• Emmanuele Bassi added JsonReader, a simple, cursor-based API for parsing a JSON DOM, to json-glib.
• Christian Persch created a gdbus branch of gconf, porting it to gdbus; in the same vein David Zeuthen ported PolicyKit-gnome from dbus-glib to gdbus.
• As for GDK changes, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen started porting gnome-games, Benjamin Otte pushed a cairo-port branch onto gnome-mag, and ported parts of Nautilus, and The Gimp continued being ported to Cairo by Michael Natterer.
• Empathy has been changed by Bilal Akhtar to use GimpNet as default IRC network . (GNOME bug 625675)
• Martin Pitt ported gdm to UPower . (GNOME bug 626176)
• An initial implementation of the “background” panel has been pushed to gnome-control-center.
• Andreas J. Guelzow added exporting of images to ODF in Gnumeric.
• Preview comments have been added to most of the effects provided by gnome-video-effects (now used by Cheese).
• A new “Shuffle” action has been added on the Banshee play queue.
• Ryan Lortie added signals to GApplication, they are: startup, activate, open, action, and command-line.
• Support for common licenses has been added to GTK+, this introduces a :license-type property . (GNOME bug 336225)
• Also in GTK+ Matthias Clasen beefed up the GTK 2 -> 3 migration guide, including a first cut at documenting the rendering cleanup changes and the region removal.
• For their last week of Summer of Code, Dena Dragos added a basic import/export feature to Anjuta snippets, Adrien Bustany added a function to load resources filtering on their attributes to his tracker ORM, Alexander Saprykin got his chapters plugin merged in Totem (GNOME bug 622779), and more.

• Guillaume Desmottes and Sjoerd Simons merged their timestamp work into Empathy’s master branch . (GNOME bug 615976)
• Nautilus saw changes in its bookmark API, including the removal of the deprecated gtnome-fs-bookmark* icon names, replaced by the folder icon, and the use of emblems.
• Aleksander Morgado has been improving unicode support of tracker using libicu based word breaking to the parser-libunistring-review branch of tracker.
• Meego improvements got merged into Banshee’s master branch.
• Robert Carr started theming support and improved shapes capabilities in Glide.
• Ekiga got support to work in 16bpp mode . (GNOME bug 611308)
• gedit port to gsettings continued, with many plugins ported already.
• Ross Burton has been working on Randr related improvements of gnome-settings-daemon for Meego. This is happening in the new randr branch of gnome-settings-daemon.
• Yelp got basic printing support, and started being ported to gdbus.
• Matthias Clasen layed ground for new work on GTK+ 3.0 as he made it parallel-installable to 2.x.
• Matthew Barnes went forward replacing CamelObject by GObject in camel, evolution, evolution-data-server, evolution-mapi and evolution-exchange.

Many thanks to Dodji Seketeli who assembled most of this issue.

• Empathy made URL some people put in their contact status clickable right from the contact list (GNOME bug 525576)
• Hiroyuki Ikezoe updated gpointing-device-settings to support a speed property.
• The cairo branch has been merged into gjs.
• Snowy (the webservice companion of Tomboy) has been updated to use UTC as internal time representation, to avoid dealing with different timezones.
• Jean Bréfort implemented round rectangles, arrow heads for arcs and spline support for polyline and polygons in goffice canvas.
• Jürg Billeter updated tracker to refuse updates when low on disk scape.
• The libgnomekbd layout indicator has been changed to use the default font family and size, instead of hardcoding Helvetica . (GNOME bug 610544)
• Richard Hugues pushed a color-management branch to GTK+, implemening an optional LCMS GIO module, and GtkColorEngine, GtkColorTransform and GtkColorProfile.
• gcalctool has been changed to show bit editor for numbers not in base 10.
• Jesse van den Kieboom implemented a new words completion word finder method in gtksourceview, as the previous version was buggy and a lot of bookkeeping.
• GNOME Power Manager has been changed to play a sound loop if the charge of a laptop battery or UPS reaches a critical level.

• Totem got (on-disk) buffering support for downloads, Bastien Nocera blogged about it: No more stuttering.
• The gvfs webdav backend has been changed to remember cookies while it’s running.
• Carlos Garnocho made the SPARQL API of Tracker fully asynchronous.
• Postr (the GNOME Flickr Uploader) has been improved to allow direct editing of title and description, when double clicking (or pressing the Return key) on the photo . (GNOME bug 562162)
• Xavier Claessens added support for some IRC slash commands to Empathy, the currently supported commands are /clear, /topic, /join, /query and /msg . (GNOME bug 573407)
• Also in Empathy Guillaume Desmottes added the display of an error message when codec negotation fails . (GNOME bug 581789)
• The GNOME screensaver got a D-Bus method to show a message on the locked screen, to be used for notification of auto logout.
• In GNOME Shell Dan Winship started a message-tray branch, with some minimal Telepathy support, it has a notification popup for messages and avatar icons.
• Brasero got gobject introspection support for its libraries . (GNOME bug 589073)
• libsoup has been fixed to not change HEAD to GET on 303 redirect.
• A new Google Translate plugin has been added to Kupfer (the command tool inspired by Quicksilver).

¹: actually this commit count is wrong as the same branch is created and deleted several times, to get rebased, changing the commit identifiers along the way.

• Again the translation teams do great in the commits top 10, taking five places; the teams are Basque, Swedish, Romanian, Danish and Finnish (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio, Daniel Nylander, Jani Monoses and Ilkka Tuohela).
• gtk-doc got the possibility to link to struct members . (GNOME bug 565126)
• The deskbar-applet bookmark search will also look at epiphany topics . (GNOME bug 572291)
• In glib Alexander Larsson modified g_content_type_guess to never sniff desktop files when the filename is known. In other words, only allow desktop files with the .desktop extension and when the filename isn’t known. This is a security precaution since desktop files can execute arbitrary code when launched and we don’t want to allow them to try and hide as another type. There is no legit reason to not have the .desktop extension anyway. (the .desktop issue is also being discussed in desktop-devel-list)
• Tracker got support for IPTC metadata in jpeg and tiff files.
• Sven Neumann gave some love to the GTK+ directfb support, applying some patches, fixing some issues.
• Epiphany has a new option to open new windows in tabs (only available as a gconf key for now ). (GNOME bug 571593)
• Christian Persch killed the custom OBox widget from gnome-panel as GtkBox now supports changing the orientation.
• The balance bar in the new volume control will now instant-apply . (GNOME bug 566423)
• Metacity got totally rid of metacity-dialog, and will now use zenity to present dialogs . (GNOME bug 521914)
• Vinagre got updated to allow IPv6 address on the command line and in the connection dialog.
• Rygel is getting ready for a new release, several changes here, notably the response for seekable media request is now sent buffer by buffer so the whole file is not put into memory.
• And finally, a pythonconsole plugin, based on the gedit plugin, landed in eog.

• Support for file transfer has been merged in Empathy; it is currently only available for Link-Local XMPP, support for Jabber should now be implemented in telepathy-gabble; Guillaume Desmottes posted about this.
• gnome-shell is progressing nicely and Owen Taylor gave a status update.
• f-spot moved from gnome-vfs to gio.
• Behdad Esfahbod continued his work on vte and its pangocairo backend, he also removed obsolete backends.
• Josselin Mouette merged Debian patches into esound, which prompted the release of 0.2.41.
• Rhythmbox can now deal with uninitialized iPods.
• Benjamin Otte improved the gvfs FTP backend to work with more FTP servers.
• evolution-mapi, a connector to Microsoft Exchange 2007, gained its own subversion module and has been proposed for 2.26.
• tracker got its indexer module API GObject oriented, this will allow easier bindings development and more flexible behaviour for modules.
• Glade gained a new editor for cell renderers.

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A port of dasher in Java has been added to the dasher repository, it was done by Chris Smowton. Sébastien Granjoux implemented support for gdbserver in Anjuta. William Jon McCann worked a little bit on the user-switch-applet that is now part of gdm. Empathy gained a pidgin-accounts import dialog and finally got support for chatroom invitations. More modules were migrated away from libgnome (gnome-games, marlin, cheese) and to GtkBuilder (eog) and gio (tracker search tool).

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