This is the first stable release of the 2.8 series.

gedit is the official text editor for the GNOME environment. Among others, it features full UTF-8 support, syntax highlighting and a powerful plugin system.

Some of the plugins included in the gedit release are:

* Word count
* Spell checker
* Change case of selected text (New in 2.8)
* Sort
* Tag list
* Insert Date/Time
* Shell output