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The GNOME Project has announced a change to its version-numbering scheme;
the next release will be “GNOME 40”.
“After nearly 10 years of 3.x releases, the minor version number is
getting unwieldy. It is also exceedingly clear that we're not going to bump
the major version because of technological changes in the core platform,
like we did for GNOME 2 and 3, and then piling on a major UX change on top
of that. Radical technological and design changes are too disruptive for
maintainers, users, and developers; we have become pretty good at iterating
design and technologies, to the point that the current GNOME platform, UI,
and UX are fairly different from what was released with GNOME 3.0, while
still following the same design tenets.”