After a week's delay, the GNOME Project today released the Release Candidate (RC) dev version of the upcoming GNOME 47 UI series for public testing.
The GNOME 47 Release Candidate arrives two weeks after the beta and brings experimental color management protocol support to the Mutter window and composite manager, adds initial PipeWire synchronization support, and exposes the new backlight API in gnome-settings-daemon.
GNOME 47 RC also improves cursor scrolling smoothness, fixes drag and drop in X11 and Wayland, fixes drag and drop from receiving popups, fixes EGLDevice support, improves support for some hybrid machines that had freezing issues cursor and touch window dragging.
In addition, this release supports saving the screen layout function in the screen configuration, fixes an issue on tablets in maximized windows, allows scaling for Xwayland users, improves smart card connections, and does more.
Nautilus 47 Release Candidate brings many improvements to the File Picker, such as a file picker “options” menu, the ability to drop items into the file picker, and background menu support. It also brings vertical scrolling and support for extracting bzip2 tar files (finally!).
You can see all the bug fixes and updates that the Release Candidate brings, on the new release announcement page. In the meantime, you can download the RC version for testing (GNOME OS 47 RC ISO).
