The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 49, ‘Brescia’.
This release brings a new Video Player, a new Document Viewer, more colorful
backgrounds, HDR brightness controls, enhancements of the remote desktop
experience, Reboot and Shutdown options on the lock screen, and many other
improvements. Once again, new apps have joined the GNOME Circle initiative,
where you can find GNOME apps for anything from entertainment to bookkeeping.
To learn more about the changes in GNOME 49 you can read the release notes:
GNOME 49 will be available shortly in many distributions, such as Fedora 43
and Ubuntu 25.10. If you want to try it today, you can look for their beta
releases, which will be available very soon:
We are also providing our own live images for debugging and testing features.
These images can be used on bare metal, or in a virtual machine with EFI
support (such as the GNOME Boxes version available on Flathub).
If you are interested in building applications for GNOME 49, look for the
GNOME 49 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,
foundation staff, companies, artists, testers, the local GUADEC team in
Brescia, 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 2025 in Tokyo, Japan!
Our next release, GNOME 50, is planned for March 2026. Until then,
enjoy GNOME 49.
The GNOME release team