GNOME 47 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes

The GNOME 47 release candidate was announced a short time ago in preparing for the stable GNOME 47 stable desktop coming up.

Building on top of all the feature work earlier in the GNOME 47 cycle, some last minute items worth mentioning were added to this "GNOME 47.rc" tag. GNOME 47 release candidate highlights include:

- Experimental color management for Mutter managed to land! The Wayland color management protocol support for sRGB and PQ+BT.2020 is now in place as an experimental feature that can be used with Vulkan software via the VK_hdr_layer extension.

- GNOME Web (Epiphany) as the desktop environment's web browser now allows exporting/importing passwords via CSV files.

- The GNOME Bluetooth dialog is now an adaptive UI.

- GNOME Desktop fixes compatibility with the muslc C library.

- GNOME Remote Desktop reduces resource usage during unauthenticated sessions.

- GNOME Software now has lower power consumption when certain pages are not visible.

More details on today's GNOME 47 release candidate debut via the GNOME.org announcement.

GNOME 47.0 is scheduled for release on 18 September and will be found on the likes of Fedora Workstation 41 and Ubuntu 24.10 with their upcoming releases.