GNU Spotlight February 2013

Originally published on the Free Software Foundation's community blog:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 19 new GNU releases!

19 new GNU releases this month (as of February 25, 2013):

  • autoconf-archive-2013.02.02
  • gnunet-0.9.5a
  • pycdio-0.19
  • autogen-5.17.2
  • groff-1.22.2
  • serveez-0.2.0
  • coreutils-8.21
  • libmicrohttpd-0.9.25
  • texinfo-5.0
  • glpk-4.48
  • linux-libre-3.8
  • unrtf-0.21.3
  • gmp-5.1.1
  • mdk-1.2.7
  • xboard-4.7.0
  • gnubatch-1.7
  • octave-3.6.4
  • gnuhealth-1.8.0
  • parallel-20130222

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This month, we welcome Mark Veltzer as a new co-maintainer of GNU grep.

I'd like to specially mention Texinfo 5.0, the first release in Texinfo in too many years. It is a complete reimplementation of makeinfo, merging in texi2html features and more, while retaining practical compatibility, primarily thanks to the efforts of Patrice Dumas. The Texinfo home page is http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo.

A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a whole, 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 the GNU operating system, 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.