6 November 2009
06 Nov 23:00
BrisKola 1.0.0
BrisKola is an implementation of the popular Italian card game Briscola. The game is popular thanks to the simplicity of the rules and the modest skills required to play.
Release Notes: First release.
06 Nov 22:52
yaGTD 0.3.0
yaGTD is a very simple utility designed to make the management of your to-do list quick and easy. It incorporates major features from Allen's Getting Things Done philosophy and a notion of urgency and importance preached by Stephen Covey in his Seven Habits of Highly Effective People book.
Release Notes: Three new commands were added to have a list of selected tasks in memory, as well as another command to recall the entry format/usage. A crash when ordering tasks containing one that had been replaced has been fixed. A simple man page was added.
06 Nov 22:42
Span-gles 1.1
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 the option to pop up a window during a translation. New words have been added to the built-in dictionary. Two minor bugs have been fixed.
06 Nov 22:19
CoffeeSaint 0.7
CoffeeSaint is a Java application that shows the status of Nagios (version 1 up to 3 and the newer XI) on a screen. It can, if there are no errors, display a Webcam feed. If an error status occurs, it can play a sound. One can configure it to display certain errors/warnings always on top. It is remotely configurable via a built-in Web interface.
Release Notes: CoffeeSaint can now be configured via a new build-in Web server.
06 Nov 22:19
python-jabberbot 0.8
python-jabberbot is a Jabber bot framework for Python that makes it easy to write simple Jabber bots. One can use these Jabber bots to provide information about running systems, to make Web sites interact with Jabber-enabled visitors, or notify the bot owner about updates or changes that are monitored with custom Python scripts.
Release Notes: This is a bugfix release that adds correct example code for the new-style bot commands (using the decorator "@botcmd" instead of prefixing commands with the "bot_" name).
06 Nov 22:17
GTK+ 2.19.0
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 throbber widget (GtkSpinner) and a cell renderer (GtkCellRendererSpinner) were added. GtkFileSystemModel was reimplemented. The compose sequences were synchronized with the current X.org Compose file. GSEAL was enhanced. On Mac OS X, a crash was fixed, standard Mac keyboard sequences were implemented, and multi-monitor handling was improved. GtkInputDialog, GtkCurve, and GtkGammaCurve were deprecated. Many bugs were fixed.
06 Nov 22:16
InDefero 0.8.8
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 version adds support for Git, Subversion, and Mercurial tags, and really improves the code review. About 10 other small fixes and improvements make this release a recommended upgrade.
06 Nov 22:11
brace 0.9.8
Brace is a dialect of C that looks like Python. It has coroutines, hygenic macros, header generation, and libraries with graphics and sound. It is meant to be good for beginners, kids, and experts. Brace is translated to C, then compiled, with #! support and cached executables. It is fairly portable, and runs on GNU/Linux, Unix, and Windows with MinGW. It should also run on Mac OS X. It comes with a lot of demo programs, many with animated graphics.
Release Notes: Initial freshmeat announcement.
06 Nov 22:03
wtmpclean 0.6.7
wtmpclean is a tool for Unix (currently tested on Linux and AIX) which lets users with sufficient privileges dump wtmp databases and patch or delete wtmp records that log a user or that were created at a given date and time.
Release Notes: When a login is terminated by a system halt or reboot, this release prints 'down' as the logout time. It will correctly display login times with negative values.
06 Nov 22:02
get_iplayer 2.45
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 fixes a bug with iPlayer HD where an authstring typo in level3/iplayertok CDN rtmp parameters often caused it to fail.
06 Nov 19:18
Horde Ansel H3 (1.1)
Ansel is a Horde photo gallery that provides functionality for managing unlimited photo galleries, with thumbnails, paging, EXIF data, and permissions on a per-gallery basis. It also provides a number of features not normally found in Web-based photo galleries, including cropping, resizing, rotating, watermarking, and greyscale effects.
Release Notes: Geotagging support has been added, along with Google Map integration. A bug causing screen image creation to fail with the GD driver has been fixed. A bug causing gallery view mode to be reset to Normal during image upload has been fixed. Performance improvements and bugfixes specific to IE have been added.
06 Nov 19:17
libutf8 1.3.2
libutf8 is a reasonably fast, robust encoder/decoder for UTF-8. It will encode UCS-4 (32-bit characters) into UTF-8, and decode UTF-8 into UCS-4. It is a "safe" UTF-8 decoder, rejecting overlong character representations and other illegal characters. libutf8 is a C library that presents simple functions for manipulating characters and strings, and a more powerful API for dealing with streamed data (e.g. from a TCP connection) efficiently.
Release Notes: Major cleanups and an ABI change. New character classifier functions have been added, along with some bugfixes.
06 Nov 19:16
Forwards H3 (3.2)
Forwards is a Horde module for setting user e-mail forwards via the .forward mechanism supported by several popular mailers. Forwards provides fairly complete support for setting .forward style forwards on Sendmail, Courier, or Qmail based systems via an FTP transport. It also has drivers for Mdaemon, Exim SQL, Exim LDAP, Custom SQL, and SOAP based systems.
Release Notes: This version adds a new Postfix Admin driver, adds TLS support in the LDAP driver, adds support for output compression, and has further small improvements.
06 Nov 19:14
libiso8601 0.3.7
libiso8601 provides a C API for parsing and manipulating ISO8601 times/dates. Each time/date object is specified to the nearest nanosecond. Parsed times, which are specified to less accuracy, give a start/end time, and the parser can also record the original accuracy and format for later reproduction after manipulation.
Release Notes: Minor bugfixes and build system updates. New functions: iso8601_cmp() (for qsort(3) et al.) and iso8601_elapsed_div().
06 Nov 19:12
Horde Vacation H3 (3.2)
Vacation is a Horde module for managing user email "vacation notices" or "auto-responders." It works via a local vacation program and the .forward style forwarding mechanism supported by several popular mailers. Currently, it provides fairly complete support for managing .forward style vacation notices on Sendmail or Courier mail based systems via an FTP transport. It also has some support for LDAP, Qmail, and Exim SQL based servers.
Release Notes: This version adds a new Postfix Admin driver, adds TLS support in the LDAP driver, adds support for output compression, and has further small improvements.
06 Nov 19:09
Whups H3 (1.0.1)
Whups is a Horde ticket-tracking application. It is very flexible in design, and can be used for help-desk requests, tracking software development, and anything else that needs to track a set of requests and their status.
Release Notes: A flag to disable old versions has been added. Simple markup highlighting is applied on on comments. Version changes are displayed in the ticket history. A Turkish translation has been added. Several small bugfixes and improvements have been made.
06 Nov 19:08
Gollem H3 (1.1.1)
Gollem is a Web-based file manager that provides the ability to fully manage a hierarchical file system stored in a variety of backends such as a SQL database, as part of a real filesystem, or on FTP, Samba or SSH servers. It supports uploading and downloading of files, basic file operations, permissions support, and MIME recognition and viewing of files through the Horde MIME library. It is fully internationalized and translatable.
Release Notes: Small bugfixes have been made, and a Croatian translation has been added.
06 Nov 19:07
Passwd H3 (3.1.2)
Passwd is the Horde password changing application. It provides fairly complete support for changing passwords via Poppassd, LDAP, Unix expect scripts, the Unix smbpasswd command for SMB/CIFS passwords, Kolab, ADSI, Pine, Serv-U FTP, VMailMgr, vpopmail, and SQL passwords.
Release Notes: This release fixes an unescaped output bug in the main password form. It also introduces a new SOAP password driver.
06 Nov 19:04
pf-kernel 2.6.31-pf6
pf-kernel is a fork of the Linux kernel. It provides useful features that are not merged into the mainline, such as the bfs scheduler and tuxonice.
Release Notes: BFS was updated to v310.
06 Nov 19:03
OpenSSL 0.9.8l
The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.
Release Notes: Fixes to stateless session resumption handling were made. Error return checking was improved for several function calls. Leading 0x80 in OIDs are no longer tolerated. The server certificate chain building code now correctly uses X509_verify_cert(). A potential denial of service attack in dtls1_process_out_of_seq_message() was resolved. Several other bugs were fixed.
06 Nov 18:59
c++-gtk-utils 1.0.0
c++-gtk-utils is a lightweight library containing a number of classes and functions for programming GTK+ programs using C++ in POSIX environments where the user does not want to use a full-on wrapper such as gtkmm or wxWidgets. It provides classes for managing the lifetimes of GTK+ widgets and windows that will make GTK+ exception safe, functions to make single instance programs where restarting will bring up the existing instance, smart pointer classes for memory management, thread-safe signal/slot classes with automatic disconnection, classes for using std iostreams with files opened with Unix file descriptors, functions for connecting a callback object and a Unix file descriptor to the main loop with provision for automatic disconnection, classes and functions for inter-thread communication, some convenience pthread wrapper classes., a class encapsulating anonymous Unix pipes, a class to reassemble UTF-8 sent over pipes and sockets, and classes for printing Postscript files and plain text using the GTK+ print system.
Release Notes: This release makes start_iowatch(), start_timeout, and Callback::post() fully exception safe. It makes PipeFifo::connect_to_stdin(), PipeFifo::connect_to_stdout(), and PipeFifo::connect_to_stderr() return better error information. The FilePrintManager implementation is exception-safe. There are minor documentation and other improvements.
06 Nov 18:56
F-Spot 0.6.1.5
F-Spot is a personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop. It simplifies digital photography by providing intuitive tools to help you share, touch-up, find, and organize your images. These tools include editing, color adjustments, tags, Photo CD creation, and exporting for upload.
Release Notes: Basic support for Panasonic .rw2 files was added. Two minor bugs were fixed.
06 Nov 18:56
BeleniX 0.8 Beta1
BeleniX is a distribution based on the version of OpenSolaris that runs on x86 machines. It comes as a live CD and includes all of the OpenSolaris components (core kernel, libraries, and utilities) and also includes additional GNU/OSS software. BeleniX is a full fledged OS distribution that can be installed and used as a regular desktop system.
Release Notes: This is a major release that includes KDE 4 and many other new applications and games. This release is currently delivered via a Network Install mechanism, with a LiveCD ISO coming later.
06 Nov 18:25
Qore Oracle Module 1.0.9
Qore Oracle Module is an Oracle DBI driver module for the Qore programming language. The Oracle driver is aware of different character-encodings and supports multithreading, transaction management, stored prodedure and function execution, and more.
Release Notes: This release fixes a bug in auto-reconnect that could cause a crash in the Datasource or DatasourcePool classes when used with Oracle databases.
06 Nov 18:25
Restfulie 1.0
CRUD through HTTP is a good step forward to using resources and becoming RESTful. Another step further into it is to make use of hypermedia-based services and the Restfulie gem allows you to do it very quickly.
Release Notes: This is Restfulie's fist release, with support for server and client side RESTful resource-based Web services support: URL identifiers + HTTP verbs + hypermedia support.
