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GNOME 49 Alpha Released With X11 Support Disabled By Default, Many New Features


The GNOME 49 Alpha '49.alpha' release was just announced as the first formal test release in the road to the GNOME 49 desktop release due out in September.

There's also been a lot of work around using the Rust-based Glycin image loader, various Wayland optimizations, many GNOME Web (Epiphany) improvements, and more. - GNOME Calendar now supports keyboard navigation in more areas and a major memory leak has been fixed. - Mutter now makes logical monitors more persistent and applies touchpad acceleration profiles on startup.

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