Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 13:57:13 -0600
From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
To: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org
Subject: GNOME 0.99.1 release is out.



Hello free software users,

   The GNOME team has just released updated versions of a number of
GNOME packages that fix a share of bugs that were reported with the
gnome 0.99 release.  

   The following packages have been released:

	- The GNOME libraries (gnome-libs-0.99.1.tar.gz)
	- The GNOME core applications (gnome-core-0.99.1.tar.gz)
	- ORBit 0.3.91.tar.gz
	- The GNOME file manager (mc-4.5.4.tar.gz)
	- Gnumeric 0.5 (gnumeric-0.5.tar.gz).

   These introduce a number of bug fixes to the problems reported by
the users on the version 0.99 of GNOME, some of the most important
highlights of this version are:

	- Reduced memory usage in various applications.
	- Memory leak fixes.
	- Improved stability in various applications.
	- Bug fixes

    GMC got the following features:

	- New menu layout.
	- Improved and accelerated desktop icon management.

    You can fetch the files from the GNOME ftp site:

	ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources

    Instructions for building GNOME are available at:

        http://www.gnome.org/start/gnometar.shtml

Best wishes,
Miguel.


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