GNOME 3.26 desktop environment enters Beta and will arrive in final form on September 13

Recently, Michael Catanzaro of the GNOME Project announced that the upcoming GNOME 3.26 desktop environment has officially entered the beta phase of its development.

Initially scheduled to arrive on August 9, after a short delay we finally have the GNOME 3.26 Beta version (exact GNOME version 3.25.90) ​​at our disposal.

The Beta phase of GNOME 3.26 is an important step in the major release of one of the most popular desktop environments in the GNU / Linux ecosystem, and will therefore provide a significant amount of new features for many of the applications y compatible components. You can click on each of the links to know the most important changes.

“We've been in the Feature Freeze, UI Freeze, and API Freeze stages for the past week, so developers should focus on bug fixes and stability improvements over the next month as we get closer to the GNOME 3.26 release. ”Declared Michael Catanzaro.

The final version of GNOME 3.26 will arrive on September 13, 2017

Among some of the biggest novelties of GNOME 3.26 we can indicate that the Nautilus file manager will have support for searching for texts and Flatpak files, at the same time that the GNOME Calendar app will allow the inclusion and modification of recurrences in the calendar.

On the other hand, GNOME's Epiphany web browser will enable by default Firefox Sync, an excellent function for synchronizing browsing sessions between multiple devices.

Although the Final version of GNOME 3.26 arrives next September 13Until then there will be other versions, including a second Beta (3.25.91) scheduled to arrive on August 23.

There will also be a RC version (Release Candidate) for GNOME 3.26, which is scheduled to arrive on September 6, but the GNOME development team will only focus its efforts on fixing critical bugs for these remaining versions.

After the GNOME 3.26 release in mid-September, it will take several weeks or even a month for all packages to reach the stable repositories of most Linux distributions.