GNOME 49 Arrives This Week

upstart writes:

GNOME 49 arrives this week, and it's packed with features and polish you'll love:

GNOME is a Linux desktop environment that you either love or hate. I've used GNOME and GNOME-based desktops for years and have always fallen on the side of "love. " With each new release, I always find a feature or two (or a bit of extra polish) that makes me smile.

The release of GNOME 49 is no different. Although there might not be any game-changing features for this release (I'm guessing the developers are holding out until the big 5-0), there's just enough to make it a worthy upgrade from 48.

GNOME 49 will officially be released on Sept. 17 and will hopefully make it to your distribution of choice soon after.

If you're curious as to what's coming, read on.

With the release of GNOME 49, the X11 session has been officially disabled. That doesn't mean your distribution will leave it disabled, as the GNOME team has made it possible for distro maintainers to enable X11 support.

Enjoy X11 while you can, because the team plans on stripping all X11 code from the desktop for the 50th release.

GNOME Shell is now a Wayland-only desktop environment. For those who use applications that have yet to add Wayland support, fret not, as Xwayland will continue to work, so those apps will still run.

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