GNOME 3.32 Beta Released With Performance Improvements, Last Minute Features
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The brief GNOME 3.32 beta announcement can be read on the mailing list while the highlights of this release come down to:
- The DConf utility has been rewritten in C.
- The Epiphany "GNOME Web" web-browser has received animation improvements, a setting to control hardware acceleration, a new design for the security popover, CSS styling improvements, various scaling improvements when running on small form factors, tab menu improvements, and other refinements.
- The Gedit text editor has switched over to Meson with dropping its Autotools support. The Flatpak and Snap versions of Gedit now also come with gedit-plugins support.
- API improvements to GJS.
- GLib-Networking has added an OpenSSL back-end to obsolete the former glib-openssl code. This is an alternative to the default GnuTLS back-end and primarily geared for embedded devices and other select cases.
- The GNOME Boxes virtualization software now uses host-pass-through as the default CPU mode.
- GNOME Initial Setup now generates default user account pictures.
- GNOME Shell has better icon grid performance, among other performance fixes.
- GNOME Software now shows the permissions for installed Flatpaks and permissions on updates. There are also many GNOME Software fixes throughout.
- GNOME Weather has moved over from Autotools to Meson.
- Mutter picks up support for buffer transforms with its Wayland back-end, improved performance for secondary GPUs, EGLStreams fixes, improved render performance for KMS devices with software OpenGL, and other enhancements.
- More apps dropping the App Menu support now that the concept has been deprecated.
If all goes well, the release candidate will be out a month from today while GNOME 3.32.0 will premiere on 13 March.
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