GNOME 48 RC Adds Dynamic Triple Buffering, Wayland Color Management Protocol
GNOME 48 Release Candidate (RC) is packed with lots of goodies compared to the Beta and Alpha versions, including Wayland color management protocol support in the Mutter window and composite manager, which also received support for activating the Activities Overview with either Super key, as well as for centering new windows by default.
Another long-anticipated feature that landed in this RC milestone is dynamic triple buffering, which should dramatically improve the performance of the GNOME desktop environment on low-end GPUs, such as Intel integrated graphics, as well as on Raspberry Pi computers.
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GNOME 48, the default desktop environment for Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 Workstation, is now in RC testing stage. While, the final stable release is planned for 2025-03-19.
The new release candidate enhanced the new features that were introduced in last Beta and Alpha releases, fixed numerous bugs, as well introduced some new features.