September 2021 – GNOME Foundation

GNOME 41 Release

We are pleased to announce the official release of GNOME 41. This release, the second to use our new version numbering scheme, comes after six months of work by the GNOME community and brings an improved Software app, new multitasking settings, enhanced power management features, and many smaller updates. GNOME 41 also includes significant improvements for developers and is available in 38 languages.

GNOME 41 will be available shortly in many distributions.

More information about the changes in GNOME 41 can be found in the release notes.

GNOME 41 would not exist without our community of contributors, supporters, friends, and users. Thank you, everyone! If you’re interested in joining the GNOME community learn more about contributing on our Get Involved page, developing apps for GNOME 41 on our new developer site, or donating and becoming a Friend of GNOME on our Donate page.

Our next release, GNOME 42, is planned for March 2022. Until then, enjoy GNOME 41!

GNOME 41 also comes with a new release video! Thank you to our friends at Freehive for their work on this project.

GNOME ASIA 2021 Registration is Open

We’re excited to announce that registration for GNOME Asia Summit 2021 is open! You can now register online here.

GNOME Asia Summit 2021 will take place online from November 20th– 21st. Talk topics will include the GNOME desktop and a range of other GNOME-specific, free and open source software, and tech topics.

The summit brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a place for users, developers, leaders, governments, and businesses to discuss present technology and future developments. More information about the GNOME Asia 2021 Summit is available on our official website. The GNOME Asia Summit will be two days of stand-out keynotes, engaging and educational sessions, so register today!

Annual Report 2020

2020 was a very unique year! Throughout the past year, we have navigated through many challenges, implemented many changes and new technologies, and come through it with better ways to help us work together and gather the community remotely. We’re excited to share these challenges and changes along with some of our best moments and achievements in our 2019-2020 annual report.

Highlights include:

We launched our inaugural GNOME Community Engagement Challenge with the support of Endless in spring, receiving 149 proposals in Phase One from applicants all around the world
We released Gresik (3.36) and Orbis (3.38)
We combated a patent infringement suit from patent assertion entity, Rothschild Patent Imaging, LLC, with the help of our lawyers at OIN and all of our supporters and contributors throughout the GNOME Community
We held our first fully remote GUADEC, utilizing new systems for video conferencing with Big Blue Button, event management and registration with Indico, and live streaming on YouTube. These developments also helped us support and host 4 additional remote events
We hosted 14 Google Summer of Code students, 2 Outreachy students, and 2 Google Season of Docs students

For more details please see our annual report.

2020 was a success thanks to all of you! Your contributions and donations support GNOME and allow us to continue working towards a world where everyone is empowered by technology they can trust. We look forward to continuing this work with you in the coming years.