vte-0.15.6 released [unstable]

Vte-0.15.6 is available for download at:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/vte/0.16/

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

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

- Fix various bugs introduced in last couple of releases.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
	Bug 410534 – Slow content scrolling, takes 100% of CPU.
	Bug 413068 – new line added to tab when opened
	Bug 413262 – Incorrectly coloured tabs
	Bug 413102 – Incorrect highlighting in vim
	Bug 413158 – Cursor trails
	Bug 413078 – Crash during opening a new tab whilst scrolling
	Bug 412717 – Crash when opening a new tab with window maximized

01 March 2007
Behdad Esfahbod

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ANNOUNCE: Gimmie 0.2.4 released

Howdy,

This is to announce the Gimmie version 0.2.4 release. Gimmie is a
unique desktop organizer designed to allow easy interaction with all the
applications, contacts, documents and other resources you use every day.
Gimmie can be run as a stand-alone application or as a GNOME
Panel-applet.

To see some pictures of Gimmie in action, check out the Developer
Resource Page located at: http://beatnik.infogami.com/Gimmie.

Version 0.2.4 sees the greatest progress so far in a single release.
Including the addition of a preferences dialog to allow customization of
commonly requested settings; a recent history usage graph; Mozilla
downloaded file monitoring; and many bug fixes and stability improvements.

Other improvements in Version 0.2.4 include:

   * Add applet preferences dialog (Johannes Schmid)
   * Make all file operations async
   * Discover files downloaded with Mozilla
   * Fiddle with topic names
   * Add Suspend to shutdown dialog (maxx <at> krakoa.dk)
   * Add history graph for Recently Used
   * Fix grabbing for toolbar submenus
   * Hint bug-buddy to file bugs in GNOME Bugzilla
   * Better support openSUSE (James Ogley)
   * Support newest dbus-python
   * Hordes of other bug fixes

ANNOUNCE: gnome-mag 0.14.2

====================
* What is gnome-mag?
====================

gnome-mag provides a command-line interface for standalone use,
although its primary goal is to provide a set of magnification
services for use by other client applications and assistive 
technologies.

Download at the usual place :
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-mag/0.14/

======================================
* What's changed for gnome-mag 0.14.2?
======================================

* Fixes for bugs #397025, #376047, #397819 and #408133.

Thanks for the translations:
	* Alexander Shopov (bg)
	* Peter Bach (da)
	* Hendrik Richter (de)
	* Lauri Nurmi (fi)
	* Stéphane Raimbault (fr)
	* Gabor Kelemen (hu)
	* Changwoo Ryu (ko)
	* Gintautas Miliauskas (lt)
	* Wouter Bolsterlee (nl)
	* GNOME PL Team (pl)
	* Duarte Loreto (pt)

cairo snapshot 1.3.16 (1.4.0 release candidate) now available

A new cairo snapshot 1.3.16 is now available from:

        http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.3.16.tar.gz

    which can be verified with:

        http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.3.16.tar.gz.sha1
        8c80376b18a58727f03fea05ef191acb19903e01  cairo-1.3.16.tar.gz

        http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.3.16.tar.gz.sha1.asc
        (signed by Behdad Esfahbod)

  Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:

        git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo

    will include a signed 1.3.16 tag which points to a commit named:
        b3e1fd8c1cbfc4db88bec4bb52821ed9380dbb4f

    which can be verified with:
        git verify-tag 1.3.16

    and can be checked out with a command such as:
        git checkout -b build 1.3.16

This is the eighth development snapshot in the 1.3 series, and the
release candidate for 1.4.0, that will be released early next week.
It comes just over 3 weeks after the 1.3.14 snapshot.

New API functions

ANNOUNCE: GConf 2.18.0

GConf-2.18.0 is available for download at:

 http://download.gnome.org/sources/GConf/2.18/

GConf is a process-transparent configuration database API used to
store user preferences. It has pluggable backends and features to
support workgroup administration.

This release will likely be the last release made until after the
GNOME 2.18 platform release.

Changes since 2.16.1:

  - Make sure error strings are utf-8 (Christian Persch)
  - don't include xml-entry.h twice (Kjartan Maraas)
  - fix leak in gconf meta info code (Richard Hult, Ray Strode)
  - remove more popt gunk (Chris Wilson, Ray)
  - when installing a batch of schema files, don't abort
    the entire transaction if one fails (Laszlo Peter)
  - don't close already closed file descriptors if fdwalk()
    is available (Padraig O'Briain)
  - use g_file_test instead of gconf_file_test or
    gconf_file_exists (Paolo Borelli)
  - remove dead code found from coverity scan (Paolo)
  - retain file permissions on gconf database files when
    syncing a tree to disk (Narayana Pattipati)
  - Add g_return_val_if_fail checks on type inputs for
    gconf_value_new_from_string (Kjartan, Ray)

 Translators

ANNOUNCE: Gossip 0.23 Released!

Gossip 0.23 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gossip/0.23/

7bab0d1c43468d8acd52f29f8fca8308  gossip-0.23.tar.gz
a6175debac9909ea1c6fa19afb1794ae  gossip-0.23.tar.bz2

What is it?
===========
Gossip is an instant messaging client for GNOME with an easy-to-use
interface, providing users of the GNOME Desktop with a friendly way to
keep in touch with their friends.

What's New?
===========
This release brings the merging of the Telepathy work that Xavier
Claessens has been managing into the TRUNK of Gossip. This now means
that you can use Telepathy with --enable-telepathy when running autogen.sh.

Bugs Fixed:
===========
- Fixed #395588, Crash when clicking a button in the notification bubble
(Dimitur Kirov)
- Fixed #409718, [telepathy] Crash when switching wireless network
(Xavier Claessens)
- Fixed #391284, Merge TELEPATHY branch into HEAD (Xavier Claessens)
- Fixed #393913, Display the backend used in the about dialog (Vincent Untz)
- Fixed #395708, [telepathy] Crash when saving accounts (Sjoerd Simons)
- Fixed #396846, Hard to enter a different port number in configuration
(Joel Dimbernat)
- Fixed #397213, Some refcount problems with GossipSession (Martyn Russell)

gnome-power-manager branched for 2-18

gnome-power-manager has branched for 2-18:

http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-power-manager/branches/gnome-2-18/

Trunk will now be open for new features, refactoring and new
translations. Many thanks.

Richard.

[ANNOUNCE] Vala 0.0.7 - Compiler for the GObject type system

We are pleased to announce version 0.0.7 of Vala, a compiler for the
GObject type system.

Changes since 0.0.6
 * New object construction syntax.
 * Interface implementations don't have to specify override anymore.
 * Improve interface support.

Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming
language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional
runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to
applications and libraries written in C.

valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates
Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject
type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source
code. It's also planned to generate GIDL files when gobject-
introspection is ready.

The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the GObject
type system. Vala supports modern language features as the following:

        * Interfaces
        * Properties
        * Signals
        * Foreach
        * Lambda expressions
        * Type inference for local variables
        * Generics [PLANNED]
        * Non-null types [PARTIAL]

The GNOME Journal, March Edition

Hi everyone!

The latest issue of the GNOME Journal has just been published! It features an
introduction to GTK+ cross-platform application development, an interview with
Jakub Steiner and Andreas Nilsson about the Tango Project, the first
article of a
series about free desktop companies, and a letter from the editor. Writers in
this edition are John D. Ramsdell, Alexandre Prokoudine, Sri Ramkrishna, and
Jim Hodapp, respectively.

The GNOME Journal features original content and commentary for and by the
GNOME community. All articles are published under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

Read now: http://www.gnomejournal.org

Enjoy!

--lucasr

ANNOUNCE: Banshee 0.12.0

Banshee 0.12.0 is now out in the wild. This release marks the official
"start" of the stable series. The series has been frozen for the past
few releases with only bug fixes and translation updates going in, but
the 0.12.0 version seals the deal.

Banshee will soon be branched for starting new feature development. Both
the stable (0.12.x) and development (0.13.x) branches will be
maintained.

===============================================================================
BANSHEE 0.12.0
===============================================================================

 * Banshee is a music management and playback application for GNOME.

   "Import, organize, play, and share your music using Banshee's simple, 
    powerful interface. Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists, 
    and burn audio CDs. Most portable music devices are supported. Banshee 
    also has support for podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations, 
    and much more."

 * Learn More: http://banshee-project.org/Discover
 * Release Overview Page: http://banshee-project.org/Releases/0.12.0

===============================================================================
TABLE OF CONTENTS
===============================================================================

 * Welcome
 * Module Notes