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CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Karl Berry <karl> 11/10/11 22:32:43
Modified files:
bulletins : bulletins.html
Added files:
bulletins : gnustatus-2011-10.html gnustatus-2011-10.pdf
gnustatus-2011-10.texi
Log message:
gnustatus 2011-10 report
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/bulletins/bulletins.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.25&r2=1.26
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/bulletins/gnustatus-2011-10.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/bulletins/gnustatus-2011-10.pdf?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/bulletins/gnustatus-2011-10.texi?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
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<h3>GNU Status Reports</h3>
-<p>In January 2011, a <a href="gnustatus-2011-01.html">GNU Status
-Report</a> was published with news for a number of packages (also
-available in <a href="gnustatus-2011-01.pdf">PDF</a> and <a
-href="gnustatus-2011-01.texi">Texinfo</a>). This is a partial revival
-of the original <cite>GNU's Bulletin</cite> (below), with the aim of
-providing GNU-wide information from time to time, for as many packages
-as possible. This package-specific information supplements the
-<cite>FSF Bulletin</cite> (next section) with more general FSF and free
-software news.</p>
+<p>Starting in 2011, an occasional GNU Status Report has been published
+with news for a number of packages. This is a partial revival of the
+original <cite>GNU's Bulletin</cite> (below), with the aim of providing
+GNU-wide information for as many packages as possible. This
+package-specific information supplements the <a
+href="http://www.fsf.org/bulletin/";>FSF Bulletins</a> and <a
+href="http://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/";>Free Software
+Supporter</a> newsletter.</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="gnustatus-2011-10.html">2011-10 GNU Status report</a>
+ (<a href="gnustatus-2011-10.pdf">PDF</a>, <a
+ href="gnustatus-2011-10.texi">Texinfo</a>).</li>
+
+<li><a href="gnustatus-2011-01.html">2011-01 GNU Status report</a>
+ (<a href="gnustatus-2011-01.pdf">PDF</a>, <a
+ href="gnustatus-2011-01.texi">Texinfo</a>).</li>
+</ul>
<h3>FSF Bulletins</h3>
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the <a href="/software/software.html">information about GNU packages</a>.</p>
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<li><a href="/bulletins/bull2.txt">1987 January</a></li>
<li><a href="/bulletins/bull3.html">1987 June</a></li>
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+<h1 class="settitle">GNU Status Reports: October 2011</h1>
+ <div class="contents">
+<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
+<ul>
+<li><a name="toc_Top" href="#Top">GNU Status Reports: October 2011</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Health" href="#Health">Health (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/health";>http://www.gnu.org/software/health</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Cflow" href="#Cflow">Cflow (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/cflow";>http://www.gnu.org/software/cflow</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Chess" href="#Chess">Chess (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/chess";>http://www.gnu.org/software/chess</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Coreutils" href="#Coreutils">Coreutils (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils";>http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Directory" href="#Directory">Directory (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/directory";>http://www.gnu.org/software/directory</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Emacs" href="#Emacs">Emacs (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs";>http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Fontutils" href="#Fontutils">Fontutils (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/fontutils";>http://www.gnu.org/software/fontutils</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Gama" href="#Gama">Gama (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gama";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gama</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Gawk" href="#Gawk">Gawk (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_GDBM" href="#GDBM">GDBM (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_GnuPG" href="#GnuPG">GnuPG (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupg";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupg</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_GNURadio" href="#GNURadio">GNURadio (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_GSEGrafix" href="#GSEGrafix">GSEGrafix (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsegrafix";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gsegrafix</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Gtypist" href="#Gtypist">Gtypist (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Mailutils" href="#Mailutils">Mailutils (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils";>http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Maverik" href="#Maverik">Maverik (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/maverik";>http://www.gnu.org/software/maverik</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_RCS" href="#RCS">RCS (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs";>http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Sqltutor" href="#Sqltutor">Sqltutor (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/sqltutor";>http://www.gnu.org/software/sqltutor</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Tar" href="#Tar">Tar (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/tar";>http://www.gnu.org/software/tar</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Wdiff" href="#Wdiff">Wdiff (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff";>http://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Xboard" href="#Xboard">Xboard (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard";>http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Xnee" href="#Xnee">Xnee (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee";>http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee</a>)</a>
+<li><a name="toc_Xorriso" href="#Xorriso">Xorriso (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso";>http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso</a>)</a>
+</li></ul>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Top"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Health">Health</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#dir">(dir)</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">GNU Status Reports: October 2011</h2>
+
+<p>This document collects status reports for GNU packages.
+
+ <p>This is a revival of the GNU Status Reports from the historical
+<cite>GNU's Bulletins</cite>, <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/bulletins";>http://www.gnu.org/bulletins</a>. The goal
+is to provide GNU-wide news and information from time to time, from as
+many packages as possible.
+
+ <p>This report includes items for only a few of the hundreds of GNU
+packages; we hope more will be represented in future installments.
+<a href="http://www.gnu.org/manual";>http://www.gnu.org/manual</a> lists all
GNU packages, with links to
+online manuals and home pages. All GNU packages can be accessed on
+the web via
<<code>http://www.gnu.org/software/</code><var>pkgname</var>>,
+as shown in the headings here. For information on downloading
+releases, see <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software";>http://www.gnu.org/software</a>.
+
+ <p>See also <a href="http://planet.gnu.org";>http://planet.gnu.org</a>,
which aggregates the individual
+GNU news items posted on Savannah (<a
href="http://savannah.gnu.org";>http://savannah.gnu.org</a>).
+
+ <p>See also the <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a> mailing
list, where
+announcements of new GNU releases are posted. Subscribe or view the
+archives at <a
href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu";>http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu</a>.
+
+ <p>The aim of the present report is to be somewhat higher-level and more
+general than the others, although there is inevitably some overlap.
+
+ <p>Questions, comments, and suggestions about this document in general
+are welcome; please email <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>.
Bug reports
+and suggestions for specific packages should of course be addressed
+via their usual routes.
+
+ <p>Finally, let's mention the FSCONS 2011 conference, taking place in
+Gothenburg, Sweden, November 11–13: <a
href="http://fscons.org";>http://fscons.org</a>.
+
+<ul class="menu">
+<li><a accesskey="1" href="#Health">Health</a>
+<li><a accesskey="2" href="#Cflow">Cflow</a>
+<li><a accesskey="3" href="#Chess">Chess</a>
+<li><a accesskey="4" href="#Coreutils">Coreutils</a>
+<li><a accesskey="5" href="#Directory">Directory</a>
+<li><a accesskey="6" href="#Emacs">Emacs</a>
+<li><a accesskey="7" href="#Fontutils">Fontutils</a>
+<li><a accesskey="8" href="#Gama">Gama</a>
+<li><a accesskey="9" href="#Gawk">Gawk</a>
+<li><a href="#GDBM">GDBM</a>
+<li><a href="#GnuPG">GnuPG</a>
+<li><a href="#GNURadio">GNURadio</a>
+<li><a href="#GSEGrafix">GSEGrafix</a>
+<li><a href="#Gtypist">Gtypist</a>
+<li><a href="#Mailutils">Mailutils</a>
+<li><a href="#Maverik">Maverik</a>
+<li><a href="#RCS">RCS</a>
+<li><a href="#Sqltutor">Sqltutor</a>
+<li><a href="#Tar">Tar</a>
+<li><a href="#Wdiff">Wdiff</a>
+<li><a href="#Xboard">Xboard</a>
+<li><a href="#Xnee">Xnee</a>
+<li><a href="#Xorriso">Xorriso</a>
+</ul>
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Health"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Cflow">Cflow</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Top">Top</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Health (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/health";>http://www.gnu.org/software/health</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>(Put first instead of in alphabetical order since it is a new and
+especially significant addition to GNU.)
+
+ <p>From Luis Falcón: GNU Health is a free health and hospital
+information system with support for electronic medical records,
+hospital information systems, and health information systems. Its
+goal is to contribute to the work of health professionals around the
+world to improve the lives of the underprivileged, providing a free
+system that optimizes health promotion and disease prevention.
+
+ <p>The GNU Health Project has been chosen by the United Nations
+University, Institute of Global Health (UNU-IIGH). This organization
+supports the use of free (as in freedom) software health care
+information system in developing countries, through capacity-building
+programs and technical consultancy to improve efficiency and
+quality of health care services.
+
+ <p>This is an example of how free software can leverage resources to help
+developing countries. Many thanks to Dr. Nurhizam Safie Mohd
+Satar who is leading the GNU Health integration project UNU-IIGH.
+This effort will increase the amount of physicians and health centers
+using free software, and we will all benefit with their valuable
+feedback.
+
+ <p>Assistance of all sorts is greatly appreciated; please see our web
+pages for details.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Cflow"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Chess">Chess</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Health">Health</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Cflow (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/cflow";>http://www.gnu.org/software/cflow</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Sergey Poznyakoff: GNU cflow is a program to analyze C sources
+and produce both direct and inverted flow graphs, optionally with
+cross-references. Version 1.4 is the latest release. This is a
+stable version that contains a largely improved parser. In
+particular, detection of recursive calls is sped up considerably.
+This release also allows a fine-grained control over symbol types and
+contains several bug fixes.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Chess"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Coreutils">Coreutils</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Cflow">Cflow</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Chess (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/chess";>http://www.gnu.org/software/chess</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Stuart Cracraft and Antonio Ceballos: GNU Chess plays the
+computer's side of a game of chess against a human, serving as a
+sparring partner to help improve human play levels, improve human
+ratings in competitive tournament play, prepare for a match, or just
+play chess while waiting for a game with a person.
+
+ <p>Since full source code to GNU Chess is included, you can enhance the
+GNU Chess's playing and learn more about what goes on inside a
+computer chess program and use it for your personal computer chess
+research.
+
+ <p>In April 2011, version 6 of GNU Chess was released. Version 6 is
+based on Fabien Letouzey's Fruit 2.1 chess engine, a well-debugged
+program which has a strong searcher.
+
+ <p>Standard external interfaces remain unchanged in 6.x for compatibility
+with 5.x (which is now deprecated).
+
+ <p>In addition to the Chess Engine Communication Protocol, version 6 also
+supports the Universal Chess Interface (UCI). This increases,
+dramatically, the number of graphical user interface front-ends GNU
+Chess can use.
+
+ <p>The program can occasionally be found playing games with anyone who
+challenges it at the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) under the
+nickname GNUChessSix.
+
+ <p>On modern, affordable hardware, GNU Chess scores highly in standard
+chess rating tests (2500 ELO). It is a strong tactician, which can
+translate to good positional play on fast enough hardware due to
+increasing depth of search.
+
+ <p>If you improve GNU Chess or use it for research, please contact the
+Free Software Foundation to ensure that your improvements are
+considered for integration into the main line.
+
+ <p>Meanwhile, enjoy a game of chess and computer chess programming.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Coreutils"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Directory">Directory</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Chess">Chess</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Coreutils (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils";>http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Pádraig Brady: Coreutils 8.13 was released in
+September. A brief summary of additions:
+
+ <ul>
+<li><code>split --filter</code> to compress output etc.
+
+ <li><code>md5sum --strict</code> to exit with error on any checksum
mismatch.
+
+ <li><code>join --check</code> now reports which line the disorder was on.
+
+ <li><code>rm</code> uses less memory for large directories.
+
+ <li><code>shuf</code> uses less memory when outputting a small subset.
+
+ <li><code>date</code> now parses iso-8601 'T' separated dates.
+
+ <li><code>timeout --foreground</code> to support interactive commands,
+and <code>timeout</code> now supports subsecond timeouts.
+
+ </ul>
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Directory"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Emacs">Emacs</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Coreutils">Coreutils</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Directory (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/directory";>http://www.gnu.org/software/directory</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>Although not the usual sort of GNU package, it's worth mentioning here
+that the Free Software Directory has been relaunched as a
+collaborative wiki-based project. A general announce is at
+<a
href="http://www.fsf.org/news/directory-relaunch";>http://www.fsf.org/news/directory-relaunch</a>,
and more detailed
+information at
+<a
href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/directory/behind-the-scenes";>http://www.fsf.org/blogs/directory/behind-the-scenes</a>.
+
+ <p>Volunteers to update the existing entries and add more programs are
+greatly needed. Please see
+<a
href="http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/FSD:Participate";>http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/FSD:Participate</a>.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Emacs"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Fontutils">Fontutils</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Directory">Directory</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Emacs (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs";>http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Stefan Monnier: GNU Emacs has entered the pretest phase for its
+24.1 release, which is aimed for the first half of 2012. The features
+in this release will include:
+
+ <ul>
+<li>packaging system that allows users to easily download extensions for
+ Emacs (the default package archive is hosted by GNU, and maintained by
+ the Emacs developers)—we welcome submissions of new packages;
+
+ <li>support for displaying and editing bidirectional text, including
+ right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew;
+
+ <li>native support for lexical scoping in Emacs Lisp;
+
+ <li>improved support for Custom themes;
+
+ <li>native support for TLS/SSL encryption;
+
+ <li>improved integration with the Gnome desktop;
+
+ <li>and upgrades to many other included modes and packages.
+</ul>
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Fontutils"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Gama">Gama</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Emacs">Emacs</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Fontutils (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/fontutils";>http://www.gnu.org/software/fontutils</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Adam Dutko: I've been working through getting the code in CVS to
+build and am very close. I've also been investigating a migration to
+Automake and have made some progress in a different (uncommitted)
+branch. I'm hoping to have the first release building before the end
+of October.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Gama"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Gawk">Gawk</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Fontutils">Fontutils</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Gama (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gama";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gama</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Vaclav Petras: GNU Gama is a project dedicated to adjustment of
+geodetic networks; the latest release is 1.11
+(<a
href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/gama";>http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/gama</a>)
and the development code is
+available from Savannah (<a
href="http://savannah.gnu.org/p/gama";>http://savannah.gnu.org/p/gama</a>).
+
+ <p>The latest version contains several documentation and source code
+improvements as well as improved UTF-8 support.
+
+ <p>The program <code>gama-local</code> provides adjustment in a local
+coordinate system. Input data are stored in an XML file or an SQLite
+database. Adjustment results are represented as formatted plain text
+or an XML file.
+
+ <p>The program <code>gama-g3</code> partially supports adjustment in a
global
+coordinate system (adjustment model on ellipsoid). Input and output
+data are in an XML file.
+
+ <p>User visible strings and generated reports have English, French,
+Spanish, Finnish, Dutch, Catalan, Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian and
+Czech translation.
+
+ <p>We are planing several new features and improvements:
+
+ <ul>
+<li>wider use of SQLite database as native format
+<li>support reading data recorded by some total stations
+<li>graphical user interface
+<li>better C++ API
+</ul>
+
+ <p>You can ask for help or discuss new features on the
+<a
href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gama";><code>info-gama</code>
mailing list</a>, and bug reports should go to the
+<a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gama";><code>bug-gama</code>
list</a>.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Gawk"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#GDBM">GDBM</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Gama">Gama</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Gawk (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Arnold Robbins: Gawk 4.0.0 was released at the end of June, 2011.
+There are many new features, including a gawk debugger. I hope to do
+the first patch release before the end of the year and then
+development of more new stuff towards gawk 4.1 should pick up speed.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="GDBM"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#GnuPG">GnuPG</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Gawk">Gawk</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">GDBM (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Sergey Poznyakoff: After a long period of development, a new
+version of GDBM, 1.9.1, was released this year. It contains
+significant improvements over its predecessor. The most important
+user-visible changes are the use of memory mapping to speed up I/O
+operations and improvements in <code>ndbm</code> compatibility code. In
+particular, the latter fixes a long-standing bug which prevented GDBM
+from being used with some MTAs, most notably Sendmail and Postfix.
+Another series of changes addressed compatibility with the POSIX
+specification.
+
+ <p>This version introduces a number of improvements to the GDBM
+interface. Changes to <code>gdbm_setopt</code> interface are particularly
+noteworthy as they allow the programmer to fine-tune the database and
+retrieve various database parameters.
+
+ <p>GDBM 1.9.1 includes an interactive tool for manipulating GDBM database
+files: the <code>testgdbm</code> program allows users to view and update
+existing databases, export them to the portable flat file format and
+to create new database files.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="GnuPG"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#GNURadio">GNURadio</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#GDBM">GDBM</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">GnuPG (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupg";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupg</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Werner Koch: The current stable versions of GnuPG are 1.4.11 and
+2.0.18.
+
+ <p>We are working towards a 2.1 version; a beta of that version
+is already used by Kontact Touch (Kmail for smartphones). Progress is
+somewhat slow these days due to a lack of funding.
+
+ <p>A major design change in 2.1 is the replacement of the
<code>secring.gpg</code>
+secret key storage by the protocol neutral secret key database
+maintained by the gpg-agent daemon. The benefit of this is an
+architectural cleanup and easier key maintenance. We were also able to
+remove large amounts of code which were needed to maintain
<code>secring.gpg</code>.
+
+ <p>Support for Elliptic Curve cryptography as specified by an OpenPGP WG
+approved I-D has been added to GPG.
+
+ <p>We are working on a new database format to store the OpenPGP keys. This
+will help to keep meta data on keys (e.g., time of last refresh from a
+keyserver) and greatly improve lookup speeds on large keyrings.
+
+ <p>The new G13 tool allows the use of OpenPGP keys for disk encryption. It
+is designed to support several backends. Due to a lack of time we only
+support EncFS for now; in the next steps we plan to support Geli and
+DM-crypt.
+
+ <p>The CRL/OCSP and LDAP daemon Dirmngr is now a proper part of GnuPG.
+Work is underway to move all key server helper programs into Dirmngr.
+
+ <p>GnuPG is using GNU Pth to implement co-routines. Due to the now
+widespread availability of POSIX threads and the very rare use of GNU
+Pth by other projects, we decided to drop Pth in favor of nPth, a simple
+new library to replace Pth using the systems' native threads
+implementation.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="GNURadio"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#GSEGrafix">GSEGrafix</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#GnuPG">GnuPG</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">GNURadio (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Tom Rondeau: GNU Radio has been evolving quickly throughout the
+past few years. Leadership in the project changed in 2010 from Eric
+Blossom to Tom Rondeau. One part of this change is a renewed energy
+in developing the community and increasing the number of contributors
+to the project. GNU Radio hosted its first conference on September
+14–16 at the University of Pennsylvania. While due to space
+constraints, we had an initial limit of forty attendees, but request
+was so great that we ended up accommodating fifty-five people from
+academia, industry, and government. The interest and user base of GNU
+Radio is strong and growing, and we are excited to see the various
+ways the project is being used.
+
+ <p>A large part of the discussion at the conference was how to contribute
+to the project, and fostering this environment will continue to be one
+of my primary short-term objectives. All of the conference material
+will be made available on the main GNU Radio website
+(<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio</a>)
as well as my personal
+web site (<a
href="http://gnuradio.squarespace.com";>http://gnuradio.squarespace.com</a>).
+
+ <p>In the current efforts of the development, we are actively integrating
+new features that will enable GNU Radio in ways that were never
+possible before. Two major features in GNU Radio include a new
+vectorization library called VOLK (for Vector-Optimized Library of
+Kernels) and stream tagging.
+
+ <p>VOLK provides a way to access the vector (i.e., SIMD) instructions of
+general purpose processors. While there are other ways of doing this,
+a goal of GNU Radio is cross-platform support and ease of programming
+and implementing new signal processing features. Until VOLK, adding
+SIMD code to GNU Radio had been a difficult, assembly-driven process.
+Instead, VOLK introduces the concept of a vector kernel to perform
+common mathematical functions in a cross-platform library. Over the
+next year, we will be improving many of the low-level signal
+processing blocks by using VOLK kernels instead of generic C++ code.
+As we make these changes, we expect to see a dramatic increase in the
+performance and processing capabilities of GNU Radio. A side benefit
+of this is the exposure of an extensible vector library for anyone to
+use and build upon inside GNU Radio—or out, as VOLK is not designed
+solely for GNU Radio use and builds as a separate library.
+
+ <p>The other major additional capability introduced into GNU Radio is
+know as <dfn>stream tags</dfn>, which provide a method of annotating
+samples with tags of information that can be passed downstream in a
+GNU Radio graph. This feature adds an interface so that control, data,
+metadata, and other information may be passed through a communication
+system. With these tags, we will be able to realize more advanced
+digital modems that require data like logic control and timing
+information.
+
+ <p>Version 3.6 of GNU Radio, to be released later this year, will include
+support for VOLK and stream tags. Furthermore, we are working to
+migrate all over-the-air examples that use the Ettus Research, LLC
+(<a href="ettus.com">ettus.com</a>) hardware to the new UHD (Ettus' Universal
Hardware
+Driver). This move helps us begin to standardize the hardware API
+layer that will be required to support various hardware platforms from
+a single software radio core.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="GSEGrafix"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Gtypist">Gtypist</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#GNURadio">GNURadio</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">GSEGrafix (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsegrafix";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gsegrafix</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Spencer Buckner: GSEGrafix is a GNOME application which uses an
+anti-aliased GNOME canvas for creating scientific and engineering
+plots. The program is written in C and reads ASCII parameter files and
+data files. The parameter files contain keywords and corresponding
+arguments for specifying plot parameters (such as data file names,
+data file formats, plot type, plot style, axis type, axis labels,
+etc). Eleven example plots, corresponding examples of Octave code or C
+code for creating the data files, and corresponding parameter files
+are included. The program can be run from a terminal window or from a
+graphical user interface.
+
+ <p>The current version, <code>gsegrafix-1.0.6</code>, was uploaded on 10
+September 2011. This version adds the keywords
+<code>background_color</code> and <code>background_image</code>. The keyword
+<code>background_color</code> enables the background color of the plot
+window to be specified as either “white”, the default, or
“black”;
+if black is chosen, the plot box, tick marks, axis labels, title, and
+text are white. The keyword <code>background_image</code> enables a
+background image, such as a map, to be displayed in the plot box. The
+image can be scaled in four different ways by specifying one of the
+parameter values: <code>center</code>, <code>fill</code>, <code>scale</code>,
or
+<code>zoom</code>.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Gtypist"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Mailutils">Mailutils</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#GSEGrafix">GSEGrafix</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Gtypist (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist";>http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Tim Marston: we have added support for UTF-8, available in the
+current test release at <a
href="http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist";>http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist</a>.
This
+affects all user input (from the keyboard) and all output (to the
+terminal)! In particular, we need people who have their machines set
+up use other locales to check that gtypist accepts keyboard input
+correctly and displays the right stuff to a UTF-8 terminal. Please
+help test.
+
+ <p>We've also added a new set of typing courses for the Colemak keyboard
+layout. If anyone uses Colemak and fancies trying out the lessons,
+we'd be grateful to hear if there are any problems.
+
+ <p>Other changes include a Spanish manual and tracking of personal best
+scores.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Mailutils"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Maverik">Maverik</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Gtypist">Gtypist</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Mailutils (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils";>http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Sergey Poznyakoff: GNU Mailutils is heading for the next major
+release. A major rewrite of the I/O subsystem has been finished,
+considerably improving performance. Several other parts of the
+framework have also undergone a revision. In general, the code base
+has reached a stable state and most of the work now is concentrated on
+writing the documentation.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Maverik"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#RCS">RCS</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Mailutils">Mailutils</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Maverik (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/maverik";>http://www.gnu.org/software/maverik</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Hartmut Rosch: I have been working on GNU Maverik quite a long
+time and I have taken the oppertunity to become the new maintainer.
+Maverik 6.4 works fine on 32-bit machines but has several bugs
+rendering the bitmaps on a 64-bit system. This has been fixed. In
+addition to that the Makefile has got a <code>distclean</code> target to
+delete all shared libraries in the <a href="lib">lib</a> directory and all
+executables. The new version, Maverik 6.5, will be released
+quite soon.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="RCS"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Sqltutor">Sqltutor</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Maverik">Maverik</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">RCS (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs";>http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Thien-Thi Nguyen: GNU RCS 5.8 was recently released (the first
+release in many years), with some small bugfixes, portability
+enhancements, and new Texinfo documentation. This author is the new
+maintainer.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Sqltutor"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Tar">Tar</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#RCS">RCS</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Sqltutor (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/sqltutor";>http://www.gnu.org/software/sqltutor</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Ales Cepek: GNU Sqltutor is a web based interactive tutorial for
+Structured Query Language (SQL).
+
+ <p>You can try Sqltutor online at
+<a
href="http://sqltutor.fsv.cvut.cz/cgi-bin/sqltutor";>http://sqltutor.fsv.cvut.cz/cgi-bin/sqltutor</a>.
First, a tutorial
+must be selected from the opening page and started. A series of
+tutorial questions follows in a simple dialog. When finished,
+Sqltutor displays final evaluation with the review of all questions
+asked during the session together with user's SQL queries and correct
+answers for wrong solutions.
+
+ <p>Sqltutor is implemented on the top of a relational database system
+PostgreSQL. The program is a CGI script that selects SQL questions
+from its database, checks the answers and evaluates the final score.
+The second part of the project is a free collection of SQL questions
+and answers representing SQL tutorials. Sqltutor enables the running
+of one or more tutorials in different languages from a single
+database.
+
+ <p>The C++ code and database schema are stable; what is most needed is to
+add a set of tutorial questions and answers in good English, and we
+need help from native speaker with some knowledge of SQL. Currently
+we actively use only a tutorial in the Czech language. Please write
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a> if you'd like to get
involved.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Tar"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Wdiff">Wdiff</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Sqltutor">Sqltutor</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Tar (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/tar";>http://www.gnu.org/software/tar</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Sergey Poznyakoff: Tar version 1.26 was released this year. It
+is mostly a bug-fixing release. The most important changes:
+
+ <ul>
+<li>A bug in the <code>--verify</code> option, introduced in version 1.24,
+is now fixed.
+
+ <li>Fixed storing the long sparse file names in PAX archives.
+
+ <li>Work around POSIX incompatibilities on FreeBSD, NetBSD and Tru64.
+
+ <li>Fix bug with <code>--one-file-system --listed-incremental</code> used
together.
+</ul>
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Wdiff"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Xboard">Xboard</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Tar">Tar</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Wdiff (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff";>http://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Martin von Gagern: 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.
+
+ <p>The latest release was numbered 1.0.0, reflecting the fact that the
+code has been around for a long time and is therefore considered quite
+mature. So consider this change not so much as a radical program
+improvement of some kind, but rather a fix to the fact that some
+people tend to take a major version number of zero as an indication of
+immature software. Although the NEWS entry for this release is a bit
+longer than for some past releases, in terms of features and bug fixes
+it might as well have been called 0.6.6.
+
+ <p>So what has changed? As user noticeable changes we have updated
+translations for Dutch, French, Danish and Slovenian, as well as a
+completely new translation file for Ukrainian, thanks to Yuri
+Chornoivan. The code will now give more useful results when the
+<code>diff</code> program either cannot be executed or fails for some
+reason.
+
+ <p>Build time improvements include an update of our <code>gnulib</code>
imports
+as well as an extension of the test suite. On the source code level,
+there was some cleaning up, slightly improved portability with respect
+to file descriptor duplication, and a unification of coding style
+accomplished through GNU Indent.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Xboard"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Xnee">Xnee</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Wdiff">Wdiff</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Xboard (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard";>http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Arun Persaud: XBoard is a graphical user interface to chess in
+all its major forms (and many others). Over the last year XBoard
+development has seen three new releases (4.5.x) fixing lots of bugs
+and including many new features and some redesign of the GUI.
+
+ <p>An ongoing effort is to merge the code of XBoard and its so-called
+“Winboard” companion back into one code base. we are now closer
+than ever to completely this task. To this end the effort to update
+the GUI and to move to GTK has been restarted. Nevertheless, we can
+always need more help! If you are interested in this and are willing
+to help, please contact us at <a
href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>. You can
+of course also contact us to discuss other issues/ideas too.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Xnee"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Xorriso">Xorriso</a>,
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Xboard">Xboard</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Xnee (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee";>http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Henrik Sandklef: 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. The latest
+version is 3.10, released in August 2011.
+
+<div class="node">
+<a name="Xorriso"></a>
+<p><hr>
+Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Xnee">Xnee</a>,
+Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
+
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="unnumbered">Xorriso (<a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso";>http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso</a>)</h2>
+
+<p>From Thomas Schmitt: GNU xorriso creates, loads, manipulates and
+writes ISO 9660 filesystem images with Rock Ridge
+extensions. Optionally it supports hard links, ACLs, xattr, and MD5
+checksums. xorriso writes its images to CD, DVD, Blu-ray or to
+filesystem objects; conversely, xorriso is able to copy file objects
+from ISO 9660 filesystems to disk.
+
+ <p>In its role as feature-enhanced <code>mkisofs</code> emulator, it serves
+underneath the GRUB2 script <code>grub-mkrescue</code> and it produces the
+installation images of Debian GNU/Linux.
+
+ <p>GNU xorriso is widely portable, although its capability to burn CD,
+DVD, and Blu-ray is currently restricted to GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and
+Solaris. Porting this capability to other operating systems is mainly
+a matter of knowing how to pass SCSI/MMC command transactions through
+the operating system kernel to burner drives attached via SCSI, (P)ATA,
+SATA, USB, or other busses.
+
+ <p>Development is currently focused on improving xorriso behavior in rather
+unusual situations and, of course, on hunting down any bugs. Recent
+improvements are:
+
+ <ul>
+<li>Recording and restoring ACLs and extattr on FreeBSD.
+<li>More rugged with non-persistent device names in modern GNU/Linux
+ distributions.
+<li>Making media readable which were left damaged after burner failures.
+<li>Production of Jigdo files which can be put together to form a
+ bootable ISO 9660 image, e.g. for installing Debian GNU/Linux.
+<li>ISOLINUX bootable images with a MBR partition table that bears the
+ mountable ISO at a partition with non-zero start address.
+</ul>
+
+ <p>Contact point: <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>.
+
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address@hidden GNU organization
address@hidden
+* GNU Status 2011-10: (gnustatus-2011-10). GNU status reports, Oct. 2011.
address@hidden direntry
+
address@hidden
address@hidden @value{mytitle}
address@hidden @email{maintainers@@gnu.org}
address@hidden
address@hidden 0pt plus 1filll
address@hidden
address@hidden titlepage
+
address@hidden This looks better than having the specific chapter headings.
address@hidden off
address@hidden @thistitle @| @| @thispage
+
address@hidden
+
address@hidden Top
address@hidden @value{mytitle}
+
+This document collects status reports for GNU packages.
+
+This is a revival of the GNU Status Reports from the historical
address@hidden's Bulletins}, @url{http://www.gnu.org/bulletins}. The goal
+is to provide GNU-wide news and information from time to time, from as
+many packages as possible.
+
+This report includes items for only a few of the hundreds of GNU
+packages; we hope more will be represented in future installments.
address@hidden://www.gnu.org/manual} lists all GNU packages, with links to
+online manuals and home pages. All GNU packages can be accessed on
+the web via @indicateurl{http://www.gnu.org/software/@var{pkgname}},
+as shown in the headings here. For information on downloading
+releases, see @url{http://www.gnu.org/software}.
+
+See also @url{http://planet.gnu.org}, which aggregates the individual
+GNU news items posted on Savannah (@url{http://savannah.gnu.org}).
+
+See also the @email{info-gnu@@gnu.org} mailing list, where
+announcements of new GNU releases are posted. Subscribe or view the
+archives at @url{http://@/lists.gnu.org/@/mailman/@/listinfo/@/info-gnu}.
+
+The aim of the present report is to be somewhat higher-level and more
+general than the others, although there is inevitably some overlap.
+
+Questions, comments, and suggestions about this document in general
+are welcome; please email @email{maintainers@@gnu.org}. Bug reports
+and suggestions for specific packages should of course be addressed
+via their usual routes.
+
+Finally, let's mention the FSCONS 2011 conference, taking place in
+Gothenburg, Sweden, November 11--13: @url{http://fscons.org}.
+
address@hidden
+* Health::
+* Cflow::
+* Chess::
+* Coreutils::
+* Directory::
+* Emacs::
+* Fontutils::
+* Gama::
+* Gawk::
+* GDBM::
+* GnuPG::
+* GNURadio::
+* GSEGrafix::
+* Gtypist::
+* Mailutils::
+* Maverik::
+* RCS::
+* Sqltutor::
+* Tar::
+* Wdiff::
+* Xboard::
+* Xnee::
+* Xorriso::
address@hidden menu
+
+
address@hidden Health
address@hidden Health (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/health})
+
+(Put first instead of in alphabetical order since it is a new and
+especially significant addition to GNU.)
+
+From Luis Falc@'{o}n: GNU Health is a free health and hospital
+information system with support for electronic medical records,
+hospital information systems, and health information systems. Its
+goal is to contribute to the work of health professionals around the
+world to improve the lives of the underprivileged, providing a free
+system that optimizes health promotion and disease prevention.
+
+The GNU Health Project has been chosen by the United Nations
+University, Institute of Global Health (UNU-IIGH). This organization
+supports the use of free (as in freedom) software health care
+information system in developing countries, through capacity-building
+programs and technical consultancy to improve efficiency and
+quality of health care services.
+
+This is an example of how free software can leverage resources to help
+developing countries. Many thanks to address@hidden Safie Mohd
+Satar who is leading the GNU Health integration project UNU-IIGH.
+This effort will increase the amount of physicians and health centers
+using free software, and we will all benefit with their valuable
+feedback.
+
+Assistance of all sorts is greatly appreciated; please see our web
+pages for details.
+
+
address@hidden Cflow
address@hidden Cflow (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/cflow})
+
+From Sergey Poznyakoff: GNU cflow is a program to analyze C sources
+and produce both direct and inverted flow graphs, optionally with
+cross-references. address@hidden is the latest release. This is a
+stable version that contains a largely improved parser. In
+particular, detection of recursive calls is sped up considerably.
+This release also allows a fine-grained control over symbol types and
+contains several bug fixes.
+
+
address@hidden Chess
address@hidden Chess (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/chess})
+
+From Stuart Cracraft and Antonio Ceballos: GNU Chess plays the
+computer's side of a game of chess against a human, serving as a
+sparring partner to help improve human play levels, improve human
+ratings in competitive tournament play, prepare for a match, or just
+play chess while waiting for a game with a person.
+
+Since full source code to GNU Chess is included, you can enhance the
+GNU Chess's playing and learn more about what goes on inside a
+computer chess program and use it for your personal computer chess
+research.
+
+In April 2011, version 6 of GNU Chess was released. Version 6 is
+based on Fabien Letouzey's Fruit 2.1 chess engine, a well-debugged
+program which has a strong searcher.
+
+Standard external interfaces remain unchanged in 6.x for compatibility
+with 5.x (which is now deprecated).
+
+In addition to the Chess Engine Communication Protocol, version 6 also
+supports the Universal Chess Interface (UCI). This increases,
+dramatically, the number of graphical user interface front-ends GNU
+Chess can use.
+
+The program can occasionally be found playing games with anyone who
+challenges it at the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) under the
+nickname GNUChessSix.
+
+On modern, affordable hardware, GNU Chess scores highly in standard
+chess rating tests (2500 ELO). It is a strong tactician, which can
+translate to good positional play on fast enough hardware due to
+increasing depth of search.
+
+If you improve GNU Chess or use it for research, please contact the
+Free Software Foundation to ensure that your improvements are
+considered for integration into the main line.
+
+Meanwhile, enjoy a game of chess and computer chess programming.
+
+
address@hidden Coreutils
address@hidden Coreutils (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils})
+
+From P@'{a}draig Brady: address@hidden was released in
+September. A brief summary of additions:
+
address@hidden @bullet
address@hidden @code{split --filter} to compress output etc.
+
address@hidden @code{md5sum --strict} to exit with error on any checksum
mismatch.
+
address@hidden @code{join --check} now reports which line the disorder was on.
+
address@hidden @code{rm} uses less memory for large directories.
+
address@hidden @code{shuf} uses less memory when outputting a small subset.
+
address@hidden @code{date} now parses iso-8601 'T' separated dates.
+
address@hidden @code{timeout --foreground} to support interactive commands,
+and @code{timeout} now supports subsecond timeouts.
+
address@hidden itemize
+
+
address@hidden Directory
address@hidden Directory (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/directory})
+
+Although not the usual sort of GNU package, it's worth mentioning here
+that the Free Software Directory has been relaunched as a
+collaborative wiki-based project. A general announce is at
address@hidden://www.fsf.org/news/directory-relaunch}, and more detailed
+information at
address@hidden://www.fsf.org/blogs/directory/behind-the-scenes}.
+
+Volunteers to update the existing entries and add more programs are
+greatly needed. Please see
address@hidden://directory.fsf.org/wiki/FSD:Participate}.
+
+
address@hidden Emacs
address@hidden Emacs (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs})
+
+From Stefan Monnier: GNU Emacs has entered the pretest phase for its
+24.1 release, which is aimed for the first half of 2012. The features
+in this release will include:
+
address@hidden @bullet
+
address@hidden packaging system that allows users to easily download extensions
for
+ Emacs (the default package archive is hosted by GNU, and maintained by
+ the Emacs developers)---we welcome submissions of new packages;
+
address@hidden support for displaying and editing bidirectional text, including
+ right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew;
+
address@hidden native support for lexical scoping in Emacs Lisp;
+
address@hidden improved support for Custom themes;
+
address@hidden native support for TLS/SSL encryption;
+
address@hidden improved integration with the Gnome desktop;
+
address@hidden and upgrades to many other included modes and packages.
address@hidden itemize
+
+
address@hidden Fontutils
address@hidden Fontutils (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/fontutils})
+
+From Adam Dutko: I've been working through getting the code in CVS to
+build and am very close. I've also been investigating a migration to
+Automake and have made some progress in a different (uncommitted)
+branch. I'm hoping to have the first release building before the end
+of October.
+
+
address@hidden Gama
address@hidden Gama (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/gama})
+
+From Vaclav Petras: GNU Gama is a project dedicated to adjustment of
+geodetic networks; the latest release is 1.11
+(@url{http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/gama}) and the development code is
+available from Savannah (@url{http://savannah.gnu.org/p/gama}).
+
+The latest version contains several documentation and source code
+improvements as well as improved UTF-8 support.
+
+The program @code{gama-local} provides adjustment in a local
+coordinate system. Input data are stored in an XML file or an SQLite
+database. Adjustment results are represented as formatted plain text
+or an XML file.
+
+The program @code{gama-g3} partially supports adjustment in a global
+coordinate system (adjustment model on ellipsoid). Input and output
+data are in an XML file.
+
+User visible strings and generated reports have English, French,
+Spanish, Finnish, Dutch, Catalan, Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian and
+Czech translation.
+
+We are planing several new features and improvements:
+
address@hidden @bullet
address@hidden wider use of SQLite database as native format
address@hidden support reading data recorded by some total stations
address@hidden graphical user interface
address@hidden better C++ API
address@hidden itemize
+
+You can ask for help or discuss new features on the
address@hidden://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gama, @code{info-gama}
+mailing list}, and bug reports should go to the
address@hidden://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gama, @code{bug-gama}
+list}.
+
+
address@hidden Gawk
address@hidden Gawk (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk})
+
+From Arnold Robbins: Gawk 4.0.0 was released at the end of June, 2011.
+There are many new features, including a gawk debugger. I hope to do
+the first patch release before the end of the year and then
+development of more new stuff towards gawk 4.1 should pick up speed.
+
+
address@hidden GDBM
address@hidden GDBM (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm})
+
+From Sergey Poznyakoff: After a long period of development, a new
+version of GDBM, 1.9.1, was released this year. It contains
+significant improvements over its predecessor. The most important
+user-visible changes are the use of memory mapping to speed up I/O
+operations and improvements in @code{ndbm} compatibility code. In
+particular, the latter fixes a long-standing bug which prevented GDBM
+from being used with some MTAs, most notably Sendmail and Postfix.
+Another series of changes addressed compatibility with the POSIX
+specification.
+
+This version introduces a number of improvements to the GDBM
+interface. Changes to @code{gdbm_setopt} interface are particularly
+noteworthy as they allow the programmer to fine-tune the database and
+retrieve various database parameters.
+
+GDBM 1.9.1 includes an interactive tool for manipulating GDBM database
+files: the @code{testgdbm} program allows users to view and update
+existing databases, export them to the portable flat file format and
+to create new database files.
+
+
address@hidden GnuPG
address@hidden GnuPG (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupg})
+
+From Werner Koch: The current stable versions of GnuPG are 1.4.11 and
+2.0.18.
+
+We are working towards a 2.1 version; a beta of that version
+is already used by Kontact Touch (Kmail for smartphones). Progress is
+somewhat slow these days due to a lack of funding.
+
+A major design change in 2.1 is the replacement of the @code{secring.gpg}
+secret key storage by the protocol neutral secret key database
+maintained by the gpg-agent daemon. The benefit of this is an
+architectural cleanup and easier key maintenance. We were also able to
+remove large amounts of code which were needed to maintain @code{secring.gpg}.
+
+Support for Elliptic Curve cryptography as specified by an OpenPGP WG
+approved I-D has been added to GPG.
+
+We are working on a new database format to store the OpenPGP keys. This
+will help to keep meta data on keys (e.g., time of last refresh from a
+keyserver) and greatly improve lookup speeds on large keyrings.
+
+The new G13 tool allows the use of OpenPGP keys for disk encryption. It
+is designed to support several backends. Due to a lack of time we only
+support EncFS for now; in the next steps we plan to support Geli and
+DM-crypt.
+
+The CRL/OCSP and LDAP daemon Dirmngr is now a proper part of GnuPG.
+Work is underway to move all key server helper programs into Dirmngr.
+
+GnuPG is using GNU Pth to implement co-routines. Due to the now
+widespread availability of POSIX threads and the very rare use of GNU
+Pth by other projects, we decided to drop Pth in favor of nPth, a simple
+new library to replace Pth using the systems' native threads
+implementation.
+
+
address@hidden GNURadio
address@hidden GNURadio (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio})
+
+From Tom Rondeau: GNU Radio has been evolving quickly throughout the
+past few years. Leadership in the project changed in 2010 from Eric
+Blossom to Tom Rondeau. One part of this change is a renewed energy
+in developing the community and increasing the number of contributors
+to the project. GNU Radio hosted its first conference on September
+14--16 at the University of Pennsylvania. While due to space
+constraints, we had an initial limit of forty attendees, but request
+was so great that we ended up accommodating fifty-five people from
+academia, industry, and government. The interest and user base of GNU
+Radio is strong and growing, and we are excited to see the various
+ways the project is being used.
+
+A large part of the discussion at the conference was how to contribute
+to the project, and fostering this environment will continue to be one
+of my primary short-term objectives. All of the conference material
+will be made available on the main GNU Radio website
+(@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio}) as well as my personal
+web site (@url{http://gnuradio.squarespace.com}).
+
+In the current efforts of the development, we are actively integrating
+new features that will enable GNU Radio in ways that were never
+possible before. Two major features in GNU Radio include a new
+vectorization library called VOLK (for Vector-Optimized Library of
+Kernels) and stream tagging.
+
+VOLK provides a way to access the vector (i.e., SIMD) instructions of
+general purpose processors. While there are other ways of doing this,
+a goal of GNU Radio is cross-platform support and ease of programming
+and implementing new signal processing features. Until VOLK, adding
+SIMD code to GNU Radio had been a difficult, assembly-driven process.
+Instead, VOLK introduces the concept of a vector kernel to perform
+common mathematical functions in a cross-platform library. Over the
+next year, we will be improving many of the low-level signal
+processing blocks by using VOLK kernels instead of generic C++ code.
+As we make these changes, we expect to see a dramatic increase in the
+performance and processing capabilities of GNU Radio. A side benefit
+of this is the exposure of an extensible vector library for anyone to
+use and build upon inside GNU Radio---or out, as VOLK is not designed
+solely for GNU Radio use and builds as a separate library.
+
+The other major additional capability introduced into GNU Radio is
+know as @dfn{stream tags}, which provide a method of annotating
+samples with tags of information that can be passed downstream in a
+GNU Radio graph. This feature adds an interface so that control, data,
+metadata, and other information may be passed through a communication
+system. With these tags, we will be able to realize more advanced
+digital modems that require data like logic control and timing
+information.
+
+Version 3.6 of GNU Radio, to be released later this year, will include
+support for VOLK and stream tags. Furthermore, we are working to
+migrate all over-the-air examples that use the Ettus Research, LLC
+(@url{ettus.com}) hardware to the new UHD (Ettus' Universal Hardware
+Driver). This move helps us begin to standardize the hardware API
+layer that will be required to support various hardware platforms from
+a single software radio core.
+
+
address@hidden GSEGrafix
address@hidden GSEGrafix (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/gsegrafix})
+
+From Spencer Buckner: GSEGrafix is a GNOME application which uses an
+anti-aliased GNOME canvas for creating scientific and engineering
+plots. The program is written in C and reads ASCII parameter files and
+data files. The parameter files contain keywords and corresponding
+arguments for specifying plot parameters (such as data file names,
+data file formats, plot type, plot style, axis type, axis labels,
+etc). Eleven example plots, corresponding examples of Octave code or C
+code for creating the data files, and corresponding parameter files
+are included. The program can be run from a terminal window or from a
+graphical user interface.
+
+The current version, @code{gsegrafix-1.0.6}, was uploaded on 10
+September 2011. This version adds the keywords
address@hidden and @code{background_image}. The keyword
address@hidden enables the background color of the plot
+window to be specified as either ``white'', the default, or ``black'';
+if black is chosen, the plot box, tick marks, axis labels, title, and
+text are white. The keyword @code{background_image} enables a
+background image, such as a map, to be displayed in the plot box. The
+image can be scaled in four different ways by specifying one of the
+parameter values: @code{center}, @code{fill}, @code{scale}, or
address@hidden
+
+
address@hidden Gtypist
address@hidden Gtypist (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist})
+
+From Tim Marston: we have added support for UTF-8, available in the
+current test release at @url{http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist}. This
+affects all user input (from the keyboard) and all output (to the
+terminal)! In particular, we need people who have their machines set
+up use other locales to check that gtypist accepts keyboard input
+correctly and displays the right stuff to a UTF-8 terminal. Please
+help test.
+
+We've also added a new set of typing courses for the Colemak keyboard
+layout. If anyone uses Colemak and fancies trying out the lessons,
+we'd be grateful to hear if there are any problems.
+
+Other changes include a Spanish manual and tracking of personal best
+scores.
+
+
address@hidden Mailutils
address@hidden Mailutils (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils})
+
+From Sergey Poznyakoff: GNU Mailutils is heading for the next major
+release. A major rewrite of the I/O subsystem has been finished,
+considerably improving performance. Several other parts of the
+framework have also undergone a revision. In general, the code base
+has reached a stable state and most of the work now is concentrated on
+writing the documentation.
+
+
address@hidden Maverik
address@hidden Maverik (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/maverik})
+
+From Hartmut Rosch: I have been working on GNU Maverik quite a long
+time and I have taken the oppertunity to become the new maintainer.
address@hidden works fine on 32-bit machines but has several bugs
+rendering the bitmaps on a 64-bit system. This has been fixed. In
+addition to that the Makefile has got a @code{distclean} target to
+delete all shared libraries in the @url{lib} directory and all
+executables. The new version, address@hidden, will be released
+quite soon.
+
+
address@hidden RCS
address@hidden RCS (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs})
+
+From Thien-Thi Nguyen: GNU RCS 5.8 was recently released (the first
+release in many years), with some small bugfixes, portability
+enhancements, and new Texinfo documentation. This author is the new
+maintainer.
+
+
address@hidden Sqltutor
address@hidden Sqltutor (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/sqltutor})
+
+From Ales Cepek: GNU Sqltutor is a web based interactive tutorial for
+Structured Query Language (SQL).
+
+You can try Sqltutor online at
address@hidden://sqltutor.fsv.cvut.cz/cgi-bin/sqltutor}. First, a tutorial
+must be selected from the opening page and started. A series of
+tutorial questions follows in a simple dialog. When finished,
+Sqltutor displays final evaluation with the review of all questions
+asked during the session together with user's SQL queries and correct
+answers for wrong solutions.
+
+Sqltutor is implemented on the top of a relational database system
+PostgreSQL. The program is a CGI script that selects SQL questions
+from its database, checks the answers and evaluates the final score.
+The second part of the project is a free collection of SQL questions
+and answers representing SQL tutorials. Sqltutor enables the running
+of one or more tutorials in different languages from a single
+database.
+
+The C++ code and database schema are stable; what is most needed is to
+add a set of tutorial questions and answers in good English, and we
+need help from native speaker with some knowledge of SQL. Currently
+we actively use only a tutorial in the Czech language. Please write
address@hidden@@gnu.org} if you'd like to get involved.
+
+
address@hidden Tar
address@hidden Tar (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/tar})
+
+From Sergey Poznyakoff: Tar version 1.26 was released this year. It
+is mostly a bug-fixing release. The most important changes:
+
address@hidden @bullet
address@hidden A bug in the @code{--verify} option, introduced in version 1.24,
+is now fixed.
+
address@hidden Fixed storing the long sparse file names in PAX archives.
+
address@hidden Work around POSIX incompatibilities on FreeBSD, NetBSD and Tru64.
+
address@hidden Fix bug with @code{--one-file-system --listed-incremental} used
together.
address@hidden itemize
+
+
address@hidden Wdiff
address@hidden Wdiff (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff})
+
+From Martin von Gagern: 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.
+
+The latest release was numbered 1.0.0, reflecting the fact that the
+code has been around for a long time and is therefore considered quite
+mature. So consider this change not so much as a radical program
+improvement of some kind, but rather a fix to the fact that some
+people tend to take a major version number of zero as an indication of
+immature software. Although the NEWS entry for this release is a bit
+longer than for some past releases, in terms of features and bug fixes
+it might as well have been called 0.6.6.
+
+So what has changed? As user noticeable changes we have updated
+translations for Dutch, French, Danish and Slovenian, as well as a
+completely new translation file for Ukrainian, thanks to Yuri
+Chornoivan. The code will now give more useful results when the
address@hidden program either cannot be executed or fails for some
+reason.
+
+Build time improvements include an update of our @code{gnulib} imports
+as well as an extension of the test suite. On the source code level,
+there was some cleaning up, slightly improved portability with respect
+to file descriptor duplication, and a unification of coding style
+accomplished through GNU Indent.
+
+
address@hidden Xboard
address@hidden Xboard (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard})
+
+From Arun Persaud: XBoard is a graphical user interface to chess in
+all its major forms (and many others). Over the last year XBoard
+development has seen three new releases (4.5.x) fixing lots of bugs
+and including many new features and some redesign of the GUI.
+
+An ongoing effort is to merge the code of XBoard and its so-called
+``Winboard'' companion back into one code base. we are now closer
+than ever to completely this task. To this end the effort to update
+the GUI and to move to GTK has been restarted. Nevertheless, we can
+always need more help! If you are interested in this and are willing
+to help, please contact us at @email{xboard-devel@@gnu.org}. You can
+of course also contact us to discuss other issues/ideas too.
+
+
address@hidden Xnee
address@hidden Xnee (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee})
+
+From Henrik Sandklef: 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. The latest
+version is 3.10, released in August 2011.
+
+
address@hidden Xorriso
address@hidden Xorriso (@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso})
+
+From Thomas Schmitt: GNU xorriso creates, loads, manipulates and
+writes ISO 9660 filesystem images with Rock Ridge
+extensions. Optionally it supports hard links, ACLs, xattr, and MD5
+checksums. xorriso writes its images to CD, DVD, Blu-ray or to
+filesystem objects; conversely, xorriso is able to copy file objects
+from ISO 9660 filesystems to disk.
+
+In its role as feature-enhanced @code{mkisofs} emulator, it serves
+underneath the GRUB2 script @code{grub-mkrescue} and it produces the
+installation images of Debian GNU/Linux.
+
+GNU xorriso is widely portable, although its capability to burn CD,
+DVD, and Blu-ray is currently restricted to GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and
+Solaris. Porting this capability to other operating systems is mainly
+a matter of knowing how to pass SCSI/MMC command transactions through
+the operating system kernel to burner drives attached via SCSI, (P)ATA,
+SATA, USB, or other busses.
+
+Development is currently focused on improving xorriso behavior in rather
+unusual situations and, of course, on hunting down any bugs. Recent
+improvements are:
+
address@hidden @bullet
address@hidden Recording and restoring ACLs and extattr on FreeBSD.
address@hidden More rugged with non-persistent device names in modern GNU/Linux
+ distributions.
address@hidden Making media readable which were left damaged after burner
failures.
address@hidden Production of Jigdo files which can be put together to form a
+ bootable ISO 9660 image, e.g. for installing Debian GNU/Linux.
address@hidden ISOLINUX bootable images with a MBR partition table that bears
the
+ mountable ISO at a partition with non-zero start address.
address@hidden itemize
+
+Contact point: @email{bug-xorriso@@gnu.org}.
+
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