GNU Spotlight March 2013

Originally published on the Free Software Foundation's community blog:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 29 new GNU releases!

29 new GNU releases this month (as of March 24, 2013):

  • acct-6.6.1
  • gnuchess-6.0.3
  • mpfr-3.1.2
  • cppi-1.18
  • gnuedma-0.18.6
  • nano-2.3.2
  • dejagnu-1.5.1
  • gnuhealth-1.8.1
  • texinfo-5.1
  • emacs-24.3
  • gv-3.7.4
  • thales-1.1.1
  • freeipmi-1.2.5
  • libgcrypt-1.5.1
  • tramp-2.2.7
  • gcc-4.8.0
  • librejs-4.9.3
  • trueprint-5.4
  • gecb-0.8.4
  • marst-2.7
  • vc-dwim-1.7
  • gettext-0.18.2.1
  • maverik-6.5
  • wdiff-1.2.1
  • gidfwizard-0.6.4
  • mcsim-5.5.0
  • xorriso-1.2.8
  • global-6.2.8
  • moe-1.5

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This month, we welcome Cynthia Rempel as the new maintainer of the pgccfd document and Jeffrin Jose as the new maintainer of GNU dap (in addition to already maintaining GNU trueprint, with a new release this month).

A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a whole, 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 the GNU operating system, 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.