15:37 kwm 

Presenting GNOME 2.32.1 for FreeBSD. The offical release notes for this
release can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.32/

This will be the last release of the GNOME 2.x series, mainly a bugfix and
bridge release to the first release of the GNOME 3.x series.

This release features commits by avl, marcus, mezz and myself.

The FreeBSD GNOME Team would like to thank the following contributors and
testers for there help with this release:

Zane C.B. <vvelox@vvelox.net>
romain@
Olaf Seibert <O.Seibert@cs.ru.nl>
DomiX
Bapt <baptiste.daroussin@gmail.com>
jsa@
miwi@
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@gmail.com>
Maxim Samsonov <xors@mne.ru>
Kris Moore

And pav@ for 2 exp-runs

PR:             ports/152255
                ports/143260
                ports/141033
                ports/149629
                ports/150350
                ports/151523
With hat:       gnome@

20:06 marcus 

Presenting GNOME 2.28.1 for FreeBSD.  The official release notes for this
release can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/ .
Officially, this is mostly a polishing release in preparation for GNOME 3.0
due in about a year.

On the FreeBSD front, though, a lot went into this release.  Major thanks
goes to kwm and avl who did a lot of the porting work for this release.
In particular, kwm brought in Evolution MAPI support for better Microsoft
Exchange integration.  Avl made sure that the new gobject introspection
repository ports were nicely compartmentalized so that large dependencies
aren't brought in wholesale.

But, every GNOME team member (ahze, avl, bland, kwm, mezz, and myself)
contributed to this release.

Other major improvements include an updated HAL with better volume
probing code, ufsid integration, and support for volume names containing
spaces (big thanks to J.R. Oldroyd); a new WebKit; updated AbiWord;
an updated Gimp; and a preview of the new GNOME Shell project (thanks to
Pawel Worach).

The FreeBSD GNOME Team would like to that the following additional
contributors to this release whose patches and testing really helped
make it a success:

Andrius Morkunas
Dominique Goncalves
Eric L. Chen
J.R. Oldroyd
Joseph S. Atkinson
Li
Pawel Worach
Romain Tartière
Thomas Vogt
Yasuda Keisuke
Rui Paulo
Martin Wilke
(and an extra shout out to miwi and pav for pointyhat runs)

We would like to send this release out to Alexander Loginov (avl) in
hopes that he feels better soon.

PR:             136676
                136967
                138872 (obsolete with new epiphany-webkit)
                139160
                134737
                139941
                140097
                140838
                140929

10:39 marcus 

Presenting GNOME 2.10 for FreeBSD!

The release notes can be found at
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.10/notes/rnwhatsnew.html, and will give you a
good idea of what has gone into this release overall.  However, a lot of
FreeBSD specific additions and fixes have been made.  For example, this
release offers fixed ACPI support as well as new CPU freqeuncy monitoring
support.  See the FreeBSD GNOME 2.10 upgrade page at
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq210.html for the entire list as well
as a list of known issues and upgrade instructions.

GNOME 2.10, as well as all of our releases, would not be possible without
the great team that goes into porting and testign each and every component.
Thanks definitely goes out to ahze, adamw, bland, kwm, mezz, and pav for all
their work.  We would also like to thank our adventurous users that chose to
ride the walrus.  We'd especially like to thank the following users that
provided patches for GNOME 2.10:

ade
Yasuda Keisuke
Franz Klammer
Khairil Yusof
Radek Kozlowsk

And anyone else I may have accidentally omitted.

As with GNOME 2.8, 2.10 comes with a brand-spankin' new splashscreen
courtesy of Franz Klammer.  However, unlike GNOME 2.8, we've included all
of the FreeBSD GNOME splashscreen entries with gnomesession.  You can
use the deskutils/splashsetter port to choose the one you like best.

As always, GNOME users should _not_ use portupgrade alone to upgrade to
2.10.  Instead, get the gnome_upgrade.sh script from
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/gnome_upgrade.sh.

Enjoy!

03:11 marcus 

Presenting GNOME 2.6.0.  The FreeBSD GNOME Team feels this our best release
ever.  It fixes many bugs, and adds some features missing in previous
FreeBSD ports.  To help users upgrade from GNOME 2.4, we have constructed an
upgrade FAQ at:

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq26.html

Please read it carefully.  GNOME 2.6 packages are also available for all
supported i386 versions of FreeBSD at:

http://www.marcuscom.com/tinderbox/

The FreeBSD GNOME Team would like the thank the following users for their
wonderful testing and patching efforts.  We would especially like to thank
Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com> for his wonderful new splash screen.
Without these people, our team, and our team alumni, GNOME on FreeBSD would
not be possible.

Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net>
Khairil Yusof <kaeru@pd.jaring.my>
Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl>
Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de>
Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org>
Scott Dodson <sdodson@sdodson.com>
Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@sw.ru>

07:07 marcus 

Link executables with -pthread so that they can work with threaded libraries
like libgthread.