[orca-list] [Fwd: Announcing Orca v2.28.0]

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

The Orca v2.28.0 tarballs went out just a few moments ago and will be 
rolled into the GNOME 2.28.0 release this Wednesday.

I think Orca v2.28.0 is a very good release for Orca and I'm very proud 
of all the work everyone put into it.  Our main efforts were focused on 
the impact on the end user.  This includes new features, bug fixes, and 
performance work.  The draft release notes can be found under the "Orca" 
section at http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyseven/ReleaseNotes and 
the final form should be available at 
http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/ very soon.

For GNOME 2.30 (which is likely to be known as GNOME 3.0), I'm going to 
shift my attention towards the GNOME accessibility infrastructure.  The 
infrastructure has been undergoing a massive overhaul to shed GNOME of 
its CORBA dependency.  This work has been going on for some time, but 
GNOME 3.0 is the milestone where we'll finally make the shift.

My goal is to make this shift a positive one.

This is a big shift, however, so be forewarned that there will be bumps 
along the way to GNOME 3.0.  If you need stability, stay with the stable 
releases of GNOME 2.28.  If you want to help us meet the goal of 
ensuring GNOME 3.0 is stable for accessibility, though, feel free to 
jump in with the early development releases of GNOME 2.29.

Will

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• From: Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>
• To: gnome-announce-list gnome org
• Subject: Announcing Orca v2.28.0
• Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:45:02 -0400

===============
* What is Orca?
===============

Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader
that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable
combinations of speech, braille, and/or magnification.  Orca
development has been led by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility
Program Office via continued engagement with its end users and
generous contributions from the Mozilla Foundation and wonderful
community members.

You can read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.

==================================
* What's changed for Orca v2.28.0?
==================================

These are just since 2.27.92.  For a summary of changes since 2.26,
please see the GNOME 2.28 release notes:

http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/

2.28.0 - 21-Sep-2009

General:

* Fix for bgo#595117 - Need to customize the presentation of the
  packagemanager package list toggle

New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):

    bg          Bulgarian           Alexander Shopov
    ca          Catalan             Gil Forcada
    ca valencia Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando
    cs          Czech               Lucas Lommer and Petr Kovar
    da          Danish              Kenneth Nielsen
    de          German              Chrisitan Kirback
                                    and Mario BlÃttermann
                                    and Simon Bienlein
    en_GB       British English     Bruce Cowan
    es          Spanish             Jorge GonzÃlez
    fi          Finnish             Ilkka Tuohela
    gl          Galician            AntÃn MÃixome
    ml          Malayalam           Ani Peter
    nb          Norwegian BokmÃl    Kjartan Maraas
    pl          Polish              Tomasz Dominikowski
                                    and Piotr LeszczyÅski
    ro          Romanian            Adi Roiban
    sl          Slovenian           Matej UrbanÄiÄ
    uk          Ukranian            Maxim Dziumanenko
    zh_HK       Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
    zh_TW       Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao

=====================
* Where can I get it?
=====================

You can obtain Orca v2.28.0 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.28/orca-2.28.0.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.28/orca-2.28.0.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team

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