GNOME 47 Alpha "47.alpha" was released this Saturday morning as the first stepping stone toward GNOME 47.0. GNOME 47 is working its way to a planned release on 18 September . Among the highlights of GNOME 47 Alpha are:
- GNOME Shell now supports accent colors .
- GNOME Shell and Mutter can now be built without X11/XWayland support if wanting a pure Wayland environment.
- Support for the DRM lease protocol to better handle virtual reality (VR) headsets under the Wayland session.
- Mutter now supports hardware cursors with non-atomic kernel mode-setting (KMS) drivers.
- Mutter now supports the XDG dialog protocol along with other Wayland improvements.
- Better handling of different monitor sizes / layouts .
- GNOME Software makes more jobs asynchronous for better performance.
- GDM now supports S0ix suspend when determining if NVIDIA should use the Wayland session.
- GDM will now block suspend when remote displays are active.
- The gnome-initial-setup-copy-worker has been rewritten to not use GFile and GVFS.
- GNOME Remote Desktop now supports persistent remote login sessions.
- GNOME Calls is now ported to the GTK4 toolkit.
- GNOME Web (Epiphany) has added a "Not Now" option to the password popover along with various UI improvements throughout this web browser.
- GNOME Tracker (tracker and tracker-miners) have been dropped along with libdazzle while new modules are localsearch and tinysparql.
More details on the GNOME 47 Alpha changes via the GNOME Discourse . An updated GNOME OS image is also available for easy testing of this GNOME 47 development code.