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28 June 2026 Unifont 17.0.05 is now available.  This is a minor release aligned with Unicode 17.0.0.

This release notably includes separate BDF, PCF, and OpenType font files with Unicode T-source Chinese glyphs created by Kusanagi_Sans and Kao Chen-tung (高振東) in font files beginning with "unifont_t".  Many other Chinese glyphs have been added.  See the ChangeLog file for details.

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GNU Parallel 20260622 ('Rape Gang Inquiry') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4

Quote of the month:

  GNU Parallel is much nicer than xargs and more powerful ... definitely recommended!
    -- boomertsfx@reddit

New in this release:

A year ago, Guix migrated to Codeberg for source code hosting, issue tracking, and pull requests. This is a significant change for a project with more than 400 people contributing code each year, after more than decade hosting code at Savannah and dealing with bug reports and patches by email, tracked by a Debbugs instance. This article discusses the process that led to this change and lists some takeaways, a year later.

Did your pip install fail with longintrepr.h: No such file or directory? The file likely is on your system, but it sometime or another it was moved, from /usr/include/python3.xx/longintrepr.h to /usr/include/python3.xx/cpython/longintrepr.h.

This is to announce CSSC-1.5.0-rc3, a beta release.

This is a release candidate for a future stable 1.5.0 release.

There have been 46 commits by 2 people in the 109 weeks since CSSC-1.5.0-rc2.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:

  Greg A. Woods (1)
  Paul Bryce (2)
  James Youngman (43)

James
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GNUtrition 0.33 is now released. This marks the first release of GNUtrition since 2012, approximately 14 years ago!

GNUtrition is free nutrition analysis software. The USDA Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) is used as the source of food nutrient information.

Version 5.5 of GNU direvent is available for downloads. New in this version:

• All subprocesses are terminated before exit
• New configuration statement: shutdown-timeout

See the NEWS file for more details.

Libtoolers!

The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.6.1, a beta release.

GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a
consistent, portable interface. GNU Libtool ships with GNU libltdl, which
hides the complexity of loading dynamic runtime libraries (modules)
behind a consistent, portable interface.

There have been 34 commits by 14 people in the 37 weeks since 2.6.0.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!