--- title: Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update – December 15th 2017 description: Here’s the last newsletter for 2017, we’ll be back in the new year. On behalf of the whole Desktop Team I wish you all a happy holiday and a peaceful 2018. GNOME Some important fixes landed in fonts-noto-emoji.  🍔  🍺 🧀 Work continues on removing as much gtk2 as we can. A fresh 18.04 install now only installs […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-desktop-weekly-update-december-15th-2017 --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Will Cooke](https://canonical.com/blog/author/willcooke "More about Will Cooke") 15 December 2017 # Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update – December 15th 2017 --- Share the article Here’s the last newsletter for 2017, we’ll be back in the new year. On behalf of the whole Desktop Team I wish you all a happy holiday and a peaceful 2018. ## GNOME Some important [fixes](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-noto-color-emoji/0~20171204-1) landed in fonts-noto-emoji.  🍔  🍺 🧀 Work continues on [removing](https://launchpad.net/bugs/1585903) as much gtk2 as we can. A fresh 18.04 install now only installs three gtk2 rdepends: Firefox, Thunderbird and libgtk2-perl (for debconf). Firefox 58 (in beta) has dropped the gtk2 dependency. Found and [fixed](https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791363) a shadow offset bug in gtk+ related to the fraction scaling work. ## General The [MIR](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spice-vdagent/+bug/1200296) for spice-vdagent is progressing. This adds some nice features to guest systems running with GNOME Boxes such as copy-and-paste between host & guest and arbitrary screen resolution support. We’ve ported our Selenium autopackage tests for Chromium over to Firefox as well. This makes a wider range of automatic integration tests available to Firefox. Avahi: We received the patch for advertising services on localhost. It is actually a one-liner! Courtesy of [Rithvik Patibandla](https://github.com/rithvikp1998) one of the GSoC 2017 Open Printing students. 18.04 will ship the complete driverless printing fun, including USB. We’re looking for more help to verify the Unity 7 fixes. If you can spare an hour or two please see [this thread](https://community.ubuntu.com/t/unity-stack-sru-for-ubuntu-16-04-help-verify/2420) for more info. ## Snaps A couple more upstream projects have merged our snapcraft.yaml files in to their trees. You can see the current state of the GNOME snaps we are maintaining [here.](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/GNOMESnaps) ## Updates * Chromium + Updated chromium beta to 63.0.3239.84 and updated snap in beta channel + Updated chromium dev to 64.0.3282.14 and updated snap in edge channel + Updated chromium stable to 63.0.3239.84 (all supported series + bionic-proposed), snap in candidate channel * Libreoffice + Promoted 5.4.3 snap to stable channel [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. In submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Notice](https://canonical.com/legal/data-privacy/contact) and [Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/data-privacy). 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