GNU Spotlight May 2011

Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Supporter - Issue 38, May 2011:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry

New GNU releases:

  • aspell6-kn-0.01-1
  • autogen-5.11.9
  • bison-2.5
  • complexity-0.4
  • coreutils-8.12
  • denemo-0.9.0
  • fdisk-1.2.5
  • gcc-4.5.3
  • global-5.9.5
  • gmp-5.0.2
  • gnuchess-6.0.0
  • gnutls-2.12.5
  • grep-2.8
  • grub-1.99
  • gsasl-1.6.1
  • gsl-1.15
  • guile-2.0.1
  • gv-3.7.2
  • help2man-1.39.4
  • icecat-4.0.1
  • libgsasl-1.6.1
  • libidn-1.22
  • libmicrohttpd-0.9.11
  • nano-2.3.1
  • parallel-20110522
  • parted-2.4
  • sharutils-4.11.1
  • sipwitch-1.0.1
  • solfege-3.18.8
  • swbis-1.11
  • ucommon-5.0.0
  • vc-dwim-1.5
  • xboard-4.5.2a
  • zile-2.3.24

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This month we welcome Kyle Bayes as the new maintainer of GNU Leg http://www.gnu.org/software/leg, and Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos as a new co-maintainer of GNUTLS http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls. Thanks Kyle and Nikos.

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.