GNOME 51 Alpha A Coruña Released: Development Cycle Begins Ahead of September Stable Launch
GNOME 51.alpha, codenamed "A Coruña," has launched as the first unstable build in the development cycle leading to a stable desktop release on September 16, 2026. Building on the fully Wayland-only architecture of GNOME 50 Tokyo, this alpha focuses on refining fractional scaling, improving NVIDIA driver compatibility, and transitioning build dependencies from Autotools to Meson. The update ships 73 refreshed core modules, including performance and accessibility improvements in nautilus, a GListModel overhaul in gnome-calendar, and security hardening across evolution-data-server and glib-networking. While the stable version will roll out to distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu later in the year, developers can currently test the build via the official GNOME OS install image or unstable Flatpak runtimes.
GNOME 51 Alpha A Coruña Released: Development Cycle Begins Ahead of September Stable Launch
GNOME 51 Alpha, codenamed "A Coruña," has been released as the first unstable build in the development cycle leading to a stable release on September 16, 2026. This alpha version builds on the Wayland-only architecture of GNOME 50, focusing on refining fractional scaling, enhancing NVIDIA driver compatibility, and transitioning build dependencies from Autotools to Meson. It includes 73 updated core modules, with significant improvements in nautilus and gnome-calendar, alongside various security enhancements across the platform. Developers can test the alpha build through the official GNOME OS install image or unstable Flatpak runtimes, while the stable version will be available in distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu later in the year
