A Release Candidate version will be out on September 14

Sep 5, 2016 01:00 GMT  ·  By

GNOME developer Matthias Clasen has been happy to inform us via an email announcement about the availability of the second and last Beta release of the upcoming GNOME 3.22 "Karlsruhe" desktop environment.

GNOME 3.22 Beta 2 (technical version number is 3.21.91) is now ready for public testing, for those brave enough to take the soon-to-be-released desktop environment for a test drive on their personal computers, and it promises to add numerous improvements to many of the core components and applications included in the GNOME Stack.

"GNOME 3.21.91 is now available. This is our second beta release on the way to 3.22," says Matthias Clasen in the email announcement. "Please try it and let us know how well it works for you. Note that some modules have gained a new dependency, gnome-autoar. With the second beta our Freeze continues and deepens."

GNOME 3.22 lands on September 21, 2016

The development cycle of the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment is almost over, and only one milestone will be released in about ten days from the moment of writing this article, the Release Candidate (RC) build, a.k.a. GNOME 3.21.92, which should be ready for public testing around the date of September 14, 2016.

After that, the GNOME developers will prepare for the final release of the GNOME 3.22 "Karlsruhe" desktop environment on September 21, 2016. However, this is only the official launch, as it will take somewhere between 2-3 weeks and one month until we see it in the new GNOME 3.22 packages in our distributions' software repositories.

Until then, you are invited to try out the second Beta release of the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment and report any bugs you might encounter. As usual, when testing a pre-release software, please try to keep in mind that it's not a final product, and you definitely shouldn't use it in a production environment.