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GNOME 49 Beta Released for Public Testing on GNOME’s 28th Anniversary

GNOME 49 Beta desktop environment is now available for public testing with more new features and improvements ahead of the final release on September 17th, 2025. Here’s what’s new!
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GNOME 49 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Disables X11 Session by Default

GNOME 49 Alpha desktop environment is now available for public testing with support for the X11 (GNOME on Xorg) session disabled by default and many other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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GNOME 49 Makes Papers a Core App, Replacing Evince

When Ubuntu 25.04 made Papers its default PDF viewer rather than keep shipping Evince, it did so knowing that the expectation was that upstream GNOME would do the same — now it has. The GNOME 49 Alpha release will ship Papers as a GNOME Core App, repla…

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GNOME Replaces Totem Video Player with Showtime

Roll credits on Totem, roll camera on Showtime — GNOME developers have cast a new video player for a staring role in GNOME 49, out in September. Per an upstream change now merged, the aged GTK3 video player Totem has been replaced by newer, f…

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