October 2012
06 Oct 11:58
Zeitleiste 0.3
Zeitleiste is a time line program written for the German conworlders community. As such it has to be more flexible than similar history programs, which set their main focus on Earth. It could be helpful to authors in the phantastic genre in general. It features a fully customizable template, free date definitions, freeform party relations, freeform place relations, and freely definable event categories.
Release Notes: The database was changed from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Initial BBCode support was provided. Displayed events are now selectable by type.
06 Oct 10:01
StoryText 3.8
StoryText (formerly PyUseCase) is an unconventional GUI testing tool written in Python. It currently has mature support for PyGTK, beta status support for Java Swing, SWT/Eclipse RCP, and Tkinter, and very basic support for wxPython. Instead of recording GUI mechanics directly, it asks the user for descriptive names and hence builds up a "domain language" along with a "UI map file" that translates it into the current GUI layout. Instead of an "assertion" mechanism, it auto-generates a log of the GUI appearance and changes to it, so as to use that as a baseline for text-based testing, using e.g. TextTest. Instead of requiring the tester to add "wait" statements by hand, it includes support for instrumenting code so that "waits" can be recorded.
Release Notes: The NameChooser UI has been generalized and enhanced, offering a hierarchical view and the ability to create shortcuts. A retry loop was added for when replayed events fail, which means that some application events aren't needed. A new file polling mechanism was added for synchronising on external events. The ability to filter out certain widget types from the description was added. Many improvements were made to SWT/Eclipse RCP/GEF support, which continues to mature. Some improvements and fixes were also included for Swing. Support for PyGTK apps using gtk.Builder was added.
06 Oct 10:00
TextTest 3.24
TextTest is a tool for automatic text-based functional testing. This means running a batch-mode executable in lots of different ways from the command line, and using the text output produced as a means of controlling the behavior of that application.
Release Notes: This release added Jenkins integration in HTML reports, and direct linking to change and bugfix information. Alpha support was added for Condor. A third grid engine was provided in addition to GE and LSF (Condor works better on Windows). A new run_dependent_text syntax was provided for finding later matches in a file.
06 Oct 08:28
Devel Live CD 4.1-16
Devel Live CD includes a minimal toolchain from Fedora which makes it possible to compile the Linux kernel and other software. It has been created to compile programs for 4MLinux. There is no dependency tracking in 4MLinux, so this may be a useful tool for developers who are interested in building fully-customized Linux operating systems.
Release Notes: The release is based on 4MLinux 4.1 and Fedora 16 (x86/32-bit/smp). Revision control software (Git and SVN) has been added. The GNU build system (Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool) is included too.
06 Oct 07:40
sysstat 10.1.2
The sysstat package contains the sar, sadf, iostat, nfsiostat, cifsiostat, mpstat, and pidstat commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activites, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities, and TTY statistics, among others. The sadf command may be used to display data collected by sar in various formats. The iostat command reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The pidstat command reports statistics for Linux processes. The mpstat command reports global and per-processor statistics. The nfsiostat command reports I/O statistics for network filesystems. The cifsiostat command reports I/O statistics for CIFS filesystems.
Release Notes: A new field has been added to sar -u and mpstat: %gnice (time spent running a niced guest). A new field has been added to sar -r: kbdirty (amount of memory waiting to get written back to disk). Support has been added for the systemd service manager. The sysstat init script has been updated to make it better conform to the LSB.
06 Oct 04:40
irker 1.7
irked is an IRC client that runs as a daemon accepting notification requests as JSON objects presented to a listening socket. It is meant to be used by hook scripts in version-control repositories, allowing them to send commit notifications to project IRC channels. A hook script that works with git, hg, and svn is included in the distribution.
Release Notes: Optional metadata filtering with a user-specified command was added. irkerd code is now armored against IRC library errors in the delivery threads.
06 Oct 04:30
DeforaOS Panel 0.2.14
DeforaOS Panel manages panel windows for the desktop environment. It also supports smaller screen sizes and finger-based user interaction. It is extensible via a plug-in system, and provides a number of additional applets.
Release Notes: This release is the first to include manual pages for the binaries installed. An additional applet is available together with a helper binary, whose purpose is to host programs implementing the XEMBED protocol. Support for GTK+ 3.0, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X was also improved.
06 Oct 04:30
Vendetta Online 1.8.230
Vendetta Online is a multi-platform 3D space-combat MMO for Windows, Mac, Linux/32 and Linux/64. The game permits players to interact in a vast online galaxy; fighting, trading, and mining their way to success. A "twitch" type real-time combat model makes true player skill the deciding factor instead of character advancement. Massive capital-ship battles shake the foundations of the major nations at war, while others struggle to push back the encroachment of the AI "Hives". A no-strings free trial is available.
Release Notes: New icons for mission categories, and new visual effects for the Charged Cannon. The joystick calibration menu in the Mac version was fixed. A crash in the Android version when attempting to see which commands the accelerometer is bound to in the console was fixed.
06 Oct 02:33
XODA 0.5.0
XODA is a DMS (Document Management System) written in PHP and using AJAX. Without a database backend it allows the addition and editing of descriptions and filters for files and directories, as well as performing regular actions like copying, moving, renaming, and deleting. The project targets end users who want to organize all kinds of documents on a remote machine running a Unix-like operating system with Web server and PHP support. It is just a few files including compressed JavaScript, and stores the "meta-information" in PHP files allowing working on the command line and avoiding collisions.
Release Notes: Subscription to directories for receiving notifications on upload was introduced. This requires the setting of an email address as part of the user account. The subscription can be made over the Infobox of the particular directory.
06 Oct 02:32
FBReaderJ 1.6
FBReaderJ is an e-book reader for the Android platform. It is a clone of the FBReader book reader written in Java by the same authors. FBReaderJ supports several e-book formats: oeb, epub, and fb2. Direct reading from zip, tar, and gzip archives is supported.
Release Notes: MS Word (*.doc) format support was added. Library scanning speed was optimized. An issue with duplicate books was fixed. New Norwegian, Serbian, and Turkish localizations were added.
05 Oct 23:04
Highlight 3.12
Highlight is a universal converter from source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, LaTeX, SVG, BBCode, and terminal escape sequences. (X)HTML and SVG output are formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports more than 170 programming languages, and includes 80 highlighting color themes. The configuration files are Lua scripts with plug-in support. The converter includes some features to provide a consistent layout of the output code.
Release Notes: CSS class names may now be omitted in HTML output. Highlighting of string interpolation has been added. Dart and TypeScript are supported. The SWIG module example code has been fixed.
05 Oct 23:04
getID3() 1.9.4b1
getID3() is a PHP script that extracts useful information from MP3s and other multimedia file formats. It extracts information like the play time, bitrate, and resolution from the following file formats: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, AVI, Matroska (MKV), MPEG-1 video, Windows Media (ASF, WMA, WMV), RealAudio & RealVideo, Monkey's Audio, FLAC & OggFLAC, VQF, Speex, Musepack (MPC), AAC, AU, VOC, AIFF, OptimFROG, WavPack, LiteWave, LPAC, RKAU, SZIP, Shorten, Quicktime, NSV, MIDI, ZIP, ISO9660, TTA, PhotoCD, BMP, PNG, GIF, and JPEG. It parses information from ID3v1, ID3v2, Ogg Vorbis, Lyrics3 v1 & v2, RIFF (AVI, WAV, CDA, CART, BWF), APE, ReplayGain, PNG, and GIF tags, and can write ID3v1, ID3v2, APE2, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis tags.
Release Notes: This release improves Matroska parsing (including support for FLAC inside Matroska) and support for PHP5 standards.
05 Oct 23:03
(R)?ex 0.33.3
(R)?ex is a tool that allows you to manage all of your servers from a central point, through the complete process of configuration management and software deployment.
Release Notes: This release fixes logging problems under Windows and fixes the rename() function to allow rename/mv between partitions.
05 Oct 20:56
c++-gtk-utils 2.0.12
c++-gtk-utils is a lightweight library containing a number of classes and functions for programming GTK+ programs using C++ in POSIX environments where the user does not want to use a full-on wrapper such as gtkmm or wxWidgets. It provides classes for managing the lifetimes of GTK+ widgets and windows that will make GTK+ exception safe, functions to make single instance programs where restarting will bring up the existing instance, smart pointer classes for memory management, thread-safe signal/slot classes with automatic disconnection, classes for using std iostreams with files opened with Unix file descriptors, functions for connecting a callback object and a Unix file descriptor to the main loop with provision for automatic disconnection, classes and functions for inter-thread communication, some convenience pthread wrapper classes., a class encapsulating anonymous Unix pipes, a class to reassemble UTF-8 sent over pipes and sockets, and classes for printing Postscript files and plain text using the GTK+ print system.
Release Notes: A Cgu::Thread::TaskManager thread pool class has been added. The documentation has been improved.
05 Oct 20:56
jValidator 2.0
jValidator is a data quality firewall, i.e. middleware for the real time validation, management, and monitoring of data streams. If you need to implement or improve the validation process of your schemas, to populate a database through data streams of various formats and originating from many sources, to validate complex rules, and to monitoring the quality of your data, jValidator is the solution.
Release Notes: Stability and performance were priorities of this release, and many important features have also been implemented (including forecasting, triggers, and extracheck), but the most important news is that it's now possible to generate a data stream (like an ETL) from your db and is possible to validate the standard EDI streams.
05 Oct 20:54
JasperReports 4.7.1
JasperReports is a Java reporting library. XML report templates are used to generate ready to print documents using data from customizable data sources, including JDBC. The output can be delivered to the screen, printer, or stored in PDF, HTML, XLS, RTF, CSV, and XML format.
Release Notes: This release adds improved performance for the Javascript report compiler, new configuration properties to control table component interactivity, and many other bugfixes and improvements.
05 Oct 20:53
puddletag 1.0.1
puddletag is a tag editor for Linux loosely based on mp3tag. It uses a table layout so that all the tags you want to edit by hand are visible and easily editable. puddletag excels at automating repetitive tasks like extracting tag information from filenames, tagging files from a text file or the clipboard, renaming or moving files and folders based on tags by using patterns, and manipulating tags using actions and regular expressions. Supported formats include id3v1, id3v2 (.mp3), AAC (.m4a), VorbisComments (.ogg, .flac), and APEv2 (.ape). Much of mp3tag's functionality has been replicated with added enhancements and tweaks.
Release Notes: This release fixes issue 189, a puddletag.desktop file installation error with the .deb file, and a Python 2.6 incompatibility. The AcoustID tag source is not loaded now if the fpcalc binary is not found.
05 Oct 20:53
puddletag 1.0.0
puddletag is a tag editor for Linux loosely based on mp3tag. It uses a table layout so that all the tags you want to edit by hand are visible and easily editable. puddletag excels at automating repetitive tasks like extracting tag information from filenames, tagging files from a text file or the clipboard, renaming or moving files and folders based on tags by using patterns, and manipulating tags using actions and regular expressions. Supported formats include id3v1, id3v2 (.mp3), AAC (.m4a), VorbisComments (.ogg, .flac), and APEv2 (.ape). Much of mp3tag's functionality has been replicated with added enhancements and tweaks.
Release Notes: This release adds German and Russian translations, an updated .desktop file (as per issue 186), an updated icon, and options in the .desktop file which will make it possible to right-click in FM and open in puddletag. It fixes cutting tags, encoding for the genre field, filtering not working with filename fields like __filename, multiple files being selected in file-view and edited, and, when changing focus, the new cell being opened and remaining with the value as before after the change.
05 Oct 20:47
974 Application Server 13.1.0.6
974 Application Server helps with development of powerful Web applications emphasizing security and clustered load balancing which you can rapidly redistribute on the same cluster to other customers.
Release Notes: The kernel has been migrated to MySQL5, and there's a new design.
05 Oct 20:47
husk-scheme 3.5.7
husk is a dialect of Scheme written in Haskell that implements a subset of the R5RS standard. Advanced R5RS features are provided, including continuations, hygienic macros, and a full numeric tower.
Release Notes: The major change in this release is support for explicit renaming macros. This low-level macro system provides the ability to break macro hygiene, if necessary, and offers a macro system which is similar to "defmacro". In addition, all of the character functions from R5RS have been implemented.
05 Oct 20:45
Manitou-Mail 1.3.0
Manitou-Mail is a 3-part database-driven email system: a PostgreSQL database for the storage engine, a Perl daemon that does send/receive and customizable analysis/indexing of the mail, and a mailer-like user interface (C++/Qt) connected to the database. The general goal is to provide a database-style architecture to handle email, not just for storage but at the application level too. Fast and shared access, fine-tuned security, robust storage, consistent backups, auditing, statistics, and customized add-ons are possible.
Release Notes: Full text searching has been improved with accent-insensitive search, word exclusion, a smaller inverted word index, better integration of text extractors for attached files, and parallel re-indexing. It is also now possible to submit and control mailboxes imports from the user interface.
04 Oct 23:29
GStreamer 1.0.0
GStreamer is a streaming media framework that allows the construction of graphs of elements which operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing over playing video to capturing audio, video, and even other types of media data. Its architecture allows for adding new data types or processing capabilities simply by installing new plug-ins. GStreamer is the core module, containing libraries, headers, the basic object hierarchy, and a set of media-agnostic core elements.
Release Notes: This is a major new release of the GStreamer Multimedia framework. New features include more flexible memory handling, extensible and negotiable metadata for buffers, caps negotiation and renegotiation mechanisms decoupled from buffer allocation, improved caps renegotiation, automatic re-sending of state for dynamic pipelines, reworked and more fine-grained pad probing, simpler and more descriptive audio and video caps, more efficient allocation of buffers, events, and other mini objects, improved timestamp handling, and support for gobject-inspection language bindings.
04 Oct 22:36
FFmpeg 1.0
FFmpeg is a tool for converting audio, video, and subtitles. It includes libavcodec, the leading open source codec library. It also includes libavformat (implementing muxers and demuxers), libswscale (for very fast video scaling), and libavfilter (an advanced video filter system supporting arbitrary filter graphs), and libavutil (a utility library intended to supplement libc). A simple multimedia player is included too. An experimental streaming server for live broadcasts is also included.
Release Notes: This release contains many new features and bugfixes. 22 new filters, 6 new encoders, and 19 new decoders, along with support for many previously unsupported file formats and protocols. It can be compiled with a wider range of compilers than before.
04 Oct 22:35
CardDavMATE 0.9.8
CardDavMATE is a CardDav Web client with a powerful vCard editor. It is compatible with Safari/Mobile Safari, Webkit, Epiphany, iCab, Chrome, Firefox, and IE9, and supports the Davical, Mac OS X Lion, Oracle, SabreDav, and many other CardDav servers.
Release Notes: This release adds support for simultaneously loaded collections, background synchronization, and major improvements and fixes.
04 Oct 22:35
Liferea 1.8.9
Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is a fast, easy-to-use, and easy-to-install GTK/GNOME desktop news aggregator for online news feeds and Web logs. It supports the important syndication formats (Atom, RSS, and OPML). Liferea supports offline reading.
Release Notes: This is a minor bugfix release.
