The release date for the expected GNOME 47 Linux desktop environment has been announced. According to the updated release plan, the new version of GNOME will be released on September 18. will be released. A minor change to this cycle would be that the first point release would arrive four weeks later instead of the traditional five weeks, allowing early fixes to be shipped sooner. It is expressed.
What Will GNOME 47 Offer?
The next version of GNOME will come with better support for smaller screens and NVIDIA hybrid GPU copy acceleration. Additionally, it is possible that we will see better Variable Rate Refresh (VRR) support. The arrival of the new version in September also means that the desktop environment will ship with both Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41.
Ubuntu and Fedora versions that will be shipped with GNOME 47 will be released on October 10 and October 15, respectively. Ubuntu 24.10 will receive updates for 9 months, while Fedora will be supported for one month after the next release, that is, for about 13 months. If you are using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS you will not get GNOME 47 but you will stay with the current version.
We can now expect other Linux distributions to come with GNOME 47.
