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GNOME Shell & Mutter Do Their Betas For 3.20, Add More Wayland Changes

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 19 February 2016 at 01:02 PM EST. 5 Comments

Being released a bit late today past the official GNOME 3.20 Beta is the v3.19.90 releases for the GNOME Shell and Mutter.

The Mutter 3.19.90 release adds basic startup notification support on Wayland. There is also now pointer motion, locks, and confinement support on Wayland.

Details on the other GNOME Mutter 3.20 beta changes can be found via the news entry. GNOME Shell 3.19.90 meanwhile correctly identifies VPN secret requests, adds an audio device selection dialog, and has various other changes.

GNOME 3.20 will be officially released in about one month from now.

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