Matthias Clasen has announced the release of the final version of GNOME 3.38.

GNOME 3.38 released

The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 3.38, Orbis. This release brings a new Welcome tour, improved grouping and reordering of applications in the overview, better fingerprint enrollment, deeper systemd integration, and more.

Improvements to core GNOME applications include intelligent tracking prevention in Web, night mode and adaptive UI in Maps, redesigned Clocks and Sound Recorder, and more.



For more information about the changes in GNOME 3.38, you can visit the release notes:

https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.38/
https://youtu.be/DZ_P5W9r2JY

GNOME 3.38 will be available shortly in many distributions. If you want to try it today, you can use the Fedora 33 beta that will be available soon or the openSUSE nightly live images which include GNOME 3.38.

https://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/
https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/33/Workstation/x86_64/iso/
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/?P=GNOME_Next

This is the first release for which we can provide our own installer images for debugging and testing features. These images are meant for installation in a vm and require GNOME Boxes 3.38 (with UEFI support) to boot:

https://gnome-build-meta.s3.amazonaws.com/3.38.0/gnome_os_installer.iso

If you are interested in building applications for GNOME 3.38, look for the GNOME 3.38 Flatpak SDK, which is available in the www.flathub.org repository.

This six-month effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole GNOME community, made of contributors and friends from all around the world: developers, designers, documentation writers, usability and accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, students, system administrators, companies, artists, testers and last, but not least, our users.

GNOME would not exist without all of you. Thank you to everyone!

Our next release is planned for March 2021. Until then, enjoy GNOME 3.38!

Matthias Clasen
GNOME release team