Building off the many changes in GNOME 42 Alpha , there is yet more notable improvements to find with the beta releases that were tagged today. GNOME Shell 42 Beta provides:
- An in-shell screenshot and screencasting user-interface .
- A redesign to the GNOME Shell on-screen display (OSD) elements .
- Fading of the screen when transitioning between light and dark modes.
- Support for GNOME's new "high contrast" setting.
- Support for dark wallpapers.
- A redesign to the GNOME Shell Extensions.
- GNOME Shell now does away with the rounded top bar corners.
- Overhauling the GNOME Shell stylesheet.
- Support for Swiss French and Swiss German on-screen keyboard layouts.
- Many bug fixes.
The full list of 42.beta highlights via this commit .
Meanwhile today's GNOME's Mutter 42 Beta release adds:
- Improved XWayland auto-termination handling .
- DRM privacy screen support with the new Linux interfaces exposed on modern kernels .
- Support for changing the monitor configuration policy.
- DMA-BUF support is now advertised for PipeWire.
- The file descriptor limit of the Wayland compositor has been raised.
- DMA-BUF buffer screencasting is no longer limited to use just on the Intel graphics driver.
- A new Clutter grab API.
- Various bug fixes, including crash fixes.
More details on the Mutter 42.beta changes via this commit .