{"id":48452,"date":"2025-03-20T07:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48452"},"modified":"2025-03-20T07:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:04:25","slug":"gnome-48-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/gnome-48-released\/","title":{"rendered":"GNOME 48 Released! To be Default in Ubuntu 25.04 | Fedora 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gnome-logo-dark.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44710\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gnome-logo-dark-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gnome-logo-dark-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gnome-logo-dark-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gnome-logo-dark-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gnome-logo-dark-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/gnome-logo-dark.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GNOME Desktop 48 was officially released on Wednesday! The developer team announced it in <a href=\"https:\/\/release.gnome.org\/48\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GNOME website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The GNOME project is excited to introduce GNOME 48, a fresh release shaped by six months of hard work from our amazing community. We\u2019re incredibly grateful to everyone who contributed to making this happen!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>GNOME 48, code-name &#8220;Bengaluru&#8221;, will be the default desktop environment for upcoming Ubuntu 25.04, Fedora Workstation 42, and optional for Arch and Manjaro etc. Linux Distributions.<\/p>\n<p>The new desktop release introduced new monospace font, named <b>Adwaita Sans<\/b> and <b>Adwaita Mono<\/b>. They are customized version of the popular <a href=\"https:\/\/rsms.me\/inter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inter typeface by Rasmus Andersson<\/a>, and custom build of the <a href=\"https:\/\/typeof.net\/Iosevka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iosevka typeface family<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gnome48-newfonts.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48453\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gnome48-newfonts-700x462.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gnome48-newfonts-700x462.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gnome48-newfonts-300x198.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gnome48-newfonts-768x507.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gnome48-newfonts.webp 1073w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GNOME Control Center, aka Settings app, added new <b>Wellbeing<\/b> page to tell how much time you spent on the screen, and includes options to limit screen time usage.<\/p>\n<p>In <i>Displays<\/i> setting page, there&#8217;s now new toggle <b>option to enable HDR<\/b>, and <i>Power<\/i> setting page now provides an option to <b>limit battery charge to 80%<\/b> for PC\/laptop that support the feature.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48135\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gnome48-screentime.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48135\" class=\"size-large wp-image-48135\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gnome48-screentime-700x513.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gnome48-screentime-700x513.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gnome48-screentime-300x220.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gnome48-screentime-768x563.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/gnome48-screentime.webp 1058w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gnome 48 Wellbeing setting page<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GNOME 48 also introduced <b>dynamic triple buffering<\/b> that significantly improved the desktop performance, updated the JavaScript engine to reduce CPU and memory usage, improved file indexing for large folders, and improved the performance and stability for monitors directly attached to a discrete graphics card.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes include group notifications in per-app basis to prevent the notification list from becoming too long, updated Loupe image viewer with basic editing support, introduced new core Audio Player app.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48028\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loupe-imageediting.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48028\" class=\"size-large wp-image-48028\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loupe-imageediting-700x488.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loupe-imageediting-700x488.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loupe-imageediting-300x209.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loupe-imageediting-768x536.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/loupe-imageediting.webp 989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loupe Image viewer now has basic editing support<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As well as following changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Global shortcuts<\/b>, allowing apps to create system-wide shortcut that works even when not on focus.<\/li>\n<li><b>Center new windows<\/b> by default.<\/li>\n<li>Orca shortcuts now work correctly in Wayland session.<\/li>\n<li>New <code>gdctl<\/code> utility to show\/set display configuration.<\/li>\n<li>Load login screen banner message from file.<\/li>\n<li>Allow running custom command in lock screen.<\/li>\n<li>Add support for hardware encoded AVC444 for Gnome Remote Desktop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more, see the official <a href=\"https:\/\/release.gnome.org\/48\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Get GNOME 48<\/h3>\n<p>The best way to get GNOME 48 is waiting for your Linux Distribution updates. Meaning wait (or try the dev build) for Ubuntu 25.04 or Fedora Workstation 42 release.<\/p>\n<p>For Arch Linux, GNOME 48 has been added into the extra-testing repository. And, other users may try <a href=\"https:\/\/os.gnome.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GNOME OS image<\/a> in virtual machine via GNOME Boxes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GNOME Desktop 48 was officially released on Wednesday! The developer team announced it in GNOME website: The GNOME project is excited to introduce GNOME 48, a fresh release shaped by six months of hard work from our amazing community. We\u2019re incredibly grateful to everyone who contributed to making this happen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[689],"class_list":["post-48452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gnome"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}