Jeff Waugh, the head beekeeper of the GNOME Release Team and the director of the GNOME Foundation Board has confirmed that a security breach of the GNOME Web server is "likely to delay the release [of GNOME 2.6]...however we have not made that decision officially yet". He told ZDNet Australia the delay was likely to be about a week.
Last night Owen Taylor, on behalf of the GNOME sysadmin team released a statement via their newsgroup that an intrusion had been made.
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