elementary OS 8 Enters Early Access, Here’s What’s Planned
elementary OS 8 is the next major update, following on from this year’s elementary OS 7.x series. It is based on the packages from the Ubuntu 24.04 repositories, but as that release isn’t out until April a final release of elementary OS 8 will likely be early summer at the soonest.
But as ever with elementary: there is no fixed release date until a release date is ready to be fixed in.
With early access builds out, let’s look a what’s planned for the new version.
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elementary OS is a special Linux distribution for many people. It's beautiful, easy to use, and reliable as any on the market. The most recent version of elementary OS is 7 (released 31 January 2023) and version 8 is on the horizon.
The developers have plenty of new things in store for the OS, including Wayland as the default display server, a brand new dock that better integrates with the elementary OS window manager, and a redesigned Multitasking View, which adds an elegant blurred view of the background.
Other features include continued porting of apps to GTK 4, system updates shifted from the AppCenter and into System Settings, much-improved search in System Settings, a new Keyboard Layouts shortcut for quick changes, a smoother fade animation in the Login & Lock screens, and much more.