and <desc> - Problems with recoloring of symbolic icons have been fixed - GtkSvg is now used for all SVG icons - GtkSpinner is using GtkSvg * Wayland: - Version 3.2 of the text protocol is supported - xdg-session-management-v1 is used * Session saving: - The session saving support is back * GSK: - A number of 10bit image formats are supported - The cache allocator has been rewritten - We are now using clip masks to reduce the number of offscreens * The Android backend has been ported to SDK 36 * The gtk4-encode-symbolic tool for producing symbolic png icons has been dropped. If you were using it, just ship the symbolic svg icons instead - #6071 FileDialog filter becomes (None) when navigating via top bar - #7567 Black borders around windows in Windows (Dan Yeaw) - #7833 Input panel misplaced when typing with an input method in a GTKPopover widget (cdbg) - #8081 po/README.translators should be updated or removed (Matthias Clasen) - #8087 Drop Shadows Make Transparent Textures Significantly Darker (Benjamin Otte) - #8090 Gtk.IconPaintable SVG fallback wrong color (Matthias Clasen) - #8092 Shaper: changing state name doesn't mark file as "changed" (Matthias Clasen) - #8094 Devel style class is broken by SVG changes (Matthias Clasen) - #8096 Shaper: don't add countless states - #8098 Crashes with SIGSEGV in `gdk_wayland_toplevel_remove_from_session()` (Philip Withnall) - #8099 Documentation: Gtk Switch page is missing switch-state.png image - #8100 GtkSvg: Switching states quickly in Shaper doesn't work (Matthias Clasen) - #8101 Shaper: issue with weight (Matthias Clasen) - #8103 gtk3 refresh_rate calculation overflows on 32-bit targets (Alberto Garcia) - #8105 Shaper: Inkscape to Shaper breaks format (Matthias Clasen) - #8106 Some symbolic icons seems to not be recolored correctly (Matthias Clasen) - #8107 Unbalanced Snapshot.{save,restore} calls in libadwaita (Florian "sp1rit") - #8108 Shaper: cannot set stroke color to Foreground (Matthias Clasen) - #8111 a11y: PreferencesGroup isn't being described as container of ActionRows - #8139 A layout manager invoking a Cairo bug (Benjamin Otte) - !6922 Implement version 2 of text_input_v3 protocol (Carlos Garnacho) - !9016 spinner: Use an animated icon (Matthias Clasen) - !9184 filechooser: Fix filters being removed when navigating via the bar path (Jules Maselbas) - !9380 Iterate on save/restore support (Adrian Vovk) - !9411 text: Add option to include preedit as part of text (Florian "sp1rit") - !9437 The big renderer refactor (Benjamin Otte) - !9459 Use GtkSvg for all icons (Matthias Clasen) - !9505 Add clip masks (Benjamin Otte) - !9533 Add a new atlas allocator and rework caching APIs (Benjamin Otte) - !9545 memoryformat: Add packed 10bit formats (Benjamin Otte) - !9552 A bunch of fixes and speedups for 4.24 (Benjamin Otte) - !9557 CI: use native git in msys2 + remove base-devel (Christoph Reiter) - !9582 Update Polish translation - !9583 Update Polish translation - !9584 Update Chinese (China) translation - !9586 Fix typo (Urtsi Santsi) - !9588 Drop the gtk4-encode-symbolic tool (Matthias Clasen) - !9589 Drop po/README.translators (Matthias Clasen) - !9590 vulkan: fix GDK_VULKAN_FEATURE_SWAPCHAIN_MAINTENANCE check (Christoph Reiter) - !9591 icon paintable: Don't load unsupported SVG (Matthias Clasen) - !9597 Update macOS runner (René de Hesselle) - !9602 svg: parse `<style>` (Matthias Clasen) - !9605 icons: Fix process-working (Jakub Steiner) - !9606 testsuite: Limit size of clip test to 4096x4096 (Benjamin Otte) - !9609 Avoid a critical (Matthias Clasen) - !9611 Update French translation - !9616 Small svg cleanups (Matthias Clasen) - !9617 svg: Some refactoring (Matthias Clasen) - !9619 svg: Add a workaround for traditional symbolics (Matthias Clasen) - !9621 Update Hungarian translation - !9622 svg: Make get_state_names() more robust (Alice Mikhaylenko) - !9623 Revert save/restore API removal (Adrian Vovk) - !9624 reftests: Fix an icon (Matthias Clasen) - !9625 svg: Small optimization (Matthias Clasen) - !9626 icon editor: Various grouping-related fixes (Matthias Clasen) - !9627 application8: Don't use space in meson generated filename (Zoltán Böszörményi) - !9629 Update French translation - !9630 Update Hungarian translation - !9632 svg: Add a testcase for units (Matthias Clasen) - !9634 Update Turkish translation - !9635 icon editor: Some comfort (Matthias Clasen) - !9636 Update Romanian translation - !9638 renderpass: Fix wrong clip mask opacity tracking (Benjamin Otte) - !9640 vulkan: Fix invalid read by requerying variable (Benjamin Otte) - !9641 print portal: Plug leak of backend modules (Alessandro Astone) - !9644 Add a test for the color-matrix optimization (Matthias Clasen) - !9645 icon editor: Add a compat class checkbox (Matthias Clasen) - !9650 Some icon editor improvements (Matthias Clasen) - !9651 roaring: remove/merge bswap_64() guard for FreeBSD (Charlie Li) - !9652 gesturestylus: Output empty backlog when there is none (Sergey Bugaev) - !9654 Make clip paths work in shaper (Matthias Clasen) - !9655 hlg: Convert from scene-referred to display light (Kenny Levinsen) - !9657 Update Slovenian translation - !9661 icon editor: Small cleanup (Matthias Clasen) - !9662 fontchooser: Cosmetics (Matthias Clasen) - !9663 vulkan: Generate new SPIRV for shaders with clip mask (Benjamin Otte) - !9664 inspector: Display more information about GStreamer (Benjamin Otte) - !9666 svg: Update the docs (Matthias Clasen) - !9668 gdk: Remove GDK_MEMORY_U8_SRGB (Benjamin Otte) - !9672 svg: Support the `<a>` element (Matthias Clasen) - !9674 gtkgstsink.c: Fix build on Visual Studio (Chun-wei Fan) - !9675 demos: Make build reproducible. (Maxim Cournoyer) - !9680 Rewrite the svg renderer test (Matthias Clasen) - !9683 Update Galician translation - !9684 Replace outdated freedesktop.org Window Manager spec links (balooii balooii) - !9686 Update Romanian translation - !9687 icon editor: Restore metadata (Matthias Clasen) - !9688 Update Kabyle translation - !9689 icon editor: Restore metadata (Matthias Clasen) - !9690 svg: Fix quick state changes (Matthias Clasen) - !9692 gtk/emojichooser: Select first result on Enter (Zoey Ahmed) - !9693 gtk/emojichooser: Fix typos in docs (Zoey Ahmed) - !9694 Write down AI contribution guidelines (Matthias Clasen) - !9695 renderer: Render clip mask in device grid (Benjamin Otte) - !9696 print: Fix listing printers with synchronous backends (Alessandro Astone) - !9697 svg: Handle color a bit better (Matthias Clasen) - !9698 Properly apply reduced-motion portal setting (stupidduos) - !9702 Update Turkish translation - !9703 icon editor: Add an xml view (Matthias Clasen) - !9705 Clean up error handling in GtkSvg (Matthias Clasen) - !9714 Add font rendering tests (Matthias Clasen) - !9717 Tweak the movingtext demo (Matthias Clasen) - !9720 inspector: Add an svg page (Matthias Clasen) - !9722 accessibility: Fix regression (Sergio Costas Rodriguez) - !9723 ci: Fix msys2-clang64 errors (Sergio Costas Rodriguez) - !9724 media: Don't leak URI (Guido Günther) - !9725 widget: Explain minimum and natural size in the docs (Logan Rathbone) - !9727 svg: The big split, part one (Matthias Clasen) - !9728 bookmarklist: Document `standard::file` attribute (Arun Mani J) - !9730 New syntax for state change conditions (Matthias Clasen) - !9731 Janitorial (Matthias Clasen) - !9733 svg: More splitting (Matthias Clasen) - !9735 svg: Fix invalidation (Matthias Clasen) - !9737 wayland/toplevel: Set fallback wm capabilities on old xdg_wm_base (Jonas Ådahl) - !9738 Fix the build (Matthias Clasen) - !9740 Misc warnings fixes (g.willems) - !9742 wayland: Accept cursor-shape v1 (Matthias Clasen) - !9745 gskvulkanimage: fix building on 32-bit (oreo639) - !9746 atcontext: remove unneeded signal definition (Sergio Costas Rodriguez) - !9747 gtkcheckbutton: Recalculate a11y label on use-underline change (Lukáš Tyrychtr) - !9749 Update Polish translation - !9750 icon editor: Avoid a crash (Matthias Clasen) - !9751 Update Czech translation - !9752 svg: Improve error reporting (Matthias Clasen) - !9753 gtk-demo: Make --autoquit work again (Benjamin Otte) - !9756 application-wayland: Add NULL check on gtk_accessible_get_at_context (Alessandro Astone) - !9757 Update Georgian translation - !9758 Add GtkEnumList (Matthias Clasen) - !9759 android: Target SDK 36 (Florian "sp1rit") - !9761 cssprovider: Fix gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme setting (Florian "sp1rit") - !9762 inspector: update keyboard device layouts on property notify (Juan Pablo Ugarte) - !9764 Add gtk_svg_set_stylesheet (Matthias Clasen) - !9765 build: Require wayland-protocols 1.48 (Matthias Clasen) - !9766 Wayland: Port to xdg-session-management-v1 (Matthias Clasen) - !9767 css: Make this code easier to manage (Matthias Clasen) - !9769 icon editor: Drop some wrappers (Matthias Clasen) - !9771 Update Romanian translation - !9772 accessiblehypertext: Remove non-ISO C semicolon (Stuart Hayhurst) - !9773 svg: Support 3D transforms (Matthias Clasen) - !9774 Add a GtkSvgWidget (Matthias Clasen) - !9776 Update Slovenian translation - !9777 svgutils: Plug bytes leak at parser_new_for_string (Maximiliano Sandoval) - !9779 android: expose gtk-interface-color-scheme XSetting (Florian "sp1rit") - !9782 gpu: Add GSK_GPU_DISABLE=damage (Benjamin Otte) - !9783 Assorted small fixes and cleanup (Matthias Clasen) - !9785 svg: Move serialization code to a separate file (Matthias Clasen) - !9786 surface: Adjust how we decide whether to flip popups (Sergey Bugaev) - !9787 Small refactoring (Matthias Clasen) - !9788 svg: Misc fixes (Matthias Clasen) - !9789 Fix missing dispose and finalize chain-ups (Maximiliano Sandoval) - !9792 Some memory leak fixes (Matthias Clasen) - !9793 testsuite/diff: fix memory leak in diffreg (Florian "sp1rit") - !9795 Misc svg fixes (Matthias Clasen) - !9796 Add a demo for GtkSvgWidget (Matthias Clasen) - !9800 gtkatspitext: Correct for inclusivity differences (Lukáš Tyrychtr) - !9801 gpu: Handle scale being too small (Benjamin Otte) - !9804 svg: Detect circular \<use\> again (Matthias Clasen) - Czech (Patrik Sivek) - Georgian (Ekaterine Papava) - Hungarian (Balázs Úr) - Kabyle (BoF ButterflyOfFire) - Polish (Victoria, Victoria Niedzielska)

Overview of Changes in 4.23.0, 14-04-2026 * SVG: - GtkSvgWidget is a widget to display SVG, with some support for interactive aspects of SVG - We now handle , , and <desc> - Problems with recoloring of symbolic icons have been fixed - GtkSvg is now used for all SVG icons - GtkSpinner is using GtkSvg * Wayland: - Version 3.2 of the text protocol is supported - xdg-session-management-v1 is used * Session saving: - The session saving support is back * GSK: - A number of 10bit image formats are supported - The cache allocator has been rewritten - We are now using clip masks to reduce the number of offscreens * The Android backend has been ported to SDK 36 * The gtk4-encode-symbolic tool for producing symbolic png icons has been dropped. If you were using it, just ship the symbolic svg icons instead - #6071 FileDialog filter becomes (None) when navigating via top bar - #7567 Black borders around windows in Windows (Dan Yeaw) - #7833 Input panel misplaced when typing with an input method in a GTKPopover widget (cdbg) - #8081 po/README.translators should be updated or removed (Matthias Clasen) - #8087 Drop Shadows Make Transparent Textures Significantly Darker (Benjamin Otte) - #8090 Gtk.IconPaintable SVG fallback wrong color (Matthias Clasen) - #8092 Shaper: changing state name doesn't mark file as "changed" (Matthias Clasen) - #8094 Devel style class is broken by SVG changes (Matthias Clasen) - #8096 Shaper: don't add countless states - #8098 Crashes with SIGSEGV in `gdk_wayland_toplevel_remove_from_session()` (Philip Withnall) - #8099 Documentation: Gtk Switch page is missing switch-state.png image - #8100 GtkSvg: Switching states quickly in Shaper doesn't work (Matthias Clasen) - #8101 Shaper: issue with weight (Matthias Clasen) - #8103 gtk3 refresh_rate calculation overflows on 32-bit targets (Alberto Garcia) - #8105 Shaper: Inkscape to Shaper breaks format (Matthias Clasen) - #8106 Some symbolic icons seems to not be recolored correctly (Matthias Clasen) - #8107 Unbalanced Snapshot.{save,restore} calls in libadwaita (Florian "sp1rit") - #8108 Shaper: cannot set stroke color to Foreground (Matthias Clasen) - #8111 a11y: PreferencesGroup isn't being described as container of ActionRows - #8139 A layout manager invoking a Cairo bug (Benjamin Otte) - !6922 Implement version 2 of text_input_v3 protocol (Carlos Garnacho) - !9016 spinner: Use an animated icon (Matthias Clasen) - !9184 filechooser: Fix filters being removed when navigating via the bar path (Jules Maselbas) - !9380 Iterate on save/restore support (Adrian Vovk) - !9411 text: Add option to include preedit as part of text (Florian "sp1rit") - !9437 The big renderer refactor (Benjamin Otte) - !9459 Use GtkSvg for all icons (Matthias Clasen) - !9505 Add clip masks (Benjamin Otte) - !9533 Add a new atlas allocator and rework caching APIs (Benjamin Otte) - !9545 memoryformat: Add packed 10bit formats (Benjamin Otte) - !9552 A bunch of fixes and speedups for 4.24 (Benjamin Otte) - !9557 CI: use native git in msys2 + remove base-devel (Christoph Reiter) - !9582 Update Polish translation - !9583 Update Polish translation - !9584 Update Chinese (China) translation - !9586 Fix typo (Urtsi Santsi) - !9588 Drop the gtk4-encode-symbolic tool (Matthias Clasen) - !9589 Drop po/README.translators (Matthias Clasen) - !9590 vulkan: fix GDK_VULKAN_FEATURE_SWAPCHAIN_MAINTENANCE check (Christoph Reiter) - !9591 icon paintable: Don't load unsupported SVG (Matthias Clasen) - !9597 Update macOS runner (René de Hesselle) - !9602 svg: parse `<style>` (Matthias Clasen) - !9605 icons: Fix process-working (Jakub Steiner) - !9606 testsuite: Limit size of clip test to 4096x4096 (Benjamin Otte) - !9609 Avoid a critical (Matthias Clasen) - !9611 Update French translation - !9616 Small svg cleanups (Matthias Clasen) - !9617 svg: Some refactoring (Matthias Clasen) - !9619 svg: Add a workaround for traditional symbolics (Matthias Clasen) - !9621 Update Hungarian translation - !9622 svg: Make get_state_names() more robust (Alice Mikhaylenko) - !9623 Revert save/restore API removal (Adrian Vovk) - !9624 reftests: Fix an icon (Matthias Clasen) - !9625 svg: Small optimization (Matthias Clasen) - !9626 icon editor: Various grouping-related fixes (Matthias Clasen) - !9627 application8: Don't use space in meson generated filename (Zoltán Böszörményi) - !9629 Update French translation - !9630 Update Hungarian translation - !9632 svg: Add a testcase for units (Matthias Clasen) - !9634 Update Turkish translation - !9635 icon editor: Some comfort (Matthias Clasen) - !9636 Update Romanian translation - !9638 renderpass: Fix wrong clip mask opacity tracking (Benjamin Otte) - !9640 vulkan: Fix invalid read by requerying variable (Benjamin Otte) - !9641 print portal: Plug leak of backend modules (Alessandro Astone) - !9644 Add a test for the color-matrix optimization (Matthias Clasen) - !9645 icon editor: Add a compat class checkbox (Matthias Clasen) - !9650 Some icon editor improvements (Matthias Clasen) - !9651 roaring: remove/merge bswap_64() guard for FreeBSD (Charlie Li) - !9652 gesturestylus: Output empty backlog when there is none (Sergey Bugaev) - !9654 Make clip paths work in shaper (Matthias Clasen) - !9655 hlg: Convert from scene-referred to display light (Kenny Levinsen) - !9657 Update Slovenian translation - !9661 icon editor: Small cleanup (Matthias Clasen) - !9662 fontchooser: Cosmetics (Matthias Clasen) - !9663 vulkan: Generate new SPIRV for shaders with clip mask (Benjamin Otte) - !9664 inspector: Display more information about GStreamer (Benjamin Otte) - !9666 svg: Update the docs (Matthias Clasen) - !9668 gdk: Remove GDK_MEMORY_U8_SRGB (Benjamin Otte) - !9672 svg: Support the `<a>` element (Matthias Clasen) - !9674 gtkgstsink.c: Fix build on Visual Studio (Chun-wei Fan) - !9675 demos: Make build reproducible. (Maxim Cournoyer) - !9680 Rewrite the svg renderer test (Matthias Clasen) - !9683 Update Galician translation - !9684 Replace outdated freedesktop.org Window Manager spec links (balooii balooii) - !9686 Update Romanian translation - !9687 icon editor: Restore metadata (Matthias Clasen) - !9688 Update Kabyle translation - !9689 icon editor: Restore metadata (Matthias Clasen) - !9690 svg: Fix quick state changes (Matthias Clasen) - !9692 gtk/emojichooser: Select first result on Enter (Zoey Ahmed) - !9693 gtk/emojichooser: Fix typos in docs (Zoey Ahmed) - !9694 Write down AI contribution guidelines (Matthias Clasen) - !9695 renderer: Render clip mask in device grid (Benjamin Otte) - !9696 print: Fix listing printers with synchronous backends (Alessandro Astone) - !9697 svg: Handle color a bit better (Matthias Clasen) - !9698 Properly apply reduced-motion portal setting (stupidduos) - !9702 Update Turkish translation - !9703 icon editor: Add an xml view (Matthias Clasen) - !9705 Clean up error handling in GtkSvg (Matthias Clasen) - !9714 Add font rendering tests (Matthias Clasen) - !9717 Tweak the movingtext demo (Matthias Clasen) - !9720 inspector: Add an svg page (Matthias Clasen) - !9722 accessibility: Fix regression (Sergio Costas Rodriguez) - !9723 ci: Fix msys2-clang64 errors (Sergio Costas Rodriguez) - !9724 media: Don't leak URI (Guido Günther) - !9725 widget: Explain minimum and natural size in the docs (Logan Rathbone) - !9727 svg: The big split, part one (Matthias Clasen) - !9728 bookmarklist: Document `standard::file` attribute (Arun Mani J) - !9730 New syntax for state change conditions (Matthias Clasen) - !9731 Janitorial (Matthias Clasen) - !9733 svg: More splitting (Matthias Clasen) - !9735 svg: Fix invalidation (Matthias Clasen) - !9737 wayland/toplevel: Set fallback wm capabilities on old xdg_wm_base (Jonas Ådahl) - !9738 Fix the build (Matthias Clasen) - !9740 Misc warnings fixes (g.willems) - !9742 wayland: Accept cursor-shape v1 (Matthias Clasen) - !9745 gskvulkanimage: fix building on 32-bit (oreo639) - !9746 atcontext: remove unneeded signal definition (Sergio Costas Rodriguez) - !9747 gtkcheckbutton: Recalculate a11y label on use-underline change (Lukáš Tyrychtr) - !9749 Update Polish translation - !9750 icon editor: Avoid a crash (Matthias Clasen) - !9751 Update Czech translation - !9752 svg: Improve error reporting (Matthias Clasen) - !9753 gtk-demo: Make --autoquit work again (Benjamin Otte) - !9756 application-wayland: Add NULL check on gtk_accessible_get_at_context (Alessandro Astone) - !9757 Update Georgian translation - !9758 Add GtkEnumList (Matthias Clasen) - !9759 android: Target SDK 36 (Florian "sp1rit") - !9761 cssprovider: Fix gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme setting (Florian "sp1rit") - !9762 inspector: update keyboard device layouts on property notify (Juan Pablo Ugarte) - !9764 Add gtk_svg_set_stylesheet (Matthias Clasen) - !9765 build: Require wayland-protocols 1.48 (Matthias Clasen) - !9766 Wayland: Port to xdg-session-management-v1 (Matthias Clasen) - !9767 css: Make this code easier to manage (Matthias Clasen) - !9769 icon editor: Drop some wrappers (Matthias Clasen) - !9771 Update Romanian translation - !9772 accessiblehypertext: Remove non-ISO C semicolon (Stuart Hayhurst) - !9773 svg: Support 3D transforms (Matthias Clasen) - !9774 Add a GtkSvgWidget (Matthias Clasen) - !9776 Update Slovenian translation - !9777 svgutils: Plug bytes leak at parser_new_for_string (Maximiliano Sandoval) - !9779 android: expose gtk-interface-color-scheme XSetting (Florian "sp1rit") - !9782 gpu: Add GSK_GPU_DISABLE=damage (Benjamin Otte) - !9783 Assorted small fixes and cleanup (Matthias Clasen) - !9785 svg: Move serialization code to a separate file (Matthias Clasen) - !9786 surface: Adjust how we decide whether to flip popups (Sergey Bugaev) - !9787 Small refactoring (Matthias Clasen) - !9788 svg: Misc fixes (Matthias Clasen) - !9789 Fix missing dispose and finalize chain-ups (Maximiliano Sandoval) - !9792 Some memory leak fixes (Matthias Clasen) - !9793 testsuite/diff: fix memory leak in diffreg (Florian "sp1rit") - !9795 Misc svg fixes (Matthias Clasen) - !9796 Add a demo for GtkSvgWidget (Matthias Clasen) - !9800 gtkatspitext: Correct for inclusivity differences (Lukáš Tyrychtr) - !9801 gpu: Handle scale being too small (Benjamin Otte) - !9804 svg: Detect circular \<use\> again (Matthias Clasen) - Czech (Patrik Sivek) - Georgian (Ekaterine Papava) - Hungarian (Balázs Úr) - Kabyle (BoF ButterflyOfFire) - Polish (Victoria, Victoria Niedzielska) - Slovenian (Martin)