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This software is part of the GNU Project.
The GNU hello package serves as an example of GNU package distribution and code. It also prints a nice greeting in a variety of languages.
Registration Date: Thu 15 Feb 2001 05:58:29 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 6 - Mature
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posted by collinfunk, Wed 18 Mar 2026 03:46:16 AM UTC
[...]This is to announce hello-2.12.3, a stable release.
GNU hello is a demonstration and model of the GNU coding standards for
hackers, and a simple example for users.
There have been 18 commits by 2 people in the 43 weeks since 2.12.2.
posted by rrt, Mon 19 May 2025 12:13:02 PM UTC
This release has no code changes since 2.12, mostly updates to and improvements to the build system.
Some out-of-date and tenuously-relevant files were also removed from the distribution, thus removing the contrib directory.
posted by rrt, Sun 29 May 2022 11:08:23 PM UTC
This release has no code changes since 2.12, but just a minor documentation fix and updated translations.
posted by rrt, Mon 31 Jan 2022 07:03:58 PM UTC
I’m happy to announce a minor update to 2.11. There are no code changes.
- Noteworthy changes in release 2.12 (2022-01-31) [stable]
Fix a minor documentation typo.
Make tests introduced in 2.11 more portable.
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