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libtool @ Savannah: libtool-2.5.2 released [beta]
Libtoolers!
The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.5.2, a beta release.
This beta release was not planned, but additional testing of a recent bugfix
was requested for distros to have the chance to test it with mass-rebuilds.
The details of this bugfix can be found here:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=71489
The commit for this bugfix can be found here:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?id=0e1b33332429cd578367bd0ad420c065d5caf0ac
I hope to release the stable in a couple of weeks if testing goes well!
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 9 commits by 4 people in the 35 days since 2.5.1.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Bruno Haible (1)
Ileana Dumitrescu (6)
Sergey Poznyakoff (1)
Tobias Stoeckmann (1)
Ileana
[on behalf of the libtool maintainers]
Here is the GNU libtool home page:
https://gnu.org/s/libtool/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.5.2
or run this command from a git-cloned libtool directory:
git shortlog v2.5.1..v2.5.2
Here are the compressed sources:
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.2.tar.gz (1.9MB)
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.2.tar.xz (1.0MB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures:
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.2.tar.gz.sig
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.2.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
e3384dc0099855942f76ef8a97be94edab6f56de libtool-2.5.2.tar.gz
KSdftFsjbW/3IKQz+c1fYeovUsw6ouX4m6V3Jr2lR5M= libtool-2.5.2.tar.gz
71b7333e80b76510f5dbd14db54d311d577bb716 libtool-2.5.2.tar.xz
e2C09MNk6HhRMNNKmP8Hv6mmFywgxdtwirScaRPkgmM= libtool-2.5.2.tar.xz
Verify the base64 SHA256 checksum with cksum -a sha256 --check
from coreutils-9.2 or OpenBSD's cksum since 2007.
Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify libtool-2.5.2.tar.gz.sig
The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:
pub rsa4096 2021-09-23 [SC]
FA26 CA78 4BE1 8892 7F22 B99F 6570 EA01 146F 7354
uid Ileana Dumitrescu ileanadumi95@protonmail.com
uid Ileana Dumitrescu ileanadumitrescu95@gmail.com
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
gpg --locate-external-key ileanadumi95@protonmail.com
gpg --recv-keys 6570EA01146F7354
wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=libtool&download=1' | gpg --import -
As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
keyring:
wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify libtool-2.5.2.tar.gz.sig
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.72e
Automake 1.17
Gnulib v1.0-563-gd3efdd55f3
NEWS
- Noteworthy changes in release 2.5.2 (2024-08-29) [beta]
** Bug fixes:
- Use shared objects built in source tree instead of the installed
versions for more reliable testing.
- Fix test in bug_62343.at for confirmed Cygwin/Mingw32 where the
incorrect architecture version of a compiler was generating
object files that could not be linked with a library file.
- Fix typos found with codespell.
** Changes in supported systems or compilers:
- Add support for 32-bit mode on FreeBSD/powerpc64.
Enjoy!
GNU MediaGoblin: MediaGoblin 0.14.0
We're pleased to announce the release of GNU MediaGoblin 0.14.0. See the release notes for full details and upgrading instructions.
Highlights of this release are:
- Preliminary support for Docker installation
- Preliminary support for OS packaging on GNU Guix
- Major configure/build overhaul
- Extended configuration documentation
This version has been tested on Debian Bookworm (12), Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 39.
Thanks go to co-maintainer Olivier Mehani for his major contributions in this release!
To join us and help improve MediaGoblin, please visit our getting involved page.
FSF News: Thank you Odile Bénassy for four years of service on the FSF Board of Directors!
BOSTON (August 27, 2024) -- Free Software Foundation (FSF) Board Member Odile Bénassy has stepped down from the Board after four years of service.
GNUnet News: GSoC Work Product: GNUnet over HTTP3
GSoC Work Product: GNUnet over HTTP/3
Goals of the Project.
This project aimed to implement a new communicator for GNUnet's Transport Next Generation (TNG) using the HTTP/3 protocol.
What I did.
We chose ngtcp2 and nghttp3 for their stability and adherence to RFC standards. I began by studying communicator fundamentals and analyzing relevant code examples. I then created a QUIC communicator using libngtcp2, implementing essential communication features. Building on this, I integrated libnghttp3 to support HTTP/3 layer communication. After establishing basic uni-directional communication, I proceeded to implement bi-directional capabilities. With the help and guidance of my mentors, I completed the above work, including the selection and design of message transmission methods and the implementation of code.
The current state.
We have two branches, dev/shichao/http3 for basic communication and dev/shichao/http3bidirect for bi-directional communication. They can pass the basic tests. However, we found that there were occasional failures during the test. We currently assume that this is caused by the test harness not being able to process the received data packets in time.
What's left to do.
There are still many areas that can be improved in the HTTP/3 communicator, such as using CID map instead of IP address map. In addition, in bi-directional communication, the server's sending rate is slightly lower than the client's transmission rate, and this will be optimized in the future. Finally, integrating the Peer Identity into the TLS handshake in order to authenticate the peers is a natural feature to implement.
What code got merged (or not) upstream.
All the code is available upstream in the master branch and will be available with the next release.
Challenges I Encountered.
Initially, I was unfamiliar with the ngtcp2 and nghttp3 libraries. While there were some examples available, I found limited guidance for more advanced usage. Through careful study and experimentation, I gradually gained a deeper understanding of these libraries. But in this process, I have a deeper understanding of QUIC and HTTP/3 protocols, and also improved my coding skills.
parallel @ Savannah: GNU Parallel 20240822 ('Southport') released
GNU Parallel 20240822 ('Southport') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4
Quote of the month:
honestly the coolest software i've ever seen gotta be gnu parallel or
ffmpeg, nothing like them
-- @scootykins scoot
New in this release:
- --match Match input source with regexp to set replacement fields.
- {:%fmt} Use printf formatting of replacement strings.
- Bug fixes and man page updates.
News about GNU Parallel:
- Powerful GNU parallel, more than a loop https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/powerful-gnu-parallel-more-than-loop-zhenguo-zhang-18dxc
- How To Increase File Transfer Speed Using Parallel Rsync? https://contentbase.com/blog/increase-file-transfer-speed-parallel-rsync/
- Converting WebP Images to PNG Using parallel and dwebp https://bytefreaks.net/2024/07/27
- Turbocharging the Box CLI with GNU Parallel https://medium.com/box-developer-blog/turbocharging-the-box-cli-with-gnu-parallel-ee44c48811c0
GNU Parallel - For people who live life in the parallel lane.
If you like GNU Parallel record a video testimonial: Say who you are, what you use GNU Parallel for, how it helps you, and what you like most about it. Include a command that uses GNU Parallel if you feel like it.
About GNU Parallel
GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A job can be a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU Parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.
If you use xargs and tee today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use as GNU Parallel is written to have the same options as xargs. If you write loops in shell, you will find GNU Parallel may be able to replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running several jobs in parallel. GNU Parallel can even replace nested loops.
GNU Parallel makes sure output from the commands is the same output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it possible to use output from GNU Parallel as input for other programs.
For example you can run this to convert all jpeg files into png and gif files and have a progress bar:
parallel --bar convert {1} {1.}.{2} ::: *.jpg ::: png gif
Or you can generate big, medium, and small thumbnails of all jpeg files in sub dirs:
find . -name '*.jpg' |
parallel convert -geometry {2} {1} {1//}/thumb{2}_{1/} :::: - ::: 50 100 200
You can find more about GNU Parallel at: http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/
You can install GNU Parallel in just 10 seconds with:
$ (wget -O - pi.dk/3 || lynx -source pi.dk/3 || curl pi.dk/3/ || \
fetch -o - http://pi.dk/3 ) > install.sh
$ sha1sum install.sh | grep 883c667e01eed62f975ad28b6d50e22a
12345678 883c667e 01eed62f 975ad28b 6d50e22a
$ md5sum install.sh | grep cc21b4c943fd03e93ae1ae49e28573c0
cc21b4c9 43fd03e9 3ae1ae49 e28573c0
$ sha512sum install.sh | grep ec113b49a54e705f86d51e784ebced224fdff3f52
79945d9d 250b42a4 2067bb00 99da012e c113b49a 54e705f8 6d51e784 ebced224
fdff3f52 ca588d64 e75f6033 61bd543f d631f592 2f87ceb2 ab034149 6df84a35
$ bash install.sh
Watch the intro video on http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1
Walk through the tutorial (man parallel_tutorial). Your command line will love you for it.
When using programs that use GNU Parallel to process data for publication please cite:
O. Tange (2018): GNU Parallel 2018, March 2018, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146014.
If you like GNU Parallel:
- Give a demo at your local user group/team/colleagues
- Post the intro videos on Reddit/Diaspora*/forums/blogs/ Identi.ca/Google+/Twitter/Facebook/Linkedin/mailing lists
- Get the merchandise https://gnuparallel.threadless.com/designs/gnu-parallel
- Request or write a review for your favourite blog or magazine
- Request or build a package for your favourite distribution (if it is not already there)
- Invite me for your next conference
If you use programs that use GNU Parallel for research:
- Please cite GNU Parallel in you publications (use --citation)
If GNU Parallel saves you money:
- (Have your company) donate to FSF https://my.fsf.org/donate/
About GNU SQL
GNU sql aims to give a simple, unified interface for accessing databases through all the different databases' command line clients. So far the focus has been on giving a common way to specify login information (protocol, username, password, hostname, and port number), size (database and table size), and running queries.
The database is addressed using a DBURL. If commands are left out you will get that database's interactive shell.
When using GNU SQL for a publication please cite:
O. Tange (2011): GNU SQL - A Command Line Tool for Accessing Different Databases Using DBURLs, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, April 2011:29-32.
About GNU Niceload
GNU niceload slows down a program when the computer load average (or other system activity) is above a certain limit. When the limit is reached the program will be suspended for some time. If the limit is a soft limit the program will be allowed to run for short amounts of time before being suspended again. If the limit is a hard limit the program will only be allowed to run when the system is below the limit.
FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, August 23, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, August 23 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.
www-zh-cn @ Savannah: Join us in saying goodbye to our beloved FSF office on August 16!
Dear Translators:
The FSF is officially going remote, so come visit the FSF office one last time. After August 31st, FSF will no longer be residing at the office on 51 Franklin Street.
For the final time, FSF will open the office to everyone who would like to visit the office one last time on Friday, August 16th from 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. for the move-out party.
You can also leave your words at the member forum:
https://forum.members.fsf.org/t/we-are-closing-down-the-51-franklin-street-office-do-you-have-any-memories-to-share/5614
You can write your own blog as I have done:
https://liberal.codeberg.page/goodbye-51-franklin-street.html
May FSF long live in our mind.
FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, August 16, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, August 16 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.
rush @ Savannah: GNU Rush Version 2.4
Version 2.4 of GNU Rush is available for download.
New in this release:
- Use getgrouplist(3) call, if available;
- Fixes in the rush-po script;
- Bugfixes
FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, August 9, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, August 9 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.
health @ Savannah: GNU Health Hospital Management patchset 4.4.1 released
Dear community
GNU Health Hospital Management 4.4.1 has been released!
Priority : High
Table of Contents
- About GNU Health Patchsets
- Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
- Installation notes
- List of other issues related to this patchset
About GNU Health Patchsets
We provide "patchsets" to stable releases. Patchsets allow applying bug fixes and updates on production systems. Always try to keep your production system up-to-date with the latest patches.
Patches and Patchsets maximize uptime for production systems, and keep your system updated, without the need to do a whole installation.
NOTE: Patchsets are applied on previously installed systems only. For new, fresh installations, download and install the whole tarball (ie, gnuhealth-4.4.1.tar.gz)
Updating your system with the GNU Health control Center
You can do automatic updates on the GNU Health HMIS kernel and modules using the GNU Health control center program.
Please refer to the administration manual section ( https://docs.gnuhealth.org/his/techguide/administration/controlcenter.html )
The GNU Health control center works on standard installations (those done following the installation manual on wikibooks). Don't use it if you use an alternative method or if your distribution does not follow the GNU Health packaging guidelines.
Installation Notes
You must apply previous patchsets before installing this patchset. If your patchset level is 4.4.0, then just follow the general instructions. You can find the patchsets at GNU Health main download site at GNU.org (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/health/)
In most cases, GNU Health Control center (gnuhealth-control) takes care of applying the patches for you.
Pre-requisites for upgrade to 4.4.1: None
Now follow the general instructions at
https://docs.gnuhealth.org/his/techguide/administration/controlcenter.html
After applying the patches, make a full update of your GNU Health database as explained in the documentation.
When running "gnuhealth-control" for the first time, you will see the following message: "Please restart now the update with the new control center" Please do so. Restart the process and the update will continue.
- Restart the GNU Health server
List of other issues and tasks related to this patchset
- Issue #15: readfp on setup.py no longer supported since python 3.12 https://codeberg.org/gnuhealth/his/issues/15
- Issue #33: health orthanc: Errors on imaging request when worklist template set on imaging test type https://codeberg.org/gnuhealth/his/issues/33
For detailed information about each issue, you can visit :
https://codeberg.org/gnuhealth/his/issues
For detailed information you can read about Patches and Patchsets
Happy hacking!
Gary Benson: Python atomic counter
Do you need a thread-safe atomic counter in Python? Use itertools.count():
>>> **from itertools import count**
>>> **counter = count()**
>>> **next (counter)**
0
>>> **next (counter)**
1
>>> **next (counter)**
2
I found this in the decorator package, labelled "Atomic get-and-increment provided by the GIL". So simple! So cool!
libtool @ Savannah: libtool-2.5.1 released [beta]
Libtoolers!
The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.5.1, 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 33 commits by 8 people in the 10 weeks since 2.5.0.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
Bruno Haible (3)
Ileana Dumitrescu (24)
Julien ÉLIE (1)
Khem Raj (1)
Peter Kokot (1)
Richard Purdie (1)
Vincent Lefevre (1)
trcrsired (1)
Ileana
[on behalf of the libtool maintainers]
Here is the GNU libtool home page:
https://gnu.org/s/libtool/
For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.5.1
or run this command from a git-cloned libtool directory:
git shortlog v2.5.0..v2.5.1
Here are the compressed sources:
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz (1.9MB)
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.1.tar.xz (1020KB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures:
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz.sig
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.1.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
5e2f00be5b616b0a6120b2947e562b8448e139b2 libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz
aoPtr9QtTi69wJV5+ZzoKNX5MvFzjeAklcyMKITkMM4= libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz
9f72b896f593c4f81cdd6c20c9d99463663e48a9 libtool-2.5.1.tar.xz
0oDmTIzb8UXXb7kbOyGe2rAb20PLmUAuSsuX0BAGNv0= libtool-2.5.1.tar.xz
Verify the base64 SHA256 checksum with cksum -a sha256 --check
from coreutils-9.2 or OpenBSD's cksum since 2007.
Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz.sig
The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:
pub rsa4096 2021-09-23 [SC]
FA26 CA78 4BE1 8892 7F22 B99F 6570 EA01 146F 7354
uid Ileana Dumitrescu ileanadumi95@protonmail.com
uid Ileana Dumitrescu ileanadumitrescu95@gmail.com
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
gpg --locate-external-key ileanadumi95@protonmail.com
gpg --recv-keys 6570EA01146F7354
wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=libtool&download=1' | gpg --import -
As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
keyring:
wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz.sig
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.72e
Automake 1.17
Gnulib v1.0-563-gd3efdd55f3
NEWS
- Noteworthy changes in release 2.5.1 (2024-07-25) [beta]
** New features:
- Support C++17 compilers in the C++ tests.
- Add sysroot to library path for cross builds.
** Important incompatible changes:
- Autoconf 2.64 is required for libtool.m4 to use AS_VAR_APPEND.
** Bug fixes:
- Fix for uninitialized variable in libtoolize.
- Skip Fortran/C demo tests when using Clang with fsanitize to
avoid an incompatible ASan runtime.
- Updated documentation for testing.
- Fix failing test to account for program-prefix usage.
- Replaced a deprecated macro to remove warning messages in the
testsuite logs.
- Fix number of arguments for AC_CHECK_PROG call.
- Fix test failures with no-canonical-prefixes flag by checking
if the flag is supported first.
- Fix test failures with no-undefined flag by checking host OS
before appending the flag.
- Skip test when passing CXX flags through libtool to avoid test
failure on NetBSD.
- Remove texinfo warning for period in node name of pxref.
- Alter syntax in sed command to fix numerous test failures
on 64-bit windows/cygwin/mingw.
- Fix 'Wstrict-prototypes' warnings.
- Correct DLL Installation Path for mingw multilib builds.
- Fix '--preserve-dup-deps' stripping duplicates.
- Disable chained fixups for macOS, since it is not compatible with
'-undefined dynamic_lookup'.
** Changes in supported systems or compilers:
- Support additional flang-based compilers, 'flang-new' and 'ftn'.
Enjoy!