Tomboy is a simple note-taking application designed to be unobtrusive and friendly, while supporting inter-note links similar to a WikiWikiWeb to help you organize your notes and ideas. It can run either as a Gnome panel applet or a notification tray-icon.
See the website at
http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy for downloads, screenshots, and more information.
This is Gtk2-Perl 2.17.5, a set of Perl bindings for various GNOME libraries. It includes:
* Glib 1.150
* Gnome2 1.040
* Gnome2::Canvas 1.002
* Gnome2::GConf 1.040
* Gnome2::VFS 1.060
* Gtk2 1.151
* Gtk2::GladeXML 1.006
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 GNOME 2.17.5.
This is a new release of gnome-games moving us toward a stable release. Much more work has gone in to the two new games in the gnome-games distribution. Here is a shortended list of changes:
* Gnometris: Always show "Pause" when starting a new game. #391638
* Gnome Sodoku: Fix syntax error introduced by change in #385937
* Gnome Sodoku: Fix crash when closing game with "X": #384684
* Gnome Sodoku: Disable generate options while puzzle generator
is running: #392947
* Gnome Sodoku: Fix three issues with the progress bar in the puzzle
generator: #392616
* Gnome Sodoku: Keep puzzle generator from generating more puzzles
than asked: #392165
* Gnotravex: Enabled colours be default. New colored background.
* Gnotravex: Open high scores dialog on correct page: #391216
* Gnotravex: Quit / New Game with the end-of-game dialog. #316361
* Aisleriot: Integrate Spider shuffle variations into one game.
#393709
* Mahjongg: Correctly decode in all locales: #386213
* GLChess: Implement gnome-doc-utils support #369550
* GLChess: Continue UI improvements.
* GLChess: Added hitch to gtkui.py to import PyGTK before GTK.
* GLChess: Bring up dialog about 3D mode if do not have libraries
installed #389371
* Revert update of ggz.h from the latest version to fix Solaris
#363444
GnomePython 2.17.1 has been just released. This a development release for testing.
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
This is a development release.
Seahorse is a GNOME application for managing encryption keys. It also integrates with nautilus, gedit and other places for encryption/decryption operations.
Current work on seahorse is going into making encryption easier for end users to use and (where needed) comprehend.
gnome-keyring is the part of the GNOME Desktop that saves your network and other passwords securely.
This is a development release.
Gabriel 0.1 has been released
new-stuff-manager is a program that runs in the background and and downloads /installs plugins. It can be used by any application through its D-Bus interface.
Everything else you might want to know is available at
http://www.k-d-w.org/clipboard/NewStuffManager/Changes:
* Re-written in C#
* The author element will now be stored directly in an serializable dictionary
* Changed directory structure. new-stuff-manager sources moved to src/
* Added: Create $(datadir)/new-stuff-manager/specs on install
* Removed cachedir variable, changed the way how directories are expanded and added configuration summary
* Supplying a a plugin id that isn't in the repository doesn't throw an exception anymore. Instead, it's just ignored
* Installation is aborted, if checksum or signature is invalid
* Added API documentation
Download it at
http://www.k-d-w.org/clipboard/NewStuffManager/new-stuff-manager-0.2.1.tar.gzP.S.: To see new-stuff-manager in action download
http://www.k-d-w.org/clipboard/deskbar/install-nsm.sh to patch Deskbar-Applet
Hipo 0.1 has been released:
Hipo, is an application that allows you to manage the data of your iPod, Hipo is based on the cute ipod-sharp library and for tag editing it uses taglib-sharp. Hipo pretends to be an application almost complete for manage your iPod. For now it allows you to add, remove and edit your favorites tracks and playlists. If you wanna see the Roadmap of hipo please visit the Hipo Website.
swfdec-0.4.0 has been released:
After starting a hacking spree and being rather silent about for the last 3 months, going on and on about it, I've finally made releases. So here they are.
swfdec-0.4.0 "festivally plump"
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec/0.4/swfdec-0.4.0.tar.gzMD5: 157d31c9dc02aa22b5f27323e5a203fc
Swfdec is a library for reading and playing back Shockwave Flash files. A focus compared to 0.3.6 has been on improving interactivity and adding better ActionScript support.
swfdec-mozilla-0.4.0 "They killed Kenny"
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec-mozilla/0.4/swfdec-mozilla-0.4.0.tar.gzMD5: d14c35a7f1eda647efd227f1857fad16
This includes a Netscape/Mozilla plugin for playing back Flash files in
browsers using Swfdec.
Unlike in previous versions, the plugin is shipped in a seperate package.
Revelation 0.4.8 has been released:
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 support for translations, including 4 new translations. It is also a port to GTK 2.8 / GNOME 2.10, adds support for LUKS-encrypted files and SplashID data files, and fixes quite a few bugs including issues with icon loading, file saving, and more.
We are now hosted by code.google.com. The project page is
http://code.google.com/p/superswitcher/What is SuperSwitcher?
A more feature-ful replacement of the Alt-Tab window switching behavior, including dynamic workspace management, and find-as-you-type window title search. For more information, see the project page.
BEAST/BSE version 0.7.1 and BSE-ALSA version 0.7.1 are available for download at:
ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.7/or
http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.7/
I'm pleased to announce a new stable release of Tracker (version 0.5.3) - the all-in-one indexer, search tool and extensible metadata database.
Tarball :
http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.5.3.tar.gz
I'm pleased to annouce that the first beta version of mergeant (version 0.65) has been released.
Mergeant benefits from libgda and libgnomedb features and amis at being a simple yet powerfull DBMS administration utility. Changes from version 0.64 include:
- Tables contents are now displayed as a grid and as a form with a toggle option (Vivien)
- Various other GUI improvements (Vivien)
- Translations:
- New Arabic translation (Djihed Afifi)
- es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
- en_GB (David Lodge)
- nl (Wouter Bolsterlee)
Tarballs are available (or should soon be) at
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mergeant/0.65To install this new version, you'll need:
* libgda: glib, libxml2, libxslt
* libgnomedb and libgda >= 2.99.2
You can find more information at the projects' homepage (http://www.gnome-db.org), or you can ask any question/propose anything you
want in the GNOME-DB mailing list, which is available at
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-db-list.
I'm pleased to annouce that the first beta version of libgda/libgnomedb (version 2.99.2) have been released.
libgda/libgnomedb are a complete framewok for developing database-oriented applications, and actually allow access to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, SQLite, FireBird/Interbase, IBM DB2, mSQL and MS SQL server, as well as MS Access and xBase files and ODBC data sources.
libgda/libgnomedb are part of the GNOME Office application suite, providing database access for many features in both Gnumeric and Abiword.
GARNOME 2.17.4 has been released:
The "Duck and Cover" release.
A bunch of updates have been trickling in within the last two days, latest ones are just an hour old...
We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.17.4 Desktop and Developer Platform. This release includes all of GNOME 2.17.4 plus a whole bunch of updates that were released after the GNOME freeze date.
This is the fourth release in the unstable cycle, with more features, more fixes and yet more madness added. It is for anyone who wants to get his hands dirty on the development branch, or who'd like to get a peek at future features. If you want to help spot issues in GARNOME, (or, better yet, fix 'em ;-) this release is for you as well.
As usual, you can get the tarball directly from the gnome.org site:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/garnome/2.17/Note: GNOME 2.17.x is an unstable branch and is assumed to be a moving target. Therefore, things in this release may not work as advertised.
If you find any issues with this release, feel free to contact the GARNOMEies in the #garnome channel on GIMPNet (irc://irc.gnome.org), where we hang out, or post to the mailing list.
More information is available at our project website:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/
Pango-1.15.2 is now available for download at:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.15/or
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.153a57ff08498a210892fe665bf4812011 pango-1.15.2.tar.bz2
063c3ea8eb8931290546a197bd444e2a pango-1.15.2.tar.gz
This is a development release leading up to Pango-1.16.0, which will be released just in time for GNOME-2.18. The major change in this release is addition of lots of new, useful, public API. For details, scroll down.
I'm pleased to announce the thirty-fifth development release of PythonCAD, a CAD package for open-source software users. As the name implies, PythonCAD is written entirely in Python. The goal of this project is to create a fully scriptable drafting program that will match and eventually exceed features found in commercial CAD software. PythonCAD is released under the GNU Public License (GPL).
PythonCAD requires Python 2.2 or newer. The interface is GTK 2.0 based, and uses the PyGTK module for interfacing to GTK. The design of PythonCAD is built around the idea of separating the interface from the back end as much as possible. By doing this, it is hoped that both GNOME and KDE interfaces can be added to PythonCAD through usage of the appropriate Python module. Addition of other PythonCAD interfaces will depend on the availability of a Python module for that particular interface and developer interest and action.
This is a development release.
Seahorse is a GNOME application for managing encryption keys. It also integrates with nautilus, gedit and other places for encryption/decryption operations.
Current work on seahorse is going into making encryption easier for end users to use and (where needed) comprehend.
GAIL provides accessibility support for gtk+ and libgnomecanvas by implementing AtkObjects for widgets in gtk+ and libgnomecanvas. The GAIL library is a GTK+ module.
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* What's changed for gail 1.9.4?
=======================================
* Bugfixes: #350215, #336644, #315065, #359843, #368602, #369267, #353542, #132323, #368625.
Great thanks for the new translations:
* Djihed Afifi (ar)
* Matic Zgur (pl)
* Laurent Dhima (sq)
====================
* Where can I get it?
====================
Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gail/1.9/gail-1.9.4.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gail/1.9/gail-1.9.4.tar.gz
at-spi (assistive technology service provider interface) is the primary assistive technology infrastructure for the Solaris and Linux operating environments. Applications and toolkits supporting the AT-SPI include the GNOME GTK+ toolkit, the Java platform's Swing toolkit, OpenOffice, and Mozilla.
Download at
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi/1.7=======================================
* What's changed for at-spi 1.7.14?
=======================================
* We now get te value of display using the env var DISPLAY rather than using the gdk_display_get_default to avoid dependancy of gdk. Also, once the registry is started, we set the ior of the registry as an X property.
* Bugfixes: #361386, #369377, #382271, #372172, #163132, #377079,
#352444
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* Where can I get it?
====================
Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi/1.7/at-spi-1.7.14.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi/1.7/at-spi-1.7.14.tar.gz
Tomboy is a simple note-taking application designed to be unobtrusive and friendly, while supporting inter-note links similar to a WikiWikiWeb to help you organize your notes and ideas. It can run either as a Gnome panel applet or a notification tray-icon.
See the website at
http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy for downloads, screenshots, and more information.
Tomboy is available at:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/0.5/tomboy-0.5.2.tar.gzmd5sum: 5d6e7a1a6378c6e438e373fd7d1a22c3
size: 1.1M
http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/0.5/tomboy-0.5.2.tar.bz2md5sum: da33956aef698234c3d6cd5faf8084f4
size: 970K
Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the Gtk+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment. The user interfaces designed in Glade are stored in XML format, enabling easy integration with external tools. In particular libglade can load the XML files and create the interfaces at runtime. The DTD for the XML files is included with libglade, and is also at
http://glade.gnome.org/glade-2.0.dtd. Other tools are available which can turn the XML files into source code in languages such as C++, Perl and Python.
==========
Glade 3.1.4
==========
New features and fixes
=====================
- Fixed notebook tabs, frame/expander labels, was all screwed up
(bug 373251)
- Fixed expander interaction (bug 386352)
Where can I get it ?
===================
http://download.gnome.org/sources/glade3/3.1/For more information consult our home page at
http://glade.gnome.org/
This is zenity - a rewrite of gdialog, the GNOME port of dialog which allows you to display dialog boxes from the commandline and shell scripts. If you understand, things are just as they are. If you don't understand, things are just as they are.
What's new?
=========
* New and updated translations
- Kjartan Maraas [nb]
- Priit Laes [et]
- Daniel Nylander [sv]
- Francisco Javier F. Serrador [es]
- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan [th]
- Ales Nyakhaychyk [be]
- Djihed Afifi [ar]
Where can I get it?
=============
Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/zenity/2.17/zenity-2.17.2.tar.gzmd5sum: 8494a5e0d4942d099dab413c578b4860
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/zenity/2.13/zenity-2.17.2.tar.bz2md5sum: 8676453fc00fee425e8180c3104fd29c
Enjoy!
--lucasr
Eye of GNOME (eog) is the image viewer for the GNOME desktop.
* What's changed in 2.17.3 ?
=========================
- Printing fixes (Claudio Saavedra) [#381358]
- Memory leaks fixes (Felix Riemann)
- Automatic orientation based on EXIF (Kalle Vahlman, Jef Driesen) [#148400]
- Simplify preferences dialog label texts (Lucas Rocha) [#382586]
- Updated manual translations: Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es),
Jan Arne Petersen (de)
- Updated translations: Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Ilkka Tuohela (fi),
Kjartan Maraas (nb), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th), Priit Laes (et),
Djihed Afifi (ar)
* Where can I get it ?
=====================
Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/eog/2.17/eog-2.17.3.tar.gzmd5sums: 1e55e90ce4499e2356aedb0a8f77e13c
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/eog/2.17/eog-2.17.3.tar.bz2md5sums: bbd4efc6cdc06fed334b5c8fe15d7f52
Enjoy!
--lucasr
I'm pleased to announce that Dasher 4.3.3 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/dasher/4.3/Windows and unofficial Debian/Ubuntu binaries will shortly be available from:
http://www.dasher.org.uk/Download.htmlDasher is a predictive text input system for the GNOME Desktop, suitable for any situation in which a conventional keyboard cannot be used.
This release is the next installment in the new development series. The new version adds basic support for joystick control, fixes some bugs and updates translations.
As always, thanks to all Dasher developers and contributors. Please file any bug reports in the GNOME Bugzilla, and send any comments and feedback to dasher@mrao.cam.ac.uk.
Yours,
Phil Cowans and the Dasher team,
18th December 2006
Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces
for the Gtk+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment. The user interfaces designed in Glade are stored in XML format, enabling easy integration with external tools. In particular libglade can load the XML files and create the interfaces at runtime. The DTD for the XML files is included with libglade, and is also at
http://glade.gnome.org/glade-2.0.dtd. Other tools are available which can turn the XML files into source code in languages such as C++, Perl and Python.
==========
Glade 3.1.4
==========
New features and fixes
=====================
- Fixed notebook tabs, frame/expander labels, was all screwed up
(bug 373251)
- Fixed expander interaction (bug 386352)
Where can I get it ?
===================
http://download.gnome.org/sources/glade3/3.1/For more information consult our home page at
http://glade.gnome.org/
This development release of gnome-games contains several new features and bug-fixes, before the string and UI announcement period begins.
Download gnome-games 2.17.4 at:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-games/2.17/Website:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-games/
This is a preview release for new development version of Evince
* What is it ?
==============
Evince is a document viewer. It primarily displays pdf, though djvu, tiff, dvi, impress slides, postscript and even comics archives are also supported.
More information can be found at
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/
I am pleased to announce version 0.4.2 of the Python bindings for Goocanvas.
It is available at:
https://developer.berlios.de/projects/pygoocanvas/This is the last version before updating the bindings according to the new Goocanvas API which are changed since the 0.5.0 release.
This is another development snapshot of glade 3.1 keeping up with
the GNOME 2.17 release schedule
What is Glade ?
==============
Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces
for the Gtk+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment. The user interfaces designed in Glade are stored in XML format, enabling easy integration with external tools. In particular libglade can load the XML files and create the interfaces at runtime. The DTD for the XML files is included with libglade, and is also at
http://glade.gnome.org/glade-2.0.dtd.Other tools are available which can turn the XML files into source code in languages such as C++, Perl and Python.
GNOME Nettool 2.17.4 has been released
GNOME Nettool is a network information tool which provides user interfaces for some of the most common command line network tools, like ping, whois, traceroute, etc.
It was originally based on Mac OS X's network information tool, but has since then improved over so much that it now clearly exceeds Mac OS X's tool with more features and a better UI.
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 GNOME 2.17.4. I've marked it as "maybe unstable" as the small but significant change for bug #371669 to fix base conversion problems in arithmetic precedence mode, requires further testing. Please let us know of any problems you might find as soon as possible.
Chessclock lets a computer (ideally a laptop) replace a traditional chess clock sitting next to a chess board.
(There is nothing chess-specific about it. It can be used to time-limit any two-player game.)
FEATURES
--------
- Fullscreen view showing two big digital clocks
- Set different timelimits for each player
- Optionally add time to a player's clock after their turn
- Turn counting
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/
A new cairo snapshot 1.3.8 is now available from:
http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.3.8.tar.gzwhich can be verified with:
http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.3.8.tar.gz.sha1c2e939f56eb10e1ca90be1a03e4ee6145be37172 cairo-1.3.8.tar.gz
http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.3.8.tar.gz.sha1.asc(signed by Carl Worth)
Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:
git clone
git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairowill include a signed 1.3.8 tag which points to a commit named:
129b55f5fcc4c2ae5b63ac6eb73fce8a708e4874
which can be verified with:
git verify-tag 1.3.8
and can be checked out with a command such as:
git checkout -b build 1.3.8
Gnome-speech provides a simple general API for producing text-to-speech (TTS) output. It also provides drivers for several TTS engines, both commercial and open source.
This release is designated for GNOME 2.17/2.18 and also works with GNOME 2.16.
nemiver is a standalone graphical debugger that integrates well in the GNOME desktop environment. It currently features a backend which uses the GNU debugger gdb for debugging C/C++ programs.
Where to get it?
===============
This release is available as a source package in tar.gz format and can be downloaded from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/nemiver/0.2Checkout the project homepage at
http://home.gna.org/nemiver
Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the Gnome desktop. It supports the most common subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, conversion and synchronization.
* About:
http://gsubtitles.sourceforge.net/about* Screenshots:
http://gsubtitles.sourceforge.net/screenshots* Download:
http://gsubtitles.sourceforge.net/download
This is bug fix to the problem introduced in release 1.2.2. Please upgrade to the latest one.
What's new since 1.2.2:
-----------------------
Bug fixes:
* Fixed problem #384752 (wrong permissions for new dirs)
What is it?
-----------
GNOME Commander is a fast and powerful graphical file manager, it has a "two-pane" interface in the tradition of Norton and Midnight Commander.
Features
* FTP support.
* SAMBA access.
* Right click mouse menu.
* User defined context menu.
* Quick device access buttons with automatic mounting and unmounting.
* Latest accessed folder history.
* Folder bookmarks.
* Plugin support.
* Meta data support for Exif, IPTC and ID3 tags.
* Fast file viewer for text, images and
* Tools for advanced renaming of files, searching, quick file name search in current dir, symlinking, comparing directories.
* Integrated command line.
Metacity is a simple window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
The GNOME Commander team is proud to announce the next stable release of GNOME Commander: 1.2.2.
What's new since 1.2.1:
-----------------------
Bug fixes:
* Fixed problem with symlink creation for multiple file selection
* Fixed problem with grouping of file size digits
* Fixed problem with SMB UNC handling
* Fixed problem #367744 (filename not correctly displayed)
* Fixed problem #374282 (searching with recursive symlinks)
* Fixed problem #377706 (selecting files with SHIFT+PGDN)
New features:
* Support for ID3 metags in advanced file rename templates
* Updated help docs
* New or updated translations: ar, en_GB, es, fi, it, pl, sv
* New key bindings:
CTRL+SHIFT+= Set both panels equal
Sysprof is a sampling system-wide CPU profiler for Linux.
Sysprof uses a Linux kernel module to profile the entire system, not just an individual application. Sysprof handles threads and shared libraries, and applications do not have to be recompiled or instrumented. In fact they don't even have to be restarted.
gnubiff is a mail notification program that checks for mail and displays headers when new mail has arrived. gnubiff features include:
* Multiple mailbox support
* pop3, apop, imap4, mh, qmail and mailfile support
* SSL & certificates support
* GNOME support with complete integration to panel
* GTK stand-alone support
* Automatic detection of mailbox format
* Mail header & content display
* IDLE state support for imap4
* FAM support for mh/qmail/mailfile
* PNG animation support
* Highly configurable
* Spam filtering
* HIG 2.0 compliance
* Small memory usage
GFAX provides the familiar "pop up" window and phone book support when one "prints" to a "fax" printer. Sending facsimiles from the command line or from the GUI is also supported.
Whats new in gfax-0.7.6
======================
Yes folks, if you check the Changelog you will find a significant amount of work has been done to polish this release. Many thanks to the crew on the mailing list who have been very helpful in testing and providing feedback.
I would like to acknowledge and thank the following individuals for their patience, testing and feedback.
Jean Louis Argente
Sasa Ostrouska
Bart Verstraete
Aaron Peromsik
Much work has been put into polishing Hylafax and Efax support. The following is a list of new or changed items. If you have tried Gfax in the past and have been disappointed we recommend you checkout the 0.7.6 version. We think you will be pleased. There is still work to be done but we have a great group of people providing feedback, which really helps.
Gossip 0.20 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gossip/0.20/f7ba1b8be855d98b90917c21c7d3be6c gossip-0.20.tar.gz
5da570e2519b1acd088018c83599ebbd gossip-0.20.tar.bz2
gThumb 2.8.1 has been released:
gThumb is an Image Viewer and Browser.
gThumb 2.8.1 is now available for download at:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gthumb/2.8/gthumb-2.8.1.tar.gz http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gthumb/2.8/gthumb-2.8.1.tar.bz2Should I Upgrade?
================
Yes. This version is a bug-fix release, which fixes several vexing bugs. No new features are added. Distro maintainers (especially FC6 and Ubuntu) are encouraged to update from 2.7.x and earlier.
