GNU Spotlight February 2010
Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's
Free
Software Supporter - Issue 23, February 2010:
GNU Spotlight
with Karl Berry
Here are the recent GNU software releases:
- acct-6.5.3
- aspell5-ro-3.3-2
- ccscript-4.1.3
- coreutils-8.4
- denemo-0.8.12
- enscript-1.6.5
- fdisk-1.2.4
- freeipmi-0.8.3
- gcc-4.4.3
- glpk-4.42
- gmp-5.0.1
- grub-1.97.2
- gsslib-0.1.2
- gzip-1.4
- hello-2.5
- icecat-3.6
- libextractor-0.6.0
- libidn-1.16
- libmicrohttpd-0.4.5
- libtasn1-2.4
- mkisofs-1.13
- nano-2.2.2
- ocrad-0.19
- octave-3.2.4
- shishi-0.0.41
- sipwitch-0.7.0
- source-highlight-3.1.3
- ucommon-2.0.8
- unrtf-0.21.1
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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.