The Deepin team announced the latest version of Deepin, a Linux distribution from China. The latest version comes with the latest stable kernel version, 5.15. Kernel 5.15 offers better support for Intel 12th generation processors, and NTFS file systems, and better system compatibility.
New features
Deepin 20.3 is shipped with enhanced Album management features. It includes a better batch selection of photos and new buttons for quick actions. Album also allows users to import, preview, and search videos. Album is also capable of displaying the number of photos and videos separately in the status bar now and improves the interactions of main functions, making photo and video management easier for users.
Deepin 20.3’s Screen Capture capabilities are also improved, allowing it to take long scroll shot instead of several screenshots. The OCR feature introduced in Deepin 20.2.4 is also available in the latest release, allowing users to extract text from the image easily.
New features and optimizations
DDE
- Added: a shortcut for the Global Search, which also supports searching markdown files.
- Optimized: the minimum scale of volume in the Dock.
- Optimized: if the extended mode is selected under the multi-display environment, in the context menu of the Dock, you can set how to display the Dock on multiple displays.
- Optimized: the time and date in the Control Center.
- Optimized: Bluetooth pairing prompts.
- Optimized: playback pause logic of multimedia files after Bluetooth disconnection.
File Manager
- Added: in the list view, columns can be dragged to change the order.
- Added: the color for the current tab.
- Added: the mounted Samba shares are permanently shown in the left panel and the computer page.
- Added: the computer page can be finally reached by pressing the Backspace key.
- Optimized: change the context menu “Log out and unmount” to “Clear saved password and unmount” for remote mountings.
- Optimized: change the fallback path from “Home” to “Computer” after ejecting removable devices.
- Optimized: selection logic when pressing the Ctrl/Shift key and dragging the mouse.
Movie
- Added: video information interface.
- Added: decoding settings.
- Added: ffmpeg supports NVIDIA graphics cards.
- Optimized: prompts for abnormal audio and video playback.
Screen Capture
- Added: take scrollshots and support manual and automatic scrolling.
- Added: the preview of scrollshots.
- Added: OCR support of scrollshots.
- Optimized: the save paths of screenshots and video recordings.
Draw
- Added: dimension settings for exported pictures.
- Optimized: the eraser functions.
- Optimized: the display effect of imported pictures.
Album
- Added: video management.
- Added: video preview.
- Added: video search.
- Added: display the number of photos and video separately.
- Optimized: batch import of pictures.
Input Methods
- Added: drag input methods to change the list order.
- Added: advanced settings.
- Added: group input methods by languages.
- Added: restore to default settings.
Document Viewer
- Added: the print entrance.
Music
- Added: the “Add Music” button in an empty playlist.
- Added: add music using the context menu of a playlist.
Voice Notes
- Added: customize the order of notes.
- Added: more text-editing features, including bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, etc.
- Added: hide and show the notebook panel.
Games
- Added: Lianliankan and Gomoku games.
Graphics Card
- Added: support for 2K hard decoding of OLAND chips.