GNOME 40.rc released!
Hi,
GNOME 40.rc is now available. Remember this is the end of this development cycle; enjoy it as fast as you can, the final release is scheduled for this coming week! (and It's looking beautiful)
The corresponding flatpak runtimes have been published to Flathub. If you'd like to target the GNOME 40 platform, you can test your application against the 40beta branch of the Flathub Beta repository.
An installer image (built from scratch using freedesktop-sdk as a base) is also available for testing and porting extensions:
https://os.gnome.org/download/40.rc/gnome_os_installer_40.rc.iso
This is meant to be installed in a virtual machine with EFI support (such as the GNOME Boxes version available on Flathub). You can also try to install it on bare metal but be warned that hardware support is very limited (join #gnome-os channel at irc.gnome.org if you are interested).
We remind you we are string frozen, no string changes may be made without confirmation from the l10n team (gnome-i18n@) and notification to both the release team and the GNOME Documentation Project (gnome-doc-list@).
Hard code freeze is also in place, no source code changes can be made without approval from the release-team. Translation and documentation can continue.
If you want to compile GNOME 40.rc, you can use the official BuildStream project snapshot. Thanks to BuildStream's build sandbox, it should build reliably for you regardless of the
dependencies on your host system:
https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/40.rc/gnome-40.rc.tar.xz
The list of updated modules and changes is available here:
https://download.gnome.org/core/40/40.rc/NEWS
The source packages are available here:
https://download.gnome.org/core/40/40.rc/sources/
WARNING!
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This release is a snapshot of development code. This release is intended for GNOME developers and beta testers. For more information about GNOME 40, including the full schedule, please see our wiki page:
https://www.gnome.org/start/unstable
Cheers,
Javier Jardón Cabezas
GNOME Release Team
Javier Jardón Cabezas has announced the availability of the release candidate for GNOME 40.
