New releases for xfce4-panel and xfce4-power-manager
xfce4-power-manager 1.6.1 After almost two years I finally managed to get around to release a new version of the power manager, including many bugfixes that have accumulated over this time over the...
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New xfce4-settings release
After quite a bit of development time I’m happy to announce the next development point release of xfce4-settings in the 4.13 series. There are many fixes in this release – most visibly also UI...
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Adventures in primary display land
As some may have noticed I have lately patched “Primary Display” support into a few of our components. It all started with the display settings dialog… But let me start right at the beginning....
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New xfce4-panel development release
What better way to start a new year than with a release? xfce4-panel 4.13.4 After patching up xfce4-settings and finishing the “primary display” story with the patches against xfdesktop I decided to...
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Color profile support for Xfce
This year I had the chance of joining the FOSDEM conference again and as always it was great to meet up with other FLOSS enthusiasts. It was also a good chance to meet with some Xfce folks (Harald,...
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Xfce 4.14pre1 released!
Good news everyone, finally the first pre-release of the long-awaited Xfce4.14 is here! \o/ Some highlights Note: A lot has happened since Xfce 4.12 was released four years ago and this announcement...
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Xfce 4.14pre2 released!
As scheduled, the team has released the second pre-release for Xfce 4.14, which is due later this summer, yesterday evening. As this release was mostly focused on bugfixing there are not that many...
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Xfce 4.14pre3 released!
The final pre-release before Xfce 4.14 stable is out since two days ago so here goes a quick look at the most notable bugfixes. While this release was optional, we decided to give ourselves a little...
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Xfce 4.14 released! (Yeah, like a week ago ;))
So finally – here goes the official post for the Xfce 4.14 release… Why is the release manager late to the party with his blog post? The explanation is simple: We prioritized sticking to the schedule...
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Xfce 4.16 development phase starting
As promised we’ll try to stick to a tighter schedule this time, so without further ado: the development phase towards Xfce 4.16 has officially started! This means that we have a list of features we...
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Xfce 4.14 Maintenance and 4.15 Updates
Xfce 4.14 Maintenance As promised we’re trying to be much better at doing maintenance releases for Xfce 4.14. In part, we had a hard time doing maintenance for Xfce 4.12 because with all the porting...
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Xfce switches to GitLab
GitLab is here! Starting today, May 1, we’re switching from our cgit/gitolite setup to GitLab. Our old server, git.xfce.org, is now a ready-only in-sync mirror (so you can still pull code). Our new...
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GitLab CI is up and running
As announced less than two weeks ago, the next steps in our GitLab migration are following. While we originally planned that the migration from Bugzilla to GitLab issues would be the next step we...
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Why Bountysource? Why?
TL;DR No more Xfce bugs on Bountysource.com (no support for GitLab) All remaining bug bounties returned to original backers Xfce Team account on Bountysource remains intact for now (including all...
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I quickly wanted to share an update to my previous post our leaving Bountysource behind (at least as platform for individual bug bounties). Bountysource support has informed us that “All bounties on...
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Post 4.16 fatigue and what’s next
After we successfully released Xfce 4.16 as an early Christmas gift to all users last year I personally fell into the typical “post release fatigue” (PRF). On the one hand I was exhausted, on the other...
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