GNU Spotlight January 2010

Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Supporter - Issue 22, January 2010:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry

Here are the recent GNU software releases:

  • bash-4.1
  • bazaar-2.0.3
  • coreutils-8.2
  • enscript-1.6.4
  • gdb-7.0.1
  • gengetopt-2.22.4
  • glibc-2.11.1
  • global-5.7.7
  • glpk-4.41
  • gnu-c-manual-0.2.1
  • gnunet-0.8.1
  • gnunet-gtk-0.8.1
  • gnunet-qt-0.8.1
  • gnupg-2.0.14
  • gsegrafix-1.0.5
  • gv-3.6.8
  • help2man-1.37.1
  • icecat-3.5.6
  • inetutils-1.7
  • libgcrypt-1.4.5
  • libsigsegv-2.8
  • libunistring-0.9.2.1
  • nano-2.2.1
  • parted-2.1
  • patch-2.6.1
  • pies-1.2
  • readline-6.1
  • sipwitch-0.5.12
  • solfege-3.14.10
  • source-highlight-3.1.2
  • xnee-3.05

In addition, videos of the talks at the recent GNU Hackers Meeting in Sweden are now available at http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2009.

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This month we welcome Martin von Gagern as a new co-maintainer of wdiff, and previous maintainer Robert Millan for also taking on mkisofs.

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.