14 DAY TRIAL // The GNOME Project has officially kicked off the development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 3.36 desktop environment for Linux-based operating system and released the first snapshot for public testing.
GNOME 3.36 will be the next major release of the popular and open-source desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions, slated for release next spring on March 11th. It will supersede the current version, GNOME 3.34, which has recently hit the stable software repositories of the most popular distros.
GNOME 3.36 will be dubbed "Gresik," after the host city of the GNOME Asia Summit 2019 conference, which took place three weeks ago, between October 11th and October 13th, in Gresik, Indonesia, with the main focus on the GNOME desktop, applications, and platform development tools.
The development cycle was kicked off only last week, with a two-week delay from the initial plan, with the GNOME 3.35.1 unstable tarballs, which are now available for public testing from the official download site or through the unstable software repositories of various GNU/Linux distributions.
GNOME 3.35.2 scheduled for release on November 23rd
The entire development cycle of the GNOME 3.36 desktop environment will be produced under the GNOME 3.35 umbrella, and, according to the official release schedule, the next development snapshot, GNOME 3.35.2, is expected to be released for public testing next month on November 23rd. After that, the development will continue next year in early January with GNOME 3.35.3.
Until then, if you want to test drive the first development snapshot of the upcoming GNOME 3.36 desktop environment, you will need to compile the GNOME 3.35.1 pre-release by downloading the official BuildStream project snapshot or the source packages. However, please keep in mind that this early development release is not ready for production use.