ANNOUNCE: gnome-panel and gnome-flashback-session 3.8.1 release

[Philipp Kaluza <floss ghostroute eu>]

Hello All,

we are pleased to announce the release of Gnome Panel 3.8.1.

This release ships the session descriptor and wrapper script for the
"Gnome Flashback" session. This is similar to the standalone "Gnome
Fallback" session previously shipped in Debian / Ubuntu.


Deprecation announcement
========================
The GConf functions for applets in libpanel-applet have been marked as
deprecated since version 3.0, but this deprecation had never been
formally announced. It has been suggested that these functions are
removed as the last included applets migrate to GSettings.

We hereby announce that these Gconf functions will be removed in an ABI-
and API-breaking major release of libpanel-applet sometime after 2014-12-31.

Maintainers of applets that rely on libpanel-applet are encouraged to
get in contact with the gnome-flashback-list to coordinate a schedule
that fits everybody's needs.


With kind regards,
  Philipp Kaluza (for the Gnome Flashback Team)




About Panel
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Launch other applications and provide various utilities to manage
windows, show the time, etc.

News
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Version 3.8.1
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  Flashback Session

        * Add session description for using Flashback mode with Compiz
          This is _not_ a supported mode for Gnome Flashback, but only
          included for Ubuntu's convenience.
          (Dmitry Shachnev, Philipp Kaluza)

  libpanel-applet

        * Deprecation announcement:
          The GConf functions for applets in libpanel-applet have been
          marked as deprecated since version 3.0, but this deprecation had
          never been formally announced. It has been suggested that
          these functions are removed as the last included applets
          migrate to GSettings.
          We hereby announce that these Gconf functions will be removed
          in an ABI- and API-breaking major release of libpanel-applet
          sometime after 2014-12-31.

          Maintainers of applets that rely on libpanel-applet are
          encouraged
          to get in contact with the gnome-flashback-list to coordinate
          a schedule that fits everybody's needs. (Philipp Kaluza)

  Panel

        * Increase the number of bookmarks visible in Places (Conn O
          Griofa)
        * Miscelaneaus sizing and location issues (Alberts Muktupāvels)
        * Fix a number of deprecation warnings (Alberts Muktupāvels)
        * Improve names of GConf objects (Alberts Muktupāvels)
        * Updated FSF's address (Daniel Mustieles)
        * Update doap files (Piotr Drąg)
        * Modernize run and properties dialogs (Sebastian Geiger)
        * Use "gnome-applications.menu" instead of "applications.menu",
          following gnome-menus 3.8 (Alberts Muktupāvels)
        * Bring old translation files back in sync with current code,
          especially the session files (Philipp Kaluza)

  Clock Applet

        * make calendar window remember location expander state (Jethro
          Beekman)
        * remove no longer needed code (Alberts Muktupāvels)
        * allow using gweather 3.9.2+ (Alberts Muktupāvels)
        * Fix clock crash when adding new location (Alberts Muktupāvels)
        * remove deprecated widgets (Sebastian Geiger)

  wncklet applet

        * no longer use stock items (Alberts Muktupāvels)

  Translators

        * Rūdolfs Mazurs
        * Мирослав Николић (miroslavnikolic)
        * michaeljayt
        * Stas Solovey
        * Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
        * Lasse Liehu
        * MarMav
        * Marek Černocký
        * Daniel Mustieles
        * Matej Urbančič
        * Balázs Úr


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-panel/3.8/gnome-panel-3.8.1.changes
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