Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.16, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment.

We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.16.0. This release incorporates the GNOME 2.16.0 Desktop and Developer Platform, fine-tuned with love by the GARNOME Team.

It includes updates and fixes after the GNOME 2.16.0 freeze, together with a host of third-party GNOME packages, Bindings and the Mono(tm) Platform -- this release is the first of a new stable GNOME branch and ships with the latest and greatest releases.

As usual, you can get the tarball directly from the gnome.org site:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/garnome/2.16/

If you got 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/

A wealth of information about the new stable branch can be found in the GNOME 2.16 Release Notes:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/

Enjoy,

The GARNOME Team