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GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player


GNOME 49.0 is out today as the latest half-year feature release to the GNOME desktop that will go on to power the likes of Fedora Workstation 43 and Ubuntu 25.10.

GNOME 49.0 is out today as the latest half-year feature release to the GNOME desktop that will go on to power the likes of Fedora Workstation 43 and Ubuntu 25.10. GNOME 49 continues with a variety of Wayland improvements, Showtime is now the default video player on GNOME to replace Totem, Papers has replaced Evince as the new document viewer, GNOME Web (Epiphany) continues to be enhanced, and there are a wide variety of other improvements to both the core desktop and the growing variety of GNOME apps. GNOME 49.0 has been working out very well in my testing thus far using development builds on Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43.

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