FreeBSD GNOME Project News

Announcing GNOME 2.28.1. for FreeBSD!

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Presenting GNOME 2.28.1 for FreeBSD. The official release notes for this release can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/ . Officially, this is mostly a polishing release in preparation for GNOME 3.0 due in about a year.On the FreeBSD front, though, a lot went into this release. Major thanks goes to kwm and avl who did a lot of the porting work for this release. In particular, kwm brought in Evolution MAPI support for better Microsoft Exchange integration. Avl made sure that the new gobject introspection repository ports were nicely compartmentalized so that large dependencies aren't brought in wholesale.But, every GNOME team member (ahze, avl, bland, kwm, mezz, and myself) contributed to this release.Other major improvements include an updated HAL with better volume probing code, ufsid integration, and support for volume names containing spaces (big thanks to J.R. Oldroyd); a new WebKit; updated AbiWord; an updated Gimp; and a preview of the new GNOME Shell project (thanks to Pawel Worach).The FreeBSD GNOME Team would like to that the following additional contributors to this release whose patches and testing really helped make it a success: Andrius Morkunas Dominique Goncalves Eric L. Chen J.R. Oldroyd Joseph S. Atkinson Li Pawel Worach Romain Tarti?re Thomas Vogt Yasuda Keisuke Rui Paulo Martin Wilke (and an extra shout out to miwi and pav for the pointyhat runs) We would like to send this release out to Alexander Loginov (avl) in hopes that he feels better soon.

Announcing GNOME 2.26.0 for FreeBSD!

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PST

The FreeBSD GNOME team is proud to announce the release of GNOME 2.26.0 for FreeBSD. The official release notes can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.26/ . On the FreeBSD front, we introduced a port of libxul 1.9 as an alternative for Firefox 2.0 as a Gecko provider. Almost all of the Gecko consumers can make use of this provider by setting: WITH_GECKO=libxul The GNOME 2.26 port was done by ahze, kwm, marcus, and mezz with contributions by Joseph S. Atkinson, Peter Wemm, Eric L. Chen, Martin Matuska, Craig Butler, and Pawel Worach.

Announcing GNOME 2.24.2 for FreeBSD!

Fri, 9 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PST

The FreeBSD GNOME team is proud to announce the release of GNOME 2.24.2 for FreeBSD. The official release notes can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.24/ . On the FreeBSD front, this release introduces Fuse support in HAL, adds multi-CPU support to libgtop, WebKit updates, and fixes some long-standing seahorse and gnome-keyring bugs.This release features commits by adamw, ahze, kwm, mezz, and myself. It would not have been possible without are contributors and testers: Alexander Loginov, Craig Butler, Dmitry Marakasov, Eric L. Chen, Joseph S. Atkinson, Kris Moore, Lapo Luchini, Nikos Ntarmos, Pawel Worach, Romain Tartiere, TAOKA Fumiyoshi, Romain Tartiere, Yasuda Keisuke, Zyl aZ, bf, Florent Thoumie, Peter Wemm, and pluknet.

Announcing GNOME 2.22.0 for FreeBSD!

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PST

The FreeBSD GNOME team is proud to announce the release of GNOME 2.22.0 for FreeBSD. The official GNOME 2.22 release notes can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/ . On the FreeBSD front, this release features an updated hal port with support for video4linux devices, DRM (Direct Rendering), and better support of removable media. Work is also underway to tie webkit more closely into GNOME. As part of the GNOME 2.22 upgrade, GStreamer received a rather large upgrade as well. Be sure to consult UPDATING on the proper steps to upgrade all of your GNOME ports.This release would not have been possible without the contributions and testing efforts of the following people: Pawel Worach, kan, edwin, Peter Ulrich Kruppa, J. W. Ballantine, Yasuda Keisuke, and Andriy Gapon.

Announcing GNOME 2.20.1 for FreeBSD!

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 PST

Presenting GNOME 2.20.1 and all related works for FreeBSD. The official GNOME 2.20 release notes can be found at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/ . Beyond that, this update includes the new GIMP 2.4 (courtesy of ahze).The GNOME 2.20 update also includes a huge change in the FreeBSD GNOME hierarchy. We are now using the more standard DATADIR of ${PREFIX}/share rather than ${PREFIX}/share/gnome. The result is that fewer patches and hacks are needed to port GNOME components to FreeBSD. This will mean some user changes may be required, so be sure to read /usr/ports/UPDATING for more details.This release and the things we accomplished in it would not have been possible without mezz's crazy idea to collapse DATADIR, and his persistence to make it happen successfully. Ahze and pav also deserve thanks for their work on porting modules and testing the whole ball of wax on pointyhat (respectively).The FreeBSD GNOME team would also like to thank our various testers and contributors:Yasuda Keisuke Frank Jahnke Pawel Worach Brian Gruber Franz Klammer Yuri Pankov Nick Barkas Cristian KLEIN Tony Maher Scot Hetzel Martin Matuska (mm) Benoit Dejean Martin Wilke (miwi) (And anyone else I may have missed)

GNOME 2.19.6 available for FreeBSD

Sat, 4 Aug 2007 00:00:00 PST

Okay, okay, I have missed a few updates. But the FreeBSD GNOME team has not been slacking. We've been keeping up with the latest GNOME development releases including this http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2007-August/msg00000.html . Checkout the ports and ../gnome/docs/faq2.html#q21 to see where GNOME 2.20 currently stands. Since 2.10 Beta 1 is right around the corner, now is also the time to start putting together some killer FreeBSD GNOME screenshots. Send all submissions to mailto:freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org .

GNOME 2.19.3 available for FreeBSD

Sat, 9 Jun 2007 00:00:00 PST

The third release on the path to GNOME 2.20 is now available in both port and ../gnome/docs/faq2.html#q21 forms. There is one known build issue with gnome-system-monitor and FreeBSD < 7-CURRENT that we hope to have worked out soon. Along with this release comes the GNOME 2.20 (and beyond!) http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap . This will prepare you for the exciting new features in store for our favorite Desktop Environment.

GNOME 2.18.2 available for FreeBSD

Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 PST

The next bug fix release for GNOME 2.18 has been http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2007-May/msg00004.html and ports and ../gnome/docs/faq2.html#q21 are available for FreeBSD. So the only question is, why haven't you upgraded yet?

GNOME 2.19.1 available for FreeBSD

Sun, 6 May 2007 00:00:00 PST

GNOME forges ahead with the first release in the development train that will become GNOME 2.20. As always, FreeBSD is right there with them. Only we bring a twist. This time around, we are doing yet another bit of housekeeping, and dropping the "share/gnome" DATADIR. This means that the FreeBSD GNOME installation will be more like all the other GNOME distributions. The net gain is that porting new GNOME applications to FreeBSD should be much easier with fewer hacks and patches.At this point, the ../gnome/docs/develfaq.html is safe to use for most ports. There is still quite a few ports that still require conversion, and we will be working on those in the weeks to come. In particular, the Desktop and all gnome2 meta-ports are safe; and ../gnome/docs/faq2.html#q21 are available for the GNOME Desktop.

GNOME 2.18.1 available for FreeBSD

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 PST

GNOME 2.18.1 has been http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2007-April/msg00008.html and ports and ../gnome/docs/faq2.html#q21 are available for everyone's faorite operating system. This release is a polishing of 2.18.0, so expect a more stable, nicer looking desktop experience. On top of that, some of our users have also submitted ../gnome/screenshots.html !