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GnomePython 2.12.0 has been just released. This is a stable release for the upcoming GNOME 2.12 developer platform.

GnomePython provides python interfacing modules for most of the GNOME Developer Platform libraries (except those already wrapped somewhere else.) Currently the list of provided python modules includes:

- gnome, gnome.ui
- gnomecanvas
- gnomevfs
- gconf
- bonobo, bonobo.activation, bonobo.ui

The source tarball can be found here:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-python/2.12/

Please file bug reports (bugs, missing APIs) here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-python

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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 2.12.0 (Final) distribution.

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Version 2.8.0 of the Python bindings for GTK are available

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/2.8/pygtk-2.8.0.tar.gz

Major changes:

Improved GObject/Python Integration
Properties as Object Attributes
Container iteration interface
GIOChannel, GSource wrappers
Cairo support

For a complete list, see the wiki page:

http://live.gnome.org/PyGTK/WhatsNew28

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Kiwi is a PyGTK framework for building graphical applications loosely based on MVC Model-View-Controller (MVC) and Allen Holub's Visual proxy [1]. Think of Kiwi as a high-level, object-oriented layer built on PyGTK.

Its design is based on real-world experience using PyGTK to develop large desktop applications, which use many concepts common to most graphical applications: multiple windows and dialogs, forms, data persistence, lists and high-level classes that support domain objects directly.

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duty-roaster-0.0.81 has been released:

Duty Roaster is a program for managing and generating duty rotas in a userfriendly way licenced under the GPL. You can obtain it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/duty-roaster.

Changes:
=======

- Fixed a bug which caused the program to terminate when assigning an external shifts which intersects two different days.

- Fixed a bug which caused the program to terminate if the user tries to open the 'Shift preferneces window', if a shift has been defined after there are allready some workers.

- Fixed a bug in the 'Requirements window' which caused the program to terminate under certain conditions.

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gedit 2.11.93 has been released.

This is the release candidate for GNOME 2.12, it should be stable, please test it and report any problems.

Fixes
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- Fix leak in caseless search (Paolo Maggi)
- Encoding should not be remembered when auto-detected (Paolo Maggi)

New and updated translations
===========================

- Chris Jackson (cy)
- Jordi Mallach (ca)
- Clytie Siddall (vi)
- Gabor Kelemen (hu)

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Epiphany is the GNOME web browser, based on the mozilla rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.

Epiphany 1.7.6 is the last release in the unstable series leading up to GNOME 2.12.

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The librsvg team is happy to announce librsvg 2.11.1

librsvg is a SVG rendering library maintained by Dom Lachowicz and Caleb Moore and used among other places in the GNOME desktop.

This release of librsvg contains a few critical fixes. It fixes the dpi API which mistakenly got broken in the 2.11.0 release. It also improves the pattern used to recognize svg files in the gdkpixbuf loader so that your desktop SVG files will once again work.

More information on the librsvg homepage:
http://librsvg.sf.net

You can download librsvg from:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/librsvg/2.11/

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The librsvg team is happy to announce librsvg 2.11

librsvg is a SVG rendering library maintained by Dom Lachowicz and Caleb Moore and used among other places in the GNOME desktop.

This release of librsvg is the result of 6 months of development. Caleb Moore spent a lot of time reorganizing the code to enable adding DOM support to librsvg. This code reorganisation had a lot of other positive side effects too, like improved stability and consistency, and last but not least improved rendering speed.

There is also a great host of rendering fixes by Caleb to things like gradient positioning, patterns, namespaces, inheritance, marker rendering and text rendering. Also in this release is better clip paths handling and handling of out of order references and other file references.

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libxml++ is a C++ wrapper for the libxml XML parser library. It has SAX and DOM-like APIs, but does not attempt to conform exactly to the DOM specifications because they are not aimed at C++. Its API is much simpler than the underlying libxml C API.

libxml++ is part of the GNOME Platform Bindings and follows the GNOME

release schedule:
http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/TwoPointEleven

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This is a stable version of evince, and will become the version shipped with GNOME 2.12. We will branch shortly and start a 0.5.x unstable series. It requires GTK+ 2.6 and poppler 0.4.1 or better.

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This year's GNOME Summit is booked in the Stata Center at MIT. Scheduling of talks & BOFs is open and anything-but-formal with an event WiKi and on-site chalk board.

The event is hosted by GNOME Foundation with support from Friends of GNOME and is gratis-to-all.

DATE: Saturday - Monday,
October 8 - 10, 2005
TIME: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (each day)
Registration at 9:00 AM on Saturday

Don't forget to tell us that you are coming:
http://live.gnome.org/Boston2005

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Revelation is a password manager for the GNOME 2 desktop, released under the GNU GPL license. It stores all your accounts and passwords in a single, secure place, and gives you access to it through a user-friendly graphical interface.

This release adds import/export of data files for PasswordSafe 2.x and 1.x, GPass 0.5.x, MyPasswordSafe, and Password Gorilla. It also fixes a few bugs including a crash when searching with non-Unicode character set, a couple of crashes on 64-bit systems, and an incorrect magic string in the MIME-type entry for the data file. The gnomemisc module also gives more informative error messages when something goes wrong.

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The cairo team is very pleased to announce cairo 1.0 available from:

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.0.0.tar.gz

which can be verified with:

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.0.0.tar.gz.sha1
abc50d6a657cba15b3956c8c3aaea080b71172bb cairo-1.0.0.tar.gz

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.0.0.tar.gz.sha1.asc
(signed by Carl Worth)

All future 1.x.y releases of cairo will be source and binary compatible with cairo 1.0.0.

With this release, we'd like to remind everyone of the proper position for the number 1 in software releases, which is at the beginning. While this release does mark the culmination of months or years of work by many people, it's more significant in marking what is yet to come. Cairo has just begun and we're excited to see where it will go from here.

In this release, we have marked three backends as "supported"

xlib, image, win32

and all other backends as "experimental" which as such, do not have part in the API guarantees of this release. The experimental backends will not be compiled by default, but they are still available for people to experiment with by means of --enable options to configure. We recognize that many people would find the experimental backends useful, (even with existing bugs), and it is with caution that we mark them this way. We are not trying to remove utility, but we do think it is important to carefully advertise which backends are not yet up to the standards of stability, completeness, and rendering fidelity expected from a cairo backend.

These "experimental" backends are certainly not going away, and we hope that each one will become a "supported" backend in a future cairo release quite soon.

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Gyrus is a tool for the administration of mailboxes in IMAP/Cyrus servers. It is designed for fitting in the GNOME Desktop. It is free software, so you are free and encouraged to copy it and distribute it.

More information and other versions of gyrus can be found in its web site:

http://gyrus.gnome.cl

Bug reports about this or other versions can be sent to GNOME Bugzilla, under the module 'gyrus'.

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Sound Juicer is the official GNOME Desktop CD ripper. This release, a release candidate for version 2.12, supports CD playback as well as ripping, so you don't need to use two programs to find that track you want to rip.

As this is a new feature, I'd appreciate as many people using it to play CDs as possible. It also features several other major new features:

* Faster extraction
* Uses gnome-vfs so can save songs to remote locations
* The genre field is a auto-completing free-form field
* More metadata is added to the song

Sound Juicer can be downloaded from the following URL:

http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer