19 July 2009
19 Jul 23:46
libexplain 0.14
The libexplain project provides a library that may be used to explain Unix and Linux system call errors. This will make your application's error messages much more informative to your users. The library is not quite a drop-in replacement for strerror, but it comes close, each system call has a dedicated libexplain function.
Release Notes: Coverage now includes another 29 system calls: accept4(2), acct(2), adjtime(3), adjtimex(2), chroot(2), dirfd(3), eventfd(2), fflush(3), fileno(3), flock(2), fstatfs(2), ftime(3), getgroups(2), gethostname(2), kill(2), nice(2), pread(2), pwrite(2), sethostname(2), signalfd(2), strdup(3), strtod(3), strtof(3), strtol(3), strtold(3), strtoll(3), strtoul(3), strtoull(3), and timerfd_create(2). A total of 110 system calls are now supported.
19 Jul 23:45
HTMLProc 1.4
HTMLProc is a HTML preprocessor. It allows you to include files into files, select files using a global path or by name, and deal with files regardless of location, and it adds the width and height values for each picture.
Release Notes: This release adds the size in pictures from files added with include. It has changed from OS popen2 to subprocess.Popen to ensure compatibility with Python 3.0.
19 Jul 23:44
DeVeDe 3.14.0
DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs (compatible with home players) from nearly any video format. It only uses Python, MPlayer, Mencoder, DVDAuthor, VCDImager, and mkisofs, so it has very few dependencies.
Release Notes: This release no longer adds black bars when creating an NTSC disc from an 720x480 file. It allows you to repack a file as MPEG-PS without recompressing the streams (useful for working with VOB files). It allows you to swap the field order in interlaced videos. It allows you to change the subtitle's font size. It supports subtitle filenames with XML-reserved characters. It supports all picture types for menu backgrounds (not just PNG). The media sizes have been adjusted to ensure that the ISOs will always fit in the disc.
19 Jul 23:37
Liquid Fonts 2.0
The Liquid Font Family is a collection of small bitmap fonts focusing on readability and Unicode support. The fonts were designed with small, graphics-capable LCD displays in mind, and to be nice and narrow. They are proportional fonts, not mono-spaced like many similar projects.
Release Notes: Hebrew script was added. Arabic script was added, with support for several languages. A rendering library is now available supporting automatic ligatures, kerning, and bidirectional rendering.
19 Jul 23:21
file 5.0.3
File is a utility that classifies arbitrary files of any type mainly by their contents. It is considered standard on most Unix distributions. It can output either human-readable concise descriptions or MIME types for machine handling.
Release Notes: Several buffer overflows and NULL dereferences are now avoided in the CDF code, along with additional bounds and overflow checking.
19 Jul 23:16
QuitCount 1.5
QuitCount is a simple counter that shows what you've saved since you quit smoking. Once you tell it the date you quit, how much you smoked, and how much it cost, it'll tell you how many cigarettes you didn't smoke since, and how much it means in terms of money, tar, and life expectancy.
Release Notes: This release adds three new translations: German, Hungarian, and Italian. It also fixes a build issue on GTK+ < 2.14.
19 Jul 23:15
Raptor RDF Syntax Library 1.4.19
Raptor is a C library providing a set of parsers and serializers for Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples by parsing syntaxes into RDF triples and serializing triples into a syntax. The parsers support RDF/XML, N-Triples, GRDDL, and Turtle, and via RSS tag soup: XML RSS, Atom 0.3, and Atom 1.0. The serializers support RDF/XML (3 flavours), Turtle, DOT, N-Triples, RSS 1.0, and Atom 1.0. Raptor handles RDF/XML as used by RDF applications such as RSS 1.0, FOAF, DOAP, Dublin Core, and OWL. It can use either expat or libxml2 for XML parsing, libcurl when available for URI retrieval, and is portable to many POSIX systems.
Release Notes: Many improvements to the RSS tag soup (RSS and Atom) parser and the RSS 1.0 and Atom serializers were made. Several fixes and improvements were made to the N-Triples, RDFa and RDF/XML parsers, and the Turtle serializer. The use and configuration of static libxml functions was improved for better compatibility. Several Win32 portability fixes were made. Many other fixes, resilience improvements, and internal changes were made.
19 Jul 20:41
OSG Composer 1.2
OSG composer was designed to unleash the potential of OSG developers and users. It facilitates the creation of simple to complex 3D scenes, which combine geometries from different sources. It lets you add models from different sources, place them visually using the draggers, use advanced Snap tools, add 3D text to your scene, add texture coordinates to the models, duplicate and create instances of geometries in the scene, automatically pack your scenes with all its textures in a zip file so you can share it with other users, and fix problematic models and bring them back to life.
Release Notes: The release provides keyboard-free easy navigation that is consistent with the OpenSceneGraph model (LMB for Rotation, MMB for Panning, and RMB for Zooming) It also includes an updated GUI to improve the appearance of the application.
19 Jul 20:40
segatex 7.775
segatex is a tool to configure SELinux policy with the help of a GUI. At the push of a button, it can generate a .te file in the /usr/share/segatex directory. You can then edit your .te file, make a module, and install. You can make any module name and edit current modules. You can install, update, and remove modules. You can semanage list and semanage login, fcontext, and port or set some domain permissive. You can download SELinux-related RPMs, including xguest, sepostgresql, and mod_selinux. You can download Fedora DVD or CDs. You can relabel your system. You can audit2allow by GUI. You can check refpolicy by analyzer. segatex includes its own policy.
Release Notes: This release fixes segatex_audit2allow to audit2allow in F11 with grepping certain domains.
19 Jul 20:40
AjaXplorer 2.5.2
AjaXplorer is an easy-to-install file explorer for remotely managing files on a Web server. Its rich GUI makes it accessible to any end-user. Its main features are common file actions (uploading, downloading, moving, renaming, etc.), online file editing, image preview, a bookmarks system, and more. It requires PHP to run and FTP access only for installation.
Release Notes: This release is a bugfix for 2.5.1. It fixes download problems and changes the way downloading is performed, avoiding leaving the GUI on an error. It tracks E_NOTICE errors, better documents the "LANG=C" case, and enhances the splitters in for better resizing. There are vvarious bugfixes.
19 Jul 20:38
Adventure-(PHP-)Framework 1.10-RC2
The adventure PHP framework (APF) is a utility to implement object oriented and generic PHP Web applications. It allows the developer to create programs in compliance with approved software design patterns, and the code base already has answers to many everyday problems. The framework cannot be described as an application that only has to be configured, but rather as a technical basis and design guide for the design of software. Further, it introduced many concepts and efficiency tools already well known in the Java community.
Release Notes: This release solves some problems, that occur with PHP 5.2.10 and 5.3.0 having problems with the overloading/inheritance model. Thus, the APF filter API was refactored to bypass this bugs. Besides this, all changes of the 1.10-RC1 release are contained in this version. These are the change to PHP 5 development, clean-ups and small refactorings, performance improvements, and the introduction of the DI container.
19 Jul 20:35
Seed7 2009-07-19
Seed7 is a general purpose programming language. It is a higher level language compared to Ada, C++, and Java. In Seed7, new statements and operators can be declared easily. Functions with type results and type parameters are more elegant than a template or generics concept. Object orientation is used when it brings advantages and not in places when other solutions are more obvious. Although Seed7 contains several concepts of other programming languages, it is generally not considered as a direct descendant of any other programming language.
Release Notes: The charsets.s7i library was improved to support the charsets armscii_8, geostd8, ns_4551_1, utf-16be, utf-16le, and utf-7. The functions utf16beToStri, utf16leToStri, removeUtf16SurrogatePairs, and utf7ToStri were added to 'charsets.s7i'. The functions getWord, getNonDigits, and getQuotedText were added to 'scanfile.s7i'. The functions skipLine and getLine were added to 'scanstri.s7i'. Several changes in the interpreter and the runtime library were made to reduce the number of warnings generated by the C compiler. The file src/read_me.txt was improved to explain more C compiler warnings.
19 Jul 20:33
python-bitstring 0.5.0
bitstring is a Python module that helps to make the creation and analysis of binary data as simple and natural as possible. Objects can be constructed from integers (big and little endian), floats, hex, octal, binary, byte data, iterables, or files. They can be sliced, joined, reversed, packed, unpacked, inserted into, overwritten, and otherwise operated upon with simple functions or slice notation. They can also be parsed, searched, and navigated in, similar to a file or stream. Internally the data is efficiently stored as byte arrays. It is available for Python 2.6 and later (including Python 3).
Release Notes: New flexible read and peek functions that can parse multiple elements in one statement. More flexibile initializations are possible through the 'auto' parameter. hex(), oct(), readue() and readse() have been removed. The default for the bytealigned parameter has been changed to False for all functions that use it.
19 Jul 20:32
MP3 Diags 0.99.04.026
MP3 Diags finds problems in MP3 files and helps the user fix many of them. It looks at both the audio part (VBR info, quality, normalization) and the tags containing track information (ID3). It has a tag editor, which can download album information (including cover art) from MusicBrainz and Discogs, as well as paste data from the clipboard. Track information can also be extracted from a file's name. Another component is the file renamer, which can rename files based on the fields in their ID3V2 tag (artist, track number, album, genre, etc.).
Release Notes: Non-ASCII file names can be used on Windows. The tag editor looks at the filter. USLT Lyrics inside ID3V2 are shown. F1 help has been added.
19 Jul 17:12
Pondus 0.6.0
Pondus is a personal weight manager that keeps track of your body weight. It aims to be simple to use, lightweight, and fast. The data can be plotted to get a quick overview of the history of your weight. A simple weight planner allows you to define "target weights" and this plan can be compared with the actual measurements in a plot.
Release Notes: This release adds an option to smooth the weight plot to filter out short-term fluctuations, an option to replace the date entry with a calendar widget in the add/edit dialog, and some usability tweaks and bugfixes.
19 Jul 17:12
Spack 1.0
Spack is a standalone package manager with its own CPIO-based package format but aiming to keep total compatibility with Slackware Linux. Written in POSIX shell as much as it makes sense, it attempts to provide a fairly complete toolkit to build, install, remove, list, retrieve, and arrange your packages. It can be used as an alternative to Slackware's pkgtools, just to independently and properly manage your local software on any distribution, or as the main package manager of the distribution you build yourself.
Release Notes: This release is able to generate xz-compressed packages. In order to make the selection of the profiles you use often easier, a new way to proceed was added: to automatically call spack with the "foo" profile, you can use a "spack-foo" symlink pointing to the spack command. To speed up writing of make.sh scripts, a new environment variable appears: sysconfdir, which is automatically set to /etc when the used prefix is /usr, and prefix/etc otherwise. There are some minor bugfixes.
19 Jul 17:10
Geeklog 1.6.0
Geeklog is the weblog software that concentrates on performance, privacy, and security. It features Web-based administration, surveys (polls), user-customizable boxes, a friendly administration GUI with a topic manager, an option to edit or delete stories, an option to delete comments, a search engine, backend/headlines generation (RSS/Atom format), calendaring, and much more.
Release Notes: This release includes the results of successful students from the 2008 Google Summer of Code (site migration, plugin upload, improved search, and various comment improvements) as well as the new XMLSitemap plugin, FCKeditor 2.6.4.1, and more.
19 Jul 17:09
get_iplayer 2.10
get_iplayer allows a user to stream or make recordings of any BBC iPlayer TV (H.264/Quicktime), BBC iPlayer Radio (MP3/AAC/RealAudio), or BBC Podcasts (MP3/AAC). It downloads iPlayer subtitles, metadata, and thumbnails. It has full PVR functionality for automatic searching, queuing, and stream recording. Its plug-in architecture allows third-party channels to be added. Live and embedded iPlayer TV and Radio recording and streaming is also supported. The optional Web PVR Manager allows full PVR searching, recording, and playback support of available and recorded material.
Release Notes: This release updates the PVR Manager script with the latest options changes. PVR Manager now runs better under Win32. --rtmpstop and --rtmpstart have been renamed to --stop and --start. The --stop and --start can now be used with both RealAudio and RTMP streams. Partial proxy support has been improved. mediaselector stream lookup is skipped if only iphone mode is specified. This release ensures that the rtmpdump option is still recognized after warnings. A bug in options and preset parsing has been fixed.
19 Jul 17:02
Shed Skin 0.2
Shed Skin is an experimental (restricted-)Python-to-C++ compiler. It accepts pure but implicitly statically typed Python programs and generates optimized C++ code. The result can be further compiled to stand-alone programs or extension modules. For a set of 63 non-trivial test programs, at more than 16,000 lines in total (sloccount), measurements show a typical speedup of 2-200 times over CPython. Not all Python features are supported, and only a subset of about 25 library modules, such as re and random.
Release Notes: Seven new example programs were added. Several important optimizations were made. Many bugs were fixed.
19 Jul 14:52
Opera 10.00 Beta 2
Opera is a full-featured Internet tool, most notably a fully standard conforming Web browser. Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like a password manager, mouse gestures, native Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support, an email program, RSS newsfeeds, and IRC chat. It is designed to be fast and highly customizable.
Release Notes: Many improvements and bugfixes were made since the previous beta release.
19 Jul 14:52
tmphoto 0.1a2
tmphoto is a Web photo gallery with a fairly advanced metadata structure, allowing photos to be described in terms of place, category, persons in the photo, and events. The places, categories, persons, and events can be further described. It offers a nice browsing interface based on the metadata.
Release Notes: This is the first release.
19 Jul 14:13
sysstat 9.0.4
The sysstat package contains the sar, sadf, iostat, nfsiostat, cifsiostat, mpstat, and pidstat commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activites, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities, and TTY statistics, among others. The sadf command may be used to display data collected by sar in various formats. The iostat command reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The pidstat command reports statistics for Linux processes. The mpstat command reports global and per-processor statistics. The nfsiostat command reports I/O statistics for network filesystems. The cifsiostat command reports I/O statistics for CIFS filesystems.
Release Notes: A memory corruption bug was fixed in sadc. An implicit rule for libsyscom.a has been deleted in the Makefile to fix a problem with parallel execution. The sysstat.ioconf configuration file has been updated. NLS translations have been updated.
19 Jul 14:12
KMuddy 1.0
KMuddy is a MUD client powered by KDE. It aims to be the most powerful, fast, feature-rich and easy to use MUD client. The current version already offers many features such as powerful external scripting (which supports very many languages such as Python, Perl, Lua, and C/C++) and its own internal scripting. It has split-screen scrolling, command history, an auto-mapper, buttons, gauges, logging (both in plain text and HTML), multiple connections, regex support (on both aliases and triggers), and much more.
Release Notes: A port to KDE4 was made. A new object system was added, with greatly enhanced functionality for aliases, triggers, and other objects, including the ability to organize them in a hierarchical structure. XML-based profile storage is supported. A mapper with auto-mapping functionality was added. A MUD list from The MUD Connector was added.
19 Jul 13:58
Orbit-Hopper 1.16c
Orbit-Hopper is a game where you take control of a spaceship. The goal of the game is to jump over gaps and make use of different floor effects to reach the end of a level. In Time-Attack mode, one has to do this as fast as possible to get a high score. In Campaign mode, your focus should be on losing as few lives as possible. Two multiplayer modes, three campaigns, a level editor, and numerous levels are included.
Release Notes: This version fixes an OpenGL initialization issue that could cause the game to crash on some system configurations.
19 Jul 13:57
Zemucan Alpha2
Zemucan assists DB2 users while writing commands, proposing options and parameters, or completing words.
Release Notes: There are more commands than alpha1. The tests cover 80% of the code.
