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Feeling brave? GNOME 40 is here and you can have a poke around in the Fedora 34 beta

Dan 55 Silver badge
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Version 40 is the first to use a new numbering scheme. The previous version was 3.38, but the project did not want to get to 4.0 out of concern that it would be perceived as too big a shift. "If we ever did release 4, then people would see it as a huge change in [that] everything's going to be broken again, and that's not really what we've got,"

So instead of 3.38 to 3.40 or 3.38 to 4.0 they went from 3.38 to 40.

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