[FSF] September Supporter item: GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 23 new GNU releases!

[William Theaker]

### GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 23 new GNU releases!

26 new GNU releases this month (as of September 29, 2013):
* [alive-2.0.2](https://www.gnu.org/software/alive/)
* [apl-1.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/apl/)
* [aris-2.1.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/aris/)
* [autogen-5.18.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/)
* [denemo-1.0.8](https://www.gnu.org/software/denemo/)
* [freeipmi-1.3.2](https://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/)
* [gama-1.14](https://www.gnu.org/software/gama/)
* [gcl-2.6.9](https://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/)
* [gdb-7.6.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/)
* [global-6.2.9](https://www.gnu.org/software/global/)
* [gnuhealth-2.2.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuhealth/)
* [guile-sdl-0.5.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile-sdl/)
* [libmicrohttpd-0.9.30](https://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/)
* [librejs-5.4](https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/)
* [lightning-2.0.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/lightning/)
* [linux-libre-3.11](https://www.gnu.org/software/linux-libre/)
* [m4-1.4.17](https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/)
* [mediagoblin-0.5.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/mediagoblin/)
* [parallel-20130922](https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/)
* [pspp-0.8.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/)
* [pycdio-0.20](https://www.gnu.org/software/pycdio/)
* [pyconfigure-0.2.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/pyconfigure/)
* [sipwitch-1.8.6](https://www.gnu.org/software/sipwitch/)
* [solfege-3.22.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/)
* [texinfo-5.2](https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/)
* [xboard-4.7.2](https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/)

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This month we welcome Juergen Sauermann as the author and maintainer of
the new GNU APL package, a full APL interpreter, and Brian Tiffin, Simon
Sobisch, and Bernard Giroud as the maintainers of the new GNU Cobol
package.

Also welcome to Ludovic Courtes as the new maintainer of DMD, in
addition to his existing work on many other packages, notably Guile (the
GNU extension language) and GUIX (a functional package manager for GNU).
Although technically still an alpha release, GUIX 0.4 was released as
part of the GNU 30th birthday celebration,
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/>. A new version of GNU HURD (the GNU
kernel) and related packages was also released for the celebration,
<https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/>.

A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a
whole, are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see
<https://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint> if you'd like to
help. The general page on how to help GNU is at
<https://www.gnu.org/help/help.html>. To submit new packages to the GNU
operating system, see <https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html>.

As always, please feel free to write to me, <address@hidden>, with any
GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.

--
William Theaker