GNU Spotlight January 2009

Here is the complete list of GNU software releases since the last Supporter installment:

• anubis-4.1.1
• autogen-5.9.7
• automake-1.10.2
• bash-3.2.48
• bison-2.4.1
• ccaudio2-1.0.0
• ccrtp-1.7.0
• ccscript-4.0.3
• commoncpp2-1.7.0
• ddrescue-1.9
• fdisk-1.1
• ferret-0.7
• freedink-1.08.20090109
• freefont-ttf-20090104
• global-5.7.4
• glpk-4.35
• gnubik-2.3
• gnun-0.1
• gnutls-2.6.3
• groff-1.20.1
• gsl-1.12
• guile-1.8.6
• hello-2.4
• icecat-3.0.5-g1
• inetutils-1.6
• libjit-0.1.2
• libmicrohttpd-0.4.0pre1
• libtasn1-1.7
• libzrtpcpp-1.4.1
• mailutils-2.0
• maverik-6.4
• moe-1.0
• radius-1.6.1
• sipwitch-0.3.8
• solfege-3.12.0
• source-highlight-2.11.1
• sovix-0.0.1.7
• swbis-1.2
• tar-1.21
• ucommon-2.0.2
• zile-2.3.0

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 newly-dubbed (co-)maintainers Andras Pal (pexec), Yavor Doganov (gnun), Ben Elliston (dejagnu), Sergey Poznyakoff (gdbm, rush), Ludovic Courtes (guile), and Christian Brunello (fdisk).

Several GNU packages are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to GNU, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

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