It has been quite a long time since my last post with release news for GVfs. I haven’t had much time for upstream development recently. Furthermore, I was out for health reasons for almost the entire last year, so development has been mostly focused on bug fixes. Still, there are some changes in GVfs 1.62 …
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Local privilege escalation in GVfs
A security vulnerability (#875) in the gvfsd-admin daemon that allows local privilege escalation was recently discovered and is tracked as CVE-2026-88924. What is the issue? The problem relates to how the daemon creates a private D-Bus socket. Previously, the socket was created with root privileges, and then a chown() call was used to change its …
What’s new in GVfs for GNOME 46?
It has been 3 years since my last post with release news for GVfs. This is mainly because previous releases were more or less just bug fixes. In contrast, GVfs 1.54 comes with two new backends. Let’s take a look at them. OneDrive One of the backends adds OneDrive support thanks to Jan-Michael Brummer. This …
Discovering SMB shares in GNOME
Available SMB shares can be found using the Other Locations view in the Files application in addition to other network shares and devices that also appear there. This internally uses several backends and volume monitors provided by the GVfs project, as I explained in my previous blog post. Just a note that there are plans …
What locations does GVfs provide?
You probably all know that you can easily access files on connected devices using the sidebar items in the Files application. Most of you also know that the Other Locations view provides access to internal storage and some other discovered services. But I have recently noticed that some people are completely unaware of the ability …
What’s new in GVfs for GNOME 40?
Unfortunately, my contributions to various projects have been limited over the last months given the various coronavirus-related restrictions. Also, I took over gnome-autoar maintainership recently on which I spent some time. So GVfs doesn’t bring as much news as I would like, but there are some which are worth mentioning. Google Shared Drives and Shared …
What’s new in Files (and GVfs) for GNOME 3.36?
After Carlos Soriano and Ernestas Kulik left Files (Nautilus) development, António Fernandes and I are now officially new maintainers. Given the limited manpower, the focus is more on fixing bugs, but some neat new features have been added to Files and GVfs as well. I just explain shortly that GVfs provides access to various protocols …
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