GNOME 3.38 released

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 3.38, Orbis.

This release brings a new Welcome tour, improved grouping and reordering
of applications in the overview, better fingerprint enrollment, deeper
systemd integration, and more.

Improvements to core GNOME applications include intelligent tracking
prevention in Web, night mode and adaptive UI in Maps, redesigned
Clocks and Sound Recorder, and more.

For more information about the changes in GNOME 3.38, you can visit
the release notes:

 https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.38/

 https://youtu.be/DZ_P5W9r2JY

GNOME 3.38 will be available shortly in many distributions. If you want
to try it today, you can use the Fedora 33 beta that will be available
soon or the openSUSE nightly live images which include GNOME 3.38.

 https://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/
 https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/33/Workstation/x86_64/iso/
 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/?P=GNOME_Next*

This is the first release for which we can provide our own installer
images for debugging and testing features. These images are meant for
installation in a vm and require GNOME Boxes 3.38 (with UEFI support)
to boot:

 https://gnome-build-meta.s3.amazonaws.com/3.38.0/gnome_os_installer.iso

If you are interested in building applications for GNOME 3.38, look for
the GNOME 3.38 Flatpak SDK, which is available in the www.flathub.org
repository.

This six-month effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole
GNOME community, made of contributors and friends from all around the
world: developers, designers, documentation writers, usability and
accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, students, system
administrators, companies, artists, testers and last, but not least,
our users.

GNOME would not exist without all of you. Thank you to everyone!

Our next release is planned for March 2021. Until then, enjoy GNOME 3.38!

Matthias Clasen

GNOME release  team