[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta date="2007-10-01"]] This year the GNU Hurd had again been assigned one slot within the **Google Summer of Code** program, which was assigned to the task **design and implement [*libchannel*](http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?1619), a library for streams**. Carl Fredrik Hammar has been working on this task and recently [posted a summary](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-09/msg00009.html) about the successful work he had been doing, but also gave an outline about how he intends to continue improving and extending it.