GNU Spotlight October 2010

A monthly look at updates and new releases in the GNU operating system.

New GNU releases for October 2010:

• autoconf-archive-2010.10.26
• coreutils-8.6
• denemo-0.8.20
• dfarc-3.8
• gcc-4.4.5
• gnubatch-1.3
• gnupg-1.4.11
• gnuspool-1.8
• gnutls-2.10.2
• icecat-3.6.11
• libmicrohttpd-0.9.2
• mdk-1.2.6
• mtools-4.0.15
• myserver-0.10
• solfege-3.18.6
• tar-1.24
• ucommon-4.0.3
• websocket4j-1.3
• xnee-3.07
• xorriso-0.6.4
• zile-2.3.20

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This month we welcome Chris Bryant as the new maintainer of vmslib.

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.