A little over two weeks ago, Project GNOME He launched the first beta of the version of the graphical environment that Ubuntu 19.10 will use. The one that, even being beta of v3.34, was released with the numbering 3.33.90 came with new features such as many corrections in GNOME Music or in Maps that seemed to complete the final version, but GNOME 3.34 Beta 2 it was released yesterday still introducing many last minute changes, such as fixes in the Epiphany browser.
Like the previous version, although it is also a beta of GNOME 3.34, the one released yesterday arrives with a different numbering, in this case the v3.33.91. The different function, API and ABI "freezes" have already been reached, but that does not mean that other types of changes cannot be made. Below you have a list of the most outstanding news that comes along with this second beta.
What's New in GNOME 3.33.91
- GNOME Boxes has improvements around unattended installation code, Flatpak / CI build fixes, and other changes.
- GDM has added support for systemd user sessions.
- GTK-VNC 1.0 has been added.
- Fixes in Epiphany web browser for regressions derived from its many changes in this cycle.
- GNOME Screenshots has improvements to Flatpak, support for saving to both disk and clipboard via CLI switches, and other fixes.
- GNOME Session now also has support for systemd user sessions.
- GJS has support for writing programs using GTK4 now that it no longer links to libgtk-3.
On the other hand, they have also been launched new versions of GNOME Shell and Mutter. Among the most outstanding news we have that GNOME Shell has taken the gnome-extensions tool to replace gnome-extensions-tool or that Mutter has corrected the primary selection of copy and paste between X11 and Wayland. If nothing happens, everything mentioned here will be present in the next version of Ubuntu, since Eoan Ermine will be officially released on October 17 and GNOME 3.34 will arrive a month earlier, on September 11.
You have more information about this launch in this link.