GNOME 49 “Brescia” Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Posted by hanuca on Sep 17, 2025 6:22 PM CST
9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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The GNOME Project released today GNOME 49 “Brescia” as the latest stable version of this widely used desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions, a major release that introduces exciting new features.

Highlights of GNOME 49 include a new “Do Not Disturb” toggle in Quick Settings, a dedicated Accessibility menu in the login screen, support for handling unknown power profiles in the Quick Settings menu, support for YUV422 and YUV444 (HDR) colour spaces, support for passive screen casts, and support for async keyboard map settings.

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