Version 43.alpha

Released: 2022-06-30

This is the first unstable release for GNOME 43.

• Various improvements to notifications
  
• Fix several crashes when handling flatpak apps
  
• Add ‘Other Apps by Author’ section in the app details page
  
• Improve styling of app context lozenges
  
• Add ‘Available for Distro’ section to the overview page (if configured by your distribution)
  
• Show more details about file system permissions requested by flatpak apps
  
• Show more types of URI from app metainfo
  
• Fix a few issues when using a dark mode theme
  
• Fix some issues with arrows in right-to-left locales
  
• Fix language pack installation for certain locales
  
• Improve debug output to make user bug reports more useful
  
• Add --uninstall=ID command line option
  
• Allow scrolling screenshots by clicking on next and previous screenshots
  
• Add support for webapps
  
• Allow swiping back in the shell using touch gestures
  
• Improved caching of downloaded metadata
  
• Many internal architectural changes to make the code more maintainable
  
• The popular-overrides GSettings key has been removed; distribution vendors wishing to mark
  their apps as popular should see doc/vendor-customisation.md for examples of how to do this
  now
  
• The hardcoded_popular Meson option has been renamed to hardcoded_curated.
  

This release also updates translations:

• Basque
  
• Bulgarian
  
• Catalan
  
• Chinese (China)
  
• Chinese (Taiwan)
  
• Croatian
  
• Czech
  
• Danish
  
• Dutch
  
• English (United Kingdom)
  
• Finnish
  
• French
  
• Friulian
  
• Galician
  
• Georgian
  
• German
  
• Hebrew
  
• Hungarian
  
• Indonesian
  
• Lithuanian
  
• Nepali
  
• Occitan (post 1500)
  
• Persian
  
• Polish
  
• Portuguese
  
• Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• Russian
  
• Serbian
  
• Slovenian
  
• Spanish
  
• Swedish
  
• Turkish
  
• Ukrainian
  
• Vietnamese