The GNOME project releases a new version of its graphical environment approximately once a month. Last july He launched the fourth knit version of the 3.36 series, and this Wednesday launched GNOME 3.36.5, which is the penultimate maintenance update for a desktop that was first released in March 2020. As a dot version, it comes without any really hot new features, but still improves the performance and reliability of one of the most popular graphics environments. popular of the existing ones in Linux.
But, as with most options, GNOME is not just the operating system image; it also includes its own applications and all this software, where necessary, has received bug fixes and performance improvements. Here is a list of the most important news that have arrived with GNOME 3.36.5.
Highlights of GNOME 3.36.5
- Firefox Sync enhancements for Epiphany, formerly known as GNOME Web. The browser has also received a fix for the new way to create tabs that are sorted when closing new tabs and another fix for a close that occurred when dragging and dropping in File Roller, something that happened when canceling the overwrite process.
- The GNOME Display Manager (GDM) login screen has received improvements for switching users.
- GNOME Disk Utility now allows us to create partitions using special parameters by asking for the maximum size of the partition.
- GUPnP now includes better subscription checking on link-local V6 addresses.
- GNOME Boxes can now download content from URIs in the virtual machine creation wizard, has improved recommended downloads for new OS releases, various screen management improvements, support for downscaling only on SPICE screens, and recent fixes RDP authentication.
- Simple Scan has improved color scanning for the Brother ADS 2200 and 2700 backend.
- Orca has fixed several bugs in how it handled Google Docs events.
- GK 3.99.0 has been included.
Now available on Flathub and in code form
For interested users, the new version is now available on Flathub, but also you can download your code from this link and its "snapshot" from this other. The next version will already be a GNOME 3.36.6 that will arrive on September 5. After that, the project will launch GNOME 3.38, which will be the version that will include operating systems such as Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla.