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GARNOME 2.12.0.1 has been released:

Originally, this was supposed to be released a week after the original 2.12.0 release, but pushing it back a week allowed the development team to catch some additional bugs in some non-linux platforms that also deserved fixing.

2.12.0.1 is an interim release over the original, designed to fix bugs and allow applications that were released after the upstream GNOME release to be included.

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gtkmm and glibmm 2.8 are now available

gtkmm 2.8 wraps new API in GTK+ 2.8, and is API/ABI-compatibile with gtkmm 2.6 and gtkmm 2.4. It is a version of the gtkmm-2.4 API.

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.

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Version 0.6.2 "Happy Birthday Johan" version of Gazpacho has been released

In this release there are a lot of bug fixes since it's mainly a maintenance release. Thanks one more time for the testers and developers that made this possible.

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The first version of rawthumb 0.1, a Gnome Thumbnailer for the digital camera RAW files supported by dcraw, has been released

In its current state, it can produce thumbnails in Nautilus for the
MInolta RAW files (.mrw). Mime types for a few other camera makers (Canon, Nikon, Olympus, ... ) are defined but not tested.

The sources can be found here:

http://www.chauveau-central.net/rawthumb/

The thumbnailer is composed of 2 packages:
- raw-image-mime provides the MIME types for the RAW files.
- rawthumb-gnome installs the thumbnailer scripts.

I do not have any configure scripts yet but the installation should be quite simple. See the README.txt file in each package.

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GARNOME 2.12.0 has been released:

Incorporating the GNOME 2.12.0 Desktop and Developer Platform, together with a host of third-party GNOME packages, Bindings and the Mono(tm) Platform -- this release truly is the best performing release we've ever had.

The changes between 2.10 and 2.12 are massive -- the GNOME Release Notes on http://www.gnome.org will give you the full rundown, but in a nutshell.

* DBus and HAL are now being used to power GNOME 'under the hood'.
* glib/gtk+ 2.8.x with cairo 1.0 makes GNOME look 'better than ever'.
* Improvements to Nautilus to make your files more accessible than ever before.
* Hundreds of fixes and performance improvements across the entire desktop.

In short, if you're not running GNOME 2.12.0, you should be -- and GARNOME gives you the perfect excuse to jump right in, all without affecting your existing system.

It should be noted that GARNOME wouldn't be possible without the dedicated band of testers that have continued to support the project -- thanks to everyone who has contributed patches, bug reports or comments during the last release phase -- your support has been invaluable.

Tarball: ftp://cipherfunk.org/pub/tarballs/garnome/v2.12/garnome-2.12.0.tar.bz2
MD5: f35df45f0c5497e3b5cc815d3fbc626c

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gnome-games-extra-data 2.12.0
-----------------------------

gnome-games extra data is a set of extra themes and artwork to be used with gnome-games. Once installed the new themes should be available automatically.

This release is timed to match gnome-games 2.12.0. It can also be used with gnome-games 2.10.0 since none of the data formats have changed.

Only one change, but its a biggie: David Bellot's SVG card theme has been upgraded to the 2.0 version. It is well worth the download.

You can find it at:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-games-extra-data/2.12/

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Eye of GNOME (eog) is the image viewer for the GNOME desktop.

* What's changed in 2.12.0 ?
=================

- Images opened with the sidebar enabled are now shown at 100% zoom
with a correct window size. Bug #315189. (Ryan Lortie)
- Fixed a crashing bug while using arrow keys to navigate a
directory. Bug #311086. (Lucas Rocha)

* Where can I get it ?
=====================

Source code:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/eog/2.12/eog-2.12.0.tar.gz

[MD5 sum: fd52216515a401585b7c2a98f66684f6]

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GShow TV is a TV program schedule viewer and a Personal Video Recorder GUI. GShow TV's basic purpose is to provide a nice GUI for viewing tv program schedule information and for recording the programs. GShow TV doesn't itself do the recording of the selected programs, rather it uses any PVR solution that exists. GShow TV is globally usable as it uses XMLTV to access the program schedules.

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Totem is movie player for the Gnome desktop based on xine-lib or GStreamer. It features a playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls, as well as a pretty complete keyboard navigation.

It comes with added functionality such as:
- Video thumbnailer for GNOME
- Nautilus properties tab
- Mozilla plugin

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The Evolution Team is pleased to announce the release of Evolution 2.4.0 and Evolution-Data-Server 1.4.0.

What is new since Evolution 2.2 ?
---------------------------------

- A new menu layout (More HIG compliant)
- Inline PGP Signature/Encryption support.
- Performance enhancements on Camel/GroupWise Backends.
- Auto-fit Image Attachments
- Support for GroupWise proxy accounts
- Extended EPlugin support, importers as an EPlugin.
- Thunderbird-compatible storage of labels on IMAP.
- Support for delegation of meetings (Calendar)
- Marcus Baines Line (calendar)
- Removal of Exchange button and seamless access to Exchange
through Evolution Mail/Calendar/Task components.

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GtkSourceView 1.4.0
==================

This is a stable version of GtkSourceView, and will become the version shipped with GNOME 2.12.0

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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-extensions is a collection of extensions for Epiphany that add various features not available in the main Epiphany browser.

Epiphany 1.8.0 is the first release in the stable series for GNOME 2.12.

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gnome-games 2.12.0
=================

Here it is! The shiny new stable release of gnome-games.

Those of you following the testing releases will only notice two changes: The handling of mouse movement with the buttons down in Mines has been improved and the French docs for Aisleriot are all installed properly.

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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
====
- 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.