There were 21 new GNU releases this month!

New GNU releases as of July 30, 2012:

aris-1.8        grep-2.13            linux-libre-3.5-gnu
automake-1.12.2 guile-2.0.6          mpc-1.0
bison-2.6       help2man-1.40.11     mpfr-3.1.1
gama-1.12       icecat-13.0.1        nettle-2.5
gcc-4.5.4       libmicrohttpd-0.9.21 source-highlight-3.1.7
gnujump-1.0.8   libobjc-1.6.1        xorriso-1.2.4
gnutls-3.0.21   librejs-4.8          zile-2.4.8

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This month we welcome Tassilo Horn as a new co-maintainer of auctex, and Graham Percival as a new co-maintainer of Lilypond.

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.