GNOME 51 “A Coruña” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

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Marcus Nestor
Sep 24, 2026

Highlights of GNOME 51 include support for saving and restoring monitor brightness, support for elogind as a libsystemd provider, a new API to generate QR codes, support for the input capture portal to integrate with the clipboard, and improved screencasting by minimizing stage paints and buffer copies.

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Marcus Nestor

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