The GNOME 50 beta release is now available ahead of the official [1]GNOME 50 desktop due out in March.

GNOME 50 beta highlights include:

- The Epiphany browser has addressed crashes, remote denial of service, and other issues.

- GDM has added support for a "unified" authentication mechanism in using a single PAM conversation that runs multiple authentication methods at once.

- GDM has re-introduced a timeout while waiting for a primary GPU to appear.

- [2]Glycin now has a Rust-based JPEG 2000 image loader .

- GNOME Remote Desktop now has camera redirection support, connection throttling, Kerberos authentication support for single user run-time modes, and HiDPI support.

- The Nautilus file manager has added a Glycin dependency for thumbnailing.

- [3]Improved dGPU detection for GNOME Shell .

- [4]Mutter's VRR support is no longer experimental .

- [5]Virtual monitor and HiDPI improvements for Mutter .

- [6]Other GNOME Shell and Mutter updates .

- New default background for GNOME 50 along with other new backgrounds.

Downloads and more details on today's GNOME 50 Beta via [7]the release announcement .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/GNOME+50

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glycin-2.1-Beta-JPEG-2000

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-Better-GPU-Detection

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-VRR-Not-Experimental

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-Remote-Desktop-HiDPI

[6] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-50-Beta

[7] https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-50-beta-released/34061