GNOME News Archives

If all goes well, the GNOME 3.22 release due out in September will feature a new Control Center user-interface.

GNOME 3.21.2 was released this morning as the latest development version of the desktop leading up to September's release of GNOME 3.22.

GNOME Games 3.21.2 was released this weekend as the newest version of this GNOME desktop application for managing your video games collection.

For the past number of months GNOME developers have been working on XDG-App as their sandboxing mechanism for desktop applications built atop Linux standards. XDG-App is now no more but say hello to Flatpak.

Frederic Peters announced the release today of GNOME 3.20.2 as the second and last planned point release for the GNOME 3.20 series.

At various points in GNOME's history the Nautilus file manager has been less than maintained, but these days the situation is much brighter.

Matthias Clasen of Red Hat has written an update about changes to GNOME's GTK+ tool-kit for the 3.20 cycle but he also mentions some of the exciting work that's brewing for GNOME/GTK+ 3.22.

Matthias Clasen announced the release today of GNOME 3.21.1 as the first development release in the road towards GNOME 3.22.

GNOME's Epiphany web-browser has done its first development release in the GNOME 3.21 series, which is culminating with the GNOME 3.22 release this September.

The GNOME 3.22 release schedule has been finalized.

GNOME 3.20.1 is out today as the latest stable version of the GNOME desktop environment.

Carlos Garnacho writes today that they have managed to finally land support in the GTK+ tool-kit's Wayland code support for (drawing) tablets.

Users of OpenSUSE's Tumbleweed rolling-release Linux distribution will soon have access to GNOME 3.20.

With GNOME 3.20 having been released this week, developers working on the desktop stack have already firmed up their release schedule for the next six-month update, GNOME 3.22.

It's GNOME 3.20 release day.

With GNOME 3.20 on final approach for landing tomorrow, 23 March, here's a recap of some of the exciting changes and new features of this six-month update to the GNOME stack.

WebKitGTK+ 2.12 is all ready for this week's GNOME 3.20 release.

GTK+ 3.20 was released on Monday as the toolkit empowering the GNOME 3.20 desktop release this week.

The GNOME 3.20 release candidate is now available.

Red Hat's Alexander Larsson today announced the release of XDG-App v0.5.

GNOME Games, a game manager/organizer for the GNOME desktop, has added support for MAME and Neo-Geo Pocket.

The upcoming release of GNOME Photos 3.20 brings a number of improvements and new features for what was traditionally the GNOME image viewer.

GNOME News is one of the desktop's applications for serving as an RSS feed reader, but it's in pretty rough shape compared to the rest of the competition and is in need of more development help.

Prolific GNOME developer Matthias Clasen has announced the release of the GNOME 3.20 Beta 2 (v3.19.91) Milestone.

Just ahead of this month's GNOME 3.20 release is now the Mutter 3.19.91 development release.

Here is one more item that can be crossed off the list of what needs to happen for Fedora 24 to use Wayland by default.

XDG-App is the GNOME-backed design for sandboxed applications to allow third-party applications to better work across multiple distributions and for running applications with minimal access to the host.

Being released a bit late today past the official GNOME 3.20 Beta is the v3.19.90 releases for the GNOME Shell and Mutter.

GNOME 3.19.90 is available today as the beta for the upcoming GNOME 3.20.

The latest development release of Clutter graphics toolkit is now available.

While not yet as versatile as say Google Maps, GNOME Maps for GNOME 3.20. is looking to be a nice upgrade.

Next week marks GNOME 3.20's feature freeze followed by the GNOME 3.20 (v3.19.90) beta release.

With the UI freeze being imminent for GNOME 3.20, we will soon have a good idea for how this desktop environment update due out next month will look. To get started, here's a look at the Nautilus 3.20 file manager changes for this six-month GNOME update.

Endless Computer, the company designing Linux-powered computers -- and using a modified GNOME desktop -- for emerging markets, has joined the GNOME Advisory Board.

Jono Bacon, the former Ubuntu Community Manager who is currently employed by GitHub, has proposed a hypothetical new open-source project that effectively comes down to bringing the Linux user-space -- complete with the GNOME Shell -- over to Mac OS X.

Matthias Clasen has written a status update concerning the state of GNOME 3.20 on Wayland.

GNOME 3.19.4 was released over the night as the latest development snapshot leading up to the March release of GNOME 3.20.

GNOME developers have released the latest development version of the GTK+ tool-kit in the approach towards GNOME 3.20.

The Pitivi open-source non-linear video editor designed around GNOME components and making use of GStreamer just landed a big feature that also relieves another blocker in nearing the Pitivi 1.0 milestone.

Come April it will be five years since the release of GNOME 3.0. The GNOME desktop has certainly evolved a lot since going back to GNOME 3.0, but what do you think of it?

Allan Day has written a blog post today about some of the improvements that are being worked on for GNOME's settings area.

GNOME developer Bastien Nocera has landed support in GNOME Settings Daemon for supporting the airplane (WiFi and Bluetooth) hot-keys with small notification overlays.

More changes are inbound for GNOME 3.20.

Matthias Clasen has released GTK+ 3.19.6 in the road towards the GNOME 3.20 release in March.

Thanks to work that landed today by GNOME's Carlos Garnacho, there is now support on the GNOME desktop for supporting screen rotation on Wayland.

While GNOME's Outreachy program for this term just began in December and will be running through March, the under-represented participants are already making progress on the GNOME Maps program.

WebKitGTK+ WSA-2015-0002 was made public today as a security advisory with more than 100 vulnerabilities being mentioned.

If you are a user of GNOME's Totem video player, it looks like video hardware acceleration via the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) is working out better for users if using the new GStreamer-VAAPI v0.7 release.

As a Christmas present for GNOME users, Richard Hughes has shared the work going on with the GNOME Software app center and with the XDG-App sandboxing tech.

A week before Christmas, GNOME 3.19.3 is now available for those wanting to enjoy the very latest GNOME desktop developments.