[FSF] February Supporter item: GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 18 new GNU releases!

[William Theaker]

### GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 18 new GNU releases!

18 new GNU releases in the last month (as of February 25, 2014):

* [ed-1.10](https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/)
* [fisicalab-0.3.3](https://www.gnu.org/software/fisicalab/)
* [gdb-7.7](https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/)
* [glibc-2.19](https://www.gnu.org/software/glibc/)
* [glpk-4.53](https://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/)
* [gnuhealth-2.4.1](http://health.gnu.org/)
* [gnushogi-1.4.2](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnushogi/)
* [grep-2.18](https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/)
* [gtypist-2.9.4](https://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/)
* [help2man-1.44.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/)
* [libmicrohttpd-0.9.34](https://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/)
* [libgcrypt-1.6.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/libgcrypt/)
* [parallel-20140222](https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/)
* [sipwitch-1.8.8](https://www.gnu.org/software/sipwitch/)
* [tramp-2.2.9](https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/)
* [unifont-6.3.20140214](https://www.gnu.org/software/unifont/)
* [xnee-3.18](https://www.gnu.org/software/xnee/)
* [xshogi-1.4.2](https://www.gnu.org/software/xshogi/)

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This month, we welcome Matthew Tytel as the maintainer and author
of his new GNU package cursynth, Yoni Rabkin as the new
maintainer of emms (in addition to his longstanding work as a
volunteer with the FSF licensing group), and Rik as a new
co-maintainer of Octave. Thanks to all.

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