16 July 2009
16 Jul 21:00
3q 1.0.0
3q encodes and executes gawk script code embedded into HTML files. 3q itself is a gawk script.
Release Notes: This is the initial release bringing the basic scripting function: the ability to serve arbitrary files and run other CGI scripts.
16 Jul 20:02
lb 0.2.0
lb is a very small and efficient libevent-based benchmarking tool for HTTP servers. It has been implemented with the main goal to provide a safe and quick replacement for the Apache 'ab' tool. Since its first release, it comes with the ability to benchmark several HTTP servers at the same time, theoretically limited only by operating system limits.
Release Notes: This version improves performance by about 148% with respect to the previous release, and therefore it's about 53% faster than the original 'ab'. Initial versions of the scripts were added using the GNU build system to compile out of the libevent SVN tree.
16 Jul 19:58
VTD-XML 2.6
Virtual Token Descriptor for eXtensible Markup Language (VTD-XML) refers to a collection of efficient XML processing technologies centered around a non-extractive XML parsing technique called Virtual Token Descriptor (VTD). Depending on the perspective, VTD-XML can be viewed as either an XML parser, a native XML indexer or a file format that uses binary data to enhance the text XML, an incremental XML content modifier, an XML slicer/splitter/assembler, or an XML editor/eraser.
Release Notes: Major bugfixes in all modules in VTD-XML.
16 Jul 19:55
AcouSTO 1.1-beta
AcouSTO is a linear acoustics solver based on a Boundary Element Method (BEM) solution of the Kirchhoff-Helmholtz Integral Equation (KHIE). The code is written in C, and includes an MPI-based preliminary parallelization scheme. Plan wave scattered by a unit sphere. An (extended) FORTRAN version of this code has been used for years in the authors' research group, and has reached a remarkable level of reliability. The numerical formulation has been well assessed, as the large number of scientific papers produced throughout the years demonstrates.
Release Notes: This release fixes major bugs. A PHP MySQL Web application has been added. Manuals have been updated.
16 Jul 19:51
ZynAddSubFX 2.4.0
ZynAddSubFX is a powerful real-time, multi- timbral software synthesizer for Linux. It has microtonal capabilities, and the instruments it creates sound like those from professional keyboards. It includes effects like reverb, echo, chorus, and phaser.
Release Notes: Extended Mono functionality. Legato mode. Export functionality on PADsynth. Inclusion of a LASH client. Inclusion of DSSI audio output. Tooltips for knobs are enabled (both description and value tooltips). Support for the newer JACK API. Many bugfixes and other improvements. Code cleanup.
16 Jul 19:48
Roma Framework 2.0.2
ROMA is a POJO-based Java framework with concepts taken from Ruby On Rails. It allows you to build an AJAX-enabled Web application with a database and generated CRUD in a few minutes.
Release Notes: No new features, but all opened issues have been resolved.
16 Jul 19:46
grabby 0.9
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: This release adds new effects: mapping an image on a sphere, pulling an image into the center, rotating an image, and a vortex effect. New filters: a median filter and a low-pass filter (1 pole). You can now also read palettes from GIF (89a) files.
16 Jul 17:34
Polyroids 1.9pre
Polyroids is a fast, colorful, and addictive take on the classic Asteroids theme. It's been ported to OpenGL and GLUT in 2002, which means you can build and play it on many platforms. There is a Javascript port, working with canvas in the latest browsers, so you can play Polyroids online.
Release Notes: This is a testing release including the new Javascript port. It's now possible to play Polyroids in modern HTML5 browsers, like Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4, without plugins or installation.
16 Jul 17:18
mxGraph 1.0.0.6
mxGraph is a JavaScript library that uses built-in browser capabilities to provide an interactive drawing and diagramming solution. Target applications are Web based applications that require workflow/BPM, diagram, network, or general graph editing to be available in-place on a Web page.
Release Notes: This release fixes some minor issues in the Java release and improves the workaround for the Firefox 3.5 image display problem.
16 Jul 17:16
CCruncher 1.4
CCruncher is a project for the simulation of large portfolios of SME loans where the unique risk is the default risk. The method used to determine the distribution of losses in the portfolio is the Monte Carlo algorithm, because it allows you to consider multiple variables, such as the date and amount of each payment. The obligors' default times are simulated using a copula with given survival rates and correlations.
Release Notes: This release replaces discrete time management by continuous time. It also improves the documentation, solve some bugs, adds the GNU Scientific Library, and has some other minor changes.
16 Jul 17:14
CSCall++ 0.35
CSCall++ is a C++ library that converts common uses of syscalls and C library functions into forms that are more appropriate for use in a C++ context. The library wraps functions for dealing with threads, files, FIFOs, serial I/O, sockets, and directories.
Release Notes: Wy_Array has been revised a bit, and now uses std::malloc officially. Wy::sort(..), which had been lacking, has been added. WyOffsetRange and Wy_ORMutex have been added for the file offset range mutex. Wy::Vect2/3/4, Wy::GridPlaneHdr, etc., have been added for 2D array functionality.
16 Jul 17:09
dfsch 0.3.0
dfsch is Scheme-like LISP dialect. It draws inspiration from R5RS, but also contains concepts inspired by other languages, mainly Common Lisp. The implementation is written in plain C with a Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector using some object-oriented concepts on top of plain C.
Release Notes: This release brings significant performance enhancements in the interpreter core together with better support for interactive debugging. Some previously external modules were integrated into the base interpreter package.
16 Jul 17:07
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.10.4
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a robust, fully-featured, optimising compiler for the functional programming language Haskell. GHC compiles Haskell to either native code or C. It implements numerous experimental language extensions to Haskell for example concurrency, a foreign language interface, several type-system extensions, exceptions, and so on. GHC comes with a generational garbage collector, a space and time profiler, and a comprehensive set of libraries.
Release Notes: Various bugfixes.
16 Jul 17:06
cfunge 0.9.0
cfunge is a fast interpreter for the Befunge98 esoteric language. It is standard conforming.
Release Notes: This is a bugfix release. The version number jumped from 0.4.1 to 0.9.0 to reflect that cfunge is now reaching a stable version. A bug has been fixed where leading spaces would be lost when loading a file if the file used CR (Mac) line endings. Buggy handling of negative arguments to the j instruction (jump) when the jump target was on the edge of the program source has been fixed. There is a small bugfix in the tool used to automatically generate the fingerprint listing for the man page; it erroneously escaped hyphens.
16 Jul 17:03
BuildBot 0.7.11p1
The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. It builds and tests the tree each time a change is committed, providing status updates through a Web page or other protocols.
Release Notes: This release fixes a few test failures in buildbot-0.7.11, and gives a default value for branchType if it is not specified by the master. Users should prefer this version over version 0.7.11.
16 Jul 15:06
BleachBit 0.5.4
BleachBit deletes junk to recover disk space and maintain privacy. It rids your system of old junk including cache, Internet history, temporary files, unused locale files (better than localepurge), logs, and cookies. Designed for Linux systems, it wipes clean 50 applications including Adobe Reader, Bash, Firefox, Flash, OpenOffice.org, Opera, Real Player, Skype, and more. It shreds files so that they cannot be recovered, and it wipes free disk space to hide insecurely deleted files. It offers both a simple PyGTK GUI and a command line interface for automation.
Release Notes: This release automatically hides irrelevant cleaners. It cleans SeaMonkey; Adobe Reader MRU's; Opera download history, URL history, and current session; X Window System session errors; Google Toolbar; Microsoft Office MRU's; WinRAR MRU's; and more Windows MRU's. It fixes a bug that deleted OpenOffice.org extensions. It adds translations for Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal, and Simplified Chinese, and it updates translations for 12 other languages.
16 Jul 13:53
Wiz Solitaire 1.42
Wiz Solitaire is a collection of card games with the ability to use beautiful custom decks. It supports different deck formats, allowing you to choose between thousands of available card sets. You can also easily create your own decks with the included Deck Editor. It includes more than 20 games including Klondike, Free Cell, Spider, Pyramid, Eagle Wing, Baker's Dozen, Seahaven, Rouge et Noir, Scorpion, La Belle Lucie, Golf, and Yukon.
Release Notes: This version fixes a crash that occurred on quit with some games.
16 Jul 13:52
TCPDF 4.6.020
TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions. TCPDF supports all ISO page formats and custom page formats, custom margins and units of measure, UTF-8 Unicode, RTL languages, HTML, barcodes, TrueTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1, and CID-0 fonts, images, graphic functions, clipping, bookmarks, JavaScript, forms, page compression, digital signatures, and encryption.
Release Notes: This version fixes a minor bug related to RTL mode change.
16 Jul 13:52
pngcrush 1.6.20
pngcrush is an excellent batch-mode compression utility for PNG images. Depending on the application that created the original PNGs, it can improve the file size anywhere from a few percent to 40% or more (completely losslessly). The utility also allows specified PNG chunks (e.g. text comments) to be inserted or deleted, and it can fix incorrect gamma info written by Photoshop 5.0 as well as the erroneous iCCP chunk written by Photoshop 5.5.
Release Notes: This release is built with libpng-1.2.38. A confusing error message that stated, "the -cc option is not activated," was changed to, "the -cc option is not supported."
16 Jul 13:39
flex-fw 0.1.5
flex-fw is a small and fast front-end for the Linux iptables utility with an easy command syntax like ipfw or pf from BSD systems. It features service-oriented configuration, support for network profiles, which is useful for notebooks, support for macros, easy migration to another network environment by redefining macros, easy distribution to many hosts, syslog logging support for iptables errors and dropped packets, an interactive mode for manually configuring "on the fly", a batch mode for execution from shell scripts, and a library mode for using the flex-fw functions in your shell scripts.
Release Notes: An error when executing in interactive mode (flex-fw -i) was fixed.
16 Jul 13:35
Final Page 0.3.0
Final Page is a document post production tool for the GNOME environment. You can merge, split, rotate, change size, and reorganize pages and documents for print or export to PDF format.
Release Notes: Final Page can now import document formats other than PDF by using the Caméléon conversion tool. It works for all documents that can be converted to PDF, like images, OpenOffice documents, and Microsoft Office document.
16 Jul 13:31
Teamwork 4.2 build 10250
Teamwork is a Web-based groupware for project management. It supplies groupware, issue tracking, cost control, and document and project management features with fine-grained security in a friendly interface. Agile methodologies such SCRUM are supported. Teamwork is easy to integrate with your IT infrastructure. Supports multiple databases (via hibernate), browsers, and languages.
Release Notes: This release contains iPhone calendar synchronization as a main feature. Other features are an Active task filter on the task tree and a new “export to Excel” button for the resource list. This release also contains some interface improvements and bugfixes.
16 Jul 13:29
InDefero 0.8.5
InDefero is a simple software forge. It can be used to save you and your team time. It tracks bugs and provides downloads, documentation, and an easy overview of your Git, Subversion, or Mercurial managed code base.
Release Notes: This release includes the stabilization of the code review backend and a dozen of bugfixes. It is now safe to use the code review system, and all the users should upgrade.
16 Jul 13:28
OGMRip 0.13.0
OGMRip is an application and a set of libraries for ripping and encoding DVDs into AVI/OGM files using a wide variety of codecs. It relies on mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, oggenc, and lame to perform its tasks. The GUI features a clean HIG-compliant GNOME 2 interface and tries to minimize (as much as possible) esoteric settings.
Release Notes: This version provides encoding queues, an automatic compressibility test, and autodetection of progressive and telecine. It also adds support for hardcoded subtitles and encodings at constant bitrate or quantizer. New plugins and profiles are also available on the Web site.
16 Jul 13:22
DRBL 1.0.0-8
Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL) provides a diskless or systemless environment for client machines. It works on Debian, Mandriva, Red Hat, Fedora, and SuSE. Unlike LTSP, it uses distributed hardware resources and makes it possible for clients to fully access local hardware. It also includes Clonezilla, a partitioning and disk cloning utility similar to Symantec Ghost.
Release Notes: The 2.6.30-backports-1 kernel is used. A workaround was added to avoid using partclone to save FAT filesystems. The smartmontools package was added. Some minor bugs were fixed. The makeboot.sh program was improved to allow USB devices /dev/ub[a-z]. The language files ja_JP.UTF-8 and zh_CN were updated. Some improvements were made for AoE mode.
