We, here at Softpedia, are monitoring the development process of the GNOME desktop environment very closely, and we can report that this first development release has very few updated packages, as compared with other testing versions from the past. To mention a few notable changes from this release, the GNOME Online Accounts enables IMAP/SMTP by default, Fille-Roller supports tar.rz archives, the Workspace-indicator, Window-list and XRandr-indicator GNOME-Shell extensions have been updated, and Gstreamer adds better support for static plugins.