GNU Spotlight January 2012

A monthly update on all things in the GNU project

New GNU releases this month:

• autogen-5.14
• gnutls-2.12.16
• parallel-20120122
• coreutils-8.15
• gnutls-3.0.12
• recutils-1.5
• cppi-1.16
• goptical-1.0
• sipwitch-1.2.1
• ddrescue-1.15
• help2man-1.40.5
• source-highlight-3.1.6
• ed-1.6
• inetutils-1.9.1
• stow-2.1.3
• freeipmi-1.1.1
• libidn-1.24
• tramp-2.2.4
• gdb-7.4
• libmicrohttpd-0.9.18
• ucommon-5.2.0
• global-6.2
• mediagoblin-0.2.0
• gnu-ghostscript-9.04.1
• octave-3.6.0

In addition to the usual releases, a new installment of the Lilypond Report has been published. It includes release news, an interview, Prelude #1 in Scheme, and more.

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