GNOME 2.14.2
Posted on: 06/01/2006 07:46 AM

GNOME 2.14.2 has been released:

The latest release of GNOME is here: GNOME 2.14.2! This is the second release in a series of point releases for the 2.14 branch.

Come and see all the bug fixing, all the new translations and all the updated documentation brought to you by the wonderful team of GNOME contributors! While development has started on the Gnome 2.15/2.16 road, work on the stable branch continues to make it even more solid.

The notes that describe the changes between 2.14.1 and 2.14.2 are here:

admin - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/admin/2.14/2.14.2/NEWS
bindings - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/bindings/2.14/2.14.2/NEWS
desktop - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.14/2.14.2/NEWS
platform - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/platform/2.14/2.14.2/NEWS

The Gnome 2.14.2 release is available here:

admin sources - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/admin/2.14/2.14.2/
bindings sources - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.14/2.14.2/
desktop sources - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.14/2.14.2/
platform sources - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.14/2.14.2/

Note that both libxml2 and libxslt tarballs need a patch [1] and that the libxml2 tarball also needs a second patch [2].

[1] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.14.2/bug-340163.patch
[2] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.14.2/fix-python-path.patch


To compile GNOME 2.14.2, you can use GARNOME (http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/), or the jhbuild (http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/jhbuild.html) modulesets available at:

http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.14.2/

We hope you'll love it,

The GNOME Release Team

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