GNOME 3.24 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here Is What's New

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GNOME 3.24 released

 

The GNOME Project is proud to announce today, March 22, 2017, the official availability of the long-anticipated GNOME 3.24 desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems.

 

GNOME 3.24 just finished its six-month development cycle, and it's now the most advanced stable version of the modern and popular desktop environment used by default in numerous GNU/Linux distributions. It was developed since October 2016 under the GNOME 3.23.x umbrella, during which it received numerous improvements.

 

All of the core components and applications that are distributed as part of the GNOME Stack have been updated for the launch of the GNOME 3.24 desktop environment, but users who will upgrade to the new major release in the coming weeks, when it will land in the stable repos of their favorite distros, will enjoy some great new features.

 

What's new in GNOME 3.24

Prominent new features of the GNOME 3.24 desktop environment include a Night Light functionality that promises to automatically shift the colors of your display to the warmer end of the spectrum after sunset, and a brand-new GNOME Control Center with redesigned Users, Keyboard & Mouse, Online Accounts, Bluetooth, and Printer panels.

 

"Night Light is one of the new features being introduced in this release. This subtly changes the screen color according to the time of day, which can help to reduce sleeplessness if you use your computer at night. Another new feature that will make a lot of users happy is the incorporation of weather information into the notifications area," reads today's announcement.

 

A new sharing framework was implemented to make it easier for users to share things with other applications or various online services like Twitter and Facebook, and it looks like you'll finally be able to login to your Nextcloud account to access the files stored there most probably via Documents or Files.

 

As for the GNOME apps, we can mention that the Nautilus file manager now lets users browse files as root (system administrator), GNOME Photos imitates Darktable's exposure and blacks adjustment tool, GNOME Music comes with ownCloud integration and lets you edit tags, and GNOME Calendar finally brings the Week view. New apps like GNOME Recipes are also part of this release.

 

To make installing of apps from websites or other external sources easier, the GNOME Software package manager can now handle Snap and APT URLs on Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions. The Epiphany web browser also received a lot of attention during this cycle and comes with a revamped design and many new features.

 

You should also check out the full release notes to discover all the gems. As mentioned before, it will take at least a couple of weeks for the new GNOME 3.24 packages to land on the stable repositories of your favorite distro, which means that you'll most probably be able to upgrade from GNOME 3.22 when the first point release, GNOME 3.24.1, is out on April 12, 2017.

 

 

Night Light

 

 

GNOME Recipes application

 

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