GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1.3: "Twin Pines" ===================================================== The GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1.3 "Twin Pines", is ready for your bug-busting and testing pleasure! It is available for immediate download on ftp.gnome.org and mirrors. Detailed information about this release (with screenshots this time!): http://www.gnome.org/start/2.1/ Download: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.1/2.1.3/sources/ tar.gz: 83M total tar.bz2: 63M total WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! -------------------------- This release is an UNSTABLE development series snapshot. It is intended for testing and hacking purposes ONLY. Like the Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status, so this 2.1.x series will eventually become the official 2.2 release. Please check our schedule for more info: http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/schedule/ New Features & Modules ---------------------- Please see , the 2.1.x Development Series start page, for more information. Our final list of new modules: - acme: A daemon and configuration utility for 'special' keys on modern multimedia keyboards and notebooks. - file-roller: Full-featured archive creation, browsing, and unpacking utility. See: http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/ - ggv: The ever-popular PDF and PostScript viewer. - gstreamer/gst-plugins: An advanced multimedia framework. - gnome-themes: New package of default themes for GNOME, which currently includes GTK+ and icon themes designed for accessibility. - gnome-icon-theme: Default GNOME icon theme. - metacity: Window manager for the adult in you. - nautilus-media: GStreamer-based multimedia support for Nautilus, including an awesome new music view and video thumbnailing. - startup-notification: A minimal library that supports the new startup notification spec from freedesktop.org. - vte: Terminal widget with improved font, internationalisation and accessibility support. We have removed sawfish, librep, rep-gtk and libzvt from the GNOME Desktop release. Build Requirements ------------------ - The tarballs included in the release. :-) - Some very basic packages not distributed with this release, such as image libraries, popt and freetype. These should all be included with or available for your distribution. - Xft2 and fontconfig for superior font rendering and configuration, from http://fontconfig.org/ These are absolute requirements now. - Docbook DTD 4.1.2, Docbook XSL stylesheets and a valid system catalogue file for scrollkeeper (which in turn is required by many desktop components for documentation). Happy testing! - The GNOME Release Team