As usual, the GNOME project He launched v3.38 from your desktop just in time to be included in subsequent releases from major distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu. At that time, we all thought that the next version would arrive with the 3.40 number, but there was a problem that they did not want it to be such: GTK 4.0 has also arrived, and the project wanted to heal in health and not make the leap to GNOME 4.0 or anything that could lead to confusion. All this will be part of the past in just over a month, and the important thing now is that it has already been launched GNOME 3.38.3.
This is the third maintenance release in this series. The next major update will be renamed GNOME 40, and it should be the one using Ubuntu 21.04, but Canonical thinks that GTK 4.0 and other recent changes to GNOME Shell are not polished enough, so they will stay at the same GNOME 3.38.3. 40 which has been released today until further notice, probably until October. Where GNOME 3.38.3 will arrive will be Fedora, where GNOME XNUMX will also arrive soon and completely, of which below you have the most outstanding news.
Highlights of GNOME 3.38.3
- Pinned tabs from Epiphany, the GNOME web browser, have fixed the reordering of themselves, along with the full screen animation not working as it should.
- Fixed a bug in GDM that allowed users with auto-identify enabled to skip the lock screen.
- Fixed bugs in the printers dialog and when accessing Wi-Fi information.
- Improvements in the fingerprint dialog.
- Fixed screencast indicator in X.Org and in-app responses in chat notifications.
- Improved support for Do Not Disturb mode.
- App selector spacing has been improved at larger resolutions.
- Improved workspace thumbnail previews in workspace indicator and window list extensions.
- The Auto Move Windows extension has been enhanced to work better in multi-monitor setups.
- Disks (GNOME Disks) have been updated to no longer show zram devices.
- Mutter has received many changes to correct stacking on the correct monitor and stacking support on X11.
- Fixed feature articles in the magnifying glass.
- Improved compatibility with Qts Wayland support.
- Added support for tagging devices as primary GPU via udev.
- Support for switching to tablet mode has been improved.
Some of these novelties, which we must not forget that we are talking about a whole desktop (with apps included) and not just a graphical environment, have already reached some Linux distributions. The rest of them will arrive with the passage of time. The source code is available en this link.