The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 48, ‘Bengaluru’.
GNOME 48 brings several exciting updates, including improved notification stacking for a cleaner experience, better performance with dynamic triple buffering, and the introduction of new fonts like Adwaita Sans & Mono. The release also includes Decibels, a minimalist audio player, new digital well-being features, battery health preservation with an 80% charge limit, and HDR support for compatible displays.
For a detailed breakdown, visit the GNOME 48 Release Notes.
GNOME 48 will be available shortly in many distributions, such as Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04. 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 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.
If you’re looking to build applications for GNOME 48, check out the GNOME 48 Flatpak SDK on Flathub.
You can also support the GNOME project by donating—your contributions help us improve infrastructure, host community events, and keep Flathub running. Every donation makes a difference!
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 GNOME.Asia team in Bengaluru, and last, but not least, our users.
We hope to see some of you at GUADEC 2025 in Brescia, Italy!
Our next release, GNOME 49, is planned for September. Until then, enjoy GNOME 48.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://foundation.gnome.org/2025/03/19/introducing-gnome-48/
The GNOME release team