It already happened that a new nautilus stable version was crashing and
that a new tarball had to be rolled, the GNOME guys have no procedure to
test regressions before uploading a new version, they just roll a new
tarball. There is also no strong freeze in effect after .0 so they can
made non
This is likely to be a policy decision. Upgrading Gnome is a big thing,
which could be a painful experience, and is therefore only acceptable
when doing a Distro upgrade. 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) is likely to have a
newer version of Gnome, though I could not tell you which will make the
final.
Porting
The new GNOME versions have too many changes and sometimes breakages,
they are not uploaded to stable, we only backport selected changes when
required
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Need update to Gnome 2.18.2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120248
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I'm sure Gutsy will ship with Gnome 2.20. As I understood it that was
one of the reasons Ubuntu releases when it does; they try to release as
soon as feasible after a new Gnome release.
On the one hand I can certainly understand the position of not wanting
to destabilize the existing release.
