14 DAY TRIAL // On May 13, the GNOME Project, through Matthias Clasen, had the pleasure of informing us about the immediate availability of the second maintenance release of the GNOME 3.16 desktop environment.
GNOME 3.16.2 is also the last official maintenance release for the 3.16 series of the acclaimed GNOME desktop environment, as the development team will concentrate their efforts on the next major version, GNOME 3.18, due for release on September 23, 2015.
"The second update of GNOME 3.16 is out with many bug fixes, documentation improvements, translations updates, and more. We hope you'll like it," says Matthias Clasen in an email. "For more information about the major changes in GNOME 3.16, please visit our release notes."
Numerous core components and apps received updates
Lots of core components and applications have been updated for the second point release of the GNOME 3.16 desktop environment, including GTK+, Epiphany, Nautilus, Empathy, Brasero, Evolution, Seahorse, Hitori, Vinagre, and Eye of GNOME.
Now, we've already reported what's new in applications like NetworkManager, GNOME Boxes, Totem, Rygel, GNOME Control Center, GNOME Documents, and Orca, so we strongly recommend that you read those articles to see what exactly was implemented and improved.
Here's what's new in GNOME 3.16.2
Clutter 1.22.0 got some interesting fixes and improvements, Eye of GNOME has received a fix for the Ctrl+W shortcut, Epiphany gets better HiDPI support, GLib 2.44.1 improves the default application algorithm, and support for Bluetooth 2.1 keyboards has been repaired.
In addition, there's better support for Facebook accounts in the GNOME Online Accounts component, a memory leak has been fixed in File-Roller, favorite popover size has been repaired in GNOME Maps, Google album titles are displayed correctly in GNOME Photos, and GNOME Software has received several improvements.
Last but not least, almost all GNOME apps and core components received updated translations. Those of you who use a Linux distribution with the GNOME 3.16 or GNOME 3.16.1 desktop environment should check for updates in the coming days or weeks to receive the GNOME 3.16.2 update. Arch Linux users are the luckiest ones, as GNOME 3.16.2 is already available in the repositories.