GNOME 2.6 Desktop & Developer Platform Release Candidate 1 Announced

This is the RELEASE CANDIDATE of the GNOME 2.6 Desktop &
Developer Platform! That’s right – it’s almost here, and this is
your last chance to have a sneak preview, and hopefully beat out
some of the last remaining bugs before our final release. You can
find a summary of the changes between 2.5.92 and the previous
2.5.91 release below.

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.5/2.5.92/sources/

tar.gz: 141M total
tar.bz2: 100M total

WELCOME! WELCOME! WELCOME!

This release candidate is not the final GNOME 2.6 release, but
very close. So close, you might not even notice a difference, so
you may as well install this because we know the suspense is
driving you up the wall. Like the Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd
minor version numbers to indicate development status. Please check
the 2.5 start page for more information:

http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/

Build Requirements

The tarballs included in the release. 🙂
Some very basic packages not distributed with this release,
such as image libraries, popt, and the freedesktop.org libraries
collection. Most of these will be included with or available for
your distribution, except the ‘shared-mime-info’ and
‘hicolor-theme’ modules – if you don’t install those, your desktop
will look ugly, but it will work. 🙂
Recent Docbook DTD and XSL stylesheets, plus a valid system
catalogue file for scrollkeeper.

Happy testing!

The GNOME Release Team

NEWS: at-spi-1.3.16

What’s new in at-spi-1.3.16: [GNOME 2.6 RC1 release]

Fix for bug #134036, which could steal keystrokes from
applications if at-spi registry failed.
Build fixes, added .pc.in files (from Laszlo Peter).

NEWS: bug-buddy-2.5.92

2.5.92 (“We are the champions”)

Fixes:
- Update to application/x-core MIME type
- Disable Back button when debugging is the first page
Improvements:
- Update translated docs (Glynn Foster)

–

NEWS: dasher-3.2.7

Dasher 3.2.7 – “The Austin Mini of text
entry”

Panel detection code fixed UPDATED: eel-2.5.91.1

eel was updated without a NEWS entry.

NEWS: eog-2.5.91

Version 2.5.91

Translation Updates: Abel Cheung (zh_TW), Alastair McKinstry
(ga), Alexander Winston (en_CA), Dafydd Harries (cy), Dinesh
Nadarajah (ta), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Gustavo Maciel
Dias Vieira (pt_BR), Leonid Kanter (ru), Maxim Dziumanenko (uk),
Miloslav Trmac (cs), Robert Sedak (hr), Sanlig Badral (mn),
Sayamindu Dasgupta (bn)

NEWS: epiphany-1.2.0

Epiphany 1.2.0

Bug fixes:

Fix a crash when dragging an url from an external application
to epiphany (Marco)
Fix crash when downloading a link on Freebsd (Joe Marcus
Clarke)

Translations:

AsmundSkjaveland(nn)
Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira (pt_BR)
John C Barstow (mi)
Ma SivaKumar (ta)
Miloslav Trmac (cs)
Priit Laes (et)
Progga (bn)
Roozbeh Pournader (fa)
Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
tunggul arif siswoyo (id)
Vladimir Petkov (bg)

NEWS: esound-0.2.34

don’t use C99 (Jens Granseuer)

Version 0.2.33

NEWS: file-roller-2.5.7

version 2.5.7

Fix bug #137183 (Crash when opening tar-file when using 24 hour
time format).
Updated manual.
Added localized manuals for de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, sv, zh_TW,
zh_HK, zh_CN.

NEWS: gail-1.5.8

Overview of Changes in GAIL 1.5.8

Ignore label within button when creating LABELLED_BY relations.
(bug #136602)
Find label for button in a GtkTreeView column header. (bug
#135943)
Add translations: Brazilian Portuguese [Franz Gustav
Niederheitmann], Russian [Russian team]
Updated translations: Albanian [Laurent Dhima], Croatian
[Robert Sedak]

NEWS: gconf-editor-2.5.92

2.5.92:
* Translations:

Updated Croatian translation (Robert Sedak)
Added Canadian English translation (Alexander Winston)
Updated Ukrainian translation (Maxim Dziumanenko)
Updated Thai translation (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)

NEWS: gdm-2.6.0.0

2.6.0.0 stuff:

DisplayLastLogin defaults to false since ‘/usr/bin/last’ is
stupidly unlocalized
Add translated (de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, sv, zh_CN, zh_HK and
zh_TW) documentation (Glynn, Sun translation team)
Translation updates (Christophe Merlet, Christian Neumair,
Maxim Dziumanenko, Telsa Gwynne, Stanislav Visnovsky, Gustavo
Maciel Dias Vieira, Alastair McKinstry, Alexander Winston, Sanlig
Badral, Vincent van Adrighem, Michiel Sikkes, Funda Wang, Ales
Nyakhaychyk, Metin Amiroff, Takeshi AIHANA, Alessio Frusciante,
Francesco Marletta)

NEWS: gedit-2.5.92

gedit 2.5.92

Fixes

Bug #136920 (Preferences dialog type hint) (Rob Adams)
Fix maintainer builds (Thomas Vander Stichele)

New and updated translations

Dinesh Nadarajah (ta)
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
Ales Nyakhaychyk (be)
Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
Arafat Medini (ar)
Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (it)
Rhys Jones (cy)
Miloslav Trmac (cs)
Raphael Higino, Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira (pt_BR)
Vincent van Adrighem (nl)
Duarte Loreto (pt)
Sanlig Badral (mn)

UPDATED: ggv-2.5.99.1

ggv was updated without a NEWS entry.

NEWS: glib-2.4.0

Overview of Changes from GLib 2.3.6 to
GLib 2.4.0

Handle invalid-UTF-8 in g_log() properly [Matthias Clasen]
Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Bruce Hochstetler]
Miscellaneous bug and portability fixes [Olivier Biot, David L.
Cooper II, Kjartan Maraas, Fredric. W. Meunier, Christof Petig,
Manish Singh, Sebastian Wilhelmi]
Documentation updates [Owen]
Updated translations (hr,ro)

UPDATED: gnome2-user-docs-2.5.90

gnome2-user-docs was updated without a NEWS entry. UPDATED:
gnome-applets-2.5.8

gnome-applets was updated without a NEWS entry.

NEWS: gnome-desktop-2.5.92

Version 2.5.92

Translations

Sayed Jaffer Al-Mosawi (ar)
Peter “Peshka” Slavov (bg)
Alexander Winston (en_CA)
Elian Myftiu (sq)
Danilo Segan (sr)
Gurban Mohemmet Tewekgeli (tk)
Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)

NEWS: gnome-games-2.5.9

gnome-games “Zero Gravitas”
2.5.9

This is also a release candidate. Naturally there was a
brown-paper-bag bug discovered the day after the last release. This
has been fixed. Also, the credits have been updated and of course
there have been more translations (does the translation team never
sleep ?!).

NEWS: gnome-icon-theme-1.1.91

Version 1.1.91

Changes since 1.1.90:
* More translations

NEWS: gnome-keyring-0.1.91

Changes in version 0.1.91 are:
* New translations

NEWS: gnome-mag-0.10.9

What’s new in gnome-mag-0.10.9:

languages: Maetin AEmirov (az) Alexander Winston (en_CA)
Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa) Paisa Seeluangsawat (th) Gurban Mohemmet
Tewekgeli (tk)

===

NEWS: gnome-netstatus-2.5.92

Misc
- Add translated help docs for 10 languages (Glynn, Mark)
- Build fix (Thomas Vander Stichele)
Translators
- Sayamindu Dasgupta (bn)
- Aleix Badia i Bosch (ca)
- Rhys Jones (cy)
- Christian Neumair (de)
- Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
- Sanlig Badral (mn)
- Everson Santos Araujo (pt_BR)
- Maxim Dizumanenko (uk)

Version 2.5.91

NEWS: gnome-panel-2.5.93

Version 2.5.93

Screenshot Taker

Use the new file chooser in save mode instead of open mode
(Mark, Fernando Herrera)

Clock Applet

Fix crash with unset/invalid clock format preference (Mark,
Fernando Herrera)

Translators

Isam Bayazidi (ar)
Vladimir “Kaladan” Petkov (bg)
Runa Bhattacharjee (bn)
Jordi Mallach (ca)
Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr)
Luca Ferretti (it)
Raphael Higino (pt_BR)
Dinesh Nadarajah (ta)
Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
Funda Wang (zh_CN)
Abel Cheung (zh_TW)

NEWS: gnome-session-2.5.92

Version 2.5.92

Translators

Vladimir “Kaladan” Petkov (bg)
Dinesh Nadarajah (ta)
Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)

UPDATED: gnome-system-monitor-2.5.4

gnome-system-monitor was updated without a NEWS entry.

NEWS: gnome-themes-2.5.92

2.5.92

Bugfixes:

2004-03-15 Calum Benson <[email protected]>

gtk-engines/hc-engine/hc-style.c: (draw_dot):
Remove bogus semi-colon, fixes #136846 (Kjartan Maraas)

New/updated translations:

2004-03-14 Maxim Dziumanenko <[email protected]>

uk.po: Updated Ukrainian translation

NEWS: gnome-vfs-2.5.91

gnome-vfs 2.5.91

Bugs fixed:
- build fixes
- enable ssl if using gnu tls
- handle host key changed in sftp method

NEWS: gnopernicus-0.8.0

Changes in 0.8.0

Translation:

Update translations for Ukrainian, German, Arabic, Italian,
Mongolian, Greek, Canadian English. UPDATED: gok-0.9.11

gok was updated without a NEWS entry.

NEWS: gpdf-0.125

Version 0.125

Translation updates: Estevao Samuel Procopio (pt_BR), Yuriy
Syrota and Maxim Dziumanenko (uk), Jordi Mallach (ca), Aasmund
Skjaeveland (nn), Dinesh Nadarajah (ta), Sayamindu Dasgupta (bn),
Alexander Winston (en_CA)

NEWS: gst-plugins-0.8.0

This is GStreamer Plugins 0.8.0

Bugs fixed since 0.7.6:

126999 : [API]: “gstreamer-libs-0.7.pc” should be renamed
129299 : complied errors in alsa-lib-1.0.0-0.rc2
131270 : pkg-config-ification patch (alsa, esd, shout2, ogg,
speex, .
135921 : speexenc support won’t compile with 1.1.x
136590 : mod plugins doesn’t work atm
137044 : GConf schemas unreadable

NEWS: gstreamer-0.8.0

This is GStreamer 0.8.0

Changes since 0.7.6:

coding style consistency for .c files
ABI padding for GstCaps and GstStructure

NEWS: gtk+-2.4.0

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.3.6 to
GTK+ 2.4.0

GtkFileChooser
- Handle icon theme changes [Federico, Jonathan]
- Add reordering bookmarks via DND [Federico]
- Cache filesystem data inside GtkFileSystemUnix backend [Morten
  Welinder]
- Implement local-only mode so that apps don’t get remote paths
  they don’t expect [Owen Taylor]
- Add Alt-Down keybinding [Mark McLoughlin, Owen]
- Major rewrite of location dialog completion code
  [Jonathan]
- Bug fixes [Federico, Jonathan, Morten, Mark, Owen, Anders
  Carlsson, Soeren Sandmann, Olivier Andrieu]
GtkComboBox [Matthias Clasen]
- Handle the case of no-active-row properly
- Improve positioning of popup
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Win32 [Tor]
- Handle different install locations for gdk-pixbuf loaders
- Bug fixes [John Ehresman, Bruce Hochstetler, Dave Neary]
Improve handling of foreign GdkWindows on destruction [Soeren,
Owen]
Require Control-Tab to focus labels [Owen]
RTL flipping for GtkArrow [Semion Chichelnitsky]
Support justifcation with wrapping off in GtkTextView [Owen,
Felipe Heidrich]
Change layout algorithm for mixed gridded/non-gridded menus to
fix performance problems [Soeren, Owen, Christian Persch]
Doc improvements [Matthias, Owen]
Misc bug fixes
Updated translations
(ar,az,ca,cs,da,de,es,fr,ga,hr,it,ja,lt,no,nl,pt,ro,
ru,sq,uk,zh_CN)

Other contributors: Dave Bordoley, Hans Breuer, David L. Cooper
II, Dennis Cranston, Dov Grobgeld, Niklas Knuttson, Kjartan Maraas,
Michael Natterer, Nils O. Selasdal, Philip K Warren, Dan Winship
UPDATED: gucharmap-1.3.2

gucharmap was updated without a NEWS entry. UPDATED:
libgnome-2.5.92.1

libgnome was updated without a NEWS entry. UPDATED:
libgnomecanvas-2.5.92

libgnomecanvas was updated without a NEWS entry. UPDATED:
libgnomeui-2.5.92

libgnomeui was updated without a NEWS entry.

NEWS: nautilus-2.5.91

This is nautilus 2.5.91, the file manager for the Gnome 2
desktop.

Major changes since 2.5.90 are:
* Handle failures when opening new window better (don’t loop)
* visiting and accept modifiers were reversed in list view
* Build fixes

NEWS: nautilus-cd-burner-0.6.7

0.6.7: