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Hi

The Brasero Team is proud to announce after 7 months of development the
new stable series - 0.8.
The first release 0.8.0 “no tabs for burning” codename contains new
features and lots of bugfixes from 0.7.x series.

Highlights for 0.8.0 stable release:

- normalization plugin
- cover editor
- support for DL DVDs
- automatic GStreamer plugin installation for distros that support it
- new help documentation (by Phil Bull, Milo Casagrande and Andrew
Stabeno)

• Read more: Brasero 0.8.0 stable release

The KDE e.V. and GNOME Foundation today announced that they will hold their yearly conferences, Akademy and GUADEC in 2009 in Gran Canaria. The conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the same organizers, the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and its Secretary of Tourism, Technological Innovation and Foreign Trade.

Read more at KDE.news

Hi,

I’m happy to announce the release of Rhythmbox 0.11.6. This release includes
much improved last.fm streaming, amazon cover art search that actually works,
and a variety of minor features, improvements, and bug fixes.

What is Rhythmbox?
——————

Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally
inspired by Apple’s iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well
under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media
framework.

• Read more: Rhythmbox 0.11.6

GParted is the Gnome front-end to the GNU Parted disk partition editor.

GParted enables you to create, destroy, resize, move, check, label, and copy partitions, and the file systems contained within.

The GParted 0.3.8 release consists of bug fixes, and language translation updates.
Key changes include:
- Corrected errors in “Round to cylinders” boundary math
- Added “Round to cylinders” check box for copy and move/resize
- Enhanced to parse devices from /proc/partitions if file exists
- Fixed problem with command line devices being ignored
- Removed absolute requirement for hal-lock

Visit http://gparted.sourceforge.net for more details.

The K Desktop Environment community came out earlier this year with their brand new KDE 4.0 release that marked significant advancements to this open-source desktop environment compared to its KDE 3.5.x code-base. Meanwhile, the GNOME community has been living in a 2.0 cycle for quite some time with no signs of a major overhaul, but their six-month release cycles just continue to deliver new refinements and minor improvements…

Read more at Phoronix

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GNOME 2.22.3 Stable Release
==================================================================

This is the third update to GNOME 2.22. This includes all the bug fixes,
all the new translations, updated documentation and other improvements
made by the various GNOME teams since the last stable release.

This is the last stable version of GNOME 2.22. Meanwhile, the GNOME
community is actively working on the unstable branch of GNOME that will
become GNOME 2.24 in September 2008.

The GNOME 2.22 release notes are available at:

http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/

The notes that describe the changes between 2.22.2 and 2.22.3 are here:

admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.22/2.22.3/NEWS
bindings - http://download.gnome.org//bindings/2.22/2.22.3/NEWS
desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.22/2.22.3/NEWS
devtools - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.22/2.22.3/NEWS
platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.22/2.22.3/NEWS

The GNOME 2.22.3 release is available here:

admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.22/2.22.3/
bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.22/2.22.3/
desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.22/2.22.3/
devtools sources - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.22/2.22.3/
platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.22/2.22.3/

To compile GNOME 2.22.3, you can use GARNOME
(http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/, which supports users), or
the jhbuild (http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/) modulesets
available at:

http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.22.3/

We hope you’ll love it,

The GNOME Release Team

The GNOME Foundation today announced the hiring of Stormy Peters as Executive Director. Stormy, a well-known industry analyst with extensive experience at Hewlett Packard and OpenLogic, will work on accelerating the adoption of GNOME and strengthening the Foundation by attracting new industry members and community contributors. “Hiring Stormy represents a major step for GNOME”, said Luis Villa, a Director of the GNOME Foundation. “With her unique background and experience, she’ll be a natural at growing industry support for the project and connecting interested parties to our community.”

Stormy’s combination of industry expertise and community background will be a great fit for GNOME. “Stormy is one of the most well respected members of the open source industry and community.” says Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, “Her unique ability to work with both community volunteers and commercial industry members across a variety of open source projects will serve the GNOME Foundation well.”

Read more at Gnome

The MonoDevelop team is proud to announce the release of MonoDevelop
2.0 alpha 1 (1.9). This is the first release of a series of releases
that will lead to MonoDevelop 2.0, hopefully around the end of the year.

MonoDevelop is a GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET
languages. 

• Read more: MonoDevelop 2.0 Alpha 1 released

http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Ideas/11.1

The openSUSE-GNOME Team needs your ideas.

In preparation for starting work on 11.1, the GNOME Team would like you
to submit your ideas for what you would like to see in openSUSE 11.1.
We have a deadline to accept ideas and assign them to appropriate team
members by July 7th.

Any ideas submitted after July 7th may or may not be included in 11.1
depending on available resources.

Thanks and we look forward to your great ideas,
Bryen

GTK+ 2.12.11 is now available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk+/2.12/

gtk+-2.12.11.tar.bz2 md5sum: f7aab88e856a813386f797aade5867ad
gtk+-2.12.11.tar.gz md5sum: 98ff001a7321a4c93cda83d635449dc3

This is a bug fix release in the 2.12 series.

What is GTK+
============

GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for
projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application
suites.

GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range of
languages, not only C/C++. Using GTK+ from languages such as Perl and
Python (especially in combination with the Glade GUI builder) provides
an effective method of rapid application development.

• Read more: GTK+ 2.12.11 released