The beta channel now contains a new “core” snap with the 2.33~rc1 release. This is the first test-release for the coming 2.33 version of snapd. It contains a lot of tweaks and fixes but relatively little in terms of big new features. The recent weeks were very focused on stabilizing for the 18.04 Ubuntu release and many of the 2.33 fixes were backported into the 2.32 release.
More details and an updated roadmap page will follow shortly.
I highly doubt the new behavior is preferred, though. It should’ve been using the system’s Noto Sans fonts.
UPDATE: The new matched font seems to be “DejaVu Sans”
Another problem I noticed is the sudden appearance of the dbus error messages:
process 24574: arguments to dbus_connection_ref() were incorrect, assertion "connection->generation == _dbus_current_generation" failed in file ../../dbus/dbus-connection.c line 2686.