Epiphany 3.27.1 development release now ready for testing

Oct 18, 2017 16:27 GMT  ·  By

As part of today's GNOME 3.27.1 development release, the Epiphany web browser received a bunch of new features and improvements that will be available to all next spring when the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment launches officially.

For the GNOME 3.28 development cycle, the Epiphany web browser will probably get a lot of cool new features, but, for now, the first snapshot brings Google Safe Browsing support, a new address bar drop-down that makes use of the libdazzle library, and better support for the Flatpak universal binary format.

On top of that, the Epiphany 3.27.1 development release lets you access the web inspector while in application mode and improves import of bookmarks when no Firefox profile is present. Epiphany will also no longer disable navigation actions when clearing the history and correctly saves non-HTML (plain text, images) files.

The search engine dialog finally got fixed

Among other noteworthy changes that landed in this first development release of the Epiphany 3.28 web browser, we can mention that users can now override any auto-filled usernames in password forms, and the search engine dialog finally got fixed as it wasn't fully functional since Epiphany 3.24.3.

The Epiphany 3.27.1 source tarball is available for download right now from our website if you want to compile and install it on your favorite GNU/Linux distribution, though we don't recommend to do so because it's an early development release branch that's not suitable for use in production environments.

The GNOME 3.27.1 release will be available shortly as the first in the development cycle of the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment, due for release on March 14, 2018. You can test Epiphany 3.27.1 as part of the GNOME 3.27.1 milestone, along with the Mutter 3.27.1 and GNOME Shell 3.27.1 components.