GNOME 47 Beta launches with hardware encoding for screen recordings and more

According to the official schedule, GNOME 47 should be ready on September 14, two weeks after the unstable release candidate build, which is expected to become available on August 31st. No matter what happens, it is certain that the public will get it before the end of next month. However, GNOME 47 Beta is now available, and, compared to the Alpha build, it packs quite a few changes.

While support for hardware-encoded screen recording sounds great, there are also many under-the-hood changes that will make the user's life easier, such as the ability to recover from secondary GPU update failures, improved sticky behavior with transient dialogs, improved bookmark sorting in GNOME Web, drag-and-drop ICS file importing in GNOME Calendar, a modern UI for dialogs and the Disks view in GNOME System Monitor, and so on.

In addition to the new features and tweaks, multiple bugs were ironed out. Those interested in testing this work-in-progress piece of code can grab the GNOME OS 47 Beta ISO image and then run it via a virtual machine with EFI support. GNOME Discourse suggests the GNOME Boxes version, which can be grabbed from Flathub.

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