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maboleth

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Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

Because the 'about' displays 3.35.91?

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

Shipping: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/pack … nome-shell
Check your mirror, check your current version `pacman -Si gnome-shell`

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danarel

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

Because the 'about' displays 3.35.91?

Mine as well, and I have also noticed that it doesn't display the Gnome version in neofetch

maboleth

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

Yes, gnome shell says 3.36, but About lists 3.35.91. Probably not every component of gnome has been updated.

danarel

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

Yes, gnome shell says 3.36, but About lists 3.35.91. Probably not every component of gnome has been updated.

Yeah, for the most part it's running fine so I am not too concerned for now. I have a few bugs that seem to fixed by locking the system and logging back in, and of course some extensions don't work yet.

I am fairly new to Arch, been a Fedora user for years, so this is the first issue I have had with an update.

maboleth

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

Enjoy your stay danarel. :-) So far so good on my end, except one extension that is not yet updated.

Amphitryon

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

The GNOME website doesn't have any news on GNOME 3.36 being released so presumably this is a release candidate.  I don't know how their version numbering works but a version number just under the released version is one of the schemes projects something use.

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

The GNOME website doesn't have any news on GNOME 3.36 being released so presumably this is a release candidate.  I don't know how their version numbering works but a version number just under the released version is one of the schemes projects something use.

It comes out on March 11 according to Google.

I know Arch is usually bleeding edge.  But they don't usually release a desktop environment until a few weeks after the stable release.  I wonder why they released a beta for public use this time?

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

I wonder why they released a beta for public use this time?

Probably because the maintainer deemed it ready.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130138
And the respective packages are not Beta, they're stable:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= … 36-Release

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maboleth

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

Apart from one extension that is yet to be updated, everything is working smoothly I must say.

eschwartz

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

I know Arch is usually bleeding edge.  But they don't usually release a desktop environment until a few weeks after the stable release.  I wonder why they released a beta for public use this time?

Where on earth did you get the idea that we explicitly wait a few weeks after the stable release of a Desktop Environment?

To my knowledge that *never* happens. We package desktops just like anything else: when it's ready and we have time.

Speaking from personal experience as the [community] maintainer of the Cinnamon desktop stack, as soon as upstream starts tagging the new major release I release it, component by component. There will be periods of time when, for example, parts of cinnamon will be version 4.2 (because COMPONENT v4.4 wasn't released), and parts of it are version 4.4 (because OTHERCOMPONENT v4.4 was released), assuming that my perusal of the commit logs and preliminary testing shows that it works correctly.

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

This is the first time I have seen GNOME released on Arch before the official GNOME release date: https://imgur.com/XIhnEdX

maboleth

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

This is the first time I have seen GNOME released on Arch before the official GNOME release date: https://imgur.com/XIhnEdX

Maybe someone pirated gnome and hacked it before everyone else, sort of like leaking album releases. xD

nonoesimposible

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

Maybe someone pirated gnome and hacked it before everyone else, sort of like leaking album releases. xD

How can there be such a thing as pirating or "leaking" a new release when GNOME is open-source?

maboleth

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

Maybe someone pirated gnome and hacked it before everyone else, sort of like leaking album releases. xD

How can there be such a thing as pirating or "leaking" a new release when GNOME is open-source?

Easily. When you make a joke everything is possible!

eschwartz

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Re: Is newest Gnome 3.36 or 3.35?

How complicated is this to understand???

And the respective packages are not Beta, they're stable:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= … 36-Release

The new gnome packages are tagged in git as stable, it doesn't matter whether the press release is out yet. It's still the exact same software.

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