GNU Spotlight July 2008

Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Supporter - Issue 7, August 2008:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry

Notable GNU releases for July 2008 include icecat, the GNU web browser based on Firefox 3; it includes privacy features and other fixes, as well as completely supporting free software. Precompiled binaries for GNU/Linux are available. See http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/.

The complete list:

  • GNUnet-0.8.0a
  • aeneas-1.2
  • archimedes-0.8.0
  • aspell6-mn-0.06-2
  • aspell6-pt_BR-20080707-0
  • cgicc-3.2.7
  • clisp-2.46
  • gnunet-gtk-0.8.0a
  • gnusound-0.7.5
  • guile-clutter-0.8.0
  • icecat-3.0.1-g1
  • libextractor-0.5.20c
  • libsrcinst-2.5
  • mifluz-0.24.0
  • plotutils-2.5.1
  • shtool-2.0.8
  • sipwitch-0.2.6
  • source-highlight-2.10
  • sourceinstall-2.5
  • sovix-0.0.1.5
  • tramp-2.1.14
  • ucommon-1.9.5
  • zile-2.2.60

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 its mirrors: http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html.

To get announcements of most new GNU packages, subscribe to the info-gnu mailing list (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu), which is publicly archived (http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/info-gnu).

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

Finally, I'd like to give a warm thanks to the other newly-dubbed GNU maintainers this month: Giuseppe Scrivano (myserver), Micah Cowan (teseq and screen), and Sergey Poznyakoff (dico). They all already maintain other GNU packages, so double thanks.

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