GNOME 50.1 has been released as the first bugfix update for the GNOME 50 desktop. The Release Team describes it as a “boring bugfix update,” intended to provide a safe and uneventful upgrade from earlier GNOME 50 builds.
GNOME 50.1 updates several packages, including Epiphany 50.3, GNOME Control Center 50.1, GNOME Software 50.1, Nautilus 50.1, Papers 50.1, GTK 4.22.2, GTK 3.24.52, Pango 1.57.1, Orca 50.0.9, and various lower-level libraries and developer tools such as gdk-pixbuf, pygobject, vala, and glycin.
At the same time, many core modules remain unchanged in this release, including GNOME Shell, Mutter, libadwaita, GVfs, GDM, gnome-settings-daemon, and gnome-text-editor.
For users, a notable update in Nautilus includes crash fixes and several smaller corrections. These address issues with read-only or inaccessible emblems, item deduplication on slower machines, opening folders with many custom icons, permanent delete dialog focus, encrypted partition properties, and image rounding.
GNOME Control Center resolves issues with keyboard navigation between cursor sizes in Accessibility, corrects a display counter type issue, and fixes memory leaks in the camera and location privacy pages.
Epiphany, GNOME’s web browser, receives significant improvements in the 50.x series. The 50.3 update reverts to the previous ad-block filter source due to site compatibility issues. Earlier 50.1 and 50.2 updates addressed ad-blocker problems, command-line URL crash issues, and tab handling crashes.
GTK 4.22.2 includes fixes for Vulkan, SVG, symbolic icons, and dmabuf. GTK 3.24.52 provides a broader range of bug and crash fixes across Wayland, X11, accessibility, clipboard handling, focus behavior, and 32-bit refresh-rate overflows.
One notable detail is that GTK upstream has announced that GTK3 releases will become less frequent and will focus only on important bug and crash fixes. The next GTK3 release is expected in March 2027.
For more information, visit the announcement or review all the changes here.
Additionally, the GNOME project has released GNOME 49.6, as well as a bugfix update for the previous (now old-stable) GNOME 49 series.
