gedit 2.9.7, codenamed "Ladri", has been released. It is the first release candidate for the upcoming 2.10 release, and it focuses on bugfixing. In particular some minor but annoying bugs that have been there for a long time have been fixed. See below for the details.

This version requires gtk+-2.6.x (x >= 3 recommended) and gtksourceview-1.1.93.

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.

homepage: http://www.gedit.org/

download: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gedit/2.9/



Fixes
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- Fix autosave for a file that was not saved manually (Paolo Maggi)
- Specifing the line number from the command line now works (Paolo Maggi)
- Speed up search and replace (Paolo Borelli)
- Fix crash in the insert time plugin (Paolo Borelli)
- Fix small memory leak (Paolo Borelli)
- Use icon from the icon theme (Paolo Borelli)

New and updated translations
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- Žygimantas BeruÄ?ka (lt)
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- Christian Rose (sv)
- Maxim V. Dziumanenko (uk)