GNOME 3.38.6 Desktop Environment Released with Various Bug Fixes | Linux Today

GNOME 3.38.6 Desktop Environment Released with Various Bug Fixes

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Marius Nestor
May 5, 2021

Coming one and a half months after GNOME 3.38.5, the GNOME 3.38.6 point release is here to update the Epiphany web browser with the ability to allow launching of external URLs when triggered by user action, as well as to update the File Roller archive manager to skip files with symlinks in parents. It also fixes a huge CPU consumption bug in the Gedit text editor, which occurred when a folder with content is deleted in the filebrower plugin. In addition, Gedit now uses the current document path when opening a new file to address a regression introduced in a previous version.

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Marius Nestor

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