hello - GNU greeting package - Summary
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
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Some out-of-date and tenuously-relevant files were also removed from the distribution, thus removing the contrib directory.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.
posted by rrt, Tue 11 Jan 2022 08:04:07 PM UTC
I’m delighted to announce a new release of GNU hello. This version has many minor fixes and improvements made in the last eight years.
- Noteworthy changes in release 2.11 (2022-01-05) [stable]
Remove -h and -v short options.
Various code tidying, including avoiding forward declarations, removing dead code, new test for multibyte strings, better use of gnulib, update to more recent gnulib and add git hooks from coreutils.

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