This development release of GNOME Software fixes many bugs

Dec 23, 2013 21:10 GMT  ·  By

The GNOME Project has announced a few days ago that a new development release towards the stable GNOME Software 3.12 application for the GNOME desktop environment is available for download and testing, introducing two new features and lots of bugfixes.

GNOME Software 3.11.3 adds more featured apps, and it now displays the user-set ratings in a different color from the one used for the system values.

The application is now less alarming when notifying the user, searchbars’ class has been changed, empty 'blank' update descriptions will no longer be displayed, the deprecated gtk_widget_set_margin_left function is no longer used, and the offline update data is no longer cleared earlier.

Moreover, GNOME Software 3.11.3 fixes a screenshot loader crash, fixes a potentially invalid read spotted by Valgrind, fixes an automake warning about trailing whitespace, and fixes some small issues in app-folder-dialog.ui.

GNOME Software 3.11.3 will never display '0' as the updates counter, replaces the Mozilla Firefox icon with a high-resolution one, displays some error details in the GError when the offline update fails, displays an error message when getting the historical update list fails, uses a mnemonic in the details panel, and uses the system symbolic star icons.

Last but not least, the following translations have been updated in this third development release towards GNOME Software 3.12: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Finnish, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Slovak. GNOME Software 3.11.3 is now available for testing for courageous users, via the the 3.11.3 release of the GNOME desktop environment. For more details, please take a look at the official raw changelog. Download GNOME Software 3.11.3 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.