9 November 2009

09 Nov 23:36 Drizzle 2009.11.1208

The Drizzle project is building a database optimized for Cloud and Net applications. It is being designed for massive concurrency on modern multi-CPU/core architectures. The code is originally derived from MySQL.

Release Notes: Code cleanup and refactoring along with several updates to the Replication infrastructure.

09 Nov 23:36 i3 3.d

i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager. Its key features are correct implementation of Xinerama (workspaces are assigned to virtual screens, and it does the right thing when attaching new monitors) and XrandR support (which is still unfinished). Both horizontal and vertical columns can be used in tiling. There is a special focus is on writing clean, readable, and well documented code. i3 uses xcb for asynchronous communication with X11, and has several measures to be very fast. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers.

Release Notes: This release features tabbing and some more advanced modifications of the stacking window (see the user’s guide), Vim-like marks, support for the urgency hint, horizontal resizing of containers (finally), modes (which can make your key bindings a lot simpler), an unlimited amount of workspaces, and several bugfixes.

09 Nov 23:32 Crabgrass 0.4.7

Crabgrass is social networking, group collaboration, and network organizing Web application. It consists of a solid suite of group collaboration tools such as private wikis, task lists, a file repository, and decision making tools. Work is currently being done on a large user interface overhaul, better social networking tools, blogs, and event calendars, as well as better support for collaboration and decision making among independent groups.

Release Notes: Many bugfixes and enhancements. Support for non-English languages has been improved. Better error reporting. Crabgrass stats and page count have been improved. Notifications for watched pages. Comments may be flagged for moderation. Inline editing of a document sections. Group requests have been fixed. The survey pagination have been fixed. User status updates are only visible to friend and peers. Dashboard message tabs are again available.

09 Nov 23:24 LPAR2RRD 2.49

LPAR2RRD produces historical, future trends, and nearly "realtime" CPU utilization graphs of LPARs and shared CPU usage of IBM POWER servers. It also collects complete physical (HW) and logical configuration of all managed systems/LPARs. It is agent-less. It supports all types of logical partitions (AIX/AS400/Linux/VIOS).

Release Notes: An LPAR search option was added. Export to CSV in historical graphs was added. The lpar2rrd error log and LPAR2RRD configuration are now shown in the Web interface. There are new set of colors for aggregated graphs. Excluded managed systems are now excluded even from displaing (previously, they were excluded only from getting new data). When there is a corrupted rrttool file, it is automatically removed. A bug where it did not show the "LPARs aggregated" menu for servers with many LPARs has been fixed. LPARs in aggregared graphs are now alphabetically sorted.

09 Nov 23:18 Comment Script 1.2.1

Comment Script is a script that allows comments to be left on any existing PHP or HTML page. By default, the script shows name, e-mail, homepage, title, and comment fields, though any can be disabled. The "comment" field is mandatory and must be filled out before the form can be submitted. In order to prevent the script from being abused by automatic spam bots, you can enable the CAPTCHA feature. The script then asks your visitors to enter a text they see in the image below the comment form into an input box. It also features an admin area where comments can be edited and deleted and the front-end language set.

Release Notes: This release contains a couple of new features and bugfixes. Users can select the language. There is an improved installation routine (that checks whether folders are writable by the script). There are improved include instructions, UTF-8 support, and translations for some modules. User name and email are remembered and pre-entered in the comment form.

09 Nov 23:13 BleachBit 0.7.1

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 Apache logs, XBMC Media Center, and Windows 7 jump lists. It deletes more of Opera history, Safari history, RealPlayer history, and Emesene cache. It's more portable on Windows. It improves usability and appearance, fixes bugs, adds Slovenian and Japanese translations, and updates 18 other translations.

09 Nov 23:12 HA-Tools 2.11

The HA-Tools provide some programs to improve shell scripting, especially in a High Availability environment. The halockrun program provides a simple and reliable way to implement locking in shell scripts (a typical usage for halockrun is to prevent cronjobs to run simultanously), and the hatimerun program provides a time-out mechanism.

Release Notes: A bug in halockrun's asynchronous (-a) was fixed and the error reporting was improved.

09 Nov 22:54 Joyce and Anne 2.2.2

Joyce and Anne emulate the Amstrad PCW series of computers. Joyce emulates the 8000, 9000, and 10 series; Anne emulates the PcW16.

Release Notes: This release should compile out of the box on recent Ubuntu systems.

09 Nov 22:53 SQL Power Wabit 1.0.0

Wabit is an easy-to-use, all-in-1 business intelligence reporting and analysis tool. It offers database and business users the ability to perform ad-hoc queries, generate standard reports, and more. It includes features such as a drag and drop playpen, live result-set updates, global searching, and WYSIWYG report formatting. With a single mouse click, query results can be instantly transformed into elegant reports that can be further customized with fonts, colors, sections, breaks, headers, footers, logos, and more. Wabit has support for standard reports and custom dashboards, ad-hoc queries and drill-down OLAP cubes, line, bar, and pie charts, real-time BI reporting, report scheduling/bursting (Enterprise edition), fine-grained security (Enterprise edition), thin-client Web access (Enterprise edition), an and an easy-to-use drag and drop interface (no SQL knowledge required).

Release Notes: This release introduces the ability to connect and work with the Wabit Enterprise Edition server (available separately). Together with the Wabit Enterprise Editon server, the Wabit 1.0.0 client allows Report scheduling and distribution, live collaboration, and fine grained security. A free trial of the Wabit Enterprise Edition server is available.

09 Nov 17:48 OpMon 4.0.4

OpMon is a network and system monitoring application based on Nagios with extended support for capacity planning, SLA, SLM, network discovery, service catalogs, report schedule, Davinci, a dashboard builder, and much more. OpMon provides a GUI for Nagios as well as full multi-language support. The license to use the opmon proprietary modules is free for 2 hosts and 20 services. OpMon comes with many open source applications like phplogcon, Nedi, ntop, nagtrap, OCSInventory, OTRS, and opcfg.

Release Notes: This release fixes a bug in PDF for capacity planning, a problem when showing the color bar in SLM, and mouseover on the GUI.

09 Nov 17:47 white_dune 0.29beta1399

white_dune is a graphical VRML97/X3DV editor, simple NURBS/Superformula 3D modeller, animation tool, and VRML97/X3DV commandline compiler in development. VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the Web via browser plugins ("HTML for realtime 3D"). X3DV is the direct successor of VRML97. VRML97 and X3DV have support for animation, real-time interaction, and multimedia (images, movies, and sounds). white_dune can read, create, and display VRML97/X3DV files and let the user change the scenegraph/fields. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals, and support for 3D input devices like a joystick, spaceball, or magnetic tracker.

Release Notes: This release adds TextureTransform support to the JME export example. It adds +c, +c++, +java, etc. command line conversion options to allow the concatenation of output files. It has advanced compatibility with #X3D V3.1 / #X3D V3.2 files. It fixes a bison compatibility problem. It fixes a crash caused by a missing glPopName() in the PointLight node. It changes the scenegraph traversing order in C/C++/Java export. It fixes a bug in the conversion of IndexedLineSet to PointSet. It adds a workaround for a crash when clicking to a PROTO instance. It fixes a problem when using DEF/USE on C/C++/Java export.

09 Nov 17:42 beye 6.1.0.pre

BEYE (Binary EYE) is a portable advanced file viewer with a built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal, and disassembler modes. It contains a highlighting Java/AVR/i86-AMD64/ARM-XScale/PPC64 disassembler, full preview of MZ, NE, PE, LE, LX, DOS.SYS, NLM, ELF, a.out, arch, coff32, PharLap, and rdoff executable formats, a code guider, and many other features.

Release Notes: This release adds support for Intel's AES, AVX and AMD's XOP, FMA4, and CVT16 into x86-disassembler.

09 Nov 17:41 SIDE 2.0.117

Sustainable IDE (SIDE) is a set of graphical tools for developers who want to build sustainable software. Sustainable software is software you can extend easily, from a functional or technological point of view. On one hand, this means that when a user has a new requirement, it's easy for any developer to add it, even if the original author is not there anymore. On another hand, if you want to change the underlying technologies, you don't need to rewrite your existing application from scratch. Sustainable Software gives you the freedom to change technology, requirements, or achitecture. This can be achieved thanks to the use of models in a model driven software development (MDSD) paradigm.

Release Notes: Various bugs have been corrected for documentation and generation phases. Concerning documentation, you can add a parameter to the documentation generator to skip or allow screen capture inclusion. Concerning the generation phase, a message now indicates when the cleaning process is over.

09 Nov 17:39 Saros 9.10.30.r1833

Saros is a Eclipse plugin for collaborative text editing that in particular targets distributed pair programming (also called remote pair programming), but can support arbitrarily many participants at once. All members of a session have an identical copy of an Eclipse project and Saros keeps these copies in sync as editing progresses.

Release Notes: The invitation code is rewritten, and the invitation dialog is not modal anymore. The host can continue to use Eclipse while the invitations are running.

09 Nov 17:38 NHI1 3.8

NHI1 is an attempt to create a non-human intelligence. It is composed of several sub-projects like theLink (formerly known as libmsgque) and theBrain, which is a persistent storage system able to save a data package from theLink without transformation.

Release Notes: This release features bugfixes and code cleanup. The design of the configuration interface to "libmsgque" is complete. All command line configuration options are available as functions. For example: define a TCP server in the source with MqConfigSetIoTcp. Configuration modifications are now possible at any time.

09 Nov 17:35 HDT 0.3.5

HDT (Hardware Detection Tool) is an OS independent tool that displays low-level information on any x86 compatible system. It detects ACPI, CPU, PCI devices, DMI (memory, BIOS, motherboard, IPMI base board, chassis, batteries, CPU), disks (geometry, partitions), PXE environment, VESA modes, and VPD. It can also deduce the Linux kernel modules needed by a given host.

Release Notes: Bootloader and MBR detection. Cmenu now uses libansi. SMI detection has been added and enhanced. Inactive items are now brighter to improve readability. There is a new reboot command. Automatic commands have been added (this release can be used to run an automatic diagnostic when booting HDT).

09 Nov 17:32 RackTables 0.17.7

RackTables is a tool to manage tens of racks, hundreds of servers, and thousands of MAC and IP addresses. It will work with a single rack as well. It features a real-life rackspace model, typed rack objects with flexible attribute sets, a tagging system, IP address management ready for NAT, virtual routers and load balancers, accurate network connection handling, a universal search function, a multi-user access model, and an extensible dictionary.

Release Notes: The sole purpose of this release is to deal with port selector inconsistencies introduced by the previous release. Other than that, it makes no difference with 0.17.6.

09 Nov 17:30 Zynaptic Reaction beta2

Zynaptic Reaction is a flexible asynchronous programming framework for Java which may be used to implement complex event-driven applications. It is heavily influenced by the Twisted programming framework developed by TwistedMatrix Labs for the Python programming language. The focus of the Reaction library is on the concurrency and callback model and as such it is application neutral. It can be used to manage lots of concurrent I/O or to farm out compute intensive tasks to multicore processors. As well as being usable as a basic Java library, Reaction can also run as an independent OSGi service and integrate into any GUI framework you choose.

Release Notes: This release makes a minor addition to the API in order to allow the chaining of multiple deferred event objects, effectively splicing their callback chains together. Example code and documentation have been updated to include the new API call.

09 Nov 17:30 Eric 4.3.9

Eric is a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in Python. It is based on the cross platform Qt GUI toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control. It is designed to be usable as an everyday quick and dirty editor as well as being usable as a professional project management tool, integrating many advanced features that Python offers the professional coder. Eric includes a plug-in system, which allows easy extension of the IDE functionality with plug-ins downloadable from the net. Current stable versions are Eric4 based on Qt4 and Python 2 and Eric5 based on Python 3 and Qt4.

Release Notes: Bugfixes.

09 Nov 14:56 Jhead 2.88

Jhead is a command line driven utility for extracting digital camera settings from the Exif format files used by many digital cameras. It handles the various confusing ways these can be expressed, and displays them as F-stop, shutter speed, etc. It is also able to reduce the size of digital camera JPEGs without loss of information, by deleting integral thumbnails that digital cameras put into the Exif header. If you need to add Exif support to a program, this is a simple program to cut and paste from. Many projects, including PHP, have reused code from this utility.

Release Notes: A few more tags are now recognized with "-v". Metering mode display was fixed. A crash on certain corrupted JPEGs was fixed. Handling of extra padding bytes between JPEG markers was improved. The strange date encoding of LG VX-9700 is now accepted. Resolution units of the JFIF header are now preserved.

09 Nov 14:55 awesome 3.4.1

awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, light, and extensible. It is primarily targeted at the power user, developer, and anyone dealing with everyday computing tasks who wants to have fine-grained control over a graphical environment.

Release Notes: This version fixes a bug in awful.menu, a bug in maximizing and in naughty compatibility with some KDE applications. It also adds some minor features to awful.rules.

09 Nov 14:48 htrosbif alpha 3

htrosbif is a tool that actively probes an HTTP server. It prods the Web server in all sorts of old, new, basic, fancy, spec-compliant, and spec-breaking ways. It tries to characterize both the well-spoken educated responses and the seriously deviant babble it receives in return. Signatures contain no user data, only header names and HTTP-level quirks. As a useful side effect, this might detect reverse proxies, HTTP load balancers, intrusion prevention systems, and Web application firewalls.

Release Notes: This is the initial freshmeat announcement and public release.

09 Nov 14:33 Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5

Firefox (formerly known as Phoenix and Firebird) is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component. It is similar to Galeon, K-Meleon, and Chimera, but it is written using the XUL user interface language and was designed to be cross-platform.

Release Notes: Several stability issues were fixed.

09 Nov 14:33 Open DHCP Server 1.32

Open DHCP Server is full fledged, all purpose DHCP server. It supports nearly all industry standard functionality. It supports both dynamic and static leases, multiple domains, multiple subnets, and relay agents. It also supports BOOTP and PXEBOOT. It allows user-defined options, which can be global, range-specific, or client-specific. DHCP ranges can be further filtered by MAC address ranges, Vendor Class, or User Class.

Release Notes: The Windows version can automatically detect network changes. Minor code fixes were made.

09 Nov 14:32 Dual DHCP DNS Server 6.51

Dual DHCP DNS Server is a DHCP server combined with a caching DNS server that is sensitive to the names that were allocated by the DHCP server. It has built in dynamic updates, and also supports BOOTP PXE network booting and client specific options. It is self-configuring, doesn't require the creation of zone files, and uses little memory and CPU time. Either one of the two services can be turned off.

Release Notes: A bug about loading DNS hosts has been fixed. Now an unlimited number of clients can be loaded.