The recent GNOME Shell 45.1 update has begun rolling out to users of Ubuntu 23.10.
As the first point release issued to GNOME Shell since the GNOME 45 release in September, the update ships with an miscellaneous assortment of bug fixes, code cleanups, and crash remedies.
Specific fixes mentioned in the official upstream changelog include:
- Fix scroll handling on sliders
- Handle unredirection as part of the state transition in the overview
- Handle DESKTOP windows during workspace animations
- Fix unexpected focus changes with multi-window apps
- Improve recording indicator in light style
- Fix calendar popup shrinking on date changes
The calendar pop fix addresses the following quirk, where if you click on a date in the bottom row the entire applet contracts. Weirdly, this doesn’t happen if you click on a date that’s not in the final row first:
Ubuntu ships a customised version of GNOME Shell, with a series of patches applied to support features or adjust behaviours, like preferring the Yaru shell theme, alerting the colour of the login screen background, and supporting user-switching via LightDM.
But with GNOME Shell 45.1 Ubuntu developers have been able to drop 2 patches that the new release now contains/addresses natively, which is nice. A reduced delta makes things easier to test, maintain, and package.
Anyway, that’s the key changes in GNOME Shell 45.1 should be intrigued by what’s new when you see the update waiting for you, next time you run the Update Manager.
On a related note, GNOME devs released Mutter 45.1 about a month ago. That bug-fix update is also coming to Ubuntu 23.10 pretty soon.