GNU Spotlight June 2008

Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Supporter - Issue 6, July 2008:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry

Here's the list of GNU releases for June (and early July):

  • ccrtp-1.6.1
  • cgicc-3.2.7
  • classpath-0.97.2
  • clisp-2.46
  • coreutils-6.12
  • gcc-4.3.1
  • glpk-4.29
  • gnash-0.8.3
  • gnuit-4.9.4
  • guile-clutter-0.7.6
  • guile-gnome-platform-2.16.1
  • gv-3.6.5
  • libidn-1.9
  • libzrtpcpp-1.3.0
  • mifluz-0.24.0
  • pspp-0.6.0
  • shmm-1.0
  • sipwitch-0.2.1
  • sovix-0.0.1.5
  • ucommon-1.9.3
  • wget-1.11.4

See the packages' announcements, web pages (http://www.gnu.org/software/PKGNAME) or the distributions themselves for details. Nearly all are available from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu, or preferably one of the mirrors: http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html.

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Some specific notes: the GNU mifluz package for an inverted text index has been revived after many years, thanks to Sebastien Diaz; the new GNU sovix package is a website revision system, by David Englund; and the new GNU shmm package has utilities for working with shared memory, by Jeannie Boffel.

Several GNU packages are still looking for maintainers.
Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint.

Finally, I'd like to give a warm welcome to the other newly-dubbed GNU maintainers this month: Kevin Harris (panorama), Joel Denny (bison), D E Evans (rottlog), Jim Meyering & Ralf Wildenhues (vc-dwim), and Eric Hutchins (ballandpaddle).

Please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.