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.