GNOME News Archives

The latest feature to be added to the GTK+ tool-kit in the path towards GNOME 3.20 is a new concept called Gadgets.

GNOME's Epiphany web-browser is under heavy development for the GNOME 3.20 cycle. Epiphany 3.19.1 was just released and it's packing a lot of new features.

Matthias Clasen has announced the release of GTK+ 3.19.4, the latest development snapshot for the toolkit in the road to GNOME 3.20.

Frederic Peters announced the release a few minutes ago of GNOME 3.19.2, the latest development release leading up to GNOME 3.20.

GTK+ 3.19.2 was released today as the newest development version of the toolkit in the road to GNOME 3.20.

Pitiv 0.95 has been released today as a significant update to the GNOME-aligned open-source, non-linear video editor.

Matthias Clasen announced the release today of GNOME 3.18.2 while all feature development continues to be around the GNOME 3.19 series culminating with GNOME 3.20.

The GNOME 2-forked desktop environment MATE has announced their v1.12 release today with a plethora of changes.

Christian Hergert has shared a blog post with some of his plans for what he hopes to accomplish during the GNOME 3.20 cycle with regard to his GNOME Builder integrated development environment.

Javier Jardón announced the release of GNOME 3.19.1 today as the first development release aiming toward GNOME 3.20.

GNOME Shell 3.19.1 and Mutter 3.19.1 were released today for the imminent GNOME 3.19.1 development release with more fixes/improvements for Wayland.

For those using GParted as GUI-driven Linux disk partitioning, the GParted 0.24 release is now available with new features.

GNOME developers are working towards redesigning the GNOME Control Center and as one of the steps towards that is rolling out a new Mouse and Touchpad panel.

The release schedule for the GNOME 3.19/3.20 series has now been firmed up.

One of the new additions so far in the GTK+ 3.19 development code in the road leading to the March release of GTK+ 3.20 is a new GtkShortcutsWindow widget that landed in Git yesterday.

There's less than two weeks ago for those identifying as women or belonging to certain ethnic groups within the United States to apply for this winter's Outreachy program to get paid to be involved with free/open-source software communities.

There's a new GNOME application called Games -- not to be confused with the few GNOME games out there like Sudoku and Solitaire. GNOME Games is not a game itself but intended as a tool for managing your game library.

The first update to GNOME 3.18 was released yesterday.

Version 3.18.1 of GNOME's Mutter window and compositing manager was released today for the GNOME 3.18.1 point release.

A Google Summer of Code student who worked on GTK+ and Nautilus has managed to overhaul the search feature of GNOME's file manager.

GNOME Software abandoned their "star rating system" over issues with abuse, lack of standardization by reviewers, and that package rating system really not working out. Now they're going to introduce a "kudos" rating system.

The GNOME2-forked MATE-Desktop has tagged version 1.11.0 as their newest milestone.

Within the latest development code of GNOME's key GLib library leading up to GNOME 3.20 is Unicode 8.0 support.

For those wondering about the state of GNOME, their annual report is now available.

We've been looking forward to GStreamer 1.6 and now it's been released.

Released one day after the big GNOME 3.18 release is now the GNOME Flashback update.

While those drawn up plans for GNOME 4.0 have yet to materialize, GNOME 3.18 was just officially released!

With the feature-rich and polished GNOME 3.18 arriving tomorrow, GNOME 3.19 development will quickly kick off in leading up to the GNOME 3.20 release next March.

GNOME 3.18 is set to be released tomorrow. If you've fallen behind in your Phoronix reading, here's a list of some the changes and new features to look forward to with this significant desktop environment update.

WebKitGTK+ 2.10 was tagged today for this week's release of GNOME 3.18.

Frederic Peters announced GNOME 3.17.92 this morning, a.k.a. the release candidate to GNOME 3.18.

Today's release of Mutter 3.17.92 has an important change for HiDPI users in time for GNOME 3.18.

With the release of GNOME 3.18 just around the corner, Emmanuele Bassi has shared some interesting statistics behind the development of the GTK+ 3.18 tool-kit as well as GLib.

Clutter 1.24.0 was released today in time for the upcoming release of GNOME 3.18.0.

Jean-François Fortin Tam has written a blog post about the GNOME Outreach program and how their cash flow problem last year came down to a business accounting mistake and how they're still looking to expand this program for getting women and other under-represented groups involved with free software.

With the forthcoming GNOME 3.18 release, yet another one of the features is proper Google Drive integration.

Epiphany 3.17.91 was released this morning, the near-final version of the GNOME web browser update ahead of GNOME 3.18 later this month.

With GNOME 3.18 quickly approaching its release, our attention will soon turn towards GNOME 3.20 for release in March of next year.

GNOME 3.17.91 was released today with the plans standing to officially release GNOME 3.18 later this month.

With GNOME 3.18 the Epiphany web-browser will now enable AdBlock usage by default as well as setting the Do-Not-Track headers by default.

GNOME has been one of the few key open-source projects not using a codename in one form or another, but that is changing.

The GNOME team responsible for NetworkManager have announced the release of NetworkManager 1.0.6 as yet another update prior to NetworkManager 1.2.

Last week in France was the GStreamer 2015 Summer Hackfest. A summary of the hackfest has now been posted and GStreamer 1.5.90 has been released as a pre-release to GStreamer 1.6.

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) continues maturing for making it easy for Linux users to update their system firmware/BIOS from the Linux desktop.

The GNOME 3.18 beta is now available ahead of the planned GNOME 3.18.0 release in late September.

Going back to early 2014 has been this GNOME bug about screen flickering and screen update problems with the proprietary NVIDIA driver. With today's Mutter 3.18 update, those issues should be resolved.

Christian Schaller of Red Hat has written a lengthy blog post today about a Wayland update following a BoF from this year's GNOME GUADEC conference. There's still some major work left to be tackled before Wayland is ready to replace X, but the plan is still to make the default switch for Fedora 24 Workstation.

Released this week was GTK+ 3.17.7 as the latest tool-kit update leading up to the GNOME 3.18 Beta. With the GTK+ 3.17.7 release does come a few interesting changes.

The GNOME desktop environment turns eighteen years old today!

Prolific GNOME/GTK developer Matthias Clasen presented at the on-going GUADEC conference about neat tricks / little known features of GTK+.