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GNOME Shell & Mutter Broke Their Good Faith With Ubuntu


GNOME Shell and Mutter had been covered by Ubuntu's GNOME MicroReleaseException 'MRE' policy that allows for new point releases to ship rather easily as stable updates to existing Ubuntu Linux releases

Due to landing a "significant new feature" into a point release, the GNOME Shell and Mutter are no longer covered by this exception. Longtime Ubuntu developer Christopher James Halse Rogers announced today that GNOME Shell and Mutter are no longer covered by this exception:"It has been brought to the SRU team’s attention that mutter has landed a significant new feature in the 46.1 point release. About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.

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