Development News July 2026

Here’s our seventh development progress update for 2026: Phosh 0.56 is out, improvements in Phosh’s overview handling, BengalOS now boots on SDM670, some progress on Phosh’s GTK4 port and more. See below for details.

Want to try any of the below out already? See call for testing.

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A shell for mobile devices

• launcher-entry: Don’t use g_return_if_fail as a conditional (MR)
• app-tracker: Unquote startup id (MR)
• check-ui: Fix syntax (MR)
• quick-settings: Make descriptions consistent (MR)
• animation: Drop G_GNUC_CONST from get_type() (MR)
• Release 0.56.0
• Zoom screenshot to overview (MR) (niko)
• Add “developing Phosh in a container” to Getting Started (MR) (niko)
• Draft: Zoom to overview (compositor version; Phosh part) (MR) (niko)
• background: Make sure to use device pixels (MR)
• udev-manager: Account for enumerated LEDs (MR) (dh)
• cellbroadcast: Set important hint on events (MR)

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A Wayland compositor for mobile devices