• bison-3.4.1
• cssc-1.4.1
• emms-5.2
• gama-2.05
• gcc-9.1.0
• gdb-8.3
• gettext-0.20.1
• gnunet-0.11.4
• gnupg-2.2.16
• guix-1.0.1
• hyperbole-7.0.3
• libidn-2.2.0
• librejs-7.20.1
• mcron-1.1.2
• orgadoc-1.2
• parallel-20190522
• shepherd-0.6.1
• unifont-12.1.01

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This month, we welcome Wolf as co-maintainer of gengetopt.

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.

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As always, please feel free to write to us at maintainers@gnu.org with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.

At the LibrePlanet 2019 conference, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) recorded 40 speaker sessions -- over 24 hours of video, and they are now online on our GNU MediaGoblin instance.

The FSF team put their heads together and selected a few of our favorites from the entire 2019 Libreplanet program for you to start with -- brought to you in a Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)-free, downloadable, free format.

• In their talk, entitled "Sharing global opportunities for new developers in the Wikipedia community," Srishti Sethi gave us some valuable insights into how you can get involved in the Wikipedia community.

• Amanda Sopkin's talk, "The secret battle of encryption algorithms," delved into the history of encryption, with lots of fun factoids about how encryption methods were invented, used and foiled.

• Martha Esperilla and Stefanía Acevedo joined us from Hackerspace Rancho Electrónico, sharing their work in building community around their work, including CoAA TV, an online audiovisual archive.

• In "GPL enforcement and customer benefits: Evidence from OpenWRT," Do Yoon Kim explained to us how his research shows that free software wireless routers are valued higher and sell better.

• Mary Kate Fain asked us "What free software can learn from successful social movements," and answered this question by sharing experiences as a grassroots organizer and as a free software activist.

• Free Software Award winners OpenStreetMap and Deb Nicholson both shared their work talking about "OpenStreetMap" mapping developments, and the free software community challenges we face in "Free software/utopia," respectively.

These are just a few of the interesting and varied subjects discussed at the LibrePlanet 2019 conference. Please have a look at the entire collection of 2019 videos and photos for hours of viewing pleasure. And if you really can't get enough, you can scroll down to the archives, where you can revisit the 2018 videos and photos, and much more.

All the LibrePlanet 2019 videos were created using free software, with high resolution USB Web cameras and USB audio mixing desks, whose drivers are supported by Trisquel. We want to thank everyone who participated in LibrePlanet 2019, plus our sponsor, Red Hat, and you too, for your continued support of free software, the FSF, and LibrePlanet.

We look forward to welcoming you again in 2020!

On May 2, the GNU Guix project announced the release of version 1.0 of the Guix software manager. Since the project’s beginnings a little more than seven years ago, nearly 300 volunteers from all over the world have contributed more than 50,000 improvements. Guix now provides a huge collection of bit-reproducible free software packages consisting of close to 10,000 applications and libraries from a wide range of categories, including gaming, music production, video editing, programming, and specialized scientific software.

What distinguishes Guix from other free software distributions is that it is designed with reproducibility in mind. It builds packages in controlled environments to ensure that the results are bit for bit the same no matter when or where packages are built. This means that users can easily deploy the very same software environment or even the very same operating system, at different points in time or on different machines. Reproducibility provides strong assurances that are of fundamental value for security, for the use of software in computational science, and for user freedom.

While Guix offers package management features such as transactional upgrades, safe roll-backs, and per-user profiles, package management is just one special case of its general facilities for reproducible, declarative software environment management. Guix bends the notion of a traditional package manager by extending these features to building systems: lightweight containers, Docker images, virtual machine images or bare-metal operating systems -- Guix specifies a flexible, programmable configuration framework for reproducible software deployment at every level. With Guix’s simple, well-documented extension to the general purpose language Scheme, users and developers alike can easily declare custom packages and package variants, compose and inspect arbitrarily complex software environments, and generate full operating systems with minimal effort -- Guix is designed to be hackable!

Whether you’re a software developer, a user, or a free software enthusiast, we hope GNU Guix will provide you with the tools to deploy and manage software with confidence and ease, qualities that are not usually associated with software deployment. The Guix community would love to hear from you!

The FSF supports the work of GNU Guix through its Working Together for Free Software fund. Make a contribution here!

• dico-2.9
• emacs-26.2
• gama-2.04
• gawk-5.0.0
• gnuastro-0.9
• gnuhealth-client-3.4.4
• gnunet-0.11.3
• gnupg-2.2.15
• gnutls-3.6.7
• libcdio-2.1.0
• nano-4.2
• parallel-20190422
• rush-1.9
• shepherd-0.6.0
• wget-1.20.3

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To download: nearly all GNU software is available from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/, or preferably one of its mirrors from https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html. You can use the URL https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ to be automatically redirected to a (hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.

This month, we welcome Tom Tromey as comaintainer of src-hilight and Abhilash Raj as comaintainer of mailman.

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.

If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

As always, please feel free to write to us at maintainers@gnu.org with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.

The Free Software Directory is an essential catalog of free software online. The Directory is maintained by countless volunteers dedicated to the promotion of software that respects your personal liberty. As with any group composed of volunteers, the informal Directory team has people who come and go, and right now, it could really use some fresh new members to kick our efforts into high gear.

Tens of thousands of people visit the Directory every month to discover free software and explore information about version control, documentation, and licensing. All of this information is also exported in machine-readable formats, making it a valuable source of data for the study of trends in free software. The Directory is powered by MediaWiki, the same software used by Wikipedia.

A few statistics on what our team and our amazing volunteers have achieved in the last few months and years:

• The Directory passed 16,000 entries last summer, and is now up to 16,176 total entries.

• The Official Backlog of the Directory has been improved to better track active and archived bugs.

• The migration to using the SPDX license identifiers for the Directory is currently underway.

• In 2018, the Directory received 962,847 unique visitors, with 1,671,047 total visits and 15,129,307 page views. So far in 2019, the directory averaged 79,859 unique visitors a month.

• The Directory currently has 3,093 registered users.

There are also several larger projects that are in need of new leaders. We organize these projects via our Project Teams. If one of those projects sounds interesting, or if you have another idea about improving the Directory, we would love for you to join us.

Adding and maintaining entries to the Directory is crucial work to give people access to free software which has only free dependencies and runs on a free OS. Every Friday at 12:00-15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC), volunteers meet on IRC in the #fsf channel on irc.freenode.org to add new entries, update existing ones, and talk about free software together (to see the meeting start time in your time zone, run this in GNU bash: date --date='TZ="America/New_York" 12:00 this Fri').

If you can't wait or don't have the time to jump onto IRC on Friday afternoons, you can still help: check out the Free Software Directory Participation Guide for instructions.

No matter how you participate, improving the Free Software Directory is an easy, nuts-and-bolts way to make a contribution to the free software movement, bringing us a tinier step every day to a truly free society. We look forward to seeing you on IRC!