2 March 2010

02 Mar 23:10 Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.10.0-rc1

Monkey HTTP Daemon is a very fast and lightweight Web server for Linux. It uses a hybrid networking model based on asynchronous calls (event-driven) and fixed threads, which makes it scalable and capable of attending thousands of clients per second. It provides a powerful API for C and is ideal for embedded devices, thanks to its small core and plugin architecture.

Release Notes: Monkey now uses a hybrid networking model based on async calls and fixed threads. It has been rewritten and is 4x times faster than the previous version. Plugin support has been added, allowing one to decrease the core size and just load required features on startup. Two plugins has been implemented: 'Cheetah' which is a Web server shell, and a Security plugin to restrict incoming connection to specific IP ranges. A new worker logger and improved configuration server files.

02 Mar 23:10 Sound Converter 1.5.0-alpha1

Sound Converter is a simple sound converter application for the GNOME environment. It reads anything the GStreamer library can read, and writes WAV, FLAC, MP3, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis files.

Release Notes: A new asynchronous core. Adding files is much faster. A WAV sample width setting. A FLAC compression setting. Remembers the last used folder when adding files/folders. Realaudio has been added to the MIME whitelist. A tagreader stall when adding unrecognized files, missing quoting when using destination folder, hanging when trying to load DXR files, and incorrect destination folder when using same-folder-as-source, base folder, and custom filename patterns. An updated Dutch translation. Follows symbolic links when adding files.

02 Mar 22:59 NolaPro 4.0.5432

NolaPro is a free Cloud Accounting suite that can be securely run from your PC. Refine and manage your business with its flexible and powerful Customer tracking, Billing, Payables, General Ledger, and Reporting features. Optional modules include Inventory Control, Service/Labor Order management, POS/Fulfillment Order support, a B2B Web portal, eCom Shopping Cart, vTiger add-on, Employee Timeclock, QuickBooks converter, development API, and many more. White Label partner revenue versions are available for CPAs, VARs, and consultants. For international users, it offers multi-currency, VAT/GST support, multi-language capability, and currency, decimal, and temperature flexibility. However NolaPro's customization is its best feature. It can be modified upon request to fit any industry spec or business requirement, as well as integrated with most 3rd party applications to provide backend accounting support. Secure Business Cloud hosting and a Linux version are also available.

Release Notes: This release allows you to set a custom discount on invoice pages. The balance sheet handles other liabilities better, and a currency issue has been fixed. There is a recent customers report option to show only those with no sales. There is a new add-on for copying inventory pricing between locations. The company name font on payroll checks has been reduced. The invoice total moves to the payment module if "pay now" is selected from the invoice view. POS has additional order options automatically displayed. The GL sales account is hidden in invoice add/update and POS. A new cc purchase bill now properly includes all charge info, and editing with no CC purchase no longer invalidates the bill.

02 Mar 22:55 EiffelStudio 6.6.8.2484

EiffelStudio is an IDE for the Eiffel language (ECMA-367, ISO/IEC 25436, and ACM Software System Award 2006). It includes: Eiffel compiler, Eiffel editor, Eiffel code browsing tool, Eiffel testing tool, graphical design tool, refactoring tool, debugger, profiler, and Eiffel analysis tools (Metrics, Dependencies, etc.). Eiffel generates C or CLI for .NET or Mono. Eiffel applies O-O principles and Design by Contract for high-quality software. Many Eiffel libraries are included: ADT, network, GUI, database, parsing (including an Eiffel parser), XML, Web, COM, and more.

Release Notes: A new project setting option has been added: Total Order on REALs, which lets you have NaN equal to NaN and NaN being the smallest number of all. This option is disabled by default, as it could break existing code. It adds the ability to version a class to be storable. On the UI front, this release adds the inherit clauses in the "Features tool" (to ease navigation in the edited class). It also fixes various bugs. The format for layout has changed, so you might end up having to delete the EiffelStudio private files to get the correct layout on the first launch.

02 Mar 22:49 Ample SDK 0.9.0

Ample SDK is a standards-based cross-browser JavaScript UI framework for building Rich Internet Applications running in a Web browser. It employs XML technologies (such as XUL, SVG, and HTML5) for UI layout, CSS for UI style, and JavaScript with DOM or jQuery APIs for application logic client-side. Ample SDK equalizes browsers and brings technology support to those missing any. The componentization model built into the core of the framework allows prototyping existing UI elements and creating new ones.

Release Notes: A new JavaScript charts implementation with support for all major chart types such as Bar, Column, Line, Area, Radar, Doughnut, Bubble, Map, Pie, and Funnel styleable with CSS. A significantly improved SVG 1.1 implementation for Internet Explorer. Now transformations on all shapes and groups are properly working. The image tag and Fonts module have been fixed. There are multiple minor fixes related to color handling. Overall performance of the SVG renderer has been improved by some 10%. The SVG implementation has been tested against the W3C SVG 1.1 (Tiny) test suite.

02 Mar 22:06 VFront 0.95e

VFront is a dynamic Web-based front-end for MySQL or PostgreSQL databases. It is written in PHP and Javascript. With it, you can create masks to manage your data in AJAX style, different rules and privileges for groups, reports in XML, HTML, and PDF format, statistics, and much more.

Release Notes: This release fixes password recovery.

02 Mar 22:05 SILVERCODERS OCR Server 1.0.1

SILVERCODERS OCR Server is a server-based optical character recognition (OCR) and PDF conversion solution for enterprises. It is able to perform conversion of printed documents to editable and searchable formats like plain text, RTF, PDF, and HTML, providing highly accurate recognition in 189 languages. It is available as a Linux application or a stand-alone machine, with a fully documented API, very good performance, and flexible licensing rules. It has been designed specifically for the purpose of cooperation with document management systems such as SILVERCODERS DocStorage.

Release Notes: Page layout recognition quality was improved in this version.

02 Mar 22:05 Flexc++ 0.5.0

Flexc++ is a tool for generating scanners based on regular expressions. Flexc++ is highly comparable to the programs flex and flex++. The goal was to create a similar program, but to implement it completely in C++. Most flex and flex++ grammars should be usable with flexc++ with minor adjustments.

Release Notes: This release introduces repetition operators (e.g., a{2,10}), adds a couple of sections to the manual, and fixes a bug with hexadecimal characters.

02 Mar 21:06 sawfish.wm.ext.pager 0.7.3

sawfish.wm.ext.pager is a C/Lisp extension that provides a functional desktop pager for the sawfish window manager. A pager is a map of your desktop. It shows not only the visible part of your desktop (the current viewport), but also the parts that extend beyond the sides of your screen. Also, if you have more than one workspace, the pager will follow you to where you are, or optionally show all workspaces at once. Of course you can select viewports and windows, and also move or raise/lower the latter.

Release Notes: An RPM packaging script and Gentoo ebuild script have been added. Autotools (configure/Makefile & Co.) have been added. -DFRAMEOVER build-flag has been hard-coded. The window-type is set to dock and the root-window ("desktop") is ignored.

02 Mar 21:02 CorneliOS 0.10.3r2

CorneliOS is an easy-to-use and cross-browser "Web Desktop Environment", "Web Operating System", or "Web Office" that comes with a set of cool applications. It includes a Content Management System (CMS) so that you can easily set up and manage your own website as well as a Database Management System that allows you to rapidly build any kind of database application.

Release Notes: Full support for HTML5 and CSS3 have been added. There are improved render engines and a large number of library updates to ensure the generation of valid HTML5 code. There are a large number of user interface enhancements.

02 Mar 21:00 Event and Task Manager 556

etm is an acronym for Event and Task Manager. It provides a simple, intuitive format for using plain text files to store data, a command line interface for viewing stored information in a variety of convenient ways, and a cross-platform, wx(Python)-based GUI for creating and modifying items as well as viewing them. Displayed items can be grouped by date, context, keyword, or project and can be filtered in various ways. A display of busy and free times is also supported, as is a ledger view of time spent that is suitable for client billing. Alarms are supported for events and repetition for both events and tasks in a powerful and flexible manner.

Release Notes: Entry bar tab completion has been added both for when creating items and when setting view options. For example, after entering "@c" when creating an item (or "-c" when setting view options) pressing TAB will pop up a selection list of all contexts used in any of your data files. This also works after "@k" (or "-k") for all keywords and after "@r" for all repetition settings. Access to history lists when setting view options and templates when creating items is now bound to Up-Arrow.

02 Mar 20:57 TestMaker 5.4

PushToTest TestMaker is a distributed test automation platform for application performance management and monitoring. It repurposes tests written in Selenium, soapUI, TestGen4Web, and Mozmill, and unit tests in Java, .NET, Jython, Groovy, PHP, Ruby, and Perl into functional tests, load and performance tests, and business service monitors. TestMaker is ideal for Web applications, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications, Rich Internet Application (RIA using Ajax, Flex, Flash) and Business Process Management (BPM) applications.

Release Notes: An entirely new user interface has been added featuring Scriptless Test Development, continuous integration server support, updated tutorials, Selenium improvements for Ajax testing, and enhanced cloud testing.

02 Mar 20:52 aLinux 12.9

aLinux is an RPM-based GNU/Linux distribution that can be used for office and multimedia applications. Installing new programs and applications and updating your system is made easy by its Synaptic package management system.

Release Notes: KDE-3.5.10, Koffice-1.6.3, Gnome-2.14.3, Xorg-7.5, GCC 4.1.2, Glibc-2.5, Kernel-2.6.29, Perl-5.10.0, PHP-5.2.0, and MySQL-5.0.33 have been updated.

02 Mar 20:41 Drizzle 2010.03.1317

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: Additional data_dictionary schema has been added. There has been a complete rewrite of the SHOW commands.

02 Mar 20:34 amun 0.1.8

Amun is a content management framework based on the PSX framework. The goal is to build a more federated and programmable Web. This is achieved by providing a RESTful API for managing and distributing the content in standard formats like JSON, XML, Atom, and RSS. It tries to support open standards like OAuth, OpenID, etc., and gives you the freedom to access the data of a Website in the way you like. It tries to enable easy communication from server to server, browser to server, and application to server.

Release Notes: Native OpenID support to login has been added. psx cms is now an opensocial API server and uses OAuth to protect the API. A native friendship function so that a relation between users can be created has been added. User profiles have been fixed to be editable by the user. Some unnecessary plugins were removed and many bugs were fixed. The underlying psx framework was updated to the current version.

02 Mar 20:32 GNU Zile 2.3.15

GNU Zile (Zile Is Lossy Emacs) is a lightweight Emacs clone. Every Emacs user should feel at home with Zile. Zile is aimed at small footprint systems (a typical binary is about 100Kb) and quick editing sessions (it starts up and shuts down instantly).

Release Notes: The default universal argument, which should be 4 but was 16, has been fixed. Some cosmetic errors with the display of universal arguments in the minibuffer have been fixed. There are some fixes to the build system.

02 Mar 20:30 cmus — C* Music Player 2.3.0

cmus is a small, fast, and powerful console music player for Linux and *BSD. It supports almost all common file formats, SHOUTcast/Icecast streaming, and multiple output plugins. cmus features multiple media library views, a playqueue, a directory browser, powerful filters, and vi-style search and keybindings. It also features gapless playback, ReplayGain, Unicode support, and customizable color schemes.

Release Notes: Gapless MP3 playback, native PulseAudio output plugin, faster metadata cache, much improved compilations handling, and a cmus-tutorial(7) man page have been added.

02 Mar 20:29 ELF statifier 1.7.1

Executable files may be linked statically or dynamically. Dynamically linked executables use less disk space and memory, but require appropriative dynamic libraries present in order to run. ELF statifier make one executable file with no run-time dependencies from a dynamically linked executable and all its libraries. This file can be copied and run on another machine with no need for all of the libraries.

Release Notes: A recent bug that prevents statifier from working on some 32 bit systems has been fixed.

02 Mar 20:27 Modoboa 0.7.1

Modoboa is a Web based application to create, administrate, and use virtual domain hosting platforms. Modoboa stores its data in a SQL backend (like MySQL or PostgreSQL). Using this database, you can integrate Modoboa with other mail components, such as Postfix or Dovecot.

Release Notes: A German translation has been added. Stats plugin bugs have been fixed. Javascript translations are now provided correctly.

02 Mar 20:26 WOAS (Wiki on a Stick) 0.10.6

"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: A syntax bug has been corrected.

02 Mar 20:22 Subversion Repository Search Engine 0.6.2 ...

Subversion Repository Search Engine (SupoSE) scans a whole Subversion repository and creates a searchable index. It will scan Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF files, and archives like .tar, .tar.gz, .jar, etc. in addition to all kinds of text-based data.

Release Notes: The size of the resulting index is now reduced and some problems with searching have been solved. A large number of bugs have been fixed. This is a release candidate and there may be new bugs.

02 Mar 20:19 JWhoisServer 0.3.2.0

JWhoisServer is a small, fast, and highly configurable RFC 3912 compliant whois server written in Java and using RDBMS as a storage engine. It supports INET lookups (IPv4 and IPv6) and IDN domain names handling).

Release Notes: IDN support and configurable server options have been added. Minor bugs have been fixed fixed and the documentation has been updated. Some JUnit tests have been implemented.

02 Mar 20:11 recoverjpeg 2.0

recoverjpeg tries to recover JFIF (JPEG) pictures from a peripheral. This may be useful if you mistakenly overwrite a partition or if a device such as a digital camera memory card is bogus.

Release Notes: Support for recovery of MOV as well as JPEG files has been added.

02 Mar 16:34 Zarafa 6.30.11

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: Some overall improvements were made. A small bug was fixed mainly in the Webaccess. The biggest change was the new feature of email headers in IMAP. The full email header is now received via IMAP.

02 Mar 16:31 snmpd-pyagentx 0.4

snmpd-pyagentx provides Python3 bindings for AgentX extension of the snmpd part of the Net-SNMP project. It allows you to tie into snmpd, returning your own values for OIDs or whole OID trees right from the Python code. It consists of a thin C interface for snmp_agent_api(3), provided by net-snmp project libraries, and pure Python logic for handling forwarded requests. The C code is loosely based on the python-agentx project codebase by Bozhin Zafirov.

Release Notes: The MIB interface was simplified. The build system was updated for FreeBSD compatibility. Bugs were fixed. Documentation was added.