GNOME 3.27.3 is now available for public testing

Dec 16, 2017 20:25 GMT  ·  By

GNOME leader Matthias Clasen announced a few moments ago the availability of the third development snapshot towards the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

The development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 3.28 desktop environment continues today with the GNOME 3.27.3 milestone, which ports more components to the Meson build system and adds various improvements to various apps and tools, including the Evolution email and calendar client, NetworkManager network connection manager, and dconf-editor.

There are quite a lot of changes in this snapshot for numerous of GNOME's core components and apps compared to the previous one, GNOME 3.27.2, so we recommend that you study the CORE NEWS and APPS NEWS changelog if you're curious to know what exactly was implemented.

"GNOME 3.27.3, the third development snapshot in the 3.28 development cycle, is now available," said Matthias Clasen. "A few more modules have been ported to Meson, and lots of development is happening across all modules. To point out a few highlights, dconf-editor is seeing significant work, and Evolution has had many bug fixes."

GNOME 3.27.4 coming January 10, 2018

The development cycle of GNOME 3.28 will continue next year with GNOME 3.27.4 snapshot, which is expected on January 10. After that, the upcoming desktop environment will enter beta stage, and the first beta release should be out on February 7, followed closely by the second beta version on February 21, 2018.

After that, there will be a Release Candidate (RC) build coming March 7, and the final release of the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment will hit the streets on March 14, 2018. Until then, you can test drive the GNOME 3.27.3 snapshot by compiling it using the JHBuild modulesets or the BuildStream project snapshot.