The first alpha release of GNOME Desktop 49 is out for testing purpose!
The developer team announced the release of this alpha one day ago. And, if everything goes well, GNOME 49 will be default in Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora Workstation 43.
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The second development release, Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 2, is available to download now!
The developer team announced the new release at list.ubuntu.com:
By now, hopefully you’re already familiar with what monthly snapshots are. For those who are not, have a look at Jon’s blog post about it.
Now that you’ve got some context, I’d like to announce its second successful publication – Questing Snapshot 2. You can find the images on cdimage.ubuntu.com.
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To follow the upstream GNOME’s road-map, Ubuntu confirmed to remove the classic X11/Xorg session in the next Ubuntu 25.10 release!
GNOME development team is planning to disable X11 session by default in next GNOME 49 and remove the code in v50.
TLDR: The X11 session for GNOME 49 will be disabled by default and it’s scheduled for removal, either during this development cycle or more likely during the next one (GNOME 50).
For those who are interested in the next Ubuntu 25.10 release, the first snapshot of the development version is available to download for testing on desktop, server, WSL.
Ubuntu introduced new monthly snapshot releases policy few days ago. And, the first snapshot for Ubuntu 25.10 is out available to download for all supported platforms.
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The developer team started the development of Ubuntu 25.10 in last week. Now the release schedule and daily build live CD image are out!
Ubuntu 25.10, code-name Questing Quokka, is the next Ubuntu version planned to be released on October 09. It’s a short term release with 9-month support circle.
If everything goes well, it will feature GNOME 49 desktop and the latest Linux Kernel (probably v6.17 according to Kernel release interval).
Image by Katy_Heejin from Pixabay
