GNU Spotlight August 2014

• apl-1.4
• datamash-1.0.6
• denemo-1.1.8
• easejs-0.2.4
• freeipmi-1.4.5
• gdb-7.8
• global-6.3.1
• glpk-4.55
• gnuchess-6.1.2
• gnudos-1.7
• gnuhealth-2.6.2
• gnupg-2.0.26
• gtypist-2.9.5
• help2man-1.46.1
• libgcrypt-1.62
• libidn-1.29
• librejs-6.0.1
• libtasn1-4.1
• lightning-2.0.5
• mdk-1.2.8
• octave-3.8.2
• parallel-20140822
• parted-3.2
• swbis-1.12
• tar-1.28
• ucommon-6.1.10

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This month, we welcome Raman Gopalan as a new co-maintainer of GNU gengen (with its author Lorenzo Bettini), Marcel Schaible as the new maintainer of GNU gperf, and Sergey Poznyakoff adds yet another new package, direvent, to his long list. I'd also like to specially thank Assaf Gordon (the author and maintainer of GNU datamash, new last month) for a significant amount of effort with all aspects of Savannah; new Savannah volunteers are always needed, and welcome. 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.