GNU Spotlight May 2011
Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's
Free
Software Supporter - Issue 38, May 2011:
GNU Spotlight with
Karl Berry
New GNU releases:
- aspell6-kn-0.01-1
- autogen-5.11.9
- bison-2.5
- complexity-0.4
- coreutils-8.12
- denemo-0.9.0
- fdisk-1.2.5
- gcc-4.5.3
- global-5.9.5
- gmp-5.0.2
- gnuchess-6.0.0
- gnutls-2.12.5
- grep-2.8
- grub-1.99
- gsasl-1.6.1
- gsl-1.15
- guile-2.0.1
- gv-3.7.2
- help2man-1.39.4
- icecat-4.0.1
- libgsasl-1.6.1
- libidn-1.22
- libmicrohttpd-0.9.11
- nano-2.3.1
- parallel-20110522
- parted-2.4
- sharutils-4.11.1
- sipwitch-1.0.1
- solfege-3.18.8
- swbis-1.11
- ucommon-5.0.0
- vc-dwim-1.5
- xboard-4.5.2a
- zile-2.3.24
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This month we welcome Kyle Bayes as the new maintainer of GNU Leg http://www.gnu.org/software/leg, and Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos as a new co-maintainer of GNUTLS http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls. Thanks Kyle and Nikos.
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.