3 September 2010

03 Sep 22:59 Talend Open Studio for Data Quality 4.0.3

Talend Open Studio for Data Quality helps you to profile your data. The ergonomic interface allows you to define metrics (indicators) and collect statistics on your data in a few clicks. It comes with a set of regular expressions that helps you to identify bad data. You can create your own regular expressions and use them in data profiling analyses. A lot of options exist for each indicator, which change the behavior of the indicator so that it gives you more pertinent information. Data quality options on indicators alert you when your data quality is not what you expected.

Release Notes: 11 bugs have been fixed.

03 Sep 22:59 Talend Open Studio for Data Integration 4.0.3

Talend Open Studio for Data Integration is an ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tool. Talend Open Studio for Data Integration can perform jobs that range from datawarehouse feeding to database synchronization, as well as file format transformations. Its graphical interface is made with Eclipse RCP, and data related scripts are generated in Perl or Java. The application was designed to be extended with components written by users.

Release Notes: 35 bugs have been fixed.

03 Sep 22:59 Octopussy 0.9.9.9.9

Octopussy is a solution to manage your logs (also frequently called a SIM/SEM/SIEM Solution). Basically, it stores your logs, produces reports, and raises alerts.

Release Notes: User management has been improved. The test suite has huge updates. Many bugs have been fixed. Installation on Linux systems other than Debian has been improved.

03 Sep 22:57 Alpine Linux 2.0.1

Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for x86 routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes, and servers. It has proactive security features like PaX and SSP, which prevent security holes in the software from being exploited. It is based on uClibc and Busybox.

Release Notes: This is a bugfix release. It includes fixes for booting on Soekris 4801 boards, a libc fix for getprotobyname(3), kernel security fixes (even if those were not really exploitable due to PaX), and a fix for booting the alpine-vserver ISO.

03 Sep 22:56 BSW IRC Proxy 0.9

BSW IRC Proxy translates the chat aspect of the proprietary binary protocol used in the Java client for the online gaming portal BrettSpielWelt.de to the standardized features of IRC (RFC 1459, 2810, 2811, particularly 2812, and 2813). It keeps a persistent connection to the client, server, and IRC client, in case one of them should vanish.

Release Notes: This release compiles on x86/glibc 2.7 (Debian lenny GNU/Linux). It fixes a toupper loop that caused a segfault. -L can be used to specify the address to listen on instead of the default 0.0.0.0.

03 Sep 22:55 LibPKI 0.5.1

The LibPKI Project is aimed to provide an easy-to-use PKI library for PKI-enabled application development. The library provides the developer with all the needed functionality to manage certificates, from generation to validation. It helps developers integrate X509 digital certificates into their applications, and implement complex cryptographic operations with a few simple function calls using a high-level cryptographic API. The library constitutes the core of other OpenCA Labs Projects like the PRQP Server, the OCSP Responder, and the OpenCA-NG PKI.

Release Notes: This release adds support for different operating systems (initial support for Win port), PKI_SSL and support for easy SSL/TLS management, support for the Win LDAP API, support for 64-bit architectures, safe URL encoding for the HTTP GET protocol, and platform-independent thread management together with thread synchronization primitives (mutexes, condition variables, and r/w locks). There are LDAP interface fixes.

03 Sep 22:52 S3QL 0.23

S3QL is a file system that stores all its data online. It supports Amazon S3 as well as arbitrary SFTP servers and effectively provides you with a hard disk of dynamic, infinite capacity that can be accessed from any computer with Internet access. S3QL provides a standard, full featured Unix file system that is conceptually indistinguishable from any local file system. Furthermore, S3QL has additional features like compression, encryption, data de-duplication, immutable trees, and snapshotting, which make it especially suitable for online backup and archiving. S3QL is designed to favor simplicity and elegance over performance and feature-creep. Care has been taken to make the source code as readable and serviceable as possible. Solid error detection and error handling have been included from the very first line, and S3QL comes with extensive automated test cases for all its components.

Release Notes: This release fixes a problem with the setup script not copying all the required files ("global_lock.py" was omitted). Otherwise it is identical to release 0.22.

03 Sep 22:43 Zaz 1.0

Zaz is an arcade action puzzle game where the objective is to get rid of all incoming balls by rearranging their order. Currently it includes 20 different levels and two modes of gameplay. The engine allows for easy custom level creation with unlimited number of paths, different speeds, ball-sizes, and rules. A 3D accelerator is needed for decent gameplay.

Release Notes: This release adds a splash screen and a --disable-splash configure option. The music volume option is honored in the main menu. A disable speed-up option has been added. Saving of profile after changes in options has been fixed. Mouse glitches have been fixed. There are 23 levels in total. Detection of the default language in Win32 has been fixed.

03 Sep 22:41 lftp 4.0.10

lftp is a sophisticated command line based file transfer program. Supported protocols include FTP, HTTP, SFTP, and FISH. It has a multithreaded design allowing you to issue and execute multiple commands simultaneously or in the background. It also features mirroring capabilities and will reconnect and continue transfers in the event of a disconnection. Also, if you quit the program while transfers are still in progress, it will switch to nohup mode and finish the transfers in the background. Additional protocols supported: FTP over HTTP proxy, HTTPS and FTP over SSL, BitTorrent protocol. IPv6 is fully supported. There are lots of tunable parameters, including rate limitation, number of connections limitation and more.

Release Notes: Changes since 4.0.5 mostly include minor bugfixes. 4.0.6 had a security fix (for CVE-2010-2251, aka oCERT's "#2010-001 multiple HTTP client unexpected download filename").

03 Sep 22:40 AfterLogic WebMail Lite PHP 5.0

AfterLogic WebMail Lite PHP is a Webmail script with a modern AJAX interface. It supports POP3/IMAP accounts, SMTP, and SSL (including Gmail). Users can check and send mail and use an address book. Skins, a 3-pane view, non-English languages (including right-to-left Arabic and Hebrew), UTF-8 and other charsets, IMAP folders, and view and compose HTML mail. MS SQL/MySQL backends are supported, as well as multiple mail accounts and domains, Web-based administration and installation, and cPanel integration.

Release Notes: This release has been rewritten from the ground up. It has a new user interface, improved performance, mail folders, IMAP support, an address book (contacts and groups), a rich text editor with spell check, personal user settings, the ability to store mail in a database, mail filters and search, an installation wizard, and cPanel integration.

03 Sep 22:37 VariCAD 2010 3.0

VariCAD is a 3D/2D CAD system for mechanical engineering. In addition to standard tools for 3D modeling and 2D drafting, the CAD system provides tools for sheet metal unbending and crash tests, libraries of standard mechanical parts (ANSI, DIN) and symbols, mechanical part calculations, and tools for working with bills of materials (BOMs) and title blocks. VariCAD supports STEP, STL, IGES, DWG, and DXF file formats.

Release Notes: This release brings substantial improvements in STEP file import and includes a number of minor improvements.

03 Sep 22:36 Wolf Software Web Fingerprint Class 1.0.1

The Web Fingerprint Class creates as unique a fingerprint as possible for a Web browser. A HMAC digest function is also added for use with Web security products.

Release Notes: Minor code change and cleanup.

03 Sep 22:36 stnn 2

stnn is a neural network system that includes a back propagation network, which can learn input target patterns. It can be trained to match patterns such as letters and fingerprints.

Release Notes: This release has been made for Squeak version 4.1.

03 Sep 22:35 Wolf Software Vault Class 1.1.1

Vault is a PHP class for implementing security and encryption. It was designed and built for use in the Vault product range (Message Vault and Password Vault), but has been released in its own right for others to benefit from. It uses a combination of symmetric and asymmetric encryption including SSL (2048), SHA256, SHA512, and ASE256. It also features randomly generated salts and key verification.

Release Notes: Minor code changes and cleanup.

03 Sep 22:34 GoAccess 0.3.1

GoAccess is a real-time Web log analyzer and interactive viewer for the Apache Web server. It runs in a terminal and provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require log monitoring and visual reports on the fly. GoAccess can monitor unique visitors, browsers, spiders, OS, hosts and IP geolocation, keyphrases, referring sites, status codes, etc. It parses both Apache log formats, the Common Log Format and the Combined Log Format.

Release Notes: Due to the difference of gamma correction on some monitors, a color scheme implementation was added.

03 Sep 22:34 drkhtb 0.1.1

The drkhtb project was designed with medium to major Internet Service Providers in mind. Featuring extended hashing support, error handling, and simple configuration options, it has proven to be a stable solution for shaping up to 15000 residential clients with both upload and download rules, it is considered stable and is already in use as a production platform in at least one major ISP running 4 shaping bridges, each handling up to 2 Gbit/s, with a total of 48000 active clients and over 60000 filter rules in each direction. At this point there is no reason to believe that further bandwidth cannot be handled by one bridge, but there have not been sufficient resources to extensively test it. It is believed that up to 4 Gbit/s can be shaped on one individual machine serving at least 20000 clients.

Release Notes: This release fixes a syntax error that prevented the generator from working with some versions of tc.

03 Sep 22:32 GUIShell 3.10

The GUIShell project is a collection of utilities facilitating the use of the GTK+ toolkit in shell scripts through the gtkshell utility. The ACE configuration environment provides sample scripts utilizing gtkshell for desktop utilities. rootcat provides the ability to display messages to the root window using Xft, allowing one to write status display scripts.

Release Notes: Various code cleanups and bugfixes have been committed. gtkshell can now make use of the current icon theme for specified icon lookup. gshterm, based on VTE, is now a tabbed terminal. A toolbar providing mnemonics for tab operations has been added to the terminal widget. Command line usage is now generated automatically on invalid options. A new deskbar utility was added to ACE. ACE now looks up a system default value for a configuration key when a key has been marked as undefined before attempting to prompt the user.

03 Sep 11:53 Wolf Software Mysqli PHP Class 1.2.1

The MySQLi PHP class is a class that extends MySQLi. It has built in error handling and simplifies the use of MySQLi. The use of place holders within the PHP/SQL means that SQL injection is now a thing of the past.

Release Notes: Minor code changes and clean up were done.

03 Sep 11:52 Wolf Software IP PHP Class 1.2.1

The IP PHP Class provides a comprehensive set of functions for handling and manipulating IP addresses (IPv4 only). It includes creation, validation, block information, and checking of IP addresses within CIDR blocks.

Release Notes: This is a minor code update and clean up.

03 Sep 11:52 Wolf Software Mcrypt PHP Class 1.2.1

Mcrypt is a simple PHP class that provides functions for handling mcrypt encryption and decryption.

Release Notes: This is a minor code update and clean up.

03 Sep 11:44 Bordeaux 2.0.8

Bordeaux is a Wine GUI configuration manager that runs winelib applications. It also supports installation of third party utilities, installation of applications and games, and the ability to use custom configurations.

Release Notes: This version bundles Wine 1.2, has many fixes for Steam, and adds support for IrfanView 4.27, VLC 1.1.0, Google SketchUp 7.1, and FireFox 3.6.8 with multimedia plug ins. IrfanView plugins are also installed. Internet Explorer 7 support was improved. Issues in the Bordeaux UI and Cellar Manager were fixed. The latest DIB Engine patch was applied and the latest Winetricks release is used.

03 Sep 11:38 PAC 2.4.1.2

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: All "Hidden" (and "Password") fields are now encrypted with Crypt::CBC and Crypt::Blowfish in the configuration file. An entry was added to the tray menu to start a "Local Shell". A minor bug regarding the "Cluster" window was fixed.

03 Sep 11:37 TCExam 11.0.014

TCExam is Web-based assessment software for generating and managing online tests and exams. It simplifies the exam cycle, including generation, execution, evaluation, presentation, and archiving.

Release Notes: This version includes an updated version of the TCPDF library.

03 Sep 11:36 BitNami Alfresco Stack 3.3g-0

BitNami Alfresco Stack is an easy-to-install distribution of the KnowledgeTree ECM software. It includes pre-configured, ready-to-run versions of Apache Tomcat, Java, MySQL, ImageMagick, and OpenOffice (optional), so users can get an Alfresco installation up and running in minutes after answering a few questions. Linux and Windows are currently supported.

Release Notes: Installation on Windows was fixed.

03 Sep 07:21 poker-eval 138.0

poker-eval is a C library to evaluate poker hands. The result of the evaluation for a given hand is a number. The general idea is that if the evalution of your hand is lower than the evaluation of the hand of your opponent, you lose. Many poker variants are supported (Draw, Holdem, Omaha, etc.) and more can be added. It is designed for speed so that it can be used within poker simulation software using either exhaustive exploration or Monte Carlo.

Release Notes: Minor bug fixes and packaging adjustments were made.