The GNOME Project announced today the general availability of GNOME 46.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the GNOME 46 “Kathmandu” desktop environment series to address more bugs and improve performance.
GNOME 46.5 is here five weeks after the GNOME 46.4 release and fixes smartcard logins, adds user permissions to new Wi-Fi connections for restricted users, fixes the showing of pending PAM messages on the login screen, and fixes the “Locate Pointer” accessibility option when the “Reduce Animation” option is turned on.
It also fixes several issues in the Mutter window and composite manager, including drag and drop between X11 and Wayland clients, drag and drop from grabbing pop-ups, EGLDevice support, frozen cursor on some hybrid machines, tablet input in maximized windows, frozen cursor after suspend, using modifiers on multi-GPU setups, propagating tablet device removals to clients, and touch window dragging with pointer lock enabled.
GNOME Software has been updated as well to version 46.5 to reduce power usage when the main window is closed. gnome-autoar 0.4.5 is also included in the GNOME 46.5 release with a tar variant of bzip2 to correctly indicate that bzip2 tarballs are supported, allowing us to extract bzip2 archives with Nautilus.
The Epiphany (GNOME Web) web browser has been updated to version 46.4, a release that reverts key event handling changes due to problems with non-Latin keyboard layouts, removes the tab overview shortcut in Web Apps, fixes the icon URL used for the Install Web Application dialog, as well as crashes in the tab overview mode that occurred when there are no open tabs.
GVfs, GNOME’s userspace virtual filesystem, was updated to version 1.54.3, which contains a handful of improvements for OneDrive support, such as handling of multiple drives with the same IDs, the ability to detect mime types locally if they aren’t set by the server, and support for setting the name of the drive root.
Other than that, GNOME 46.5 ships with libadwaita 1.5.4 which adds support for non-deprecated GPL-2/3.0-only SPDX IDs, as well as fixes for the back button menu picking up phantom pages in some situations, two crashes with drag and drop, and scroll undershoot in dropdowns and the emoji picker.
Last but not least, GNOME Online Accounts received a quick fix for auto-detection of Yahoo accounts and the gnome-desktop components received improved compatibility with muslc, updated default Indic input methods, and support for using ibus-chewing as the default input source for Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) localization.
This release also includes updated versions of the GNOME Disk Utility (Disks), version 46.1, and GNOME Remote Desktop, version 46.5, which only contain updated translations, as well as updated core components like GLib 2.80.5, GTK 4.14.5, libgweather 4.4.4, and librsvg 2.58.4.
Check out the release announcement page for all the details about the changes implemented in GNOME 46.5, a version that will be or is already available in the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution. If you’re using GNOME 46, don’t forget to update your installations as soon as possible.
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