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Bazaar v0.5.6 Release Notes

Executive Summary​

Bazaar v0.5.6 brings significant UX improvements with a new Flathub-style featured app carousel, an interactive screenshot dialog, and extensive UI polish. This release includes 35+ commits since v0.5.5, featuring major design updates to sidebars and context bars, progress bar enhancements, and comprehensive translation updates across 9 languages.

What's Changed​

🎨 Major UI/UX Enhancements​

  • (UX) Add a Flathub like carousel for featured apps by @AlexanderVanhee in #469

    • New featured app carousel with auto-switching and smooth animations
    • Improved spring animation values for better user experience
    • Fixed size overflow issues for better responsive design

  • Add interactive screenshot dialog by @AlexanderVanhee in #458

    • Full interactive screenshot viewer with touch and keyboard navigation
    • Zoom functionality with cursor feedback
    • Automatic screenshot centering

  • (UX) Switch side panels to sidebars and use flat header bar designs by @AlexanderVanhee in #443

    • Modernized UI with sidebar navigation
    • Flat header bar design for cleaner appearance
    • Improved app page header bar and transaction animations

🎯 Context & Interface Improvements​

  • Change preferences group to context bar by @AlexanderVanhee in #442

    • Enhanced context-aware UI
    • Non-focusable license tiles for better keyboard navigation

  • (UX) Polish up the context bar by @AlexanderVanhee in #451

    • Full view license links
    • Static SPDX implementation

📊 Progress & Status Features​

  • Global progress bar enhancements by @kolunmi
    • Added pending state for progress bar (commit 276f64d)
    • Corner radius adjustments for inner bar in pending state by @AlexanderVanhee in #470

🐛 Bug Fixes & Stability​

  • (UI) Fix description rendering issues by @AlexanderVanhee in #466

    • Fixed whitespace issues in AppstreamDescriptionRender
    • Improved padding consistency with short descriptions
    • Fixed various description rendering problems

  • Minor screenshot dialog fixes by @AlexanderVanhee in #463

    • Whitespace fixes
    • Improved dialog behavior

  • Fix keyboard not looping screenshot carousel by @AlexanderVanhee in #460

  • AsyncTexture: avoid potential segfault (commit 517ac22)

  • AppstreamDescriptionRender: fix whitespace issues (commit aa15956)

🌍 Translation Updates​

This release features extensive internationalization work with updates to:

🔧 Technical Improvements​

  • bump libdex requirement to 1.0.0 (commit b6a63c9)
  • Simplify CLI args - Removed subcommands concept (commit fdff81a)
  • handle --help properly (commit f113e79)
  • Force updates into one transaction - Prevents dependency race conditions (commit 8534296)
  • FlatpakInstance: mark transaction_ready as static (commit 979b41e)

📦 Metadata & Infrastructure​

  • Update metainfo file to better follow flathub guidelines by @AlexanderVanhee in #448

    • Updated screenshot links
    • Better compliance with Flathub standards

  • feat: add nightly suffix to desktop file by @renner0e in #455

🎉 New Contributors​

Repository Information​

Repository: @kolunmi/bazaar
Release: v0.5.6 (Expected)
Previous Release: v0.5.5 (October 9, 2025)
Commits Since v0.5.5: 36 commits
Date Range: October 9, 2025 - October 15, 2025

Key Contributors This Release​

Full Changelog​

Full Changelog: v0.5.5...master

Report Generated: October 15, 2025
Data Source: @kolunmi/bazaar repository (GitHub API)