The GNOME project released today GNOME 48.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest GNOME 48 “Bengaluru” desktop environment series to fix bugs and improve existing functionality.
GNOME 48.1 is here to add support to the Mutter window and composite manager to announce workspace changes to the screen reader and disable HDR (High Dynamic Range) support when using non-atomic (legacy) KMS drivers, along with the ability to fall back to the default color mode when an HDR monitor looses HDR capabilities.
In fact, Mutter has been updated up to version 48.2 as more bugs needed to be fixed as soon as possible. These updates fix issues with animated cursors, wrong cursor after window animations, occasional screen freezes, tablet tool cursor sizes when set via the cursor shape protocol, hiding the cursor when using the cursor shape protocol, the cursor shape protocol when being used with tablets, and various crashes.
Moreover, Mutter now avoids cursor stuttering when the cursor is set via the cursor shape protocol, handles DnD cursor feedback in the compositor, and immediately updates cursors when the user changes the theme and size.
GNOME Shell has also been updated in GNOME 48.1 with fixes for glitches in sliders, suspend/resume detection for time tracking, wrongly sized images when using fractional scaling, frozen cursors when using the magnifier in push mode, and the session button on the login screen after inputting the wrong password.
This first GNOME 48 point release also updates the Nautilus (Files) file manager to fix issues with switching from the tree view to the grid view, opening a new window of a starred folder, selecting Google Drive files with the file chooser, disallowing duplicate bookmarks, and running script files in their location.
The GNOME Calculator app received improved exchange rate handling, the ability to align the text in the converter entries to the right in RTL (Right-to-Left) languages, support for using GNOME-hosted exchange rates instead of external sources, and a fix for the converter not being visible when the exchange rate refresh is set to never.
Among other changes, GNOME 48.1 updates the GNOME Calls app to start as part of the GNOME session, cleans up some deprecation warnings in GNOME Calendar, adds support for saving expander states in GNOME System Monitor, and improves the contrast of some app safety ratings in GNOME Software when using dark mode.
Check out the release announcement page for more details about the changes included in GNOME 48.1, which will soon make its way into the stable software repositories of various popular GNU/Linux distributions.
