GNU Spotlight December 2012

There were 23 new GNU releases this month!

New GNU releases this month as of December 24

• auctex-11.87
• gprolog-1.4.2
• libosip2-4.0.0
• automake-1.12.6
• gtypist-2.9.2
• libtasn1-3.2
• bison-2.7
• guile-2.0.7
• mediagoblin-0.3.2
• freedink-1.08.20121209
• help2man-1.40.13
• parallel-20121222
• gdb-7.5.1
• icecat-17.0.1
• sed-4.2.2
• global-6.2.7
• kawa-1.13
• ucommon-6.0.3
• gnunet-0.9.5
• libidn-1.26
• xnee-3.15
• gnupg-1.4.13
• libmatheval-1.1.10

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We welcome Daiki Ueno as the new maintainer of GNU Gettext (and thank Bruno Haible for his long-time development of gettext and many other packages, some still continuing). We also welcome Aleksey Demakov as the maintainer of the new package libjit, now split as a separate package from DotGNU.

A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a whole, are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to the GNU operating system, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

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