GNOME Shell 3.14.4 and Mutter 3.14.4 available for download

Mar 24, 2015 22:17 GMT  ·  By

The GNOME development team, through Florian Müllner, had the pleasure of announcing the other day that new maintenance releases are available for the GNOME Shell and Mutter components of the GNOME 3.14 desktop environment, despite the fact that GNOME 3.16 will be officially announced tomorrow, March 25, 2015.

The latest stable version of both the GNOME Shell user interface and the Mutter window and composite manager has been bumped to 3.14.4. While Mutter 3.14.4 fixes 7 bugs that were present in the previous release, GNOME Shell 3.14.4 is here to address more than 10 issues reported by users on the GNOME’s Bugzilla bug tracker website.

Here’s what’s new in GNOME Shell 3.14.4

According to the release notes of GNOME Shell 3.14.4, a bug related to false week numbers in the built-in Calendar applet has been repaired, a problem with the current day highlight on day change has been fixed, user list accessibility has been fixed in GNOME Display Manager (GDM), and the slider scrolling is now smoother.

In addition, disabled notifications will no longer wake up the screen, and a workaround has been added for the background corruption that occurred when using the proprietary Nvidia video driver. Several other small bugs have also been squashed in the fourth maintenance release of GNOME Shell 3.14.

Here’s what’s new in Mutter 3.14.4

On the other hand, Mutter 3.14.4 fixes the “flash on unredirection” issue, addresses the reported geometry issues of shaded windows, repairs an incompatibility issue with GLES2 GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language), introduces a function that can refresh all background instances automatically, and repairs several other important issues reported by users.

If you’re using GNOME 3.14, we strongly recommend that you update it as soon as the new GNOME Shell and Mutter packages arrive in your distribution’s software repositories. You can also download the GNOME Shell 3.14.4 and Mutter 3.14.4 sources right now from Softpedia.