22.04 Release Notes

[jackpot51]

• Based on Ubuntu 22.04
• GNOME 42
• Mesa 22
• Debian packaging of firefox

[WatchMkr]

• Pipewire replaces Pulseaudio audio system in Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
• Dark and light modes can have independent backgrounds
• New upgrade and upgrade installation options in Settings > OS Upgrade and Recovery To reduce distractions, update notifications are now set to show weekly and can be set to daily or monthly Upgrades can be scheduled and installed automatically (includes debian, flatpak, and nix packages)
• Settings for Desktop Options, Background, Appearance, Dock, and Workspaces are now directly searchable in Launcher
• Installed nvidia drivers are now visible in Pop!_Shop and older drivers are available to install

[mmstick]

• Pop System Updater: automatic system update and update scheduling
• System76 Scheduler: CPU and process scheduling optimizations
• System76 Power: CPU scaling governor improvements
• New Support panel in GNOME Settings and pop-support tool
• Pop Shop now uninstallable / GNOME Software installable
• Limited journald log max disk capacity to 1GB
• Added Pop robot face
• Pop upgrade service will now only be activate when checking for release upgrades and doing a release upgrade, instead of being active 24/7
• Pop upgrade debian package downloads are resumable (resumable recovery downloads coming soon)
• Irqbalance removed from default install
• We started packaging Rust and will update it in a rolling release way

[13r0ck]

• Reduce cosmic logging, which technically also means more performant.
  • https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-workspaces/pull/63
  • https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-workspaces/pull/62
  • https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-dock/pull/133
  • https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic/pull/331
• Plymouth translations, and fix for rotated HIDPI displays
  • https://github.com/pop-os/plymouth/pull/4
• Cosmic-workspaces
  • Fix location of workspace picker box on secondary displays
  • Fix scaling of workspace picker on dispalys of different respoutions
  • Increase performance
  • Fix alignment on HIDPI displays
  • Make OSD picker smaller and vertical
  • https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-workspaces/pull/56
  • https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-workspaces/pull/54

[isantop]

• Updated Shell Theme for GNOME 42
• SVG-based icons instead of PNG
• Rebased Pop_Shop on upstream for better performance and reliability (pending)