14 DAY TRIAL // We reported earlier this week that the hard-working developers behind the acclaimed GNOME desktop environment used by default in numerous GNU/Linux distributions, including Ubuntu GNOME and Fedora, are preparing the second and last point release of GNOME 3.16.
GNOME 3.16.2 should be available in the coming days to all distributions of GNU/Linux that have the latest GNOME 3.16.1 packages in their primary software repositories, such as Arch Linux. As such, several core components of GNOME have received significant updates these days, including the well-known Orca screen reader and magnifier tool.
Orca 3.16.2 has been released and it's a major update that adds a workaround for a missing object:state-changed:focused event for the LibreOffice office suite and GTK+ GUI toolkit, offers a symbolic variant of the App icon, and fixes a traceback that occurred when fetching children via a relationset.
Several other issues have been patched in Orca 3.16.2
In addition to the changes mentioned above, Orca 3.16.2 now comes with an explicit Braille handling for ROLE_PAGE, in order to update the line in the Evince document viewer for the GNOME desktop environment, and makes the fallbackOnUnicodeData option False.
Furthermore, the second maintenance release of Orca 3.16 tries to remove verbal nonsense from links that don't contain important information, and it now ignores text-selection-changed events from Gecko objects that contain no text. The Czech, German, and Brazilian Portuguese translations have been updated as well. Download Orca 3.16.2 right now from Softpedia.
Orca 3.16.2 will be distributed as part of the GNOME 3.16.2 desktop environment, which will be released very soon. Softpedia was the first to announce the immediate availability of GNOME 3.16.2 on May 13. You should check your Linux OS for updates in the coming days if you plan on upgrading to GNOME 3.16.2.