GNU Spotlight April 2013

35 new GNU releases this month (as of April 30, 2013)

• archimedes-2.0.1
• autoconf-archive-2013.04.06
• autogen-5.17.3
• barcode-0.99
• binutils-2.23.2
• bison-2.7.1
• dbuskit-0.1.1
• denemo-1.0.0
• diffutils-3.3
• ed-1.8
• freeipmi-1.2.6
• gcal-3.6.3
• gcc-4.7.3
• gdb-7.6
• glpk-4.49
• gnu-linux-libre-3.9-gnu
• gprolog-1.4.4
• gsrc-2013.04.06
• guile-2.0.9
• guile-ncurses-1.4
• guile-sdl-0.4.3
• help2man-1.41.2
• hyperbole-5.0.4
• libcdio-paranoia-10.2+0.90+1
• libmicrohttpd-0.9.26
• libtasn1-3.3
• macchanger-1.6.0
• nettle-2.7
• parallel-20130422
• pyconfigure-0.2
• rcs-5.8.2
• serveez-0.2.1
• sharutils-4.13.5
• shishi-1.0.2
• smalltalk-3.2.5

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This month, we welcome Arjun E as the new co-maintainer of GNU Ferret, H.S. Rai as the new maintainer of libredwg, and Jeffrin Jose as the author and maintainer of the new package GNU guile-sdl (in addition to already maintaining GNU rcs and GNU alive).

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.