After six months of developement the first release of the new stable series has been released.

gedit 2.10.0 features many improvements over the 2.8 series, among others:
- current line highlighting
- bracket matching
- "Save a Copy" plugin (with remote locations support)
- Reduced startup time
- Improved spell checker plugin
- Improved undo/redo (undoing all the changes doesn't prompt for saving the file)
- Smart HOME/END cursor movement
- Syntax Highlighting for more languages (through GtkSourceView)
- Improved fonts when printing
- A ton of bugfixes
- Improved translations thanks to the wonderful job of GNOME translators

This version requires gtk+-2.6.x (x >= 3 recommended) and
gtksourceview-1.2.0.

gedit is the official text editor for the GNOME environment. Among others, it features full UTF-8 support, syntax highlighting and a powerful plugin system.