# \[ANN\] Ruby-GNOME2 0.17.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-0-17-0/147940>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [September 7, 2008, 10:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-0-17-0/147940 "2008-09-07T10:37:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kouhei\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Kouhei\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kouhei_S)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 10:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-0-17-0/147940/1 "2008-09-07T10:37:35Z")

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Hi,

I’ve released Ruby-GNOME2 0.17.0:  
[Ruby-GNOME 2 - Browse Files at SourceForge.net](http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53614)

Enjoy!

== Highlights

- Support Ruby 1.8.7.
- Support GLib 2.14 and 2.16.
- Partially support GTK+ 2.12.
- GStreamer 0.10.x support is merged.
- Improve main loop polling.

== Thanks to

Thanks to all the people who contributed in some way to this release:

```
* Masao M.
* Joachim G.
* Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA
* Kouhei S.
* Kero van Gelder
* Masahiro S.
* Detlef R.
* Guillaume C.
* Masahiro S.
* Mikael H.
* Carlo E. Prelz
* Sjoerd S.
* Juergen Mangler
* Dirk von Schmieden
* Mathieu B.
* Joseph Method
* Masayuki Y.
* Neil R.
* Cesare Tirabassi
* Arnaud C.
* kenhys

```

And also special thanks to all other contributors not listed above!

== Changes since version 0.16.0

- Ruby/GLib:  
o Bound functions defined since 2.14 and 2.16.  
o Improved main loop polling. \*\*  
o Improved callback handling from non Ruby thread. \*\*

- Ruby/Pango:  
o [#2043970] Pango::FontDescription#weight= seg fault [Kouhei S.]

- Ruby/GTK:  
o partially support new symbols in 2.12  
(Gtk::RecentAction, Gtk::TextBuffer, Gdk::Display,  
Gtk::TreeViewColumn, Gtk::Stock, Gtk::Widget,  
Gtk::ScaleButton, Gtk::TreeView, Gtk::VolumneButton?,  
Gtk::Tooptip? and Gtk::TextMark only).

- Ruby/GStreamer: Worked with GStreamer \>= 0.10.x but  
isn’t completed yet.

- Ruby/Poppler  
o Supported poppler-glib 0.6.x and 0.8.0. [Kouhei S.]

- Ruby-GNOME2 can be built with ruby 1.9.0 but doesn’t  
work well without [ruby-dev:34104] patch.

- Some extconf.rb improvements

- Many other changes, GC bugs, Segfault fixes. See  
corresponding ChangeLog for detailed information on  
changes and contributors.

== Help us!

We need to people who helps us. Ruby-GNOME2 project needs  
more resources to develop bindings, write documents, release  
constantly, and more. Please help us!

## Thanks,

kou

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**Author:** ![Kouhei\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Kouhei\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kouhei_S)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ruby-gnome2-0-17-0/147940/2 "2008-09-07T23:49:41Z")

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On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Kouhei S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I’ve released Ruby-GNOME2 0.17.0:  
> [Ruby-GNOME 2 - Browse Files at SourceForge.net](http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53614)

Thanks!

Seems to work fine so far with booh 0.9.1 against gtk 2.14.1 and ruby  
1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72).

–  
Guillaume C. - [Guillaume Cottenceau](http://zarb.org/~gc/)