Brave GNU World

Development has now proceed at a good pace.  The initial focus has been the development of configuration tools for setting up a Gnu System, in the form of the Gungadin Software Tools. That is: 1. Setup for bashrc 2. Definitions of fstab, Xmodmap, and dircolors 3. Various tools for emacs […]

19 new GNU releases in the last month (as of November 25, 2020):

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

*******UPDATE******** Nov, 30th, 2020 ********************* Thanks to the excellent work done by our colleagues from GNU Savannah Hackers, specially Amin Bandali, the repositories for all GNU Health components will remain at GNU.org. We, the GNU community, we'll keep on working and improving […]

The recent release of Guix 1.2.0 was accompanied by a release song (lyrics). Let me tell you how this happened and how you can use Guix System for your own music productions!It all started only three days before the 1.2.0 release when someone on the #guix IRC channel brought up the tradition of […]

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 1.2.0, right in time to celebrate the eighth anniversary of Guix!The release comes with ISO-9660 installation images, a virtual machine image, and with tarballs to install the package manager on top of your GNU/Linux distro, either […]

GNU Parallel 20201122 ('Biden') [stable] has been released. It is available for download at: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parallel/ No new functionality was introduced so this is a good candidate for a stable release. Please help spreading GNU Parallel by making a testimonial video like Juan Sierra […]

This is to announce automake-1.16.3, a stable release. There have been 62 commits by 15 people in the 35 weeks since 1.16.2. Special thanks to Karl Berry and Zack Weinberg for doing so much of the work. See the NEWS below for a brief summary. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following […]

out_dxf bugfixes mostly. 0.11 failed to produce dxf files which could be imported into AutoCAD.  This bugfix release improves DXF importing from 10% to about 90%. But beware: Some dwg2dxf DXF files still can silently crash AutoCAD, so be sure to save your DWG before DXFIN. Most 3DSOLID's […]

The Guix hackers are very happy to announce the first online Guix Day Conference on Sunday November, 22nd. This conference is open to everyone (no registration fee) and will be held entirely online. Want to know the schedule, read on!There will be no presentation on the 22nd! Please watch the […]

The development of GNU poke is progressing well, and we keep hopes for a first release before the end of the year: we are determined for something good to happen in 2020! ;) This article briefly reviews the latest news in the development of […]

GNUnet 0.14.0 released We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.14.0. This is a new major release. It breaks protocol compatibility with the 0.13.x versions. Please be aware that Git master is thus henceforth INCOMPATIBLE with the 0.13.x GNUnet network, and interactions between old […]

Dear CTT members: Mark your calendars: LibrePlanet 2021: Empowering Users will be held on March 20 and 21, 2021. For those of you who haven't been to the LibrePlanet conference before: expect a friendly, social, community-focused event with two days of inspiring talks and workshops from some of […]

International Day Against DRM (IDAD) 2020

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- November 11, 2020 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced Julia Reda as its first confirmed keynote speaker for LibrePlanet 2021. The annual technology and social justice conference will be held online on March 20 and 21, 2021, with the theme "Empowering […]

New article published by the GNU Education Team. Read and share at https://www.gnu.org/education/teachers-help-students-resist-zoom.html Teachers: Help Your Students Resist Zoom In the wake of the global COVID-19 emergency, the urgency of ensuring the continuity of classes left little to no […]

GNS Technical Specification Milestone 4/4 and Packaging 1+2 We are happy to announce the completion of the fourth and last milestone for the GNS Specification. The fourth milestone consists of involving a broader community for feedback and improvements:Hacker NewsIETF 108 secdispatch (see also […]

This is to announce grep-3.6, a stable release. There have been 18 commits by 3 people in the 6 weeks since 3.5. This release has two important changes, a fix for a bug introduced in grep-3.2 (from late 2018) and the removal of support for the long-deprecated GREP_OPTIONS envvar.  See the NEWS […]

The Guix Data Service processes, stores and provides data about Guix over time, at least that is what the README says. It's been around since the start of 2019, and while there have been plenty of long emails to the guix-devel mailing list about it and a blog post about a related Outreachy […]

plasma-workspace-5.20.1.1-1.1 cannot be installed with: ... plasma-workspace: /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/kfontinst.mo exists in filesystem (owned by plasma-desktop) plasma-workspace: /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/krdb.mo exists in filesystem (owned by plasma-desktop) […]

Zack Weinberg has released another beta, Autoconf 2.69d has been released, see the release announcement: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2020-11/msg00003.html> As written there: if you have time to help by developing and testing patches for the release blockers, please do.

Dear GH community The FHIR REST server 0.9b3 is out! This new version is Python3 compatible and can interact with the GNU Health HMIS node => 3.6 The FHIR server is a Flask application, that generates HL7 FHIR messages to a number of resources in the GNU Health Hospital Management Information […]

https://9to5google.com/2020/10/30/nest-thermostats-hvac-monitoring/ "Filter reminders (based on run time)" Google has forced a new monitoring technology approach on their devices to the users who rent the devices due to an inability to own the device. The new Google approach to HVAC thermostat […]

Dear CTT members: The High Priority Free Software Projects (HPP) initiative draws attention to areas of improvement to the HPP list and specific projects of great strategic importance to the goal of freedom for all computer users. Longtime committee member Benjamin Mako Hill said previously that […]

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, October 28, 2020 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced a call for feedback from the community to help assemble an update to the Foundation's High Priority Free Software Projects list (HPP).

 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, […]

2020-11: RFC 8905: "The 'payto' URI Scheme for Payments" publishedWe are happy to announce the publication of RFC 8905 by the IETF. RFC 8905 defines the 'payto' Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme for designating targets for payments. A unified URI scheme for all payment target types […]

The libtraceevent package prior to version 5.9-1 was missing a soname link. This has been fixed in 5.9-1, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked files created by ldconfig. If you get any of these errors libtraceevent: /usr/lib/libtraceevent.so.1 exists in filesystem when updating, […]

GNU Parallel 20201022 ('Samuel Paty') 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 does […]

GNU RCS (Revision Control System) 5.10.0 is available. The full announcement was posted to the info-gnu mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-10/msg00007.html

Hi good peoples! During the last few years I somehow stopped adding new features to the GNU recutils, limiting its development to the resolution of important bugs, and releasing every one or another year.  The reason for this was that I considered the recutils to be, mostly, "finished". […]

They say that good things come to those who wait, and for this release there has been a lot of waiting but also plenty of good things. Trisquel 9.0, codename "Etiona" is our most polished release yet, thanks to the contribution of a very committed team of volunteers. This release comes in several […]

It's been nearly a year, so here's a new release. Thanks to Karl Berry for making nearly all of the nontrivial changes. Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:   https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/vc-dwim/vc-dwim-1.10.tar.xz   […]

A new bug fix release.  Happy hacking!

The Guix hackers are very happy to announce the first online Guix Day Conference on Sunday November, 22nd. This conference is open to everyone and will be held entirely online. Want to speak? Submit your proposal!Important dates:November 6th: Deadline for talks proposal.November 14th: Deadline […]

Greets!You may have seen an interesting paper cross your radar a couple months ago: Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly, by Daniel Lehmann, Johannes Kinder and Michael Pradel. The paper makes some strong claims and I would like to share some thoughts on it.reader-response […]

Greetings, internet! Today I have the silliest of demos for you: malloc-as-a-service.loading walloc... >  JavaScript disabled, no walloc demo. See the walloc web page for more information. >&&<&>>>>>&&>The above input box, if things […]

This Friday, October 9th, from 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) until 17:00 (21:00 UTC), we will host a fun and informative live event with guests from all over the world, to discuss the future of free software and learn from their experiences in different fields driving free software forward. You can find […]

New article by Richard Stallman: Should Rockets Have Only Free Software? Could there be a rocket that is totally free software? Should we demand that SpaceX liberate the software in its satellite launching rockets? I don't think the person who asked me this was serious, but answering that question […]

Join us in celebrating the FSF's thirty-fifth year of fighting for software freedom. Online and via IRC in #fsf (on Freenode) Source files for the anniversary artwork by illustrator and artist David Revoy. Our work will not be finished until every computer user is able to do all of their digital […]

I'm mirroring and reworking a large Git repository with git filter-branch (conversion ETA: 20h), and I was wondering how to use --state-branch which is supposed to speed-up later updates, or split a large conversion in several updates. The documentation is pretty terse, the option can produce […]

The ghostpcl and ghostxps packages prior to version 9.53.2-2 were missing a soname link each. This has been fixed in 9.53.2-2, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked files created by ldconfig. If you get any of these errors ghostpcl: /usr/lib/libgpcl6.so.9 exists in filesystem […]

2020-10: GNU Taler presentation by Javier Sepúlveda in ValenciaJavier Sepúlveda will give a talk in Spanish about GNU Taler at Valencia at an event organized by the GNU/Linux group from Valencia, which is a public organization supported by the Valencia City Hall to promote urban […]

Note: This originally appeared as a post on my Patreon account... thanks to all who have donated to support my work! Hello, hello! Spritely's website has finally launched! Whew... it's been a lot of work to get it to this state! Plus check out our new logo: Not bad, eh? Also with plenty of […]

This is to announce grep-3.5, a stable release. Thanks especially to Paul Eggert, Norihiro Tanaka and Bruno Haible for changes both in grep proper and in gnulib. There have been 56 commits by 3 people in the 38 weeks since 3.4. See the NEWS below for a summary. Thanks to everyone who has […]