12 March 2010

12 Mar 23:34 AZR3-JACK 1.2.3

AZR3-JACK is a port of the free VST plugin AZR-3. It is a tonewheel organ with drawbars, distortion and rotating speakers. The original was written by Rumpelrausch Täips. The organ has three sections, two polyphonic with 9 drawbars each and one monophonic bass section with 5 drawbars. The two polyphonic sections respond to events on MIDI channel 1 and 2, and an optional keyboard split function makes the bass section listen to the lower keys on channel 1. The three sections have separate sustain and percussion switches as well as separate volume controls, and the two polyphonic sections have separate vibrato settings. All three sections are mixed and sent through the distortion effect and the rotating speakers simulator, where the modulation wheel can be used to switch between fast and slow rotation, and the fast and slow rotation speeds themselves can be changed separately for the lower and upper frequencies.

Release Notes: This release fixes a crashing bug.

12 Mar 23:34 echinus 0.4.1

echinus is a lightweight window manager for X based on dwm's source code. It manages windows in tiled, maximized, and floating layouts. It is extremely small, rather fast, and supports Xft. It features nice titlebars, multiple desktops, theming support, a simple configuration file, the ability to switch desktops with the mouse wheel, X bitmaps for title buttons, and true transparency support (through xcompmgr). There is no need to recompile or restart X to change its configuration.

Release Notes: This is mostly a cleanup/bugfix release. Old xprop/xwininfo bugs were fixed (when they reported incorrect window properties). There's one new "feature": floating windows now raise on click without modkey. There are other things not seen from the user's point of view (but important).

12 Mar 23:32 unifdef 2.3

Unifdef is useful for removing #ifdef'ed lines from a file while otherwise leaving the file alone. You specify which symbols are defined or undefined with -D and -U flags, and unifdef removes the corresponding ifdefs, and the enclosed code if appropriate. It's especially useful for removing those "#ifdef BROKEN" and "#ifdef PRIVATE" clauses from code before you release it. Unifdef acts on #if, #ifdef, #ifndef, #elif, #else, and #endif lines, and it knows only enough about C and C++ to know when one of these is inactive because it is inside a comment or a single or double quote.

Release Notes: Development has been moved from CVS to git, and the build system redone. The increased version number reflects the change in the release process.

12 Mar 23:19 minidom r30

minidom is a minimized, quick and dirty dom/path c++ library. It supports XML, INI, JSON, NKV, HTTP header parsers, and dumpers. It has optional support for ICONV.

Release Notes: This release is much faster than before. A minor bug in the unit test was fixed. See the benchmark with libxml and tinyxml.

12 Mar 23:19 FECpp 0.9

FECpp is a C++ library implementing a fast forward error correction code, sometimes also called an erasure code. These codes are used to split input data into a set of n shares, with the property that if any subset of at least k shares survives, the original data can be recovered by the decoder. The number of share losses the code will tolerate can be parameterized during encoding, allowing the code to be adapted to to a variety of loss scenarios. FECpp is bit-for-bit compatible with several other FEC libraries.

Release Notes: A Python wrapper (using Boost.Python) is now included, as are several example and test programs written in Python. A bug that caused some decoded shares to be emitted more than once has been fixed.

12 Mar 23:18 Siege 2.70b2

Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.

Release Notes: This release allows the user to change the default log file at the command line. --log turns on logging. --log=my.log turns on logging and logs to my.log.

12 Mar 23:00 ejabberd 2.1.3

ejabberd is a multi-platform, scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant Jabber/XMPP server. It includes Jabber services like Multi-User Chat, IRC transport, HTTP-Bind, Publish-Subscribe and PEP. It supports virtual hosting, connection to transports (gateways) to other networks, and connection to other Jabber servers. Other supported features are Web and command-line administration, encryption support (SSL and TLS), several authentication methods (embedded, external script, LDAP, PAM, and ODBC), varied storage methods (embedded, ODBC, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL), Jabber user directory, and translations in more than 20 languages.

Release Notes: Bugfixes and improvements in several places: BOSH, PubSub, etc.

12 Mar 22:59 JRedis alpha.0-update-3

JRedis is a high-performance Java client and connector framework and reference implementation for Redis distributed hash key-value database. It will provide both synchronous clients and asynchronous connections for Redis. The connectors will be both passive (non-threaded) and active, to address deployment scenarios and usage requirements.

Release Notes: This is a Redis 1.2.n compliance release.

12 Mar 22:58 aria2 1.9.0

aria2 is a utility for downloading files. The supported protocols are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink. It has a powerful segmented downloading ability, downloading a file from multiple sources and multiple protocols and utilizing your download bandwidth to the maximum. It supports downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP and BitTorrent at the same time, while the data downloaded from HTTP(S)/FTP is uploaded to the BitTorrent swarm. Using Metalink's chunk checksums, aria2 automatically validates chunks of data while downloading a file like BitTorrent.

Release Notes: This release adds Metalink4 support and BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery. An aria2.changeUri XML-RPC method was added. It enables you to add/remove URIs to existing downloads dynamically. The user and password for the proxy server now can be specified on the command line separately. The code has been refactored based on profiler results, so aria2 now runs more efficiently than ever. Russian and Simplified Chinese translations were updated.

12 Mar 22:56 neap 0.3

neap is a pager that runs in the notification area or systray of your desktop's panel. It follows the freedesktop.org specifications.

Release Notes: This release has a CLI option parser, so you don't need to repeatedly modify the config file when testing new configurations.

12 Mar 22:55 Ripcord 0.4

Ripcord is an PHP 5 XML-RPC server and client library with a very simple and easy to use API. You can create XML-RPC, (simplified) SOAP 1.1, and SimpleRPC clients with one call and then call RPC methods as if they were local methods of the client. You can create a server with one call, passing it any number of objects or classes whose methods it will publish and automatically document.

Release Notes: This release adds a workaround for a segmentation fault in xmlrpc_decode_request. It refactors the exceptions to use PHP's SPL Exceptions as a base and Ripcord_Exception as an interface.

12 Mar 22:47 StoneVPN 0.4.7

StoneVPN is a system that makes it easy to create certificates and configuration files for use with an OpenVPN server for both Windows and Linux users. It has the ability to create a zip file and e-mail the entire package to a user. It uses pyOpenSSL and custom patches that allow it to manage a CRL file.

Release Notes: Certificates are no longer generated with an incorrect serial number (hex was written as decimal). A bug when listing all revoked certificates has been fixed. This release will check for the existence of crlfile before trying to parse it. There is a new option to generate an empty CRL file. All options have been grouped to make --help output look better.

12 Mar 22:46 jSmaTeP 1.1.0

jSmaTeP assists in the use of Java for processing import and export data by configuring a data structure rather than by programming it. The structure of the import data is specified in an XML file. jSmaTeP then generates a value object representing exactly one row or record in the import file based on a given XML data configuration. This means that if the import or export format changes, only the XML data configuration needs to be changed to match it.

Release Notes: Decoupled from using configuration from Apache XML Beans. Switched from jUnit3.x to jUnit4. A "default" configuration tag for fields has been added. The xsd directory has been moved under the resources directory.

12 Mar 22:45 gnetworktester 0.11.1

Gnetworktester is an application that helps users in testing the quality of a network connection and in sending complaints on that to the network provider. A procedure of testing takes three steps: choosing the network nodes; automatic pinging of those nodes to collect statistics on packet losses, delays, and overall quality; and automatic report writing.

Release Notes: Bugfix release.

12 Mar 14:50 acgtools 0.2

acgtools is a driver for the ACG HF MultiISO RFID reader written entirely in Python and including several developer tools, including EEPROM backup/edit/restoration for enabling some of the more exotic features supported by this hardware. There are also sample applications, notably an e-Passport reader.

Release Notes: This release removes the dependency on hal/dbus for device detection (when hal is not available, acgtools falls back to using a configuration file), updates the e-passport example application to decode facial image data and save that to a file, and includes support for retrieving a REQA answer on tag selection if this option is set in the EEPROM.

12 Mar 14:45 PAC 1.0

PAC provides a GUI to configure SSH and Telnet connections, including usernames, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, and macros. It is similar in function to SecureCRT or Putty. It is intended for people who connect to many servers through SSH. It can automate logins and command executions.

Release Notes: This release can detach tabbed terminals into windows and vice-versa, revamps the "find in terminal" GUI, adds lots of rewritten code, recursively auto-accepts consecutive unknown ssh_hosts connections, adds a new set of user variables (next to the "OPTIONS" frame), has a new filesystem architecture (everything now goes into "/opt/pac"), lets users tweak the tab/window title by putting <TAB_TITLE:your new title:TAB_TITLE> anywhere in "Description", adds an autonomous ".tar.gz" package, removes "Undo" due to terrible bugs, adds many little GUI improvements, and makes minor bugfixes.

12 Mar 14:40 betterFORM 3.0

betterFORM allows easy creation of highly dynamic Web 2.0 user interfaces with attractive controls and layout. You can add validations, calculations, actions, and events to build complete Web applications in a declarative way.

Release Notes: This is the first release.

12 Mar 14:40 Samanon Client 1.2.0

Samanon Client gives you central access to a collection of indie and casual games for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. The client includes a Web browser and allows you to browse, order, install, and uninstall the games, applications, and demos. It is a slim browser application that starts up quickly. It lets you play your games anywhere, as long as the client is installed.

Release Notes: This release introduces context menus, a tag editor, filtering for the list of installed software, and minor optical enhancements.

12 Mar 14:39 Visifire 3.0.4

Visifire is a set of data visualization components powered by Microsoft Silverlight. It lets you create and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight Charts within minutes. Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, or just simple HTML. Visifire's unique features are visually stunning animated charts, the ability to be embedded into any Web page in minutes, a tiny footprint (140 KB), and enterprise grade features.

Release Notes: This release adds minor bugfixes.

12 Mar 14:39 Astaro Security Gateway 7.504

Astaro Security Gateway (formerly Astaro Security Linux) is an all-in-one network security gateway that includes a firewall, intrusion protection, antivirus, spam protection, URL filtering, and a VPN gateway. Features include a modern packet filter, intrusion detection and prevention, portscan detection, application control, content filtering, virus detection for email and Web traffic, profile handling, L2TP, IPSec, SSL, and PPTP VPN tunneling, spam blocking, proxies for HTTPS, HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP, DNS, VoIP, SOCKS, and Ident, logging, and reporting. It supports Ethernet, VLAN, PPP, PPPoE, PPPoA, Cable Modem, IPv6, QoS, Link Aggregation, and WAN-Uplink-Load balancing in routing, and bridge mode. The WebAdmin GUI, Install Wizard, Change Tracking, Printable Configuration, and Up2Date service make it easy to install, manage, and maintain.

Release Notes: This release adds support for the new product RED (Remote Ethernet Device), which acts as a long Ethernet cable to a branch office, requiring no configuration or management. The ability to totally remove (de-proxy) sites from the HTTPS filter using new functionality for exceptions has been added, and exceptions for the Web can be made by category. There's now support for hosting a Proxy PAC file, the ability to remove some HTTP events completely from logging and reporting, and an Uplink monitor/action feature and wildcard SMTP routing support. This version includes also some bugfixes.

12 Mar 14:37 CarvFS 1.0.1

CarvFS is a user space FUSE filesystem aimed at computer forensic tools that process disk and/or memory dump images or other large data files. The filesystem allows CarvPath-aware tools to use CarvPath annotations as a way to designate partitions, files, alternate streams, processes etc. within a disk or memory image as a string, making them available trough the filesystem as a pseudo file that can be handed to other tools. This removes the need to copy the information out of the disk image and reduces storage requirements.

Release Notes: This release adds a new CarvFS module for mounting raw local block devices intended for triage tools and applications.

12 Mar 14:30 rsstool 1.0.1rc1

rsstool is a tool to read, parse, merge, and write RSS (and Atom) feeds. It has some other functions built-in like text, HTML, or property file output, or templates with custom tags to insert RSS feeds into pages that could be uploaded to a server that supports only static HTML.

Release Notes: This release adds a new field to the database structure, rsstool_media_duration (if rsstool finds durations for some kind of media in the feed, it will parse them into rsstool_media_duration, in seconds), --enc=ENCODING, which overrides the encoding specified in the RSS header (useful for some broken RSS feeds), --filter=LOGIC, sometimes referred to as implied Boolean LOGIC (use this to remove items from the RSS feed before output), --nosort, to not sort items by date (on by default), --parse=FILE|URL to generate an RSS feed from a random HTML document, some code cleanups and fixes, support for Atom 1.0 feeds (they worked before, but now it says so in the usage, too), and xmlget as a download on the Web site (accesses XML files using the XPath syntax). It deprecates the --joomla and --dragonfly options (replaced with scripts in contrib/) and --sqlold (and support for the other old database structures). It removes the --curl option (it is always the default now, if libcurl is available) and the --wget option (you may want to rely on the curl support or use wget from a script instead).

12 Mar 12:59 Jodd 3.0.8

Jodd is general purpose Java utility library. It enriches JDK with many powerful and feature rich utilities. Jodd helps with everyday tasks and makes code more robust and reliable. Special attention is put into creating code that is reusable and as fast as possible while still keeping it compact (under 500 KB). Jodd Wot is a bundle of lightweight application frameworks, under 300 KB. It was designed following the CoC, DRY, and SCS principles.

Release Notes: This is one of the most important releases, since all Jodd frameworks have been used in production together. As a result, several bugs were fixed, some important changes were made, and more power was added in the framework.

12 Mar 12:57 t-prot 2.97.1

t-prot (TOFU Protection) is a filter which improves the readability of email messages and Usenet posts by hiding some of their annoying parts. The annoyances it handles include mailing list footers, signatures, TOFU, sequences of blank lines, and repeated punctuation. TOFU is an acronym that stands for "Text oben, Fullquote unten", a German reference to the practice of adding just a few lines of original text and quoting a complete message below them.

Release Notes: Some small documentation fixes have been applied.

12 Mar 12:53 BalanceNG 2.298

BalanceNG is a modern, IPv6 capable software IP load balancing solution. It is small, fast, and easy to use and set up. It offers session persistence, different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random, Least Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It supports VRRP to set up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It supports SNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with Net-SNMPD. It implements a very fast in-memory IP-to-location database, allowing powerful location-based server load-balancing.

Release Notes: A new parameter "psvrelearn" allows you to disable passive updates to the ARP table. The Ubuntu JeOS VMware virtual appliance has been updated accordingly. The manual has been updated accordingly.