Ahead of the imminent GNOME 50 beta release, the GNOME Shell and Mutter components have declared their “50.beta” releases to ship the latest bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and some last minute improvements ahead of the stable release in March.
Helping make GNOME 50 all the more exciting with its release next month are some last minute improvements making the beta cut-off. GNOME Shell has landed improved discrete GPU detection while Mutter now treats Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) functionality as stable, improved frame scheduling, virtual monitor / remote desktop screencasting work, and more.
GNOME Shell 50 Beta changes include:
– Improved discrete GPU detection.
– For the digital wellbeing / parental controls features, parents aren ow able to extend screen time limits.
– Using GNOME Software for offline update support.
– Various bug fixes and other enhancements.
The full list of GNOME Shell 50 Beta changes can be found via this commit.
GNOME Mutter 50 Beta meanwhile delivers:
– Variable Refresh Rate is no longer experimental. VRR can now be easily enabled with capable hardware as can the fractional scaling support too.
– Virtual monitor / HiDPI improvements to help with screencasting for remote GNOME desktop handling.
– Improved frame scheduling via various improvements.
– The hardware cursor plane is now able to move between devices.
– Fixes moving windows to smaller monitors.
Those details can be found via this commit.
