GNU Spotlight March 2009

Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Supporter - Issue 12, March 2009:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry

Here are the recent GNU software releases:

  • bash-4.0
  • bazaar-1.12
  • binutils-2.19.1
  • ccrtp-1.7.1
  • ccscript-4.1.0
  • ccscript3-1.1.7
  • classpath-0.98
  • commoncpp2-1.7.3
  • coreutils-7.1
  • ddd-3.3.12
  • ddrescue-1.10
  • fdisk-1.2.2
  • freeipmi-0.7.6
  • glibc-2.9
  • glibc-libidn-2.9
  • glpk-4.36
  • gnash-0.8.5
  • gnubatch-1.1
  • gnugo-3.8
  • gnuit-4.9.5
  • gnun-0.2
  • gnupg-2.0.11
  • gnuspool-1.4
  • gperf-3.0.4
  • gprolog-1.3.1
  • grep-2.5.4
  • gtypist-2.8.3
  • indent-2.2.10
  • libextractor-0.5.22
  • libgcrypt-1.4.4
  • libidn-1.13
  • libmicrohttpd-0.4.0a
  • libosip2-3.3.0
  • libzrtpcpp-1.4.3
  • lsh-2.0.4
  • moe-1.1
  • mtools-4.0.10
  • nano-2.1.9
  • psychosynth-0.1.2
  • readline-6.0
  • rush-1.6
  • sipwitch-0.5.2
  • solfege-3.12.2
  • tar-1.22
  • zile-2.3.4

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 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).

I'd like to give a warm welcome to the newly dubbed GNU packages and their maintainers: John Collins (gnubatch), Alain Knauff (mtools), and Bruno Haible (libunistring); as well as to the newly-dubbed (co-)maintainers of existing packages: Sadrul Chowdhury (screen), Vasily Eremenko (dotgnu-forum), Gery Kahn (miscfiles), Andreas Gruenbacher (patch).

I'd like to make a special note of John Collins' two packages recently dubbed GNU -- gnubatch and gnuspool. The former is an advanced batch scheduling system, the latter a print spooler comparable to CUPS but with a variety of different features. Thanks to John for contributing these to GNU and continuing to maintain them.

Several GNU packages 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 GNU, 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.