GNOME 50.1 Released with Numerous Fixes
GNOME 50, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop environment, got the first maintenance updates.
The new 50.1 version introduced numerous bug-fixes and translation updates for its core modules, including the GUI framework, Gnome Control Center, Nautilus fie manager, and more.
First, it updated the GTK-4 toolkit to version 4.22.2. It fixed the wrong colors issue used for fallback symbolic icons containing classes, animating hrefs attribute in SVG not working issue, potential crash with dmabuf (Direct Memory Access buffer), and various issues with vulkan graphics API.
The GTK-3 library has also been updated to version 3.24.52 with fixes for GIMP, Firefox, and several compatibility updates for Wayland. The developer team however will slow down the update for this legacy library, and the next version is planned to be out almost one year later.
We are going to decrease the frequency of GTK3 releases and limit changes to important bug and crash fixes, going forward. The next GTK3 release is expected in March 2027.
GNOME Control Center, the system settings, has been updated with various translation updates. It fixed the keyboard navigation between cursor sizes in Accessibility, corrected the type of num_scales in Display settings, and fixed memory leak in camera and location pages.
As well, it updated the Gnome Online Account to fix an issue when building with Google Drive disabled.
Nautilus the file manager now auto-complete folder name with trailing slash again when hitting tab to trigger complement function in path bar. It also restored the default focus for permanent delete dialog, assured view item de-duplication on slow machines.
It as well improved the stability when opening folder with many custom icons, showing properties for encrypted partition, and browsing folder contains files with empty MIME type. And, it now dis-allows to edit custom icons for trash or trashed files.
nautilus 50 does not add trailing slash when pressing tab to auto-complete
The new version also updated glycin image loading library with fix that image viewer cannot view certain PNG files, added itunes genre support for podcast RSS feeds, and renamed the old xpm loader to legacy-xpm for GdkPixbuf.
There are as well many changes for the Epiphany web browser, Decibels, vala, etc modules. see the announcement for more details.
Get GNOME 50.1
GNOME 50.1 will be available in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44. And, Arch Linux has already made it into the official Extra repository.
For choice you may try the GNOME OS Nightly by installing it either in VM or real machine.
Source: UbuntuHandbook