14 DAY TRIAL // As reported earlier, the GNOME development team is hard at work these days to bring us the second and last point release of the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment, versioned 3.22.2.
Scheduled for release in two days from writing this article, on November 9, 2016, GNOME 3.22.2 will include updated core components and applications from the GNOME Stack, including the Evolution email, calendar and groupware client, as well as the GTK+ GUI toolkit and Epiphany web browser.
In this article, we'd like to tell you about the improvements that landed in the Epiphany 3.22.2 web browser, which is already available for download for those who fancy installing their open source apps from sources. According to the internal release notes, Epiphany 3.22.2 improves the handling of password form autofill and built-in adblocker.
Epiphany will no longer save corrupted sessions
To avoid saving of corrupted sessions, Epiphany 3.22.2 implements a session safety check mechanism. Additionally, it attempts to fix duplicates in the overview thumbnails, restricts Web Apps to their primary domain (again), and allows users to delete the entire history database when clearing the browsing history.
Other than that, spellchecking and Accept-Language are now enabled by default for the current locale, several language translations were updated, the error page buttons will now expand to fit translations, and various small code safety, crashes, and critical warnings have been fixed.
As mentioned before, Epiphany 3.22.2 will be distributed as part of the upcoming GNOME 3.22.2 desktop environment, which launches on November 9, 2016, for various GNU/Linux distributions that are already using the GNOME 3.22.1 release, including Arch Linux and OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, so please update as soon as it's available for you in the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution.