GNOME 44 skipped maintenance update 3, so 44.4 focuses on improving the Epiphany (GNOME Web) web browser to version 44.6, fixing issues such as “save password” permission requests and unencoded % characters in URLs.

GNOME 44.4 also improves the GNOME Software application by disabling animations in the UI based on the user’s accessibility settings, fixes the ability of the application to remove certain packages in order to satisfy updates to dependencies, and improves error notification for failed GPG checks.

The GNOME 45 Beta release comes five weeks after the last Alpha release and features major improvements to the GNOME Control Center (Settings) application.

The release also includes a reorganization of the Privacy pane for more granular control of permissions, a note in the Date and Time pane explaining the new Clock and Calendar options, and more.

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The GNOME Shell 44.2 update further improves the built-in screen recording function, optimizes the Bluetooth menu in Quick Setting, and allows users to customize the name of the Bluetooth device.

The GNOME Shell 44.2 update also brings bugs with large text in the calendar plugin, fixes for authentication dialogs in remote sessions, and more.

It is also learned from the report that the Mutter 44.2 update improves support for flat-panel external monitors, fixes the problem of traditional full-screen windows appearing on all monitors in multi-monitor setups, fixes resource competition in xwayland-on-demand, and fixes Excessive input area around Xwayland window.

Mutter 44.2 fixes some misalignment issues under X11 fullscreen windows, fixes X11 client input area issues, fixes a redraw regression in non-DMA remote sessions, fixes drag and drop in some server-side decoration windows, and more.

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This maintenance update is more than a month away from the release of GNOME 44 “Kuala Lumpur”. Some titles have been added to the Background Apps menu, the “Power Mode” name has been unified in Quick Settings, and the names of Wi-Fi accessibility features have been improved. Fixed visual issues with bluetooth menu etc.

This update also improves the light theme, fixes an issue with mouse pointers in window screenshots, improves support for transparent colors in symbol SVG files, fixes screenshot logging in recent projects, and fixes GNOME when version verification changes A reload of the extension, and improved keyboard navigation of menus.

GNOME 44.1 also improves the Nautilus (files) file manager, adjusts style colors in view items, flips switches correctly, shows custom flags in extensions, and supports decompression of .tar.zst and .zstd archives.

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GNOME 44 further improves on version 43 with Quick Setting, which allows users to connect and disconnect devices more easily with the Bluetooth button and can easily check their status.

GNOME 44 also features a number of improvements to the Settings application (GNOME Control Center), which now supports sharing Wi-Fi connections via QR codes in the Wi-Fi panel, a new location selector introduced in the Date and Time panel, firmware version fields displayed in the Kernel and About panels, and a Default Applications panel to manage the default applications for SMS/Calls.

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The new release improves support for the Mali GPU and Intel’s new i915 driver, further enhances support for Wayland, fixes Wayland keyboard issues, and more.

The update also fixes a number of bugs in GNOME Shell and Mutter, including duplicate entries in the Volume Devices menu, missing names in the Wired Network Quick Setup button, switching input sources, default keyboard layout during initial setup, unresponsive screen areas when opening Quick Setup, tracking newly installed applications, displaying passwords as on-screen keyboard suggestions, and more.

GNOME 43.2 also improves Bluetooth support with an update to the gnome-Bluetooth application that fixes an issue where the pairing dialog for some Bluetooth Classic keyboards appears wired, where the password box disappears after the first number is entered.

IT Home has learned that GNOME 43.2 will be available in the stable repositories of various GNU/Linux distributions in early January next year after its official release.

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AMD-Xilinx’s current officially announced distribution for this robotics development kit is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and ROS 2. AMD and Canonical have been working together to ensure that the Ubuntu desktop will run well on this Arm-based motherboard. Canonical has been working on changes/fixes to allow GNOME Wayland sessions to run on the Kria KR260.

Work on the upcoming GNOME 43.1 has reached the end of the changes, and the upstream GNOME with the Mutter Wayland synthesizer is now compatible with the Mali graphics processor of the Xilinx Kria KR260. Renowned Canonical engineer Daniel van Vugt is responsible for this improvement to GNOME, which has been integrated in GNOME 43.1.

In addition, they have hand-picked fixes for the Mutter 42.6 package so that support can be found in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with the latest stable release update. the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit retails for $349 and is currently showing a 16-week lead time.

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The Plymouth boot screen is also preparing a warning image that will be displayed if Secure Boot is not enabled in the BIOS. Red Hat’s latest published merge request argues that “Secure Boot is used to combating several security threats when malware attempts to infect the system’s firmware. Users may inadvertently disable or software may intentionally disable Secure Boot. As a result, the system is running on an insecure platform that is incorrectly configured. If Plymouth can provide a warning to the user, the user can reboot and reconfigure their system, or seek help immediately.”

GNOME is preparing to warn users if Secure Boot is disabled, as well as other steps to try to ensure that the system state is secure, at least at the platform level. Similarly, in the GDM Display Manager, this MR is open for adding Secure Boot checks and warning notifications so that users are alerted to whether their systems are vulnerable when they log in.

Building on this, Richard Hughes of Red Hat blogged about the work being done by Fwupd to allow the emulation of host profiles. This emulation support is intended to help test the security state of firmware in arbitrary configurations to test the proposed GNOME Control Center add-on and other work.

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