The Ubuntu GNOME developers are proud to announce our latest non-LTS release 17.04. For the first time in Ubuntu GNOME’s history, this release includes the latest stable release of GNOME, 3.24.

Although Ubuntu’s release schedule was originally centered around shipping the latest GNOME release, this had not been possible since Ubuntu GNOME’s first release four years ago.

Take a look at our release notes for a list of highlighted changes and improvements.

The future of Ubuntu GNOME

As announced last week by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will include GNOME instead of Unity. Specifically, it will be GNOME (including gnome-shell) with minimal Ubuntu customization. Next year, if you are using either Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS, you will be prompted to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. For normal release users, this upgrade should happen with the release of 17.10.

As a result of this decision there will no longer be a separate GNOME flavor of Ubuntu. The development teams from both Ubuntu GNOME and Ubuntu Desktop will be merging resources and focusing on a single combined release, that provides the best of both GNOME and Ubuntu. We are currently liaising with the Canonical teams on how this will work out and more details will be announced in due course as we work out the specifics.

The Ubuntu community is important to Mark Shuttleworth and he has publicly stated on Google+: “We will invest in Ubuntu GNOME with the intent of delivering a fantastic all-GNOME desktop. We’re helping the Ubuntu GNOME team, not creating something different or competitive with that effort. While I am passionate about the design ideas in Unity, and hope GNOME may be more open to them now, I think we should respect the GNOME design leadership by delivering GNOME the way GNOME wants it delivered.”

The Ubuntu GNOME developers were already members of the Ubuntu Desktop team since both teams shared responsibility for maintaining many parts of GNOME. We will continue to work closely with them and push the visions of Ubuntu GNOME into the main Ubuntu Community.

We started and maintained Ubuntu GNOME with the vision of bringing the most popular desktop experience¹ to the most popular Linux distribution. We are excited that we are now able to bring this powerful combination to many more people. If you want an early preview of what this will look like, try Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 today!

On behalf of the Ubuntu GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha and Tim Lunn

¹ GNOME is shipped as the default desktop on a majority of Linux distributions.

The brave fearless volunteers behind Ubuntu GNOME are very happy to announce
the official release of Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS supported for 3 years and
this is our 2nd official Long Term Support (LTS) version.

Before you upgrade or download, kindly make sure to read:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME

You may want to download from:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/16.04/release/

We highly suggest to download via torrent.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release announcement:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2016-April/003720.html

Special thanks to each and everyone who made it happen. You’re the best, no
doubt about it.

Yet another achievement 😀

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for choosing and using Ubuntu GNOME!

Ali Jawad
Ubuntu GNOME Release and Community Manager

With GNOME 3.16, new logo and new Ubiquity Slideshow, the Ubuntu GNOME Team is very happy to announce the release of Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 (Wily Werewolf).

The New Logo:

Social Media banner announcing the release of Wily Werewolf:

Ubuntu GNOME is an official flavor of Ubuntu, featuring the GNOME desktop environment. Ubuntu GNOME is a mostly pure GNOME desktop experience built from the Ubuntu repositories. Three years ago, Ubuntu GNOME has started as unofficial flavor to Ubuntu – see the release notes of 12.10 – and 6 months after that, Ubuntu GNOME has become an official flavor.

Release Notes

Please read the Release Notes before Downloading Ubuntu GNOME 15.10:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME

Get Ubuntu GNOME 15.10

There are important steps you need to be aware of before installing Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 so please read carefully: Download Ubuntu GNOME 15.10

Support

Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) is supported for 9 months only. This is our Non-LTS Release. If you seek stability and long support, please consider Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) LTS Release. If you seek the latest software/packages that we can offer, then go ahead and use Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 (Wily Werewolf).

Contact Us

Please, see the full list of our communications channels

Thank you everyone

To each and everyone who participated, helped, supported and contributed to Ubuntu GNOME this cycle; big thanks to all of you. Special thanks to our testers who did a unique great job – as always – to make Ubuntu GNOME better.

Thank you for choosing and using Ubuntu GNOME.

Hi everyone,

Less than a month from now and Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 will be released. Are you excited and interested to see what we have been working on for the last 5 months? because we have good news for you.

We’re delighted to announce the release of Ubuntu GNOME Wily Werewolf (15.10) Beta 2 (Final Beta).

First thing first, kindly have a read at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta2/UbuntuGNOME

So, what’s new with this Beta 2 of Ubuntu GNOME Wily Werewolf (15.10)?

Software Updates

• GNOME Shell 3.16
• Most of GNOME 3.16
• GNOME getting started guide is included and will run on first login
• Replaced Shotwell with GNOME Photos
• GNOME Music is installed by default
• Bluez 5
• Support to use syncevolution with GNOME Online Accounts (GOA)
• Adwaita Dark Theme support for Ubuntu Software Centre
• New Ubiquity Slide Show

• Experimental wayland session is now available. Install gnome-session-wayland and then select “GNOME on wayland” from login screen (Only works with OSS GPU drivers).

For more information, please visit the Release Notes page.

Thanks a million to each and everyone who has helped, supported,contributed and tested Ubuntu GNOME because those who made this yet another successful milestone!

We can’t wait until the final release of 15.10, can you?

Thank you!

P.S.
Please accept my apology for the late announcement as I had no Internet connection.

Hello,

Ubuntu GNOME Team is glad to announce the release of Beta 1 of Ubuntu GNOME Wily Werewolf (15.10).

What’s new and how to get it?

Please do read the release notes:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta1/UbuntuGNOME

As always, thanks a million to each and everyone who has helped, supported and contributed to make this yet another successful milestone!

We have great testers and without their endless support, we don’t think we can ever make it. Please, keep the great work up!

Thank you!

Hi,

I know the title is a bit odd, knowing that we are already 2 months away from the release of 15.10 but as the saying goes:

better late than never.

The reason behind this delay is two words: real life.

We have started the discussion and this email was the start of the brainstorming phase 🙂

To make it short and simple, these are the main topics that have been sent and discussed on the mailing list:

• The Triple T Plan
• Changes to the structure of Ubuntu GNOME sub-teams
• A new structure for each sub-team
• Ubuntu GNOME Community version 2.0

We are not yet done. We are suppose to finish before the weekend but I am not sure that’s possible as I haven’t yet sent my internal report nor the plan for the areas I am in charge of. Again, thanks to real life for that.

Anyway, the hardest part is done. Few final touches and all is good, hopefully.

This is to keep everyone in the loop 🙂

Thank you!