24 May 2013

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Posted by Saurav Modak on August 23, 2012

The Gnome team has announced a beta release of Gnome Shell 3.6, the next major release of Gnome Desktop Environment Shell. Version 3.5.90 is a beta release, which means it contains all the features of the upcoming Gnome Shell Release but may contain some bugs which may effect stability of the desktop and applications.

Some major improvements in this release are:

  • lock screen improvements
  • better styling at keyring prompt
  • enterprise login
  • Better apps overview screen
  • improved GTK look and notifications
  • Changes in Empathy, Nautilus and other Gnome Apps

You can view the full changelog here. Sources are available from here but binaries have not yet released.

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