GNOME 51 Alpha Released With Numerous Enhancements
GNOME 51 comes with many changes scattered about its many different components. No one change stands out particularly exciting at this stage but a wide variety of smaller improvements to provide more polish and added functionality over GNOME 50. Some of the GNOME 51 Alpha changes that caught my eye include:
- The Epiphany browser added a keyboard shortcut to copy the current page URL, among other improvements.
- The GDM display manager now has compatibility with the KMSCON VT. There is also now a GDM setting to change the fallback session.
- GNOME Calendar has been reworked with performance improvements, rendering optimizations, and other internal code refactoring.
- GNOME Control Center has reordered the System Software / Hardware information page, new display options, the ability to disable a touchpad while a mouse is plugged in, GNOME QR code widget support for WiFi sharing, and other additions.
- GNOME Maps now has offline map download support.
- GNOME Remote Desktop has fixed and enabled hardware acceleration support with the AMD graphics driver.
- GNOME Session now enables use of the oo7-portal as the implementation of the Secret portal.
- GNOME Shell now supports rate control for the vA-API H.264 screencasting. GNOME Shell also now supports version 2 of text_input_v3 protocol.
- GTK now respects the reduced motion setting in various places and avoids animations.
- The Loupe image viewer can now show creator, copyright information, camera lens, and used software within the image metadata.
- Many fixes for the Mutter compositor.
- The Nautilus file manager now has enhanced view reloading performance, among other changes.
- Sushi has been ported to GTK4.
- XDG Desktop Portal GNOME now has support for session persistence in the Input Capture portal.
More details on the GNOME 51 Alpha release via GNOME Discourse.
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