14 DAY TRIAL // Simon Lees from the Enlightenment project announced earlier this week the release and immediate availability of the eighth bugfix and stability release for the Enlightenment 0.21 desktop environment stable series.
Coming more than two months after the previous point release, Enlightenment 0.21.8 is here to fix various annoyances and issues that have been reported by users lately, as well as further improve the stability and reliability of the lightweight desktop environment and window manager for GNU/Linux distributions.
A total of 72 changes are included in the Enlightenment 0.21.8 release from only three developers, namely Mike Blumenkrantz, Al Poole, and Carsten Haitzler. They managed to add various fixes to the keyboard settings, randr2, XWayland, and other components. The full changelog is attached below for more details.
However, it appears that an issue that occurs when running su or sudo commands on an operating system powered by the Linux 4.11 kernel series is still present in this release, but the development team promises to include a fix in the next update, Enlightenment 0.21.9, which should be out soon as well.
"This is another bugfix and stability release for the Enlightenment 21 Release series. We are aware of an issue when running su/sudo under kernel 4.11 the fix for this issue will be in an upcoming kernel release rather then here see (https://phab.enlightenment.org/T5470)," reads the announcement.
Until Enlightenment 0.21.9 is released, you can grab the Enlightenment 0.21.8 source tarball right now from our website if you fancy compiling the desktop environment on your favorite distro, but the rest of the world using Enlightenment should update to version 0.21.8 from the stable repos of their distributions.