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GNOME 3.30 Desktop Environment Receives Support for ARM64 Hardware Architectures

GNOME 3.29.2 is now available for public testing

May 25, 2018 13:19 GMT  ·  By
GNOME 3.29.2 released
   GNOME 3.29.2 released

GNOME Project's Javier Jardón announced today via an email notice the availability of the second development snapshot of the upcoming GNOME 3.30 desktop environment.

GNOME 3.29.2 has been released today as the second of four development snapshots towards the GNOME 3.30 desktop environment, due for release this fall. It comes five weeks after the first snapshot, GNOME 3.29.1, with even more improvements and new features across various components.

One of the most exciting new features that landed during this development cycle is support for building the GNOME desktop environment for ARM64 (AArch64) architectures, which would allow it to run on various ARM hardware, including the upcoming Librem 5 Linux smartphone from Purism.

"One of the news from last release is that the CI of gnome-build-meta git repo (which is used to build the whole GNOME) is now building for aarch64 additionally to x86_64. Thanks to the https://www.worksonarm.com/ folks for the machine donation," said Javier Jardón in the email announcement.

GNOME 3.29.3 snapshot expected to arrive on June 20, 2018

For all the details about the changes and updated components that landed as part of today's GNOME 3.29.2 development snapshot, you can check out the internal changelog. If you want to try GNOME 3.29.2 on your favorite GNU/Linux distribution, you must compile it by downloading the official BuildStream project snapshot.

The next development snapshot, GNOME 3.29.3, is expected to arrive on June 20, 2018, right before the GUADEC (GNOME Users And Developers European Conference) 2018 event, which will take place in Almería, Spain, between July 6 and 11. After that, there will be another snapshot released in mid-July, GNOME 3.29.4.

The final release of the GNOME 3.30 desktop environment is hitting the streets on September 5, 2018, but not before the two beta and the RC (Release Candidate) milestones expected through August. GNOME 3.30 will introduce more new features and enhancements, including a new app for locating free Internet radio stations.