GNOME 3.30 Desktop Will Finally Bring Automatic Updates, but Only for Flatpaks

The highly anticipated GNOME 3.30 desktop environment will be released in less than a month, and we bet Linux users can’t wait to install it on their favorite GNU/Linux distributions to discover all the new features and enhancements.

One of the coolest, long-anticipated feature coming to the GNOME 3.30 desktop environment this fall is automatic updates. Yes, you’re reading it right, the GNOME Project is enabling automatic software updates for you so you won’t have to worry about if you’re running the latest version of a software or not, but only for Flatpaks at this time.

According to Richard Hughes, the new automatic updates feature has been implemented in the GNOME Software package manager and will be available as part of the GNOME 3.30 release this fall, enabled by default only for Flatpak apps, the universal binary format for Linux-based operating systems, along with … (read more)

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