GNOME 2.18.0 Release Candidate (2.17.92) Released

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GNOME 2.18.0 Release Candidate (2.17.92) has been released:

Here we go: this is the last unstable release before 2.18.0. We've all added cool features, important bug fixes, great translations, or shiny documentation during the past six months. And it'll be soon ready for public consumption. There's still one week before the hard codde freeze, so it's not too late to fix this last bug you're ashamed of. And then, you'll be able to think about the future. What will make GNOME 2.20.0 rock? It's up to you to write this future!

Gtk2Hs version 0.9.11 released

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Gtk2Hs - A GUI Library for Haskell based on Gtk+

Version 0.9.11 is now available from:

http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/download/

The source tarball and an installer for Windows are available. Packages are available for Gentoo and FreeBSD. Packages for various other platforms should become available soon (hopefully including Fedora, Debian and Darwin).

at-spi 1.17.2

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at-spi (assistive technology service provider interface) is the primary assistive technology infrastructure for the Solaris and Linux operating environments. Applications and toolkits supporting the AT-SPI include the GNOME GTK+ toolkit, the Java platform's Swing toolkit, OpenOffice, and Mozilla.

Download at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi/1.17

CESA-2007:0077 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 seamonkey - security update

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There has been an update to the files issued for this advisory upstream.

The original seamonkey-nss created a problem with Evolution and Gaim which caused them to fail to start.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229987

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1694

The issue has been corrected with this update.

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors:

files:
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm

vte-0.15.5 released

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Vte-0.15.5 is available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/vte/0.15/

Vte is GNOME 2's virtual-terminal emulation widget.

This is an unstable release in the development cycle targeted for GNOME 2.18.

This is a quick followup release to 0.15.4 to fix a crasher recently introduced.
- Fix a newly-introduced crasher
- Do not link to libpython in the python bindings
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 412562 =E2=80" Crash in vte_terminal_match_hilite_update
Bug 410986 =E2=80" Fails to build with -z defs

27 February 2007
Behdad Esfahbod

gThumb 2.9.3 development released

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gThumb is an Image Viewer and Browser.

gThumb 2.9.3 is now available for download at:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gthumb/2.9/gthumb-2.9.3.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gthumb/2.9/gthumb-2.9.3.tar.bz2

Why?
===

gThumb 2.9.3 is mostly a bug-fix release. Several long-standing bugs have been squashed, so upgrading is recommended. Also, audio and video clips are now launched more gracefully using the default external viewer, rather than hard-coding the use of totem.

Gnome Games 2.17.92

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This is the final release candidate before the Gnome Games 2.18 release. A little more bug fixes abound.

* Gnome Sodoku : Handle games that have been marked as played
correctly.
: Fix a crash and error highlighting bug
: Fix crash on logout
: Fix crash on click fill multiple times
: Menu HIG compliance
: Fix crash if user removed A/C charger
* Aisleriot : Make Agnes winnable

Get it at: http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-games/2.17/

Orca v2.17.92

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Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable combinations of speech, braille, and/or magnification. Orca development has been led by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office via continued engagement with its end users and contributions from wonderful community members.

You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. The Orca 2.17.x series are designated for the GNOME 2.17.x releases, but should also work well on the GNOME 2.16.x releases. NOTE ON FIREFOX 3.0 SUPPORT: we know many of you are anxiously awaiting compelling access to the web via Orca and Firefox. As of v2.17.92, the support is still under development and both the Orca and Firefox teams are working feverishly to get it there for Firefox 3.0. We're getting there step by step.

control-center 2.17.92 released

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Changes since 2.17.91
---------------------
about-me:
- Change default dir for the image chooser (Jens Granseuer) (#408305)
- Dont use composite pixbuf to avoid unnecessary clipping (Diego Escalante Urrelo) (#380315)
- Prevent child watcher from accessing already released memory (Jens Granseuer) (#411697)

default applications:
- Really fix DATADIR (Jens Granseuer) (#407597)
- Dont try reading into invalid territory when the user set a custom command without spaces (Jens Granseuer) (#407601)

fontilus:
- Use GOption argument parsing (Christian Persch) (#393394)

keybindings:
- Clear GConf client cache before reloading (Jens Granseuer) (#394776)

keyboard:
- Avoid crashing on NULLs (Jens Granseuer) (#398631)

settings daemon:
- Properly round volumes so that volume-up and -down act symetrically (Jens Granseuer) (#389996)
- Dont ignore errors when X refuses to update the pointer mapping (Jens Granseuer) (#349538)
- Dont install the same filter twice for the default root window (Jens Granseuer) (#408643)
- Correctly pass the function address when setting up the event filter (Jens Granseuer)
- Fix warnings (Jens Granseuer)

shell:
- Revert to old menu for 2.18 (Denis Washington)

theme switcher:
- Update selected fg color from the correct slot (Jens Granseuer) (#410764)
- Fix warnings (Jens Granseuer)
- Format guint16 values accordingly (Jens Granseuer) (#398331)

themus:
- Populate the VFS file info fields properly so that Nautilus shows, e.g.,
read-only emblems in themes:// (Jens Granseuer) (#145175)

windows:
- Remove some long-dead code (Jens Granseuer)
- Dont leak stuff on error (Jens Granseuer)

updated translations:
- ar (Djihed Afifi)
- bg (Alexander Shopov)
- ca (Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj=F3)
- cs (Jakub Friedl)
- en_GB (David Lodge)
- et (Priit Laes)
- fi (Ilkka Tuohela)
- fr (St=E9phane Raimbault)
- hu (Gabor Kelemen)
- ja (Takeshi AIHANA)
- ko (Changwoo Ryu)
- nb (Kjartan Maraas)
- pt (Duarte Loreto)
- pt_BR (Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle)
- sv (Daniel Nylander)
- th (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
- uk (Maxim Dziumanenko)
- vi (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy)
- zh_CN (Abel Cheung)

Availability
------------
http://download.gnome.org/sources/control-center/2.17/

Contact
-------
* Bugs in http://bugzilla.gnome.org
* Mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomecc-list

Zenity 2.17.92

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This is zenity - a rewrite of gdialog, the GNOME port of dialog which allows you to display dialog boxes from the commandline and shell scripts. If you understand, things are just as they are. If you don't understand, things are just as they are.

Pango-1.16.0 released

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Pango-1.16.0 is now available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.16/

3ff23998479e98c5dd9a7eaf08f6249d pango-1.16.0.tar.bz2
0b6ee553631e3988d8e7ce87c3072e39 pango-1.16.0.tar.gz

This is a stable release providing new functionality as compared to Pango-1.14, while maintaining source and binary compatibility. Notable improvements in Pango since version 1.14 include:

* Support for vertical writing system

* Improved performance when rendering layouts multiple times

* New Thai, Indic, and Arabic language engines, improving line breaking and cursor positioning in their respective languages. These were backported released in later 1.14.x releases too.

at-spi 1.17.1

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at-spi (assistive technology service provider interface) is the primary assistive technology infrastructure for the Solaris and Linux operating environments. Applications and toolkits supporting the AT-SPI include the GNOME GTK+ toolkit, the Java platform's Swing toolkit, OpenOffice, and Mozilla.

Download at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi/1.17

GDM2 2.17.8 (unstable), the "Lhasa" Release

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If you have no clue what GDM is, refer to the documentation links at the bottom of this announcement.

The 2.17.8 release is an unstable release of GDM with the following new features.

gcalctool v5.9.13 (stable)

GNOME 3719 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Gcalctool is the default GNOME desktop calculator.

It has Basic, Advanced, Financial and Scientific modes. Internally it uses multiple precision arithmetic to produce results to a high degree of accuracy.

This release is for GNOME 2.18.0 (Release Candidate).

gnome-speech 0.4.10

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Gnome-speech provides a simple general API for producing text-to-speech (TTS) output. It also provides drivers for several TTS engines, both commercial and open source.

The gnome-speech 0.4.10 release is designated for GNOME 2.17/2.18, but has also been tested on GNOME 2.16.

Many thanks to community member Gilles Casse for his work: his contributions are the only reason a new release is being made. The community model works!

Accerciser 0.1.0 (stretch)

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Accerciser is an interactive Python accessibility explorer for the GNOME desktop. It uses AT-SPI to inspect and control widgets, allowing you to check if an application is providing correct information to assistive technologies and automated test frameworks. Accerciser has a simple plugin framework which you can use to create custom views of accessibility information.

In essence, Accerciser is a next generation at-poke tool.

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