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GNOME 45 Packs in Exciting Upgrades: Here's What's New

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sep 01, 2023,

updated Sep 07, 2023

Every major GNOME release is exciting to me.

You can always expect UI-focused changes, feature improvements, and updates to the core apps.

GNOME 44 introduced some interesting abilities like being able to check running background apps, thumbnail view in the file chooser, and more.

The GNOME 45 release is scheduled for September 20, but the feature set can already be seen in its beta version. So, let us look at what you can expect with GNOME 45.

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FOSS Force:

Why Your Favorite Extension Might Not Work With Gnome 45

Here’s the deal: in the next release, the folks at Gnome will be adopting standard JavaScript modules, known as ECMAScript Modules or ESMs, as the desktop environment’s main way to manage and organize code. While this will be good for Gnome in the long run, since it’ll make it easier for Gnome devs to work with all the major JavaScript engines, in the short term it means that the extensions you’re running now won’t work in Gnome 45 without some serious tweaking from the extension’s developers.