The eighth milestone towards GTK+ 3.18 is here

Sep 3, 2015 03:20 GMT  ·  By

While the GNOME Project prepares for the release of the second Beta build of the forthcoming GNOME 3.18 desktop environment, due for release on September 23, the GTK+ development team announced the release of GTK+ 3.17.8.

GTK+ 3.17.8 is the eighth milestone in the development cycle of the GTK+ 3.18 open-source toolkit, which will be used by default in GNOME 3.18. According to the attached release notes, it adds several improvements to the next-generation Wayland display server, such as the ability to close displays, support for all tests, and a fix for key repeats.

Furthermore, GTK+ 3.17.8 offers better loading feedback and displays network:/// in the Places view of GtkFileChooser, aligns widgets that are relative only to the overlay and not to the main widget in GtkOverlay, addresses a fallout issues from padding/margin addition in GtkTextView, supports focusable headers in GtkListBox, and improves the GtkCalendar theming, as well as the performance of GtkListBox.

Over 20 bugs have been fixed

In addition to the improvements mentioned above, GTK+ 3.17.8 fixes over 20 bugs that have been reported by users since the previous development release of the software. Among the most important ones, we can mention support for emitting PrintOperation::paginate for the class handler, support for taking sorting into account when changing model items in the listbox, and a fix for an issue with gdk_device_get_source.

Moreover, there are various improvements to the HighContrast theme, the Kinetic scrolling events have been updated to no longer reach GtkScrolledWindow, the  selection owner changes won't be broadcasted on Wayland, remote mounts and volumes are no longer shuffled around, folders are now automatically checked to see if they're accessible or not, and high priority improvements for GtkPlacesView have been implemented.

Last but not least, the "Open" popover item located on the selected sidebar row works as expected, remote locations no longer have different actions and icons, and the Catalan, Lithuanian, Hebrew, Portuguese, Galician, Polish, Spanish, Chinese (Taiwan), Turkish, Indonesian, Greek, Slovak, and Hungarian language translations have been updated.

Download GTK+ 3.17.8 right now from Softpedia. Please note that this is a pre-release version of GTK+, not suitable for production use.

GTK+ 3.17.8 Changelog