Hi,
GNOME 40.rc is now available. Remember this is the
end of this development cycle; enjoy it as fast as you can, the final
release is scheduled for this coming week! (and It’s looking beautiful)
The corresponding flatpak runtimes have been published to Flathub.
If you’d like to target the GNOME 40 platform, you can test your
application against the 40beta branch of the Flathub Beta
repository.
An installer image (built from scratch using freedesktop-sdk as a
base) is also available for testing and porting extensions:
https://os.gnome.org/download/40.rc/gnome_os_installer_40.rc.iso
This is meant to be installed in a virtual machine with EFI support
(such as the GNOME Boxes version available on Flathub). You can also
try to install it on bare metal but be warned that hardware support is
very limited (join #gnome-os channel at irc.gnome.org if you are interested).
We remind you we are string frozen, no string changes may be made
without confirmation from the l10n team (gnome-i18n@) and notification
to both the release team and the GNOME Documentation Project
(gnome-doc-list@).
Hard code freeze is also in place, no source code changes can be made
without approval from the release-team. Translation and documentation
can continue.
If you want to compile GNOME 40.rc, you can use the official
BuildStream project snapshot. Thanks to BuildStream’s build
sandbox, it should build reliably for you regardless of the
dependencies on your host system:
https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/40.rc/gnome-40.rc.tar.xz
The list of updated modules and changes is available here:
https://download.gnome.org/core/40/40.rc/NEWS
The source packages are available here:
https://download.gnome.org/core/40/40.rc/sources/
WARNING!
This release is a snapshot of development code. This release is
intended for GNOME
developers and beta testers. For more information about GNOME 40,
including the full schedule, please see our wiki page:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Schedule
Cheers,
Javier Jardón Cabezas
GNOME Release Team