December 2012
31 Dec 22:12
login_keepalived 1.2.1
login_keepalived is a daemon that keeps remote terminal (SSH) sessions alive, preventing them from being cut off by TCP timeouts. It can be run as a global daemon for all remote sessions, or in private mode for a single session.
Release Notes: A compile warning was fixed. The build system (autoconf) was updated. Documentation was improved. Source code is now on Github.
31 Dec 22:11
British bingo 1.23
British bingo runs in your browser and uses 3 by 9 boards. The game simulates the other players. Players make mistakes and chat. Players leave, join, and re-join between and during games. You can have over 10,000 players. You can hear the caller reading out the numbers.
Release Notes: You can now hear more of what is said after a player says 'line' or 'house'.
31 Dec 22:10
Template Data Interface (TDI) 0.9.9.6
Template Data Interface (TDI, /ʹtedɪ/) is a markup templating system written in Python with (optional but recommended) speedup code written in C. Unlike most templating systems, TDI does not invent its own language to provide functionality. Instead, you simply mark the nodes you want to manipulate within the template document. The template is parsed, and the marked nodes are presented to your Python code, where they can be modified in any way you want.
Release Notes: This release fixes an inconsistency between Python and C regarding separator counters, has improved documentation for separator methods, and has updated packaging to support the pip installer.
31 Dec 22:09
Synbak 2.0
Synbak is an application designed to unify several backup methods. It provides a powerful reporting system and a very simple interface for configuration files. It can make backups using rsync (via crypted ssh, rsync, SMB, and CIFS protocols), tar (tar, tar.gz, and tar.bz2) archives, tape (even using multi-loader changer tapes), MySQL databases, Oracle database, LDAP directories, CDR/CD-RW/DVR/DVD-RW, wget HTTP/FTP mirrors, and more. It can generate final reports via email, HTML pages, and RSS feeds. Developers can easily write new backup methods, reports, and translations.
Release Notes: This release changes synbak version numbering, implements the 'backup_shedule' function to automate and simplify the daily/weekly/monthly/yearly backups, adds "-E pr=100/noprompt" to the LDAP internal export command, adds support for lzo and xz compression to the tar method, rewrites the erase function to be more smart, and renames some variables.
31 Dec 22:08
Syndicate Press 1.0.20
Syndicate Press is a Wordpress plugin that lets you include RSS feeds directly in your Wordpress posts or pages. This plugin provides a very easy-to-use administration page and includes great features such as feed caching, filters, and multiple display options. The plugin is highly configurable and works with your site's theme and it does not force arbitrary formatting of the RSS feed contents.
Release Notes: This version includes a new short-code parameter that allows you to truncate an article title at a specific word. This is especially useful when working with affiliate product feeds and automated news feeds.
31 Dec 22:06
Devil-Linux 1.6.3
Devil-Linux is a special secure Linux distribution which is used for firewalls, routers, gateways, and servers. The goal of Devil-Linux is to have a small, customizable, and secure Linux system. Configuration is saved on a floppy disk or USB stick, and it has several optional packages. Devil-Linux boots from CD, but can be stored on CF cards or USB sticks.
Release Notes: This release brings many software updates in addition to support for being a file and backup server for Apple computers.
31 Dec 22:05
libHX 3.14.1
libHX is a C library (with some C++ bindings available) that provides data structures and functions that are commonly needed, such as maps, deques, linked lists, string formatting and autoresizing, option and config file parsing, type checking casts, and more.
Release Notes: The forward ordering of ordered maps has been restored.
31 Dec 22:04
cego 2.15.4
Cego implements a relational and transactional database system with support for the SQL query language. The current release contains the most common database features for basic table manipulation and data retrieval. Indexes, foreign keys, views, and stored procedures are also implemented. Future releases (2.0 and above) will support a multi-node database concept with log file shipping for an automatic database application failover.
Release Notes: Fixes for the external sync command.
31 Dec 22:04
Fluxbox 1.3.3
Fluxbox is a lightweight and highly configurable window manager with pwm-like tabs.
Release Notes: Minor bugfixes and features: percentage values for resize methods, an 'OnTab' modifier, simpler FbTk::TextureRenderer code, and use of a monotonic clock for leap seconds immunity.
31 Dec 22:03
Fireworkx 2.2
Fireworkx is a pyrotechnic fireworks blast simulation that explodes in Xlib, SDL, and SVGAlib atmospheres. It blasts fiercely with SSE2 optimizations and automatically with Xscreensaver.
Release Notes: This is almost an entire rewrite of the last version (7 years old) with SSE optimization, colored light flashes, HSV color, and many visual and speed improvements.
31 Dec 22:00
liblfds 6.1.0
liblfds is a portable, lock-free data structure library. It supports Windows (user-mode and kernel-mode) and Linux (user-mode) on x86, x64, and ARM, under a variety of toolchains. Currently, the library contains a freelist, queue, ringbuffer, singly linked list (logical delete only), and a stack. The home page contains a blog, bugzilla, forum, and wiki. The wiki contains comprehensive documentation for development, building, testing, and porting. There is no license. You are free to use this code in any way.
Release Notes: This is a long overdue maintenance release. It fixes all bugs, but has almost no new or improved functionality.
31 Dec 21:59
CCruncher 2.1
CCruncher is a project for the simulation of large portfolios of SME loans where the unique risk is the default risk. The method used to determine the distribution of losses in the portfolio is the Monte Carlo algorithm, because it allows you to consider multiple variables, such as the date and amount of each payment. The obligors' default times are simulated using a copula with given survival rates and correlations.
Release Notes: This release improves simulation accuracy, makes some minor changes to the input file format, and adds a new graphic interface. This UI allows editing the input files, submitting Monte Carlo simulations, and conducting credit risk analysis.
31 Dec 21:58
qx11grab 0.4.6
QX11Grab is a system tray applet for X11 desktop environments that uses FFmpeg to recording X11 Desktops and Windows. This Application tapping window dimensions with xevent and prepare the command line for ffmpeg with configuration options. It sends the generated parameter list to a new FFmpeg process. QX11Grab is not the recording software; it prepares all commands for FFmpeg. Features: support for tapping dimensions on single/multi and Xinerama desktops; a metadata input formula; audio/video CODEC table editors with context menus and predefined arguments; a custom command table editor for experts; command line preview for better understanding FFmpeg option sets; a configurable audio capture interface for ALSA/Pulse and OSS devices; bookmark support for better switching of configuration to other CODEC sets; a presets editor for ffpresets; and command line shell script export. QX11Grab also implies a plugin interface for FFmpeg codec filters. Filter Plugins: a drawing text filter dialog; an un/sharpen filter dialog; a Display Aspect Ratio (DAR) dialog; a watermark filter dialog; and a fade (in/out) filter dialog.
Release Notes: This release fixes invalid regular expressions replacement with libfdk-aac predicate -afterburner.
31 Dec 21:57
Piggydb 6.6
Piggydb is a flexible and scalable knowledge building platform that supports a heuristic or bottom-up approach to discover new concepts or ideas based on your input. You can begin with using it as a flexible outliner, diary or notebook, and as your database grows, Piggydb helps you to shape or elaborate your own knowledge. Piggydb is a Web application provided as a self-contained package that contains a Web server and database engine.
Release Notes: This release adds Fragment Shuffle. A shuffle button has been added to Fragments View, allowing you to shuffle the fragments that match the criteria of the View.
31 Dec 21:57
Profanity 0.1.10
Profanity is a minimalist console-based XMPP client inspired by Irssi. It features desktop notifications, typing notifications, chat logging, a customizable UI, and support for sending tinyurls.
Release Notes: This version has many new features, including multi-user chat (chat rooms and private messaging), support for sending chat states (active, inactive, gone, and composing), subscription management, local account management, support for user-defined color themes, connection management (auto reconnect and ping options), presence priority, auto away/idle options, and many other usability enhancements and bugfixes.
31 Dec 21:55
QuickBuild 5.0
QuickBuild is a continuous integration and release management server, acting as the central place to produce, test, deploy, and release software builds. It is designed to guard the health of your project by preventing broken builds, and to improve your build delivery process by pushing builds through a customizable pipeline (for example, dev->QA->release) with related information connected such as resolved issues and relevant SCM changes.
Release Notes: This release launches the build agent on demand into Amazon EC2. A build pipeline to visualize the commits lifecycle across different build and deployment stages. Optionally stores artifacts of configuration sub tree to specified build agents to reduce server load. Grid and server metric collection and trending. Alert definition and notification for key performance indicators.
31 Dec 21:52
cdialog 1.2-20121230
Dialog allows you to present a variety of questions or display messages using dialog boxes from a shell script. Several types of dialog boxes are implemented including: calendar, checklist, file-selection, gauge, info, input, menu, message, radiolist, tailbox, text, time, yes/no.
Release Notes: This release adds buildlist, rangebox, and treeview dialogs, like Xdialog It adds other options for Xdialog and whiptail compatibility. There are several bugfixes.
31 Dec 21:51
XMLStarlet 1.4.2
XMLStarlet is a set of command line XML utilities which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using a simple set of shell commands, similar to the way it is done for plain text files using grep/sed/awk/tr/diff/patch.
Release Notes: This release fixes a crash in the pyx subcommand that occurred when it handled nodes with multiple attributes.
30 Dec 22:23
GeoToad 3.16.3
GeoToad is a geocaching query tool to help speed up the boring part of geocaching: choosing the cache and collecting the data. It allows you to generate any kind of complex query you want, and the program will go and poll the Geocaching query, grab the data, and output it to any format you want. The Geocache info can be synced straight to your GPS, iPod, PDA, or cell phone in over 20 different formats.
Release Notes: After some changes to the server, parsing of cache logs no longer worked. This bugfix release cures the issue, and irons out some minor quirks (log-less caches and whole countries).
30 Dec 19:36
CVSps 3.3
CVSps collects changesets from CVS repositories. It can be used either by humans to inspect changesets or as an exporter from CVS to other version control systems (it can be told to emit a fast-export stream to standard output).
Release Notes: There's a new -A option that does author-name mapping in the expected way. There's a new -R option that writes out a revision map. cvsps run from within a repository directory will do the right thing. A bug that could garble translations of branchy repositories has been fixed.
30 Dec 19:34
LanguageTool 2.0
LanguageTool is a style and grammar checker that currently supports English, Polish, German, French, Dutch, and other languages to a different degree. It scans the words and their part-of-speech tags for occurrences of error patterns, which are defined in an XML file. More powerful error rules can be written in Java. LanguageTool should be used after the spelling of a text has been corrected.
Release Notes: Many updates for the error detection rules for English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Breton, Catalan, Esperanto, and Ukrainian have been added. The embedded HTTP server can now be started from the context menu if LanguageTool is running in the system tray. Some small bugs have been fixed.
30 Dec 19:34
reposurgeon 2.11
reposurgeon is a tool for editing version control repository history. It enables risky operations that version control systems don't want to let you do, such as editing past comments and metadata and removing commits. It works with any version control system that can export and import git fast-import streams, including git, hg, and bzr. It can also read Subversion dump files directly and can thus be used to script production of very high-quality conversions from Subversion to any supported DVCS.
Release Notes: Support for reading RCS repositories.
30 Dec 19:33
giflib 5.0.3
giflib is a library for rendering and generating GIF image files. This is the GIF service code in C used for over two decades by graphics applications, Web browsers, game consoles, ATMs, and pretty much anything else that throws pixels on a display. It is simple, stable, and bulletproof.
Release Notes: A trivial fix to manual page installation.
30 Dec 19:32
Toorox 01.2013 "KDE"
Toorox is a Linux live DVD based on Gentoo which starts as bootable media using KNOPPIX technology. It is designed for ease of use, with a simple control center and a hard disk installer. It contains many applications and uses KDE, GNOME, or XFCE as a working environment. A live USB pen drive image maker is also present on the desktop. It is multi-lingual and contains the unstable branch of Gentoo (x86 and amd64).
Release Notes: This release contains Linux kernel 3.7.1. KDE has been updated to version 4.9.4. It also contains XorgServer 1.13.0, Mesa 9.0.1, LibreOffice 3.6.4.3, VLC 2.0.5, Chromium 24.0.1312.45, and Wine 1.5.20. This release makes use of UUIDs instead of device names in the fstab file. A ramdisk (initramfs) will now be built during the hard disk installation process.
30 Dec 19:29
Movgrab 1.1.15
Movgrab is a command-line movie downloader for sites like YouTube. It has no dependencies; everything that's needed should be there in the tar.gz package. Movgrab can connect through an HTTP proxy, can output the download to stdout for piping into another program, and can fork into the background to free up the console. When forked into the background, its progress can still be seen in a ps list.
Release Notes: This release adds a basic 'ETA' meter (bounces around a lot depending on download speed). It fixes 'dailymotion' titles/filenames. It adds support for 'google video search' URLs.
