14 DAY TRIAL // Daniel Foré, founder of the elementary OS project, an open-source initiative to provide a general use computer operating system based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distro, announced August's security and stability updates for Loki users.
If you're using the latest elementary OS 0.4 Loki release on your personal computer, you'll be happy to learn that there's an update bringing better title and description to AppCenter's payment dialog, along with better suppor for opening appstream:// URLs and a blacklist that'll list all upstream core components and tools which aren't compatible with elementary OS.
"In the interest of cleaning up the kinds of things that get shown in AppCenter, we now ship a blacklist," said Daniel Foré in a blog post. "This blacklist includes things like system components and utilities inherited from Ubuntu, but don’t work on elementary OS. You can see the current version of the full list here."
A brand-new elementary OS installer is coming soon
Among other improvements brought by the August update for elementary OS 0.4 Loki users, we can mention better color contrast in application sidebars, rounded windows when maximized, compatibility fixes for GTK+ 3.20 and later, and better support for Bluetooth devices, which won't be duplicated in the indicator anymore.
Various visual fixes were also brought to the Notifications indicator, session indicator, the Mail app, which now ships with a toolbar button in the composer that lets you add inline images to emails, and the Online Accounts settings, which now point to the new FastMail servers.
There are, of course, many other updated packages and all the latest security updates from upstream Ubuntu release, so you should update your elementary OS 0.4 Loki installation immediately to receive all these goodies. Meanwhile, the elementary OS devs are working hard on a new installer and the next major version.
