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# Blog posts tagged "GNOME shell"

#### [Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – February 2, 2018](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-desktop-update-2-february-2018)

GNOME As you might have already read, we’ve taken the decision to ship Xorg by default in Bionic 18.04 LTS. The Wayland session will still be available as an option at login. You can read more about that here. The Ubuntu Dock extension has been rebased on the latest upstream master and we’ve added some

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#### [Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: GNOME Fixes & New Snaps](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-desktop-weekly-update-gnome-fixes-new-snaps)

I’ll be starting the weekly round-up posts again now that the release is out and 18.04 is getting under way. At this early stage in the development cycle we’re spending a week or so tidying up the loose ends from 17.10, SRUing the important fixes that we’ve found, getting ready to sync new packages from

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