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BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, March 3, 2021 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the award of a pro bono management consulting project from Community Consulting Teams of Boston (CCT). The strategic need is an analysis and marketing plan focused on the FSF's diverse […]

23 new GNU releases in the last month (as of February 25, 2021):

New Features     MusicXML export         Supports export of multi-movement scores     Support for Musical Sketches         Cut selection as sketch     Support for LilyPond […]

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, March 2, 2021 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced digital fabrication expert and University of Washington assistant professor Nadya Peek as a keynote speaker for LibrePlanet 2021. The annual technology and social justice conference will be […]

It is often the case in binary formats that certain elements are separated by some data that is not really used for any meaningful purpose other than occupy that space. The reason for keeping that space varies from case to case; sometimes to reserve it for […]

Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor has written a nice short tutorial called "Learn the Poke Language in Y minutes". The tutorial has the form of a Poke program itself, and I think it really highlights the most uncommon (and useful!) features of our domain-specific […]

I am happy to announce the first release of GNU poke, version 1.0. The tarball poke-1.0.tar.gz is now available at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/poke/poke-1.0.tar.gz.   GNU poke (http://www.jemarch.net/poke) is an interactive, extensible   editor for binary data.  Not limited to editing […]

Add llvmfuzz and oss-fuzz integration, fixed many minor fuzzing errors. libfuzzer is much better than afl++ and honggfuzz. See https://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/ and https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg/blob/0.12.3/NEWS Here are the compressed sources: […]

There are many complicated debates happening right now around Twitter and its role in public discourse. These discussions are important, but we also shouldn't forget a very basic and clear principle -- whatever its policies are about who can and can't post or how, it's of fundamental importance […]

Editing data with GNU poke mainly involves creating mapped values and storing them in Poke variables. However, this may not be that convenient when poking several files simultaneously, and when the complexity of the data increases. poke provides a […]

GNU poke (http://www.jemarch.net/poke) is an interactive, extensible editor for binary data.  Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them. The […]

2021-2: "How to issue a Central Bank Digital Currency" publishedWe are happy to announce the publication of our paper on "How to Issue a Central Bank Digital Currency" by the Swiss National Bank.With the emergence of Bitcoin and recently proposed stablecoins from BigTechs, such as Diem (formerly […]

Minor bugfix: Fixed extending the write buffer for the 2 CRC bytes. Occurs very seldomly (GH #315) See https://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/ and https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg/blob/0.12.2/NEWS Here are the compressed sources:   […]

GNU Parallel 20210222 ('Ang Sang Su Kyi') has been released. It is available for download at: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parallel/ Please help spreading GNU Parallel by making a testimonial video like Juan Sierra Pons: http://www.elsotanillo.net/wp-content/uploads/GnuParallel_JuanSierraPons.mp4 It […]

 Hello All-In celebration of the (slightly belated) 10-year anniversary of Guile v2.0, we're having another Guile Potluck!  The Guile Potluck is a randomly annual event to give people a chance to show off their Guile projects and skills.  Think of it as a game jam, but, not […]

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, February 17, 2021 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced Guardian Project director Nathan Freitas as its second keynote speaker for LibrePlanet 2021. The annual technology and social justice conference will be held online on March 20 and 21, […]

GNU poke (http://www.jemarch.net/poke) is an interactive, extensible editor for binary data.  Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them. […]

Dear community: I am very proud to announce the release of the series 3.8 from the GNU Health Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) component! Twelve years old, the GNU Health project has now become a Libre digital Health ecosystem, with different solutions to meet different realities, […]

FreeIPMI 1.6.7 - 02/12/21 ----------------------------------- o Do not require IPMI access when running ipmi-fru with the --fru-file option. o Fix default permissions of various config and system files. o Minor documentation updates. https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freeipmi/freeipmi-1.6.7.tar.gz

Version 3.12 of GNU mailutils is available for download.  This version includes the following bugfixes: Fix expunging of mailboxes in mbox and dotmail format in a read-only directory inc: when updating the "unseen" sequence, translate message numbers to uids Fix default port selection in […]

Version 1.34 of GNU tar is available for download (see the download directory for archives in other formats).  This version fixes the following bugs: Fix extraction over pipe (bug #60002) Fix memory leak in read_header (bug #59897) Fix extraction when . and .. are unreadable Gracefully […]

Registration for the next seminar of free software licensing is now open. While registration is open to the public, this seminar is a special opportunity for legal professionals and law students who can potentially earn Continued Legal Education (CLE) credits for participating (approval pending).

The FSF Licensing and Compliance Lab will provide a full day licensing seminar for legal professionals, law students, free software developers, and anyone interested in licensing issues.

When experimenting with Godot and its GDScript language, I realized that I missed a good old REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) to familiarize myself with the language and API. This is now possible with this new Godot Editor plugin Try it at:https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/857

LibrePlanet, the world's premier free software conference, is coming up soon. We have two great days of talks planned, with over forty speakers from all over the globe, on March 20th and 21st, 2021.

We are happy to announce that GNU Guix offers a three-month paid internship through Outreachy, the inclusion program for groups traditionally underrepresented in free software and tech.The initial application deadline is on Feb. 22, 2021 at 4PM UTC.For further information, check out the […]

Dear GNU CTT: Thank you very much for the hard work in the past years. Wish you all a good, happy and healthy Chinese New Year! We are proud to know that: Boston, Massachusetts, USA -- February 9th, 2021 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has been awarded a four-star and 100% rating, the […]

Boston, Massachusetts, USA -- February 9th, 2021 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has been awarded a four-star and 100% rating, the highest possible, from Charity Navigator, the largest independent evaluator of US-based nonprofit charities. The FSF was also selected for Charity Navigator's […]

On Guix System, setuid programs were, until now, installed as setuid-root and setgid-root (in the /run/setuid-programs directory). However, most of these programs are meant to run as setuid-root, but not setgid-root. Thus, this setting posed a risk of local privilege escalation (users of Guix on […]

 This 2020 with COVID, quarantines and lockdown was and is a strange year, but it allowed me to take care of Arctic Fox quite a bit. A lot of work is going on in my Arctic Fox fork, which Matt dutifully imports.Thousands of commits flew in into this new release, tackling JavaScript upgrades, […]

As usual, GNU Guix will be present at FOSDEM on February 6th and 7th. Due to the pandemic, this year’s edition takes place on-line. The downside is that we’ll miss beautiful Brussels, but on the up side hopefully people who cannot join physically will be able to attend this year, […]

Join us online for LibrePlanet 2021: Empowering Users, the FSF's annual conference on technology and social justice.

LibreDWG version 0.12.1 - 2021/01/31 - beta: Major bugfixes:   * fixed dwg_bmp() and dwgbmp for >= r2004. Wrong dat offset.   * Fixed EED with code 3 for layer handles. (Fixes GH #310, shanzhugit)   * Fixed bit_convert_TU utf8 conversion with ubsan, wrong endian-ness.   […]

Android Rebuilds provides freely-licensed builds of Android development tools from a Mountain View-based company. Proprietary binaries are rebuilt from source, build recipes are reverse-engineered. SDK 11 (API 30) is mostly available, as unattended Docker build scripts, build documentation as well […]

Parted 3.4 has been released.  This release includes many bug fixes and new features. Here is Parted's home page:     http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ For a summary of all changes and contributors, see:   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/log/?h=v3.4 or […]

The 14th release of Gnuastro is now available. See the full announcement for more.

Android Rebuilds provides freely-licensed builds of Android development tools from a Mountain View-based company. The Emulator package moved to a separate component and build system. Emulator 30 is now available, as unattended Docker build scripts, build documentation as well as convenience […]

GNU Parallel 20210122 ('Capitol Riots') has been released. It is available for download at: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parallel/ Please help spreading GNU Parallel by making a testimonial video like Juan Sierra Pons: http://www.elsotanillo.net/wp-content/uploads/GnuParallel_JuanSierraPons.mp4 It […]

As part of GNU, Guix aims to bring freedom to computer users all over the world, no matter the languages they (prefer to) speak. For example, Guix users asking for help can expect an answer even if they do so in languages other than English.We also offer translated software for people more […]

libsigsegv version 2.13 is released. New in this release: Added support for macOS/arm64. Added support for Solaris OpenIndiana. Added support for catching stack overflow on Solaris 11/SPARC. Added support for catching stack overflow on 64-bit Haiku. Provide a correct value for SIGSTKSZ on […]

Gnulib features bitset, a module to support operations on lists of bits. Its API is rich, and includes: all the expected operations on single bit (set, toggle, test, etc.); all the traditional binary bitwise operators (and, or, xor), often in two flavors (return new values, or perform in place); […]

This is to announce findutils-4.8.0, a stable release. See the NEWS below for more details. GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match certain criteria and for performing various operations on them. Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate". More […]

Noteworthy changes in this release: Fix compilation on MacOS and Solaris 9 Remove bashism from configure.ac Fix a compilation warning on 32-bit systems

Noteworthy changes in this release: Improve the number of translated strings Remove all uses of alloca. In some places the length of untrusted strings has been used, e.g. strings from the command line or from remote. Fix buffer overflows in progress bar code in some locales Fix two null pointer […]

Version 1.33 of GNU tar is available for download.  Summary of changes in this version: POSIX extended format headers do not include PID by default. --delay-directory-restore works for archives with reversed member ordering. Fix extraction of a symbolic link hardlinked to another symbolic […]

We are delighted to announce the release of GNU Guile 3.0.5. This release adds optimizations that can turn chains of repeated comparisons, such as those produced by the case and (sometimes) the match macros, into efficient O(1) table dispatches. For full details, see the NEWS entry. See the […]

New GnuCOBOL features XML GENERATE statement    (note: runtime support needs additional library libxml2) JSON GENERATE statement    (note: runtime support needs additional library cJSON or JSON-C)    CONTINUE AFTER statement (COBOL 202x) implemented, also handle […]

Version 3.11.1 of GNU mailutils is available for download.  This version fixes a bug in the library function mu_url_create_hint that caused MH inc to coredump when called without explicit -file option. It also includes updated localizations.