This week has been quite intense in terms of releases. On Tuesday, the official release of Fedora 42, and less than 48 hours ago it arrived Ubuntu 25.04 and along with the rest of the Plucky Puffin family. These two releases have something in common: the main editions use GNOME, and part of this week's news article mentions these releases. The article was titled "Point Release" because GNOME 47.6 and 48.1 also arrived this week.
Another distribution that has launched its version with GNOME 48 has been Manjaro, which has delivered the first 2025 ISO releases codenamed "Zetar" over the past seven days. All three should be updated to point releases sometime in the coming months.
As for other new features, there's very little, to be honest. In fact, only two, which you'll find below.
This week in GNOME
- This week marks the arrival of a new version of the Zenit VS Code theme (for the editor) for the GtkSourceView library. Zenith is a refined dark theme with cohesive colors and full UI coverage for GTK-based text editors.
- Fractal 11.rc has arrived with these new features:
- Reorganized account settings, with a new Security tab.
- New setting to toggle media preview visibility.
- Sessions can be renamed.
- Support for logging in using the OAuth 2.0 API (as used by matrix.org, which recently switched to the Matrix authentication service).
- Contiguous state events are grouped behind a single element.
- The RC release has been used to include improvements, fixes, and new translations. Interested users can download it from the Flathub beta repository.
And this has been all this week in GNOME.
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