GNOME 2.27.5 Released, Marks Feature Freeze

Posted by Michael Larabel on July 30, 2009

Vincent Untz has announced the release of GNOME 2.27.5. This unstable release of GNOME in the road to GNOME 2.28.0 also marks the entering of the feature freeze for this bi-annual update to GNOME. The packages found in GNOME 2.27.5 have a whole host of changes ranging from burst photography support in Cheese to translation updates and fixes throughout the desktop and platform.

The GNOME 2.27.5 release announcement can be read on the GNOME mailing list. GNOME 2.28 is scheduled for release in September while the release after that will be GNOME 3.0 in H1'2010.

Discuss this article in our forums, IRC channel, or email the author. You can also follow our content via RSS and on social networks like Facebook, Identi.ca, and Twitter (@Phoronix and @MichaelLarabel). Subscribe to Phoronix Premium to view our content without advertisements, view entire articles on a single page, and experience other benefits.
Latest Hardware Reviews
  1. Gallium3D Continues Improving OpenGL For Older Radeon GPUs
  2. 15-Way Open vs. Closed Source NVIDIA/AMD Linux GPU Comparison
  3. Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux Comparison Shows Shortcomings
  4. AMD Radeon Gallium3D More Competitive With Catalyst On Linux
Latest Software Articles
  1. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. XFS vs. F2FS On Linux 3.10
  2. AMD Radeon R600 GPU LLVM 3.3 Back-End Testing
  3. F2FS File-System Shows Regressions On Linux 3.10
  4. Previewing The Radeon Gallium3D Shader Optimizations
Latest Linux News
  1. DNF Still Advancing As Experimental Yum For Fedora
  2. Logitech Begins Supporting Linux Users
  3. Modern Intel Gallium3D Driver Still Being Toyed With
  4. Linux 3.10 Kernel Benchmarks On A Core i7 Laptop
  5. GCC 4.8.1 Compiler Due To Be Out Next Week
  6. Linux 3.10 Kernel Benchmarks For Intel Ivy Bridge
  7. Linux's "Ondemand" Governor Is No Longer Fit
  8. Firefox 22 Beta Enables WebRTC Support
  9. OpenSUSE 13.1 Milestone 1 Released
  10. DRM Graphics Driver Comes For Dove/Cubox
  11. JADE: An LLVM-Based Video Decoder For MPEG RVC
Latest Forum Talk
  1. DNF Still Advancing As Experimental Yum For Fedora
  2. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. XFS vs. F2FS On Linux 3.10
  3. Modern Intel Gallium3D Driver Still Being Toyed...
  4. Greater Radeon Gallium3D Shader Optimization Tests
  5. Linux's "Ondemand" Governor Is No...
  6. Logitech Begins Supporting Linux Users
  1. Computers
  2. Display Drivers
  3. Graphics Cards
  4. Motherboards
  5. Peripherals
  6. Processors
  7. Software
  8. Operating Systems
  9. All Articles
  1. Linux Benchmarking
  2. OpenBenchmarking.org
  3. Phoronix Test Suite