2 February 2010
02 Feb 19:10
Midipoke 0.0
Midipoke is a MIDI controller for Synaptics touchpads on laptops. The X, Y, and Z axes can be mapped to MIDI CC messages or pitch bends.
Release Notes: In this first release, ALSA works. JACK, not quite yet.
02 Feb 19:07
Infobright Community Edition 3.3.1
Infobright Community Edition (ICE) is an analytic database built on MySQL, designed to deliver very fast query response against large data volumes. It is a self-tuning, columnar database that eliminates the need to create or maintain indexes, partition data, or perform other administrative tasks.
Release Notes: This release migrates the version of MySQL that is embedded inside Infobright. Previously, ICE shipped with MySQL 5.1.14. This release updates that to MySQL 5.1.40 GA. The update fixes some previously-reported issues with ICE, and improves some performance and query syntax support as a result of improvements made to the MySQL engine.
02 Feb 19:00
ArtistX 0.8
ArtistX is a live DVD which turns a computer into a full multimedia production studio. It is based on Debian GNU/Linux and contains nearly all the available free audio, 2D and 3D graphics, and video software for the GNU/Linux computing platform. It doesn't need to be installed, and boots directly into a running system without touching hard drives. The files produced with ArtistX can be easily stored on a USB card or CD/DVD medium while it is running.
Release Notes: This release includes the 2.6.28 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.26 and KDE 4.2, Compiz Fusion, and about 2,500 free multimedia software packages, nearly everything that exists for the GNU/Linux operating system. It is based on Ubuntu 9.04, with Compiz Fusion for 3D desktop effects.
02 Feb 18:56
Plzip 0.4
Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded), lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of gzip or lzip. It uses the lzip file format; the files produced by plzip are fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer, and can be rescued with lziprecover. It is intended for faster compression/decompression of big files on multiprocessor machines, which makes it especially well-suited for distribution of big software files and large scale data archiving. On files big enough, plzip can use hundreds of processors.
Release Notes: The option "--version" now shows the version of lzlib being used. A code reorganization has been made. The new class "Packet_courier" now coordinates data movement and synchronization among threads.
02 Feb 18:56
Lzlib 0.9-rc1
The lzlib compression library provides in-memory LZMA compression and decompression functions, including integrity checking of the decompressed data. The compressed data format used by the library is the lzip format.
Release Notes: Compression time has been reduced by 8%.
02 Feb 16:07
Voreen 2.01
Voreen is a computer graphics library and development platform for interactive volume visualization. It provides several visualization techniques for volumetric data and makes use of modern programmable graphics hardware to accelerate rendering. The accompanying VoreenVE application allows for creating and testing new rendering techniques using visual programming. Voreen is implemented with C++ and uses OpenGL/GLSL for rendering.
Release Notes: Missing shader files were added to the binary distribution. A crash when opening workspace files with the transfer function editor visible was fixed. Export of transfer functions now also works on Unix platforms with non-POSIX locale. In addition, several smaller issues were corrected.
02 Feb 16:03
NHI1 0.5
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 includes NHI1 0.5, PLMK 1.4, and libmsgque 4.3. This is a feature release to prepare the environment for the upcoming milestone release. In theLink (libmsgque) a feature was added to recover from server or network downtime. In the API for theLink, MqLinkGetTargetIdent, MqLinkConnect, and MqErrorIsEXIT were added. The documentation was updated and missing information was fixed. The test file theLink/tests/trans.test was extended.
02 Feb 15:44
Absolute OS 13.0.8
Absolute Linux is a lightweight Slackware derivative that uses an Icewm, pcmanfm, ROX-Filer, ivman, and others to create a lightweight yet easy to use distribution. Installation is text-based but simplified, and all packages are installed at once. It can run on a Pentium II and above, including SMP systems. A minimum 128MB RAM is recommended. It features ease of browsing any connected device in pcmanfm, and an auto-popup menu for inserted playable media. "Restricted" codecs are available to those eligible via a root-user installer. There is a large range of software included: Google Chromium (compiled on Absolute), OpenOffice, Mplayer, GIMP, K3B, FileZilla, and many more.
Release Notes: The multimedia installer was fixed with a few updates.
02 Feb 15:43
Zarafa 6.30.10
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: This release contains some new features, such as colored flags in the Web access, the option to add a comment in response to meeting requests, and improvements in the multi-user calendar. Bugs were fixed, improving the overall quality and stability.
02 Feb 15:34
bdec 0.6.2
bdec is a set of tools for decoding binary files given a specification written in a flexible XML-based syntax. It supports decoding to XML or Python objects, and can generate quality C decoders and encoders.
Release Notes: Sequence values are now correctly decoded in the instance decoder. Fixes were made to references used in conditional and constraint expressions. Missing reference errors are reported from the entry that defined the reference. An exception is no longer thrown when choosing and there is not enough data available. Sequence entries are decoded with both a minimum and a maximum. Conditional references are correctly handled. Data objects now support non-seekable files such as stdin.
02 Feb 14:10
GMime 2.4.15
GMime is a C/C++ library for parsing and creating messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME).
Release Notes: A corner-case buffer overflow condition in the uuencode stream filter was fixed.
02 Feb 14:09
Polipo 1.0.4.1
Polipo is a lightweight caching Web proxy that was designed as a personal cache. It is able to cache incomplete objects and will complete them using range requests. It will use HTTP/1.1 pipelining if supported by the remote server.
Release Notes: This is an interim bugfix release. There are no user-visible changes.
02 Feb 14:08
WOAS (Wiki on a Stick) 0.10.1
"Wiki on a Stick" is a personal wiki that lives in one self-modifying XHTML file; very useful for organizing your notes, supports AES encryption, embedding and much more! It can also be used as a Javascript programming environment.
Release Notes: This is the second release candidate. Major code stabilization was done. Some features were added, like modification timestamps, WSIF export, page title aliases, encryption password scrambling, and more.
02 Feb 14:05
Fotoxx 9.5
Fotoxx lets you navigate an image collection using a thumbnail browser and choose images to view or edit. Edit functions include brightness, contrast, color, white balance, tone mapping, red-eyes, sharpen, blur, noise suppression, smart erase, trim, resize, rotate, annotate, warp, art effects, HDR, HDF, stack, and panorama. Edit functions use movable curves and sliders. Feedback is live, using the whole image, with unlimited undo and redo. RAW files can be imported and edited with 16-bit color depth. Areas or objects can be selected using freehand draw, follow edge, and tone matching. Selections can be edited with adjustable blending. Selections can be cut and paste. You can add tags, dates, comments, captions, and ratings to images, and you can search using these criteria as well as file names. You can also define named collections of images, make slide shows, and view and edit metadata (EXIF etc.). Batch processing is available for rename, resize/export, CD/DVD burn, and add/delete tags.
Release Notes: Several minor additions and corrections were made. Unintended node creation from rapid mouse drags in curve edit was stopped. Tonemap 2 was changed to use the full size image for calculations, which is slower but better. A new function, Tonemap 3, can enhance local contrast while suppressing halo effects. Grid lines can be added to assist image alignment in unbend, rotate, and warp. HDR (2 images) was removed, since the new HDR (2-10 images) made it redundant. A bug in file save-as was fixed: a revised file type selection was not always reflected in the dialog (but it functioned correctly).
02 Feb 13:57
Filesystem in Userspace 2.8.3
Filesystem in Userspace is a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel. It also aims to provide a secure method for non privileged users to create and mount their own filesystem implementations.
Release Notes: Highlights of the 2.8 release are more scalable directory locking, atomic open and truncate support, big write requests, better NFS exporting, new ioctl and poll requests, character devices in userspace, umask processing and cache invalidation notifications. This minor release fixes a race in unmounting a FUSE filesystem.
02 Feb 13:53
Xerces-C++ 3.1.0
Xerces C++ is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. The parser was designed with high performance, modularity, and scalability in mind. It provides DOM, SAX, and SAX2 APIs and supports validation of XML documents against DTD and W3C XML schema.
Release Notes: Support for handling multiple XML Schema import declarations has been added. DOMLSParser::parseWithContext has been implemented. Support for configuration of the parser buffer low water mark has been added. XML Schema validation performance has been improved with the use of the SSE2 instructions. Scalability of the XML Schema identity checking has been improved. A large number of XML Schema conformance bugs have been fixed.
02 Feb 13:53
fsarchiver 0.6.7
fsarchiver is a system tool that allows you to save the contents of a filesystem to a compressed archive file. The filesystem can be restored on a partition that has a different size, and it can be restored on a different filesystem. Unlike tar/dar, fsarchiver also creates the filesystem when it extracts the data to partitions. Everything is checksummed in the archive in order to protect the data. If the archive is corrupt, you just lose the current file, not the whole archive.
Release Notes: Support for sparse files was added, so a sparse file on the original disk will be recreated as sparse file. Progression information was implemented for savedir/restdir. The logfile created when the -d option is used now has a unique name so that it's not overwritten. The MD5 checksums are now calculated using the implementation from libgcrypt instead of the internal one, so libgcrypt is always required. Other internal changes were made.
02 Feb 12:42
Pound 2.5
Pound is a reverse HTTP proxy, load balancer, and SSL wrapper. It proxies client HTTPS requests to HTTP backend servers, distributes the requests among several servers while keeping sessions, supports HTTP/1.1 requests even if the backend server(s) are HTTP/1.0, and sanitizes requests.
Release Notes: New features include support for HTTPS back-end servers, full support for DH key exchange, an "include" directive in configuration files, support for separate connection time-out, much improved auto-configuration and Make, and flags to enable or disable optional libraries. A bunch of minor bugs were fixed. Performance was improved.
02 Feb 12:38
webon 1.1
webon is a Web content management system. It provides an access log to check who has visited your site. It has a counter that lets anybody know the number of people who have visited your site.
Release Notes: The installation script was fixed.
02 Feb 12:38
TaskJuggler 0.0.4
TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful project and to-do list management tool. Its new approach to project planning and tracking is far superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools. It has already been successfully used in many projects and scales easily to projects with hundreds of resources and thousands of tasks. It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planing, and risk and communication management.
Release Notes: TaskJuggler III is the next generation of TaskJuggler. It's a rewrite from scratch but the syntax is largely compatible with previous versions. This is an unstable release to gather feedback from users regarding the new syntax features and other new concepts. All current TaskJuggler 2.x users are encouraged to try this version to plan their migration now.
02 Feb 12:37
GOsa 2.6.7
GOsa² provides a powerful framework for managing accounts and systems in LDAP databases. Using GOsa² allows system administrators to easily manage users and groups, fat and thin clients, applications, phones and faxes, mail distribution lists, and many other parameters. In conjunction with FAI (Fully Automatic Installation), GOsa² allows the highly automated installation of preconfigured systems. GOsa² therefore provides a single, LDAP-based point of administration for large and small environments, thus making the administration of users and systems and all related parameters manageable and easy.
Release Notes: This release adds a couple of fixes to the DNS and DHCP plugins, adds IMAP folder autocreation, printable lists and plugins, list optimizations, and AJAX optimizations. OPSI and user/group handling were made faster. This version unifies the logging to incorporate rsyslog instead of two separate plugins.
02 Feb 12:35
Open Tax Solver 7.03
OTS is an easy program for calculating personal income tax form entries and taxes-owed or refund due. It handles forms such as US-Fed-1040, with Schedules A, B, C, and D, forms 8829 and 8849, AMT worksheets, and state income taxes for several large states.
Release Notes: This version adds updated 2009 State Tax forms of OTS for Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. The package also contains State Tax coverage for California, New York, Pennslyvania, and New Jersey, as well as US 1040 with Schedules A, B, C, and D. Starting this year, there is a precompiled download package for Mac OS X, in addition to Linux and MS-Windows PCs.
02 Feb 12:24
Texmaker 1.9.9
Texmaker integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX in just one application.
Release Notes: While inserting a latex structure (via the code completion or a texmaker command), the fields of the structure are marked with a special character and users can directly jump to the next field with the "Tab" key. Verbatim support has been added in the syntax highlighting. Keyboard shortcuts can now be changed by directly pressing the key sequence. The blocks of a "beamer" document are now included in the "structure view". A new option has been added for the user tags. Texmaker is now available for Mac OS X 10.6 on 64-bit systems.
02 Feb 12:23
FrontAccounting 2.2.5
FrontAccounting is a Web-based accounting system for ERP chains. It is multiuser, multilingual, and multicurrency.
Release Notes: A new document type, Receipt, was added. A Balance Sheet drilldown inquiry was added in Banking and GL. Up to 4-5 levels of GL account groups are allowed in COA. A heavy warning was put on marking the checkbox "Allow Negative Inventory". A bug in Sales Price pickup was fixed. A bug in which a refs record was not deleted when deleting Sales Order or Quotation was fixed. Purchase tax account was added in default COAs. A bug was fixed in Quick Entry lines with Tax added. A bug in which shipping cost was ignored in Direct Invoice (cash) was fixed. Error display during Ajax operations was improved.
02 Feb 12:10
Netty 3.2.0.ALPHA4
The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development of maintainable, high-performance, high-scalability protocol servers and clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework that enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket servers.
Release Notes: NIO write throughput has been improved even further. RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) support has been added. Dealing with NUL-terminated strings was made easier. A port unification example has been added.
