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Fedora 45 to ship on 3 November after two delays
Fedora developers have declared the release candidate ready: Fedora 45 will be officially released on Tuesday, 3 November. The RC 1.4 images, now deemed stable, are already available for download.
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GNOME OS Preview: a step toward a stable release
The GNOME project has unveiled GNOME OS Preview — a transitional stage between nightly builds and a future stable release of the distribution.
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Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Lands With Linux 7.3, GNOME 51 and a Finished Rust Coreutils Switch
Canonical has shipped its latest six-month, non-LTS release. The headline changes are a fresh kernel, the GNOME 51 desktop and the fully completed move to Rust-based core utilities.
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GNOME OS Developers Devise "Toolpak" — a Flatpak for Tools
GNOME developer Jordan Petridis has used a blog post to introduce Toolpak, a planned mechanism for shipping tools on GNOME OS that borrows its ideas from Flatpak.
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Fedora 45 Beta: KMSCON Instead of the Kernel Console, GNOME 51, and New Security Rules
The Fedora Project has released the beta of its 45th release right on schedule. The distribution replaces the kernel's built-in console with KMSCON and tightens the default security settings.
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GNOME 51 Beta: Many Small Improvements and Prep for the September Release
The beta version of GNOME 51 has been released. The current cycle focuses on numerous small refinements across the entire package set, with the stable release expected on September 18.
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Manjaro Linux 26.1 Bian-May: GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.7, and Linux kernel 7.1
The first feature release of the Manjaro distribution since January is out. This Arch Linux-based update brings fresh desktops and a new stable kernel.
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GNOME Designers Share Long-Term Plans for GNOME Shell
Tobias Bernard of the GNOME design team has published a collection of ideas on how the project's graphical shell might change over time.
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GNOME Introduces an RFC Process and Battles a Flood of AI Extensions
The GNOME project closed out July working on a formal RFC process to govern its development while simultaneously fighting off a surge of sloppy, neural-network-generated GNOME Shell extensions.
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GNOME is building a window save-and-restore system
At the GUADEC 2026 conference, Adrian Vovk described the work on a system-wide mechanism for saving and restoring window positions in GNOME. This is the third attempt, and in his view a successful one — though it won't make it into the GNOME 51 release.
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GNOME Rethinks Its Vulnerability Handling Amid a Flood of AI-Generated Reports
The GNOME project is cutting its vulnerability disclosure window to 30 days and will stop forwarding AI-generated reports, while the person leading the effort steps down.
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Phosh 0.56.0 Released — a Shell for Mobile Linux
The developers have unveiled a new version of Phosh, a graphical shell for mobile Linux devices. The release drew notable attention from the Hacker News community.
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GNOME 51 Alpha Released
The GNOME developers have unveiled the alpha release of GNOME 51 — the first step toward the stable version, whose release is scheduled for September.