Elementary OS 6 Early Access Builds are now available, and interested users can experience some of the content in this major update before the final stable version is released. The development team announced the release in a blog post and released a new website hosting the Early Access version.

Cassidy James Blaede, co-founder and CXO of elementary OS, said, "In the past week, we quietly launched builds.elementary.io. This new website hosts Early Access Builds of elementary OS to ensure that OEM manufacturers , developers, testers, supporters, and excited fans can get the latest pre-release build. Now that elementary OS 6 is in an installable and bootable state, we've started adding backers to AppCenter for Everyone over $25. to the allowed list and automatically accessible to any GitHub sponsor of $10/month and above."

At the same time, Cassidy also introduced some new features that are being promoted in elementary OS 6 version. The specific contents are as follows:

1. Appearance update: In addition to providing dark mode for system components (such as dock, system dialog boxes, etc.), user-defined accent colors are also added to the application; as well as improvements to typography and system style sheets, and in one Contrast and more have been improved in the series of applications.

2. Massive updates to communications and organizational applications relying on the Evolution data server backend. These updates enable the synchronization of mail, calendar events, tasks, and more in related applications with more account providers.

3. Major rewrite of Mail mainly relies on the Evolution data server rather than the customized Geary email engine. The appearance will be basically the same, but functional parity has not yet been achieved.

4. The New Tasks application handles local tasks as well as all task lists synchronized with the Evolution data server.

5. New installation program and initial setup experience.

6. More multi-touch support. Leveraging the Libhandy library, elementary OS brings more gestures to make its applications highly accessible using touch screens, trackpads, and mouse wheels.