21 July 2009
21 Jul 21:11
Spack 1.1
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 adds xz-compressed package support to all of the tools that needed it. It also makes a little cosmetic improvement by unifying the look of the warning/error messages displayed by these.
21 Jul 21:10
JStock 1.0.4f
JStock is a stock market software for 26 countries. It provides a stock watchlist, an intraday stock price snapshot, a stock indicator editor, a stock indicator scanner, portfolio management, and market chit chat features. Free SMS/email alerts are supported.
Release Notes: Free SMS alerts are supported.
21 Jul 21:09
NOC 0.2.6
NOC Project is an Operation Support System (OSS) for telecom companies, service providers, and enterprise Network Operation Centers (NOC). Areas covered by NOC include fault management, performance management, service activation/provisioning, knowledge base, multi-VRF address space management (IPAM), multi-vendor configuration management, DNS provisioning, peering management, RPSL and BGP filter generation, and reporting.
Release Notes: A new noc-launcher daemon provides a unified way to start/stop/restart NOC processes. Reference books can be edited online offering simple spreadsheet substitution. Audit trail capability allows a simple way to track data changes performed by users. Activator can listen to SYSLOG/SNMP traps on arbitrary interfaces and ports. Basic support for Edge-Core ES4xxx and Linksys SPS2xx families of ethernet switches.
21 Jul 21:08
Topal 69
Topal is yet another program that links GnuPG and Pine/Alpine. It offers facilities to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify messages. Multiple PGP blocks included in the text of a message are processed by display filters. Decryption and verification output can be cached to reduce the number of times the passphrase is entered. RFC2015/3156 multipart messages can be sent and received. S/MIME messages are supported if gpgsm is available. It can be used as Alpine's sendmail-path command. A remote sending and decryption mode allows email to be read on a remote computer via SSH with secret keys on the local computer.
Release Notes: This release no longer uses an external utility for line-end conversions, which should solve some bad signature problems. A note has been added regarding Alpine's S/MIME message about certificates. The list of recipients is shown just before sending; the idea is to allow the user to spot the "Oh no, I didn't intend to email that person." problem before the email is sent.
21 Jul 21:07
CN=Monitor 0.9
CN=Monitor is an LDAP directory server monitoring tool with a focus on Red Hat/Fedora, Sun/Oracle ODSEE, Open LDAP, IBM Tivoli, and Novell eDirectory. Other directory services are also supprted.
Release Notes: Initial release for test and verification use only. For production, wait until version 1.0.
21 Jul 21:06
Sobolewski Chess 0.2
Sobolewski Chess is an AJAX application which allows two live opponents to play online asynchronous chess. Players can move any piece at any time.
Release Notes: This release fixes a bug that allowed one to make any move, legal or not. It fixes a problem with the colors of the board (sometimes it appeared mirrored).
21 Jul 21:06
The Legend of Edgar 0.20
The Legend of Edgar is a 2D platform game with a persistent world. When Edgar's father fails to return home after venturing out one dark and stormy night, Edgar fears the worst: he has been captured by the evil sorcerer who lives in a fortress beyond the forbidden swamp. In The Legend of Edgar, you take on the role of Edgar as he ventures across the world, battling fearsome creatures and solving puzzles while trying to find and rescue his father.
Release Notes: The game should now work on 64-bit CPUs. The Forbidden Swamp boss has been added. A basic inventory system so the player can see items and their quantities. The Forest map now has proper scroll limits. Water animates. The raft interaction point only takes away the logs when the objective has been completed. Sewer and Fortress Outskirts maps. Edgar moves 25% faster. The persistence file is now deleted when starting a new game. A problem with some Entities moving into a nonexistent collision grid has been fixed. The game attempts to patch your saved game, but Your Mileage May Vary.
21 Jul 21:02
NetCDF 4.0.1
NetCDF is a format developed at Unidata that was inspired by the CDF format from NASA. NetCDF stands for "Network Common Data Form" and is a self-describing data format, commonly used in scientific and engineering applications.
Release Notes: This release adds optional arguments to the F90 API so that all netCDF-4 settings may be accomplished with optional arguments, instead of separate function calls. It adds control of the HDF5 chunk cache to allow for user performance tuning. It changes default chunking to better handle very large variables. Performance refactoring of core netCDF-4/HDF5 read/write code. Additional parallel I/O tests and benchmarks. Experimental OPeNDAP support based on a new C-only implementation. Improved portability, especially on high-performance platforms.
21 Jul 20:59
jbookshelf 0.6b1
jbookshelf is an electronic book collection organizer and reader. It supports collecting plain files (text, HTML, PDF, etc.), has basic collection search, fulltext collection search (planned), internal viewers for plain text, HTML, RTF, and PDF, notes and citations, book categories, FB2 support (planned), and portability (removable drives support) (planned).
Release Notes: Initial freshmeat announcement.
21 Jul 20:56
Ocaml Plugin for NetBeans 0.1
Ocaml Plugin extends the NetBeans IDE with support for projects written in the Objective Caml language. It provides syntax highlighting, code completion, build-in documentation, support for OCaml projects with multiple source, test, and docs folders, support for multiple build systems, a sample project template, and an empty project wizard.
Release Notes: Initial release.
21 Jul 17:32
undx 1.0
undx is a tool to reconstruct class files from Dalvik code.
Release Notes: Initial release.
21 Jul 17:29
get-flash-videos 1.14
get-flash-videos downloads or plays videos from various Flash-based video hosting sites, without requiring Flash. Supported sites include YouTube, Metacafe, Brightcove, BBC, and Vimeo.
Release Notes: This release adds support for Last.fm, Expertvillage, Tudou, and some Truveo videos. It has fixes for Youku and BBC. It also supports downloading multiple videos and has many minor bugfixes.
21 Jul 17:28
wcd 5.0.4
WCD is a directory changer for DOS and Unix. Another NCD (Norton Change Directory) clone. This program jumps to a (sub)directory anywhere in the directory-tree. The directory to jump to can be given by only the first characters or an expression with wildcards.
Release Notes: Wcd supports now Spanish messages. The manual has been updated.
21 Jul 17:28
FSP Client 0.92.1
FSP Client is single executable client for the FSP protocol. FSP Client uses an FTP-like user interface. It feels like FTP, but under the hood it uses FSP. FSP is a UDP-based protocol for transfering files around, and was designed for anonymous archives.
Release Notes: The SCons build framework has been modularized and now honors the CFLAGS user settings taken from the env. variable or command line option.
21 Jul 17:28
Wah!Cade 0.99pre8
Wah!Cade is a GUI front-end to the xmame emulator for arcade games. It's a clone of the Windows only program MameWAH.
Release Notes: A new theme ("Simple"), a shuffle option for music playback, and an Italian translation were added. Many bugfixes were made.
21 Jul 17:14
GLib 2.21.4
GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things such as trees, hashes, and lists. GLib was previously distributed with the GTK toolkit, but has been split off as of the developers' version 1.1.0.
Release Notes: GTree is now refcounted. A limitation for g_str_equal was documented. Translations were updated.
21 Jul 17:13
GTK+ 2.16.5
GTK, which stands for the Gimp ToolKit, is a library for creating graphical user interfaces. It is designed to be small and efficient, but still flexible enough to allow the programmer freedom in the interfaces created. GTK provides some unique features over standard widget libraries.
Release Notes: A side effect of a recent fix that caused all stock buttons to lose their mnemonics was fixed. Several other minor bugs were fixed, e.g. for accelerators for sub-menus and for Iconview DnD. Translations were updated.
21 Jul 17:12
MCS MyRoute 8.6f
MCS MyRoute helps diagnose connectivity problems with detailed network routing discovery and analysis, providing visibility to poor-performing networks and devices. It includes a Java applet that enables remote users to easily test connections from the MyRoute server. Essential diagnostic tools including traceroute, ping, reverse DNS, and whois are combined into a single graphical interface that analyzes Internet connections, reporting quick and essential data points for finding connectivity problems. An IP location database identifies the geographical location of IP addresses and Web servers, showing the path of an Internet connection on a global map.
Release Notes: Changes include the addition of 'Trace To' and 'DNS Time' metrics, improved SQL API performance, and a fix for a problem where error 196608 was incorrectly generated.
21 Jul 17:12
DocBook Doclet 5.2.0
DocBook Doclet creates DocBook XML and class diagrams from Javadoc comments, converts HTML to DocBook, and transfoms DocBook XML into various output formats. It consists of a complete DocBook distribution containing schemas and the DocBook XSL stylesheets. It also integrates Apache FOP as the XSL:FO processor. A Swing application is used to customize the doclet and most of the DocBook XSL parameters and to start the transformations.
Release Notes: Transformation of arbitrary DocBook files. Integration of HTML to DocBook converter (herold). Import of Eclipse projects. Creation of Eclipse plugins. Creation of HTML. Improved configuration of DocBook parameters and attribute-sets. A complete redesign of the GUI.
21 Jul 17:11
DIASER 0.2.2b1
DIASER is a geo-data replication long-term archive system and WAN vault application. Manage long term mixed data archives generated by existing backup software. Ensure availability using commodity hardware. Retain administrative and financial control. It combines a disk-based backup volume management system and triple redundancy with a storage architecture designed to structure months to years of long term sustainable archiving space. It is a quick and low-cost way to make an environment more robust by backing up data in multiple places. This replication also provides fast retrieval of archived data from all node hosting locations. A Perl installer creates the system. Nodes can be dedicated to storage or used for existing services over unused bandwidth. DIASER works in user space over SSH.
Release Notes: This is the first beta-1 release. The configuration walkthrough has improved input validation. The filling mechanism has been rationalized and is configurable via the command line tools. Its operation has been carefully coded to comply to the design outlined in a flow chart included in the release. All volumes are md5sum checked and dated as they enter DIASER. An emergency lock feature has been implemented as well as a simple archive data retrieval tool with configurable options. All of the above changes have been documented, and new sections added.
21 Jul 17:06
GOB 2.0.16
GObject Builder (GOB) is a simple preprocessor for easily creating GObjects (glib objects). It reads a class description file with inline C code and produces .c and .h object files for you. It allows you to easily use most of the features of the GObject system and avoids typos by reducing the amount of code needed. In general, the amount of code is about the same as for OO languages such as Java or C++, but you still have to only use C and you get all the power of the GObject system.
Release Notes: Function attributes. Simple destroy, finalize, and construct override support. An afterdecls C block. Minor other fixes/improvements.
21 Jul 16:51
Conquest: Divide and Conquer 0.14.1
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 improves performance, adds a new flanking mechanic, and fixes a Linux nvidia-related segmentation fault and several minor bugs.
21 Jul 16:41
Git 1.6.3
Git is a "directory content manager" that was designed to handle massive projects such as the Linux kernel with speed and efficiency. It falls in the category of distributed source code management tools and is similar to GNU Arch, Monotone, and BitKeeper. Every Git working directory is a fully-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities and is not dependent on network access to a central server.
Release Notes: With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository. To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a push running this release will issue a big warning when the configuration variable is missing.
21 Jul 16:37
Bacula 3.0.2
Bacula is a set of programs that allow you to manage the backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of different computers. It is based on a client/server architecture and is efficient and relatively easy to use, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files.
Release Notes: This release fixes problems with PostgreSQL, cleans up old job records when starting the Director, fixes an issue in xattr, and allows selecting files for restore from Copy Jobs. Its enhancements include better security for the File Daemon, a new directive to specify the source address for outgoing connections, and display of volume availability in autochanger when doing restores. The estimate command was improved, an option to construct a full restore from a JobId was added, and a new Nagios plugin was added.
21 Jul 16:37
quagga 0.99.14
Quagga is a routing software suite, providing implementations of OSPF 2, OSPF 3, RIP 1 and 2, RIP 3 and BGP 4 for Unix platforms, particularly FreeBSD, Linux, and NetBSD.
Release Notes: This release contains a regression fix for ospf6d, various small fixes, and some hopefully very significant bgpd stability fixes. This release should be considered a 1.0.0 release candidate. Please test it as widely as possible.
