Seventeen new GNU releases in November

• chess-6.2.4
• dico-2.4
• electric-9.07
• emms-4.2
• freeipmi-1.5.5
• gnudos-1.10
• ghostscript-9.14.1
• gnupg-2.1.16
• guile-ncurses-2.1
• gvpe-3.0
• kawa-2.2
• linux-libre-4.8.10-gnu
• mailutils-3.0
• octave-4.2.0
• parallel-20161122
• taler-0.2.0
• unifont-9.0.04

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This month, we welcome Mathieu Lirzin as the new maintainer of GNU Freetalk.

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