GNOME 2.29.4 Release – Development

The next development release of GNOME has been released as per it’s snapshot schedule.

Here’s an excert from their release:

And here comes 2.29.4, just in time for the holiday season. It’s a fewhours late, but there were several build issues this time. But if you   take all the right tarballs, this should now be okay :-) And you’ll enjoy some cool stuff, like an updated nautilus with its changed focus (see discussion on nautilus-list), or various modules like gnome-control-center with tons of bug fixes. You can also take a look at gnome-keyring which has changed quite a bit internally… There are  definitely many changes in there, so it’s a good time to do some deep testing!

You all know what you have to do now. Go download it. Go compile it. Go
test it. And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it.

To compile GNOME 2.29.4, you can the jhbuild [1] modulesets [2] (which
use the exact tarball versions from the official release):

[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/
[2] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.29.4/

If you want more news about each portion of the GNOME release you can find those here:

platform – http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.29/2.29.4/NEWS
desktop  - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.29/2.29.4/NEWS
admin    - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.29/2.29.4/NEWS
bindings – http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.29/2.29.4/NEWS
devtools – http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.29/2.29.4/NEWS
You can add this using the following repos for openSUSE:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Factory/openSUSE_11.2/ openSUSE\ 11.2\ GNOME\ Factory
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Backports:/Factory/openSUSE_Factory openSUSE\ 11.2\ GNOME\ Factory\ Backports
Note: I’m not 100% if you actually require the backports as in previous usage.
Upgrade using:
sudo zypper dup
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