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2026-03-27-bluefin-lts-gnome-49-50
2026-03-27-bluefin-lts-gnome-49-50
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Jun 13, 2026
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The time has come. Thanks to @hanthor not only do we get GNOME 49, we get GNOME 50 too! Achillobator can be fast!

Call for Testing#

We've got fancy new testing branches so feel free to help out. I know it's tempting to go right to 50 but if you could give 49 a shakedown on your way there it would really help. We're also wondering when the best time to land 50 would be. Do we wait until Fall to kinda get the -1 feel GTS had or do we pick a happy spot in the summer? Leave your feedback below.

Help fix the matrix of madness#

Find your image with a sudo bootc status and you basically adding a -testing to your image name. So instead of bluefin:lts it's bluefin:lts-testing, and so on.

GroupTags
Testinglts-testing lts-testing-hwe lts-testing-amd64 lts-testing-arm64
Testing (GNOME 50)lts-testing-50 lts-testing-50-amd64 lts-testing-50-arm64 lts-hwe-testing-50 lts-hwe-testing-50-amd64 lts-hwe-testing-50-arm64

We need one more legend.#

Huge thanks to @hanthor on this one, and if you're as annoyed as I am with those manual branch names you can help just add a toggle to the rebase helper so that we can just have this be a nice testing switch! Once we get that going and add a testing branch to bluefin:stable we'll have a nice easy way for people to opt in and out of testing. Good luck, have fun!

Discussion#