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-### GSoC
+**GSoC**
The last two quarters Jeremie Koenig released the final [report](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/user/jkoenig/java/report.html)
on his GSoC project Java on Hurd along with a summary of his changes
further improving the standards conformance of the Hurd and paving the
way for C++11x.
-### Barrier of Entry
+**Barrier of Entry**
Samuel Thibault, Ludovic Courtès and Thomas Schwinge reduced the
barrier of entry into hacking the Hurd.
for upstream inclusion, reducing the maintenance load for getting
recent improvements of libc.
-### The Core of the Hurd
+**The Core of the Hurd**
Ludovic Courtes, Maksym Planeta, Samuel Thibault and Richard Braun
took a dive into the core of the Hurd. Ludovic
[with a red-black tree](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-04/msg00109.html),
which should speed up memory access.
-### Porting
+**Porting**
As in the previous quarters, we also saw lots of ported packages,
including Richards work on