14 DAY TRIAL // The GNOME Project has announced the general availability of the second snapshot in the development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 3.36 desktop environment, due for release in spring 2019.
GNOME 3.35.2 is now available for public testing as the second development snapshot in the development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 3.36 desktop environment, bringing more new features, improvements, bug fixes, and updated translation to various of GNOME's core components and apps. A complete changelog is available here for more details on the included changes.
"This is the second unstable release leading to the 3.36 stable series, and it's a pretty quiet one since our most prominent modules were not updated," said Michael Catanzaro in an email announcement. "A couple modules were temporarily back due to the various incompatibilities, but this is typical for our unstable releases and nothing that looks difficult to resolve."
GNOME 3.35.3 expected to arrive on January 4th, 2020
GNOME 3.35.2 is also the last unstable milestone to be released in 2019 as the development cycle for the GNOME 3.36 desktop environment will continue next year with the next unstable release, GNOME 3.35.3, which is expected to arrive on January 4th, 2020. GNOME 3.35.3 will also be the last snapshot to be released before GNOME 3.36 enters beta testing, which will happen starting February 1st, 2020.
Until then, you are invited to take the GNOME 3.35.2 snapshot for a test drive by downloading the official BuildStream project snapshot, the source packages, or the unstable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution. However, please try to keep in mind that this still an early development release, which means that it is not ready for any production use.