GNOME 3.26 "Manchester" planned to be released at 13 September 2017. Reading the FeaturePlans and Schedule from its wiki makes me want to run it sooner! I hope Ubuntu will successfully include 3.26 on Artful Aardvark release so I can make a review for it later. However, this short article mentions some of its new feature, new apps, some links from GUADEC 2017's participants, and further GNOME links. Enjoy!
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Some useful info:
- GNOME 3.26 release date is planned at Wednesday, 13 September 2017.
- The 3.25 is a development release, while 3.26 is a stable release.
- Codename for 3.26 is "Manchester", continuing 3.24 "Portland".
- You can see the 3.26 release schedule at GNOME Wiki 3.25.x.
GUADEC 2017 articles:
The GUADEC 2017 (GNOME Users And Developers European Conference) held at Manchester, United Kingdom, from 28 July to 02 August. Here are some articles about it by the GNOME Hackers!
- https://blogs.gnome.org/bastian/2017/07/29/guadec-17-day-1 by Bastian
- https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2017/07/30/recipes-turns-one-year-old by Matthias Clasen
- http://ramcq.net/2017/07/29/welcome-flathub by Robert McQueen
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| GUADEC 2017 Day Two Core Schedules (link) |
New features planned:
It's always exciting to see new GNOME major release. For 3.26, there are many fixes & improvements. There are also new features planned as the wiki page FeaturePlans says, even a new application! I show here 2 interesting plans for 3.26: new design on System Settings, plus a new application GNOME Usage. See the development pictures here.
The new design for GNOME System Settings:
Source: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Settings with the file name settings.png
The GNOME Usage design:
Source: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Usage with the file name usage-wires.png.
There are still many more plans such as:
- New Password & Keys (new app to replace GNOME Seahorse) design https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/PasswordsAndKeys
- New Sharing feature design https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/Sharing
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