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I will be delivering my talk, "It is easy to contribute to GNU," Saturday, May 4, 2024, 12:15--13:00 EDT (16:00 UTC), at the LibrePlanet 2024 conference, and I hope you’ll check it out! LibrePlanet is a conference about software freedom, happening on May 4 & 5, 2024. The event is hosted […]

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.10.

With the release of Libntlm version 1.8 the release tarball can be reproduced on several distributions. We also publish a signed minimal source-only tarball, produced by git-archive which is the same format used by Savannah, Codeberg, GitLab, GitHub and others. Reproducibility of both tarballs are […]

New England free software supporters: we invite you to come socialize with other local free software supporters at LibrePlanet 2024.

Stow 2.4.0 has been released. This release contains some much-wanted bug-fixes — specifically, fixing the --dotfiles option to work with dot-foo directories, and avoiding a spurious warning when unstowing. There were also very many clean-ups and improvements, mostly internal and not visible […]

In this blog, we're sharing with you all the ways you can socialize and participate in LibrePlanet 2024: Cultivating Community outside of the official program.

While the work to analyze the xz backdoor is in progress, several ideas have been suggested to improve the software supply chain ecosystem. Some of those ideas are good, some of the ideas are at best irrelevant and harmless, and some suggestions are plain bad. I’d like to attempt to formalize […]

GNU Parallel 20240322 ('Sweden') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4 Quote of the month:    GNU parallel ftw     -- hostux.social/@rmpr @_paulmairo@twitter New in this release: Bug fixes and man page updates. GNU Parallel - For […]

I am happy to announce the first release of poke-elf, version 1.0. The tarball poke-elf-1.0.tar.gz is now available at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/poke/poke-elf-1.0.tar.gz. > poke-elf (https://jemarch.net/poke-elf) is a full-fledged GNU poke pickle for editing ELF object > files, executables, […]

I am happy to announce a new major release of GNU poke, version 4.0. This release is the result of a year of development.  A lot of things have changed and improved with respect to the 3.x series; we have fixed many bugs and added quite a lot of new exciting and useful features.  See […]

From: "Arch Linux: Recent news updates: David Runge" arch-announce@lists.archlinux.org TL;DR: Upgrade your systems and container images now! As many of you may have already read 1, the upstream release tarballs for xz in version 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 contain malicious code which adds a backdoor. This […]

Noteworthy changes in release 1.24.5 (2024-03-10) [stable] Fix how subdomain matches are checked for HSTS. Fixes a minor issue where cookies may be leaked to the wrong domain Wget will now also parse the srcset attribute in <source> HTML tags Support reading fetchmail style "user" and […]

This is to announce coreutils-9.5, a stable release. See the NEWS below for a summary of changes. There have been 187 commits by 18 people in the 30 weeks since 9.4. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! The following people contributed changes to this release:   Aearil […]

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- March 27, 2024 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced Alyssa Rosenzweig, who reverse-engineered Apple's current line of graphics processing units (GPU), as keynote speaker for LibrePlanet 2024. LibrePlanet 2024: Cultivating Community is the sixteenth […]

libgnunetchat 0.3.1 released This is mostly a bugfix release for libgnunetchat 0.3.0 to reduce build issues. Download links libgnunetchat-0.3.1.tar.gz libgnunetchat-0.3.1.tar.gz.sig The GPG key used to sign is: […]

I'm very pleased to announce the release of a new version of GNU PSPP.  PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data.  It is a free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS. Changes from 2.0.0 to 2.0.1: Bug fixes. Translation updates. Please send PSPP bug reports to […]

GNUnet 0.21.1 This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.21.0. It primarily addresses some connectivity issues introduced with our new transport subsystem. Links Source: https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.21.1.tar.gz ( […]

I am delighted to announce version 4.15.6 of GNU a2ps, the Anything to PostScript converter. This release fixes a couple of bugs, in particular with printing (the -P flag). See below for details. Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature:   […]

Rebuilding software five years later, how hard can it be? It can’t be that hard, especially when you pride yourself on having a tool that can travel in time and that does a good job at ensuring reproducible builds, right?In hindsight, we can tell you: it’s more challenging than it […]

A security issue has been identified in guix-daemon which allows for fixed-output derivations, such as source code tarballs or Git checkouts, to be corrupted by an unprivileged user. This could also lead to local privilege escalation. This was originally reported to Nix but also affects Guix as we […]

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Overview GNU Hyperbole 9.0.1, the Rhapsody release, is now available on GNU ELPA.  And oh what a release it is: extensive new features, new video demos, org and org roam integration, Markdown and Org file support in HyRolo, recursive directory and wildcard file scanning in HyRolo, and […]

The initial injustice of proprietary software often leads to further injustices: malicious functionalities. The introduction of unjust techniques in nonfree software, such as back doors, DRM, tethering, and others, has become ever more frequent. Nowadays, it is standard practice. We at the GNU […]

Messenger-GTK 0.9.0 Following the new release of "libgnunetchat" there have been some changes regarding the applications utilizing it. So we are pleased to announce the new release of the Messenger-GTK application. This release will be compatible with libgnunetchat 0.3.0 and GNUnet 0.21.0 […]

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.9.4.

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libgnunetchat 0.3.0 released We are pleased to announce the release of libgnunetchat 0.3.0. This is a major new release bringing compatibility with the major changes in the Messenger service from latest GNUnet release 0.21.0 adding new message kinds, adjusting message processing and […]

GNUnet 0.21.0 released We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.21.0. GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting […]

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What does it take to “identify software”? How can we tell what software is running on a machine to determine, for example, what security vulnerabilities might affect it?In October 2023, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a white paper entitled […]

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/exciting-talks-hands-on-workshops-and-thrilling-discussions-await-you-at-libreplanet-2024 Examples for sessions on cultivating community we are looking forward to are:     "Fostering and renewing community in a long-lived free software project" […]

GNU Parallel 20240222 ('Навальный') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4 Quote of the month:     Stop paralyzing start parallelizing     -- @harshgandhi100@YouTube   New […]

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A minor bugfix release, mostly fixes missing dwg2ps.1 See https://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/ and https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libredwg.git/tree/NEWS?h=0.13.3 Here are the compressed sources: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libredwg/libredwg-0.13.3.tar.gz (20.1MB) […]

24 February 2024 Unifont 15.1.05 is now available.  This release adds the 222 CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D glyphs (U+2B740..U+2B81D) and 335 Plane 2 and Plane 3 common Cantonese ideographs, as well as other additions amounting to almost 600 ideograph additions, from Boris Zhang, […]

Download from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/libunistring-1.2.tar.gz This is a stable release. New in this release: The data tables and algorithms have been updated to Unicode version 15.1.0. New functions u8_pcpy, u16_pcpy, u32_pcpy, similar to mempcpy. New functions […]

Download from https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.22.5.tar.gz This is a bug-fix release. New in this release: The replacements for the printf()/fprintf()/... functions that are provided through <libintl.h> on native Windows and NetBSD now enable GCC's format string analysis […]

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A minor bugfix release, fixes error: cannot find input file: `test/xmlsuite/Makefile.in' See https://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/ and https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libredwg.git/tree/NEWS?h=0.13.2 Here are the compressed sources: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libredwg/libredwg-0.13.2.tar.gz […]

Guix contributors and users got together in Brussels to explore Guix's status, chat about new ideas and spend some time together enjoying Belgian beer! Here's a recap of what was discussed.Day 1The first day kicked off with an update on the project's health, given by Efraim Flashner representing […]

A minor bugfix release, but broken. error: cannot find input file: `test/xmlsuite/Makefile.in' You can safely patch the test/xmlsuite error away. See https://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/ and https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libredwg.git/tree/NEWS?h=0.13.1 Here are the compressed sources: […]

GNU lightning is a library to aid in making portable programs that compile assembly code at run time. Development: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lightning.git Download release: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/lightning/lightning-2.2.3.tar.gz   GNU Lightning 2.2.3 main new features: PowerPC port […]

Can now also read and write all DWG formats pre-R13. See https://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/ and https://github.com/LibreDWG/libredwg/blob/0.13/NEWS Now we'll finish work on encode support for r2004+. Here are the compressed but broken sources: error: cannot find input file: […]

The 22st release of GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro) is now available. See the full announcement for all the new features in this release and the many bugs that have been found and fixed: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnuastro/2024-02/msg00000.html

Join us on our journey towards informational self-determination in payments! As part of NGI TALER, NLnet Foundation is running an open call and will award grants to third parties working on GNU Taler enhancements globally. The application process is simple and the first submission deadline is April […]

We are glad to announce the release of GNU libmicrohttpd v1.0, and future plans for the library.

FreeIPMI 1.6.12 - 11/19/23 -------------------------- o Use poll() over select() to avoid fd limit in openipmi driver. o Fix potential portability problems on systems without cbrt(). o Minor documentation updates. FreeIPMI 1.6.13 - 01/26/24 -------------------------- o Fix build issues on […]

GNU Parallel 20240122 ('Frederik X') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4 Quote of the month:   GNU Parallel alone provides more value than moreutils     -- Ferret7446@news.ycombinator.com   New in this release: --sshlogin supports […]