On September 12, GNOME Project was pleased to announce the launch of GNOME 3.34. Soon some operating systems began to adopt it, but one of the ones that interests us the most, Ubuntu, officially introduced it on October 17, coinciding with the launch of the stable version of Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine. But life goes on and you have to prepare for the future, so this weekend has released GNOME 3.35.1.
If you are thinking of updating now, calm down. As we read in the release note, this is the first release unstable which paves the way for GNOME 3.36. In other words, what was released yesterday was not a new version of GNOME, not a stable one, but a trial version so that anyone who wants can see the next changes and help with its development.
GNOME 3.36 is coming in March
Among the first changes introduced in this version, we have:
- The Epiphany web browser has reactivated accelerated composition on demand.
- File-Roller now supports Zstd compressed files and can handle .tar.lzo files on its own.
- GJS supports Meson.
- The NetworkManager applet now allows ad-hoc connections to support WPA2 authentication. It also supports WPA3 Personal authentication.
- Fixes have been included in Vala.
- Bug fixes and GNOME Shell and Mutter cleaned up.
The next version to be released will be GNOME 3.35.2, which will serve to continue fixing bugs and adding new features. GNOME v3.36 beta will arrive in February and will follow the first Release Candidate on March 11.
GNOME 3.36 is the version of the graphical environment that will include Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa and will continue the great work done on a v3.34 that has made operating systems like Ubuntu or Fedora faster. Focal Fossa will be released on April 23, 2020.
Between those fixes the Shell and Mutter have fixed the bug with Night Light, I understand.