GNOME 51 adds passkey logins, offline maps and drawn PDF signatures
GNOME 51 ships passkey and smart card logins, offline Maps, and drops proprietary NVIDIA driver support for GeForce 700-series and older cards.
GNOME 51, codenamed A Coruña, was released on September 16 and will ship in Fedora 45 and Ubuntu 26.10. GDM adds smart card, passkey and QR code login, while the Settings Network panel drops legacy WEP Wi-Fi encryption. The release removes EGLStreams/EGLDevice code from Mutter, so older GeForce cards (700 series and earlier, except GTX 750 Ti/750/745) lose the proprietary NVIDIA driver under GNOME and fall back to Nouveau. Papers gains hand-drawn visual PDF signatures, though they carry no cryptographic signer identity or tamper detection.
- GDM adds passkey, smart card and QR code login options
- Mutter dropped EGLStreams, cutting proprietary NVIDIA driver support for pre-GBM GeForce cards
- Maps gains offline region downloads and live transit departures
- Papers' drawn PDF signatures are cosmetic, with no signer identity or edit detection
- Network settings drop legacy WEP encryption support
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GNOME 51, the new version of the Linux desktop, came out on September 16 under the codename A Coruña. The release adds offline maps and live transit information to Maps, new login options at the login screen, hand-drawn signatures in the Papers document viewer, and smoother animations when the system is under load. Fedora 45 and Ubuntu 26.
By Anamarija Pogorelec · helpnetsecurity.com
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