good news, everyone! here's the shiny new release of the GNOME Utilities, the first of the 2.18 stable cycle. thanks to the hard work of the gnome-utils maintainers, developers, documenters and translators, this release is ready to rock your world. for those not following the development releases, here's what's changed since the last stable release:



* Baobab
+ Show the type of file system in the preferences dialog
+ Removed the search function, as it replicated the search tool
+ Added the ring chart view to immediately show the disk usage
+ Reduced the memory usage

* Dictionary
+ Better support for multi-head environments
+ Automatically look up the selected word
+ Show cross-references as clickable links
+ Allow editing of dictionary sources
+ Add a Thai dictionary source

* Floppy
+ GFloppy build can be explicitly disabled

* Screenshot
+ Fix drag and drop of the preview image
+ Show an interactive dialog when launched from the menu or the panel

* Search Tool
+ Fix collisions when moving files to the Trash

* System Log Viewer
+ Fix behaviour when the log files are moved or deleted

and, obviously, loads of bugs have been fixed in every component of the
gnome-utils package.

for those following the unstable cycle, here are the changes from the
last unstable release:

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GNOME Utilities 2.18.0 (11th March 2007) - "Don't Get Lost in Heaven"

* First stable release of the 2.18 cycle

Baobab

* Fix bug #411867 - baobab crashed with SIGSEGV in
pango_fc_font_lock_face()
* Resort when toggling "allocated space".

Dictionary

* Nothing

Floppy

* Nothing

Screenshot

* Fix bug #413019 - The effects in theinteractive dialog are not
fully translated
* Fix bug #411050 - With some window name, the screenshot tool
will propose to replace ~/Desktop with the image

Search Tool

* Nothing

System Log Viewer

* Nothing

Translations Updated By:

Djihed Afifi (ar)
Alexander Shopov (bg)
Josep Puigdemont (ca)
Hendrik Richter (de)
norbu (dz)
David Lodge (en_GB)
Ivar Smolin (et)
Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
Claude Paroz (fr)
Ankit Patel (gu)
Gabor Kelemen (hu)
Andrea Zagli (it)
Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
Changwoo Ryu (ko)
Erdal Ronahi (ku)
Gintautas Miliauskas (lt)
Jovan Naumovski (mk)
Kjartan Maraas (nb)
wadim dziedzic (pl)
Duarte Loreto (pt)
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle (pt_BR)
Leonid Kanter (ru)
Daniel Nylander (sv)
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
Clytie Siddall (vi)
Funda Wang (zh_CN)
Woodman Tuen (zh_HK, zh_TW)

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so, while the tarball is still hot, grab it from the usual place:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-utils/2.18/

and remember to file any bug you might find here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-utils

have fun!

ciao,
Emmanuele.