July 2012
Aspose.Slides is a .NET component to read, write, and modify a PowerPoint document without using MS PowerPoint. It supports files from PowerPoint versions from 97-2007 and all three PowerPoint formats: PPT, POT, and PPS. It lets you create, access, copy, clone, edit, and delete slides in your presentations. It can save PowerPoint slides into PDF format and also save presentations in SVG format, Streams or Images.
Release Notes: This release is primarily a maintenance release. It is now possible to add a secondary Y-axis to charts. The feature that lets you get the updated thumbnail of a presentation in Windows Explorer once updated was updated. Presentation rendering support and export to PDF were improved. Some presentation access issues have also been addressed, and some modifications were made to chart support. Chart in exported PDFs, bullet-to-text spacing, missing slide text, and arrow rendering were fixed.
CyDoc is a Web-based doctor's office application. It allows you to track your patients' medical history and handles all your billing needs.
Release Notes: A major bug that broke creation of new treatments for patients was fixed. A problem where VESR files failed to import if a referenced invoice was invalid was fixed along with an issue where the booking view was empty.
FSVS is the abbreviation for "Fast System VerSioning", and is pronounced [fisvis]. It is used for backing up, restoring, versioning, and system configuration management, using a Subversion repository as the backend.
Release Notes: A bug where auto-props were not applied for explicitly specified commit targets was fixed.
mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split Matroska media files. Supported video stream types include streams from AVIs, Ogg/OGM, RealVideo, MP4 files, and MPEG program streams as well as verious elementary streams (h264/AVC, MPEG1/2, VC1, Dirac). Supported audio formats include AAC, (E)AC3, DTS/DTS-HD, FLAC, MP2, MP3, RealAudio, and Vorbis. Several subtitle formats are supported, including SRT, SSA, ASS, VobSub, and many others.
Release Notes: In MP4/QuickTime files, an issue with "constant sample size, variable duration not supported" has been fixed. Excessive CPU usage has been fixed. Other bugs were fixed.
Partclone provide utilities for backing up used blocks and is designed for higher compatibility with the file system by using libraries like e2fslibs. Currently supported filesystems are EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, Reiserfs, Reiser4, XFS, NTFS, FAT, HFS+, UFS, JFS, VMFS, and Btrfs.
Release Notes: This version added exFAT file system support for both backups and restores. Used blocks and total blocks are now shown when cloning and restoring.
FXiTe is an advanced cross-platform text editor built with the Fox GUI toolkit and the FXScintilla text widget. It features built-in syntax highlighting for 40+ languages, an embedded Lua scripting engine, macro recording and playback, multi-line regular expression search and replace, rudimentary ctags and calltip support, a flexible interface to external tools, and a built-in "message window" to capture the output of external commands such as compiler error messages, etc.
Release Notes: An auto-complete feature was added. The right-click "popup" menu can be customized. Scintilla was updated to 3.2.0, and Lua to 5.1.5. A few minor and/or obscure problems were fixed.
The eobjects.org MetaModel is a project created for maximum reuse of a SQL-compliant domain model of the database domain. The MetaModel is a model that contains classes that represent the structure of a database (schemas, tables, column, relationships) and interaction with the database (queries) in a SQL/LINQ-like way. In short, it is a model for modelling data in databases and other datastores. With MetaModel you can query different datastores like databases, CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, MS Access files, and XML files using the same approach and the same domain model.
Release Notes: This release provided full support for CRUD operations on JDBC databases, CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, and NoSQL stores. CREATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, UPDATE, and DELETE FROM operations were added. Support for LIST and MAP column types (common in NoSQL stores) was added. Awareness of primary key columns was implemented (especially useful for UPDATE operations). Support for plain Java collections as datastores (LINQ style) was added. Full support for CouchDB databases was provided. Several maturing improvements were made in the API's syntax and semantics.
zrep provides an easy-to-use program to manage zfs filesystem replication and failover. No configuration files are required. The program is developed under Solaris, but may work with any up to date zfs implementation. The executable is a single script. Initialization does a full data copy, but subsequent syncs are incrementals. It uses internal locking to make sure there is no danger of overlap if you just shove it in cron to run every minute. Design target is more "near-time replication", since the sync can be run every minute or more. However, it could conceivably be used for "backup" purposes as well.
Release Notes: This release adds a fix for Solaris 11 to not be viewed as "older version of zfs".
Kwatee Agile Deployment is a lightweight automated server software deployment tool targeted at Independent Software Vendors and Cloud Service Providers. Designed for the flexible needs of agile teams, Kwatee installs or updates PHP sites, Java Web apps, Windows services, n-tier applications, etc. in your local network or in the cloud and on virtually any operating system. It shortens software update delivery projects by an order of magnitude but also benefits developers, testers, and technical support in their daily activities.
Release Notes: This release fixes a port=0 issue with manual server pools and adds support for long filenames in tar archives. Kwatee can run with Jetty server as an alternative to tomcat.
asyncoro is a Python framework for concurrent distributed network programming with asynchronous completions and coroutines. Asynchronous completions implemented in asyncoro are socket I/O operations (non-blocking sockets), database cursors, sleep timers, and locking primitives. Programs developed with asyncoro have the same logic and structure as Python programs with threads, except for a few syntactic changes. It supports socket I/O notification mechanisms epoll, kqueue, /dev/poll (and poll and select, where necessary), and Windows I/O Completion Ports (IOCP) for high performance and scalability, and SSL for security. asyncoro features include remote execution of coroutines, coroutines monitoring other coroutines, coroutines communicating with messages, message channels etc., for concurrent, distributed, fault-tolerant programming.
Release Notes: This release improves support for distributed coroutines, channels, and monitoring coroutines, and adds examples to illustrate some of the features.
phalanx computes a digest of many buffers simultaneously, and produces a combined hash of them all. It is an initiative to provide a fast, simple, and portable alternative method to compute a checksum in a parallel fashion. It has options for I/O buffer size, hash width, number of threads, and more. It can be run single-threadedly for performance comparisons. It can check files against previously-saved sums, like "MD5sum" does. It also has a "demo" mode, to ascertain accurate operation. It is intended to be useful on large files and multicore/multiprocessor/multithreaded environments.
Release Notes: This release enhances the "demo" test mode to work with bigger files (~50-100MB), providing additional performance information.
KDE-Services extends the features of Dolphin's right click menu in the KDE graphical environment. It allows you to play and convert between several video formats, extract audio from movies and convert them to MP3, convert audio to MP3, securely send a file or directory to Mailx as an email, send files to Thunderbird as attachments, burn and checksum ISO images, execute scripts and applications, get low-level information on video files, build ISO images from folders, replace text, search, SSH, use Midnight Commander, use system, network, and backup/restore tools, use Samba, extract subtitles from MKV video, multiplex subtitles into MPEG-2 videos, and work with YouTube, DVDs, multimedia, GPG. You can add a timestamp prefix to a filename or directory name. A paranoid shredder, an HTTP publisher, graphic tools, and package tools are included.
Release Notes: This release adds a bugfix for the GNOME Desktop and a reorganization for all services toward a "KDE-Services" submenu on "Application Launcher Menu".
HPCC (High Performance Computing Cluster) stores and processes large quantities of data, processing billions of records per second using massive parallel processing technology. Large amounts of data across disparate data sources can be accessed, analyzed, and manipulated in fractions of seconds. HPCC functions as both a processing and a distributed data storage environment capable of analyzing terabytes of information.
Release Notes: This release includes updates and enhancements from the prior version. The new ECL Playground allows you to access and execute self-contained ECL code on your HPCC system without the use of any other tools. New Memory management provides significant performance improvements when sorting variable-length records. An updated set of Client Tools includes compatibility for Mac. The latest HPCC VM Image is also included.
SecureCRT provides terminal emulation with secure remote access, file transfer (SFTP and X/Y/Zmodem), and data tunneling. Supported access protocols are SSH 1 and 2, telnet, telnet/SSL, and serial. It has emulation support for VT100/102/220, ANSI, SCO ANSI, Wyse 50/60, Xterm, and Linux consoles. It provides session management and tabbed sessions in one or more windows. The program is fully scriptable via VBScript, JScript, PerlScript, or Python.
Release Notes: This release adds tiled sessions on the Windows platform for easy viewing of multiple sessions. On all platforms, a built-in TFTP server provides an additional option for file transfers. Connect dialog performance has been significantly improved. Changed passwords are automatically updated in the Mac OS X Keychain. It's now possible to skip authentication methods such as PublicKey and GSSAPI which might not be supported or configured on some systems. Enhancements have been made to mapped buttons and keys.
Bcfg2 helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks. It is based on an operational model in which the specification can be used to validate and optionally change the state of clients, but in a feature unique to bcfg2 the client's response to the specification can also be used to assess the completeness of the specification. Using this feature, bcfg2 provides an objective measure of how good a job an administrator has done in specifying the configuration of client systems. Bcfg2 is therefore built to help administrators construct an accurate, comprehensive specification. Bcfg2 has been designed from the ground up to support gentle reconciliation between the specification and current client states. It is designed to gracefully cope with manual system modifications. Bcfg2 can also enable the construction of complex change management and deployment strategies.
Release Notes: This is primarily a bugfix release, including a fix for a major security hole in the Trigger plugin which could allow an attacker who had gained root access to a Bcfg2 client to gain access to your Bcfg2 server by using a malformed UUID (CVE-2012-3366). It is recommended that everyone update to 1.2.3 immediately, or disable the Trigger plugin.
Giada is a minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs and live performers. Load or record up to 32 samples, choose to play them in single mode (drum machine) or loop mode (sequencer), and start the show with your computer keyboard as a controller.
Release Notes: This release fixes several bugs and marks the end of the 0.4 series.
nedtries is a portable in-place bitwise binary Fredkin trie algorithm that allows for near constant time insertions, deletions, finds, closest fit finds, and iteration. It is approximately 50-100% faster than red-black trees and up to 20% faster than O(1) hash tables. It provides implementations as C macros, C++ templates, and as a C++ STL compatible associative container.
Release Notes: This release fixes three major bugs since 1.01 RC1: the STL iterators were improperly implemented, there was memory corruption on 64 bit C++ STL container emulation usage, and "nearest find" did a close find, not a nearest find.
xombrero is a minimalist's Web browser. It strives to be vi-like and is suited for heavy keyboard users.
Release Notes: This release fixes building on Linux and makes the autofocus code a bit smarter by first saving the original.
Eigen is a C++ template library for linear algebra: vectors, matrices, and related algorithms. It is versatile, fast, elegant and works on many platforms.
Release Notes: This is a maintenance release, fixing several bugs.
gpEasy is a complete content management system that lets users create rich and flexible Web sites with a simple and easy-to-use interface. The embedded design of the admin interface allows users to instantly see changes in a single browser window.
Release Notes: In addition to bugfixes, this release adds redesigned menu output to give users more usable CSS handles.
GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content: text, mathematics, graphics, interactive content. TeXmacs can also be used as an interface to many external systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, and statistics. New presentation styles can be written by the user and new features can be added to the editor using Scheme.
Release Notes: This release adds a highly-improved Reduce interface, rudimentary support for SVN-based version control, various improvements for conversion from and to LaTeX, an experimental interface for Inkscape, and experimental support of graphical macros. Internal buffer management has been completely reorganized.
Citrus is a test framework written in Java that enables automated integration testing of message-based enterprise SOA applications. The tool can easily simulate surrounding systems across various transports and protocols (e.g. JMS, SOAP WebServices, HTTP, TCP/IP, etc.) in order to perform end-to-end use case testing. Citrus provides strong validation mechanisms for XML message contents and allows you to build complex testing logic such as sending and receiving messages, database validation, automatic retries, variable definitions, dynamic message contents, error simulation, and many more.
Release Notes: This release adds validation matchers, extended Groovy validation support for database result sets, and extended SOAP header validation. It upgrades to Spring 3.1, Spring Integration 2.1, and Spring WS 2.1.
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.
Release Notes: This release provides a commandline option to set the content-type, allows you to construct PUT, DELETE, and HEAD URLs, and allows you to set an HTTP method for -g/--get requests. If set to HEAD, it displays the header transaction. If set to GET, it displays the page contents.
Guile is a portable, embeddable Scheme implementation written in C. Guile provides a machine independent execution platform that can be linked in as a library when building extensible programs.
Release Notes: This release adds a common subexpression elimination optimization pass, asynchronous finalizers, improved error and warning messages, HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer coding, and SRFI-14 character sets updated to Unicode 6.1. As usual, there are also many build and bug fixes, including one for a long-standing severe memory leak in applicable SMOBs.
Orfeo Toolbox (OTB) is a high resolution remote sensing image processing library. It contains a set of algorithmic components which allow the user to capitalize on methodological know how, and therefore use an incremental approach to profit from the results of methodological research. OTB is made of a set of basic elements (a C++ class API) and utilities (independent programs built upon the base API).
Release Notes: This release adds full support for Pléiades imagery, a new set of classes based on GDAL/OGR to handle large vector datasets efficiently, a complete framework to perform segmentation, and an extended suite of filters and associated applications to go from raw stereo pairs all the way to a real cartographic Digital Elevation Model.