As the first development release since GUADEC 2008 (GNOME's developer conference) where they had announced
GNOME 2.30 will be GNOME 3.0, we have a new development release back in the
GNOME 2.23/2.24 series. GNOME 2.23.5 was pushed out this afternoon by Vincent Untz.
The desktop change-log for the GNOME 2.23.5 release can be read
here. In addition, the release announcement in full can be read on the
GNOME mailing list. We'll have more on the GNOME 2.24 changes in the near future in a formal write-up.