The GNOME 3.20 graphical environment is officially released

After six months of non-stop work, the graphic environment GNOME 3.20 has been officially released. Its launch took place yesterday, March 23, and one of the most important and most used environments in Linux is made available to operating system developers. being present in distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu GNOME, among many others. GNOME 3.20 is a major release, which means that it comes with many new features and enhancements for virtually all of its applications and components.

This latest version of the graphical environment has received the name of 'Delhi' in honor of the GNOME.Asia organizing team, a major annual GNOME event made possible only by the hard work of local volunteers. This year's GNOME.Asia event will be held in Delhi, India from April 21-24, starting on the very day that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and all of its official flavors are officially released.

GNOME 3.20 is coming to all major distributions soon

Among the new features that will arrive with GNOME 3.20, the following stand out:

• Support for operating system updates from GNOME Software.
• Paste by clicking the middle mouse button.
• Kinetic slip.
• Drag and drop support for Wayland.
• Keyboard shortcuts and overlay gestures for most applications by default.
• XDG-App technology to install multiple versions of an application.

That GNOME 3.20 has been officially released does not mean that users can install it, but rather that the developers of the systems can download it, compile it and update the packages in their respective repositories from where users can download it to update from GNOME 3.18. Its public availability will arrive at main GNU / Linux distributions in the coming weeks, so it will take a little patience. What seems certain is that GNOME 3.20 will arrive in time for the official launch of the Xenial Xerus brand on April 21st.