GNU Spotlight June 2014

23 new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 28, 2014):

• cgicc-3.2.15
• ddrescue-1.18.1
• electric-9.05
• freedink-108.2
• freeipmi-1.4.4
• gcc-4.7.4
• gettext-0.19.1
• global-6.3
• gnupg-2.0.24
• grep-2.20
• libmicrohttpsd-0.9.37
• libtasn1-4.0
• linux-libre-3.15
• mcron-1.0.8
• moe-1.6
• nano-2.3.4
• nettle-3.0
• parallel-20140622
• sipwitch-1.9.2
• sqltutor-0.7
• tramp-2.2.10
• ucommon-6.1.8
• unifont-7.0.01

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This month, we welcome Bernd Paysan as the new maintainer (though the long-time author and developer) of gforth and vmgen, and Ruben Rodriguez (long-time developer of Trisquel) as the new maintainer of IceCat. Thanks to all.

Also, please consider attending the GNU Hackers' Meeting https://www.gnu.org/ghm/ in Munich this year, August 15-17; attendance is free of charge, but pre-registration is essential.

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.