GNOME 3.3.5 Development Release Is Here

The GNOME Project announced yesterday, February 9th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the fifth development release of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment, which brings assorted bugfixes and improvements.

GNOME 3.3.5 brings updates to main components, such as GNOME Session, GNOME Desktop, GNOME Panel, GNOME Control Center, GNOME PackageKit, GNOME Screenshot, GNOME Contacts, GNOME Shell, GNOME Settings Daemon, GNOME Terminal, GNOME Menus, and GNOME Keyring.

Apps such as Empathy, Eye of GNOME, Epiphany, Evince, GCalctool, Nautilus, as well as lots of core libraries were also updates in this development release.

The next development release towards GNOME 3.4, will be GNOME 3.4 Beta 1, which will be available at the end of February 2012.

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 3.3.5 source packages right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.