Heads up on recent mesa upgrades in postmarketOS edge: * Due to changes in the drivers for the Mali GPUs in Mediatek SoCs like MT8183, the recent update to Mesa 25 causes graphical display issues on Mediatek SoCs. A workaround is in preparation:
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Graphical issue with Mesa 25 on Mediatek SoCs
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 * The qcom/adreno bug that caused GTK4 apps to fail to start with the new GTK4 rendering backend has been fixed in the latest patch release! Related workaround will be removed once it is in flatpak:
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Heads up: "On certain devices (Adreno-based GPUs, e.g. OnePlus 6) Flatpaks apps using GTK4 might fail to start with a currently unknown reason. As a temporary workaround, you can start flatpak apps with GSK_RENDERER=ngl as environment variable." pmaports issue:
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 edge blog post (same text):
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GTK4 apps from Flatpak/Flathub fail to start with the new GTK4 rendering backend
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postmarketOS in 2025-03 :postmarketos: 📖 * GNOME (Mobile) 48 * 📷 Camera enablement for OnePlus 6, Motorola Moto E5 Plus, Motorola Moto G5s, Xiaomi Redmi (3S, 4 Standard, 4A) * Generic SM7150 packaging * [@nlnet](
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 ) @npub1dk0y...k0wd grant for Collation + i18n support in @musl libc libc got accepted! * COSMIC desktop * systemd service reloading/restarting on upgrade * Lots of events coming up around the world * A highly entertaining podcast episode
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postmarketOS in 2025-03: OP6 & MSM89x7 Camera, Generic SM7150, COSMIC, Musl Collation + I18n
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In our previous blog post 2025 Priorities: Reliability, Audio, Cameras and More, we asked "is there anything that you find terribly important that we have missed here?". And indeed, there was one thing that people would have liked us to focus more on, which is a better keyboard experience. This was unbelievably great timing, because we are actually integrating a new keyboard with great new features!
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In search for a better keyboard
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🗨 As the Matrix.org bridge to the OFTC IRC network will likely stop working soon, we are now self-hosting our own bridge for postmarketOS related channels. The chats should continue to work the same as before, but let us know if you run into unexpected issues. If you are a well known community member who runs one or more channels related to postmarketOS (e.g. for mainlining a specific SoC) and would like to use our bridge too, then let us know!
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Matrix/IRC bridge is now self-hosted
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As our community grows, we are increasing the focus we put on planning and organizing the work we do. Therefore we have been thinking hard about priorities for this year. Read all about it on our blog:
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2025 Priorities: Reliability, Audio, Cameras and More
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We will be able to spend a significant chunk of money on building our upcoming hardware CI system (and related software components) for improving the reliability of postmarketOS. For everybody who is donating to postmarketOS: you are amazing, thank you very much for making this possible! ❤️ See our new financial update blog post for our full budget plans and recap of 2024:
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Financial update: first year and first budget
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