After a one-week postponement, the GNOME Project has officially released the Release Candidate (RC) version of the upcoming GNOME 47 desktop environment series, inviting the public to partake in testing it.
This Release Candidate of GNOME 47 arrives two weeks following the beta release and it incorporates experimental color management protocol support in the Mutter window and composite manager, introduces initial PipeWire explicit sync support, and integrates the new backlight API into gnome-settings-daemon.
Additionally, the GNOME 47 RC enhances cursor movement smoothness under stress, resolves drag and drop issues between X11 and Wayland clients, mends drag and drop operations from grabbing pop-ups, remedies EGLDevice support, boosts support for some hybrid devices that were experiencing cursor freeze problems, and corrects touch window dragging with pointer lock activated.
Moreover, this version facilitates storage of the display layout mode in the monitor configuration, tackles a problem with tablet input in maximized windows, permits scaling-aware Xwayland clients to adjust their scale appropriately, advances smartcard login processes, and modifies drag-to-dash into a move operation.
Nautilus 47 Release Candidate brings many goodies to the File Chooser, including the implementation of a file chooser “choices” menu, the ability to drop items into the file chooser, and support for the background menu. It also introduces the ability to vertically scroll in the pathbar and support for extracting bzip2 tar files (finally!).
The Release Candidate of Epiphany 47 (GNOME Web) web browser improves Web App installation, improves CSV password import, improves the count of trackers in the privacy report, allows exporting passwords to CSV, improves the bookmarks sidebar and dialog, and fixes a crash when closing the multiple tabs dialog.
GNOME Calendar 47 RC now includes a user agent for remote server requests when fetching calendar files, enhances URL validation during calendar additions, shows icons for hidden calendars in the import dialog, ensures only writable calendars are available when creating new events, and transitions various loading indicators to AdwSpinner.
GNOME Control Center 47 RC, also known as Settings, boosts performance in wallpaper loading within the Appearance panel, resolves a crash related to invalid app permissions in the Apps panel, adjusts the visibility of “Auto Timezone” when Location Services are offline in the Date and Time panel, revises the description for the MS365 online account in the Online Accounts panel, troubleshoots the addition of “Shared Media” folders in the Sharing panel, incorporates a confirmation dialog for removing user fingerprints in the Users panel, and addresses a crash occurring when removable WiFi adapters are unplugged in the Wi-Fi panel.
With the release of GNOME Shell 47 RC, notable updates include the utilization of rst2man for generating man pages. Additionally, GNOME Sudoku 47 RC introduces mouse wheel zoom functionality, sets a new default size of 650×700, and harmonizes the terminology used in referring to Puzzle and Game. Moreover, GNOME Remote Desktop 47 RC has optimized to consume fewer resources during unauthenticated sessions.
Furthermore, GNOME Maps 47 RC now supports Transitous for public transit routes and features updated highway shields courtesy of OSM Americana. GNOME Calculator 47 RC has incorporated brand colors, while GNOME Text Editor 47 RC has integrated libspelling for spellchecking and activated implicit-trailing-newline by default.
This Release Candidate version also includes numerous bug fixes and language updates, which are detailed in the release announcement page. In addition, the GNOME OS 47 RC ISO image is available for download and can be installed on virtual machines supporting UEFI, such as GNOME Boxes available on Flathub.
“Note this installer image includes an experimental version of the work to integrate systemd-sysupdate in GNOME OS. This was a collaboration between the GNOME Foundation and Codethink through the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF),” announced the GNOME Project.
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