Freya 0.3.2 Released
Just in time for the holidays, it’s a new release of elementary OS! Freya 0.3.2 is a minor release, mostly focused around solving some issues folks have had with UEFI & SecureBoot, but we’ve also managed to sneak in some internationalization updates and a couple new features.
EFI & SecureBoot
With the help of incredibly useful tips, advice, and code snippets from Antoni Norman (aka Pinguy), Cody has almost completely rewritten our .iso build system since 0.3.1. We’ve tested these new builds on 64-bit (U)EFI, and BIOS machines, with and without internet, with SecureBoot and legacy boot, and everything in between. No more infamous GRUB boot error!
Internationalization & Translations
We’ve recently been working much more closely with Leonardo Lemos and Maxim Taranov (aka PNG) on improving support for internationalization in elementary OS. We’ve uncovered some parts of the OS that weren’t being made available for translation and solved some tricky cases involving pluralization. Also, we’ve had reports of the installer not playing nice with languages other than English and Spanish. We’ve decided to include the language packs for 22 additional, prominent languages, slightly increasing the size of the download but addressing this major issue. In short, this and future releases of elementary OS are getting better at speaking your language!
New Features
Of course, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to sneak in a few refinements and new features. The applications menu now lists settings separately from apps in search results and will also return results for actions from apps’ quicklists, like “Compose Message” from Geary and “New Document” from Scratch. Also, we’ve decided to tuck away some utilities like the archive manager and font viewer; they’re still available from Files and search, but we don’t clutter up your applications menu with them any more. We’ve also fixed some minor visual issues with dark apps and refined shadows on windows, the panel, and a number of other places.
Over 5 Million Downloads
Last but not least, we’ve reached an exciting milestone: since moving away from Sourceforge in June, we’ve served up over 1.2 million downloads on our very own CDN. That’s over a petabyte of data! Major shoutout to Digital Ocean for helping us find an affordable hosting solution. This brings us to an estimated 5.3 million downloads of elementary OS total!
How to Update
If you’re successfully running elementary OS Freya, there’s not much to do. We’ve already pushed these updates; just run the Software Updater app. If you’re not yet running elementary OS, grab a copy of elementary OS Freya 0.3.2 from our website!
Thanks!
We’d like to thank our supporters on Bountysource, Patreon, and elsewhere for directly funding this work! If you’d like to get involved with funding elementary OS development, check out this page on our website. And if you’d like to get paid to fix bugs or write new features, be sure to check out our open bounties!
