ANNOUNCE: GNOME Desktop & Developer platform 2.4.2 - "
- From: Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>
- To: gnome-announce-list gnome org
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org, gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: ANNOUNCE: GNOME Desktop & Developer platform 2.4.2 - "
- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 08:32:14 +0100
On behalf of the GNOME foundation, the release team and all the various
maintainers, documenters, translators and bughunters I have the honor of
announcing a new point release from the stable series of 2.4.x releases
of the GNOME Desktop and developer platform.
The release is available here:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.4/2.4.2/source/
Please report any bugs in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ - or if you want to
live on the bleeding edge try out one of our 2.5.x development releases.
New and improved in this release:
ORBit2 (2.8.0 -> 2.8.3)
* Fix http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126209 - "linc
should not crash if revents field has been reset between check
and dispatch" (Padraig O'Briain)
* Allow shutdown of GIOP from any thread (Michael Meeks)
* Improved spec conformance (Olivier Andrieu)
* Fix leaks and inifinite recusion (Alex Larsson)
* Improved locking and refcounting in some areas (Michael Meeks)
* Improved entropy in the random number generator (George Lebl)
* Fix http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121246 -
"bonobo-activation-server uses excessive resources after
app exit" (Padraig O'Briain)
* Code cleanup (Michael Meeks)
* build fixes (Kjartan Maraas)
* improved tests (Michael Meeks)
------------------------------
audiofile (0.2.3 -> 0.2.5)
* Fixed bugs related to processing 24-bit audio data.
* Made AIFF/AIFF-C parsing more robust.
* Fixed problems building on Mac OS X.
* Added support for large files. This option is disabled by default; to
enable large file support, run configure with the flag
--enable-largefile.
* Improved support for markers in WAVE files.
* Added support for miscellaneous data in WAVE files.
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Bug-Buddy (2.4.1 -> 2.4.2)
* Preserve bug description
* Fix an ugly crash
* Translations:
- Nikos Charonitakis (Greek)
- Guntupalli Karunakar (Hindi)
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Epiphany (1.0.5 -> 1.0.7)
* Fix a compiler warning introduced in 1.0.6 (Christian)
* Monitor /system/http_proxy too (Christian)
* Fix recovery from corrupted session, bookmarks and
history files (Christian)
* Fix some mem leaks (JF Rameau)
* Don't remember last action from location entry,
fixes short hostname urls (Marco, Christian)
* Fix crash when printing from js (Christian)
* Delete host entries from history db when there are no more
pages from that host in the history (Marco, Christian)
* Fix crash of nautilus view after using the find dialogue (Christian)
* Fix toolbar drag handle drag data (Christian)
* Fix a crasher when deleting a bookmark (Marco, Christian)
* Fix epiphany freezing when editing a bookmark while loading the page
it points to (Marco, Christian)
* Fix crash when calling epiphany from thunderbird (Marco, Christian)
* Don't close all epiphany window when exiting the last nautilus view
(Christian)
* Fix crash when printing a frame from javascript (Christian)
* Fix window position restoring (Dave Jones)
* Fix documentation OMF file (ported from HEAD) (Christian,
Piers Cornwell)
* Fix a mem leak (Christian)
* Fix a crash in the bookmarks editor (Marco)
* Fix session resume (Marco)
* Fix RDF export to encode entities (Christian)
* Fix session saving to encode entities (Christian)
* Fix recovery from corrupted toolbar layout file (Christian)
Translations:
* Danilo Segan (sr)
* Priit Laes (et)
* Alessio Frusciante (it)
* Changwoo Ryu (ko)
* Орчуулагчдын тухай (mn)
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File Roller (2.4.1.1 -> 2.4.4)
* Fixed bug #131560: zip files gets an empty password by default.
* Fixed bug #127073 (Deleting all files from an archive does not work)
* Fixed bug #129794 (file-roller 2.4.1.1 crashes upon LZH file opening)
* Updated eggtreemultidnd from libegg.
* Do not use the ephy-ellipsizing-label widget any more.
* Emit the DONE signal if no command is present.
* Do not compile with the DISABLE_DEPRECATED macro defined.
* Handle filenames with ambiguous chars (like []*) in zip archives.
* Handle correctly password with spaces in zip archives.
Translations
* Greek (Nikos Charonitakis)
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GDM (2.4.4.5 -> 2.4.4.7)
* Fix build problem caused by intltool (fixes #130234)
* Fixes xdmcp session counting (fixes #126465)
* The programs that want to talk to gdm check ownership of
/tmp/.gdm_socket for added paranoia
* Fix assert failure when starting Xnest (fixes #127780)
* Time for the fail delay is in microseconds (Leena Gunda,
fixes #128507)
* Translation updates (Zygimantas Berucka, Maxim Dziumanenko,
Dmitry G. Mastrukov, Russian team, Andras Timar, Sanlig Badral,
Paul Duffy, David O'Callaghan, Jordi Mallach, Jordi Mas,
Guntupalli Karunakar, Andras Timar)
------------------------------
GGV (2.4.0.1 -> 2.4.1)
* Fix memory corruption issues (Jaka)
* Minor fixes for PostScript (Jaka)
* Improve showing help in full-screen mode (Jaka)
* Range selection with shift pressed (Jaka)
* Updated docs (Breda)
* Build fixes (Alexander Winston)
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gnome-applets (2.4.1 -> 2.4.2)
Overall
* Help updates (Irene Ryan Breda McColgan)
AccessX applet
* Fix memory management and pixbuf handling
(Jody and Bill)
Battstat
* Leak fixes (Kjartan Maraas)
* Distribute the soundlist file (Stanislav Brabec)
* Major improvements in cpu usage with ACPI (David Moore)
* Fix event handling after above patch (Brian Perkins)
Cdplayer
* Clean up and fix leaks (Kjartan)
* Dist file for NetBSD (Kevin)
Charpick
* Remove unneeded include that broke build on
some platforms (Kjartan)
Gweather
* Fix a whole bunch of locations and add some new ones
(Bugreporters)
* Fix warning on help invocation (Muktha Naranya)
Mailcheck
* Remove duplicate definitions causing build time warnings
(Kjartan)
Mini-commander
* Remove compiler warning (George)
Mixer
* Leak fixes (Kjartan)
Modemlights
* Leak fixes (Kjartan)
Multiload
* Fix memory reporting (Kevin)
Wireless
* Fix help in context menu and preferences
(Muktha Naraya)
* Fix leaks (Kjartan)
Translations
* Abel Cheung (zh_TW)
* Ales Nyakhaychyk (be)
* Andras Timar (hu)
* Christian Neumair (de)
* Gustavo Noronha Silva (pt_BR)
* Jordi Mallach (ca)
* Miloslav Trmac (cs)
* Mətin Əmirov (az)
* Ole Laursen (da)
* Stanislav Visnovsky (sk)
* Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
* Tino Meinen (nl)
* Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
------------------------------
gnome-games (2.4.1 -> 2.4.2)
* The bugs where both blackjack and gnome-stones crashed on start-up
have now been fixed. There have also been translation updates.
------------------------------
gnome-mime-data (2.4.0 -> 2.4.1)
* Translation updates
------------------------------
gnome-panel (2.4.1 -> 2.4.2)
Panel
* Fix various bugs with autohide with no animations (Vincent)
* Use the monitor size and not the screen size to position the
panel (linchua)
* Fix bug in menu positioning when the panel is hidden (Arvind)
* Snap to 0/100% opacity with a 2% tolerance (Vincent)
* Set the accessible name on drawers (Padraig)
* Don't allow the panel to unhide when the properties dialog is
open (Arvind)
* Don't unhide the panel if we quickly move the pointer in and
out (Arvind)
* Don't unhide hidden drawers when unhiding the parent panel (Mark)
* Fix crashing when gdk_property_get_fails (Vincent)
* Link to help for action buttons (Vincent)
* Don't allow vertically centered horizontal panels and vice
versa (Vincent)
* Make "Force Quit" confirmation dialog cancel on escape
(Vijaykumar Patwari)
Screenshooter
* Don't crash when using the shape extension on an offscreen window
(Vincent)
libpanel-applet
* Fix crasher with ORBit 2.9.4 (Mark)
* Fix weird issue caused by not removing the dir from the
GConfClient cache (Vijaykumar Patwari)
* Fix a memory leak (Kjartan)
Applets
* Accessible name/description for various applets (Vincent)
* Fix up the help link for various applets (Vincent)
* Destroy about dialogs when applets are deleted (Archana Shah)
Misc
* Ukrainian translation of the help docs (Maxim Dziumanenko)
* Man pages updates (Vincent)
* Help documentation updates (Breda McColgan)
------------------------------
gnome-session (2.4.1 -> 2.4.2)
Session Manager
* Fix lock-up on log out with glib 2.3.1 (Mark)
Translators
* Dafydd Harries (cy)
* Maxim Dzumanenko (uk)
* Miloslav Trmac (cs)
* Sanlig Badral (mn)
------------------------------
gnome-terminal (2.4.1 -> 2.4.2)
* Updated manual.
* Fix a few minor memory leaks.
* Translation updates.
------------------------------
gnome-vfs (2.4.1 -> 2.4.2)
Bugs fixed
* Guess mime type by looking at the extension when a zip file
is found
* ncpfs file systems should work again (radu)
* stop complaining about empty PROPFIND responses (Jan Kratochvil)
* Several memory leaks
Translations
* lt (Tomas Kuliavas)
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gpdf (0.111 -> 0.112)
* Set a window icon. - #130612
* Fix links when using glib. >= 2.3.1.
* Fix desktop file for DnD. (Shakti) - #126160
* a11y fixes. (Padraig O'Briain) - #126516
* Fix for files with % in their name. - #128171
* Translation updates: Francesco Marletta (it), Pramod (kn), Evandro
Fernandes Giovanini (pt_BR), Miloslav Trmac (cs), Dulmandakh
Sukhbaatar (mn), Guntupalli Karunakar (hi), David O'Callaghan (ga),
Takeshi AIHANA (ja), Christophe Merlet (fr), Abel Cheung (zh_TW),
Tomas Kuliavas (lt), Ahmad Riza H Nst (id), Francisco Javier
F. Serrador (es)
------------------------------
intltool (0.27.2 -> 0.30)
* added missing [] quotation macro name defined in AC_DEFUN()
(Tomasz Kloczko)
* Handle embedded newlines thereby avoiding the silent corruption of
files. (Morten Welinder)
* Now intltool-merge does not compress whitespace in attributes
and CDATA. (Brian Cameron)
* Now intltool-merge supports dashes in attribute names, and supports
attributes delimited by single quotes. (Brian Cameron)
* Misc small fixes (Kenneth Chr., Danilo Segan)
* Removed OrigTree in favor of more simply setting handlers directly
in intltool-merge (Brian Cameron)
* Work correctly with AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR (Thomas Vander Stichele,
Chee Bin HOH and Kees Cook)
* Make intltoolize return a correct exit status (Thomas Vander Stichele)
* Fix usage of a bash-ism (Morten Welinder, Jonathan Blandford)
* Translate GenericName in .desktop files (Kenneth Rohde Christiansen)
* Framework to allow each format have inline comments (Denis Barbier)
* Add $XGETTEXT_ARGS to allow passing extra args to xgettext
(Danilo Segan)
* Added support for .kbd files (Kenneth Rohde Christiansen)
* Add $XGETTEXT_KEYWORDS to allow the use of other keywords
(Danilo Segan)
* Misc bug fixes (Noah Levitt, Tommi Komulainen)
* made intltool-merge use XML::Parser (#116526 and others)
[Brian Cameron]
- added and updated tests
- updated so that intltool-merge doesn't add a trailing '\n'
character to CDATA values.
- Corrected the logic of encoding/decoding the string
before/after translation.
- Added it to build, made it install (Kenneth Christiansen)
- Added missing DESTDIR (Abel Cheung)
- Also install OrigTree.pm in the distribution tree
(Malcolm Tredinnick)
- Check for the XML::Parser module at build time
(Malcolm Tredinnick)
* Added INTLTOOL_KBD_RULE for GOK\s *.kdb files (Bill Haneman)
* Added --multiple-output option (Kenneth Christiansen)
* Avoid bashism in xgettext version check. (#120267) (Abel Cheung)
* Handle standard GNU gettext 0.12 and 0.13 installations
(Malcolm Tredinnick)
* Fix the running of test 18 (multiple output test) (Malcolm Tredinnick)
------------------------------
libIDL (0.8.2 -> 0.8.3)
* Add a -uninstalled.pc file (Laca)
* Clobber LC_ALL before invoking pre-compiler (Fernando Herrera)
------------------------------
libbonobo (2.4.2 -> 2.4.3)
* Fix bug in logic in the property bag code (Thanks to Dave Jones)
* Backport fix for bonobo-activation from HEAD (Michael)
------------------------------
libbonoboui (2.4.2 -> 2.4.3)
* control activation signal emission (Federico)
------------------------------
libgnomeprint/libgnomeprintui (2.4.0 -> 2.4.2)
Albert Chin-A-Young
* Various portability fixes
Andreas:
* Adjust Preview window
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128036
* Fix duplex printing
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126046
* make gnumeric work correctly with cups via gnome-print.
* handle fonts with spaces in postscript export
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125828
* Apply patch (by bland mail ru) to improve performance
exporting large images.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122741
* Work around unreliable cupsGetDefault
* Load cups ppd files on demand only.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115566
* Protect against libcups changing the locale
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125836
* Implement a better fallback than first font.
Morten:
* Fix some leaks
* Fix locating the lpr command.
Owen Taylor:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120954
* Use Sans Regular rather than Helvetica as fallback
Jean Brefort:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120910
* Fix clipping
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray):
* Fix build errors with freetype2 2.1.7.
------------------------------
libgtop (2.0.7 -> 2.0.8)
* Build fixes and other improvements (Bastien)
------------------------------
libxml2 (2.5.11 -> 2.6.4)
* See http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
------------------------------
libxslt (1.0.33 -> 1.1.2)
* See http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
------------------------------
nautilus (2.4.1 -> 2.4.2)
* Leak fixes
* Keynav fixes
* Reread activation uri of symlinks in case the link target
is stale.
* List view crash fix
* List view focus fix
* Ensure the source isn't deleted as a partial copy
* Fixed > 4G file transfers
* Icon view crash fix
------------------------------
scrollkeeper (0.3.12 -> 0.3.14)
- Runtime fixes:
- Use a per-user directory for storing the extracted contents
files. This avoids problems when multiple users share /tmp
and use scrollkeeper.
- Do XInclude processing on documents before extracting
information.
- By default, do not use the network to retrieve required DTDs.
- Can be changed using the '-n' parameter to
scrollkeeper-install and friends.
- Do not segfault if an OMF file is invalid.
- Build fixes:
- Install various package documentation files.
- Tidy up the build process a little bit and fix some
portability bugs.
- Update included gettext code.
- Build fixes for specific platforms (Solaris and *BSD systems).
- Detect installed version of the DocBook DTD at build time.
- Allow the location of system XML catalog to be specified.
- see the --with-xml-catalog flag.
- Install locale-specific program files correctly (i.e.
portably).
- Allow scrollkeeper data directory to be customised
- see the --with-partial-db-dir flag.
- Upgrade supplied gettext and automake versions.
- Miscellaneous:
- Correctly register translated versions of documents by
considering their category, rather than their titles.
- Don't leak file descriptors when updating the database. This
fixes resource starvation problems on some systems.
- Fix some memory leaks.
- Should now work with IPv6-enabled systems.
- When using a non-default prefix, the scrollkeeper log files
are updated correctly.
- Many Sourceforge bug tracker bugs fixed and all outstanding
patches in the patch tracker evaluated and applied if
appropriate.
- New maintainers
- Malcolm Tredinnick
- Miloslav Trmac (i18n maintainer)
- Translation updates:
- All translations coordinated via the Translation Project now.
(http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/index.html)
- Updated translations
- am (Amharic) - Ge'ez Frontier Foundation
- ca (Catalan) - Jordi Mallach
- cs (Czech) - Miloslav Trmac
- da (Danish) - Ole Laursen
- hu (Hungarian) - Emese Kovacs
- ja (Japanese) - Yukihiro Nakai, Shun-ichi Tahara
- kn (Kannada) - Pramod
- nl (Dutch) - Tino Meinen
- no (Norwegian) - Kjartan Maraas
- ro (Romanian) - Marius Andreiana
- ru (Russian) - Dmitry Mastrukov
- sk (Slovak) - Stanislav Visnovsky
- sr (Serbian) - Danilo Segan
- sv (Swedish) - Christian Rose
- tr (Turkish) - Gorkem Cetin
- vi (Vietnamese) - pclouds
- zh_TW (Traditional Chinese) - Abel Cheung
------------------------------
yelp (2.4.1 -> 2.4.2)
* Fix problem and potential crash in info converter.
Patch submitted by both Joe Marcus Clarke and Roderich Schupp
* Updated translations:
el (Nikos Charonitakis)
ko (Changwoo Ryu)
hi (Guntupalli Karunakar)
lv (Peteris Krisjanis)
kn (Pramod)
------------------------------
zenity (1.6 -> 1.8)
* Fix quote and output bugs [Christian]
* Hook up 'activate' on text entry [Glynn, raf noduck net]
* Fix up Solaris build [Damien]
* Fix up spec file [Glynn]
* Add locale header [Leonardo]
* Make dialogs resizable [Ingo]
* Unmark translation messages [Christian]
* Fix up gdialog wrapper [Peter]
Translations (just about every one)
------------------------------
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