The Gentoo User Relations Project, in order to better understand the motivations and needs of our users, has created the new position of User Representative, and is currently seeking nominations. See this forum thread for more information, and to make your nominations.

It's back after two weeks: The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter! Enjoy the new features of portage-2.1, have an update about Gentoo's Summer of Code participation, or learn about a possible Gentoo Women project. Also we sum up the most interesting posts in the forums, on the developers mailing list and Gentoo planet. Last but not least, we have the latest news about the upcoming Gentoo UK conference in London.

The Gentoo Portage Team is proud to announce that version 2.1 of portage has been completed and added to the tree for testing. The list of new features and major bug fixed is quite impressive. For those interested, a complete list of closed bugs is also available. You can read the full release notes or follow the stabilization bug to see the progress in bringing this wonderful achievement to stable users.

Check this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter to avoid potential problems while upgrading your system to GCC 4.1. GnuPG 1.9 has been stabilized and offers new features, and the rsync server howto has been rewritten, reports the GWN today. The "Featured developer" section is back after a long break, the German Gentoo quiz organizers have announced the winners of their "Are you Gentoo" contest, and press clippings and bugzilla stats conclude this week's edition. Have fun reading!

GCC 4.1 is on its way into Portage this coming week, as the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter reports today. Official participants in Gentoo's Summer of Code will be announced later today, and the PHP team confirms that old-style PHP packages are definitely gone from the tree now. This week's edition has two reports from Gentoo events in Milan and Graz, explains how to manage your Portage overlays with a utility called layman, spots two Gentoo developers while reviewing last week's online media, and carries the usual security announcements, bugzilla statistics, and staff news. Enjoy your newsletter!

The old gentoo-x86-portage module is about to be removed from the rsync mirrors, reports today's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter. The newsletter team is looking for additional translators for the Korean and simplified Chinese versions. Two last minute event announcements for Linux World Summit in Milano (starting today) and the Grazer Linuxtage (Saturday) and another one in Norway at the end of June compose the international section, and of course you'll find press clippings, GLSAs, and the bugzilla statistics. Have fun reading the GWN!