The GNOME Project has announced the release of GNOME 48. This version introduces new Adwaita fonts, enhanced image editing capabilities, zoom controls, digital wellbeing features, a new audio player application, and support for HDR.
The text editor has undergone enhancements. GNOME 48 is set to be included in Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04, with beta releases anticipated shortly. The GNOME 48 Flatpak SDK is now accessible for application development.
Introducing GNOME 48
The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 48, ‘Bengaluru’.
This release introduces the new Adwaita fonts, image editing and redesigned zoom controls in the image viewer, digital wellbeing features, a new audio player app, and HDR support, to name just a few highlights. Like many other core apps, Text Editor has received improvements that make it more efficient and pleasant to use. And once again, a number of new apps have joined the GNOME Circle initiative.To learn more about the changes in GNOME 48 you can read the release notes:
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GNOME 48 will be available shortly in many distributions, such as Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04. If you want to try it today, you can look for their beta releases, which will be available very soon.
We are also providing our own installer images for debugging and testing features. These images are meant for installation in a vm and require GNOME Boxes with UEFI support. We suggest getting Boxes from
Flathub.If you are interested in building applications for GNOME 48, look for the GNOME 48 Flatpak SDK, which is available in the Flathub repository.
If you want to support the GNOME project, please
Donations are essential for us to improve our development infrastructure, host community events, and keep Flathub running. Every contribution makes a difference and allows us to do more.
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, the local GNOME.Asia team in Bengaluru, and last, but not least, our users.
GNOME would not exist without all of you. Thank you to everyone!
We hope to see some of you at GUADEC 2025 in Brescia, Italy!
Our next release, GNOME 49, is planned for September 2025. Until then,
enjoy GNOME 48.
The GNOME release team
