GNOME 2.17.2 has been released:

This is our second development release on our road towards GNOME 2.18.0, which will be released in March 2007. New features are coming in at a nice rate, and that's great. A lot of bug fixes too. And some crashers are appearing here and there: that's the fun of unstable releases!

You all know what you have to do now. Go download it. Go compile it. Go test it. And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it.

To compile GNOME 2.17.2, you can use GARNOME (http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/, which supports users and has additional/different modules available), or the jhbuild (http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/jhbuild.html) modulesets (which use the exact tarball versions from the official release) available at:

http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.17.2/

The release notes that describe the changes between 2.17.1 and 2.17.2 are available. Go read them to learn all the goodness of this release:

platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.17/2.17.2/NEWS
desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.17/2.17.2/NEWS
admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.17/2.17.2/NEWS
bindings - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.17/2.17.2/NEWS

The GNOME 2.17.2 release is available here:

platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.17/2.17.2/
desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.17/2.17.2/
admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.17/2.17.2/
bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.17/2.17.2/


WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
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This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is buildable and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking purposes. GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status.

For more informations about 2.17, the full schedule, the official module lists and the proposed modules list, please see our new shiny 2.17 page:

http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/

We hope you'll love it,

The GNOME Release Team