Also known as 2.9.90, GNOME 2.10 Beta 1 is the first pre-release intended for wide public scrutiny before the final release in March. It is packed full of tasty GNOME goodness, so if you're itching to find out what we've been doing, and can't wait to finish building it, take a look at Davyd's Sneak Peek for this release:

http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-10/

In addition to all the tasty new GNOME goodness, we've packed a lot of bug fixing into this release. The conservative, lossy count of bugs fixed over the 2.9 development period: 1134 http://tinyurl.com/4yutl. Meanwhile, we do have a few showstoppers to fix before 2.10: http://tinyurl.com/657ob, so leap in and help us crunch the remaining few... Or find some we haven't
seen yet!

platform: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.9/2.9.90/NEWS
tar.gz: 48M total
tar.bz2: 34M total

desktop: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.9/2.9.90/NEWS
tar.gz: 153M total
tar.bz2: 108M total

bindings: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.9/2.9.90/NEWS
tar.gz: 15M total
tar.bz2: 11M total


TESTING! TESTING! TESTING!
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This release is a feature frozen snapshot primarily intended for wide public scrutiny before the final GNOME 2.10 release in March. Like the good old days of Linux kernel development, GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status. Please check the 2.9 start page for more info:

http://www.gnome.org/start/2.9/

Happy testing!

- The GNOME Release Team