ANNOUNCE: thunar 1.1.4 released

[Nick Schermer]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Duke Normandin <dukeofperl at ml1.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>
>> thunar 1.1.4 is now available for download from
>>
>>   http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/1.1/Thunar-1.1.4.tar.bz2
>>   http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/1.1/Thunar-1.1.4.tar.bz2.md5
>>   http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/1.1/Thunar-1.1.4.tar.bz2.sha1
>
> [snip]
>
> I'm new to Linux and of course Xubuntu - but not *nix. So I'm
> wondering whether or not I should re-act to all these "goodies"
> announcements that are appearing on this list lately, or will the
> Synaptic Package Manager soon kick in with these upgrades?

All the 'development' releases you see on the list (odd minor number)
are made for test users and packagers to find bugs faster, while in
the old days a tester needed to build from the development sources
(git, svn) which was a time consuming job.

Lately you see a lot announcements because we're feature complete for
Xfce 4.8 and are working towards the first preview release of Xfce
4.8.

If you use Xfce 4.6 from your distro, you can ignore the messages (or
read what will be new in 4.8) and continue the use the packages
supplied by your distro. However, hopefully you will start using the
development releases because you want to use the new features asap, so
Xfce gets more test users, more bug reports and less bugs in final
releases ;-).

Nick