From: Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas@online.no> To: GNOME Hackers <gnome-hackers@gnome.org>, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-packaging-list@gnome.org Subject: RELEASE: GNOME 1.4.1 Release candidate 1 Date: 03 Feb 2002 02:38:47 +0100 Hi. After a long wait the GNOME community is happy to announce the availability of the final release candidate before the final GNOME 1.4.1 release. One of the main points of this release is handling parallell installs with the newly released GNOME 2.0 Alpha. Other than that there's been a quite few changes since the last beta: ORBit (0.5.8 -> 0.5.13) * Robustness fixes, code cleanup, leak fixes... bonobo (1.0.8 -> 1.0.19) * pixbuf cache for improved performance, robustness fixes, crash in http moniker fixed, better focus handling, leaks plugged, general optimization... GConf (1.0.4 -> 1.0.7) * better handling of utf-8, more robust, use DB 3.3 and 3.2 if found, warning/compile/portability fixes. control-center (1.4.0.1 -> 1.4.0.3) * sort themes case-insensitively, select newly installed theme by default, portability/compile/warning fixes, let sound-capplet restore gmix mixer levels at startup, fix crash in theme-switcher on Solaris, don't truncate Debian name in the splash screen. eel (1.0.1 -> 1.0.2) * speed up preference handling, general optimization, work better with multibyte locales, don't crash on null MIME-types from gnome-vfs. gdk-pixbuf (0.11.0 -> 0.16.0) * support for 16-bpp BMPs and ICOs, support for 32-bpp ICOs, portability fixes, working python bindings, new BMP loaded from GTK+. gdm (2.2.4.1 -> 2.2.5.4) * SECURITY FIX! reset egid to user gid before starting a session. * robustness fixes, option to force 24-hour clock, work better with pam, better error reporting, work with KDE face directories, fix crash on FreeBSD, fixed crash in greeter with timed logins, ggv (1.0.1 -> 1.0.2) * use intltool, handle filenames with spaces better gnome-applets (1.4.0.4 -> 1.4.0.5) * man pages, make gtik use gnome-vfs, fix crashes in gtik, fix gtik font selection dialog, made gnotes more robust, better multibyte handling in gnotes, gkb remembers its configuration, make timezone handling work in asclock (needs xearth) - gnome-core (1.4.0.4 -> 1.4.0.6) * many fixes to session management, translucent panel, fixes for crashes in panel on startup, screenshot functionality added, support multiple mailboxes in mailcheck applet, support multiline output from imap servers in mailcheck applet, compile/warning/robustness fixes, multibyte support in gnome-terminal, copy menu item added in gnome-terminal, fixes for underlining of urls in gnome-terminal, paste the clipboard - not the selection in gnome-terminal, disable remote browsing in gnome-help-browser, fix crashes in help-browser, fix leaks in the panel, fix crashes in the panel when running programs in a terminal from the run dialog, plus a lot of other minor fixes. The bottom line is: You really want this one :) gnome-libs (1.4.1.1 -> 1.4.1.4) * man pages, fix compilation with db1 (to some degree at least), fix crashes in gtk-xmhtml (for help browser), mem leaks plugged in gnome-mime, compiler/warning fixes, better multibyte handling in zvt, report mousewheel events correctly to apps in zvt, fix crashes in gnome-mdi, work with KDE session management, plus more This is needed to get the above gnome-core release to build because of the added multibyte support in gnome-terminal/zvt gnome-print (0.29 -> 0.35) * lots of bugs fixed, more robust gnome-utils (1.4.0.99 -> 1.4.1.2) * fix resizing in gcalc, more features in gtt, less crashes in gtt gnome-vfs (1.0.1 -> 1.0.4) * portability fixes, fixes for FTP directory loading, detect Koffice MIME-types, random crash and leak fixes, SSL and https support, fix NFS method, fix buffer overflow, nntp module. gnomemm (1.2.1 -> 1.2.2) * gtkmm (1.2.7 -> 1.2.8) * libgtop (1.0.12 -> 1.0.13) * security fix. libole2 (0.2.3 -> 0.2.4) * fix leaks and bugs. librep (0.14 -> 0.15.2) * librsvg (1.0.1 -> 1.0.2) * fix crash on empty SVG file, better handling of multibyte. libxml (1.8.15 -> 1.8.17) * nautilus (1.0.4 -> 1.0.6) * speed improvements, support for JFS, better integration with KDE, authentication dialog support, show uptime in hardware view, better looking music view, fix crash in notes and history on startup, leak fixes, better i18n support, handle unmonting removable media better. oaf (0.6.6 -> 0.6.8) * handle multiple activations better, don't crash on a badly formed config file, fix evolution hang on startup on FreeBSD, portability fixes, robustness fixes. panelmm (0.1 -> 0.2) * Availability: http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/stable/betas/gnome-1.4.1rc1 ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/betas/gnome-1.4.1rc1 Please report all bugs to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ and remember to use accurate version numbers and component names. Backtraces are also essential to be able to fix any crashes that are reported. If you have an old version of bug-buddy please upgrade to the latest at: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/bug-buddy/bug-buddy-2.0.8.tar.gz (Fifth Toe will have a RC1 release very soon) Cheers Kjartan Maraas