The Road to the GNOME 3.28 Desktop Environment Continues, Second Snapshot Is Out

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The development of the upcoming GNOME 3.28 desktop environment, due for release next year on March 14, continues today as the GNOME Project announces the availability of the second unstable release.

The GNOME 3.27.2 unstable snapshot was announced a few moments ago by Tristan Van Berkom of the GNOME Release Team via an email announcement, which informs us that several more components of the GNOME Stack have been ported to the Meson build system, though some of them are failing to build for now.

These include the GNOME Chess, GNOME Documents, GNOME Boxes, GNOME Terminal, GNOME Software, GNOME System Monitor, and fwupd. However, GNOME 3.27.2 includes many updated apps, such as the recently released NetworkManager 1.10.0, and brings various improvements to the Epiphany web browser and other apps.

Among some of the highlights of this unstable release of GNOME 3.28, we can mention better Firefox Sync support in Epiphany, removal of the Global Dark Theme tweak from GNOM… (read more)

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