A second beta release is expected later this month

Aug 6, 2019 19:32 GMT  ·  By

The GNOME Project has released the first beta version of the upcoming GNOME 3.34 desktop environment series, which is expected to be officially unveiled next month.

Released a day earlier than expected, the GNOME 3.34 beta (GNOME 3.33.90) milestone is now available for public testing, also marking the API/ABI, UI and Feature Freeze development stages. The beta release of the GNOME 3.34 desktop environment comes with many updated core components and apps, as detailed here.

"This is the first beta release for GNOME 3.34. To ensure the quality of the final release, we have entered feature freeze, UI freeze, and API freeze, so now is a good time for distributors planning to ship GNOME 3.34 to start testing the packages," said Michael Catanzaro in an email announcement.

GNOME 3.34 expected to be released on September 11th

The development cycle of the GNOME 3.34 desktop environment will continue with the second beta release (GNOME 3.33.91), which is currently scheduled for release later this month on August 21st. After that, the Release Candidate (GNOME 3.33.92) version should hit the streets in early September, on the 4th.

The final release of the GNOME 3.34 desktop environment is expected to be officially released by the GNOME Project on September 11th, 2019, but will arrive on the stable software repositories of major GNU/Linux distributions in early October when the GNOME 3.34.1 point release will be out.

Until then, you can try out the GNOME 3.34 beta release on your favorite GNU/Linux operating system by downloading the official BuildStream project snapshot or the source packages. However, you should keep in mind that this is a pre-release version, not suitable for any production use.