From the GNOME Developers Mailing List comes the immediate release of GNOME 2.29.91, which includes the latest GNOME Shell release:

From the Mailing List release:
GTK+ 2.19.6 is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/2.19/
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk+/2.19/
md5 sums:
524021c965a0e1a4ebadd58c576926a5 gtk+-2.19.6.tar.bz2
1311c99903e4dd28bf42a352b05788db gtk+-2.19.6.tar.gz
sha1 sums:
0a42eeee67fe2f3022f39fdf1a2a3817e520c0ff gtk+-2.19.6.tar.bz2
0e1d0329f2aad4d7aa9fd127c9b393db79dc6746 gtk+-2.19.6.tar.gz
This is a development release leading up to GTK+ 2.20.
Notes:
* This is an unstable development release.
It has had only little testing and there are unfinished
features and plenty of bugs in this release. It should
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The KDE developers have announced the latest release of the KDE Software Compilation branch. The newest release code named “Caikaku” is the 4th major release under KDE4, and brings in 7293 bug fixes along with a wealth of new features, and application sets, including a new authentication framework.
Here’s some info from their release notes:
You can read about some of my earlier KDE blog [ continue reading... ]

The X.org development team announced the immediate development release of X.org 7.4.902. Heres’ from the announcement:
The biggest thing to note is the opening comment that the code will most likely be the same for 7.5, which means 7.5 should be out within the next few weeks.

Wine HQ has released immediately Wine 1.1.38, which is considered to be a development release.
Here’s also a comprehensive list of fixes from the announcement:

As I reported earlier the KDE development team opted to release a 3rd out of schedule release candidate for KDE 4.4. This release was initially to test some building issues they ran into in RC2, but the sneaky little developers in their RC3 release announcement note that there were enough fixes post RC2 to warrant RC3.
Here’s an excerpt from their release announcement:

Recently the openSUSE team announced that LXDE (Lightweight Desktop Environment) would be included as an option in the installer on openSUSE 11.3.
In the openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1 Release, they tout LXDE as
You can find more about LXDE in general at http://lxde.org.
Being as impatient as I am, I decided to give LXDE a shot prior to waiting for openSUSE 11.3. The LXDE team makes [ continue reading... ]

Found this pretty interesting SUSE Moblin Video on YouTube.
Just thought I’d share it with you:

Today the Banshee development team released Banshee 1.5.3.
The immediate release of Banshee 1.5.3 brings lots of new features, with loads of fixes (75) since 1.5.2. Here’s a list of many of the new features (from banshee-project.org
Sync Device From Playlist Option
Either manually manage what files are added/removed to your device, or choose a playlist to sync from. You can make a size-limited smart playlist to [ continue reading... ]

Yesterday the KDE Developers were busy with announcements and here was another one with the release of KDE 4.3.5:
Below is excerpt from the kde-accounce mailing list:
KDE Community Ships Fifth Translation and Service Release of the 4.3 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates

Toma Albers, one of the KDE Developers sent out a note today that there will be an RC3 release for KDE 4.4, prior to the final release scheduled February 9th.
The biggest thing to note is that this will not delay the tagging or release of KDE 4.4. Here’s the official announcement from the KDE Mailing List which explains why the extra RC was warranted: [ continue reading... ]

Today the KDE team has released the second Release Candidate of KDE 4.4. This release is the final release prior to the scheduled Feb 9th release of KDE 4.4 Final.
Here are some of the release details from the official release announcement which can be found here.

Wine HQ has released Wine Development version 1.1.37.
Here are some of the major changes of the Wine 1.1.37 Release:
You can download the source from the following location:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.1.37.tar.bz2
I’ll write a different write up for installing on openSUSE, Ubuntu etc.

Business Week is reporting that Apple is in talks with Microsoft to replace the Google, the current default search engine on the iphones, with Bing!.
Too me this is a major hit to Google in a monetary sense, since their base revenues are generated from Advertising income.
I believe this move is because Google is starting to become more and more intertwined with the smart phone [ continue reading... ]

The Mozilla Foundation Developers have released to the wild Firefox 3.6. Which includes some awesome features like:

Personas: Personalize the look of your Firefox by selecting new themes called Personas in a single click and without a restart
Plugin Updater: To keep you safe from potential security vulnerabilities, Firefox will now detect out of date plugins
Stability improvements: Firefox 3.6 significantly decreased crashes caused by third party software [ continue reading... ]