November 2009

30 Nov 21:32 c-ares 1.7.0

c-ares is a C library that resolves names asynchronously.

Release Notes: This release adds ares_library_init(), ares_library_cleanup(), ares_parse_srv_reply(), ares_parse_txt_reply(), and ares_free_data(). It has a range of improvements and fixes a number of bugs.

30 Nov 21:27 m0n0wall 1.3

m0n0wall is an all-in-one firewall software package that is based on FreeBSD. It is geared towards embedded PCs, but it also works on standard PCs. It includes an easy-to-use Web interface like commercial firewall boxes do. PHP is used instead of shell scripts, and the entire system configuration is stored in a single XML-formatted file. There is support for VPN, traffic shaping, captive portal, VLANs, and more.

Release Notes: This version wraps up the changes introduced in the various 1.3b releases: IPv6 support, new bridging code, IPsec improvements, a consolidated image for embedded platforms, countless bugfixes, and other improvements.

30 Nov 21:25 Sambascan2 0.4.2

Sambascan2 allows you to search an entire network or a number of hosts for SMB shares. It will also list the contents of all public shares that it finds. The difference between sambascan2 and other SMB viewers and scanners is that it will scan everything using TCP/IP, and it will not send a lot of broadcast messages, so it can be used over LAN boundaries. It only uses Samba to scan the shares and their contents. It can also scan known hosts and search indexed files.

Release Notes: Scanning shares with spaces now works.

30 Nov 21:25 Cowtacular 0.47

Cowtacular is designed to meet the needs of smaller IT departments, typically those managing fewer than a thousand users. It's designed to be simple and efficient, requiring less time to set up and manage so you can spend more time helping your customers.

Release Notes: Improvements to search. Background maintenance can now be scheduled. Optionally checks for new versions on the Website.

30 Nov 21:18 Contemplate Web Templating System 1.2.4

Contemplate is a Web templating system that allows writers, designers, and developers to focus on what they do best. Store content, design templates and code in separate files, edit them with your favorite tools, then use Contemplate's PHP scripts to merge them at runtime.

Release Notes: This release has a couple of bugfixes, plus updates for compatibility with recent versions of PHP. Please note: this will be the last release for ASP and Perl. Development will focus on PHP starting with version 1.3.

30 Nov 21:17 Simple C Expat Wrapper 1.1.0

The aim of SCEW is to provide an easy interface around the XML Expat parser, as well as a simple interface for creating new XML documents. It provides functions to load and access XML elements without the need to create Expat event handling routines every time you want to load a new XML document. It uses a DOM-like object model for new or parsed XML documents, supports loading concatenated XML documents, can copy and compare full XML documents, elements, or attributes, writes XML documents to multiple outputs, and allows adding new I/O sources easily. It supports UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, and US-ASCII encoding (and UTF-16 in Windows).

Release Notes: This is a minor release including two bugfixes and improvements for XML tree and element comparisons.

30 Nov 21:16 PhonoRipper 0.11.0

PhonoRipper is an easy to use, all-in-one GUI tool for creating audio CDs from analog sources like vinyl records. It uses Cdrdao for CD writing and Normalize for volume normalization. Features include a fully buffered WAV file recorder with mixer and VU meter (supporting both ALSA and OSS drivers), automatic detection of track borders, an intuitive drag'n'drop CD writing interface with CD-text support, CDDB queries of CD text data, and a WYSIWYG CD cover editor.

Release Notes: The automatic call to "cdrdao scanbus" on program startup can now be disabled and the CD writer device can be configured manually, so PhonoRipper can be effectively used on systems where cdrdao uses a buggy libscg that breaks the scanbus functionality.

30 Nov 21:16 cinit 0.3pre19

cinit is a fast executing, small, and simple init with support for profiles. It is aware of dependencies and executes processes in parallel.

Release Notes: This release adds an install target for bin/. It has consistent naming in bin/ (conf, cmd, and helper). It cleans up up some cinit-conf scripts, the documentation directory, the scripts directory, and source installation.

30 Nov 21:14 Span-gles 1.2

Span-gles is a Spanish to English translation GUI. It will translate a phrase (via the Internet) or a single word (using the built-in dictionary). It has the ability to learn new words, and is smart enough to find plural and feminine words.

Release Notes: This release adds compatibility with the new Google Translate. 1 bug has been fixed.

30 Nov 21:13 Opsview 3.5.0

Opsview is an enterprise network, server, and application monitoring tool designed for scalability, flexibility, and ease of use. It is a fully integrated monitoring tool that incorporates popular software including Nagios Core, Nagvis, Net-SNMP, and RRDtool. The Catalyst Web framework provides an extensible monitoring and configuration user interface. The server software runs on Linux and Solaris 10. It will monitor all common operating systems including Linux, AIX, Solaris, and Windows.

Release Notes: This release features a redesigned Web UI and incorporates a new Javascript graphing framework.

30 Nov 19:07 GAMGI 0.14.3

GAMGI (General Atomistic Modelling Graphic Interface) is a program to build, view, and analyze atomic strucures such as molecules, crystals, glasses, liquids, etc. It aims to be useful for: the scientific community working in Atomistic Modelling that needs a graphic interface to build input data and to view and analyse output data, calculated with Ab-Initio and Molecular Mechanics programs; the scientific community at large studying chemistry, physics, materials science, geology, etc., that needs a graphic interface to view and analyse atomic structural information and to prepare images for presentations in classes and seminars; teaching chemistry and physics in secondary schools and universities; science promotion in schools, exhibitions and science museums.

Release Notes: The new Atom->Select dialog is now fully working for all methods, except selecting objects by region. The infrastructure to handle global lists of objects is in place. Vera has been replaced by DeJaVu Truetype fonts. This release has updated documentation and bugfixes.

30 Nov 19:05 Augeas 0.6.0

Augeas is a configuration API and editing tool. It parses common configuration files like /etc/hosts or /etc/grub.conf in their native formats and transforms them into a tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this tree and saving it back into native configuration files.

Release Notes: Path expressions support regexp matches and unions of nodesets. Augeas can now be run under non-C locales (this mostly affects users of the Perl and Java bindings). The API now contains several functions (aug_error and friends) to do more fine-grained error reporting. Bugfixes to many lenses, and the addition of lenses for /etc/ethers, /etc/postfix/access, and Wine registry files.

30 Nov 18:58 Fiwix 0.6.2

Fiwix is an operating system kernel based on the Unix architecture and fully focused on being Linux compatible. It is designed exclusively for educational purposes, so the kernel code is kept as simple as possible for the benefit of students. It runs on the 32-bit x86 hardware platform, and is compatible with a good base of existing GNU applications.

Release Notes: This release includes two new supported system calls sys_times and sys_ustat. It also includes a fix in the ide_busy() function and improved support in the accounting values of each process.

30 Nov 18:58 GNU nano 2.2.0

GNU nano (Nano's ANOther editor, or Not ANOther editor) is an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor.

Release Notes: Bugfixes include several fixes for tiny mode (involving both the help keys and replacement menu text), more 'final' fixes for soft wrapping, and several typo and documentation updates including nanorc tweaks and a new syntax highlighting file for makefiles. Also included is a long-standing fix for random crashing when using nanorc on FreeBSD, and nano will no longer clear the screen on suspend to maintain compatibility with other *nix editors.

30 Nov 18:56 BleachBit 0.7.2

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 cleans the Konqueror history, cache, and cookies; improves notification for Linux; cleans Paint and more from WinRAR and Adobe Reader 6 on Windows; exposes system information for reporting bugs; fixes several bugs; and updates 19 translations.

30 Nov 18:54 OPEN-XCHANGE 6.14

Open-Xchange Server Edition is a multi-tier, small footprint solution that integrates seamlessly into customer’s architectures, enabling smooth start of operation based on services. The Open-Xchange Server Edition supports different Enterprise Linux systems like SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and Debian Etch. Users are presented with a highly advanced, improved, and intuitive browser based interface that meets all their email, calendaring, tasking, contacts, and document storage requirements. Further integrations like LDAP-support or ADS are possible. It's designed for medium organizations and educational and public administrations that want to have a customizable communication solution.

Release Notes: To improve ease-of use, this release introduces a wizard that eases the setup for new and existing Open-Xchange users. The wizard configures the subscriptions of external mail accounts from Google, GMX, Web.de, and many others, along with social and business networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing and others, as well as the push synchronization of mobile phones. The complete team calendar view has been redesigned. New online help and manuals are available.

30 Nov 18:28 Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 2.30

Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is a Perl module which can be used to create native Excel binary files. Formatted text and numbers can be written to multiple worksheets in a workbook. Formulas and functions are also supported. It is 100% Perl and doesn't require any Windows libraries or a copy of Excel. It will also work on the majority of Unix and Macintosh platforms. Generated files are compatible with Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003, and with OpenOffice and Gnumeric. An older version also supports Excel 5/95.

Release Notes: This release adds screenshots to the example documentation.

30 Nov 18:26 Gecode 3.2.2

Gecode is a portable, accessible, and efficient environment for developing constraint-based systems and applications. Gecode is radically open for programming, meaning that it can be easily interfaced to other systems. It supports the programming of new propagators (as implementation of constraints), branching strategies, and search engines. New variable domains can be programmed at the same level of efficiency as finite domain and integer set variables that come predefined with Gecode.

Release Notes: This release adds the sequence constraint and has some small additions and fixes.

30 Nov 18:24 HTMLEditor 0.1

HTMLEditor is a cross-platform editor featuring syntax highlighting, WYSIWG, loading and saving, undo/redo, and automatic syntax formatting. The HTML view supports HTML up to 3.1.

Release Notes: Initial release.

30 Nov 18:22 Poliqarp 1.3.8

Poliqarp is a universal suite of utilities for processing large corpora. It includes a concordancer that works on binary corpora compiled for efficient searching and a corpus builder. It supports positional tagsets, ambiguities in the texts, and Unicode.

Release Notes: A network performance bug was fixed. Compatibility with glibc 2.10 was fixed.

30 Nov 15:31 VirtualBox 3.1.0

Oracle VM VirtualBox, formerly Sun xVM VirtualBox and innotek VirtualBox, is a family of x86 virtualization products for enterprise and home use.

Release Notes: Teleportation (live migration) was introduced. VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots, and branched snapshots can be made. 2D video acceleration was added for Windows guests. Flexibility of storage attachments was improved. The network attachment type can now be changed while a VM is running. Significant performance improvements were made for PAE and AMD64 guests. Experimental support for EFI was added. Support for paravirtualized network adapters was added. 3D support was improved. Several other enhancements were made, and many bugs were fixed.

30 Nov 15:30 PureCM 2009-2

PureCM is an integrated project management, task tracking and version control tool. Based on the concept of changesets that represent tasks, it provides developers with an easy to use and highly transparent GUI to improve teamwork. The Professional edition includes all features, but the Standard edition only includes the version control core, offering a lightweight solution for users looking for a best-of-breed configuration management tool. PureCM outperforms most other SCM tools, uses a reliable SQLite database, and is scalable to thousands of concurrent developers. The server, GUI, command line, and Web clients runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OS, and Windows.

Release Notes: PureCM is now available as a Standard or Professional edition. While PureCM Standard gives you lightweight source control and configuration management, PureCM Professional adds integrated issue tracking, caching servers, and support for automated parallel development. New features include an optimized cross-platform GUI, including separate repository and workspace views. Parallel development has been simplified, as changesets can be merged directly on the server, including previews and visual conflict resolution. Finally, many new command line commands and numerous bugfixes have been added.

30 Nov 15:29 VIPS 7.20.5

VIPS is an image processing suite designed for extremely large images and colorimetry. It consists of a powerful re-usable library and a graphical user interface.

Release Notes: Major additions are better charting, much better API documentation, and large revisions to the core library, bringing speedups and dropping memory use.

30 Nov 15:27 XRoar 0.23

XRoar is a cross-platform emulator for the Dragon 32, Dragon 64, and Tandy CoCo computers, all originally released in the early '80s. The emulator runs under Unix-like operating systems (including Mac OS X) and Windows, with older versions available for handhelds like the Nintendo DS and GP32.

Release Notes: This version implements SAM FAST mode, adds an ALSA audio module, reads a configuration file, and works around a nasty SDL pulsaudio hang bug. Various other bugfixes and feature enhancements were made.

30 Nov 15:26 nfs-ganesha 0.99.60

NFS-GANESHA is a user-space NFSv2, NFSv3, and NFSv4 server. It runs on Linux, BSD variants, and POSIX-compliant Unixes.

Release Notes: This release contains several bugfixes, mostly focused on the NFSv4.x stateid model. Stateid management has been reviewed, as was the way the files are opened and closed with NFSv4.x. A better implementation of locks was made for NFSV4.1. The way the server manages its idmapper cache has been fully reviewed as well.