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GNOME 48 Release Candidate Brings Late Mutter Features & Other Changes

([GNOME] 99 Minutes Ago GNOME 48.rc)


The GNOME 48 release candidate "48.rc" is out this evening as we approach the stable release of the [1]GNOME 48 desktop in two weeks.

There are a number of late, last minute feature changes and other notable alterations to find with today's GNOME 48 release candidate. Some of the most noticeable GNOME 48.rc changes include:

- Epiphany (GNOME Web) now changes the default protocol to HTTPS from HTTP.

- The Evince document viewer has improved support for Adobe PDF open parameters.

- GNOME Backgrounds has switched back to using JPEG for its default wallpaper rather than JPEG-XL. Reverting back to JPEG was done for performance reasons.

- GNOME Control Center adds the HDR luminance settings UI.

- Continued GNOME Control Center improvements to the "digital wellbeing" options.

- GNOME Remote Desktop now supports hardware-encoded AVC444.

- GNOME Shell now groups notifications by app.

- GNOME Software brings minor UI improvements to the updates page along with some performance improvements and crash fixes.

- [2]Many last minute GNOME Mutter improvements including Wayland color management protocol support, dynamic triple buffering, cursor shape protocol support, and presentation time v2 support.

- GTK brings Wayland cursor shape protocol support, better font rendering with the new GNOME default font, and fixes to the new Android back-end.

- The Nautilus file manager has reworked and sped-up adding of files to view.

- The XDG Desktop Portal GNOME code has added the global shortcuts portal back-end.

More details via the GNOME 48 release candidate announcement on [3]discourse.gnome.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/GNOME+48

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-48-RC

[3] https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-48-rc-released/27497



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Open Source Irrational Constant

BREEZEWOOD, PA -- In a revelation that could rock the foundations of
science, a researcher in Pennsylvania has discovered that the digits of the
irrational constant PI encode a version of the Linux kernel. "I can't
believe it," the researcher, Neil Hoffman, exclaimed. "And yet, here I am
staring at what appears to be the source code for Linux kernel 5.0.0.
Needless to say, my whole world-view has changed..."

Hoffman explained, "My algorithm, which applies several dozen conversions and
manipulations to each digit of PI, spits out plain vanilla ASCII characters
that happen to form the source code for the Linux kernel."

Many members of the scientific community are skeptical. One One
mathematician who has memorized the digits of PI to 10,000 places said,
"This is the kind of nonsense one would expect to find in a tabloid such as
the National Mathematics Enquirer. Or a Linux fortune(6) file. Hoffman's
'discovery' is obviously a hoax designed to secure government research
grants."

In a related matter, we have received an unconfirmed report that a region of
the Mandelbrot fractal contains what appear to be the words "LINUS TORVALDS
WAS HERE". In addition, the words "TRANSMETA: THIS SECRET MESSAGE IS NOT
HERE YET" supposedly appear within the depths of the Julia Set.