After more than six months of work, the GNOME Project announced today the official release and immediate availability of the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems.
Work on the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment started last year in October with the first development milestone, tagged GNOME 3.27.1. During approximately six months, there were four such milestones released, accompanied by a single beta release and a Release Candidate (RC).
As expected with any significant GNOME release, there were various visible and under-the-hood changes, especially the removal of the desktop handling a.k.a. “desktop icons” support from the Nautilus file manager, which got passed to the GNOME Shell interface through an extension.
GNOME 3.28 is dubbed “Chongqing” after the host city of the GNOME Asia Summit 2017 conference that took place between October 14-16 in Chongqing, China. This release contains dozens of new features for users, developers, and administ… (read more)
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