GNOME 3.36.4 arrives with improvements to Mutter and other minor fixes

GNOME 3.36.4

In early June, the GNOME project He launched the second beta of the graphical environment that will use operating systems such as Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla. That version, which came with the numbering v3.37.2 despite being a beta of v3.38, is a preliminary that is preparing things, but the same project He launched yesterday GNOME 3.36.4, which is a stable version that has arrived to continue correcting the bugs of a series that arrived in early 2020.

Being a point or maintenance release, we shouldn't expect any exciting new features or changes. It is here to fix bugs and update some translations, but includes changes such as bringing or backporting to a Mutter fix to correct an issue that was causing windows to appear broken or totally dark. Below you have some of the news that have arrived with GNOME 3.36.4.

Highlights of GNOME 3.36.4

  • A major fix has been included in Mutter to prevent textures turning completely black in some windows. This will also improve performance.
  • Mutter will now turn off CRTCs when DPMS is activated, improve selection support, and include other enhancements for key parts of the GNOME desktop.
  • GNOME Shell has improved points such as:
    • The style of the world clock.
    • The performance of the calendar server.
    • Managing sandbox applications with multiple .desktop files.
    • Other fixes.
  • Corrections in GTK + to avoid closures with windows outside the screens, among others.
  • Updates in translations.
  • Other fixes have been brought or backported.

After this, the next major version will be GNOME 3.38.0 and will arrive in mid-September. Soon after, Linux distributions will start including it in their distributions, as an Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla that will arrive approximately a month later, on Thursday, October 22, 2020.


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