GNU Spotlight August 2010

This month we welcome Jose Marchesi as maintainer of the new package recutils, Mike Gran as maintainer of the new package guile-ncurses, and long-time maintainers Bruno Haible, Jim Meyering, and Simon Josefsson adding the new package vc-changelog to their duties.

Updated GNU packages for August 2010

• autoconf-2.67
• autoconf-archive-2010.08.19
• bison-2.4.3
• ddrescue-1.13
• dionysus-1.3.0
• freeipmi-0.8.9
• gcc-4.5.1
• glibc-2.12.1
• gnash-0.8.8
• gnuprolog-java-0.2.5
• icecat-3.6.8
• nano-2.2.5
• nettle-2.1
• parallel-20100822
• psychosynth-0.1.6
• sharutils-4.10
• sipwitch-0.9.1
• smalltalk-3.2.2
• tramp-2.1.19
• ucommon-3.3.5
• xboard-4.4.4
• zile-2.3.19

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