GNOME 3.37.2 arrives to continue preparing the ground for GNOME 3.38, the environment that Groovy Gorilla will use

GNOME 3.37.2

Just a month ago, the team of developers behind one of the most popular graphical environments in the Linux world He launched the latest stable version of it, with changes that, above all, improved its reliability and stability. A few hours ago, what have thrown It is another second version of point, but of a delivery that is currently in beta. We are talking about GNOME 3.37.2, which also receives another name.

The GNOME project and others like KDE name the versions of their graphical environments in a slightly peculiar way. GNOME 3.37.2 is actually the second revision of what we could also call GNOME 3.38 Beta. As a version in test phase and period, changes have been introduced, but most of them have come to improve the existing one. Below you have a change list that have reached GNOME 3.37.2, or 3.38 Beta 2.

What's New in GNOME 3.37.2

  • GNOME Shell has the new ability to indicate applications that should always run on discrete GPUs via the new .desktop launcher file option.
  • Mutter has support for the primary selection protocol for Wayland, touch mode detection for the X11 backend, and various other fixes and enhancements.
  • The Epiphany web browser has seen a number of improvements including a redesigned password manager dialog, user script support, support for importing passwords from Chrome / Chromium, drag and drop from download popover support, and various other improvements. and corrections.
  • GDM now enables Wayland graphics in Cirrus. There is also a Chrome remote desktop solution and other solutions.
  • GNOME Maps now supports sandboxing on the WebKit web view in the OpenStreetMap account settings.
  • Many Orca accessibility improvements.
  • Cogl has fixed construction against the EGL headers from the GLVND library.

GNOME 3.38 will be the version of the graphical environment used by operating systems such as Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla and will arrive in mid-september.


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