MR)
• Allow to configure the OSK's automatic scaling properties (MR)

stevia (formerly phosh-osk-stub)

• Portrait keyboard scaling (MR)
• Fix translation of completer descriptions in mobile settings (MR)
• Use key-pressed events (MR)
• Fix additional completions like emojis with hunspell completer (MR)
• Document layout testing (MR)

phosh-vala-plugins

• Drop vapi files, they've made it into a phosh release now (MR)

xdg-desktop-portal-phosh

• Bump rustc dependency and simplify CI (MR)

feedbackd-device-themes

• Add key- pressed,released (MR)

livi

• Make single click play/pause video (MR)
• Update screenshot and metinfo for better display on flathub (MR)
• Release 0.3.2 (MR)
• Update on Flathub (MR)

Debian

• Upload current stevia to experimental
• phosh: Don't forget to install vapi files (MR)
• meta-phosh: Update to 0.48.0: (MR)
• Update to stevia 0.48 (MR)
• Update xkbcommon to 0.10.0 (MR)
• iio-sensor-proxy: Backport buffer mode fixes for trixie (MR), Unblock request
• livi: Update to 0.3.2 (MR)

foliate

• Don't let session go idle when in fullscreen (MR)

Cellbroadcastd

• Fix packaging build (MR)

git-buildpackage

• pull: Allow to convert local repo when remote got switched to DEP-14 (MR)

wayland-protocols

• Respin cutout protocol 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!

• phosh-mobile-settings: Disable Xwayland to help e.g. distrobox (MR) - merged
• phosh-mobile-settings: Allow to search (MR) - merged
• phosh-mobile-settings: Allow to configure terminal layout shortcuts (MR) - merged
• feedbackd: Legacy led support (MR) - merged
• phosh: upcoming-events: Allow to hide days without events (MR)
• m-b-p-i: Add emergency numbers for JP (MR)
• xdg-desktop-portal-phosh: bootstrap pure rust portal (MR) - merged
• xdg-desktop-portal-phosh: portal avoidance (MR) - merged

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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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Another short status update of what happened on my side last month. Larger blocks besides the Phosh 0.47 release are on screen keyboard and cell broadcast improvements, work on separate volume streams, the switch of phoc to wlroots 0.19.0 and effort to make Phosh work on Debian's upcoming stable release (Trixie) out of the box. Trixie will ship with Phosh 0.46, if you want to try out 0.47 you can fetch it from Debian's experimental suite. See below for details on the above and more: phosh

• Track volume control based on media role priority (MR)
• Release 0.47~rc1, 0.47.0

phoc

• Release 0.47~rc1, 0.47.0
• More signal unlink fixes (MR)
• Further polish the wlroots 0.19 switch and undraft (MR)
• Start to track wlroots 0.20 dev branch (MR)
• Remember output configuration and restore scale,mode,transform for single output configs (MR)

phosh-mobile-settings

• Release 0.47~rc1, 0.47.0
• CI maintenance (MR, MR, MR)
• New alerts panel (MR)
• Handle p-o-s to stevia rename (MR)

phosh-osk-stub / stevia

• Smoke test completers (MR)
• Better use horizontal space in completion bar (MR)
• Add emojis to completion bar (MR)
• Drop separate emoji data (MR)
• Add some keyword completions (MR)
• Better handle lots of completions (MR)
• Release 0.47~rc1, 0.47.0
• Rename to Stevia (MR), (MR)
• Release 0.48~alpha1 to ease the rename for distros
• Some minor GTK4 preps (MR)

phosh-tour

• Release 0.47.0

phosh-osk-data

• Check packaging step (MR)

pfs

• Release 0.0.3

xdg-desktop-portal-phosh

• Release 0.47.0

phrog

• Allow systemd to fail to help bootstrapping (MR)

phosh-debs

• Skip noinsttest profiles (MR) - no need for these in nightly builds and helps nocheck triggering errors
• Work around phrog install failure until fixed upstream (MR)
• Switch from osk-stub to stevia (MR)

meta-phosh

• Support automatic restart in more projects (MR)
• Fix glob for meson checks (MR)

feedbackd

• Expand media role MR with volume tracking (MR) - this is basically the same as the Wireplumber MR from below
• vibra-pattern: Don't overwrite magnitutde when changing global level (MR)
• Update fbcli manpage (MR)
• Drop custom script (MR)
• Add key- pressed,released events (MR)
• Release 0.8.2

feedbackd-device-themes

• Release 0.8.3
• Use stronger button-pressed feedback for google,sargo (MR)

gmobile

• Install tests so they can run through ginsttest-runner (MR)
• Release 0.3.0, 0.3.1
• Small timer cleanups (MR)
• Add mcc to iso country code conversion (MR)
• Fix manpage subject (MR)

GNOME calls

• Fix crash on shutdown (MR)
• Drop meson version check (MR)
• Backport fixes for 48 (MR)

Debian

• phosh: Backport patches from 0.46 stable (MR)
• phosh: Upload 0.47~rc1, 0.47.0
• gnome-calls: Backport outging SIP call UI fix (MR)
• gmobile: Upload 0.3.0 with improved autopkg tests
• phoc: Upload 0.47~rc1, 0.47.0
• phosh-osk-stub: 0.47.0
• release-dom-compoenent: Drop tmp branch (MR)
• phosh-tour: Upload 0.47.0
• phosh-mobile-settings: Upload 0.47~rc1, 0.47.0
• xdg-desktop-portal-phosh: Upload 0.47.0
• wlroots: Upload 0.19.0
• stevia: Upload 0.48~alpha1
• meta-phosh: phosh-full: Depend on xwayland (MR)
• feedbackd-device-themes: Upload 0.8.3
• feedbackd: Upload 0.8.2
• feedbackd-device-themes: Backport key-press fix for google,sargo (MR)

ModemManager

• Simplify builds that need updated libqmi/libmbim (MR)
• CellBroadcast: Fix QMI channel reading corner cases (MR)
• Fix crash in CBM code (caused by unrelated bind-to refactor) (MR)
• Handle more data codings and expose CBM's language (MR)

osmo-cbc

• api-tool: Allow to set language of cell broadcast message (MR)

gsm-cell-testing

• Update docs to use our new MM subproject builds (MR)

mobile-broadband-provider-info

• Allow emergency number information (MR)
• Allow Cell Broadcast information (MR)
• Add .dir-locales.el and make tests easier to parse (MR)

Cellbroadcastd

• Add channel handling (MR)
• Indicate on DBus whether Cell Broadcasts are supported (MR)
• Add ASAN check and fix fallout (MR)

phosh-site

• Add a support feature matrix (MR)
• New post: OSK completion and correction

pipewire

• Simplify header use for projects that use -Wswitch-default (MR)

wireplumber

• Add lua script to track suitable volume control when role based policy linking is in use (MR)

python-dbusmock

• ModemManager: Add set-channel support (MR)

Bugs

• Standardize audio stream roles (MR). Otherwise we'll have a hard time with e.g. WirePlumbers role based policy linking as apps might use all kinds of types.

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

• gmobile/pp: Ignore buttons on headsets (MR)
• p-o-s: Add Arabic translation (MR)
• p-o-s: pipe completer examples (MR)
• p-o-s: US Dvorak layout (MR)
• p-m-s: Use static library for building (MR)
• p-m-s: pmos tweaks UI parts (MR)
• p-m-s: Notification categories that light up the screen (MR)
• gmobile: Border radius for oneplus,enchilada (MR)
• m-b-p-i: Telia IOT provider (MR)
• phosh-site: Highlight selected footnote (MR)
• bluez: Don't start mpris proxy for root user (Patch)
• phoc: shortcuts-inhibit: Add support for the keyboard shortcuts inhibit protocol (MR)

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