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It’s been another fantastic year for Google Summer of Code with GNOME! This year, six contributors worked on a range of interesting projects across our ecosystem.

Our contributors have been blogging about their progress on Planet GNOME throughout the summer. In case you missed their updates, here is a breakdown of what they have worked on:

Adding a recovery mechanism for GPU resets in Mutter by Toluwaleke Ogundipe

Adding debug adapter protocol (DAP) support to GJS by Angelo Verlain Shema

Playing vocab-style puzzles in GNOME Crosswords by Laureen Caliman

Rewriting the Pitivi timeline ruler in GTK4/Rust by Michael Calabrese

Implementing app uninstallation in the GNOME Shell app grid by Ramayanapu Jagath

Porting Gitg to GTK4 by Shivam

In July, I shared an update about my new role as AI Alignment Community Architect at Red Hat, focused on Fedora. This post clarifies what that role entails, why "AI alignment" is more than a technical term, and how I plan to support the Fedora community in leveraging LLM-gen-AI.

I organized this blog post into three sections:

Reclaiming AI Alignment: The meaning behind the term.

Model builder engagement: Why do we need bidirectional feedback loops?

My work in Fedora: Upcoming priorities this quarter and the path forward.

Andreas Gabriel Berbescu has reported several root privilege escalation vulnerabilities in various NetworkManager VPN plugins. If the VPN plugin is installed, then an unprivileged user can escalate to root by loading a malicious VPN configuration file.

We are excited to announce a significant investment of €508,640 by the German Sovereign Tech Agency, through its Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) initiative, into the development and stewardship of Flatpak. This two-year initiative, co-organized by Modal and with Para-Real Ltd. as supporting organization, will accelerate the evolution of Flatpak as a secure, sandboxed platform for packaging and distributing Linux desktop software.

Fedora has never shied away from doing the heavy lifting beneath the surface, and Fedora 45 is no exception. Rather than chasing cosmetic overhauls, this release doubles down on low-level system hygiene, hardware-grade security, and toolchain modernization.

Hardware Security by Default

The most impactful technical shift is the default enablement of hardware-backed Shadow Stacks on supported x86_64 CPUs (Intel CET and AMD Shadow Stack). By safeguarding return addresses directly in hardware, Fedora effectively neutralizes common Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) exploit chains with virtually zero measurable performance penalty. Paired with stricter RPM package signature verification, the base platform receives a serious security upgrade.

Console & System Polish

Under the hood, Fedora 45 begins retiring the legacy in-kernel framebuffer console (fbcon) in favor of user-space kmscon. This modernizes the virtual terminal stack with proper Unicode handling and seamless integration alongside Wayland. Packaging maintenance also sees improvements with RPM repository definitions moving into /usr space to keep /etc uncluttered for local user configurations.

Desktops & Toolchains

For desktop users, Fedora Workstation brings GNOME 51,offering continued performance gains and smoother Wayland workflows. Developers get an updated stack across the board, featuring Python 3.15, OpenSSL 4.0, and Podman 6.

There is no hardware acceleration on fedora linux 44 wsl, if anybody faced this issue, please provide support

Lets assume a hp laptop, if windows have issue on this laptop, it windows issues, windows have bugs, windows dont have better battery.

now if linux have issue on this laptop, its manufacturers (hp) issue, if battery issue its again hp issue not linu🤣🤣🤣

Hits the nail on the head.

is this only me, or gemini use this phrase for everyone in every response.

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-44-gnome.html

I started my computing with windows 7, then windows 10, then tried windows 11, but because of performance issue, i moved to linux.

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tried, linux mint, ubuntu, arch linux, fedora.

using fedora for most time.

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now return to windows 10 ltsc, i will uses it till my softwares works for windows 10.

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Reason for returning to windows are, Slow App launches, many apps not available i need recently because of work, font rendering is weird in linux.

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