Debian packages =============== The java-gnome bindings suite is now available in [Debian Linux](http://www.debian.org/) as * `libjava-gnome-java` If you need help installing it, see the the Debian page in the [download](/4.0/get/debian.php) section here. Compliemnts to Manu Mahajan for having done the research to develop the Debian package, and thanks to Thomas Girard for having refined Manu's start and for having seen through the process of getting the packge uploaded. AfC Cairo support ============= Adding coverage of the Cairo Graphics library is a feature we've been working on for about 6 months now, and during the 4.0.7 development cycle we've been able to land it in java-gnome! Cairo is a huge library, of course, but we've put enough coverage in place to ensure that things are working. Cairo has lots of convenience functions and tons of obscure uses; no surprise (and no apology) that there's still lots that will need doing. If you want to help make sure it has what you need, then grab '`mainline`' and see `org.freedesktop.cairo.`[`Context`][Context]. Huge thanks go out to Behdad Esfahbod and Carl Worth; Behdad was really critical in explaining some basic Cairo concepts to me started when we were working together at the GNOME Summit back in October in Boston, and during March at the GTK hackfest in Berlin, Carl Worth was awesome for having checked our preliminary APIs and for having helped sorted us out as we were working our way through create some examples. [Context]: doc/api/org/freedesktop/cairo/Context.html AfC