GNOME 44.1 Released With Many Fixes
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GNOME 44.1 brings many fixes to this updated Linux desktop, including many crash fixes and addressing newly uncovered memory leaks. Some of the GNOME 44.1 highlights include:
- Many fixes to GNOME Shell, including crash fixes, memory leak fixes, and other items addressed.
- GNOME's Mutter has also seen numerous fixes, including improved screencast support, fixing support for resizing windows via the keyboard, enabling modifiers by default for non-native backends, and various other fixes.
- The GNOME Settings Daemon will now connect to light sensors asynchronously.
- Crash fixes for GNOME Software and the Nautilus file manager.
- Nautilus now allows extraction of .tar.zst and .zstd archives.
- GNOME Control Center's display area now allows configuring all monitors and applying those settings at once.
- GNOME Calls will no longer crash on empty/null call ID.
- GNOME Web (Epiphany) has seen some crash fixes.
- GNOME Boxes for virtualization has a fix to always enable the boot menu option and fixing 3D acceleration not sticking at startup.
- GNOME Calendar has stability and performance improvements to its search.
More details on the GNOME 44.1 changes via the release announcement.
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