GNU Spotlight June 2017
Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's
Free
Software Supporter - Issue 111, July 2017:
GNU Spotlight with
Brandon Invergo: Twenty-three new GNU releases!
(as of June 26, 2017):
- automake-1.15.1
- cgicc-3.2.18
- dr-geo-17.07
- gdb-8.0
- glpk-4.62
- gnuastro-0.3
- gnuhealth-control-3.0.4
- gnutls-3.5.13
- gsl-2.4
- guile-gnome-2.16.5
- libextractor-1.4
- libffcall-1.13
- libgcrypt-1.7.7
- libmicrohttpd-0.9.55
- libtasn1-4.12
- linux-libre-4.11.7-gnu
- motti-3.1.1
- nano-2.8.5
- octave-4.2.1
- parallel-20170622
- taler-0.3.0
- texinfo-6.4
- unifont-10.0.01
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This month, we welcome John Darrington as the maintainer of the new GNU package spread-sheet-widget and Bernd Edlinger as the maintainer of the new GNU package Mempool.
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.
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