[ANNOUNCE] nano-8.7.1 is released

Benno Schulenberg via Info-nano <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Feb 2026 09:23:02 +0100

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2026.02.04 - GNU nano 8.7.1  "Tende Samnug"

• A build failure when compiling against glibc-2.43 is fixed.



Furthermore, thanks to the many translators, the interface is now fully
translated to 23 languages:

   Arabic, Brazilian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto,
   French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish,
   Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian.



GNU nano is a simple and easy-to-use editor for on the terminal.
   https://nano-editor.org/manual.html

A concise overview of nano's command keystrokes:
   https://nano-editor.org/cheatsheet.html

The tarball and its signature are here:
   https://nano-editor.org/dist/v8/nano-8.7.1.tar.xz
   https://nano-editor.org/dist/v8/nano-8.7.1.tar.xz.asc



Specific issues that were addressed in this release:
   https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67954  (compiling against glibc-2.43 failed)
   https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67979  (exit status was not documented)



Changes between v8.7 and v8.7.1:
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Benno Schulenberg (10):
       build: avoid three warnings when compiling against glibc-2.43
       bump version numbers and add a news item for the 8.7.1 release
       copyright: update the years for significantly changed files
       copyright: update the years for the FSF
       docs: add an Exit Status section to the man page and the manual
       docs: explain what "overlong" means for --breaklonglines
       files: include also the slash when re-adding the filename to the path
       gnulib: update to a recent version, to allow compiling against glibc-2.43
       po: update translations and regenerate POT file and PO files
       syntax: python: colorize also the `match` and `case` keywords



-- 

Benno

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