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Some of the stuff I did in August.

More memory leaks fixing.

Updated gudev-rs to the latest glib-rs, as a requirement to port any code using it to the latest glib-rs.

A minor fix so that it can be used to thumbnail JPEG file extracting the preview.

Released alpha.12.

Converted the x-trans interpolation to use floats. Also removed a few unnecessary unsafe blocks.

A lot of work on the importer. Finally finished that UI bit I had in progress of a while and all the downfall with it. It is in the develop branch which mean it will be merged to main. The includes some UI layout changes to the dialog.

Then I fixed the camera importer that was assuming everyone followed the DCIM specification (narrator: no they didn't). This mean it was broken on iPhone 14 and the Fujifilm X-T3 that has two card slot (really, use a card reader if the camera uses memory cards). Also sped it up, it's still really slow.

Also better handle the asynchronous tasks running on a thread like the thumbnailing or camera import list content. I'm almost ready to move on.

Tore up code using gdkpixbuf for many reasons. It's incompatible with multiple threads, gdk texture were already created from raw buffers. This simplify a lot of things.

The GNOME Foundation is interested in participating in the December-March cohort of Outreachy and is looking for 1 intern.

If you are interested in mentoring AND have a project idea in mind, please visit the Internship project ideas repository and submit your proposal by 10th September 2025. All proposals are triaged by Allan Day, Matthias Clasen and Sri Ramkrishna before approval.

We are always on the lookout for project ideas that move the GNOME project forward

If you have any questions, please feel free e-mail soc-admins@gnome.org, which is a private mailing list with the GNOME internship coordinators or join our matrix channel at - #internships:gnome.org.

Looking forward to your proposals!