Gnome 2.12 Released

GNOME 2.12 is finally here! With a number of critical enhancements and new features, the latest release is a special treat for users and developers. While there are quite a few significant improvements in plain sight, many of the most beneficial additions work behind the scenes. Built on GTK 2.8, GNOME 2.12 is the first GNOME release to use the versatile Cairo vector drawing engine for widget rendering. The inclusion of Cairo will enable GNOME applications to take advantage of hardware accelerated rendering and integrated SVG. In addition to rendering improvements, the latest release also includes better support for the moderately new Linux Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) which should resolve some problems with external device detection.

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