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GNOME Continues Hashing Out Individual Home Directory Encryption, Modernizing Platform


GNOME developers have been making progress on being able to individually encrypt user home directories as well as modernizing platform infrastructure as part of the investments made by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund.

GNOME developers have been making progress on being able to individually encrypt user home directories as well as modernizing platform infrastructure as part of the investments made by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund. This week's update outlines much of the work done as part of their financing by Sovereign Tech Fund during the month of August. Among the recent STF-sponsored work on GNOME includes continued work on being able to encrypt user home directories individually as part of the systemd-homed integration, modernizing platform infrastructure with the likes of libadwaita 1.6 being released, improving QA / development tooling, and working out new secure APIs for Wayland and Flatpaks.

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