Red Hat's Jakub Jelinek has announced that GCC 5.5 will be released soon.

While C++17 was just formally approved days ago and is now waiting for ISO publication, GCC (and Clang) developers have largely finished up their C++17 (formerly known as "C++1z") support for some time. There are just a few lingering patches for GCC and already are beginning to lay the ground work for C++2a.

Motivated by the 2017 GNU Tools Cauldron, an ARM developer is looking for feedback on improving the options enabled by default for the GCC 8 compiler.

Emacs 25.3 is now available, but it doesn't offer major new features, rather it fixes a security vulnerability.

The annual GNU Tools Cauldron conference focused around the GNU compiler toolchain will kickoff tomorrow, 8 September, in Prague.

For those of you still maintaining COBOL code-bases, GnuCOBOL 2.2 is now available as what was formerly OpenCOBOL and also the project's first stable release in nearly one decade.

Immediately following Linus Torvalds' release on Sunday of Linux 4.13, the GNU Linux-libre 4.13-gnu was outted for those wanting a fully-free system with driver binary blob support removed and eliminating other code that could depend upon non-open microcode/firmware support or the loading of binary kernel drivers.

Coreutils 8.28 is now available as the collection of core components found on GNU/Linux systems from cp, mv, df, tail, and many other common commands to command-line users.

Werner Koch has announced the release of GNU Privacy Guard's GnuPG 2.2 stable series.

Richard Biener of SUSE has just announced the release of the GNU Compiler Collection 7.2.

Released this week was the shiny new glibc 2.26 GNU C Library with the notable new feature being the per-thread cache for malloc.

Red Hat's David Malcom has posted a series of patches for implementing third-party static analysis support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).

Today marks the release of GNU C Library version 2.26 and it's a big release with one feature we have been looking forward to.

Binutils 2.29 is now available as well as a Binutils 2.28.1 point release.

Richard Biener has shared plans to release GCC 7.2 in about two weeks as the newest point release to the GCC 7 compiler.

David Malcom of Red Hat today published an interesting patch series that includes an implementation of Microsoft's Language Server Protocol (LSP).

With C++20 feature talk heating up, GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers are beginning to prepare working on more of the new compiler functionality for this next standard due out in a few years.

The GnuPG project has announced libgcrypt version 1.8 as the newest version of this Gcrypt library.

Given our recent articles of Glibc enabling a per-thread cache for malloc and Fedora 27 will use glibc 2.26, you may be curious about some of the other features coming to this next version of the GNU C Library.

With the work laid earlier this month by GCC picking up ARMv8-R support, the Cortex-R52 is now supported by mainline GCC as the first ARMv8-R processor.

Glibc has added a per-thread cache to malloc and enabled it by default.

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) now has support for the ARMv8-R architecture.

Version 6.4 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is now available as the latest bug-fix release for those relying on GCC6 that haven't yet migrated to GCC7.

There are some additional milestones to celebrate at the end of June.

The GRUB bootloader now supports file-systems making use of EXT4 file-system encryption but where the boot files are left unencrypted.

While not as prominent as GNU Emacs or GNU Nano, GNU Moe was released today as the latest release of this text editor.

GNU is home to a wide variety of free software projects, some more notable than others. One of the lesser known GNU projects is Motti, a "simple multiplayer strategy game."

The GCC Steering Committee has approved of allowing the D language front-end and runtime to be included as part of the GNU Compiler Collection.

GNU's Automake 1.15.1 release is now available, which isn't too big on new work but comes after a lack of activity on Automake.

Since the end of last year Glibc has offered a tunables framework that could be exposed via the --enable-tunables switch at compile-time while now it's being enabled by default.