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diffutils @ Savannah: diffutils-3.9 released [stable]

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This is to announce diffutils-3.9, a stable release.

There have been 51 commits by 3 people in the 76 weeks since 3.8.

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)
  Jim Meyering (14)
  Paul Eggert (36)

Jim [on behalf of the diffutils maintainers]
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Here is the GNU diffutils home page:
    http://gnu.org/s/diffutils/

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
  http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=diffutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v3.9
or run this command from a git-cloned diffutils directory:
  git shortlog v3.8..v3.9

To summarize the 931 gnulib-related changes, run these commands
from a git-cloned diffutils directory:
  git checkout v3.9
  git submodule summary v3.8

Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature:
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.9.tar.xz
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.9.tar.xz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
  https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/diffutils/diffutils-3.9.tar.xz
  https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/diffutils/diffutils-3.9.tar.xz.sig

Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:

35905d7c3d1ce116e6794be7fe894cd25b2ded74  diffutils-3.9.tar.xz
2A076QogGGjeg9eNrTQTrYgWDMU7zDbrnq98INvwI/E  diffutils-3.9.tar.xz

The SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded, instead of the
hexadecimal encoding that most checksum tools default to.

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 diffutils-3.9.tar.xz.sig

The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:

  pub   rsa4096/0x7FD9FCCB000BEEEE 2010-06-14 [SCEA]
        Key fingerprint = 155D 3FC5 00C8 3448 6D1E  EA67 7FD9 FCCB 000B EEEE
  uid                   [ unknown] Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
  uid                   [ unknown] Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>
  uid                   [ unknown] Jim Meyering <meyering@gnu.org>

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 jim@meyering.net

  gpg –recv-keys 7FD9FCCB000BEEEE

  wget -q -O- ‘https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=diffutils&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 diffutils-3.9.tar.xz.sig

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
  Autoconf 2.72a.65-d081
  Automake 1.16i
  Gnulib v0.1-5689-g83adc2f722

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NEWS

* Noteworthy changes in release 3.9 (2023-01-15) [stable]

** Bug fixes

  diff -c and -u no longer output incorrect timezones in headers
  on platforms like Solaris where struct tm lacks tm_gmtoff.
  [bug#51228 introduced in 3.4]

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Testing wanted: execute-only on amd64

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On the
tech@ mailing list,
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
has issued a
request for testing
of patch(es) for execute-only (xonly)
binaries on amd64.
The message is quite long, but well worth reading in its entirety
for those interested.
Selected highlights include:

Some of you have probably noticed activity about "xonly" happening
to a bunch of architectures.  First arm64, then riscv64, then hppa,
and ongoing efforts with octeon, sparc64 (sun4u only), and more of this
is going to come in the future.

Like past work decades ago (and I suppose continually also) on W^X, and
increasing use of c, the idea here is to have code (text segments)
not be readable.  Or in a more generic sense, if you mprotect a region
with only PROT_EXEC, it is not readable.
[…]

But most of us have amd64 machines.  Thrilling news:

Read more…

GNU Health: Jérôme Lejeune Foundation adopts GNU Health

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GNU Health: Jérôme Lejeune Foundation adopts GNU Health

We start 2023 with exciting news for the medical and scientific community!

GNU Health has been adopted by he Jérôme Lejeune foundation, a leading organization in the research and management of trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) and other intellectual disabilities of genetic origin.

Lejeune foundation has its headquarters in France, with offices in Argentina, the United States and Spain.

On December 2022, the faculty of engineering from the University of Entre Rios, represented by the dean Diego Campana and the head of the school of Public Health, Fernando Sassetti, formalized the agreement with the president of the Lejeune foundation in Argentina, Luz Morano.

The same month, I met in Madrid with the medical director and IT team of the Lejeune foundation Spain.

Luz Morano declared “[GNU Health] goes beyond the Foundation, providing the health professionals the specific features to manage a patient with trisomy 21. We are putting a project in the hands of humanity“

[GNU Health] goes beyond the Foundation, providing the health professionals the specific features to manage a patient with trisomy 21. We are putting a project in the hands of humanity

Luz Morano, President of Lejeune Foundation, Argentina

Morano also stated: “GNU Health will pave the road for the medical management, and let us focus on our two other missions: Research and the defense of patient rights“

GNU Health: Jérôme Lejeune Foundation adopts GNU Health

The agreement is in the context of the GNU Health Alliance of Academic and Research Institutions that UNER has with GNU Solidario. In this sense, Fernando Sassetti explained “It provides tools for an integrative approach of those people with certain pathologies that due to the reduced number are not managed in the best way. This will benefit the organizations and health professionals, that today lack the means to do so in the best way and timely manner. It benefits the patients, in their right to have an integral health record.”

Research and Open Science

The adoption of GNUHealth by the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation opens new exciting avenues for the scientific community. In addition to the clinical management and medical history, GNU Health will enable scientists to dive into the fields of genomics, epigenetics and exposomics, gathering and processing information from multiple contexts and subjects, thanks to the distributed nature of the GNU Health Federation.

The GNU Health HMIS counts many packages and features, some of them of special interest for this project. In addition to the specific customizations for the foundation, the packages already present in GNUHealth, such as obstetrics, pediatrics, genomics, socioeconomics or lifestyle will provide a holistic approach to the person with trisomy 21 and other related conditions.

All of this will be done using exclusively Free/Libre software and open science.

People before Patients

Trisomy 21 poses challenges for the individual, their family, health professionals and the society. The scientific community needs to push the research to shed light on the etiology, physiopathology and associated clinical manifestations, such as heart defects, blood disorders or Alzheimer’s.

Most importantly, as part of the scientific community, we must put a stop to the discrimination and stigmatization. We must tear down the barriers and walls built on our societies that prevent the inclusion of individuals with trisomy 21.

As part of this effort, GNU Health provides the WHO International Classification on Functioning, disability and health (ICF). In other words, is not just the health condition or disorder we may have, but how the environmental factors and barriers influence the normal functioning and integration as individuals in the society. Many times, those physical, artificial barriers present in our daily lives are way more pernicious than the condition itself.

The strong focus of GNU Health in Social Medicine, and the way we perceive medicine as a social science will help improving the life of the person living with trisomy 21, and contribute to the much needed healing process in our societies. We need to work on the molecular basis of the health conditions, but little can be done if without empathetic, inclusive and supportive societies so people can live and enjoy life with dignity, no matter their health or socioeconomic status.

Projects like this represent the spirit of GNU Health and make me immensely proud to be part of this community.

Happy and healthy hacking!
Luis Falcon, MD
President, GNU Solidario

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