The GNOME 48 release candidate “48.rc” is out this evening as we approach the stable release of the GNOME 48 desktop in two weeks.
There are a number of late, last minute feature changes and other notable alterations to find with today’s GNOME 48 release candidate. Some of the most noticeable GNOME 48.rc changes include:
– Epiphany (GNOME Web) now changes the default protocol to HTTPS from HTTP.
– The Evince document viewer has improved support for Adobe PDF open parameters.
– GNOME Backgrounds has switched back to using JPEG for its default wallpaper rather than JPEG-XL. Reverting back to JPEG was done for performance reasons.
– GNOME Control Center adds the HDR luminance settings UI.
– Continued GNOME Control Center improvements to the “digital wellbeing” options.
– GNOME Remote Desktop now supports hardware-encoded AVC444.
– GNOME Shell now groups notifications by app.
– GNOME Software brings minor UI improvements to the updates page along with some performance improvements and crash fixes.
– Many last minute GNOME Mutter improvements including Wayland color management protocol support, dynamic triple buffering, cursor shape protocol support, and presentation time v2 support.
– GTK brings Wayland cursor shape protocol support, better font rendering with the new GNOME default font, and fixes to the new Android back-end.
– The Nautilus file manager has reworked and sped-up adding of files to view.
– The XDG Desktop Portal GNOME code has added the global shortcuts portal back-end.
More details via the GNOME 48 release candidate announcement on discourse.gnome.org.
