GNU Spotlight October 2010

Originally published on the Free Software Foundation's community blog:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry (October 2010)

A monthly look at updates and new releases in the GNU operating system.

New GNU releases for October 2010:

  • autoconf-archive-2010.10.26
  • coreutils-8.6
  • denemo-0.8.20
  • dfarc-3.8
  • gcc-4.4.5
  • gnubatch-1.3
  • gnupg-1.4.11
  • gnuspool-1.8
  • gnutls-2.10.2
  • icecat-3.6.11
  • libmicrohttpd-0.9.2
  • mdk-1.2.6
  • mtools-4.0.15
  • myserver-0.10
  • solfege-3.18.6
  • tar-1.24
  • ucommon-4.0.3
  • websocket4j-1.3
  • xnee-3.07
  • xorriso-0.6.4
  • zile-2.3.20

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This month we welcome Chris Bryant as the new maintainer of vmslib.

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.