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GNOME 40.3 Maintenance Release: Enhanced Software Features and Fixes

Calendar Jul 20, 2021 • User Avatar Brittany Day
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GNOME 40.3 has been released as the third maintenance update to the latest and greatest GNOME 40 desktop environment series, featuring many bug fixes. Check it out!

Coming about five weeks after the GNOME 40.2 release, GNOME 40.3 is here with an updated GNOME Software app that now automatically installs application updates depending on the type of application and user configuration, includes apps from disabled repositories in the search results of the Activities Overview, an improved Updates tab, as well as better support for PackageKit apps.

The Evince document viewer has been updated as well to display “None” when the creation or modification date is missing from a document, as well as to enable the Odd Pages Left option only when the dual page feature is active. Also, the GNOME Boxes app received improvements to the run-in-background functionaly for non-Flatpak builds.

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