GNOME 3.30.1 packages started landing for various distros

Sep 26, 2018 20:18 GMT  ·  By

The GNOME Project announced the availability of the first point release of the latest GNOME 3.30 desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems, GNOME 3.30.1.

GNOME 3.30.1 is the first stability and security release of the GNOME 3.30 desktop environment, bringing a plethora of improvements, bug fixes, and updated translations to several core components and apps to make the GNOME 3.30 desktop environment ready for mass deployments.

"GNOME 3.30.1 is now available. This is a stable release containing three weeks' worth of good bugfixes since the 3.30.0 release. Since it only contains bugfixes, all distributions shipping 3.30.0 should upgrade," Michael Catanzaro writes in a mailing list announcement on behalf of the GNOME Release Team.

One thing that's missing from the GNOME 3.30.1 point release is the GNOME Shell update, which isn't included due to a lot of crashes and other regressions in the 3.30.0 release, which weren't fixed at the moment of publishing the GNOME 3.30.1 packages. Therefore, OS vendors are urged to apply the first twelve patches listed here.

GNOME 3.30.2 point release lands October 24, 2018

The GNOME 3.30 desktop environment will get one more such point release, GNOME 3.30.2, which is expected to land next month on October 24, 2018. The bad news is that GNOME 3.30.2 is the last scheduled point release in the series, but the good news is that many components will continue to receive maintenance updates for the next six months, until the release of GNOME 3.32.

Until then, we recommend all users to update to the GNOME 3.30.1 point release as soon as the packages arrive in the stable software repositories of their favorite GNU/Linux distributions. Those who prefer to compile GNOME 3.30.1, can use the official BuildStream project snapshot or the source packages. Details about the changes included in GNOME 3.30.1 are available here.