This is the sixth development release, and the first beta, towards our 2.26 release that will happen in March 2009. By now most things are in place, and your mission is easy: Go download it. Go compile it. Go test it. And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it.

With this release, we are now even more frozen; developer API/ABI were already, and at this point all new API are hopefully documented; no UI changes may be made without approval from the release team and notification to the documentation project, and no new features without approval from the release team. We also remain in the string change announcement period -- all string changes must be announced to both the gnome-doc-list and gnome-i18n lists.

To compile GNOME 2.25.90, you can use GARNOME (which supports users and has additional/different modules available), or the jhbuild modulesets (which use the exact tarball versions from the official release):
http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/
http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/
http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.25.90/

The release notes that describe the changes between 2.25.5 and 2.25.90 are available. Go read them to learn all the goodness of this release:

platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.25/2.25.90/NEWS
desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.25/2.25.90/NEWS
admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.25/2.25.90/NEWS
bindings - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.25/2.25.90/NEWS
devtools - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.25/2.25.90/NEWS
mobile - http://download.gnome.org/mobile/2.25/2.25.90/NEWS

The GNOME 2.25.90 release is available here:

platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.25/2.25.90/
desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.25/2.25.90/
admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.25/2.25.90/
bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.25/2.25.90/
devtools sources - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.25/2.25.90/
mobile sources - http://download.gnome.org/mobile/2.25/2.25.90/

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 information about 2.25, the full schedules, the official modules list and the proposed modules list, please see our 2.25 page:
http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/

Also take a look at the abbreviated schedule reminder page at:
http://live.gnome.org/Schedule

We hope you'll love it,

The GNOME Release Team