14 DAY TRIAL // GNOME Project's Florian Müllner announced the availability of the Release Candidate (RC) versions of the forthcoming GNOME Shell 3.24 and Mutter 3.24 components of the GNOME 3.24 desktop environment.
The GNOME devs are working hard these days on releasing the final development milestone of the upcoming GNOME 3.24 desktop environment, due for release on March 22, 2017, precisely the Release Candidate.
This is currently developed under the GNOME 3.23.92 umbrella, and most of its components are out for testing, including the GNOME Shell user interface and Mutter window manager and compositor.
Looking at the changelog, we can notice that GNOME Shell 3.23.92 (3.24 RC) implements DnD to overview for the Wayland display server, makes Telepathy optional during runtime, and adds a drag gesture at the bottom edge to bring up the on-screen keyboard.
Additionally, it now lets users switch between pads in the same group, ignores the showBanners policy for critical notifications, and no longer displays forecasts for New York City when the geoclue functionality fails to work correctly.
What's new in Mutter 3.24 Release Candidate
On the other hand, Mutter 3.23.92 (3.24 RC) fixes DnD between GTK+ 3 and Qt 5 apps on the Wayland display server, along with the implementation of DnD handling code. Support for tablet grouping was also added in this Release Candidate of Mutter 3.24.
Other than that, it looks like Mutter now properly handles EGLOutput acquire errors and makes EDID reading less fragile. A crash that occurred when attempting to close a window during Alt+Tab has been addressed.
Various other small issues reported by users since the Beta 2 milestone have been fixed as well in both GNOME Shell 3.24 RC and Mutter 3.24 RC releases, which you can download right now from our website if you want to take them for a test drive before next week's final release.