Development News August 2026

Here’s our eighth development progress update for 2026:

Phosh 0.57 is out, we now have a unified settings app and made lots of improvements to our immutable BengalOS.

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

phosh

A shell for mobile devices

• background: Fix pixbuf source (MR)
• drag-surface: Separate animation from dragging (MR)
• Release 0.57~rc1, 0.57.0
• scaling-quick-setting: Add button to display settings (MR, MR)
• caffeine-quick-setting: Allow configuring what caffeine is about (MR)
• screenshots: Use PhoshShellNotification and add action to show in folder (MR)

phoc

A Wayland compositor for mobile devices