GNUnet Messenger API: October 2025
Hi there, this month I started to port the messenger application from GTK3 and libhandy to GTK4 and libadwaita . So far the progress looks pretty good. I still need to adjust some widgets to avoid usage of some deprecated ones. There is some logic missing to upload files because file dialogs and widgets from GTK3 using those haven’t been ported exactly. So things need to change. Screenshot of the main window ported to GTK4 If you are interested in testing the changes so far, I have pushed all commits to a separate branch so far. While porting I have also noticed some bugs in the application and libgnunetchat API which might cause crashes or freezes. I will try to solve them before any release but I’m very confident that the next release will contain all the changes towards GTK4. Hopefully this will help long-term with reducing CPU load in case of image file previews and video streams. Also I’d like to add in-place video previews for shared files instead of relying on the vide...