Javier Jardón Cabezas has announced the release candidate for GNOME 41.

GNOME 41.RC is now available!

GNOME 41.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!



The corresponding flatpak runtimes have been published to Flathub. If you'd like to target the GNOME 41 platform, you can test your application against the 41beta branch of the Flathub Beta repository.

An installer image (built from scratch using freedesktop-sdk 21.08 as a base) is also available for testing and porting extensions:
https://os.gnome.org/download/41.rc/gnome_os_installer_41.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 41.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/41.rc/gnome-41.rc.tar.xz
The list of updated modules and changes is available here:

https://download.gnome.org/core/41/41.rc/NEWS

The source packages are available here:

https://download.gnome.org/core/41/41.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 41, including the full schedule, please see our wiki page:

https://www.gnome.org/start/unstable

Cheers,
Javier Jardón Cabezas
GNOME Release Team