[Xfce4-commits] <www:master> Add release announcement.
Jérôme Guelfucci
noreply at xfce.org
Sun Dec 5 17:14:03 CET 2010
Updating branch refs/heads/master
to 9bbd15f1a9f57bcd1c243012b90edd4f285387dd (commit)
from c9bd925f34ed0cb96a27e5d9211290fef045e664 (commit)
commit 9bbd15f1a9f57bcd1c243012b90edd4f285387dd
Author: Jérôme Guelfucci <jeromeg at xfce.org>
Date: Sun Dec 5 17:13:04 2010 +0100
Add release announcement.
i18n/news/en.news.php | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/i18n/news/en.news.php b/i18n/news/en.news.php
index d6a6c87..e9ff1ad 100644
--- a/i18n/news/en.news.php
+++ b/i18n/news/en.news.php
@@ -29,6 +29,52 @@ $news = array (
*/
array (
+ 'id' => 25,
+ 'date' => "5 dec 2010",
+ 'author' => "The Xfce development team",
+ 'title' => "Xfce 4.8pre2 Released",
+ 'content' => "We are pleased to announce the second preview release of Xfce 4.8. This release marks ".
+ "the beginning of the string freeze. From today on until the final release, strings may ".
+ "no longer be changed in the master branch of Xfce core components. This will help translators ".
+ "to prepare their translations for the final release scheduled on January 16th, 2011.".
+ "[br][br]".
+ "For this release we focused on fixing bugs in all Xfce components. We managed to close ".
+ "a great number of them thanks to all the persons who reported them and tested proposed fixes".
+ " quickly.".
+ "[br]][br]".
+ "A few minor panel features were added despite feature freeze. We also managed to work on two ".
+ "long time requests: proper support for editing the application menu with menu editors (Alacarte ".
+ "being the one that we tested) and integration with the Compiz viewport. Of course, this release ".
+ "also features a lot of new and improved translations thanks to the amazing work of our translation ".
+ "teams.".
+ "[br][br]".
+ "A list of all changes is available [link=/documentation/changelogs/4.8pre2]here[/link].".
+ "[br][br]".
+ "Release tarballs can be retrieved from the following mirrors (please note that it may take a few ".
+ "hours for the mirrors to catch up):".
+ "[br][br]".
+ "[url=http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.8pre2/src]archive.xfce.org[/url][br]".
+ "[url=http://www.tx-us.xfce.org/archive/xfce/4.8pre2/src]tx-us.xfce.org[/url][br]".
+ "[url=http://www.p0llux.be/xfce/xfce/4.8pre2/src]p0llux.be[/url][br]".
+ "[url=http://www.ca-us.xfce.org/archive/xfce/4.8pre2/src]ca-us.xfce.org[/url][br]".
+ "[br][br]".
+ "A tarball including all individual releases can be downloaded here:".
+ "[br][br]".
+ "[url=http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.8pre2/fat_tarballs]archive.xfce.org[/url][br]".
+ "[url=http://www.tx-us.xfce.org/archive/xfce/4.8pre2/fat_tarballs]tx-us.xfce.org[/url][br]".
+ "[url=http://www.p0llux.be/xfce/xfce/4.8pre2/fat_tarballs]p0llux.be[/url][br]".
+ "[url=http://www.ca-us.xfce.org/archive/xfce/4.8pre2/fat_tarballs]ca-us.xfce.org[/url][br]".
+ "[br][br]".
+ "We hope you will enjoy this release. Please give us feedback by sharing your thoughts, ".
+ "blogging, [url=http://www.twitter.com/]tweeting[/url], [url=http://www.identi.ca/]denting[/url], ".
+ "or by [url=http://bugzilla.xfce.org/]filing bug reports[/url]. With your help, 4.8 will be the ".
+ "best release ever (at least until 4.10)!".
+ "[br][br]".
+ "Kind regards and thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release,".
+ "[br]".
+ "The Xfce development team"
+ ),
+ array (
'id' => 24,
'date' => "7 nov 2010",
'author' => "The Xfce development team",
@@ -248,12 +294,12 @@ $news = array (
"[br][br]".
"This are just a few changes everybody is likely to notice.[br]".
"A complete list of changes can be found at ".
- "[url=http://www.xfce.org/documentation/changelogs/4.5.92]this location[/url].[br]".
+ "[url=http://www.xfce.org/documentation/changelogs/4.5.92]this location[/url].[br]".
"Once again, the translators have done a great job on translating Xfce in their native language.[br]".
"We will probably see Xfce 4.6 be translated in more languages then ever before thanks to their hard work.".
"[br][br]".
- "Getting excited? You can download Xfce 4.6 BETA-2 from ".
- "[link=download/#unstable]here[/link].".
+ "Getting excited? You can download Xfce 4.6 BETA-2 from ".
+ "[link=download/#unstable]here[/link].".
"We hope you have a lot of fun trying out this new Xfce.".
"If you find any issues, don't hesitate to check out our [url=http://bugzilla.xfce.org/]bug tracking system[/url] ".
"and look for the bug, or submit a new report if your issues are not already mentioned.".
@@ -302,10 +348,10 @@ $news = array (
"A list of known issues can be found [url=http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.6/known-issues]here[/url].".
"[br][br]".
"A complete list of changes can be found at ".
- "[url=http://www.xfce.org/documentation/changelogs/4.5.91]this location[/url].[br]".
+ "[url=http://www.xfce.org/documentation/changelogs/4.5.91]this location[/url].[br]".
"[br][br]".
- "Getting excited? You can download Xfce 4.6 BETA-1 from ".
- "[link=download/#unstable]here[/link].".
+ "Getting excited? You can download Xfce 4.6 BETA-1 from ".
+ "[link=download/#unstable]here[/link].".
"[br][br]".
"We hope you have a lot of fun trying out this new Xfce.".
"If you find any issues, don't hesitate to check out our [url=http://bugzilla.xfce.org/]bug tracking system[/url] ".
@@ -330,19 +376,19 @@ $news = array (
"[br][br]".
"The release schedule for Xfce 4.6 is available to the public on ".
"[url=http://wiki.xfce.org/milestones_to_46]the wiki[/url].".
- "[br][br][br]".
+ "[br][br][br]".
"Xfce 4.6 comes with a lot of new components, some of them replacing old ".
"code and some of them being completely new. A preliminary ChangeLog for ".
"the alpha release can be found at ".
- "[url=http://www.xfce.org/documentation/changelogs/4.5.90]this location[/url][br]".
+ "[url=http://www.xfce.org/documentation/changelogs/4.5.90]this location[/url][br]".
"There is also a page which contains general information about the ".
"components of Xfce 4.6 and changes that are supposed to go into 4.6:[br][br]".
"[url=http://wiki.xfce.org/general_info_46]http://wiki.xfce.org/general_info_46[/url][br][br]".
"As this is a development-release, we do not claim it is perfect. ".
"[url=http://wiki.xfce.org/known_issues_46]Here[/url] ".
"is a list of issues we have already identified.[br][br]".
- "Getting excited? You can download xfce 4.6 alpha from ".
- "[link=download/#unstable]here[/link].".
+ "Getting excited? You can download xfce 4.6 alpha from ".
+ "[link=download/#unstable]here[/link].".
"[br][br]".
"We hope you have a lot of fun trying out this new Xfce.".
"If you find any issues, don't hesitate to check out [url=http://bugzilla.xfce.org/]bug tracking system[/url] ".
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