This week, the GWN staff is pleased to announce the return of the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter to regular publication. This issue is packed full of recent activity in the Gentoo community, such as the open nominations for the upcoming Gentoo Council and Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees elections, information about changes to PAM regarding cracklib, news about GNOME 2.18 going stable, and more. Also in this issue, the usual security, bugs, and package updates and several articles from other media about Gentoo, including one written by our own Donnie Berkholz.