Brings lots of fixes, updated translations and apps

Oct 20, 2011 08:11 GMT  ·  By

A day after Owen Taylor's announcement for GNOME Shell 3.2.1, here comes the final and stable release of the GNOME 3.2.1 desktop environment.

GNOME 3.2.1 is the first maintenance release of the wonderful open source GNOME 3.2 desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems.

As you all know, the final version of the popular GNOME 3.2 desktop environment has been released on September 28th bringing amazing new features, such as support for Online accounts, support for Web apps, Contacts app, Nautilus enhancements, Color management support, a new login screen, search enhancements and lots more.

"The first update to GNOME 3.2 series is now available. As usual it provides bug fixes, translations updates and tiny improvements, in order to make our stable release even more stable and useful."

"Of course these improvements are kindly provided by our vibrant GNOME community members and contributors: so, thanks to our wonderful GNOME people." - was stated in the press release.

The next maintenance release for the GNOME 3.2 series, will be GNOME 3.2.2 and it will be available next month, on November 16th. This will also be the last point release of GNOME 3.2.

The next major updated for the GNOME 3 desktop will be GNOME 3.4, which will include the following development (unstable) releases:

· October 26th - GNOME 3.3.1; · November 23rd - GNOME 3.3.2; · December 21st - GNOME 3.3.3; · January 18th - GNOME 3.3.4; · February 8th - GNOME 3.3.5; · February 22nd - GNOME 3.3.90; · March 7th - GNOME 3.4 Beta; · March 21st - GNOME 3.4 RC.

The final release of GNOME 3.4 will be available on March 28th, 2012, followed by the first point release on April 18th, GNOME 3.4.1.

Download the GNOME 3.2.1 source packages right now from Softpedia.