GNU Spotlight February 2018
Originally published on the Free Software Foundation's community
blog:
GNU
Spotlight with Mike Gerwitz: 25 new GNU releases!
25 new GNU releases in the last month (as of February 23, 2018):
- bash-4.4.18
- binutils-2.30
- ddrescue-1.23
- dico-2.5
- freeipmi-1.6.1
- gcc-7.3.0
- gcide-0.52
- gdb-8.1
- glibc-2.27
- global-6.6.2
- glpk-4.65
- gnupg-2.2.5
- gnurl-7.58.0
- gnutls-3.6.2
- less-530
- libffcall-2.1
- libmicrohttpd-0.9.59
- linux-libre-4.15.5-gnu
- mpfr-4.0.1
- nano-2.9.3
- ncurses-6.1
- parallel-20180222
- patch-2.7.6
- pycdio-2.0.0
- tack-1.08
For announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu mailing list: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu.
To download: nearly all GNU software is available from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/, or preferably one of its mirrors from https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html. You can use the URL https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ to be automatically redirected to a (hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.
This month, we welcome Nathon Nichols as maintainer of GNU LibreJS, and Roel Jansen and Ricardo Wurmus as maintainers of the new GNU GWL.
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.
If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
As always, please feel free to write to us at maintainers@gnu.org with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.