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GNOME 3.36 Desktop Environment Slated for Release on March 11th, 2020

Maintenance releases will be offered over a longer period

Sep 11, 2019 14:40 GMT  ·  By
GNOME 3.36 release schedule published
   GNOME 3.36 release schedule published

The GNOME Project published today the release schedule for the next major version of their acclaimed and widely used GNOME desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems, GNOME 3.36.

While the GNOME 3.34 desktop environment is not out yet, as it is expected to be officially unveiled tomorrow, September 12th, the GNOME developers are already planning on next major release, GNOME 3.36, which is currently slated for release on March 11th, 2020.

Development of the GNOME 3.36 desktop environment, which will be available under the GNOME 3.35.x umbrella, will start with the first snapshot, GNOME 3.35.1, which is scheduled for public testing release on October 12th. It will followed by a second development snapshot, GNOME 3.35.2, on November 23rd.

Only three development snapshots will be released for GNOME 3.36 before the beta instead of four as it happened until now, and the third one, GNOME 3.35.3, is currently scheduled for next year on January 4th. The two GNOME 3.36 beta versions will be available on February 1st and February 15th respectively.

Lastly, the RC (Release Candidate) milestone is scheduled for February 29th since 2020 is a leap year. After that, the final release of the GNOME 3.36 desktop environment will be officially unveiled on March 11th, but it will arrive for most GNU/Linux distributions when the first point release hits the streets at the end of March 2020.

Stable maintenance releases will be offered over a longer period

The development cycle of the GNOME 3.36 desktop environment will kick off soon after the GNOME 3.34 desktop environment is released, but will come with some important changes for both users and developers. For starters, stable maintenance releases will be offered over a longer period.

Furthermore, new releases will be published when they're ready, no matter the day of the week, stable and unstable releases will be published on the same day, and new tarballs will be published on Saturday instead of Monday. The longer maintenance release period will start with GNOME 3.34, which will be supported until March 28th, 2020.