GNOME 3.14 Beta 2 Has Been Released!

Frederic Peters has announced the release of GNOME 3.13.91, the second beta release which is a new step towards 3.14.0, scheduled to be released September 24th. This beta release updates many core applications such as: adwaita-icon-theme, Baobab, Caribou, Clutter, Clutter-gtk, Epiphany, Evince, GNOME Display Manager, glibmm, Gnome Contacts, GNOME Control Center, GNOME Desktop, GNOME Screenshot, GNOME Shell, GNOME System Monitor, grilo, GTK+, LibGWeather, Mutter, Nautilus (Files), Pango, Totem (Videos), Vala, and more.

There are alot modules that have not been upgraded in this release. I have made a list of them so you can read and get informed about them.

The following modules weren’t upgraded in this release:

  • accerciser
  • aisleriot
  • anjuta
  • brasero
  • cheese
  • evolution
  • five-or-more
  • four-in-a-row
  • gedit
  • gitg
  • glade
  • gnome-chess
  • gnome-color-manager
  • gnome-getting-started-docs
  • gnome-klotski
  • gnome-music
  • gnome-nettool
  • gnome-photos
  • gnome-robots
  • gnome-sudoku
  • gnome-tweak-tool
  • hitori
  • nautilus-sendto
  • nemiver
  • polari
  • rygel
  • seahorse
  • swell-foop
  • vinagre

According to the official announcement this release is only a snapshot of development code so it won’t be hitting any official repository any time soon, although it is buildable and usable. So, if you want to hack around go grab a copy, start testing for bugs and once you find them file bug reports.

So if you don’t like to wait anymore and want to compile GNOME 3.13.91, you can use the jhbuild modulesets published by the release team shown down below.