14 DAY TRIAL // With GNOME 3.30 out the door, the GNOME Project is already looking forward to the next major release of the popular desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems, GNOME 3.32.
The official release schedule was published earlier this week for the GNOME 3.32 desktop environment, suggesting that the six-month development cycle will kick off this fall and will be promoted under the GNOME 3.31.x umbrella, with the first development milestone, GNOME 3.31.1, expected to hit the streets on October 10, 2018.
In the last two months of 2018, the GNOME 3.32 desktop environment will see two more development milestones, GNOME 3.31.2 and GNOME 3.31.3, due for release on November 14 and December 12 respectively. After that, the development cycle will continue in 2019 with the GNOME 3.31.4 milestone on January 9.
GNOME 3.32 to enter beta testing in early February 2019
According to the release schedule, GNOME 3.32 will enter beta testing in early February 2019 when the first beta release will arrive for public testing on February 6, 2019. A second beta is currently scheduled for February 20, and the Release Candidate (RC) milestone is expected to land on March 6, 2019.
The final release of the GNOME 3.32 desktop environment will be unveiled officially on March 13, 2019, with the first point release, GNOME 3.32.1, scheduled to debut on April 10, 2019, when probably most GNU/Linux distributions will start shipping the new packages in their stable repositories.
Until then, fans of the GNOME desktop environment are waiting for the recently released GNOME 3.30 to hit the stable repos of their favorite GNU/Linux distributions, which should happen later this month when the GNOME 3.30.1 point release will hit the streets on September 26, 2018.
The second and last scheduled point release of the GNOME 3.30 desktop environment, GNOME 3.30.2, is expected to arrive on October 24, 2018. We recommend all users to upgrade to the GNOME 3.30 release as soon as possible and keep their GNOME packages up-to-date at all times.