Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 3.2, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment and of its developer platform. With this timely release, we are continuing our very successful, reliable six month release cycle into the GNOME 3 era.

GNOME 3.2 is the first major update of the GNOME 3 platform. It builds on the foundations that we have laid with 3.0 and offers a much more complete experience. The exciting new features and improvements in this release include new contacts and documents applications, a new login screen, an on-screen keyboard, color management support, and many more. For more information about the major changes in GNOME 3.2, please visit our release notes:

http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/

GNOME 3.2 will be available shortly in most distributions. Live images of GNOME 3.2 are currently being prepared and will appear soon at:

http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/

This six months effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole GNOME community, made of contributors from all around the world: hackers, documentors, usability and accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, artists, users and testers. GNOME would not exist without all those people. Thanks very much to every one of them!

Our next release, GNOME 3.4, is planned for March 2012.

Until then, enjoy GNOME 3.2 !

The GNOME Release Team