Bazaar, a distributed version control system used by the northxsouth developers network, just became a GNU project. The news was announced in February by Martin Pool, manager of Bazaar development at Canonical.

Distributed VCS, for those who are new to the concept, offers a long list of resources for programmers, such as: the possibility to work offline without the need of a central VCS repository; makes it easy to create new branches; merging is easier for the release manager and more.