14 DAY TRIAL // The GNOME Maps app, the default Maps software for the GNOME desktop environment, has been updated as part of the second Beta release of the forthcoming GNOME 3.16, due for release this month, on March 25. This is a bugfix release that repairs some of the issues discovered in the previous Beta version of the software.
According to the raw changelog, GNOME Maps 3.16 Beta 2 fixes a leak in geocode functionality of the libmaps library, and addresses event-handling issues with GTK+ and Clutter libraries, which could lead to freeze and deadlock when the user clicked the map.
Moreover, we can mention that routes are no longer fetched twice for each request in GNOME Maps 3.16 Beta 2, and the software will now allow users to add contacts that properly geocode to a location. Users will also be able to mark search results as favorites.
Last but not least, the Russian, Galician, Lithuanian, Slovak, Hungarian, Greek, Chinese (Taiwan), Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, and Ukrainian language translations have been updated. Download GNOME Maps 3.16 Beta 2 right now via Softpedia, but keep in mind that it’s an unstable release and it is not recommended for production machines.