Germinal 31 released
by Marc-Antoine Perennou on June 7, 2026
How do I get it?
Germinal is available on github
Version 31 release tarball is available here, get it while it’s hot!
What’s new in this release?
Germinal now has a proper About dialog (built with libadwaita), reachable from a button at the bottom of the Preferences dialog.
Both dialogs are also easier to reach from outside the terminal. Running germinal preferences (or settings) opens the Preferences dialog and germinal about opens the About dialog — without spawning a terminal. If an instance is already running, it reuses its existing window instead of opening a fresh one. The same two entries are now exposed as desktop launcher actions, so you can right-click the Germinal icon in your application menu to jump straight to them.
This release also fixes a small colour bug: foreground and background colours are now applied even when the palette is empty. French translations have been updated too.
Full keybindings are documented here.
I hope you’ll enjoy it. Feel free to propose new features and/or to contribute!