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GNOME 49 Alpha 0 Releases Begin As GNOME 49 Preps For X11 Disabled-By-Default

The GNOME 49 Alpha release isn't expected until the end of June but for facilitating additional testing and a number of prominent changes this cycle, a number of GNOME packages have begun releasing 'GNOME 49 Alpha 0' tags as part of plans to issue multiple alpha releases this cycle

Also released in the early hours of today was GNOME Shell 49.alpha.0 with porting to the new backlight API, bug fixes, and other enhancements. Released earlier in the week was GNOME-Session 49.alpha.0 and most notable there is X11 session support being disabled by default. He reaffirmed the project's plans of GNOME 49 expected to ship with the X11 session disabled by default.

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