Hide the ‘Shorts’ channel tab:
Settings > Content > Channel tabs > Uncheck 'Shorts'
Hide shorts in feed/subscriptions:
Settings > Content > Fetch channel tabs > Uncheck 'Shorts'
Your question has been mostly answered, though if you’re wondering why v0.26.0 is missing as well, it’s because of some issues with reproducible builds that should hopefully have been resolved now.
I thought the app was being rewritten and that this version was only gonna receive fixes until the rewrite is over.
That’s correct. The “New” and “Improved” changes are mostly from pull requests that were opened before the rewrite announcement, or are important quality of life improvements.
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I see. I don’t believe there’s currently any way to filter kiosk content by type like that. You could open a feature request for it on GitHub if you’d like (assuming one doesn’t already exist).