GNU Spotlight December 2013

20 new GNU releases in the last month (as of December 25, 2013):

• 3DLDF-2.0.3
• automake-1.14.1
• binutils-2.24
• bison-3.0.2
• coreutils-8.22
• denemo-1.1.0
• freeipmi-1.3.4
• gdb-7.6.2
• gnunet-0.10.0
• gnunet-fuse-0.10.0
• gnupg-1.4.16
• libcdio-0.92
• libextractor-1.3
• libmicrohttpd-0.9.33
• libtasn1-3.4
• parallel-20131222
• rcs-5.9.2
• serveez-0.2.2
• unifont-6.3.20131221
• xorriso-1.3.4

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This month we welcome Joseph Myers as a new co-maintainer of GCC, and Mike Gerwitz as the author and maintainer of his new GNU package easejs, and German Arias as the author and maintainer of his new GNU package fisicalab. Thanks to all.

A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a whole, are looking for maintainers and other assistance: please see https://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at https://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to the GNU operating system, see https://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.