First GNOME 2.21 Release This Week

For those looking to live on the cutting-edge of GNOME innovations, the first development release towards GNOME 2.22 is due out this Wednesday (October 31). This first release, GNOME 2.21.1, had its tarballs due today for the package deadline. Some of the GNOME 2.21.1 packages checked in for this release include Pango 1.19.0, gnome-phone-manager 0.30, gcalctool 5.21.1, Orca 2.21.1, Empathy 0.21.1, Strongwind 0.9, and Gnumeric 1.7.13. The next GNOME 2.22 development release is coming on November 12 while the final GNOME 2.22.0 release is planned for March 12. The complete schedule is available from the GNOME Live page. More information on the planned features for GNOME 2.22 are available in this news post.