GNU Spotlight September 2008

Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Supporter - Issue 9, October 2008:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry

Notable GNU releases for September 2008 include updates for Emacs, Autoconf, IceCat, and the continuing active maintenance of the GNU PDF/PostScript previewer GV. The complete list as usual:

  • autoconf-2.63
  • ballandpaddle-0.8.0
  • ccscript-4.0.1
  • dfarc-3.2.1
  • emacs-22.3
  • emms-3.0
  • freedink-1.08.20080920
  • freefont-20080912
  • global-5.7.2
  • glpk-4.32
  • gmp-4.2.4
  • gnujump-1.0.6
  • gnutls-2.6.0
  • gv-3.6.6
  • gvpe-2.21
  • icecat-3.0.3-g1
  • libmicrohttpd-0.4.0pre0
  • libtool-2.2.6a
  • nano-2.0.9
  • swbis-0.993
  • texinfo-4.13a
  • ucommon-2.0.0

See the packages' announcements, web pages (http://www.gnu.org/software/PKGNAME) or the distributions themselves for details. Nearly all are available from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/, or preferably one of its mirrors (http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html).

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I'd like to give a warm welcome to the new GNU package psychosynth, written by Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente, and to the other newly-dubbed (co-)maintainers this month: Rocky Bernstein (vcdimager), Michael Olson (emms), Eric Blake (coreutils), Padraig Brady (coreutils), and Ralf Wildenhues (automake).

Several GNU packages are looking for maintainers.
Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. To submit new packages to GNU, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

Please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.