GNOME 47 released

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The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 47, ‘Denver’.

This release brings support for customizable Accent Colors, improved support
for small screens, persistent remote sessions and new-style dialog windows.
Like many other core apps, Files has received improvements and now also used
for file open and save dialogs. And once again, a whole slew of new apps
has joined the GNOME Circle initiative: find GNOME apps for anything from
currency conversion to resource monitoring.

To learn more about the changes in GNOME 47 you can read the release notes:

GNOME release notes

You can also watch our release video.

GNOME release video

GNOME 47 will be available shortly in many distributions, such as Fedora 41
and Ubuntu 24.10. If you want to try it today, you can look for their beta
releases, which will be available very soon:

Getting GNOME

We are also providing our own installer images for debugging and testing
features. These images are meant for installation in a vm and require
GNOME Boxes with UEFI support. We suggest getting Boxes from Flathub.

GNOME OS Nightly

If you are interested in building applications for GNOME 47, look for the
GNOME 47 Flatpak SDK, which is available in the http://www.flathub.org/
repository.

This six-month effort wouldn’t have been possible without the whole GNOME
community, made of contributors and friends from all around the world:
developers, designers, documentation writers, usability and accessibility
specialists, translators, maintainers, students, system administrators,
companies, artists, testers, the local GUADEC team in Denver,
and last, but not least, our users.

GNOME would not exist without all of you. Thank you to everyone!

We hope to see some of you at GNOME Asia 2024 in Bengaluru, India!

Our next release, GNOME 48, is planned for March 2025. Until then,
enjoy GNOME 47.

:heart: The GNOME release team

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Are files more performant again? In ubuntu 22 it didn’t struggle with loading long lists of elements (for example 2k files in a directory), but currently in ubuntu 24 it does and blocks the window for several seconds at times. This is especially painful when trying to save a file and the dialog is unresponsive for several seconds, where previously I got almost immediate feedback and could select the new name or click on an ktem to overwrite.

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Try it and see! You can use GNOME OS in a VM to test, if your distro doesn’t yet ship the latest version :slight_smile:

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The buttons in the folder creation modal and alert dialogs are horrible and out of harmony with the look itself, as they are divergent, add the round buttons or the square buttons, not both, and the Nautilus sidebar I prefer the one in Gnome 46, and the time on the lock screen could have less weight in bold, the rest from what I saw still looks good. Nice work with gnome accent colors and nautilus as a file picker :call_me_hand: