14 DAY TRIAL // With a two-day delay, the second and last scheduled maintenance update of the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment was officially released a few minutes ago by Michael Catanzaro through an email announcement.
As with any new major GNOME 3 desktop branch, two point releases are planned in the months to follow. The first one, GNOME 3.22.1 arrived on October 12, 2016 with various improvements and bug fixes to the desktop environment's core applications and components. And now, GNOME 3.22.2 is here with many other changes and translation updates to enhance your GNOME 3.22 desktop experience.
"GNOME 3.22.2 has been released. The second stable update to GNOME 3.22 brings many bugfixes and translation updates. All distributions shipping GNOME 3.22 should upgrade," said Michael Catanzaro in the email announcement received by Softpedia. "If you want to compile GNOME 3.22.2 by yourself, you can use the jhbuild modulesets available here https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.22.2/."
GNOME 3.24 slated for release on March 21, 2017
Technically speaking, the release cycle of the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment has come to an end, as most probably there won't be any maintenance updates published, but that doesn't mean the maintainers of various applications from the GNOME Stack can't publish updated versions if critical bugs need to be fixed. This also means that the GNOME devs will now concentrate all of their efforts on the next major release.
That's right, the development cycle of the GNOME 3.24 desktop environment, due for release on March 21, 2017, has already begun. A first snapshot, versioned GNOME 3.23.1, was published last week and made available for public testing, but there's a long road until GNOME 3.24 is mature enough for production use. If you want to know what's new in GNOME 3.22.2, study the CORE NEWS and APPS NEWS changelogs.