19 July 2004
19 Jul 20:26
Virtual Object System 0.20.0
The Interreality project is a collection of Open Source, Free Software projects based on the Virtual Object System (VOS) platform. The goal is to develop a free and open platform for multi-user 3D virtual reality games, applications, and interactive, collaborative 3D virtual spaces. VOS is a powerful and generic network object framework designed to support a variety of high-performance applications. It is the basis for Ter'Angreal, a general-purpose browser application for entering and participating in 3D worlds.
Release Notes: A multi-threaded architecture based on thread pools, a new extension system, and a new application framework providing support for command line parsing were added. An abstract 3D layer has been implemented as a plugin to the Crystal Space engine. Configuration files and dynamically loaded plugins are now supported. A plugin-based OmniVOS server makes it easy to configure a custom server. A persistance layer can keep site state up-to-date in a MySQL database or a filesystem. A search language was added for selecting and downloading many objects at once. A Blender Python script was added to export Blender 3D scenes to A3DL.
19 Jul 20:17
Propel 1.0.0beta2
Propel is an object persistence layer for PHP5 based on Apache Torque. In practical terms, it allows you to use objects instead of SQL to read and write rows in your database tables. It provides a generator that creates SQL definition files and PHP classes for your datamodel, and a runtime engine that transparently handles object persistence and retrieval. It makes it easy to customize generated classes; additionally, the use of XML, PHP classes, and the Phing build tool make it easy to integrate Propel with an existing application framework.
Release Notes: This second (and hopefully last) beta release fixes several minor bugs and introduces some useful new features. Prominent among the new features is a redesigned project directory layout, separation of the runtime and generator codebase, support for read-only generated objects, support for lazy-loading columns, and support for a new XML runtime configuration file format.
19 Jul 20:16
Tenable Nessus 2.0.11
Tenable Nessus is a world-leader in active vulnerability scanners. It features high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery, and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus scanners may be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs, and across physically separate networks. It is free of charge for personal use in a non-enterprise environment.
Release Notes: This release fixes Solaris support, fixes a couple of issues regarding HTML support, adds support for GTK+ 2.x, and contains a minor speed improvement in client-server communication.
19 Jul 20:15
Dolda Webmail 0.6
Dolda Webmail (or d-mail for short) is a Webmail system written in PHP and interfacing with a back-end IMAP server. Advantages over most other projects of a similar sort are that it uses a persistant connection to the IMAP server (which increases performance on the Web server, reduces load on the network and on the IMAP server, and doesn't force the Web server to store the user's password in-core), and that it makes full use of XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.
Release Notes: This release has native language support (that is, its interface is translatable) and (experimental although very functional) support for displaying HTML messages.
19 Jul 20:15
UPX 1.92
UPX is a portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks. UPX supports vmlinuz/386, linux/elf386, linux/386, win32/pe, dos/exe, djgpp2/coff, and many more.
Release Notes: A new executable format "vmlinux/386", which directly supports ELF kernels, was added.
19 Jul 20:14
AOLserver 4.0.7
AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, massively scalable and extensible Web server tuned for large scale, dynamic Web sites. It includes complete database integration, dynamic page scripting, and an open, extensible architecture.
Release Notes: This release corrects a serious flaw in 4.0.6 where a non-compliant HTTP/1.1 request could crash the server, resulting in a denial of service. Everyone is urged to skip the 4.0.6 release and either remain on 4.0.5 or upgrade to 4.0.7 immediately.
19 Jul 20:10
Simulum 0.00.03
Simulum deals with different simulations of star movements and their visualizations. At first it looks at the projection and accumulation of star brightness. In actually doing this it distributes stars among a three dimensional figure. To get a nice effect it combines the photographic image production with a moving view point. So the outcome is the visual impression of flying through a star field. Secondly it studies different algorithms of particle movements and clustering. The primary approach uses a combination of Newton's gravitational law, energy, and impulse conservation. At all these stages an highly dynamic view of the processes is able to be produced.
Release Notes: Width and height have no influence on the projection. Adjustable parameters added: "stars" (number of stars); "delta" (movement speed); "radius" (viewpoint distance); "sensitivity" (star brightness); "normale" (boolean)(adjust normale to zero point); "linear" (boolean)(linear or circular movement).
19 Jul 20:07
DaDaBIK 3.1 beta
DaDaBIK is a PHP application that allows you to easily create a highly customizable Web interface for a database in order to search, insert, update, and delete records; all you need do is specify a few configuration parameters. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MS SQL Server are supported. It is available in several languages.
Release Notes: A new select query engine which fixes the problems related to multiple references to a linked table and the multiple use of the same field name. It should also increase DaDaBIK speed. A basic authorization model: it is now possible to allow a user to delete and/or modify and/or view only his own records. For authentication, the class simpleLogin has been (probably temporary) used, but it is possible to easily customize the authentication. A new field type (rich_editor) is a rich text editor (htmlArea 2.03) that allows you to easily insert/modify HTML content.
19 Jul 18:39
MPlayer 1.0pre5
MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MMX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim's and RealPlayer's binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It's also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.
Release Notes: Many bug fixes as usual plus a major security audit that revealed several buffer overflows, at least one of which was remotely exploitable. There is better seeking in Real files, improved support for Windows and Mac OS X, streaming related bugfixes, enhanced encoding documentation, a unified ALSA and a JACK audio output driver, new icons for the GUI and menus, more video filters, and support for more codecs.
19 Jul 18:37
WIKINDX 2-0rc2
WIKINDX is a single or multi-user research environment for storing searchable bibliographies, notes, and citations. It is integrated with a WYSIWYG word processor for the authoring of publication-ready articles automatically formatted to chosen citation styles. The system includes support for migrating to and from BibTeX and Endnote.
Release Notes: Fixes a major bug in displaying the form for a new resource when using Internet Explorer.
19 Jul 18:35
nut 9.18
nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the latest USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Foods can be added from recipes or food labels, and nutrient intake can be graphed. The program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
Release Notes: This release contains revisions to the polyunsaturated fatty acid reference values and how they scale up as fats increase and carbs decrease.
19 Jul 18:34
GalaxyHack 0.5
GalaxyHack allows you to design a fleet of spaceships which can then be tested in AI script based battles against fleets designed by other players. Though battles take place in real time, the strategy comes beforehand, both in writing short AI scripts in an easy-to-use proprietary scripting language, and also in the set up and selection of your forces.
Release Notes: Network play has been removed. Instead, you can download other fleets to test yours against from an online database. You are encouraged to submit your own. Because of this, old fleet data files will no longer work. Old unit files and AI scripts will still work fine. It is now possible to script simple arithmetic in AI scripts: +, -, *, /, ++, and --. There is a new variable that allows you to check the number of units left in the group, and a new variable that allows you to check how many torpedos are already flying towards a given capital ship. There are various minor changes/improvements.
19 Jul 18:04
PHP2Go 0.1.7
PHP2Go is a framework built to help developers and beginner programmers create Web-based systems. It's an object-oriented, structured, and hierarchical set of classes and libraries developed using PHP, XML, and JavaScript. The main goal of PHP2Go is to turn Web development into an easier and faster task.
Release Notes: This new release introduces a new form component, CheckGroup, that implements a group of check boxes; a new language package (Czech), and a new JavaScript object (VisibilityControl) that encapsulates the operation of showing or hiding DOM elements. This version was tested with Apache 2.0.49 and PHP 5.0.0 RC3. Several updates and bugfixes were made and the example documentation was improved.
19 Jul 18:03
Gambas 0.95
Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for.
Release Notes: A complete set of gambas binary packages is provided for MandrakeLinux, which is compatible with the packages generated by the Development Environment. This way, Mandrake users will be able to easily test if distributing Gambas works. The database manager has been redesigned, and allows exporting the result of a request to a file. The database drivers were updated. Many new and old controls now provide automatic layout management.
19 Jul 17:59
hashit 0.9.2
hashit is a generic hash library that implements diverse collision handling methods.
Release Notes: Missed functions getkeys and replace for the open address and overflow methods were added. A lot of minor bugfixes and minor memory leaks were fixed in this release.
19 Jul 17:57
qmqtool 1.05
qmqtool is a utility designed for viewing and safely modifying the contents of a qmail queue. It is extremely feature rich, with features including finding abusers, sorting messages by sender/sender's IP, showing stats, requeueing messages, queue consistency check, queue backup/restore, and others.
Release Notes: This release has adjustments to the queue restore logic, checks for configured queue lifetime instead of assuming 2 weeks, and deals with grep finding binary data in queued messages.
19 Jul 17:56
Gnumeric 1.3.1
Gnumeric is a powerful and easy to use spreadsheet using GNOME. Its goal is to provide a full featured spreadsheet and a smooth migration path for people and organizations currently using proprietary applications. It provides more sheet functions and greatly improved accuracy when compared to Microsoft's Excel. A plugin system lets you extend Gnumeric, adding functions, I/O formats, and real time data capabilities. The existing Python, Guile, and Perl plugins let you define complex functions. Gnumeric is capable of reading and writing MS Excel (XLS and Office Open XML), and reading Lotus, Applix, Quattro Pro, OpenCalc (ODF), XBase, DIF, SYLK, HTML, Psion, MPS, oleo, sc, misc. text formats, and its native XML. It can also generate Latex, HTML, and others.
Release Notes: Numerous bugfixes and improvements in import and export, statistics tools, graphs, portability to win32, preliminary OOo exporter, accuracy of various functions etc.
19 Jul 17:56
The SpamBouncer 1.9-Jul15
The SpamBouncer is a set of procmail instructions that search the headers and text of your incoming email to see if it meets one or more of a list of conditions for probable spam. It will then either tag the suspected spam and return it to your main incoming mailbox, tag the suspected spam, delete spam from known spam sources, and file suspected spam in a separate folder, send a simulated MAILER-DAEMON daemon "bounce", complain to the "upstream providers" of known spammers or spam sites/domains, etc.
Release Notes: This release has the usual housekeeping (virus, spam haven, spam source, and pattern matching filters) update. It supports the new blocklist SURBL (enable with SURBLCHECK=yes) triggered by in-body spammers' URLs. Outdated (long time no hear) spammer blocking code is disabled by default for CPU conservation (it can be enabled via the configuration).
19 Jul 17:54
Crimson Fields 0.4.3
Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle. Mission objectives range from defending strategically vital locations to simply destroying all enemy forces in the area. Tools are available to create custom maps and campaigns. The original Battle Isle maps can be played if the player has a copy of the game files.
Release Notes: A new map and a Polish translation have been added. Support for ISO-8859-2 locales has been improved and some build issues have been fixed.
19 Jul 17:53
Photos 4.1rc3
photos is a Web-based photo database for storing metadata about digital photos so you can find them again later. It supports adding photos one at a time, or as a group by directory. It is intended to be run locally but can be run on a remote Web server if you've got the space and the bandwidth.
Release Notes: This release has a few bugfixes. A few more strings that had slipped through have been translated (all the JavaScript strings in particular). The date picker changes months properly when a number of months other than 3 is set in your config, and the Delete button (for removing photos from the database) is working again.
19 Jul 17:50
viPlugin 1.7.5
viPlugin is an Eclipse plugin that adds vi functionality to the editors that are provided with Eclipse (JDT, CDT, etc.).
Release Notes: Various performance improvements for big files plus the usual amount of bugfixes.
19 Jul 17:49
Praat 4.2.08
Praat is a computer program with which phoneticians can analyze, synthesize, and manipulate speech, and create high- quality pictures for articles and theses.
Release Notes:
19 Jul 17:48
Libquicktime 0.9.3
Libquicktime is based on the quicktime4linux library with several enhancements. All 3rd-party libraries were removed from the sourcetree. Instead, the systemwide installed libraries are detected by the configure script. All original codecs were moved into dynamically loadable modules, and new codecs are in development. Special API extensions allow access to the codec registry and more convenient processing of audio and video data. Libquicktime comes with original utility programs and additional tools, like a command line player and a GTK configuration utility that can configure the parameters of all installed codecs. The configuration is stored in the home directory, and can be used by all libquicktime applications.
Release Notes: Many bugfixes and portability patches. Some legacy codecs were replaced by ffmpeg codecs. Build scripts for RPM and Debian packages are available now. - There is decoding support for compressed headers and Sorenson 3. New API extensions let you obtain accurate video timestamps for streams, which have no constant framerate.
19 Jul 17:47
Pidgin 0.80
Pidgin is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique features. Pidgin is not endorsed by or affiliated with AOL TimeWarner, Microsoft, or Yahoo.
Release Notes: The ability to send files from the conversation window or by dragging a file into the buddy list or coversation window has been added. This release uses the new GTK+ file chooser. It has better Web browser support. There are several other new features and bugfixes.
19 Jul 17:43
FOX 1.3.5
FOX is a C++-based toolkit for GUI development. It includes a rich set of widgets and has powerful yet simple layout managers, MDI widgets, and mega-widgets. FOX incorporates support for XDND for drag and drop, X clipboard and X Selection, watching other I/O channels and sockets, timers and idle processing, object serialization and deserialization, a registry to save persistent settings, and 3D widgets using Mesa or OpenGL. FOX works on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64 Unix, Windows 9x,NT,2K (VC++, GNUWIN32, Borland, VisualAge C++), FreeBSD, and Sequent.
Release Notes: Amiga IFF image support was added. There are new drawing APIs for rounded rectangles and ellipses. An application-side FXMutex is now available. You can assume that each callback message handler runs protected under this lock, and the lock is released when blocking for events (thus, 99% of the time, the mutex is not held by the GUI thread).
