• Amitakhya Phukan added Assamese translations to a bunch of modules.
• Pierre Wieser rewrote much of the foundations of nautilus-actions, and ported to GtkBuilder along the way.
• Along the same line Felix Riemann removed the last bit of libglade from gnome-settings-daemon (GNOME bug 582502); Jaap Haitsma ported gnome-nettool (GNOME bug 580149), Christopher Taylor did gnome-screensaver (GNOME bug 463010), and Javier Jardón migrated the GTK+ wizard of Anjuta.
• A target to generate PDF files have been added to gtk-doc exposed targets.
• Several release team scripts, and jhbuild, have added support for SHA-256, to replace MD5 checksums with a better hashing algorithm.
• Thanks to Thibault Saunier, libgdata gained support for the Google Documents service (GNOME bug 587073); this is an important step in his Nautilus: Add support to Google docs for GNOME GSOC.
• Evolution got a rewrite of its calendar cache, backends will be migrating to it after some more testing.
• Working on GtkTreeView performances Benjamin Otte looked at Epiphany location bar and changed it to set a fixed width on its cell renderer.
• Murray Cumming published a toolpalette branch for GTK+, implementing a new tool palette container widget, with groups of toolbar items that can be shown as a grid of icons or a list of names (GNOME bug 567729).
• Also in GTK+ Michael Natterer added a bunch of API to access sealed flags or members, as they are necessary for applications to port applications to a GSEAL-enabled GTK+.
• Banshee added support for WebOS, used in the Palm Pre (GNOME bug 585112).
• Ray Strode ported the GDM greeter to PolicyKit 1.0, and made it so, that in case of duplicated names, it appends the username to differentiate the entries.
• After discussing the matter with designers at GUADEC, William Jon McCann patched libgnome to disable icons on menu items and buttons (GNOME bug 583352, GNOME bug 557469); guidelines on the proper usage of icons should now be published.

• Banshee gained a “shuffle by album” option (GNOME bug 348582)
• Epiphany support for Python extensions has been removed, the supported language for extensions other than C/C++ is now JavaScript through Seed.
• Support for publishing geolocation information has been merged into Empathy (GNOME bug 571666)
• Milan Crha added a folder emblem to show new mail arrivals to Evolution (GNOME bug 323037); also Evolution dropped support for CDE (GNOME bug 582939).
• Support for the JPEG 2000 image format has been added to Gimp (GNOME bug 111409)
• GTK+ gained a new GtkInfoBar widget, similar to GeditMessageArea and similar widgets in Firefox. Its API is inspired by GtkDialog, with a content area and an action area. The message area uses symbolic colors for different background colors for warnings, errors, informational messages, etc . (GNOME bug 555344)
• Rhythmbox track change notification bubbles gained a “Skip” button (GNOME bug 331272)
• Shaun McCance created a new “mallard” branch for Yelp, to add support for the new Mallard document format.
• Christian Persch made a few HIG improvements to the NetworkManager connection editor (GNOME bug 584223)
• JHBuild GUI was rewritten to be totally awesome (and to not require libglade).
• PyBank, the bindings for GIRepository, got handling of structs as return values.
• Most importantly, Anjuta splash screen got rewritten from the obsolete libgnomecanvas to straight cairo (GNOME bug 571740).

• Still in the aftermath of the Git migration, 189 commits were about DOAP files and JHBuild got his Git support quite improved.
• Empathy now displays the transfer speed in its file transfer dialog . (GNOME bug 580097)
• Meld has added support for SVK . (GNOME bug 416418)
• Epiphany was fixed to use GNOME settings for the default font sizes, instead of the WebKitGTK+ defaults.
• The libgnomeui dependency was removed from both the GStreamer Properties and the Media Profiles in gnome-media.
• Peter Bloomfield ported the Balsa mail client to use GMime 2.4.
• In evolution-data-server, Rob Branford ported libedata and libebook to D-Bus in the D-Bus branch, and Philip Withnall converted the Google calendar backend to use the external libgdata in the libgdata-port branch.
• David Zeuthen commited his GDBus work in a new gdbus branch of glib; and Dan Winship merged his GResolver (a glib-ish interface to DNS) branch into glib (and blogged about it ). (GNOME bug 548466)
• Nautilus now use g_timeout_add_seconds instead of g_timeout_add where appropriate (GNOME bug 574033); also Deprecated GTK+ symbols were removed . (GNOME bug 565038)
• Shaun McCance pushed his Mallard branch to the gnome-doc-utils repository.
• GNote, the Tomboy Gtkmm clone, got support for Add-ins . (GNOME bug 578980)

• Many modules saw development releases for 2.25.1.
• The libgnome dependency got removed from gnome-power-manager, and gnome-utils (dictionary, screenshot, logview) removed it as well as the dependency on libgnomeui.
• In the same vain, seahorse-plugins removed its gnome-vfs dependency.
• William Jon McCann commited a new volume control using PulseAudio, deprecating the old gst-mixer one.
• Behdad Esfahbod worked quite a bit on gnome-settings-daemon and blogged about the improved login time he achieved.
• Benjamin Berg added a Clearlookstest theme, as he proposed on desktop-devel-list several weeks ago, it is not enabled by default though.
• Seed, GObject-Javascript bridge, was finally revealed by Robert Carr on gtk-devel-list.
• brasero got a nautilus extension, based on current nautilus-cd-burner.
• John Carr commited support for git mirrors to jhbuild (support for bzr mirrors coming soon).

I asked Robert Carr some questions about Seed, and its relation to GJS, as they both bridges gobject and javascript, using the mighty gobject-introspection infrastructure; he confirmed he had been in contact with the GJS developers and pointed out some differences:

[Seed is different than GJS] Notably how we handle inheritance (GJS doesn’t). Also “out” arguments from functions we set properties on objects passed in, while GJS returns arrays. Then there are also some other differences with exceptions, signals and a few various things. In addition Seed does some stuff GJS doesn’t (uses libffi to box JavaScript functions into C function pointers, for functions like pango_fontset_foreach), and I’m sure GJS does some stuff that Seed doesn’t.

So compatibility would be an awkward issue at this point in time, so it seems to me like it’s best for both projects to continue development at this point, and once things are more fleshed out, it might become clear what approaches make more sense.

We’ve definitely talked about implementing a common embedding API though, and maybe after one more release it would be good to look at compatibility more.

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