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GNOME celebrates 28th anniversary, GNOME 49 beta available with redesigned search popover in Nautilus, media controls and shutdown/restart options added to lock screen, Webflow authentication support for Nextcloud in Online Accounts, Evince document reader replaced with Papers, per-monitor brightness sliders in Quick Settings, etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/gnome-49-beta-released-for-public-testing-on-gnomes-28th-anniversary
(Happy birthday, GNOME!)
(As for Papers, it's a decent one, but I prefer Evince, because I don't really like the buttons placed on the bottom right in Papers, because I usually have the university course book PDF opened on the left, Joplin tiled to the right, those buttons are "in the way" for my eyes lol. But Evince will probably stay available in the repos and on Flathub for like 8-10 or more years, like it's the case with many discontinued or inactive projects (see Adobe Acrobat Reader on Flathub lol) so I'm not too worried about this. Same with Portfolio on Phosh, it's ditched for Nautilus, which still isn't that convenient to use on mobile imo, but luckily I can still use Portfolio from Flathub.)

GNOME 48.4 released with improved update notifications in Software, various bug fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/gnome-48-4-finally-improves-update-notifications-in-gnome-software

KDE Gear 25.08 released with improved search in Dolphin, poll support in NeoChat, option to disable built-in adblocker in Angelfish, etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-25-08-open-source-software-suite-released-with-many-improvements

KDE's Breeze theme drops colorful third-party app icons, in Plasma 6.5, Ocean sound theme has updated updated volume change feedback, system notifications for plugging in devices added:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plug-In-Device-Notification

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