Pidgin and the Gimp are now at their latest versions in GNOME:Community (that's 2.5.2 and 2.6.1 respectively).

Also, in OpenOffice.org:STABLE, version 3.0 is now available and it's sweet. Windows users can grab the corresponding build from Go-OO. It's not linked in but if you go to the main win32 download directory, there's a 3.0 sub-directory. Get the main GoOo-version.exe and your relevant langpack (in my case, en-GB). Note that en-US is no longer part of the main package.

The Windows version of OOo Impress is very cool when displaying a presentation dual-head. On the primary display (ie, not the one connected to a projector or big screen), you get a multi-function control interface. I've not been able to see if this is the case on Linux though as the binary NVIDIA driver and gnome-panel don't play nice in dual-head and nouveau is very broken on my card on 11.0. I've sent an email to the maintainer to see if the build service repo might get 11.0 added as well as 10.3 and Factory.