File Roller 2.24.0 released

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

File Roller 2.24.0 is now available for download at:

 http://download.gnome.org/sources/file-roller/2.24/

f0ccbf549e6a2d899b8d664c34e2afd2  file-roller-2.24.0.tar.bz2
f13cf8136c78670cffe8c65633023c2c  file-roller-2.24.0.tar.gz

This is the first stable release of the File Roller 2.24 series.


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 2.23.92 to 2.24.0
=======================================================

Bugs fixed:

* #546799: file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in g_str_hash()
* #552031: Add archiving and compression to desktop categories.
  Patch by Patryk Zawadzki.

New or updated application translations:

* Afrikaans (F Wolff)
* Arabic (Anas Afif Emad)
* Catalan (Jordi Mallach)
* Croatian
* Danish (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
* Dzongkha (Dawa pemo)
* French (Claude Paroz)
* Greek (Kostas Papadimas)
* Gujarati (Sweta Kothari)
* Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
* Italian (Milo Casagrande)
* Kannada (Shankar Prasad)
* Lithuanian (Gintautas Miliauskas)
* Malayalam (Santhosh Thottingal)
* marathi (Sandeep Shedmake)
* Romanian (Mișu Moldovan)
* Russian (Yuriy Penkin)
* Serbian (sr) (Горан Ракић)
* Serbian (sr) (Goran Rakić)
* Telugu (Krishna Babu K)
* Turkish (Baris Cicek)

New or updated manual translations:

* Español (Jorge González)
* Finnish (Valto Wirkola)
* French (Claude Paroz)
* German (Mario Blättermann)
* Italian (Milo Casagrande)


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.


September 22, 2008
Paolo Bacchilega