File Roller 2.23.6 released

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

File Roller 2.23.6 is now available for download at:

 http://download.gnome.org/sources/file-roller/2.23/

2b7f49a166ff1e569845bafdf79c7796  file-roller-2.23.6.changes
16e05c5646e4041820e41a3744cc4172  file-roller-2.23.6.news
ef4cd14f8129bfde4c6c49643cc91332  file-roller-2.23.6.tar.bz2
491718fd7cee97c118bfe6146c19fffa  file-roller-2.23.6.tar.gz

This is a development release leading up to File Roller 2.24.


What is File Roller
===================

File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment.  This means 
  that you can create and modify archives; view the content of an 
archive; view and modify a file contained in the archive; extract files 
from the archive.
File Roller supports tar, zip, rar and many other archive formats, the 
README file contains a complete list of the supported archive types.


Overview of Changes from File Roller 2.23.5 to 2.23.6
=====================================================

Bugs fixed:

* #350640: sending an empty folder doesn't work.
* #548020: "create archive" directory selection not working
  correctly. Patch by Marcel Stimberg.
* #546698: file-roller-2.23.1/2.23.5 removes r/x bit for anyone but
  root from /
* #547733: 7-zip tells about invalid command line
* #547297: Crash reading zip/7za files with 7z version 4.55.
* #546978: wrong icon for folders. Patch by Matthias Clasen.
* #547017: segfault in "Open with". Patch by Matthias Clasen.
* #546505: Debian packages not supported anymore.
* #542424: Tar.bz2 archives create uncompressed archive files.
* #546541: Typo and little errors in documentation. Suggested by
  Frederic Peters. Patch by Claude Paroz.
* LP#26662: file-roller fails to open .Z files.

New or updated application translations:

* Arabic (Djihed Afifi)
* Belarusian Latin (Ihar Hrachyshka)
* Bengali INDIA (Runa Bhattacharjee)
* Brazilian Portuguese (Fábio Nogueira)
* Español (Jorge González)
* Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
* Finnish (Ilkka Tuohela)
* Hebrew (Gil Osher)
* Japanese (Takeshi AIHANA)
* Portuguese (Duarte Loreto)
* Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
* Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)

New or updated manual translations:

* Español (Jorge González)
* German (Mario Blättermann)


Build instructions
==================

In order to build this program from the source code you need a working 
GNOME environment version 2.x, with the development tools installed 
properly.
Also you need the following libraries:

* glib >= 2.16.0
* gtk+ >= 2.12.0
* libgnome >= 2.6.0
* libgnomeui >= 2.6.0
* libglade >= 2.4.0
* libnautilus-extension >= 2.22.2 (optional)

To install the program, extract the tar archive, go to the main 
directory and type the following commands:

./configure
make
sudo make install


Licensing
=========

This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public
License (GNU GPL) version 2 or greater.  You can find a copy of the 
license in the file COPYING.


August 19, 2008
Paolo Bacchilega