One month after fourth point update in the series, Project GNOME has released GNOME 3.38.5. This is the fifth maintenance update for the desktop used by operating systems such as Fedora 33 or Ubuntu 20.10. Overall, it has come to fix bugs and stability improvements to make the famous desktop more reliable, secure, and perform better.
GNOME 3.38.5 stands out for one thing and the author of this article has a question: it stands out because fixed many unexpected crashes, and the question is what will happen in Ubuntu from next month, since they will stay in this version until October of this year. The graphical environment problems will remain there, but it seems that Canonical will include the GNOME 40 set of apps, so, at least for there, Ubuntu users should not worry.
Highlights of GNOME 3.38.5
- Added support for managing monitor changes during broadcasts in Mutter.
- Ability to set the resolution for Epson scanners in Simple Scan.
- Improved support for Firefox Sync in Epiphany.
- Improved crashes when switching between workspaces.
- New open X11 windows that were invisible in Activities are no longer.
- Full-screen apps that used to block animation in workspaces no longer do so.
- Fixed a bug after dragging the window preview from a second monitor.
- Now add missing X11 backup icons.
- Change the icon by choosing the logic to prefer the image data or image path track over the app icon in notifications.
- Fixed excessive pop-up blocking and loss of session state when closing the window with an unresponsive web process in Epiphany.
- Disables double-buffering shadow buffering in Mutter.
- Improved language support.
GNOME 3.38.5 It is now available and you can download its source code from this link.