The GNOME Project announced the release of GNOME 2.30, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment and of its developer platform.

GNOME 2.30 also marks the last major release in the GNOME 2.x.

New features and enhancements of the new release:

• Nautilus, the GNOME File Manager
• Empathy Instant Messenger
• Easy Syncing with Tomboy, a desktop note-taking application with a wiki-like linking system
• Manage Your Users Safely with GNOME System Tools
• The Time Tracker applet, which helps you track your time and tasks
• The Evince document viewer, document viewer for pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff and dvi, has improved printing support.
• Epiphany web browser
• and much more

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For more information, please refer to GNOME 2.30 Release Notes.

Development doesn't stop with GNOME 2.30. Work has already begun on GNOME 3.0, due to be released exactly six months after 2.30.

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