GNU Spotlight August 2016

• adns-1.5.1
• binutils-2.27
• dico-2.3
• diffutils-3.5
• fontopia-1.7
• freeipmi-1.5.3
• gama-1.18
• gcc-6.2.0
• glibc-2.24
• gnudos-1.9
• gnuhealth-3.0.3
• gnupg-2.1.15
• gnutls-3.5.3
• guix-0.11.0
• hyperbole-6.0.2
• java-training-wheels-2.8
• parallel-20160822
• xboard-4.9.1

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This month, we welcome Ricardo Wurmus as a new co-maintainer of GNU Guix, Benno Schulenberg as the new maintainer of GNU nano, and Robert Weiner as the maintainer of the new package GNU OO-Browser.

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