Version 42.beta

Released: 2022-02-10

This is the second unstable release for GNOME 42.

• Allow --verbose to be enabled at runtime
  
• Condense the rows in the age rating context dialog
  
• Update the UI for ratings and reviews of apps
  
• Improve the appearance of the category page loading screen
  
• Drop the first run dialog
  
• Improvements to dark theming
  
• Support viewing a specific metainfo file using --show-metainfo
  
• Several more threading improvements
  
• Icon updates
  
• Drop the hardcoded-popular plugin in favour of an appstream file
  
• The background image for upgrades is now looked for using several well-known (and
  distribution-specific) names in ${DATADIR}/gnome-software/backgrounds, and the previous
  Fedora-specific default background image is no longer distributed. Similarly, the
  upgrade-background-uri GSettings key has been removed. Distributions may need to update how
  they ship background images. See doc/vendor-customisation.md.
  

This release also updates translations:

• Chinese (China)
  
• Galician
  
• Hebrew
  
• Icelandic
  
• Indonesian
  
• Japanese
  
• Occitan (post 1500)
  
• Portuguese
  
• Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• Russian
  
• Slovenian
  
• Spanish
  
• Ukrainian