There won’t be major changes to the icons but you’ll notice more vibrant and lively colored icons in Juno.
elementary now has an official color palette.
Look and feel changes due to new features in the latest Gtk+ including some animated panel icons.
New system sounds for notifications etc.
Text editor Scratch is rebranded as Code with features of a basic code editor.
Here are the new features that would be coming to the new version: So 5.0 really reflects how much more complete and bespoke Pantheon is as a desktop environment compared to its first release. But the new release has a version number 5.0 instead of 0.5.ĭaniel Fore, the founder of the elementary OS, told It’s FOSS that “0.x was confusing for new users who assumed that this meant elementary OS was in beta or unstable”. But that’s not the only reason for the bump in the version number.Įlementary OS team has been holding off on 1.0 since it used to depend on many 3rd party components in the desktop. Now they have a functioning and growing 3rd party app ecosystem, a complete set of default apps, a full set of system settings panes that’s been tailored to the elementary OS. If you are familiar with elementary OS, you know that its releases are numbered in decimal points like 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4. This new release is based on Ubuntu 18.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release.īefore we see the new features in elementary OS 5.0 Juno, let’s first talk about the new version number. The wait is over! The latest stable release of the elementary OS is finally here.