GNU Spotlight February 2011

Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Supporter - Issue 35, February 2011:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry

  • autogen-5.11.6
  • bash-4.2
  • bzr-2.3.0
  • ccaudio2-2.0.1
  • coreutils-8.10
  • freeipmi-1.0.2
  • glibc-2.13
  • guile-2.0.0
  • guile-ncurses-1.3
  • gvpe-2.24
  • libmicrohttpd-0.9.7
  • octave-3.4.0
  • parallel-20110205
  • readline-6.2
  • recutils-1.3
  • sharutils-4.11
  • ucommon-4.1.5
  • xboard-4.5.1
  • xnee-3.09

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This month Jim Meyering adds GNU patch http://www.gnu.org/software/patch/ to the ever-growing list of packages he's co-maintaining, this one with Andreas Gruenbacher. Thanks Jim and Andreas.

I'd also like to specially mention the Guile 2.0 release. See http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/news.html for info about the many new features, compiler, and infrastructure.

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.