---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jannis Pohlmann <jan...@xfce.org> Date: 2011/1/16 Subject: ANNOUNCE: Xfce 4.8 released To: x...@xfce.org
Xfce 4.8 is now available for download. It includes the following releases of Xfce core components: exo 0.6.0 gtk-xfce-engine 2.8.0 libxfce4ui 4.8.0 libxfce4util 4.8.1 libxfcegui4 4.8.0 thunar 1.2.0 thunar-vfs 1.2.0 xfce-utils 4.8.0 xfce4-appfinder 4.8.0 xfce4-dev-tools 4.8.0 xfce4-panel 4.8.0 xfce4-session 4.8.0 xfce4-settings 4.8.0 xfconf 4.8.0 xfdesktop 4.8.0 xfwm4 4.8.0 Release tarballs can be retrieved from the following mirrors (please note that it may take a few hours for the mirrors to catch up): http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.8/src http://archive.be.xfce.org/xfce/4.8/src http://archive.be2.xfce.org/xfce/4.8/src http://archive.se.xfce.org/xfce/4.8/src A tarball including all individual releases can be downloaded here: http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.8/fat_tarballs http://archive.be.xfce.org/xfce/4.8/fat_tarballs http://archive.be2.xfce.org/xfce/4.8/fat_tarballs http://archive.se.xfce.org/xfce/4.8/fat_tarballs Release notes for 4.8 ===================== Today, after almost two years of work, we have the special pleasure of announcing the much awaited release of Xfce 4.8, the new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.6. We hope that everyone will enjoy this release as much as we do. Sadly, this will not be the case as the folks using any of the BSD systems will notice a sudden loss of features. We think that this announcement is a good opportunity to express our disagreement with the recent "Linux-only" developments in the open source ecosystem, especially with regards to the utilities we need in desktop environments. Xfce 4.8 is our attempt to update the Xfce code base to all the new desktop frameworks that were introduced in the past few years. We hope that our efforts to drop pieces like ThunarVFS and HAL with GIO, udev, ConsoleKit and PolicyKit will help bringing the Xfce desktop to modern distributions. With Xfce 4.8 our users will be able to browse remote shares using a variety of protocols (SFTP, SMB, FTP and many more). The window clutter has been reduced by merging all file progress dialogs into a single one. Our panel application has been rewritten, thereby improving positioning, transparency, item and launcher management. It also introduces a new menu plugin to view directories. Its plugin framework remains compatible with 4.6 plugins. We also improved our settings dialogs. The display configuration dialog now supports RandR 1.2, detects screens automatically and allows our users to pick their favorite resolution, refresh rate, rotation. Screens can be configured to either work in clone mode or be placed next to each other. Keyboard selection has become easier and more user-friendly. Also, the manual settings editor has been updated be more functional. Aside from the features implemented in Xfce, the 4.8 development cycle brought us a bunch of other goodies. For the first time we had a serious release strategy formed after the "Xfce Release and Development Model" developed at the Ubuntu Desktop Summit in May 2009. A new web application made release management a lot easier. We worked hard on improving the situation of Xfce translators which led us to setting up our own Transifex server. Something else you will hopefully notice is that our server and mirroring infrastructure has been improved so that our servers hopefully will not suddenly surrender shortly after this release announcement. There is a lot more to discover and we hope a lot of you will give Xfce 4.8 a try! There is a brief tour online on http://xfce.org/ and http://xfce.org/about/tour A summary of the changes since the 4.8pre3 preview release is available on the following URL (it also includes links to the changes introduced in all preview releases): http://xfce.org/download/changelogs/4.8.0 2011 has just begun and we are already planning for the future. The 4.10 schedule will be worked on soon and hopefully, we will be able to turn Xfce into a non-profit organization at this year's FOSDEM, so stay tuned! Until then we hope you will enjoy today's release and join us in celebrating. Thanks go out to all our contributors, bug reporters as well as the awesome efforts of our translators and packagers. Best regards, The Xfce development team _______________________________________________ Xfce mailing list x...@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce http://www.xfce.org -- Regards, || ------ || Sergio Henrique Bento de Mira || Computer Science | Class of 2008/2 || Federal University Of Lavras | UFLA || Lavras, MG, Brasil || --- || shb...@comp.ufla.br || Cell: (+55) (35) 8822-8887 || ------ "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- GUS-BR - Grupo de Usuários de Slackware Brasil http://www.slackwarebrasil.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/slack-users-br Antes de perguntar: http://www.istf.com.br/perguntas/ Para sair da lista envie um e-mail para: slack-users-br+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com