GNOME 40 released

The GNOME foundation has announced the release of GNOME 40, a major revision of the popular free desktop environment project. GNOME 40 is the first GNOME release to follow the new versioning scheme. It brings a lot of major changes including redesigned activities overview, and core applications.

The GNOME 40 highlights

GNOME 40 improved activities overview

The redesigned activities overview provides an easier way to navigate between applications and desktops. With the improved keyboard shortcuts, touchpad, and touch screen gestures, it provides a smoother approach to navigate around the system.

The weather application has been completely revamped and it shows more information now. The new design features two main views: one for the hourly forecast for the next 48 hours, and one for the daily forecast, for the next 10 days.

Changes in the GNOME control center include organizing region and language settings under Keyboard, Wifi pins the known networks on the top of the list.

Redesigned web browser

Improved GNOME software

Several enhancements the Files (aka, nautilus)

Enhancements on overall application look & feel, improvements to the document viewer, maps, and more.

How to try/use GNOME 40 release?

If you are using Fedora/openSUSE/Ubuntu - it is more likely that you are using a GNOME Desktop. As we know, at the moment, these distributions offers GNOME 3.38. It may take a few more months for them to update their repositories, or to ship a release with GNOME 40.

If you are so curious to try GNOME 40, you may checkout the below options