GNOME 51 adds passkey logins, offline maps and drawn PDF signatures

GNOME 51 adds passkey logins, offline maps and drawn PDF signatures 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 26.10 will ship it.

The update also takes something away. Owners of older NVIDIA graphics cards, such as a GeForce GTX 780, lose support for NVIDIA’s proprietary driver on the GNOME desktop and fall back to Nouveau, the open-source NVIDIA driver, which runs those cards in a basic mode. UbuntuHandbook, which followed the change from the alpha onward, lists the GeForce 700 series and older as affected, except the GTX 750 Ti, GTX 750 and GTX 745.