GNU Planet!

We are pleased to finally announce the release of GNU Guile 3.0.10! This release is mainly a bug-fix release, though it does include a number of new features:

• Better ability to define new port types in Scheme (R6RS custom textual ports, a new soft port interface, low-level custom ports).
• Support for local define definitions in all forms with bodies: when and unless, cond and case clauses, and so on.
• An experimental opt-in surface syntax, WISP.

For full details, see the release announcement, and check out the download page.

Happy Guile hacking!

automake 1.16.92 pretest release candidate released. Please test if you can, so 1.17 will be as reliable as we can make it. Announcement:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autotools-announce/2024-06/msg00001.html

Dear all

I am happy to announce the release of MyGNUHealth 2.2.0!

The new series of the GNU Health Personal Health record comes with many improvements and bug fixes. Some highlights of this new version:

• Support for Kivy 2.3.0
• Localization. MyGNUHealth now has support for different languages. English, Spanish and Chinese are available to use, and French, German, Italian are ready to be translated. There will be a translation component for MyGNUHealth at Codeberg's Weblate instance.
• Bluetooth functionality: Starting with MyGH series 2.2 we provide bluetooth integration for open compatible devices and health trackers. We include the link with the Pinetime Smartwatch (experimental) and the possibility to link to any open hardware device (glucometer, scales, blood pressure monitors,  .. ). We need to get a list of available medical devices that respect our privacy and freedom, so let us know of any!
• Charts now allow to select date ranges with calendar widgets
• The Book of Life have a revised format for the pages.
• The charts have been improved in the format and include x axis labels.

Thanks to Kivy, Mygnuhealth codebase can be ported to other architectures and operating systems such as Android AOSP (Pierre Michel is working on this) and GNU/Linux phones.

In addition to Savannah, we have incorporated Codeberg to the GNU Health development environment. Mailing lists, news and file downloads are at GNU, while the development repositories are at Codeberg (https://codeberg.org/gnuhealth)

You can download the latest MyGNUhealth sourcecode from GNU ftp site, pypi (using pip) or from your operating system package (like openSUSE).

Upgrading should be straightforward, and all the health history will remain in the MyGH database. In any case, please make sure you make a backup before upgrading (and daily ;) ).

Thank you to all the contributors that have possible this milestone!

Happy hacking
Luis

A little history first. Keysight is a large company that, primarily, makes testing equipment such as oscilloscopes and other electronics. They bought a company a few years back named TestPlant. Prior to that, TestPlant bought a company by the name of Redstone that produced a product known as Eggplant. Recently, I was laid off for economic reasons (at least that's what they said). It occurs to me that nothing in this world lasts forever. I was so depressed when I was let go because Keysight was the perfect home for me... they used GNUstep deeply. So, as you can imagine, I was deeply upset when things ended... but all things do. 
 I think it happened for several reasons: 

• Economic - This is what was explained to me, but I am not sure I believe it 
• Politics - I think this part is because I expressed my opinions HONESTLY about the direction of the company given that they wanted to make the application into a VSCode plugin.
• Perception - I am 54 years old... so I think that they believed that Objective-C was my one and only talent, it's not... I know many other languages and have many other skills. 

Unfortunately, in the US, any employer can let go of any employee or contractor for ANY reason. This is known as at-will employment, making it very hard to take any action against any employer (not that this is something I considered).
Keysight is and will remain a major contributor to GNUstep.
That being said, I recently ran into something rather disturbing at another company.   I have been working with a company based out of New Mexico that is interested in space applications.  They have been using GNUstep and have been awaiting funding.
The lead of this effort expressed something during a meeting saying "We will work on the GNUstep side of this because there is no reason we should have to pay for any of this."   This hit a sour note with me to say the very least.   As it turns out he was under the mistaken impression that, because the work was on GNUstep, it was for free... which is WRONG.
I wonder if the same impression was present at Keysight or if other companies believe this.  The saying, according to RMS, is "Free as in freedom, not as in beer."   If you are a manager at a company who is under the mistaken impression that work on any Free Software or Open Source project is free when your product depends on it, please correct your thinking.   Just because it is someone's passion project does NOT mean that they are going to do that work for free and prioritize the things that need to be done for your organization.
All of that being said the positive sides are this:

1. More time to code on GNUstep without interruption
2. More time to work on my own projects
3. Time to rest and relax

So, as much as I hate being unemployed there ARE some upsides to it.  Here's to hoping something works out soon.   I literally loved my job at Keysight and, honestly, hope to return.   I have my eye on their changes as well as those of others just like any other member of the community.  Yours, GC

This project implemented the GNU Taler payment system in Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento). An extension was developed that can now be included in all Adobe Commerce online shops.

This bachelor thesis implements puts it's focus on the GNU Taler auditor. Cedric Zwahlen and Nicola Eigel made it real-time and added single page application.

Two independent bachelor theses bring new privacy-focused features to GNU Taler. Christian Blättler designed and implemented token-based subscriptions and discounts in Taler, while Lukas Matyja and Johannes Casaburi's thesis introduces the Donau system, a new type of a donation authority system.

During his bachelor thesis, Joel Häberli designed and implemented a framework allowing for cashless withdrawals in GNU Taler.

GNUnet 0.21.2

This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.21.1. It primarily addresses some connectivity issues introduced with our new transport subsystem.

Links

• Source: https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.21.2.tar.gz ( https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.21.2.tar.gz.sig )
• Source (meson): https://buildbot.gnunet.org/gnunet-0.21.2-meson.tar.gz ( https://buildbot.gnunet.org/gnunet-0.21.2-meson.tar.gz.sig )
• Detailed list of changes: https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet.git/log/?h=v0.21.2
• NEWS: https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet.git/tree/NEWS?h=v0.21.2
• The list of closed issues in the bug tracker: https://bugs.gnunet.org/changelog_page.php?version_id=440

The GPG key used to sign is: 3D11063C10F98D14BD24D1470B0998EF86F59B6A

Note that due to mirror synchronization, not all links may be functional early after the release. For direct access try https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/

Dear Translators:

Recently, the Licensing and Compliance Lab provided guidelines
for writing copyright notices in www.gnu.org translations:

https://www.gnu.org/s/trans-coord/w/Copyright-Notices.html

Please take them into account.

After received 2 translators‘ feedback plus my thought, I would put the following as advice for new translations:

1. add your name in the copyright notices in the translation if you think your contribution is enough for an article, like

Copyright &copy; 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.<br></br>
Copyright &copy; 2024 XIE Wensheng (translation)<

2. or optionally add your name in the TRANSLATOR'S CREDITS part as we always do.

<b>翻译</b>：李凡希，2010。<br></br>
<b>审校</b>：<a href="mailto:1945649519@qq.com">&lt;Nios34&gt;</a>，2020。<br></br>
<b>翻译团队</b>：<a rel="team" href="https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/www-zh-cn/">&lt;CTT&gt;</a>，2017-2024。<

best regards,
wxie

Version 2.8 of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) has been released.
Thank you to all who helped test the library prior to the release, and
thank you to everyone for using the library and giving feedback and
reports. The following changes have been added to the library:

• What is new in gsl-2.8:

** apply patch for bug #63679 (F. Weimer)

** updated multilarge TSQR method to store ||z_2|| and
   provide it to the user

** add routines for Hermite B-spline interpolation

** fix for bug #59624

** fix for bug #59781 (M. Dunlap)

** bug fix #61094 (reported by A. Cheylus)

** add functions:
   - gsl_matrix_complex_conjugate
   - gsl_vector_complex_conj_memcpy
   - gsl_vector_complex_div_real
   - gsl_linalg_QR_lssolvem_r
   - gsl_linalg_complex_QR_lssolvem_r
   - gsl_linalg_complex_QR_QHmat_r
   - gsl_linalg_QR_UR_lssolve
   - gsl_linalg_QR_UR_lssvx
   - gsl_linalg_QR_UR_QTvec
   - gsl_linalg_QR_UU_lssvx
   - gsl_linalg_QR_UD_lssvx
   - gsl_linalg_QR_UD_QTvec
   - gsl_linalg_complex_cholesky_{decomp2,svx2,solve2,scale,scale_apply}
   - gsl_linalg_SV_{solve2,lssolve}
   - gsl_rstat_norm

** add Lebedev quadrature (gsl_integration_lebedev)

** major overhaul to the B-spline module to add
   new functionality

We are happy to have been selected to host a side-event of the PointZeroForum in Biel, Switzerland from 10-12am on July 1st where we will be presenting GNU Taler and related technologies. Attendance is gratis and open to the general public (not just PZF attendees). You can find more information and register for the event on the BFH event page.

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.11.

Version 1.7rc is available for download from:

  git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/enscript.git

We are looking forward for your feedback.

Join the FSF and friends on Friday, June 07, from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.

This is to announce findutils-4.10.0, a stable release.
See the NEWS below for more details.

GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match
certain criteria and for performing various operations on them.
Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate".
More information about findutils is available at:
  https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

Please report bugs and problems with this release via the the
GNU Savannah bug tracker:
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils

Please send general comments and feedback about the GNU findutils
package to the mailing list (<mailto:bug-findutils@gnu.org):
  https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils

There have been 88 commits by 8 people in the - sigh - 121 weeks since 4.9.0:
  Antonio Diaz Diaz (2)       James Youngman (24)
  Bernhard Voelker (57)       John A. Leuenhagen (1)
  Bjarni Ingi Gislason (1)    Shuiqing Zhou (1)
  Helmut Grohne (1)           ribbon (1)

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
   Autoconf 2.72
   Automake 1.16.5
   M4 1.4.18
   Gnulib v1.0-187-g623bcc22f4

Please consider supporting the Free Software Foundation in its fund
raising appeal; see <https://www.fsf.org/appeal/>.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!

Have a nice day,
Bernhard Voelker [on behalf of the GNU findutils maintainers]

================================================================================

Here are the compressed sources:
  https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils/findutils-4.10.0.tar.xz
   
Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
  https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils/findutils-4.10.0.tar.xz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Here is the SHA256 checksum:
 
  1387e0b67ff247d2abde998f90dfbf70c1491391a59ddfecb8ae698789f0a4f5  findutils-4.10.0.tar.xz

[*] 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 findutils-4.10.0.tar.xz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys A5189DB69C1164D33002936646502EF796917195

and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

================================================================================

NEWS

• Noteworthy changes in release 4.10.0 (2024-06-01) [stable]

** Bug Fixes

  Find now defaults to optimization level 1 rather than 2 and the
  cost-based optimizer will only run at level 2 and above.  This
  should prevent changes of operation order which result in
  user-visible differences in behaviour. [#58427]

  If the -P option to xargs is not used, xargs will not change the way
  in which the SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 signals are handled.  This means
  that they will cause the program to terminate if the signals were
  not ignored in the process which started xargs.  This also means that
  xargs does not use parallel execution at all.
  If you start xargs with '-P 1', then xargs will not be killed by these
  signals, and they instead change the degree of parallelism.
  This change improves xargs' POSIX compliance.

  'xargs -P' now waits for all its child processes to complete before
  exiting, even if one of them exits with status 255. [#64451]

  If the -P option of xargs is in use, reads on standard input which are
  interrupted by a signal are re-started. [#64442]

  'find -name /' no longer outputs a warning, because that is a valid pattern
  to match the root directory "/".  Previously, a diagnostic falsely claimed
  that this pattern would not match anything. [#62227]

  'find -gid' (without the mandatory argument) now outputs a correct error
  diagnostic.  Previously it output: "find: invalid argument `-gid' to `-gid'".
  The error diagnostic for non-numeric arguments has been improved as well.
  Likewise for -inum, -links and -uid.

  'find -user' and 'find -group' now allow to specify larger UIDs/GIDs.
  Previously, that was limited to INT_MAX, although the types uid_t and gid_t
  are larger on many systems, including x86_64 GNU/Linux. [#64900]

  'find -xtype l' no longer fails on symbolic links that point to
  themselves.  These are treated similarly to broken links. [#51926]

** Improvements

  The find predicates -used, -amin, -cmin, -mmin, -atime, -ctime, and -mtime
  now properly diagnose a not-a-number argument.  Previously, find dumped
  core via an assertion.  [#64717]

** Changes to the build process

  findutils now builds again on systems with musl-libc.
  This requires gettext-0.19.8.

  findutils programs no longer fail for timestamps past the year 2038
  on obsolete configurations with 32-bit signed time_t, because the
  build procedure now rejects these configurations.
  On systems without any year2038 support configure with --disable-year2038.

** Documentation Changes

  When generating the Texinfo manual, `makeinfo` is invoked with the --no-split
  option for all output formats now; this avoids files like find.info-[12].

  The xargs documentation now describes the double dash "--" option delimiter.

  The xargs examples in the Texinfo manual now use the -L and --replace options
  instead of the deprecated -l and -i options.  [#64480]

  The TexInfo manual now uses upper-case 'B' as birthtime for the -newerXY
  comparison consistently.  [#65378]

** Translations

Updated the following translations: Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese,
Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional),
Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French,
Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Luganda, Malay, Norwegian
Bokmaal, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak,
Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

I am happy to announce a new release of GNU poke, version 4.1.

This is a bugfix release in the 4.x series.

See the file NEWS in the distribution tarball for a list of issues
fixed in this release.

The tarball poke-4.1.tar.gz is now available at
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/poke/poke-4.1.tar.gz.

> GNU poke (http://www.jemarch.net/poke) is an interactive, extensible
> editor for binary data.  Not limited to editing basic entities such
> as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural,
> interactive programming language designed to describe data
> structures and to operate on them.

Thanks to the people who contributed with code and/or documentation to
this release.

Happy poking!

Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor

We are glad to announce the publication of a new research paper entitled Source Code Archiving to the Rescue of Reproducible Deployment for the ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability. The paper presents work that has been done since we started connecting Guix with the Software Heritage (SWH) archive five years ago:

The ability to verify research results and to experiment with methodologies are core tenets of science. As research results are increasingly the outcome of computational processes, software plays a central role. GNU Guix is a software deployment tool that supports reproducible software deployment, making it a foundation for computational research workflows. To achieve reproducibility, we must first ensure the source code of software packages Guix deploys remains available.

We describe our work connecting Guix with Software Heritage, the universal source code archive, making Guix the first free software distribution and tool backed by a stable archive. Our contribution is twofold: we explain the rationale and present the design and implementation we came up with; second, we report on the archival coverage for package source code with data collected over five years and discuss remaining challenges.

The ability to retrieve package source code is important for researchers who need to be able to replay scientific workflows, but it’s just as important for engineers and developers alike, who may also have good reasons to redeploy or to audit past package sets.

Support for source code archiving and recovery in Guix has improved a lot over the past five years, in particular with:

• Support for recovering source code tarballs (tar.gz and similar files): this is made possible by Disarchive, written by Timothy Sample.

• The ability to look up data by nar hash in the SWH archive (“nar” is the normalized archive format used by Nix and Guix), thanks to fellow SWH hackers. This, in turn, allows Guix to look up any version control checkout by content hash—Git, Subversion, Mercurial, you name it!
• The monitoring of archival coverage with Timothy’s Preservation of Guix reports has allowed us to identify discrepancies in Guix, Disarchive, and/or SWH and to increase archival coverage.

94% of the packages in a January 2024 snapshot of Guix are known to have their source code archived!

Check out the paper to learn more about the machinery at play and the current status.