3 March 2010
03 Mar 23:46
GZRBOT 0.2 BETA1
GZRBOT is a port of GOZERBOT to the Google Application Engine. It is there for its code and reuse of it is highly recommended. A script is available to clone gzrbot and rename it so you can run your own bot off the GZRBOT code. GZRBOT has a plugin system that lets you program your own plugin and provide you a way to add custom functionality to your bot. Both writing commands and reacting on events through callbacks is supported.
Release Notes: Updated to the new Active Wave API (v2). Uses subpubhubbub. Watch waves in Jabber. IRC <-> Wave relaying (in development).
03 Mar 23:37
phpMyAdmin 3.3.0-rc2
phpMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. It can create, rename, and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data, and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
Release Notes: The main new features are new import and export modules, changes tracking, synchronizing structure and data between servers, and replication support.
03 Mar 23:24
HyperSQL 1.9
HyperSQL is like the doxygen program with Javadoc added, but for SQL. It hypermaps SQL views, packages, procedures, and functions to HTML source code listings, and it shows all the code locations where these are used. You can use JavaDoc-style comments for documentation and even embed UnitTests with them.
Release Notes: The most important changes with this release are the added logging facility and the bugfix concerning JavaDoc for overloaded functions/procedures. Next to these, configuration processing was enhanced.
03 Mar 23:24
t-prot 2.95
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: The command line switch -c now accepts a quantifier for the number of tolerated empty lines in a row. Getopt::Mixed finally has been dropped and replaced by Getopt::Long.
03 Mar 23:20
mxGraph 1.3.1.1
mxGraph is a JavaScript library that uses built-in browser capabilities to provide an interactive drawing and diagramming solution. Target applications are Web based applications that require workflow/BPM, diagram, network, or general graph editing to be available in-place on a Web page.
Release Notes: This release adds a fallback to mxCellCodec in mxCodec.decodeCell in case no codec is found.
03 Mar 23:11
pybctc 0.1.2
pybctc is a Python package that makes access to British Columbia Transmission Corporation (BCTC) electric data easier. The British Columbia Transmission Corporation (BCTC) <http://www.bctc.com> is a crown corporation with a mandate to plan, build, and operate the province of British Columbia's electricity transmission system. It publishes valuable information on electricity generation, transmission, and consumption to its Website. This information is useful for many purposes including economic analysis, power trading, electric system study, and forecasting. The first step in using such information is to download it and parse it into useful data structures (a task performed by this library). The processed data normally will feed statistical methods, heuristics, and system models to provide a useful analysis of the British Columbia electric system.
Release Notes: Updated BCTC load URLs for February 2010.
03 Mar 23:09
Premake 4.2.1
Premake is a build configuration tool. Describe your C, C++, or C# software project using a simple, easy to read syntax and let Premake generate the project files for Visual Studio, GNU Make, Xcode, Code::Blocks, CodeLite, SharpDevelop, or MonoDevelop. Premake allows you to manage your project configuration in one place and still support different build systems. It allows you to generate project files for tools that you do not own. It saves the time that would otherwise be spent manually keeping several different toolsets in sync. And it provides an easy upgrade path as new versions of your favorite tools are released.
Release Notes: This release includes a handful of bugfixes, including an important fix to the new file pattern matching introduced in 4.2. There are also a few minor new features.
03 Mar 23:08
SQL Power DQguru 0.9.7
SQL Power DQguru is an easy-to-use data cleansing and de-duping tool. The user interface puts a strong emphasis on straightforward visualization of your data and processes. It will help you cleanse your data, validate and correct addresses, and identify and remove duplicate records. Thus, you can provide your business users with complete and accurate data, and a single view of each customer, product, sales rep, and business unit.
Release Notes: This release adds out-of-the-box support for connecting to SQL Server 2008, as well as a few minor bugfixes.
03 Mar 23:05
Xtra Screen Hacks 0.4
Xtra Screen Hacks is a collection of graphics display modes that are meant to be run with a daemon such as XScreenSaver. It includes eight hacks, the latest of which is "Psychedelic."
Release Notes: New hack: Soma. A bugfix in Berlin-Uhr.
03 Mar 14:53
Wolf Software WolfChat (Perl) 2.0.0
WolfChat (Perl) is a simple implementation of WolfChat. It was written purely as a challenge and demonstration of Perl socket code.
Release Notes: The basic functionality has not changed, but the internal code has had an almost complete rewrite. All socket code has been redone from scratch.
03 Mar 14:52
Wt 3.1.1
Wt is a C++ library for developing Web applications with an API that is widget-centric and inspired by existing C++ graphical user interface APIs. To the developer, it offers abstraction of Web-specific implementation details, increasing the accessibility and portability. Under the hood, the library uses the latest techniques (HTML5, Ajax, WebSockets) to handle user events and update the Web page.
Release Notes: The polished theme was improved and now covers all widgets. Two potential vulnerabilities (one related to XSS and one to UTF-8) were fixed. HTML 5 canvas text is used for browsers with support for it. MiniXML was replaced by RapidXML as the XML parser.
03 Mar 14:52
JWt 3.1.1
JWt (Java Web Toolkit) is a library for developing accessible and interactive Web applications with an API that is widget-centric and inspired by desktop GUI APIs. To the developer, it offers abstraction of Web-specific implementation details, including graceful degradation. Under the hood, the library uses the latest techniques when available to handle events and update the user interface.
Release Notes: The polished theme was improved and now covers all widgets. HTML 5 canvas text is used for browsers with support for it.
03 Mar 14:51
OO Pinyin Guide 0.0.7
OO Pinyin Guide is a Java extension for OpenOffice 3 or higher. It enables the user to add pinyin transliteration over Chinese characters inside a text document. This tool can be useful for people learning or teaching Chinese, and supports both simplified and traditional Chinese characters.
Release Notes: The code was updated to use the CEDICT dictionary from 2010-03-02. Rule-based pinyin conversion was added in jpinyinlookup to handle the special cases. A major resource path issue was fixed, which made it unable to find the dictionary files in Windows.
03 Mar 14:41
Figaro's Password Manager 2 0.78
Figaro's Password Manager 2 (FPM2) is a GTK2 port of Figaro's Password Manager, originally developed by John Conneely. It allows you to securely store your passwords, which are encrypted with the AES-256 algorithm. It allows you to copy passwords or usernames to the clipboard or primary selection. If a password is for a Web site, FPM can keep track of the URLs of your login screens and can automatically launch your browser. You can also teach FPM to launch other applications. FPM can sort your passwords into categories. Finally, it has a password generator that can help you choose good passwords.
Release Notes: A crash in the master password dialog after open keyfile was fixed. The toolbar button and menu entries that require a row to be selected are now disabled (grayed out) when no row is selected. MD5 and SHA-256 from GLib are used.
03 Mar 14:39
dvdtube 0.4.9
dvdtube is a Python script that will download all of a YouTube user's uploads and then optionally create a DVD from them. It's purely for educational purposes as a proof-of-concept.
Release Notes: This is a release candidate for version 0.5.0. It should support both regular (default) and dual-layer DVDs using the -d/--dual command line option. It should also separate videos into 120/240 minute collections. If no bug reports are received within the week, this will be released as version 0.5.0.
03 Mar 14:20
dl Download Ticket Service 0.6
dl is a file exchange service that allows you to upload any file to a Web server and generate a unique ticket for others to download. The ticket is automatically expired according to the specified rules, so that you don't need to keep track or cleanup afterward. dl also allows you to grant an anonymous, one-time upload for others to send you a file, without the requirement of account management. dl is usually installed as a replacement for email attachments due to its simplicity (though it can be used in other ways).
Release Notes: The preferred language is now kept across sessions. The DB expiration process can now be customized to improve performance for high volume sites. The email subject's encoding was fixed. The German translation was updated. Some PHP 5.3 warnings were removed.
03 Mar 14:19
Open Tax Solver 7.04
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: The look of the GUI front panel buttons was improved. Improvements were also made in the printouts for US1040 Schedules D and D1. The 2009 package is stable and ready for usage. It contains the US 1040 with Scheds A, B, C, and D, as well as State taxes for CA, NY, PA, NJ, OH, NC, VA, and MA.
03 Mar 14:18
Visifire 3.0.4 beta 2
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: Minor bugs were fixed.
03 Mar 14:14
sharktorrent 0.2.0.4
sharktorrent is a cross-platform BitTorrent client. It is written in C#, using the MonoTorrent library.
Release Notes: A quit button and details listview were added.
03 Mar 14:10
ikaaro 0.61.0
ikaaro is a content management system written with the Python programming language and using the itools library. Its features include content and document mangement (metadata, indexing and searching), multilingual user interfaces and content, and high level modules (wiki, forum, tracker).
Release Notes: The bundled jQuery has been updated from 1.3.2 to 1.4.2. Minor user interface improvements were made here and there. Sensible speed-up was done, mostly due to the optimizations to the database layer.
03 Mar 14:09
OpenOTP Radius Bridge 1.0.1
RCDevs OpenOTP Radius Bridge provides a RADIUS RFC-2865 (Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service) API for the OpenOTP Authentication Server. It is an optional server component to be deployed on top of your OpenOTP infrastructure. Radius Bridge is implemented over the powerful FreeRADIUS software. The RADIUS API interfaces with VPN servers and many other software applications requiring end-user authentication. The supported authentication schemes are based on One-Time Passwords technologies (OATH HOTP/TOTP or mOTP Software Tokens, SMS One-Time Passwords, and Mail / Secure Mail One-Time Passwords).
Release Notes: A problem when the RADIUS client sends a NAS-Identifier attribute was fixed.
03 Mar 14:08
kvpnc 0.9.5
KVpnc is a KDE frontend for various VPN clients. It supports Cisco VPN (vpnc, vpnclient (a proprietary client from Cisco)), IPSec (FreeS/WAN, Openswan, strongSwan, racoon), PPTP (pptpclient), OpenVPN, L2TP over IPSec (l2tpd, xl2ltpd, openl2tp) (usable with FreeS/WAN, Openswan, strongSwan, and racoon), Vtun, and OpenSSH. Smartcards will be supported within OpenVPN and strongSwan. vpnc is a replacement for the Cisco VPN client, and is used as a client for the Cisco3000 VPN Concentrator. FreeS/WAN, Openswan, and strongSwan are IPSec clients for Linux 2.4.x/2.6.x, and racoon is an IPSec client for Linux 2.6.x and *BSD. l2tpd, xl2tpd, and openl2tp are Linux L2TP VPN clients/servers.
Release Notes: This release fixes a lot of bugs. Its highly recommended to upgrade to this version. The 0.9.4 kde4 version contains some regressions which are corrected now.
03 Mar 14:07
itools 0.61.0
itools is a collection of Python libraries which provides a wide range of capabilities, including an abstraction over directory and file resources, a search engine, type marshallers, datatype schemas, i18n support, URI handlers, a Web programming interface, a workflow interface, and support for data formats such as (X)HTML, XML, iCalendar, RSS 2.0, and XLIFF.
Release Notes: The new itools.soup package provides a minimal wrapper around the libsoup library. The itools Web server has been rewritten to use this library; the result is better support for the HTTP protocol. Performance of the itools.handlers database system has been much improved.
03 Mar 09:27
HaveFnuBB 1.3.4
HaveFnuBB is bulletin board software with the goals of being fast, light, and fun. Its strength resides in the modules that you can add to extend its functionality.
Release Notes: This release introduces some new features for members and administrators of a forum. The rendering of the internal messaging and the installation process were improved. Countries can now be specified by their ISO code. RSS feeds are now available all around the forum. Members can now subscribe and unsubscribe to a thread and manage the subscriptions list from their profile page. Forum administrators can hide posts. The API has changed to follow all this new work.
03 Mar 09:22
VetTux 4.9
VetTux is a modern veterinary (animal) clinic management and POS system. It provides the veterinarian with a complete solution for running a clinic.
Release Notes: A debtors list was added to utilities. Receipt printer cash drawer kick switch is supported. Barcode label printing was added. A bug in Owner Debt/Credit report where month shown was incorrectly was fixed.
