14 DAY TRIAL // The fourth maintenance update to the Enlightenment DR 0.21 stable series of the lightweight, modern, and open-source window manager and desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions has been released on the last day of November 2016.
As expected, Enlightenment 0.21.4 is a bugfix release that addresses numerous of the issues reported by users since the previous maintenance update, namely Enlightenment 0.21.3, which was released more than a month and a half ago, in an attempt to further improve the overall stability of the desktop environment.
"This is another bugfix and stability release for the Enlightenment 21 Release series. It addresses a number of issues as listed below. While there has been many changes since the last release most changes are related to Bryce and Wayland as such they won't affect most users," said Simon Lees in the release announcement.
Includes many Bryce and Wayland improvements
As Enlightenment continues its path towards a pure Wayland experience, the Enlightenment 0.21.4 point release comes with many Wayland improvements, but also some Bryce fixes, and many other interesting additions, including the ability to change the calendar month using the mouse wheel.
As the headline suggests, a total of 106 changes are included in the fourth maintenance update to the Enlightenment DR 0.21 series, which depends on version 1.17 of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) or a newer build if you want to enable X11 compositing, though EFL 1.18 is recommended and required for Wayland support.
The full changelog is attached below if you're curious to know what exactly was changed in Enlightenment 0.21.4. In the meantime, we recommend that you update your Enlightenment 0.21 installation as soon as version 0.21.4 lands in the stable repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution. You can also download the source archive right now from our website.