| Gnome 2.14 final release candidate ready for testing |
Mar. 03, 2006
 The final release candidate of Gnome 2.14 (v 2.13.92) has been uploaded onto mirrors, the Gnome desktop project team has announced. Because this is a development release, the team cautions that it should be used for testing and bugfixing, and not installed for everyday use.
This is the last scheduled release before the final version of Gnome 2.14, Gnome developer Davyd Madeley wrote on the project website. Gnome 2.14 is on track to be released March 15, he added.
"As well as new features and more polish, developers have been working around the clock to squeeze more performance out of the most commonly used applications and libraries," Medeley said.
"Significant improvements in GNOME 2.14 have led to noticeable speed-ups throughout the desktop," Madeley added. "The speed of font rendering has been improved, and a new memory allocator called GSlice, which is in many ways similar to the slab allocator in the Linux kernel, offer significant performance increases throughout GNOME. Specific identified slow points in GNOME, such as logging in, have also been optimized."
To obtain the development release, go to these download sites: platform, desktop, and bindings.
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