23 July 2009

23 Jul 20:39 tinyTiM 2.0.0a5

tinyTiM (the tiny Topic Maps engine) is a small and lightweight implementation of the Topic Maps API (TMAPI).

Release Notes: This release fixes several bugs. Further, new Topic Maps readers and writers were added.

GPX Viewer is a simple program to visualize a GPX file. It uses libchamplain and cairo for the plot. It can show multiple GPX files, show waypoints and multiple tracks per GPX file, highlight a selected track, show a speed vs. time graph, and show distance, duration, average, moving average, max speed, moving time, and GPS points. It supports zooming, smoothing of the speed graph, and highlighting points in a speed graph on a map.

Release Notes: Vala native support via automake 1.11. Parsing of the GPX file for some locales has been fixed.

23 Jul 20:34 Botan 1.8.5

Botan is a crypto library written in C++. It provides a variety of cryptographic algorithms, including common ones such as AES, MD5, SHA, HMAC, RSA, Diffie-Hellman, DSA, and ECDSA, as well as many others that are more obscure or specialized. It also offers SSL/TLS (client and server), X.509v3 certificates and CRLs, and PKCS #10 certificate requests. A message processing system that uses a filter/pipeline metaphor allows for many common cryptographic tasks to be completed with just a few lines of code. Assembly and SIMD optimizations for common CPUs offers speedups for critical algorithms like AES and SHA-1.

Release Notes: This release fixes build problems affecting SPARC, HP-PA, and ARM processors. The Python configure script now supports stock CPython 2.4. A bug causing Skein-512 to crash if given a zero-length input vector was fixed.

23 Jul 20:31 bpython 0.9.4

bpython is an enhanced Python interactive interpreter that uses curses and provides the following main features: in-line syntax highlighting; readline-like autocompletion with suggestions displayed as you type; expected argument specification for functions; a handy pastebin function to quickly submit your code and return a URL. Its goal is to bring together a few handy ideas to enhance the standard interpreter without getting carried away.

Release Notes: This is a general bugfix release, plus a few extra enhancements to parenthesis highlighting and extended key configurability, plus tab completion for filenames when inside a string.

23 Jul 20:26 surl 0.5.2

surl is a URL shortening command line application that supports various sites. It supports stdin or filename input. It grabs the URLs, converts them, and returns the same text that was used in the input. It is known to work with a wealth of services, such as bit.ly, tinyurl.com, and tr.im.

Release Notes: This release includes a new wrapper file, surl.py, for the bin/surl script. It also has the correct order of long arguments (--quiet was in the wrong place). A note for packagers: the shebang is now "/usr/bin/python".

23 Jul 20:21 Thread Safe Template Library 1.2.6

Thread Safe Template Library (TSTL) is a C++ library that provides thread-safe containers with high grade of locking. It includes classes for multimaps based on a B-tree and a hash table. It also includes classes for a queue, a priority queue, a pipe, an alloccache, a timercache, a limitcache without global locking, and a fast shared mutual exclusion locker (also known as "rwlock" or "wmrg"). It's useful for writing multi-threaded applications, network services, and operating system components with high requirements for interactivity level.

Release Notes: An assembler file for the MS x64 platform was replaced by a C file. New type redefinitions for standard types were deleted. Dependence on MS interlocked declarations was greatly decreased. Platform independence was greatly increased. Isolation by filename, defines names, and other declaration names were made better. Compatibility with existing projects was increased.

23 Jul 17:30 newLISP 10.1.1

newLISP is a Lisp-like, general-purpose scripting language. It has all the magic of traditional Lisp, but is easier to learn and use. newLISP is friendly, fast, and small. Most of the functions you will ever need are already built in.

Release Notes: This a maintenance release with minor feature enhancements and bugfixes.

23 Jul 17:29 QMC2 0.2 beta 10

M.A.M.E. Catalog / Launcher II (also referred to as QMC2) is the successor of one of the first XMAME GUI frontends available, QMamecat (derived from MAMECAT, which was text-only). QMC2 has been rebuilt from scratch as a Qt 4 project. Parts of the design and code were inspired by its predecessor. The new design was made as flexible as possible to minimize dependencies from frontend- and CLI-related MAME changes, which was a major deficiency of QMamecat. QMC2 uses a template-based MAME configuration scheme, which can easily be enhanced with additional command line options (defined in an XML template file).

Release Notes: Built-in support for dynamic loading of Qt style sheets, support for PCB images as an additional game/machine detail, a new MAWS quick download feature (supports manual and automatic downloads of images that are usable by QMC2), greatly improved download retry logic and timing, and an enhanced ghost image with rounded corners and a semi-transparent shadow.

23 Jul 17:28 iWeb Valet 2.2.2

iWeb Valet adds many features to sites made with iWeb. It is both easy to use and powerful. You don't have to know anything about programming or Web authoring languages such as HTML or JavaScript. iWeb Valet widgets give you the power to add new interactive widgets to your Web pages. For example, you can add dropdown menus, clocks, scrolling news, internal search engines, calendars, scrolling texts, navigation menus, falling snow, and much more. Finally, you can have your Web site uploaded to an FTP or iDisk server.

Release Notes: This release adds an option to hide/show MobileMe passwords. A better user interface with more feedback and help. A new app icon. The demo period is reset for 2 more days, so users of previous versions get multiple chances to try things out.

23 Jul 13:48 phpDiveLog 0.4.5

phpDiveLog displays the information of your Aqua DiveLog LogBook based on CSV files you generate with the Java Conduit shipped with Aqua DiveLog. These dynamic pages are nicely and lucidly formatted. phpDiveLog allows you to combine these data with additional information, such as pictures or other external data sources. You can create your own skins (template sets) to change the look and feel to match your Web site. PDF export allows you to maintain a printed logbook.

Release Notes: This is mainly a maintenance release, fixing some minor issues like tagreplace in image descriptions and the fact that photos without a description broke PDF. Next to providing PDF creation for empty dive sheets, this version also includes some corrections to work correctly with TCPDF 4.6.*.

23 Jul 13:27 ATA over Ethernet driver 72

This driver allows the Linux kernel to use the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) network protocol. Using AoE, a Linux system can use AoE block devices like EtherDrive (R) storage blades. The block devices appear as local device nodes (e.g. /dev/etherd/e0.0).

Release Notes: Premature timeout of a command reassigned to a new local network interface was avoided. Support for 2.6.30 Linux kernels was added, and compatibility with kernels older than 2.6.11 was repaired.

23 Jul 13:26 Debian packaging utilities for Truecrypt s...

Debian packaging utilities for Truecrypt source helps to get Truecrypt running with a minimum of effort under Debian-based Linux systems (Debian and Ubuntu are officially supported). Truecrypt is an open source disk encryption software which uses a concept of containers to store encrypted data. The containers (or volumes) can be read transparently under Linux and Windows. The utilities create installable *.deb packages from the sources and those debs can be used in turn to install the encryption software.

Release Notes: This minor release raised the kernel version to 2.6.30. Minor improvements were made in manual pages and within the sources. The Debian policy was upgraded to 3.8.2.

23 Jul 13:25 easygconf 0.01

easygconf provids an easy, Pythonic way to access GConf through a dict-like interface.

Release Notes: This is the first public release.

23 Jul 13:24 libguestfs 1.0.64

libguestfs is a set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine (VM) disk images. You can use this for viewing and editing files inside guests, scripting changes to VMs, monitoring disk used/free statistics, P2V, V2V, performing partial backups, cloning VMs, and much more. libguestfs can access nearly any type of filesystem including: all known types of Linux filesystem (ext2/3/4, XFS, btrfs, etc.), any Windows filesystem (VFAT and NTFS), any Mac OS X and BSD filesystems, LVM2 volumes, MBR and GPT disk partitions, raw disks, qcow2, CD and DVD ISO images, SD cards, and dozens more. libguestfs doesn't need root permissions.

Release Notes: This release added a 'virt-df' program that runs the 'df' operation over all your virtual machines and a 'virt-cat' program that lists files inside a virtual machine. Remote support for guestfish was added. Builds are now available for Debian.

23 Jul 13:23 cgictrl 0.1

Cgictrl is a CGI framework for Ruby. It allows you to use the structure of a mainframe program (like on IBM's CICS) with CGI. Programs are selected by transaction codes, and the CGI program indicates the next transaction code to continue the conversation process. Basically, one CGI program sends only one kind of view, and processes input data from only this view. Each program can store internal data in a SPA (Scratch Pad Area) on the server, which is allocated uniquely per session.

Release Notes: This is the initial release.

23 Jul 13:12 EGit 0.5.0

EGit is an Eclipse plugin for working with Git repositories. JGit is now a separate project, but still a basic component in EGit.

Release Notes: This was moved into Eclipse incubation. Lots and lots of changes were made.

23 Jul 13:06 LiVES 1.0.0

LiVES is a simple to use yet powerful video effects, editing, conversion, and playback system aimed at the digital video artist and VJ. It runs under Linux, BSD, Mac OS X/Darwin, IRIX, and openMosix. It is frame and sample accurate, can handle almost all types of video, and is fully extendable through plugins and the included plugin builder tool. It can also be controlled remotely using OSC.

Release Notes: Fixes were made for the joystick/MIDI learner. Crashes after recording audio for selection and after deleting then replacing audio were fixed. A recent bug in selection encoding was fixed. Multitrack GUI and theme refinements were made. There is now an initial translation to Hebrew, and updated translations to Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Czech, Japanese, and Slovak.

23 Jul 13:04 P2PVPN 0.7

P2PVPN is simple software that provides you with a Virtual Private Network without the need to set up a central server.

Release Notes: An invitation can have a date of expiry now. A bug in the authorization code was removed. This makes 0.7 incompatible to older versions. A bug which let the list of known IPs grow indefinitely was removed.

23 Jul 12:55 Zarafa 6.30.0

Zarafa allows you to share Outlook email and calendars, even when you are out of the office, via Outlook, with your PocketPC or through WebAccess. Command line tools are provided to integrate with your existing MTA for email delivery and for user creation/editing.

Release Notes: The new features in Webaccess are inline images inside the email bodies, a detailed contact dialog, HTML signatures, a mailto: option, and a plugin framework. The new features in general are CALDAV support, a multiserver feature, single instance attachment storage, the Zarafa Client Autoupdate tool, address lists, and BES/Gab integration. Performance improvements include a reduction in bandwidth usage for cached Outlook clients, the addition of an automatic reconnect feature for zarafa clients, and improvements in Webaccess when delivering mail to mulitple users.

23 Jul 12:51 jsSHA 1.2

jsSHA is a JavaScript implementation of the complete SHA family of hashes as well as HMAC. It includes SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512

Release Notes: A number of large additions were made, including the much-requested HMAC algorithm and support for hex-based inputs. Several functions were tweaked, resulting in a significant performance boost. A different JavaScript compressor is used, which yields a higher file compression ratio.

23 Jul 12:46 AgileWiki 16.5.0

AgileWiki is a composable platform for advanced Web-based and P2P networks. It allows multiple points of entry, where each node is an information fusion system with controlled access, pluggable applications, and native deductive reasoning.

Release Notes: Miscellaneous Web UI cleanup and DB bugfixes were done.

23 Jul 12:43 brisk 2.3.0

brisk is an implementation of the Briscola in 5 card game that uses Ajax technology.

Release Notes: Multiple placings were added (last week, last month, last quarter) for low frequency and high frequency players. Minor installer bugs were fixed.

23 Jul 12:35 MyPaint 0.7.1

MyPaint is a program for painting images from scratch. It supports pressure sensitive graphic tablets and comes with an easy to use brush collection. There is a complex interface for creating your own brushes, focusing on brush dynamics (changes with speed, pressure, or randomly). The canvas size is unlimited, and undo and layers are supported.

Release Notes: This is a bugfix release without any new features worth mentioning. Screen artifacts seen by Compiz users were fixed by limiting the cursor size. Windows specific bugs were fixed; a recent Windows binary is available again.

23 Jul 12:34 LemonLDAP::NG 0.9.4

LemonLDAP::NG is a modular Web SSO based on Apache::Session modules. It simplifies the building of a protected area with a few changes in the application. It manages both authentication and authorization and provides headers for accounting, so you can have full AAA protection for your Web space. LemonLDAP::NG is a complete rewrite of LemonLDAP. All components needed to use it and to administer it are included in the tarball. However, all modules developed for LemonLDAP may not work with LemonLDAP::NG.

Release Notes: An LDAP backend is used for configuration and session storage. A portal can be a Perl expression in handlers. POST requests are generated in a handler, which is used to post login and password information in incompatible applications. New auth and userDB modules were added for the portal: Multi, Remote, and Null (for UserDB only). A new module system is used for passwords. A notification system was added. A double session mechanism was added, where one session is secured and the other is not. New functions were added for rules: checkLogonHours and checkDate.

23 Jul 12:28 LogicalDOC 4.5.1

LogicalDOC is a Web-based document management system that is easy to use and learn. Its architecture leverages best-of-breed Java technology to achieve a powerful and flexible solution. It supports its users with a powerful search engine (Lucene), Web service interface (JAX-WS via CXF) compatible with .NET and PHP, versioning, annotation on documents, a WebDAV interface, importing and exporting from .zip files. Documents can be organized into hierarchical folders, searched using the integrated search engine, or browsed by Tag. The system is extensible thanks to the technologies used (Spring-Hibernate) and its plugin architecture.

Release Notes: This version improves the processing of ideographic characters using UTF-8. Due to changes in the system, you can use LogicalDOC in the Chinese and Greek languages, indexing and searching for documents in non-Latin languages. The changes affected only the software, so you can install this new version directly on an existing deployment. Also, browsing by tag has been improved with the ability to search on a manually entered character.