Lucas Rocha, one of the developers at GNOME, has announced the release of GNOME 2.22.2, the latest update to the 2.22 branch of the desktop environment. The next stable device will be GNOME 2.22.3, due to be launched on June 30.

In September, we will see GNOME 2.24, which promises some interesting new features and improved stability. GNOME's web browser, Epiphany, will be migrated to the WebKit web page rendering engine, that's used at this moment by the Safari web browser and some minor web browsers like Midori. The GNOME 2.24 release will also offer better integration with PulseAudio and the GNOME Session Manager will bring more flexibility for Linux distributions makers on selecting their default session applications. The GNOME team also has big plans for documentation, as they want to record everything, including policies and servers.

The GNOME 2.22 branch is dedicated to Raphael Higino, a member of the GNOME translation team and GNOME Brazil, who died in a motorcycle accident at the age of 24.

Lucas Rocha said on the gnome-announce mailing list: "This is the second update to GNOME 2.22. Come and see all the bug fixing, all the new translations and all the updated documentation brought to you by the wonderful team of GNOME contributors! A lot of work has been done in the stable branch to make it even more solid than it was."

If you want to build GNOME from sources, you will need GARNOME, a tool that's based on the GAR ports system created by Nick Moffitt. GARNOME downloads, builds and installs the GNOME desktop from the latest tar ball releases. Besides this, it also comes with some extra software for providing a complete and easy to use desktop environment.

Download GNOME 2.22.2 right now from Softpedia.