14 DAY TRIAL // Frederic Peters from the GNOME development team has announced that GNOME 3.13.90 has been released, pushing a number of important changes and improvements.
The development cycle for the next iteration of GNOME is moving according to schedule and no major delays have affected the project. This branch of GNOME will eventually mature into 3.14, which is the next stable release. In fact, this 3.13.90 release is also called Beta 1, which means that it’s just a little bit closer to the final version.
GNOME 3.13.90 is actually a very consistent release, with a ton of new features for many of the included packages. Not all of them have received updates, but a large number of them have been upgraded. This is pretty normal and it happens with each new version bump.
“This is the end of summer, we all got back home after GUADEC, happy and exhausted, we polished patches and merged branches, and here we are, with a new release out, and what a release!, it's 3.13.90, the first beta release of this cycle.”
“It's full of niceties. Lookup the time of any place in the world directly from a shell search thanks to Clocks new search provider. Watch Boxes install a Debian VM all automatically (this is thanks to Lasse Schuirmann, and the occasion to thank all GSOC students!). Or simply spend the evening playing a new game, Hitori,” says Javier Jardón in the official announcement.
GNOME 3.13.90 updates the following core apps: adwaita-icon-theme, at-spi2-core, Empathy, Eye of GNOME, Evince, folks, glib, glibmm, gnome-backgrounds, gssdp, gtk+, gtkmm, libgdata, libmediaart, libpeas, mutter, pygobject, totem, yelp, and a few others.
As usual, beside the regular updates for the core packages, some of the integrated applications have also been updated, such as aisleriot, anjuta, bijiben, cheese, evolution, five-or-more, four-in-a-row, gedit, gitg, gnome-boxes, gnome-chess, hitori, iagno, polari, orca, vinagre, gnome clocks, gnome color manager, gnome devel docs, gnome software, gnome mines, gnome tetravex, and gnome weather.
If everything goes well on the GNOME front and if Fedora suffers any more delays, it's even possible that we will get the 3.14 branch well before the release of the new Fedora OS, which might be the first OS to incorporate the new version.
Check the official announcement for more details about this release. You can download GNOME 3.13.4 sources right now from Softpedia. Regular customers won't find any use for the sources, but they might be interested in the changes that are being made.