Topic: Papers

GNOME 50 released – this is what’s new

GNOME 50 is out. It enables VRR and fractional scaling by default, expands parental controls, and supports GPU-accelerated remote desktop – and more.

Wednesday
A screenshot of the GNOME Papers app showing a PDF document being annotated with freehand ink drawings and added text boxes.

Papers adds handwriting & text annotations in latest Nightly builds

Papers gains new PDF annotation tools, including ink, text boxes and improved form support, now available in GNOME Nightly builds.

4 February 2026

GNOME 49 Officially Released, This is What’s New

A new version of the GNOME desktop environment has been released with new default video and document apps, Lock Screen features, and more - exciting!

17 September 2025

GNOME 49 Makes Papers a Core App, Replacing Evince

When Ubuntu 25.04 made Papers its PDF viewer, it did so knowing knowing upstream GNOME planned to make it a Core App. Now it has.

2 July 2025
Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin

Ubuntu 25.04’s New PDF Viewer App is Now Rolling Out

Earlier this year Ubuntu announced plans to replace document viewer app Evince with Papers, a modern GTK4/libadwaita fork1 of the former, in Ubuntu 25.04—today, the swap was made official. Papers is a fork of Evince […]

5 March 2025
Ubuntu logo with the text Ubuntu News.

Ubuntu 25.04 Set to Ship With New PDF Viewer

It could be all change for the PDF viewer in the next version of Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s long-time PDF viewer Evince (aka Document Viewer) is comes preinstalled in Ubuntu at present—I can’t recall using a version […]

13 November 2024