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GNOME 48 Released With New Default Font, HDR Support, New Audio Player & More


GNOME 48 is officially out as the newest stable release for this open-source desktop that will be powering the likes of Fedora Workstation 42 and Ubuntu 25.04.

GNOME 48 is officially out as the newest stable release for this open-source desktop that will be powering the likes of Fedora Workstation 42 and Ubuntu 25.04. GNOME 48 is a super exciting release with initial HDR support, many other Wayland enhancements and new protocol support, the new Adwaita fonts by default, dynamic triple buffering support for Mutter, grouping notifications by app within the GNOME Shell, a new audio player default, digital well being / screen time and health break features, and many other refinements. More details on all of the many great changes to find with the GNOME 48 desktop release via the Discourse announcement and GNOME 48 release notes.

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