GNOME 3.30 "Almeria" has already been officially released

After six months of development, Gnome desktop version 3.30 released. Among other things, mImproves desktop performance and screen sharing. In addition to the new features, there are bug fixes and small optimizations.

Gnome 3.30 has the code name "Almería", and this year's Guadec conference took place in the city of the same name.

Among the innovations, the developers include improved desktop performance: Gnome now uses fewer system resources, making it possible to run more applications in parallel without sacrificing performance.

Screen sharing and remote desktop sessions are easier to navigate. The system menu displays an indicator when active sessions are active, allowing the user to quickly end a session.

Gnome 3.30 Features

pits, Gnome VM application now connects to remote Windows servers via RDP protocol, which facilitates its administration.

In addition, Boxes now also import virtual machines in OVA format, which makes it easier to share virtual machines.

In addition, there are numerous smaller innovations. With podcasts, Gnome has a new podcast app on board.

Thanks to them, not only can podcasts be subscribed and played, but simple imports are also possible.

Better support for Flatpak

Gnome 3.30 also supports the new Flatpak package format. The software manager can now automatically update Flatpaks.

Many new applications are already available through Flathub, a Flatpak application repository. To use the function, the user must activate a corresponding option in the software.

Gnome's internal browser makes it easy to view content, as it supports a new minimal reading view within the web browser.

Reading view is also available for Firefox, for example, the article appears without the menus and other content around it and without illustrations.

As long as the web page supports this feature, the user can switch with the web between a normal view and a minimal reading view.

Gnome 3.30 includes some new game emulators

The Gnome developers have also cleaned up the list of places and searching in the file browser, Thunderbolt devices can be managed in the settings, at the same time only certain hardware appears when the system actually discovered this.

The avatars are easier to select, Notes, the Notes application, is easier to use. Last but not least, Veracrypt disks can mount and decrypt encrypted volumes.

Distributions typically provide new precompiled desktop packages, which users receive automatically with new versions of the distribution.

The retro games application is now faster to use since you can navigate through it with a remote. Additional enhancements include:

• The keymap can be configured for controller inputs, for when you do not have the controller available.
• Finding games is faster as additional data about each game is displayed in the collection view.
• The Flatpak version includes 4 emulators, allowing you to play more games than ever.

As well new desktop versions can be installed later through external repositories. If you want to compile Gnome yourself, look for the software in a Gitlab repository.

As usual, there are many other small improvements in this version of GNOME. These are some of them:

• Records, GNOME's File Explorer includes a unique search and location bar to help you find your files faster.
• The Initial Setup Wizard has an improved avatar selection interface, displaying the new set of avatar images.

As expected, The release of the GNOME 3.30 desktop environment brings many other new features and enhancements for application developers.

However, it generally takes up to two weeks for a major new version of GNOME to land in the software repositories of some of the most popular GNU / Linux distributions.

Just wait to see the GNOME 3.30.0 packages in the stable repositories of your favorite Linux distribution in mid-September or near the end of the month.

Following this, the next version of GNOME 3.32 is scheduled to arrive in March 2019.