The last 20 of September I arrive GNOME 45 with new features such as a new indicator in Activities among its most notable new features. The next thing will be GNOME 46, a version of which there are still no screenshots for the mere fact that I haven't even started developing it. What yes has been published It is already your calendar, your roadmap, so we already know what will happen and when.
There is no surprise about when the stable version will arrive: in March 2024. GNOME agrees with Fedora and Ubuntu and releases two versions a year about a month before the release of a new installment of the two most popular operating systems to use GNOME, so that, unless they decide, they will always use the latest. The exact date will be Wednesday March 20.
GNOME 46 will arrive on March 20
Development of GNOME 46 will begin soon, and it can be tested in alpha as early as January:
- GNOME 46 Alpha: January 6.
- GNOME 46 Beta: February 10.
- GNOME 46 Release Candidate: March 2.
- GNOME 46 Stable: March 20.
The best way to try all the new features is with GNOME OS Nightly. It is a GNOME pseudo-operating system that includes much of the project, and can be tested native or in a virtual machine. For those who prefer to do it in VM, it is recommended to use the flatpak version of GNOME Boxes, to the point that it does not work in the official repositories version or in any other virtualization software. The latter is something that I have not been able to verify, since I got used to GNOME Boxes a long time ago and I have not tried GNOME OS in VirtualBox, much less in Windows Hyper-V.
Regarding the news that it will bring, on our sister blog Ubunlog, and I take this opportunity here to welcome my colleague Diego, we publish weekly articles on everything related to GNOME.