GNU Spotlight October 2014

25 new GNU releases in the last month (as of October 25, 2014):

• autoconf-archive-2014.10.15
• ccaudio2-2.1.4
• ccscript-5.0.3
• ddrescue-1.19
• dfarc-3.12
• emacs-24.4
• freedink-108.4
• gettext-0.19.3
• gnuhealth-2.6.4
• gss-1.0.3
• guile-ncurses-1.5
• help2man-1.46.4
• icecat-31.2.0
• libcdio-0.93
• libcdio-paranoia-10.2+0.93+1
• libmicrohttpd-0.9.38
• librejs-6.0.3
• make-4.1
• ocrad-0.24
• parallel-20141022
• pspp-0.8.4
• sipwitch-1.9.3
• ucommon-6.2.0
• unifont-7.0.06
• vera-1.22

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This month, we welcome Cole Johnson as the new maintainer of GNU Solfege, and Eric Blake as a new co-maintainer of GNU gperf (in addition to his many other GNU contributions).

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.