GNOME 3591 Published by

GTK+ 2.7.1 is now available for download at:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.7/

gtk+-2.7.1.tar.gz md5sum: 26c3207e6ef72fb53eac8fbb2af6fa00
gtk+-2.7.1.tar.bz2 md5sum: d05a9a5b2db06960ebcc4031f9f16fa3

This is the second development release loading up to GTK+ 2.8.



Notes:

* This is unstable development release. There are certainly
plenty of bugs remaining to be found. This release should
not be used in production.

* Installing this version will overwrite your existing
copy of GTK+ 2.6. If you have problems, you'll need
to reinstall GTK+ 2.6.8.

* GTK+ 2.8 will be source and binary compatible with
the GTK+ 2.6.x series; the new API additions in GTK+-2.7.1
are practically finished, although a small number of
API-affecting bugs are still under consideration.

* Remaining issues for GTK+ 2.8 can be found with following
bugzilla query:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=gtk%
2b&target_milestone=2.8+API+Freeze&target_milestone=2.8
+Freeze&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

* Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.


What is GTK+
===========

GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for
projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application
suites.

GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range of
languages, not only C/C++. Using GTK+ from languages such as Perl and
Python (especially in combination with the Glade GUI builder) provides
an effective method of rapid application development.

GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the
licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all
developers, including those developing proprietary software, without
any license fees or royalties.

Where to get more information about GTK+
=======================================

Information about GTK+ including links to documentation can be
found at:

http://www.gtk.org/

An installation guide for GTK+ 2.x is found at:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.4/gtk/gtk-building.html

Common questions:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.4/gtk/gtk-question-index.html
http://www.gtk.org/faq/


Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.7.0 to GTK+ 2.7.1
================================================
* GtkTreeView
- Change the keynav for header reordering and resizing
to Alt-arrows and Shift-Alt-arrows [Calum Benson]
* GtkTextView
- Make movement by paragraphs up/down symmetric [Behnam
Esfahbod]
- Improve invisible text support [Matthias Clasen]
* Some new stock items: GTK_STOCK_INFO, GTK_STOCK_FULLSCREEN,
GTK_STOCK_LEAVE_FULLSCREEN [Kristof Vansant]
* Handle broken grabs in many places [John Ehresman, Matthias]
* GDK
- Add a function to move a region [Søren Sandmann]
- Fix endianness issues in the pixbuf drawing
code [David Zeuthen, Owen Taylor]
- Add a GrabBroken event that is emitted when grabs
are broken [Simon Cooke, John Ehresman, Matthias]
- Track implicit grabs [Matthias]
* Win32
- Improve and simplify line segment rendering [Tor Lillqvist]
* Bug fixes [Georg Schwarz, Fabricio Barros Cabral,
Benoit Carpentier, Markku Vire, Ryan Lortie, Matthias,
Morten Welinder, Dan Winship, Manish Singh, Tom von
Schwerdtner, Kjartan Maraas, Euan MacGregor, William Jon
McCann, David Saxton, Padraig Brady]
* Documentation improvements [Matthias, Ross Burton]
* New and improved translations (es,et,nl,sk,th,zh_TW)


A list of all bugs fixed in this release can be found at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=308449,135165,169647,303455,171490,307419,308581,308573,308722,308677,308666,166601,306396,308413,307055,166480,107320,308834,309054,308953,145416,172998,309222,309280


1 July, 2005