14 DAY TRIAL // GNOME's Michael Catanzaro is announcing today the availability of the second and last scheduled maintenance update for the GNOME 3.26 desktop environment carrying numerous bug fixes.
GNOME 3.26.2 is out just in time, as initially scheduled, and it's here three weeks after the first point release to improve the stability, security, and reliability of your GNOME 3.26 desktop environment. It will be coming soon to the stable repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distro, so make sure you update as soon as possible.
This second maintenance update to the GNOME 3.26 desktop environment includes dozens of improvements, bug fixes, and documentation/translation updates, and you can check out what exactly has been changed since GNOME 3.26.1 by studying the CORE NEWS and APPS NEWS changelogs.
"I'm pleased to announce the release of GNOME 3.26.2, the final planned release for the GNOME 3.26 series. It includes many bugfixes, documentation improvements, and translation updates," said Michael Catanzaro in the announcement. "All distributions shipping GNOME 3.26 are strongly encouraged to upgrade."
All eyes on the GNOME 3.28 from now on
As mentioned before, you should soon see a flood of GNOME 3.26.2 packages arriving in your GNU/Linux distribution of choice, but if you can't see them in the coming days or weeks, you can always compile GNOME 3.26.2 by yourself using the JHBuild modulesets located at https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.26.2/.
From now on, all eyes will be on the upcoming GNOME 3.28 desktop environment, whose development kicked off about two weeks ago with the GNOME 3.27.1 snapshot. The next milestone, GNOME 3.27.2 is expected on November 15, 2017, and the final release of GNOME 3.28 should hit the streets on March 14, 2018.
As usual, we'll be covering the entire development cycle of the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment to let you know which groundbreaking features the GNOME devs have planned for this upcoming release. So make sure you check our Linux news section regularly for the latest GNOME updates.