GNOME 3.17.1, the latest development release of widely used open source desktop environment, is now available for download. This release of GNOME is a foot step to upcoming stable release GNOME 3.18.
As we reported last week, the GNOME development team started work on the next major version of the acclaimed desktop environment, GNOME 3.18, and they've just released the first snapshot, GNOME 3.17.1.GNOME 3.17.1 is now available for download and testing and includes various updated core components and GNOME applications, including GNOME Shell, GTK+, Brasero, Cheese, Mutter, Evince, Evolution, Gedit, Weather, Maps, Boxes, Logs, Chess, and Polari.