GNU Spotlight July 2011

Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Supporter - Issue 40, July 2011:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry

New GNU releases:

  • aspell-0.60.6.1
  • autoconf-archive-2011.07.17
  • bzr-2.3.4
  • ccrtp-2.0.1
  • gcal-3.6.1
  • gdb-7.3
  • global-5.9.7
  • guile-2.0.2
  • libmicrohttpd-0.9.13
  • myserver-0.11
  • nettle-2.2
  • parallel-20110722
  • sipwitch-1.1.0
  • solfege-3.20.1
  • spell-1.1
  • ucommon-5.0.5
  • xorriso-1.1.2

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This month we welcome Bill Pedersen as the new maintainer of GNU vmslib http://www.gnu.org/software/vmslib. Thanks Bill.

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.