GNU Spotlight March 2012

A monthly update on all things in the GNU project

New GNU releases this month:

• bzr-2.5.0
• ccrtp-2.0.3
• classpath-0.99
• coreutils-8.16
• dico-2.2
• freeipmi-1.1.3
• gcc-4.4.7
• gcc-4.6.3
• gcc-4.7.0
• gcide-0.51
• glibc-2.15
• global-6.2.2
• gnuchess-6.0.2
• gnuhealth-1.4.4
• gnupg-2.0.19
• gnushogi-1.4.0
• gnutls-2.12.18
• gnutls-3.0.17
• grep-2.11
• help2man-1.40.7
• libtasn1-2.12
• linux-libre-3.3-gnu
• parallel-20120322
• parted-3.1
• shishi-1.0.1
• xboard-4.6.0
• zile-2.4.7

This month we welcome Michael Talbot-Wilson as the new maintainer of GNU Sather, and Imed Ben Heni as a new co-maintainer of GNU kopi. We also welcome Alexandre Oliva as the maintainer of linux-libre, the longstanding basis for the kernel component of most entirely-free GNU/Linux systems http://www.gnu.org/distros/, newly dubbed as an official GNU package.

We also welcome Jose Luis Garcia Pallero as the new maintainer of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL). Jose would very much appreciate additional volunteers! Please contact him through the usual GSL lists.

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As always, please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.