14 July 2009

14 Jul 21:05 mkESA 1.0.4

mkESA is a program for constructing enhanced suffix arrays (ESAs) from biological sequence data. The program is based on an implementation of Manzini's lightweight Deep-Shallow algorithm, which can also utilize multiple CPUs/cores for extra performance. The generated output is compatible with the output of mkvtree from the Vmatch package.

Release Notes: This release no longer crashes if the input sequence ends in a wildcard character.

14 Jul 21:04 SOGo 1.0.3

SOGo is a very fast and scalable modern collaboration suite (or groupware). It offers calendaring, address book management, and a full-featured Webmail client along with resource sharing and permission handling. It also makes use of documented standards (IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, etc.) and thereby provides native connectivity (without plugins) to many clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal, the iPhone, Mozilla Lightning, and a plethora of mobile devices via SyncML. It can reuse any existing email and database infrastructure, avoiding long hours of site restructuring.

Release Notes: The number of SQL requests has been greatly reduced (scalability). HTML composition has been added to the Web mail module. Drag and drop has been added to the address book and mail modules. The invitation dialog has been improved with slots management and zooming. The ability to limit the number of events in DAV responses has been added. Support has been added for Cyrus Daboo's WebDAV sync draft. Unicode support and some other issues with the conversion of IMAP folder names have been fixed. Czech and Brazilian Portuguese translations have been added.

14 Jul 20:58 ufdbGuard 1.18

ufdbGuard is a URL filter. The URL filter blocks access to sets of Web sites and cooperates with the Squid proxy. ufdbGuard also enforces SafeSearch for many search engines, blocks Skype, UltraSurf, unsafe HTTPS sites, and dynamically detects proxy tunnels. The multi-threaded daemon uses a fast algorithm that does 50,000 URL verifications per second on an Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe) at 2.4 GHz.

Release Notes: This release has 2 minor fixes and 6 enhancements. Proxies based on webtunnel are now blocked. New sites are added as SafeSearch search engines. The readability of the log file is improved. There is much faster database load time on Solaris when libumem is used. ufdbGenTable has a new option (-s) to apply sanity checks on URLs. A warning is issued when ufdbGenTable is required to run (i.e. domains is newer than domains.ufdb). SafeSearch for Google images is fixed (the Google URL has been changed). Building on Solaris for ufdbgclient is fixed.

14 Jul 20:54 ePoint HotSpot 0.4.13

ePoint HotSpot is a firmware for wireless routers based on OpenWRT with some ePointy extensions and an ePoint-branded UI theme. It is distributed as a stand-alone flashable firmware-image, as a set of extension packages for OpenWRT, pre-installed on wireless routers, and in source code. It is aimed primarily at catering businesses, Internet cafés, and medium-sized communities (e.g. residential co-ops) wishing to share their Internet connection on a fair basis. The primary target hardware is WRT54GL by Linksys.

Release Notes: Important usability improvements and bugfixes. No functionality has been added.

14 Jul 20:53 Gargoyle Router Management Utility 1.0 Final

Gargoyle is an interface for small, widely available routers such as the Linksys WRT54G series and the La Fonera. It provides functionality above and beyond what the default software provides including sophisticated dynamic DNS, quality of service, and bandwidth monitoring tools. The primary goal is to provide a polished interface for these advanced tools that is at least as easy to configure as any existing firmware. This project is based on top of OpenWrt, but unlike other Web interfaces for OpenWrt it places a strong focus an usability and is meant for average users, not just power users.

Release Notes: After one year of development, Gargoyle is officially out of Beta. Improvements in this release include improved bandwidth quotas, a new Web authentication system, a new access restrictions implementation, significantly improved stability, major bug fixes in the bandwidth monitor, and numerous minor bugfixes.

14 Jul 20:50 PeaZip 2.6.3

PeaZip is a cross-platform file archiver utility that provides an unified portable GUI for many Open Source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ, UPX, etc. Creates 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, *PAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, and ZIP. Extracts more than 130 archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, ZIPX, and more. Features of PeaZip include extract, create, and convert multiple archives at once, create self-extracting archives, split/join files, strong encryption with two factor authentication, an encrypted password manager, secure deletion, find duplicate files, calculate hashes, and export job definitions as scripts.

Release Notes: This is a maintenance release. Now 90 file types are supported. Some bugs were fixed in Pea and PeaLauncher components.

14 Jul 20:49 Inverse SOGo Integrator for Thunderbird 0.95

Inverse SOGo Integrator for Thunderbird is an extension that transforms Thunderbird into a pure "heavy" client for SOGo. Whereas the SOGo Connector is meant for portability, the SOGo Integrator provides "vertical" integration with the SOGo groupware server by making use of the specific features it provides. The general features provided are: remote administration of folder subscriptions, an automatic replication of user folders and subscriptions, propagation of updates to chosen extensions from a local update server, and propagation of default settings and integrated GUI elements.

Release Notes: Adapted to the improvements found in Lightning 0.95, Inverse Edition. This release grays out the entries that cannot be selected in user and folder search dialogs. It fixes the handling of user@host usernames. It adds Italian and German translations.

14 Jul 20:48 CrossFTP 1.53b

CrossFTP Client is a multi-tabbed FTP and Amazon S3 client supporting SFTP, FXP, WebDav, MobileMe iDisk, and Amazon S3. It uses a two-pane interface. It features multiple tabs, multiple threads, scheduling, synchronization, remote editing, archives support, anti-idles, and much more.

Release Notes: This release adds new Spanish and Netherlands translations and fixes a number of bugs.

14 Jul 20:47 Inverse SOGo Connector for Thunderbird 0.95

Inverse SOGo Connector for Thunderbird is an extension which transforms Thunderbird into a full DAV client for groupware servers such as SOGo, OpenGroupware.org, and Citadel. It does this by adding support for remote DAV address books and by adding features to be used along with the Lightning calendar extension. It is a merge of the Lightning Enhancer and the GroupDAV Addressbook Connector.

Release Notes: Updated German and Italian translations. An improved vcard decoder with handling of BASE64 fields and badly-folded lines. Handling of some cases where VLIST would be duplicated has been fixed. Mapping of "TEL" attributes has been fixed. Support has been added for the WebDAV Sync draft specification, thereby improving scalability and speed. There are miscellaneous GUI improvements.

14 Jul 20:44 Caméléon 0.2.0

Caméléon is a universal file converter tool. You can use its simple graphical interface to convert files into various formats, such as images, documents, video, and music. It relies on software such as ImageMagick, OpenOffice, inkscape, and GStreamer to perform conversions.

Release Notes: This release adds a status icon, a task queue view, and an auto-shutdown service.

14 Jul 20:44 Meta.Numerics 1.2.0

Meta.Numerics is a Mono-compatible .NET library for scientific and numerical programming. It includes functionality for matrix algebra (including SVD, non-symmetric eigensystems, and sparse matrices), special functions of real and complex numbers (including Bessel functions and the complex error function), statistics and data analysis (including PCA, logistic and nonlinear regression, statistical tests, and nonuniform random deviates), and signal processing (including arbitrary-length FFTs).

Release Notes: Support for tridiagonal matrices, multivariate samples, maximum likelihood fits of samples to arbitrary parameterized distributions, and data sets with measurement uncertainties on arbitrarily-typed spaces.

14 Jul 20:42 grabby 0.8

Grabby retrieves images from a video4linux or video4linux2 compatible Webcam or TV card. It can send them to an FTP server, can write them to disk, supports JPG and PPM, can auto-tune contrast/brightness, and lots more. It has tons of special effects. It also can display the effects in real time in a window or stream the result to a Web browser.

Release Notes: Chroma key-color is now configurable. A circles effect, an interlace effect, a color blend effect, a puzzle effect, a color noise effect, and effects for reducing the number of colors have been added. The blocks effect has been made configurable. max_saturation is now set_saturation instead for maximum configurability.

14 Jul 20:32 LANforge FIRE & ICE 5.1.1

LANforge is a unified multi-protocol network traffic generation and WAN emulation application. It allows users to generate real world customer traffic in a controllable manner. The WAN emulator allows the injection of latency and other network oddities like dropped, duplicated, and re-ordered packets. LANforge includes a drag-and-drop virtual network builder that supports virtual routers, WAN links, traffic-generating nodes, and more. It provides a scriptable command line interface with Perl libraries as well as a graphical user interface.

Release Notes: This release includes improvements for file I/O, packet replay, VoIP, and GUI real-time graphing. The LANforge-ICE network emulator has performance improvements to sustain at least 5Gbps bi-directional flow on modern high-end hardware. Virtual routing supports RIP and OLSR. The GUI supports batch-modify, allowing the user to easily apply the same setting(s) to many endpoints and ports at the same time.

14 Jul 20:12 Nagiosgraph 1.3.1

Nagiosgraph is an add-on for Nagios. It collects service perfdata in RRD format, and displays the resulting graphs via CGI.

Release Notes: This release adds a bugfix for maximum and minimum tracking.

14 Jul 17:35 dynamic window manager 5.6

dwm is a fast and simple window manager for X11. It manages windows in tiled and floating layouts. Either layout can be applied dynamically, optimizing the environment for the application in use and the task performed. Windows can be tagged with one or multiple tags. Selecting certain tags displays all windows that are accordingly tagged. dwm is the little brother of wmii.

Release Notes: This release introduces improved Xinerama support and various code cleanups.

14 Jul 17:35 paptcha 0.0.2

paptcha is a PHP function that produces random numbers and results for a CAPTCHA program. It takes 3 arguments: the number of digits to produce, the number of choices to produce, and a flag to indicate whether the results should be images or not.

Release Notes: The useless switch statement has been removed. This release will run faster.

14 Jul 17:34 Fotoxx 7.5

Fotoxx lets you navigate an image collection using a thumbnail browser and choose images to view or edit. Edit functions include brightness, contrast, color, white balance, tone mapping, red-eyes, sharpen, blur, noise suppression, smart erase, trim, resize, rotate, annotate, warp, art effects, HDR, HDF, stack, and panorama. Edit functions use movable curves and sliders. Feedback is live, using the whole image, with unlimited undo and redo. RAW files can be imported and edited with 16-bit color depth. Areas or objects can be selected using freehand draw, follow edge, and tone matching. Selections can be edited with adjustable blending. Selections can be cut and paste. You can add tags, dates, comments, captions, and ratings to images, and you can search using these criteria as well as file names. You can also define named collections of images, make slide shows, and view and edit metadata (EXIF etc.). Batch processing is available for rename, resize/export, CD/DVD burn, and add/delete tags.

Release Notes: Simulate painting now works within an outlined area. The user may specify the minimum color match required to consolidate smaller patches of color into larger ones. Drag a file (e.g. from Nautilus) onto a fotoxx window or desktop launcher and the file will open in fotoxx. Dragging a text filespec also works. Scrolling around in an image that is zoomed to a huge size is much faster (scroll bars are "virtual": drag the mouse across the window). View basic EXIF data (short output) or all data (long output). Several other UI improvements and bugfixes were implemented.

14 Jul 17:33 PyQt 4.5.2

PyQt is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit.

Release Notes: This is primarily a bugfix release. It also has support for the two QImage constructors that operate on non-const data by allowing a sip.voidptr to be passed. It has support for QHeaderView in pyuic4. Any Python object can now be passed where a QVariant is expected, and None is interpreted as an invalid QVariant. The QAxContainer module was added to the Windows GPL version.

14 Jul 17:31 Grub Next Generation 0.7

Grub Next Generation is a distributed client/server Web crawling system that helps to build and maintain indexes of the Web.

Release Notes: This is third beta version. Support for Solr and a URLs database were added. A few bugs were fixed.

14 Jul 17:30 libburnia 0.6.8

libburnia is a project comprised of libraries and binaries for reading, mastering, and writing optical discs. It provides libburn, a CD/DVD/BD burn library, libisofs, a manipulation library for ISO 9660 filesystems, and libisoburn, a ISO 9660 multi-session library. On top of them there is cdrskin, a cdrecord emulator, and xorriso, a all-in-one application for ISO 9660 multi-session operations which additionaly provides a limited emulation of mkisofs.

Release Notes: This release fixes bugs with old MMC-1 drives and can handle very high SCSI bus numbers with Linux USB.

14 Jul 17:27 XML Security Library 1.2.12

XML Security Library is a C library based on LibXML2. It provides an implementation for major XML security standards: XML Digital Signature and XML Encryption.

Release Notes: This release fixes an HMAC vulnerability with small values of HMAC length (CERT VU #466161), adds support for the GOST implemented by Russian Crypto Pro CSP, adds an option to return the replaced node, adds a new function for encoding special chars in the node content, adds support for configurable base64 line length, and includes numerous bugfixes.

14 Jul 17:24 JSch 0.1.42

JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. It allows you to connect to an sshd server and use port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file transfer, etc. You can integrate its functionality into your own Java programs.

Release Notes: This release fixes the deadlock bug in making exec requests during the re-keying process.

14 Jul 17:23 Secure FTP Factory 8.2

Secure FTP Factory is a set of Java classes for communicating with FTP servers using the FTP, SFTP (FTP over SSH), and FTPS (FTP over SSL) protocols. The components offer complete FTP functionality, including the ability to transfer files, rename files, delete files, create directories, transfer directories recursively, and more.

Release Notes: This release adds a com.jscape.inet.sftp.SftpConfiguration.setStartSubsystemReplyNeeded method in order to deal with some flawed server implementations. It has a fix for the com.jscape.inet.sftp.Sftp class to deal with very large window sizes.

14 Jul 17:21 JSCAPE Secure FTP Server 5.2

JSCAPE Secure FTP Server is a highly secure FTP server designed to provide enterprise level secure file transfer capabilities. It is platform-independent with installers for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X.

Release Notes: This release adds support for submitting custom form data when uploading files via an HTML user interface. It adds the ability to set the syslog facility, the ability to copy a group, the ability to copy a user, and IPv6 support for all protocols.

14 Jul 15:40 Conquest: Divide and Conquer 0.14.0

Conquest is a simultaneous turn-based strategy game placed in a dark and distant future. Play the role of a futuristic commander. Divide your armies and conquer the world. Position satellites to reveal your opponents. Launch missiles to annihilate big armies, but watch out for incoming drop pods behind your back. Standing in your path to victory are other commanders like yourself. Fight them off one by one and prove you are the greatest of the great. The combination of fast gameplay and randomly generated maps equals intense, restless nights of battles for cities. Drag and drop your way to victory.

Release Notes: This release drastically changes the look of the game, from top-down 2D to orthogonal 3D, a new texture-based GUI, 3D models, and more. It also features redesigned network code, a new server lobby, and lower resolution requirements.