elementary OS 6 Beta 2 Now Available

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2021-06-17 00:30:03

Developers and testers, elementary OS 6 Beta 2 is available now! For a refresher on what a beta is, the release schedule, and how to provide feedback, see the Beta 1 announcement.

So, what have we been up to for the past several weeks? The biggest changes in Beta 2 are related to the OS installer, Flatpak, and Online Accounts.

We’ve been putting lot of polish and cleanup into the installer UI. We’ve ensured the various views no longer resize the window, we reworked the layout in a few of the views to be more consistent with one another, and we added a pleasant animation to the installation progress view instead of just a static icon. We’ve also improved disk detection and error handling when failing to install on certain setups.

Since the installer is such a critical part of the OS, we highly encourage you to reinstall from Beta 2 if you have been developing on and testing elementary OS 6. It’s important we ensure it works well across a wide variety of hardware so people can enjoy the latest elementary OS on their devices.

We’ve continued our efforts to ship first-party apps packaged as Flatpaks in Beta 2. elementary OS 6 now comes with Calculator, Camera, Document Viewer, Screenshot, Tasks, and Web from the AppCenter Flatpak repository. As a user, it’s entirely transparent: apps launch and behave just as before—they just happen to be packaged in a different way under the hood. As the beta process progresses and we solve sandboxing issues in our apps, we plan to transition even more apps over from Debian packages to Flatpaks provided by the AppCenter Flatpak repository.

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