Gnome 51 Released with Improved Frame Scheduling, Many App Improvements
6 hours ago
- GNOME 51 desktop environment has been officially released on schedule, targeting Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora Workstation 45.
- Mutter improvements enhance desktop responsiveness and smoothness through better frame scheduling.
- New Wayland protocols are supported, including ext-background-effect-v1, with optimizations such as removing legacy NVIDIA driver support via EGLStreams.
- Mutter now supports custom pointer acceleration profiles for user-defined mouse behavior.
- Settings improvements include offline map support in GNOME Maps, faster startup for GNOME Software, and improved performance in GNOME Calendar.
- The GNOME File Previewer has undergone a complete user interface redesign.
- Detailed release notes are available on GNOME.org for further exploration of all changes.