Gnome 2.27.1

De ontwikkelaars van Gnome hebben in de vorm van versie 2.27.1 een nieuwe unstable-build online gezet. Deze versie in de ontwikkeltak van de desktopmanager wordt gebruikt om bugs uit de software te halen en nieuwe features te testen, die terug te vinden zijn in de volgende stable-branch van Gnome. De eerstvolgende stabiele versie van de desktopmanager krijgt versienummer 2.28 mee en zal in september worden uitgebracht. Hieronder staan de release notes van Gnome 2.27.1. Voor een gedetailleerd overzicht van de doorgevoerde veranderingen kan je terecht in dit tekstdocument:

Today marks the beginning of our trip towards 2.28, with the first development release of this cycle. It's also our first release after our git migration and it seems we survived, yay! Looking at the changes in the various tarballs, the trend to remove libgnome* and libglade dependencies is still going on. Which hopefully means it will stop soon (when all modules will have been migrated). There are quite a few patches waiting in bugzilla for this, which is a good sign! Everybody keep an eye on the targets that were set for each release -- see the last column at http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/

To compile GNOME 2.27.1, you can the jhbuild [1] modulesets [2] (which use the exact tarball versions from the official release):

[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/
[2] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.27.1/

The release notes that describe the changes between 2.26.1 and 2.27.1 are available. Go read them to learn all the goodness of this release:

platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.27/2.27.1/NEWS
desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.27/2.27.1/NEWS
admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.27/2.27.1/NEWS
bindings - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.27/2.27.1/NEWS
devtools - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.27/2.27.1/NEWS

The GNOME 2.27.1 release is available here:

platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.27/2.27.1/
desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.27/2.27.1/
admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.27/2.27.1/
bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.27/2.27.1/
devtools sources - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.27/2.27.1/