The GStreamer team is happy to announce a new release in the 0.8.x stable series of the GStreamer Plugins.
The 0.8.x series is a stable series aimed at end users. It is not API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series. It is, however, parallel installable with the 0.6.x series.
This module contains plugins providing media encoding and decoding, conversion, effects, and other elements that provide actual media handling functionality to the core. You need the GStreamer core module to make them work. The versions do not need to match exactly, as long as all of them are in the 0.8.x series.
The FFmpeg-based decoder element has been moved to its own module. If you want support for a lot of popular video formats, you need to install this module along with the GStreamer Core and Plugins. An FFmpeg-based colorspace element has been added to the Plugins however.
GnomePython and GnomePythonExtras 2.10.0 have been released. These are stable releases targeted at the GNOME 2.10 platform.
For those not following the story behind GnomePythonExtras, I recall that the old GnomePython 2.6 has been split, with python modules wrapping libraries not part of the GNOME Developer Platform moving away from GnomePython into a new package, GnomePythonExtras.
GnomePythonExtras, besides receiving the modules formerly in GnomePython, also absorbed some other modules previously distributed standalone, such as pygtksourceview, and got some new modules written from scratch as well.
The System Tools Backends version 1.2.0 have been released.
The System Tools Backends are a set of cross-platform scripts for Linux and other Unix systems. The backends provide an standard XML interface for modifying the configuration regarless of the distribution that's being used.
Right now the System Tools Backends fully support various distros/OS such as: Redhat, Mandrake, SuSE, Fedora, Debian (and derivations like Ubuntu, Linex, Guadalinex...), Gentoo, Slackware, FreeBSD, OpenNA, PLD, Vine and Specifix.
OpenOffice.org build:
This package contains Desktop integration work for OpenOffice.org, several back-ported features & speedups, and a much simplified build wrapper, making an OO.o build / install possible for the common man. It is a staging ground for up-streaming patches to stock OO.o.
* What is it ?
=============
nautilus-cd-burner is an easy to use CD/DVD burning package, well integrated with Nautilus and the GNOME desktop.
* What's changed ?
=================
Major changes since the last stable release include:
* Disc blanking support
* New, properly namespaced API for libnautilus-burn
* Warnings for the user before overwriting data
* Better error handling
* Where can I get it ?
=====================
Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/nautilus-cd-burner/2.10/nautilus-cd-burner-2.10.0.tar.gzmd5sum: 240a0305aacba90dfd1afc31ab4f64bf
size: 828K
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/nautilus-cd-burner/2.10/nautilus-cd-burner-2.10.0.tar.bz2md5sum: eba87e8b043cbd0a94d3371aa869bcf1
size: 616K
gtk-engines 2.6.2
================
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk-engines/2.6/gtk-engines provides a central location for commonly used GTK+ engines. It currently supplies several engines and default themes for those which have one.
Overview of Changes in 2.6.2 (since 2.6.1)
=========================================
* Fix bugs #167389 and #163370 [ Andrew Johnson ]
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 the GNOME 2.10.0 (final) call for tarballs.
Note that in order to build, gcalctool now requires Gtk+ v2.6.1 (or later).
Changes since the last gcalctool version (5.5.40).
* Update of the online help documentation for the C locale (thanks Maeve Anslow).
gnome-utils 2.10.0 has been released:
Gnome-utils 2.10.0, codename "Flu", is now out. Joy. This is the first release in the stable 2.10.x series, and is available for download at:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-utils/2.10/gnome-utils-2.10.0.tar.gz
Java-GNOME 2.10.0 has been released:
libgnome-java-2.10.0, libglade-java-2.10.0, and libgconf-java-2.10.0 are available for download at:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgnome-java/2.10/ http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/libglade-java/2.10/ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgconf-java/2.10/These packages combinded with libgtk-java-2.6.0 make up our official Java-GNOME 2.10 release.
gedit 2.10.0 has been released
GGV 2.8.4 has been released
Metacity 2.10.0 has been released
Metacity is a simple window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
* What's changed ?
==================
This is a stable release to coincide with the release of Gnome 2.10.0. The only difference between this version and 2.9.34 is some translation updates.
* Where can I get it ?
======================
Source code
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/metacity/2.9/MD5 Sums
fed363d8ce6ae33d6dd4850c8e48fbbc metacity-2.10.0.tar.bz2
ef271e3456b52f773e2077b645a8789e metacity-2.10.0.tar.gz
Zenity 2.10.0 has been released
gtkmm and glibmm 2.6 are now available
gtkmm 2.6 wraps new API in GTK+ 2.6, and is API/ABI-compatibile with gtkmm 2.4.
gtkmm stays in-sync with GTK+ by following the official GNOME release schedule:
http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/Bindings for the rest of the GNOME Platform are also available, and are also API-stable.
http://www.gtkmm.org
PyGTK 2.6.0 has been released:
I am pleased to announce version 2.6.0 of the Python bindings for GTK.
The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.6/pygtk-2.6.0.tar.gz
gnome-panel 2.10.0 has been released:
GNOME panel is, well, the panel in GNOME. You know, the bar you see at the top and at the bottom of your desktop, with menus and lots of applets on it. That's it. That's the panel.
This is the "Mais où sont passés les bugs ?" release: since the 2.8.0 release, 732 gnome-panel bugs were marked as RESOLVED (including 190 FIXED, 347 DUPLICATE, 82 INCOMPLETE and 74 NOTGNOME) and 321 were marked as CLOSED. Of course, this is just some figures from bugzilla and it doesn't even count a lot of other fixes and improvements. We now have 144 open bugs and 94 open enhancement requests in bugzilla. And we hope to bring these numbers down again in the next development cycle.
Ruby-GNOME2-0.12.0 is out.
Highlights
=========
* Ruby/GLib, ATK, Pango, GdkPixbuf, GTK, GdkGLExt, Libglade2
supports MSVC+(Win32 One Click Installer).
* Ruby/GLib supports GLib-2.6.x.
* Ruby/Pango supports Pango-1.8.x.
* Ruby/GdkPixbuf supports GTK+-2.6.x [complete].
* Ruby/GTK supports GTK+-2.6.x [complete].
* Ruby/Libgda supports libgda-1.1.99.
* Improved, Fixed many bugs.
http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News_20050306_1Downloads
========
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53614
gnome-games-extra-data 2.10.0 has been released
gnome-games-extra-data is a set of extra themes for the games in the gnome-games package. This includes some themes that were moved out of gnome-games and some new themes. The quality varies wildy, but there is certain to be something to keep you amused.
This release includes ports of the Same GNOME themes from the old format to the 2.10 format. The old themes have been retained and can be installed using the --enable-old argument to configure.
Get it from:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-games-extra-data/2.10
gnome-games 2.10 has been released:
Hooray! The 2.10 release of the GNOME Games package is here.
You can download it from:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-games/2.10The people who made this release happen where:
Callum McKenzie
Richard Hoelscher
William Jon McCann
Paolo Borelli
Jonathan Blandford
Damien Laniel
Andreas Røsdal
Thomas Vander Stichele
libgda/libgnomedb 1.2.1 have been released.
libgda/libgnomedb are a complete framewok for developing database-oriented applications, and currently allow access to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, SQLite, FireBird/Interbase, IBM DB2, mSQL and MSSQL server, as well as MS Access and xBase files and ODBC data sources.
libgda/libgnomedb are the base of the database support in the GNOME Office application suite, providing database access for many features in both Gnumeric and Abiword.
