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Issue 47

This week… 3183 commits, in 208 projects, by 294 happy hackers (and 1032 were translation commits).

In gnome-disk-utility David Zeuthen landed the new ATA SMART user interface.
Rhythmbox gained support for downloading cover art from discogs.com and MusicBrainz (GNOME bug 410684).
The libchamplain map widget gained support for keyboard shortcuts, to navigate and zoom the map. (GNOME bug 582872)
Ekiga switched to boost for both smart pointers and signals (GNOME bug 575005)
The “kill-bonobo” branch of Evolution is now the “master” git branch, this marked 45 old bugs as fixed.
gconf-editor has been ported to PolicyKit 1.0. (GNOME bug 585596)
A shutter sound will now be played when taking a screenshot (GNOME bug 592372).
Gnome Shell improved the way it displays search results, it now has bigger fonts and brighter colour for the headings, and more padding.
Daniel Elstner worked on the C++ bindings so they could get their API references published on library.gnome.org.
Jean Bréfort moved gnumeric to use GooCanvas instead of FooCanvas.
Finally devhelp has been ported to make use of libunique.

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This week… 2799 commits, in 207 projects, by 314 happy hackers (and 707 were translation commits).

Nautilus has been changed to inhibit gnome-power-manager when copying files (GNOME bug 334806).
Simon van der Linden landed much of his summer of code work on pybank (using gobject-introspection to create dynamic Python bindings to gobject libraries) in the gsco2009 branch.
GConf has removed its libgnome dependency (which was casued by a test client) (GNOME bug 586435), and was ported to the PolicyKit 1.0 API (GNOME bug 585303).
Benjamin Otte ported byzanz (screencast tool) from gnome-vfs to gio, and from gdk to cairo.
Thanks to a change in libgweather it is now possible to add an UTC time entry to the clock applet. (GNOME bug 541145)
Jean Bréfort added a new cairo-based canvas to goffice, to be used in Gnumeric, to replace foocanvas.
Every little part of gnome-panel has been ported to GtkBuilder.
The gvfs gphoto2 backend and monitor were ported to gudev.
Most of the C++ bindings were transitioned to a new build infrastructure, using the new mm-common module.
In Yelp Shaun McCance added the possibility for ghelp: URIs to reference Mallard documents.
And an all-new Mallard documentation, mostly written by Milo Casagrande and Phil Bull, has been merged into Empathy.
Dan Winship ported SoupAddress to use GResolver, new in the latest GLib.
Finally Matthew Barnes added support for “Fifth Sunday *of the month*” to Evolution (in his kill-bonobo branch) (and it also works for other weekdays!) (GNOME bug 328361).