GNOME 50 “Tokyo” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Posted by hanuca on Mar 20, 2026 4:20 AM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
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The GNOME Project released today GNOME 50 (codename Tokyo) as the latest stable version of this widely used desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions, a major release that introduces exciting new features.

The biggest change in the GNOME 50 desktop environment is that the X11 session has been completely removed as GNOME goes Wayland-only from here on. However, running X11 apps is still supported, as well as the ability to run other X11 sessions from the GDM login manager, but not GNOME.

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