HEADS UP: GNOME 2.28.1 now released for FreeBSD

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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.

Marcus on behalf of the FreeBSD GNOME Team
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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