The latest release of GNOME is here: GNOME 2.18.1! This is the first release in a series of point releases for the 2.18 branch.

Come and see all the bug fixing, all the new translations and all the updated documentation brought to you by the wonderful team of GNOME contributors! While development has started on the GNOME 2.19/2.20 road, work on the stable branch continues to make it even more solid.

The notes that describe the changes between 2.18.0 and 2.18.1 are here:

admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.18/2.18.1/NEWS
bindings - http://download.gnome.org//bindings/2.18/2.18.1/NEWS
desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.18/2.18.1/NEWS
platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.18/2.18.1/NEWS

The GNOME 2.16.1 release is available here:

admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.18/2.18.1/
bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.18/2.18.1/
desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.18/2.18.1/
devtools sources - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.18/2.18.1/
platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.18/2.18.1/

To compile GNOME 2.18.1, you can use GARNOME (http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/, which supports users), or the jhbuild (http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/jhbuild.html) modulesets available at:

http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.18.1/

We hope you'll love it,
The GNOME Release Team