27 new GNU releases this month (as of January 24, 2012):

autogen-5.17.1
gnunet-0.9.5
mtools-4.0.18
automake-1.13.1
groff-1.22.1
nettle-2.6
cgicc-3.2.10
gsrc-2013.01.06
parallel-20130122
freeipmi-1.2.4
help2man-1.41.1
pycdio-0.18
gawk-4.0.2
libcdio-paranoia-10.2+0.90
pyconfigure-0.1.1
gettext-0.18.2
libmicrohttpd-0.9.24
remotecontrol-1.0
glibc-2.17
libopts-37.0.12
sharutils-4.13.3
gnu-ghostscript-9.06.0
mifluz-0.25.0
sipwitch-1.5.0 gnun-0.7
motti-3.0.1
solfege-3.20.8

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We welcome Lucas Bonnet as a new co-maintainer of GNU EMMS, Stephen Dawson as the maintainer of the new package remotecontrol (first release already made), Holger Hans Peter Freyther as the new maintainer of GNU Smalltalk, Shaunak Shaha as the new maintainer of GNU DDD, and Jose Marchesi as the new maintainer of GNU sed (in addition to the many things he already does).

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