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GNOME 3.21.2 Released With More Wayland Improvements, Flatpak

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 27 May 2016 at 09:04 AM EDT. 15 Comments

GNOME 3.21.2 was released this morning as the latest development version of the desktop leading up to September's release of GNOME 3.22.

GNOME 3.21.2 features:

- GNOME Software now supports Flatpak packages (formerly known as XDG-App).

- GNOME-Session switches back to Wayland by default.

- GTK+ brings a new GdkMonitor API for exposing more information about connected displays.

- The NetworkManager applet now supports connecting to multiple VPNs.

- Empathy has Wayland support improvements.

- Translation updates.

- Various bug fixes.

More details on GNOME 3.21.2 can be found via this release announcement by Javier Jardón.

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