After several months of development, The Gnome team is pleased to announce the release of the new version of the desktop environment "Gnome 3.38" Compared to the previous version, around 28 thousand changes were made, in the implementation of which 901 developers participated.
Of the main novelties that are presented in this new version, is that the separate sections proposed above for all frequently used applications have been replaced by a summary view which allows applications to be reorganized and distributed in folders created by the user.
Dragging and dropping applications is done by moving the mouse while holding the button to click.
Another change that we can notice immediately in this new version of Gnome 3.38 is the welcome walkthrough displayed when user logs in for the first time after completing the initial setup. The interface summarizes information about the main features of the desktop and offers an introductory tour with an explanation of the working principles. The application is written in Rust.
In the configurator, in the user administration section, now you can set parental controls for regular accounts. For a given user, you can prevent certain installed programs from appearing in the application lists. Parental control it is also integrated into the Application Installation Manager and allows to allow installation of only selected programs.
The configurator presents a new fingerprint scanning interface for authentication with fingerprint sensors.
Added option to block activation of USB devices unauthorized members connected during screen lock.
Screencasting tools in GNOME Shell have been redesigned to use the PipeWire media server and the Linux kernel API to reduce resource consumption and improve responsiveness while recording.
In multi-monitor configurations who use Wayland, different frequencies can be assigned screen update to each monitor.
The Gnome Maps has been adapted for use on smartphones. In satellite image display mode, the ability to display marks is provided. Added support for enabling map view in night mode.
Dialog box to add world clock changed, which displays the time taking into account the time zone at a given location. In the alarm clock, the ability to set the signal duration and the time between repeated alarms has been added.
In the games by Gnome, search results are now displayed in overview mode, allowing you to start the game you are looking for immediately.
gnome boxes, adds support for editing XML files virtual machine for change advanced libvirt settings which is not available in the standard user interface. When creating a new virtual machine, Boxes now allows you to manually select an operating system if it could not be automatically detected.
New icons have been proposed for Calculator, Cheese, Tali, Sudoku, Robots, Quadrapassel and Nibbles webcam software.
Terminal emulator has updated color scheme for the text. The new colors provide greater contrast and make the text easier to read.
GNOME Photos adds a new image filter, Trencin, similar to the Clarendon filter on Instagram (brightens highlights and darkens dark areas).
Added new revision of search engine Tracker 3 to which most of the main GNOME applications have been translated. The new version introduces changes to improve security of isolating applications delivered in Flatpak format by allowing explicit control over which application data can be queried and indexed for search.
Fractal, a client of the decentralized communications platform Matrix, has improved video playback by viewing message history; video preview thumbnails now display directly in message history and expand to full video on click.
Finally, it only remains to wait to that this new version already is available on official channels of your preferred Linux distribution.