14 DAY TRIAL // The GNOME Project, through Matthias Clasen, has announced that the fifth milestone of the upcoming and highly anticipated GNOME 3.12 desktop environment is now available for testing, featuring many updated applications, bugfixes, and updated translations.
If you read our website on a regular basis, then you are well aware of the new features, bugs fixed, new functionality, as well as the updated/fixed translations introduced in some of the most important applications that are part of the GNOME 3.11.5 release.
Applications like Baobab, Empathy, Totem, Anjuta, GNOME Notes (Bijiben), Cheese, Evolution, File Roller, GNOME Boxes, GNOME Documents, GNOME Logs, GNOME Maps, GNOME Software, GNOME Sound Recorder, GNOME Weather, Orca, Rygel, and Vinagre, received important fixes and new features.
“The fifth release of the GNOME 3.12 development cycle is here. See https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointEleven/Features/ for the new features that have been proposed for this cycle. See http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/02/06/a-quick-glance-at-gnome-3-11-5/ for some visual impressions of GNOME 3.11.5,” Matthias Clasen said in the official announcement.
Furthermore, various core GNOME apps and components have also been updated in this development release, including GNOME Calculator, GNOME Control Center, GNOME Online Accounts, GNOME PackageKit, GNOME Shell, GNOME System Monitor, GTK+, Mutter, GFVS, and Vala.
The GNOME 3.12 development cycle will continue with the first Beta release, which should arrive sometime next week, around February 19, followed by a second Beta release at the beginning of March, and the Release Candidate (RC) version in mid-March. The final release of GNOME 3.12 will be available from March 26, 2014.
Download the GNOME 3.11.5 sources right now from Softpedia, but keep in mind that it's a development release and it shouldn't be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.