ANNOUNCE: xfdesktop 4.20.2 released

Brian Tarricone brian at tarricone.org
Fri Mar 27 12:48:47 CET 2026


xfdesktop 4.20.2 is now available for download from
  
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.20/xfdesktop-4.20.2.tar.bz2
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.20/xfdesktop-4.20.2.tar.bz2?sha1
  https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/xfdesktop/4.20/xfdesktop-4.20.2.tar.bz2?sha256


What is xfdesktop?
==================

Xfce's desktop manager.  Xfdesktop draws the background color and image,
as well as the icons on the desktop.  It also provides an applications
menu when right-clicking on the desktop.

Website: 
  https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/start


Release notes for 4.20.2
========================
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- Fix criticals in g_file_info_get_name with trashed files
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- Fix a use-after-free crash in the icon unplace/removal code
- Fix column boundary check in xfdesktop_icon_view_unplace_item
- Mark shortcut editor group names as translatable
- Ensure src icon & parent are writable and can be moved more
thoroughly
- autotools: ensure xfdesktop-settings links with libxfce4util
- Don't limit number of templates shown in the 'Create Document' menu
- Add gradient benchmarking test binary to .gitignore
- Add test-gradient-benchmarking to autotools build
- Set up for new machinery to automatically update copyright year
- I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list
- Translation Updates:
  Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Azerbaijani,
  Basque, Belarusian, Belarusian (Tarask), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese
  (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech,
  Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English
  (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French,
  Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic,
  Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Kabyle, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian,
  Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500),
  Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian,
  Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Thai, Turkish,
  Ukrainian, Uyghur, Venetian, Vietnamese


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