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GLOBAL-6.2.3 released.

Shigio YAMAGUCHI — 2012-05-26T03:43:43

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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
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wdiff 1.1.1 released

Martin von Gagern — 2012-05-22T20:52:13

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

FreeIPMI 1.1.5 Released

Albert Chu — 2012-05-17T20:53:24

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

Aeneas new release

Jean Michel Sellier — 2012-05-13T18:48:43

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

GNU gcal 3.6.2 released

Giuseppe Scrivano — 2012-05-13T16:27:13

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

coreutils-8.17 released [stable]

Jim Meyering — 2012-05-10T19:37:03

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

H

GNU AutoGen Version 5.16/AutoOpts Version 36.4

Bruce Korb — 2012-05-07T00:20:52

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 m

GNU LibreJS version 4.6

Loic J. Duros — 2012-05-06T21:04:46

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

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New GMP release

Torbjorn Granlund — 2012-05-06T12:19:04

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 surel

GNU FreeFont 20120503 released

Steve White — 2012-05-03T14:20:36

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

GNU autoconf 2.69 released [stable]

Eric Blake — 2012-04-25T03:32:32

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

Automake 1.12 released

Stefano Lattarini — 2012-04-25T20:55:36

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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 <bug-automake< at >gnu.org>, and send
general comments and feedback to <automake< at >gnu.org>.

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

grep-2.12 released [stable]

Jim Meyering — 2012-04-24T08:59:39

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 ch

Xnee 3.13 ('Levon Helm') released

Henrik Sandklef — 2012-04-23T20:35:03

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




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gnutls 3.0.19

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos — 2012-04-22T15:21:22

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 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/>.  The list of

hello-2.8 released [stable]

2012-04-20T19:35:28

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 int

FreeIPMI 1.1.4 Released

Albert Chu — 2012-04-20T00:00:34

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

Automake 1.11.5 released

Stefano Lattarini — 2012-04-13T15:41:47

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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 <bug-automake< at >gnu.org>, and send
general comments and feedback to <automake< at >gnu.org>.

Thanks to everyone who has reported problems, contributed patches,
and helped testing Automake!
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autoconf-archive-2012.04.07 released [stable]

Peter Simons — 2012-04-07T18:48:38

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 t

gnutls 3.0.18

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos — 2012-04-02T18:40:45

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

GNU xorriso 1.2.2 released

Thomas Schmitt — 2012-04-03T06:21:04

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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