Our first 3.33 release has landed as we move towards 3.34. There is a lot to do this cycle in case you’re interested in contributing. The best way to get started is to dive into the code. We can help you with that on IRC.
Lots of this release is code behind the scenes, so screenshots won’t do them justice. But there are some visible goodies too.
We got a D-Bus Inspector inspired by D-feet. The long term goal is to merge that new code into D-feet itself.
Occasionally we got issues filed about not being able to half-tile Builder. The smaller your screen size, the more unrealistic of an expectation that is, but we can certainly do a little better. The new search box takes up less space and animates in as necessary.
We gained some initial Podman support so long as your system has support for podman exec --preserve-fds. You can even debug inside the containers if they have gdb in the container.
Some users were surprised by how Builder auto-downloaded SDKs and Runtimes to build projects. So we’ve added a confirmation dialog to that process so the user can make informed decisions.
I’ve also moved Git integration out of process. Both the Git and Flatpak plugins previously used git in process which had a number of drawbacks. We created some new API and the gnome-builder-git daemon which provides access to common git operations using libgit2-glib and D-Bus serialization binary format over stdin/stdout. We have push, stage, and signed commit support, but that currently lacks UI in this release.