There were 13 new GNU releases this month!

Releases as of October 29, 2012:

• binutils-2.23
• bison-2.6.4
• coreutils-8.20
• freeipmi-1.2.2
• gnuhealth-1.6.4
• gnutls-3.1.3
• libcdio-0.90
• libextractor-1.0.1
• parallel-20121022
• patch-2.7.1
• units-2.01
• xnee-3.14
• zile-2.4.9

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