Just three weeks after original release, Project GNOME just made official the launch of GNOME 3.38.1. This is the first maintenance update of the graphical environment that operating systems such as Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla will use and, as such, it has come to correct errors. As mentioned in the release note, all distributions that are using v3.38 of this, one of the most popular graphical environments in Linux, should update.
The most outstanding news arrived three weeks ago, with improvements in Mutter and performance, among others. In this installment, the project has added even more enhancements to Mutter and to software such as its web browser, Epiphany. Below you have some of the news that have arrived with GNOME 3.38.1.
Highlights of GNOME 3.38.1
- Mutter improvements:
- Fix for light mode under DPMS.
- Fixed X11 scrolling.
- The handling of scan failures has been improved.
- The correct font is now used in the DPI setting in X11.
- GNOME Boxes has switched to Tracker 3.
- Many fixes in Epiphany, the GNOME web browser, including launching web apps, and other issues have been resolved.
- Fix for GLib to avoid reloading of time zones from disk every time a GTimeZone is created.
- Screen recordings in GNOME Shell have been added to recent articles.
El launch is now official But even though some of your software will appear on Flatpak soon, it's best to wait for Linux distributions to update the packages. The next version will be GNOME 3.38.2 and, a month later and after the release of the last point update, the next installment will already be GNOME 40, name that they will use to avoid confusion for the launch of GTK 4.