14 DAY TRIAL // Just a few moments ago, the GNOME Project, through Matthias Clasen, proudly announced the release of the second and last maintenance release for the stable GNOME 3.18 open-source desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems.
GNOME 3.18.2 brings in updates for a great number of core components and applications. Among them we can mention Eye of GNOME, Epiphany, Brasero, Cheese, Evolution, Mutter, GNOME Shell, Glade, Gedit, File-Roller, Disks, GTK+, GNOME Terminal, as well as the Photos, Maps, Boxes, Documents, Logs, Sound Recorder, Software, Music, PackageKit, and GNOME Games.
For some of these packages, we've written detailed articles right here on Softpedia, so you should search them on the site if you want to see what's new. Also, recommended readings for those of you interested in the juicy details of the GNOME 3.18.2 changes are the core components NEWS and apps NEWS files.
"Here comes our second update to GNOME 3.18, it has many fixes, various improvements, documentation and translation updates, we hope you'll enjoy it," writes Matthias Clasen. "Individual modules may get new stable 3.18 releases but our focus is now on the development branches, we released a first snapshot as 3.19.1 a few weeks ago and will get another one soon."
As mentioned, this is the last maintenance release for the GNOME 3.18 desktop environment, as the GNOME developers will now concentrate all of their efforts on the next major release, GNOME 3.20. Numerous rolling-release and bleeding-edge GNU/Linux distributions will include the GNOME 3.18.2 packages in the coming days, so it is highly recommended that you update as soon as possible.