"The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE. This release continues the development of the 6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many bug fixes and new features. Some of the highlights..."

The GNOME release team have confirmed that GNOME 3.0 will be released in September 2010, with a GNOME 2.30 release in March 2010. The announcement came from Vincet Untz and the GNOME release team and is a result of feeedback from the GNOME development community.

This is the third release (0.3) of Bordeaux, this release has many fixes and improvements over the 0.2 release. The Application Manger and Winetricks manager are now merged in to a single UI for ease of use. this release has many other small fixes and tweaks as well.

This is to announce tar 1.24, a new stable release of GNU tar (an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tarfile). This release fixes several bugs found in the previous 1.23. Thanks to everyone who reported bugs and suggestions. Special thanks to Paul Eggert for his hard work on this release.

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE. This will be the last release from the 7-STABLE branch. Some of the highlights: Gnome updated to 2.32.1, KDE updated to 4.5.5, many misc. improvements and bugfixes.

"We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.8.6. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series. It provides a number of portability improvements, bug fixes, as well as several new features..."

"We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.8.5. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series. It provides a number of portability improvements, bug fixes, as well as several new features. You can find it here: ..."

I'm a big proponent of the long-term-release concept in operating systems because I think both the enterprise and the home user doesn't want things breaking and should have the option of sticking with a particular distribution longer than 6 or 12 months.

A few days back we reported on a new Mutter release, which is the window and compositing manager for GNOME 3.0, and now with the GNOME 2.29.91 beta release coming up on Wednesday there is also the release of another new GNOME 3.0 component. Perhaps the single biggest new component for the GNOME 3.x stack is the GNOME Shell and this is the package that just reached version 2.29.0.