Version 40.alpha

Released: 2021-01-27

This is the first unstable release for GNOME 40.

• Drop libgnome-desktop-3 dependency in favour of gsettings-desktop-schemas
  
• Small updates to how app descriptions and addons are presented on the details
  page
  
• Fix handling of pending app installations when going online
  
• Better support for dark themes (particularly Adwaita-Dark)
  
• Improvements to how app screenshots are loaded and presented
  
• Hide ‘Launch’ button if an application (for example, Wine) cannot be
  launched
  
• Make the UI clearer when loading information from flatpakref files
  
• Don’t update app metadata on start when download-updates is disabled
  
• Fix opening the updates list when clicking on an updates notification
  
• Fix state updates when installing flatpak apps or repos which are already
  installed
  
• Add Ctrl+Q as a keyboard shortcut for closing the window
  
• Rework timing and content of software update notifications
  
• Prevent uninstalled local apps from appearing in the installed apps list
  
• Support installation/uninstallation of addons for flatpak apps
  
• Improve presentation of age ratings for apps
  
• Fix a crash in the updates page
  
• Fix presentation of app permissions for fully sandboxed flatpak apps
  
• Fix deadlock on rpm-ostree systems
  
• Fix presentation of version number changes in right-to-left locales
  
• Error handling improvements for fwupd
  
• Performance improvements for ODRS on startup
  
• Improve presentation of firmware warning messages
  
• XML parsing performance improvements
  
• Automatically remove end-of-life flatpak runtimes
  
• Support updating flatpaks to their new name when they are renamed
  
• Update the GNOME Software icon
  
• Support more search results in the snap store
  

This release also updates translations:

• Basque
  
• Bokmål, Norwegian
  
• Catalan
  
• Chinese (Taiwan)
  
• Czech
  
• Friulian
  
• Galician
  
• German
  
• Greek, Modern (1453-)
  
• Hebrew
  
• Indonesian
  
• Italian
  
• Kabyle
  
• Kazakh
  
• Latvian
  
• Lithuanian
  
• Persian
  
• Portuguese
  
• Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• Romanian
  
• Slovak
  
• Spanish
  
• Turkish
  
• Ukrainian
  
• Vietnamese