GNOME 49.alpha Released

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Hello,

GNOME 49.alpha is now available. This is the first unstable release leading to the 49 series.

Review the list of updated modules and changes.
Use the official BuildStream project snapshot to compile GNOME 49.alpha.

This is a fairly sizable alpha release and it includes a handful of notable changes.

The following applications have graduated from Incubator and will be part of GNOME going forward.

Additionally we have a couple important under the hood changes.

  • The X11 Session is disabled by default across the board and is going to be removed with GNOME 50. You can read more in the announcement and the accompanying FAQ.
  • Gdk-Pixbuf has a new loader based on glycin which offers a variety of advantages over the traditional loaders including Memory Safety and Sandboxing. Read more here
  • GDM will depend on systemd userdb from now on. GNOME Session will remove the built-in fallback session management in favor of systemd’s. Both of these changes have not landed yet but will be available in 49.beta. Read more here

A GNOME OS install image is available for testing

49-alpha
49-alpha6016Ă—3384 1.08 MB

WARNING!

This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is buildable and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking purposes.

For more information about the 49 release, the full schedule, the official module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our schedule page

Jordan Petridis
GNOME Release Team

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If anyone is reading: Please add native linux support for mediatek corp device 7902. Thank you. :slight_smile:

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GNOME has nothing to do with adding hardware support to the Linux kernel. Please, ask your Linux distribution.

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The gnome-tour looks super subtle and cool on the screenshot.

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Is GTK4 Disks planned for stable release of GNOME 49? Thanks!

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See Issues with GTK4 Port (#353) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-disk-utility · GitLab for work that someone needs to do - your patches are welcome.

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Please provide a full display (including games) sRGB clamp like KDE 6.1’s “built-in” color profile option in their display settings. I want so much to use Gnome but the atomically saturated nuclear colors of wide gamut displays on non-OSD laptops going back a decade+ now continue to make it an impossibility. It’s just not even a consideration if I can’t even look at the screen. It’s been so long. Mac and iOS had it all along. Android has it. Windows 11 now has it. KDE now has it. Please, as the last major holdout, save our eyes.

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Is that tweak okay? The message is a non-combative earnest plea from the heart as a total fan. I apologize if the prior hyperbolic phrasing got in the way of the message.

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I would post a new thread if you want people to see your request. We’re hardly going to start discussing color profiles here in an unrelated release announcement thread.

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