GNOME 3.38 Beta Now Available, Preparing for September Release

GNOME 3.38 Beta

This week, the developers behind one of the most popular graphical environments on Linux have thrown v3.36.5 from your desktop. That was the fifth and penultimate maintenance release in the series and it came to fix bugs in the applications and the environment itself. A few hours ago, the project launched GNOME 3.38 Beta, the first sample of the next release that anyone interested can already try.

Being more concrete and faithful to the truth, what they have released is GNOME 3.37.90, but that is the official numbering of the version of the environment that will arrive on September 16. Shortly after they will begin to include it in the different Linux distributions, among which Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla stands out, both because it is a very popular operating system and because it collaborates in the development of the desktop.

Highlights of GNOME 3.37.90, AKA 3.38 Beta

  • GNOME-Shell:
    • Now allows you to rearrange items in the app selector.
    • Screencast has been moved to a separate service
    • A "Boot Options" has been added to the reboot dialog.
    • The default behavior is not to install updates on low battery.
    • Various fixes.
  • Mother
    • Screencast improvements.
    • Fix server-side decorated XWayland windows shadows
    • Various Wayland improvements.
  • GNOME Initial Setup Welcome Screen Refresh.
  • Epiphany, the browser, has received many new features, such as
    • Support for self-hosted sync servers.
    • A major redesign of the preferences dialog.
    • Permission request basis for the management of WebRTC.
    • Style improvements.
    • Pop-up blocking by default.
  • GSettings-Desktop-Schemas has enabled USB protection by default.
  • Keyboard shortcuts dialog for File-Roller along with new shortcuts.
  • The GDM display manager has updates for its systemd integration.
  • New JavaScript functions for GJS.
  • Glib-Networking has fixes in its OpenSSL backend.
  • GNOME Boxes has added an editor for the libvirt VM configuration.
  • The responsive user interface works and improves keyboard navigation for GNOME Maps.

More information and download at release note.


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