19 new GNU releases as of August 28, 2012:

• alive-2.0.0
• emacs-24.2
• help2man-1.40.12
• autogen-5.16.2
• freeipmi-1.2.1
• icecat-14.0
• automake-1.12.3
• gdb-7.5
• mediagoblin-0.3.1
• bison-2.6.2
• gnubatch-1.6
• parallel-20120822
• ccide-0.6.5-1
• gnuhealth-1.6.3
• wget-1.14
• coreutils-8.19
• gnutls-3.1.0
• cppi-1.17
• grep-2.14

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This month we welcome Thien-Thi Nguyen as a new maintainer of alive (first release above) in addition to his work maintaining RCS, Jordi Hermoso as a new co-maintainer of Octave, and Thomas Young as the author of the new GNU package ccide.

Several GNU packages are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to GNU, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

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