# What's new?

This section highlights recent changes to the HIG that may affect your application.

The following changes were made in HIG v2.2.2:

- Addition of regarding relevance of this guide to GNOME 3.

The following changes were made in HIG v2.2.1:

- Mention in that in-place progress indicators are preferred to modal progress dialogs windows.

- Replace guidance in about progress windows having same title as their primary text, which lead to unnecessary redundancy. Advice is now that progress window title should summarize the overall operation.

The following sections were added in HIG v2.0:

New or revised guidelines were added to these sections in HIG v2.0:

The following terminology changes were introduced in HIG v2.0:

- "Option menus" are now called "Drop-down lists"

- "Combo boxes" are now called "Drop-down combination boxes"