http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1774 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello hackers, It is my great pleasure to announce the release of GLOBAL-6.2.3. GLOBAL is a source code tagging system that works the same way across diverse environments, for example, emacs, vi, less, bash, web browser and etc. It is useful for hacking large projects. [BUG FIXED] o Built-in parser: When attribute specifier appeared immediately after the `struct', `union' or `enum' keyword, GLOBAL could not pick up tag name. Now it works correctly. [CHANGES] New facilities: o gtags: --single-update option support addition of a file. o global: New --single-update option. o gtags.el: New custom variables: - gtags-ignore-case - gtags-auto-update. o gtags.vim: New custom variables 'Gtags_Auto_Update' (default 0). You can download it from http://www.gnu.org/software/global/download.html More detailed information is here: http://www.gnu.org/software/global/. Enjoy! Shigio YAMAGUCHI PGP fingerprint: D1CB 0B89 B346 4AB6 5663 C4B6 3CA5 BBB3 57BE DDA3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAk/AT9QACgkQPKW7s1e+3aMZ6ACeImBTQAiyIak9+wiQ7u+YGnFr tKEAnj8hZc4H45C/njBwUfSLXqtdfsab =eKr9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Shigio YAMAGUCHI &lt;shigio&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; PGP fingerprint: D1CB 0B89 B346 4AB6 5663 C4B6 3CA5 BBB3 57BE DDA3 _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Shigio YAMAGUCHI 2012-05-26T03:43:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1773 <pre>Dear reader, I'm happy to announce the release of wdiff 1.1.1. This release works around an error in the formatting of the man page. The proper fix will be in 1.2.x, but as that requires a change to translatable strings, this release here will apply a patch instead. There are some updates to translations as well: Danish and Vietnamese have been updated, and a Serbian translation newly added. You can get the latest release of wdiff from http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/wdiff/ or a GNU mirror of your choice. https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7243 is the official location of the release announcement, in case you want a URL to cite. GNU wdiff is a front end to diff for comparing files on a word per word basis. A word is anything between whitespace. This is useful for comparing two texts in which a few words have been changed and for which paragraphs have been refilled. It works by creating two temporary files, one word per line, and then executes diff on these files. It collects the diff output and uses it to produce a nicer display of word differences between the original files. Greetings, Martin von Gagern _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Martin von Gagern 2012-05-22T20:52:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1772 <pre>FreeIPMI 1.1.5 has been released. It can be downloaded at: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/download.html What is IPMI? The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification defines a set of interfaces for platform management. It is implemented by a large number of hardware manufacturers to support system management on motherboards. The features of IPMI that most users will be interested in are sensor monitoring (i.e. CPU temperatures, fan speeds), remote power control, and serial-over-LAN (SOL). What is FreeIPMI? FreeIPMI provides in-band and out-of-band IPMI software based on the IPMI v1.5/2.0 specification. FreeIPMI provides tools and libraries for users to access and read IPMI sensor readings, system event log (SEL) entries, serial-over-LAN (SOL), remote power control functions, field replaceable unit (FRU) device information, and more. More information about FreeIPMI can be found at the FreeIPMI webpage at: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/index.html Release 1.1.5 Changes --------------------- Tools ------ o Support Supermicro OEM sensors/SEL on H8DGU-F motherboards. o In ipmiconsole, fix password length check bug. o In bmc-watchdog, fix --start-if-stopped and --reset-if-running options. o In ipmidetectd, fix usage output typos. o In ipmi-sensors-config, fix several parallel output corner cases. o For consistency to other tools, turn on quiet-caching if communicating with multiple hosts in bmc-device and ipmi-oem. o In ipmi-sensors, fix bug in which multiple workarounds could not be used or used in combination with bridging. o Fix start run levels in ipmidetectd init script. Libraries --------- o In libfreeipmi fru-parse API, handle additional device busy errors. Misc ---- o Various documentation updates. </pre> Albert Chu 2012-05-17T20:53:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1771 <pre>Hello everyone, For several reasons, the GNU package Aeneas will be substituted by the GNU package Archimedes. Archimedes is the GNU package for Monte Carlo semiconductor devices simulations. Archimedes is Free Software and can be found at: www.gnu.org/software/archimedes Please, from now on, refer to Archimedes to simulate semiconductor devices. Archimedes has now much more models than Aeneas and it is more advanced, reliable and tested. Aeneas is to be considered obsolete. Happy Hacking, JM </pre> Jean Michel Sellier 2012-05-13T18:48:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1770 <pre>I am pleased to announce GNU gcal 3.6.2. Gcal is a program for calculating and printing calendars. Gcal displays hybrid and proleptic Julian and Gregorian calendar sheets, respectively for one month, three months, or a whole year. It also displays eternal holiday lists for many countries around the globe, and features a very powerful creation of fixed date liststhat can be used for reminding purposes. Gcal can calculate various astronomical data and times of the Sun and the Moon for pleasure at any location, precisely enough for most civil purposes. Gcal supports some other calendar systems, for example, the Chinese and Japanese calendars, the Hebrew calendar, and the civil Islamic calendar, too. Noteworthy changes in this release: * Report correctly the Christmas day in Canada. Source code is available for download here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcal/gcal-3.6.2.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcal/gcal-3.6.2.tar.xz and the GPG detached signatures using the key C03363F4: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcal/gcal-3.6.2.tar.bz2.sig ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcal/gcal-3.6.2.tar.xz.sig To reduce load on the main server, you can use this redirector service which automatically redirects you to a mirror: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gcal/gcal-3.6.2.tar.bz2 http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gcal/gcal-3.6.2.tar.xz Please report any problem you may experience to the bug-gcal&lt; at &gt;gnu.org mailing list. Have fun! Giuseppe _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Giuseppe Scrivano 2012-05-13T16:27:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1769 <pre>This is to announce coreutils-8.17, a stable release. There have been 53 commits by 9 people in the 6 weeks since 8.16. The changes are small and all seem safe. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Andreas Schwab (1) Bernhard Voelker (2) Bruce Korb (1) Jim Meyering (38) Karl Berry (1) Kevin Lyda (1) Paul Eggert (4) Pádraig Brady (4) Stefano Lattarini (1) Jim [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers] ================================================================== Here is the GNU coreutils home page: http://gnu.org/s/coreutils/ For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v8.17 or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory: git shortlog v8.16..v8.17 To summarize the 126 gnulib-related changes, run these commands From a git-cloned coreutils directory: git checkout v8.17 git submodule summary v8.16 Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.17.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.17.tar.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.17.tar.xz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.17.tar.xz.sig [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify coreutils-8.17.tar.xz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.69.1-2d4eb Automake 1.12a Gnulib v0.0-7375-ga3a0496 Bison 2.5.834-2eeb1 ================================================================== NEWS * Noteworthy changes in release 8.17 (2012-05-10) [stable] ** Bug fixes id and groups, when invoked with no user name argument, would print the default group ID listed in the password database, and sometimes that ID would be neither real nor effective. For example, when run set-GID, or in a session for which the default group has just been changed, the new group ID would be listed, even though it is not yet effective. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.1] cp S D is no longer subject to a race: if an existing D were removed between the initial stat and subsequent open-without-O_CREATE, cp would fail with a confusing diagnostic saying that the destination, D, was not found. Now, in this unusual case, it retries the open (but with O_CREATE), and hence usually succeeds. With NFS attribute caching, the condition was particularly easy to trigger, since there, the removal of D could precede the initial stat. [This bug was present in "the beginning".] split --number=C /dev/null no longer appears to infloop on GNU/Hurd [bug introduced in coreutils-8.8] stat no longer reports a negative file size as a huge positive number. [bug present since 'stat' was introduced in fileutils-4.1.9] ** New features split and truncate now allow any seekable files in situations where the file size is needed, instead of insisting on regular files. fmt now accepts the --goal=WIDTH (-g) option. stat -f recognizes new file system types: bdevfs, inodefs, qnx6 ** Changes in behavior cp,mv,install,cat,split: now read and write a minimum of 64KiB at a time. This was previously 32KiB and increasing to 64KiB was seen to increase throughput by about 10% when reading cached files on 64 bit GNU/Linux. cp --attributes-only no longer truncates any existing destination file, allowing for more general copying of attributes from one file to another. ----- also posted as: http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7230 _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Jim Meyering 2012-05-10T19:37:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1768 <pre> GNU AutoGen/AutoOpts is a two-part project that serves two separate purposes. The two parts are combined because they are inextricably intertwined: AutoGen is a tool designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. It is especially valuable in programs that have several blocks of text that must be kept synchronized. AutoOpts is both an example of that and a project in its own right. It is a very powerful configuration file, environment variable and command line option documentation and management tool consisting of a set of AutoGen templates and a run time library that nearly eliminates the hassle of managing, parsing and documenting program options. The self-referential example: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/man1-autogen.html NOTE: sometime "pretty soon", tar.gz files will not be distributed. New in 5.16 - May, 2012 NEWS entries since the last release: * AutoGen now supports the "-MP" option. The "phony" rule generated in the make dependency file will remove all generated files, except for the dependency file itself. Please see the docs for "-MF". * "break", "continue", and "return" macros implemented. "return" works in included templates and invoked macros (user defined macros). "break" and "continue" work within "for" and "while" loops, though they cannot be used to leave invoked or included templates. * texi documentation generation has been much improved. Please see the "Option Sectioning Comment" documentation. * configuring with --disable-static should now pass make check * AutoOpts supports a "die-code" attribute. It will generate code for "die", "diev" and "fserr" functions that will print a farewell message and die. * a keyword option value of "-1" or "~0" now means "largest value". * much improved .texi documentation templates. * de-tabbed "here strings" may have output lines prefixed with tabs by backslash escaping the first tab to output. * -Werror may be appended by "=warn-group". That is accommodated now. * many warning fixes and CamelCase name removals AutoGen home: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/ primary ftp: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.16/ .tar.gz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.16/autogen-5.16.tar.gz (deprecated) .tar.xz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.16/autogen-5.16.tar.xz bug reports: autogen-users at the lists dot SourceForge net domain bug archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=autogen-users maintainer: Bruce Korb - bkorb at the usual GNU domain _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Bruce Korb 2012-05-07T00:20:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1767 <pre>GNU LibreJS version 4.6 has been released! Please find the latest version at: http://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/?46 This update of LibreJS fixes a memory leak issue which was occurring in rare circumstances. It also reduces CPU usage during the analysis stage by making the tree traversal function asynchronous, and it addresses a few more minor bugs, including one with the whitelist option which was introduced in the previous version. This release of version 4.6 of GNU LibreJS will be part of the upcoming GNU IceCat 12. Please send your feedback and report issues to GNU LibreJS mailing list: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-librejs Thank you! Loic Duros _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Loic J. Duros 2012-05-06T21:04:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1766 <pre>A new release of the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) is now available. The new release is identified as 5.0.5. The new release can be downloaded from the main GNU ftp site: xz format: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-5.0.5.tar.xz bzip2 format: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-5.0.5.tar.bz2 These files can also be found from the main GMP domain, e.g. ftp://ftp.gmplib.org/pub/gmp/gmp-5.0.5.tar.xz. The changes between this release and the previous release are limited to various safe bug fixes and portability improvements. GMP 5.0 is the currently maintained stable release series; we recommend everyone to switch from earlier GMP releases to GMP 5.0.5. While GMP bugs do happen, the absolutely most common cause for incorrect computations with GMP is bugs in the compiler used for building he library. It cannot be said enough times: Please run "make check" after you've built GMP. And if "make check" stops with an error, do not use the compiled library. When this happens, you've almost surely run into a compiler bug, not a library bug, since we've of course made sure the library passes its own test suite. The first thing to try at this point is using a different compiler. See also http://gmplib.org/. GCC version 4.3.2 is known to miscompile this GMP release on all 64-bit platforms; this manifests itself at a check failure in tests/mpz/t-root.c. The GMP 5.0 release series would not have been possible without the very devoted work of Niels Möller and Marco Bodrato. Torbjörn Granlund coordinated the development and release, and did a fair amount of development work himself. Marc Glisse helped with the C++ wrapper. Changes between GMP version 5.0.4 and 5.0.5 BUGS FIXED * A bug causing AMD 11h processors to be treated like AMD 10h has been fixed. The 11h processors do not correctly handle all 10h (aka K10) instructions, and GMP's use of these instructions results in major miscomputations (not as one would have hoped CPU traps of some 'illegal instruction' sort). * A bug affecting recent Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs resulting in configuration failures has been fixed. SPEEDUPS * None. FEATURES * A couple of tests added to the self-check suite. MISC * None. There is a public repository for GMP, please see the GMP web site at http://gmplib.org/ for more information. Torbjörn's work on GMP is sponsored by "Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning", through CIAM at KTH, http://www.ciam.kth.se/. </pre> Torbjorn Granlund 2012-05-06T12:19:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1765 <pre>We are relieved to announce the 20120503 release of GNU FreeFont, http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/ whose aim to provide a useful set of free outline fonts covering as much as possible of the Unicode character set. Find binaries and sources at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/ The release can also be downloaded from any GNU mirror, and the list of mirrors is at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html. There are lots of improvements, thanks to the efforts of many contributors. Main efforts ============ Latin, Greek, Cyrillic ---------------------- Overall glyph-by-glyph standardization of spacing. Re-kerned based on the new spacing. Arabic ------ (Serif regular and bold) all letters re-done, better to resemble modern type in the Nask style, and better to use positional forms. Main range and Supplement-B completed, as well as the first section of Supplement-A (all but ligatures). Took steps to make the range functional for Arabic, Persian (Farsi), Urdu, Pashto, Seraiki, Uighur, and Malay as well as several African scripts. (Mono) added basic range and tables. Cyrillic -------- Serbian/Macedonian localized forms for de, cursive gje, sha, be, ta, Bulgarian alternative forms for several letters (serif, as Style Set) (Sans) letters for Abkhaz and Azerbaijani, and Nivkh. Devanagari ---------- (Serif and SerifBold) imported outlines from the Velthuis latex font, to support for Hindi, Marathi, and Sanskrit, including localized glyphs for Calcutta, Bombay, and Napali. (Sans) overhauled range, adding some glyphs and rearranging some tables. (Sans Bold) Made range based on medium weight version. Gujarati -------- (Serif) Implemented range using glyphs from Samyak Gujarati font. Deleted whole range in Sans (needs to start over again anyway). Oriya ----- (Serif) Implemented range in Serif using glyphs from Samyak Oriya font. Malayalaam ---------- (Sans) Replaced range with with Meera 04 font of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing Gurmukhi -------- (Serif) Replaced range with glyphs from the Punjabi font by Hardip Singh Pannu Sinhala ------- (Serif) made a bold face Old Italic ---------- (Mono) new letters constructed by S. White Other additions =============== IPA --- Letters for North American languages Saanich/Musqueam, Kwak̕wala Some replacements for d-, l-, t-apostrophe Runic ----- (Mono) completely re-did range to fit weight, and to look better. Syriac ------ Made new Unicode letters like those from Tim Erikson's Carlo Ator Thaana ------ (SerifBold) derived from medium version Bengali ------- Ganda mark Malayalam --------- New Unicode characters, corrected some marks in Sans. Greek ----- Lunate letters Latin Extended-A ---------------- Shona letters, other African letters Latin Extended-D ---------------- H-hook (U+A7AA) for Chadian languages Combining Diacritical marks --------------------------- (Mono) Completed range Currency -------- (Serif) Indian Rupee courtesy of Daniel Johnson Specials -------- Filled out range in all faces Control Pictures ---------------- Filled out range in regular style of each face various additions to -------------------- Letterlike symbols Miscellaneous symbols Mathematical Operators Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B Phonetic Extensions Punctuation, new Punctuation Supplemental range Geometric Shapes Typographic =========== small caps ---------- (Serif,SerifBold,Sans,SansBold) Replacement glyphs and tables for core Latin letters. also glyphs for script-size letters. new substitution look-ups ------------------------- * small caps, * caps to small caps, * old-style figures, * proportional numbers, * slashed zero, * vulgar fractions, * superscripts, * subscripts Technical/legal =============== WOFF (Web Open Font Format) version, as well as directions for constructing WOFF derivatives. Hashed out how the license works with Web Fonts technologies. New file webfont_guidelines.txt contains instructions. Project version control switched from CVS to SVN. Re-arranged the tools/ directory; now package .sfd files in a "*src*" tarball with a top-level Makefile. Filled in IBM Classifications Removed angle-brackets from license text that triggered bugs in some software. Likewise scripts to automatically clean up the SVN version string in fonts. Cleaned up some incorrect Indic language lookups, that weren't being triggered correctly due to FontForge bugs. Added script to generate Arabic test pages, courtesy of Emmanuel Vallois. Clean-ups ========= Many validation issues (some due to font changes, some due to FontForge changes) Adjustments =========== Latin, Greek, Cyrillic ---------------------- Much fiddling with accents, for various reasons (including bug reports.) (Sans) acute and grave accent on capitals made to fit in line, (Serif, Sans) Hungarian umlaut and double-grave relaxed angle a bit. Regularized bullet-like characters somewhat. Greek, Serif Cyrillic ---------------------- Made Phi, Ef more distinct Reduced sizes of hooks on many letters. Hebrew ------ Adjusted marks, cantillation points; widened Hebrew wide letters more. Made yod in Yiddish distinct from Hebrew. Osmanya ------- Corrected Unicode values. Malayalam --------- Rearranged some incorrect lookups. Tamil ------- Several tables added to resolve spacing issues. Super/Sub scripts ----------------- Regularized positioning--All the "superior" numerals and a few superscript Latin letters got positioned so they go over the em height. Latin ordinals are positioned parallel to em height. Many glyphs made to reference new small caps and script-size glyphs. Thanks to ========= Daniel Johnson Tim Erikson Emmanuel Vallois (!) Zdeněk Wagner Monika Shah Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (Praveen A., Santhosh Thottingal) Sarovar.org, who host the Samyak fonts (especially Rahul Bhalerao) Jason Woolman (of Musqueam First Nation) Chris Harvey (LanguageGeek) Timothy Montler Samyak font admin Rahul Bhalerao Pavel Skrylev Karl Berry Alessandro Ceschini Tim Erickson Harshula Sander van Geloven Masoud Pourmoosa Savannah.org maintenance team And the numerous issue reporters, question-askers, detractors, and users! _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Steve White 2012-05-03T14:20:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1764 <pre>The GNU Autoconf team is pleased to announce the stable release of Autoconf 2.69. Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the operating system features that the package can use, in the form of M4 macro calls. Among other improvements, this release fixes a couple of regressions introduced in previous releases, greatly enhances Fortran support, adds Go support, and updates the documentation license. It also requires that developer have perl 5.6 or newer when running autoconf (although generated configure scripts remain independent of perl, as always). See a more complete list below. Here are the compressed sources: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf/autoconf-2.69.tar.gz (1.9MB) http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf/autoconf-2.69.tar.xz (1.2MB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf/autoconf-2.69.tar.gz.sig http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf/autoconf-2.69.tar.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify autoconf-2.69.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys A7A16B4A2527436A and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Automake 1.11.1 NEWS * Noteworthy changes in release 2.69 (2012-04-24) [stable] ** Autoconf now requires perl 5.6 or better (but generated configure scripts continue to run without perl). * Noteworthy changes in release 2.68b (2012-03-01) [beta] Released by Eric Blake, based on git versions 2.68.*. ** Autoconf-generated configure scripts now unconditionally re-execute themselves with $CONFIG_SHELL, if that's set in the environment. ** The texinfo documentation no longer specifies "front-cover" or "back-cover" texts, so that it may now be included in Debian's "main" section. ** Support for the Go programming language has been added. The new macro AC_LANG_GO sets variables GOC and GOFLAGS. ** AS_LITERAL_IF again treats '=' as a literal. Regression introduced in 2.66. ** The macro AS_EXECUTABLE_P, present since 2.50, is now documented. ** Macros - AC_PROG_LN_S and AS_LN_S now fall back on 'cp -pR' (not 'cp -p') if 'ln -s' does not work. This works better for symlinks to directories. - New macro AC_HEADER_CHECK_STDBOOL. - New and updated macros for Fortran support: AC_FC_CHECK_BOUNDS to enable array bounds checking AC_F77_IMPLICIT_NONE and AC_FC_IMPLICIT_NONE to disable implicit integer AC_FC_MODULE_EXTENSION to compute the Fortran 90 module name extension AC_FC_MODULE_FLAG for the Fortran 90 module search path flag AC_FC_MODULE_OUTPUT_FLAG for the Fortran 90 module output directory flag AC_FC_PP_SRCEXT for preprocessed Fortran source files extensions AC_FC_PP_DEFINE for the Fortran preprocessor define flag </pre> Eric Blake 2012-04-25T03:32:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1763 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We are pleased to announce the Automake 1.12 release. This is a major release with several important changes, coming almost three years after the latest major release (1.11). The tarballs for this release can be download here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.12.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.12.tar.xz Please report bugs and problems to &lt;bug-automake&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt;, and send general comments and feedback to &lt;automake&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt;. Thanks to everyone who has reported problems, contributed patches, and helped testing Automake! - -*-*-*- The most significant new feature in this release is certainly the support for the TAP testing protocol in the Automake-generated testsuite harnesses. Note that the use of this feature still requires some non-trivial manual setup by the developer unfortunately (which should be explained in detail in the manual); this limitation should be lifted in a future maintenance release. There is also at least one long-awaited bug fix: now, any explicit enabling or disabling of a warning category always take precedence over the set of warning categories implied by the strictness mode. For example, a setting like: AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wall --foreign will cause the warnings in category 'portability' to be enabled, even if those warnings are by default disabled in 'foreign' strictness. This wasn't the case for older Automake versions. Below you can read the fully detailed list of changes since Automake 1.11.5, as summarized by the NEWS file. - -*-*-*- New in 1.12: * WARNING: Future backward-incompatibilities! - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the rules to build pdf, ps and dvi output from Texinfo input will use the '--tidy' option by default. Since such an option was introduced in Texinfo 4.9, this means that Makefiles generated by future Automake versions will require at least that version of Texinfo. - Starting from the next major Automake version (1.13), the parallel testsuite harness (previously only enabled by the 'parallel-tests' option) will become the default one; the older serial testsuite harness will still be available through the use of the 'serial-tests' option. - The following long-obsolete m4 macros will be removed in the next major Automake version (1.13): AM_PROG_CC_STDC: superseded by AC_PROG_CC since October 2002 fp_PROG_CC_STDC: broken alias for AM_PROG_CC_STDC fp_WITH_DMALLOC: old alias for AM_WITH_DMALLOC AM_CONFIG_HEADER: superseded by AC_CONFIG_HEADERS since July 2002 ud_PATH_LISPDIR: old alias for AM_PATH_LISPDIR jm_MAINTAINER_MODE: old alias for AM_MAINTAINER_MODE ud_GNU_GETTEXT: old alias for AM_GNU_GETTEXT gm_PROG_LIBTOOL: old alias for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL fp_C_PROTOTYPES: old alias for AM_C_PROTOTYPES (which was part of the now-removed automatic de-ANSI-fication support of Automake) - All the "old alias" macros in 'm4/obsolete.m4' will be removed in the next major Automake version (1.13). - Support for the "Cygnus-style" trees (enabled by the 'cygnus' option) will be deprecated in the next minor version of Automake (1.12.1) and removed in the next major version (1.13). - Support for the two- and three-arguments invocation forms of the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro will be deprecated in the next minor version of Automake (1.12.1) and removed in the next major version (1.13). - The long-obsolete (since 1.10) automake-provided $(mkdir_p) make variable, &lt; at &gt;mkdir_p&lt; at &gt; substitution and AM_PROG_MKDIR m4 macro will all be deprecated in the next minor version of Automake (1.12.1) and removed in the next major version (1.13). - The '--acdir' option of aclocal is deprecated, and will probably be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13). You should use the options '--automake-acdir' and '--system-acdir' instead (which have been introduced in Automake 1.11.2). - The exact order in which the directories in the aclocal macro search path are looked up is probably going to be changed in the next Automake release (1.13). * Obsolete features removed: - The never documented nor truly used script 'acinstall' has been removed. - Support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been removed. - The support for the "obscure" multilib feature has been removed from Automake core (but remains available in the 'contrib/' directory of the Automake distribution). - Support for ".log -&gt; .html" conversion and the check-html and recheck-html targets has been removed from Automake core (but remains available in the 'contrib/' directory of the Automake distribution). - The deprecated 'lzma' compression format for distribution archives has been removed, in favor of 'xz' and 'lzip'. - The obsolete AM_WITH_REGEX macro has been removed. - The long-deprecated options '--output-dir', '--Werror' and '--Wno-error' have been removed. - The chapter on the history of Automake has been moved out of the reference manual, into a new dedicated Texinfo file. * New targets: - New 'cscope' target to build a cscope database for the source tree. * Changes to Automake-generated testsuite harnesses: - The new automake option 'serial-tests' has been introduced. It can be used to explicitly instruct automake to use the older serial testsuite harness. This is still the default at the moment, but it might change in future versions. - The 'recheck' target (provided by the parallel testsuite harness) now depends on the 'all' target. This allows for a better user-experience in test-driven development. See automake bug#11252. - Test scripts that exit with status 99 to signal an "hard error" (e.g., and unexpected or internal error, or a failure to set up the test case scenario) have their outcome reported as an 'ERROR' now. Previous versions of automake reported such an outcome as a 'FAIL' (the only difference with normal failures being that hard errors were counted as failures even when the test originating them was listed in XFAIL_TESTS). - The testsuite summary displayed by the parallel-test harness has a completely new format, that always list the numbers of passed, failed, xfailed, xpassed, skipped and errored tests, even when these numbers are zero (but using smart coloring when the color-tests option is in effect). - The default testsuite driver offered by the 'parallel-tests' option is now implemented (partly at least) with the help of automake-provided auxiliary scripts (e.g., 'test-driver'), instead of relying entirely on code in the generated Makefile.in. This has two noteworthy implications. The first one is that projects using the 'parallel-tests' option should now either run automake with the '--add-missing' option, or manually copy the 'test-driver' script into their tree. The second, and more important, implication is that now, when the 'parallel-tests' option is in use, TESTS_ENVIRONMENT can not be used anymore to define a test runner, and the command specified in LOG_COMPILER (and &lt;ext&gt;_LOG_COMPILER) must be a *real* executable program or script. For example, this is still a valid usage (albeit a little contorted): TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \ if test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS)'; then \ maybe_errexit='-e'; \ else \ maybe_errexit=''; \ fi; LOG_COMPILER = $(SHELL) $$maybe_errexit while this is not anymore: TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \ $(SHELL) `test -n '$(STRICT_TESTS_CHECKING)' &amp;&amp; echo ' -e'` neither is this: TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \ run_with_perl_or_shell () \ { \ if grep -q '^#!.*perl' $$1; then $(PERL) $$1; \ else \ $(SHELL) $$1; \ fi; \ } LOG_COMPILER = run_with_perl_or_shell - The package authors can now use customary testsuite drivers within the framework provided by the 'parallel-tests' testsuite harness. Consistently with the existing syntax, this can be done by defining special makefile variables 'LOG_DRIVER' and '&lt;ext&gt;_LOG_DRIVER'. - A new developer-reserved variable 'AM_TESTS_FD_REDIRECT' can be used to redirect/define file descriptors used by the test scripts. - The parallel-tests harness generates now, in addition the '.log' files holding the output produced by the test scripts, a new set of '.trs' files, holding "metadata" derived by the execution of the test scripts; among such metadata are the outcomes of the test cases run by a script. - Initial and still experimental support for the TAP test protocol is now provided. * Changes to Yacc and Lex support: - C source and header files derived from non-distributed Yacc and/or Lex sources are now removed by a simple "make clean" (while they were previously removed only by "make maintainer-clean"). - Slightly backward-incompatible change, relevant only for use of Yacc with C++: the extensions of the header files produced by the Yacc rules are now modelled after the extension of the corresponding sources. For example, yacc files named "foo.y++" and "bar.yy" will produce header files named "foo.h++" and "bar.hh" respectively, where they would have previously produced header files named simply "foo.h" and "bar.h". This change offers better compatibility with 'bison -o'. * Miscellaneous changes: - The AM_PROG_VALAC macro now causes configure to exit with status 77, rather than 1, if the vala compiler found is too old. - The build system of Automake itself now avoids the use of make recursion as much as possible. - Automake now prefers to quote 'like this' or "like this", rather than `like this', in diagnostic message and generated Makefiles, to accommodate the new GNU Coding Standards recommendations. - Automake has a new option '--print-libdir' that prints the path of the directory containing the Automake-provided scripts and data files. - The 'dist' and 'dist-all' targets now can run compressors in parallel. - The rules to create pdf, dvi and ps output from Texinfo files now works better with modern 'texi2dvi' script, by explicitly passing it the '--clean' option to ensure stray auxiliary files are not left to clutter the build directory. - Automake can now generate silenced rules for texinfo outputs. - Some auxiliary files that are automatically distributed by Automake (e.g., 'install-sh', or the 'depcomp' script for packages compiling C sources) might now be listed in the DIST_COMMON variable in many Makefile.in files, rather than in the top-level one. - Messages of types warning or error from 'automake' and 'aclocal' are now prefixed with the respective type, and presence of -Werror is noted. - Automake's early configure-time sanity check now tries to avoid sleeping for a second, which slowed down cached configure runs noticeably. In that case, it will check back at the end of the configure script to ensure that at least one second has passed, to avoid time stamp issues with makefile rules rerunning autotools programs. - The warnings in the category 'extra-portability' are now enabled by '-Wall'. In previous versions, one has to use '-Wextra-portability' to enable them. Bugs fixed in 1.12: - Various minor bugfixes for recent or long-standing bugs. * Bugs introduced by 1.11: - The AM_COND_IF macro also works if the shell expression for the conditional is no longer valid for the condition. - The automake-provided parallel testsuite harness does not fail anymore with BSD make used in parallel mode when there are test scripts in a subdirectory, like in: TESTS = sub/foo.test sub/bar.test * Long-standing bugs: - Automake's own build system finally have a real "installcheck" target. - Vala-related cleanup rules are now more complete, and work better in a VPATH setup. - Files listed with the AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE macro in configure.ac are now automatically distributed also if the directory of the auxiliary files coincides with the top-level directory. - Automake now detects the presence of the '-d' flag in the various '*YFLAGS' variables even when their definitions involve indirections through other variables, such as in: foo_opts = -d AM_YFLAGS = $(foo_opts) - Automake now complains if a '*YFLAGS' variable has any conditional content, not only a conditional definition. - Explicit enabling and/or disabling of Automake warning categories through the '-W...' options now always takes precedence over the implicit warning level implied by Automake strictness (foreign, gnu or gnits), regardless of the order in which such strictness and warning flags appear. For example, a setting like: AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = -Wall --foreign will cause the warnings in category 'portability' to be enabled, even if those warnings are by default disabled in 'foreign' strictness. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPmGS8AAoJEPyBjhdCn5bqAdYP/jdZHMnmBrbUhkxIWrCcXsY4 YN1uSrchHMk2u9dRWtRVT3WdG8Qb05lib7TFViQbgdS2Y5VzO/gbONDV5MGfLT6x EIrU4j8Ia0D/JYL11+cFoxoSjJcFw4oqe4xDYC7ivy/sU6pxrBAJv1I+lrzbRtJZ GhvFc8jloOqZn3W2WPuTZ0ionLvknNridKHzQHnqUrPMhpu2pXHXFqGOf6QGYl+F BZEzxBmrWEZ8n4q9X+mP1+cjjHqyUcwdtsgtjcmEvOJTDJU/8HXgx2vnTq/1k2Fx VVQSXxz8LJ7P1rFLhTVrcp0qyxky839M7mZi8YLHHaqYTLmOfEQfi/ofXqZcJWkf AP4LK7844gLyJvEsgKyYMxQsDWIPtgAIM4WPNy1QH3fsqKtgaZ/14TXjldbWy/aV sM45iIsdk/2XsgiekYf8z/2U3YwpFULahpy820BsRViTIhc/8kUQoZWGM9bNv8Q8 3Q1BlgAH6eE5PYX7QVNj1KTMa8vCgRPL9himrbFp1XaIqeBdjwCohi40rzWHDb2j v4ZQ70v8ZU/F9LnEJtjvHcYIvSYLIiF+/wai/jNFNTUytlWHyMye1okXNAG/RUmR tzE7b4Di5jgMlIwzGUtpPn/OVHA7yr+8DgGMLmuIvOJ06va4A3XLZiijdWE4Roi7 mUbP7sRt3LjBmtpWSrpR =FZJW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Stefano Lattarini 2012-04-25T20:55:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1762 <pre>This is to announce grep-2.12, a stable release. There have been 22 commits by 3 people in the 7 weeks since 2.11. In spite of the relatively small number of commits, this is a significant delta, with two regression fixes, Paul's conversion, From grep's crufty old dir-traversal code to the use of gnulib's fts and the change to how -r (--recursive) works. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release: Allan McRae (1) Jim Meyering (17) Paul Eggert (4) Jim [on behalf of the grep maintainers] ================================================================== Here is the GNU grep home page: http://gnu.org/s/grep/ For a summary of changes and contributors, see: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=grep.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.12 or run this command from a git-cloned grep directory: git shortlog v2.11..v2.12 To summarize the 366 gnulib-related changes, run these commands From a git-cloned grep directory: git checkout v2.12 git submodule summary v2.11 ================================================================== Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-2.12.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-2.12.tar.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/grep/grep-2.12.tar.xz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/grep/grep-2.12.tar.xz.sig [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify grep-2.12.tar.xz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.68b.19-eaa96 Automake 1.11e Gnulib v0.0-7338-gd06b2e5 ================================================================== NEWS * Noteworthy changes in release 2.12 (2012-04-23) [stable] ** Bug fixes "echo P|grep --devices=skip P" once again prints P, as it did in 2.10 [bug introduced in grep-2.11] grep no longer segfaults with -r --exclude-dir and no file operand. I.e., ":|grep -r --exclude-dir=D PAT" would segfault. [bug introduced in grep-2.11] Recursive grep now uses fts for directory traversal, so it can handle much-larger directories without reporting things like "File name too long", and it can run much faster when dealing with large directory hierarchies. [bug present since the beginning] grep -E 'a{1000000000}' now reports an overflow error rather than silently acting like grep -E 'a\{1000000000}'. ** New features The -R option now has a long-option alias --dereference-recursive. ** Changes in behavior The -r (--recursive) option now follows only command-line symlinks. Also, by default -r now reads a device only if it is named on the command line; this can be overridden with --devices. -R acts as before, so use -R if you prefer the old behavior of following all symlinks and defaulting to reading all devices. ----- also posted as: http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7207 _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Jim Meyering 2012-04-24T08:59:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1761 <pre>We are pleased to announce the availability of GNU Xnee 3.13 GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute user actions under the X11 environment. Think of it as a robot that can imitate the job you just did. GNU Xnee can be used to: Automate tests Demonstrate programs Distribute actions Record and replay 'macro' Retype the content of a file Getting the Software ==================== ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.13.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.13.tar.gz.sig or one of the mirror sites as found in: http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html Checksums =========== md5sum: 1af416c39b05250fc5b82eadd3a57394 xnee-3.13.tar.gz cksum: 872277750 1789301 xnee-3.13.tar.gz New in this release =================== * Fixed bugs: Bug-xnee mailing list: WARNING: Enough valuators ... still not printing _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Henrik Sandklef 2012-04-23T20:35:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1760 <pre>Hello, I've just released gnutls 3.0.19. This is a bug-fix release on the current stable branch. * Version 3.0.19 (released 2012-04-22) ** libgnutls: When decoding a PKCS #11 URL the pin-source field is assumed to be a file that stores the pin. Based on patch by David Smith. ** libgnutls: gnutls_record_check_pending() no longer returns unprocessed data, and thus ensure the non-blocking of the next call to gnutls_record_recv(). ** libgnutls: Added strict tests in Diffie-Hellman and SRP key exchange public keys. ** libgnutls: in ECDSA and DSA TLS 1.2 authentication be less strict in hash selection, and allow a stronger hash to be used than the appropriate, to improve interoperability with openssl. ** tests: Disabled floating point test, and corrections in pkcs12 decoding tests. ** API and ABI modifications: No changes since last version. Getting the Software ==================== GnuTLS may be downloaded from one of the GNU mirror sites or directly From &lt;ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/&gt;. The list of GNU mirrors can be found at &lt;http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html&gt; and a list of GnuTLS mirrors can be found at &lt;http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/download.html&gt;. Here are the XZ compressed sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.19.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.19.tar.xz ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.19.tar.xz Here are the LZIP compressed sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.19.tar.lz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.19.tar.lz ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.19.tar.lz Here are OpenPGP detached signatures signed using key 0x96865171: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.19.tar.xz.sig http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.19.tar.xz.sig ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.19.tar.xz.sig ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.19.tar.lz.sig http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.19.tar.lz.sig ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.19.tar.lz.sig Note that it has been signed with my openpgp key: pub 3104R/96865171 2008-05-04 [expires: 2028-04-29] uid Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos &lt;nmav &lt;at&gt; gnutls.org&gt; uid Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos &lt;n.mavrogiannopoulos &lt;at&gt; gmail.com&gt; sub 2048R/9013B842 2008-05-04 [expires: 2018-05-02] sub 2048R/1404A91D 2008-05-04 [expires: 2018-05-02] regards, Nikos _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 2012-04-22T15:21:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1759 <pre>I'm delighted to announce version 2.8 of GNU hello. This release is my first as maintainer; thanks to Karl Berry for inviting me to take over from him, and then providing much useful guidance. This release contains no significant code changes; rather, the version increment is justified an overhaul of the build system to bring it more in line with modern mainstream GNU practice, and in particular, to make maximum use of the excellent gnulib. In the process I've found and fixed many nits. The VCS has also been updated, from CVS to git. Finally, this release includes several new and updated translations from the Translation Project. A big thank-you to all the translators! Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/hello/hello-2.8.tar.gz http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/hello/hello-2.8.tar.gz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify hello-2.8.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 68089F7380EE4A00 and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.68 Automake 1.11.3 Gnulib v0.0-7332-g40be4b8 NEWS * Noteworthy changes in release 2.8 (2012-04-19) [stable] The build system has been overhauled to be more in line with mainstream modern GNU practice, and various translations have been updated (thanks to the Translation Project!). _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> rrt< at >sc3d.org 2012-04-20T19:35:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1758 <pre>FreeIPMI 1.1.4 has been released. It can be downloaded at: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/download.html What is IPMI? The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification defines a set of interfaces for platform management. It is implemented by a large number of hardware manufacturers to support system management on motherboards. The features of IPMI that most users will be interested in are sensor monitoring (i.e. CPU temperatures, fan speeds), remote power control, and serial-over-LAN (SOL). What is FreeIPMI? FreeIPMI provides in-band and out-of-band IPMI software based on the IPMI v1.5/2.0 specification. FreeIPMI provides tools and libraries for users to access and read IPMI sensor readings, system event log (SEL) entries, serial-over-LAN (SOL), remote power control functions, field replaceable unit (FRU) device information, and more. More information about FreeIPMI can be found at the FreeIPMI webpage at: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/index.html Release 1.1.4 Changes --------------------- Tools ------ o In ipmi-oem, fix error message output in several Supermicro OEM commands. o In ipmi-oem, add Intel --get-power-restore-delay and --set-power-restore-delay support. o In ipmi-sel, support Intel S2600JF/Appro 512x OEM SEL interpretations. Libraries ---------- o In libfreeipmi, support new sensor and SEL event interpretations, including Session Audit, Voltage Limits. o In libfreeipmi, support new OEM interpretations for Intel S5000PAL NMI State and SMI timeout sensors/SEL events. o In libfreeipmi, support Intel S2600JF/Appro 512x OEM SEL interpretations. Misc ---- o Various documentation updates. Al </pre> Albert Chu 2012-04-20T00:00:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1757 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We are pleased to announce the Automake 1.11.5 maintenance release. This is a bugfix release, fixing a couple of serious regressions in Vala support (regressions introduced in automake 1.11.4): - Vala files with '.vapi' extension are now recognized and handled correctly again. See automake bug#11222. - Vala support work again for projects that contain some program built from '.vala' (and possibly '.c') sources and some other program built from '.c' sources *only*. See automake bug#11229. Thanks to Marc-Antoine Perennou for pointing out these bugs and providing a fix for them. Download the new release here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.11.5.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.11.5.tar.xz Please report bugs and problems to &lt;bug-automake&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt;, and send general comments and feedback to &lt;automake&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt;. Thanks to everyone who has reported problems, contributed patches, and helped testing Automake! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPiEkOAAoJEPyBjhdCn5bqEuAP/jcvcwUIpkmg+sxNOxiMvPst HcFUMMAO2M3i+piRLVqK01WXcs+BeYIXZn8ZorJCOXOe0j4wroxBOAXkP4TJ7Rr0 mDVhb2OaK4LTRe0dO94KD2xHisbHlED32u0FubnzNGnpClcXEHMjvTrklLVOkOIz soLLO1D6FVe/j/096pjZz+DUslXapz6AiBu8Er9WbDocSWUGo3SF49eHulqgUMng FiULspEdvUEmtvvKtYru2rbSgEjwnZr6u6rsk6yC8odqfNW7jzWBalaxYZKLV8ST 4vM7NhmLI0zOX0wbvgEZtY2wxnE7aCMib5Dm+ROAMrCr5YNpijAcAhqgcQ4brb1D ZNXKHLRGNDGpTnQpT/QKxAi8IYSIrk9IOEeiE7MDzGBYpzATDX/fndz7LUoGubd0 nQEgp64xwlSYNE0gszWZXeELfMyrwl6xck727gwcfV98ps0Q0I86dCIdvMoYXW5/ K72AlSYwiO9/vyW4WMmTeZqz1sxw9mARpmjaVwQ0SGVJNmCnd+gkUYoeU6Xlpyqw YZkk7wKWAngZdZwIA+SNg6p+IunUfPaXC6PSfm03s+G0SV1OjvcvUAc9+nL4BEUl BKa6+JoMpgo0e5yTXTqyXB4EVhjb0OJBlojiTacn0aoY8Zr0GXCFaLhHTyRQ2/Aj wRiwfMs/4CQb8nnDUeIV =3UPb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Stefano Lattarini 2012-04-13T15:41:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1756 <pre> A new stable version of the GNU Autoconf Archive has been released for download. Here are the compressed sources: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive-2012.04.07.tar.gz (880KB) http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive-2012.04.07.tar.bz2 (644KB) http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive-2012.04.07.tar.xz (496KB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive-2012.04.07.tar.gz.sig http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive-2012.04.07.tar.bz2.sig http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive-2012.04.07.tar.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify autoconf-archive-2012.04.07.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 99089D72 and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.68 Automake 1.11.2 Gnulib v0.0-7311-g55cc8db NEWS * Noteworthy changes in release 2012.04.07 (2012-04-07) [stable] The macro AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_11 has been added, which determines the compiler switches that need to be added to be passed in order to enable C++11 support in the compiler. See &lt;https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7735&gt; for further details. The new macro AX_CXX_DELETE_METHOD has been added which checks whether the C++11 '= delete' syntax for suppressing undesired implicit methods is supported. Further details are at &lt;https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7735&gt;. The macros AX_BOOST_CHRONO and AX_BOOST_LOCALE have been added which detect the Boost.Chrono and Boost.Locale library respectively. Further details are at &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7721&gt; and &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7743&gt;. Support for automatic detection of dynamic libraries on Mac OS X (*.dylib) has been improved in all Boost macros. &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7719&gt; has further details. Portability of AX_CHECK_LIBRARY has been improved so that the macro can be used with Autoconf versions prior to 2.64. AX_GCC_ARCHFLAG has been extended to support new Intel/AMD CPUs. See &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7707&gt; for further details. An endless recursion-bug in AX_COUNT_CPUS has been fixed. See &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7697&gt; for further details. AX_LUA_LIBS has been fixed to work with Lua 5.2. _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Peter Simons 2012-04-07T18:48:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1755 <pre>Hello, I've just released gnutls 3.0.18. This is a bug-fix release on the current stable branch. Note that this release is available both under xz and lzip compression formats. We might switch to using only one of these compression formats in the future. * Version 3.0.18 (released 2012-04-02) ** certtool: Avoid a Y2K38 bug when generating certificates. Patch by Robert Millan. ** libgnutls: Make sure that GNUTLS_E_PREMATURE_TERMINATION is returned on premature termination (and added unit test). ** libgnutls: Fixes for W64 API. Patch by B. Scott Michel. ** libgnutls: Corrected VIA padlock detection for old VIA processors. Reported by Kris Karas. ** libgnutls: Updated assembler files. ** libgnutls: Time in generated certificates is stored as GeneralizedTime instead of UTCTime (which only stores 2 digits of a year). ** minitasn1: Upgraded to libtasn1 version 2.13 (pre-release). ** API and ABI modifications: gnutls_x509_crt_set_private_key_usage_period: Added gnutls_x509_crt_get_private_key_usage_period: Added gnutls_x509_crq_set_private_key_usage_period: Added gnutls_x509_crq_get_private_key_usage_period: Added gnutls_session_get_random: Added Getting the Software ==================== GnuTLS may be downloaded from one of the GNU mirror sites or directly From &lt;ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/&gt;. The list of GNU mirrors can be found at &lt;http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html&gt; and a list of GnuTLS mirrors can be found at &lt;http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/download.html&gt;. Here are the XZ compressed sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.18.tar.xz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.18.tar.xz ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.18.tar.xz Here are the LZIP compressed sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.18.tar.lz http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.18.tar.lz ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.18.tar.lz Here are OpenPGP detached signatures signed using key 0x96865171: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.18.tar.xz.sig http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.18.tar.xz.sig ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.18.tar.xz.sig ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.18.tar.lz.sig http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.18.tar.lz.sig ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-3.0.18.tar.lz.sig Note that it has been signed with my openpgp key: pub 3104R/96865171 2008-05-04 [expires: 2028-04-29] uid Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos &lt;nmav &lt;at&gt; gnutls.org&gt; uid Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos &lt;n.mavrogiannopoulos &lt;at&gt; gmail.com&gt; sub 2048R/9013B842 2008-05-04 [expires: 2018-05-02] sub 2048R/1404A91D 2008-05-04 [expires: 2018-05-02] regards, Nikos _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 2012-04-02T18:40:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.announce/1754 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, libburnia project is pleased to announce the release of version 1.2.2 of GNU xorriso, a ISO 9660 Rock Ridge filesystem manipulator. Available on GNU FTP mirrors as xorriso/xorriso-1.2.2.tar.gz It creates, loads, manipulates and writes ISO 9660 filesystem images with Rock Ridge extensions. Optionally it supports hard links, ACLs, xattr, and MD5 checksums. xorriso can load the management information of existing ISO images and it writes the session results to optical media or to filesystem objects. Vice versa xorriso is able to copy file objects from ISO 9660 filesystems to disk. A special property of xorriso is that it needs neither an external ISO 9660 formatter program nor an external burn program for CD, DVD or BD but rather incorporates the libraries of libburnia-project.org . Novelties: This release improves the handling of intentional deviations from ECMA-119 specifications. Some rarely occuring bugs have been fixed. * New commands -x, -list_arg_sorting * New command -rr_reloc_dir * New command -data_cache_size * New -as mkisofs option -rr_reloc, implemented option -hide-rr-moved * Now ignoring -as mkisofs -no-split-symlink-components -no-split-symlink-fields * Bug fix: -osirrox on:sort_lba_on -extract from / restored nearly nothing * Bug fix: -as mkisofs without -graft-points could not handle names with "=" * Bug fix: Relaxation options joliet_rec_mtime and iso1999_rec_mtime had wrong values License: GPLv3+ System requirements: - - GNU/Linux: kernel 2.4 or 2.6, libc, libpthread - - FreeBSD : libc, libpthread, libiconv, IDE and SATA drives need atapicam - - Solaris : libc, libpthread - - on other X/Open systems there will be no direct operation of CD/DVD/BD drives, but only POSIX i/o which may or may not be offered by the system for DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, or BD-RE. Optional: libreadline + libreadline-development zlib + zlib-development libbz2 + libbz2-development on GNU/Linux: libacl + libacl-development If they were present at compile time, then the optional libraries have to be present at runtime, too. For more info, see http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso.html http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/man_1_xorriso.html http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/man_1_xorrisofs.html http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/man_1_xorrecord.html http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso is mirrored at scdbackup.sourceforge.net and scdbackup.webframe.org . Download: The xorriso release tarball will soon show up at your local GNU FTP mirror as http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/xorriso/xorriso-1.2.2.tar.gz (see GNU FTP Mirror List http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html ) It is already now available as http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso-1.2.2.tar.gz Post bug reports or requests to one of these mailing lists: mailto:bug-xorriso&lt; at &gt;gnu.org mailto:libburn-hackers&lt; at &gt;pykix.org mailto:cdwrite&lt; at &gt;other.debian.org or directly to me: mailto:scdbackup&lt; at &gt;gmx.net Have a nice day :) Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFPepXv6cvfwKvAqFQRAlv2AJ0S0h89Jm5fJbhdw5BFu6XYtHpkDQCggjT6 OIdITyWTbvf6RzNPl4llsqc= =nCl3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list &lt;info-gnu&lt; at &gt;gnu.org&gt; https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu </pre> Thomas Schmitt 2012-04-03T06:21:04 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.fsf.announce