Very interesting features are coming to GNOME

Apr 24, 2015 15:17 GMT  ·  By

GNOME 3.18 is already in the works and developers need to push their first development versions of this new branch soon. This mean that we'll be able to test some very new packages next week.

Some very exciting new features have been announced for GNOME 3.18, soon after the launch of the 3.16 branch, which was received very well by the community. If recent history is any indication, the upcoming GNOME 3.18 release should be an amazing one.

"Tarballs are due on 2015-04-27 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 3.17.1 unstable release, which will be delivered on Wednesday. Modules which were proposed for inclusion should try to follow the unstable schedule so everyone can test them.  Please make sure that your tarballs will be uploaded before Monday 23:59 UTC: tarballs uploaded later than that will probably be too late to get in 3.17.1," reads the email sent by the release team.

Now, don't get too excited in the process. The first versions are usually quite unstable and not meant for the general public, but if you do decide to give it a go, you will probably need to compile them yourself and you'll also want to avoid doing this on a production machine. We'll have more details about the first GNOME 3.18 packages next week.