 With no releases in two years, on 8 August 2011, DistroWatch classified gNewSense as "dormant".By September 2012 DistroWatch had changed the status to "active" again, and on 6 August 2013, the first version directly based on Debian, gNewSense 3 "Parkes", was released.Under the few discussions in the Trisquel forums gNewSense was again said to be inactive in 2017, while in 2019 after gNewSense had not had releases in several years, active development was restarted with the merging of the Skeleton GNU/Linux project into it and a new maintainer taking over.