Updates - 2005-03-07

• Rolled-back VTE to 0.11.11 to correct problems for some users
• Updated Dasher (dasher-3.2.13-i686-4dl) to correct crash problems
• Updated Dropline-Artwork (dropline-artwork-0.2.8-noarch-3dl)
• Updated Samba (samba-3.0.11-i686-3dl.tgz)

2.8.3 Released - 2005-02-27

• Full changelog at: http://www.borgerding.org/dropline/Changelog-2.8.3

Updates - 2005-02-11

• Updated GDM to version 2.6.0.7
• Updated Drivel to 1.2.4, and corrected some MIME problems
• Updated Curl to version 7.13.0

Updates - 2005-01-31

• Updated HAL to version 0.4.7
• Updated Gnome-VFS with some patches that fix HAL support
• Update Gnumeric to version 1.4.2

Updates - 2005-01-25

• Updated GIMP to 2.2.3
• We're now including GIMP-help 2.0.6

Updates - 2005-01-23

• Updated HAL to 0.4.6 (Fixes some VFAT problems)
• Updated Gaim to 1.1.2
• Patched libwnck and Metacity (Taskbar now flashes on "URGENT" hints)
• Fixed gnome2-user-docs

Updates - 2005-01-19

• Updated HAL to 0.4.5
• Updated DBUS to version 0.23
• Updated Alsa-lib and Alsa-utils to version 1.0.8
• Updated libao to version 0.8.6
• Fixed a problem with libgail-gnome

Updates to 2.8.2 - 2005-01-08

• Updated HAL to 0.4.4
• Dbus 0.22 gets improved startup script to detect 2.6.x kernels
• Updated Gstreamer to 0.8.8, gst-plugins to 0.8.7, gst-ffmpeg to 0.8.3
• Updated to Kerberos 1.3.6 with some security fixes
• Updated Control Center with improved email and browser settings
• Updated GDM pack to make it Fluxbox-friendly (Shows entry in GDM login screen)

Dropline GNOME 2.8.2 (Passing the Torch) - 2004-12-25

• This is the first community release. There are too many updates to list them all. Here are a few:
• Updated to GNOME 2.8.2 Desktop and Developer Platform
• Improved HAL support
• Updated to most recent GNOME Office software
• Patched X.org X11 6.8.1 with numerous fixes
• Updated media libraries and framework (Xine-lib, GST, and applicable players)
• Updated Evolution to 2.0.3; includes numerous fixes
• Ditched Mozilla suite for Firefox and Thunderbird. Firefox is used for Gecko libs and NSS crypto
• We are now including Inkscape
• Updated to GIMP 2.2
• Added a new WIP theme pack, called "Donau"
• PAM gets an update to 0.78
• And much more...

Dropline GNOME 2.8.0 - 2004-10-07

• Updated to GNOME 2.8.0 Desktop and Developer Platform
• Updated to most recent GNOME Office software
• Updated to X.org X11 6.8.1

Dropline GNOME 2.6.2 - 2004-08-31

• Updated to GNOME 2.6.2 Desktop and Developer Platform
• Updated to most recent GNOME Office software
• Fixed bad paths in pygtk modules
• Fixed MIME issues in gnome-vfs and shared-mime-database packages

Dropline GNOME 2.6.1 - 2004-05-26

• Updated to GNOME 2.6.1 Desktop and Developer Platform
• Updated to most recent GNOME Office software
• Fixed Xkb bug in X11
• Dropline Installer updated to use more SourceForge mirrors
• Added missing PAM file to Samba package, fixes Swat login error
• Added libmad and rebuilt gst-plugins to include mad support
• Updated fontconfig's search path to not include bitmapped fonts

Dropline GNOME 2.6.0 - 2004-04-09

• Updated to GNOME 2.6 Desktop and Developer Platform
• Updated to most recent GNOME Office software
• Replaced XFree86 with the X.org X11 server & libraries
• Added libgda and libgnomedb database packages
• Replaced XMMS with Beep Media Player
• Removed the dependance on libiconv
• Updated multimedia framework to latest releases of xine-lib and Gstreamer
• Added new artwork, courtesy of Paul Best and Claudiu Fofiu
• Added xsane with Gimp 2.0 support
• Added Samba-3 (required by gnome-vfs's SMB backend)
• Added libgphoto and gtkam digital camera tools
• Fixed the docbook package (resolves a few scrollkeep bugs)
• All packages are compiled with -fPIC to allow prelinking to function

Dropline GNOME 2.4.3 - 02.29.04

• Updated to latest GNOME Desktop 2.4.x packages
• Updated to latest GNOME Office packages (AbiWord 2.0.3 and Gnumeric 1.2.6)
• Updated SDL to fix a crash on Pentium-4 machines
• Updated to latest release of Ogg-Vorbis libraries and tools
• Updated to Python 2.3.3
• Updated XFree86 to 4.3.0.1 and patched to fix security exploits
• Updated alsa-lib package
• Updated openldap package and added ldbm support
• Recompiled guile with threading support
• Updated to latest expat package, fixes some compile errors
• Patched Gaim to close recent security exploits
• Patched GTK+ to fix the "100% CPU Usage" bug and updated the File Selector

Dropline GNOME 2.4.2 - 01.22.04

• Updated to Mozilla 1.6
• Updated to latest GNOME Office applications, including The GIMP 2.0-prerelease
• Updated to the most recent core GNOME applications and libraries
• Added the RhythmBox media library and player
• Fixed network-intensive scrollkeeper installation issues
• Fixed GDM installation issues
• Fixed Xft/FreeType compilation issues

Dropline GNOME 2.4.1 - 11.21.03

• Updated to Mozilla 1.5
• Updated to latest GNOME Office suite
• Updated core GNOME libraries and applications to 2.4.1
• Updated to FreeType 2.1.7
• New Dropline Installer release incorporating several request features, such as listing all corrupt packages at once, and disabling the automatic removal of obsolete applications

Dropline GNOME 2.4.0 - 09.16.03

• Updated to the GNOME 2.4 Desktop and Developer Platform
• Office update: added AbiWord 2.0 and updated Gnumeric to 1.2.0
• Artwork update: added Industrial as the default control theme, Gorilla as the default icon theme, and included the Dropline GNOME GDM and splash screens elmaya posted to art.gnome.org
• Updated to the latest Freetype and Fontconfig releases
• Renamed several packages to improve integration with Slackware 9.1-beta

Dropline GNOME 2.2.5 - 08.16.03

• Updated to the most recent packages for the GNOME 2.2 Desktop and Developer Platform
• Updated to the 1.0-RC release of Xine and associated libraries
• Updated to the 1.4.4 release of Evolution and associated libraries
• Added pyorbit to fix problems with the gnome-python package
• Added the improved GTK+ file selection and toolbar patchs
• Updated the Dropline Installer to allow user-selected update intervals and more

Dropline GNOME 2.2.4 - 07.05.03

• Added Evolution 1.4 and required libraries
• Updated to the latest stable releases of Mozilla, the GIMP, Gnumeric, GTK+, GStreamer, GnomeMeeting, OpenLDAP, and the core GNOME libraries
• Updated the Dropline Installer to fix the infamous "Building Category List->Main Menu" bug

Dropline GNOME 2.2.3 - 05.31.03

• Updated to the latest GNOME 2.2-series software and rebuilt every package with i686 optimizations
• Overhauled the Dropline Installer to support categories and localizations
• Tons of small fixes that have accumulated over the past 2 months ;)

Dropline GNOME 2.2.2 - 04.05.03

• Updated GDM to fix login problems
• Updated Control Center to fix several segfaults
• Updated to latest Gaim from CVS
• Updated to Mozilla 1.3 with GTK+ 2, Xft, and Xinerama support
• Added Dia, Guile, libiconv, Quick-Lounge and StickyNotes packages
• Rebuilt Glib with libiconv support to fix UTF-8 problems for users who don't have the glibc development package installed
• Rebuilt Pango, GTK+, libgnomeui, and Metacity against XFree86 4.3
• Rebuilt gnome-session with a patch to handle GTK+ theme integration nicely
• Rebuilt GTK+ without the menu drop-shadows
• Rebuilt Nautilus without the spring-loaded folders since Apple holds a patent on the idea
• Rebuilt GTK+ & Co., Nautilus, Mozilla, and X with Pentium optimizations
• Added a VCD decoder to Xine and updated to the latest Xine release
• Added a CUPS packages and rebuilt libgnomeprint to take advantage of it
• Added an ALSA library package and rebuilt the media packages to take advantage of it
• New release of the Dropline Installer with much better dependancy handling
• Updated to the latest GNOME 2.2.1 release

Dropline GNOME 2.2.1 - 03.01.03

• Updated the librsvg package to fix an issue on new installations
• Updated the xft1 package to fix KDE/QT fonts
• Updated GNOME-VFS and the Control Center to fix the Theme Manager
• Updated PAM to fix problems for users with NULL passwords
• Updated WebFonts to fix problems on systems with older versions of tar
• Added XFree86 4.3.0 which obsoletes the xft1, xft2, xrender, and fontconfig packages
• Added GNOME System Tools, patched to support Slackware 8.1
• Appended a "dl" the each package's revision number to allow installation on Slackware 9-beta systems
• Various changes to improve Slackware 9 and Vector Linux compatibility
• Added a Dropline Update Alert applet
• Added a Menu Editor launcher to the Control Center
• Added Fontilus, MrProject and GNOME-Python
• Updated Bluefish, Expat, Flac, FreeType, Gaim, LibDVDCSS, Pan, Speex and XChat to the latest releases
• Updated the core GNOME Desktop packages to the latest releases

Dropline GNOME 2.2.0 - 02.08.03

• Updated the Dropline Installer to work with CD installations, non-default cache directory installations, and to fix the terminal after it runs
• Updated VTE and GTK-Engines
• Fixed GKrellM package and updated to latest version
• Updated the whole Xft/FontConfig/Pango/GTK+ rendering system with XRender to fix subpixel font rendering
• Updated the Control Center to fix the Theme Manager bugs
• Updated the Dropline Installer again, this time to add MD5 checking, continue broken downloads, fix the non-root permission problems for people with messed up umasks, add file size to the package selection menu, and other bug fixes
• Updated Gaim to latest CVS
• Updated Xine-libs and added Totem back to the release
• Updated Xine-ui to match Xine-libs
• Upgraded to FreeType 2.1.4rc1 with further refinements to the autohinter
• Added PAM and usermode packages to allow normal users root priveleges under certain conditions
• Updated GNOME Meeting to the latest release
• Added the very-slick Spheres & Crystals theme
• Updated to the latest release of RedHat-Artwork for improved GTK+ 2.2 compatibility
• Updated to the latest release of Gnumeric
• Updated GNOME Desktop packages to the official GNOME 2.2.0 release

Dropline GNOME 2.1.90 - 01.17.03

• Updated the GTK+ libraries to GTK+ 2.2.0
• Updated the GNOME libraries and utilities to GNOME 2.2 RC-1
• Updated the Dropline Installer to 2.0.0, including a new interface, proxy support, an uninstall option, and package selection
• Updated every package to the latest version available
• Rebuilt the entire Dropline GNOME Desktop against GTK+ 2.2 and GNOME 2.2, removing the "-dropline-" in every package name
• Added RedHat's Bluecurve desktop theme
• Added a slew of plugins for GStreamer, the new GNOME media backend
• Added media thumbnailing and CD burning support to Nautilus
• Removed Sawfish, Totem, and Rhythmbox until they are fixed for GNOME 2.2
• Switched to a new version scheme based off of the current GNOME release

Dropline GNOME 1.3.1 - 12.18.02

• Updated Xft, FontConfig, Gaim, GConf-Editor, GFTP, GStreamer, LibXML, RhythmBox, MonkeyMedia, PkgConfig, VTE, Xine-Lib, and Xine-UI packages to the latest official versions
• Updated the Dropline Installer to remove older installation files
• Add the BlueFish HTML editor
• Added MusicBrainz library for RhythmBox
• Added OGG-Vorbis 1.0 codec
• Added GKrellM system monitor
• Added the Totem Movie Player, a GNOME front-end for Xine
• Rebuilt Mozilla to correct the version displayed in the "About" dialog
• Rebuilt GNOME Meeting to include the GConf schema
• Added the SDL package to the Dropline Installer's list of files to install or upgrade

Dropline GNOME 1.3.0 - 12.04.02

• Updated GNOME components to the GNOME Desktop Platform 2.0.3 release
• Updated the Dropline Installer to fix problem with local installs
• Updated FreeType to the stable 2.1.3 release, Gnumeric to 1.1.12, and Mozilla to 1.2.1
• Rebuilt the Themes package to include more artwork plus a new GDM theme by James Mabry
• Added the Bubblemon monitoring applet
• Added the Pan news reader
• Finally added Pkgconfig for developers ;]
• Added GNOME Meeting and co (SDL, Openh323, PWLib, OpenLDAP, Speex) with help from Alain Buret

Dropline GNOME 1.2.2 - 11.16.02

• Updated to the latest versions of ORBit, Gaim, GGV, The GIMP, GNOME-Games, GNOME-VFS, GnomeICU, GThumb, GTK+, Linc, VTE, and XChat
• Rebuilt Xft and Fontconfig to install to an Xft2 prefix]
• Rebuilt GNOME-Terminal against the new VTE
• Rebuilt Webfonts to use /usr/share/fonts as the new default font directory
• Rebuilt XScreenSaver to include several missing files
• Rebuilt FileRoller to install it's schema file
• Added Librep, Rep-GTK, and Sawfish packages

Dropline GNOME 1.2.1 - 11.05.02

• Updated Freetype, FileRoller, Gaim, GAL, GHex, GLib, GTK+, Gnumeric, GNOME-VFS-Extras, LibGSF, LibWNCK, Metacity, and VTE to their latest official source releases.
• Added LibMikmod and XScreenSaver packages
• Rebuilt XMMS to use LibMikmod
• Repackaged Xft and FontConfig to install to /usr instead of overwriting files in /usr/X11R6
• Rebuilt Pango after Xft changes
• Rebuilt GNOME-Terminal to use new VTE
• Updated the Dropline Installer, making the --with and --without options work, and adding a --list option

Dropline GNOME 1.2.0 - 10.23.02

• Reverted Freetype interpreter
• Updated GNOME-Desktop, GNOME-Panel, and GNOME-Session packages
• Patched GNOME-Terminal to fix a few VTE bugs
• Rebuilt Gnumeric package with schemas included
• Updated the Dropline Installer with support for package-selection
• Updated LibXML, LibXSLT, LibBonobo, LibBonoboUI, Gaim, and GGV to the latest versions
• Rebuilt Metacity, GNOME-Panel, and GNOME-Session with consistency improvements
• Added packages for FileRoller, Xft, FontConfig, and Mozilla

Dropline GNOME 1.1.2 - 10.13.02

• Rebuilt Freetype with the bytecode interpreter
• Updated ControlCenter, LibBonoboUI, LibXML, LibXSLT, Linc, Pango, and X-Chat packages to the latest versions
• Added Gaim, Gnumeric, and GNOME-Terminal packages with anti-alised fonts
• Added GAL2, LibGSF, System-Tray-Applet, and VTE packages
• Rebuilt Metacity to fix theme problems

Dropline GNOME 1.1.1 - 09.24.02

• Updated the Dropline Installer to support CD installs and cleaned up it's version-handling code
• Rebuilt Freetype using the new automatic hinters
• Rebuilt GDM to fix issues with anti-aliasing, missing files, and incorrect permissions
• Added the GHex package, a hex editor
• Added GnomeICU and its dependancy, GNet
• Added three background images from digitalblasphemy.com (with permission) to the gnome-themes package
• Added GStreamer, the GStreamer Plugins, and a pair of audio encoders, Lame and Mad
• Updated to the latest version of Metacity
• Added Rhythmbox, an advanced audio player for GNOME
• Rebuilt the webfonts package--the TrueType fonts are now available to all X apps, not just GTK-2 applications
• Added Xine, including support for encrypted DVDs

Dropline GNOME 1.1.0 - 09.18.02

• Initial release with ChangeLog support