GNU Spotlight April 2013

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

35 new GNU releases this month (as of April 30, 2013)

  • archimedes-2.0.1
  • autoconf-archive-2013.04.06
  • autogen-5.17.3
  • barcode-0.99
  • binutils-2.23.2
  • bison-2.7.1
  • dbuskit-0.1.1
  • denemo-1.0.0
  • diffutils-3.3
  • ed-1.8
  • freeipmi-1.2.6
  • gcal-3.6.3
  • gcc-4.7.3
  • gdb-7.6
  • glpk-4.49
  • gnu-linux-libre-3.9-gnu
  • gprolog-1.4.4
  • gsrc-2013.04.06
  • guile-2.0.9
  • guile-ncurses-1.4
  • guile-sdl-0.4.3
  • help2man-1.41.2
  • hyperbole-5.0.4
  • libcdio-paranoia-10.2+0.90+1
  • libmicrohttpd-0.9.26
  • libtasn1-3.3
  • macchanger-1.6.0
  • nettle-2.7
  • parallel-20130422
  • pyconfigure-0.2
  • rcs-5.8.2
  • serveez-0.2.1
  • sharutils-4.13.5
  • shishi-1.0.2
  • smalltalk-3.2.5

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This month, we welcome Arjun E as the new co-maintainer of GNU Ferret, H.S. Rai as the new maintainer of libredwg, and Jeffrin Jose as the author and maintainer of the new package GNU guile-sdl (in addition to already maintaining GNU rcs and GNU alive).

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.