Software Update: Gnome 2.27.2

The developers of Gnome have released an update for the development branch with version number 2.27.2. This popular desktop environment for *nix systems does not normally come as a pre-installed installation, but will need to be compiled independently in sequence or available with an update to your favorite Linux distribution. The corresponding announcement of this release on the mailing list is as follows:

GNOME 2.27.2 Development Release

This is the second development release towards the wonderful 2.28 release! Various bug fixes and nice improvements in several modules. Fun, fun, fun!

To compile GNOME 2.27.2, you can the jhbuild [1] module sets [2] (which use the exact tarball versions from the official release):

[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/
[2]

The release notes that describe the changes between 2.27.1 and 2.27.2 are available. Go read them to learn all the goodness of this release:

• platform
• desktop
• admin
• binding
• dev tools
• mobile

The GNOME 2.27.2 release is available here:

• platform sources
• desktop sources
• admin sources
• binding sources
• dev tools sources
• mobile sources

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is buildable and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking purposes. GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status.

For more information about 2.27, the full schedules, the official modules list and the proposed modules list, please see our 2.27 page. Also take a look at the abbreviated schedule reminder page.

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