GNOMEsoftware, the tool used to install, update and remove software from your Linux distribution, will receive a major update in its functionality in the next update of this desktop environment, GNOME 3.32.
Un new GNOME Software 3.32 development snapshot I arrive this week with many improvements to the popular Flatpak packaging format, allowing new permissions for Flatpak updates and showing permissions for installed Flatpak applications. GNOME Software now has the correct version number of Flatpak installed.
The update mechanism for Flatpak applications has been changed to use a single transaction, allowing GNOME developers to share more code with the Flatpak command line utility.
In addition, you can see that GNOME Software 3.32 will offer better support for installing Flatpak repositories, known as flatpakref, and Flatpak plugins.
GNOME Software will boot faster and use less memory
In addition to improvements in handling .Flatpak files, the upcoming GNOME Software 3.32 brings important performance updates that will not only make your applications start faster, but will also use less memory. The application icons have been updated in this update, as well as the categories for the ESRA scoring system.
Among other changes coming to the GNOME Software that will come with GNOME 3.32, which will probably arrive on March 13, 2019We can mention the ability to open CAB files that include more than one update, better support for Fedora Linux updates, and the ability to notify users of offline updates after they have been downloaded.
Of course, there are numerous fixes that many users have reported from previous builds, including, but not limited to the algorithm used to count updates on the Updates page, a bug that caused GNOME Software to shut down on 32-bit systems, messages Detailed error messages and many fewer interface changes to improve the experience.