July 2012

02 Jul 23:22 Clonezilla live-testing 1.2.13-5

Clonezilla is a partition or disk cloning tool similar to Symantec Ghost. It saves and restores only blocks in use on the hard drive if the file system is supported. For unsupported file systems, dd is used instead. It has been used to clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients in about 10 minutes.

Release Notes: The underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2012/Jul/02). The Linux kernel has been updated to 3.2.21-1, DRBL to 1.12.16-1drbl, and Clonezilla to 2.6.6-1drbl. The boot parameters "ocs_lang" and "ocs_live_keymap" are deprecated. It's now better to use "locales" and "keyboard-layouts" from live-config 2.x.

02 Jul 23:14 DRBL live-testing 1.0.9-2

Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL) provides a diskless or systemless environment for client machines. It works on Debian, Mandriva, Red Hat, Fedora, and SuSE. Unlike LTSP, it uses distributed hardware resources and makes it possible for clients to fully access local hardware. It also includes Clonezilla, a partitioning and disk cloning utility similar to Symantec Ghost.

Release Notes: The underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2012/Jul/02). The Linux kernel has been updated to 3.2.21-1, DRBL to 1.12.16-1drbl, and Clonezilla to 2.6.6-1drbl. The boot parameters "ocs_lang" and "ocs_live_keymap" are deprecated. It's now better to use "locales" and "keyboard-layouts" from live-config 2.x.

02 Jul 23:13 Bookyt 1.4.0

Bookyt is a bookkeeping/ERP application designed for small-to-medium-sized companies. It can handle debit invoices, credit invoices, projects with timelogs, swiss salary management, and much more.

Release Notes: This release adds much faster invoice lists, integration of an account data importer for a major Swiss bank, compatibility with Ruby 1.9.3, and a productivity-boosting interface to assign invoices to payment booking.

02 Jul 23:12 Moneychanger 00.10.00a

Moneychanger is a simple client GUI built on top of Open Transactions, a financial crypto library. Moneychanger can be used to create pseudonyms, issue currencies, open accounts, withdraw and deposit cash (untraceable digital cash), write and deposit cheques, trade on markets, and much, much more.

Release Notes: This release works with the newest version of Open Transactions. It benefits from various recent optimizations to the app messaging protocol. (The SWIG/API wrappers have been regenerated.)

02 Jul 21:40 Open Transactions 0.82.i

Open Transactions is a solid, easy-to-use, financial crypto and digital cash library, including an API, server, and test client. It features anonymous numbered accounts, untraceable digital cash, triple-signed receipts, basket currencies, and signed XML contracts. It also supports cheques, invoices, payment plans, markets with trades, and other instruments. It uses OpenSSL and Lucre blinded tokens.

Release Notes: Many stability and synchronization fixes have been made recently. A new high-level command line tool has been released (opentxs), which was written using the OT client-side script language.

02 Jul 21:33 Ipt-netflow 1.8

Ipt-netflow is very fast and effective Netflow exporting module for Linux kernel. It is designed for a Linux router with heavy network load. This netfilter/iptables module adds support for the -j NETFLOW target. It does not use conntrack for performance reasons.

Release Notes: Combined with 1.7, this is a major release with bugfixes, compilation, and kernel compatibility and performance improvements.

02 Jul 21:32 BitNami Moodle Stack 2.3-0

BitNami Moodle Stack is an easy-to-use installer for Moodle, which is a course management system that is designed using sound pedagogical principles to help educators create effective online learning communities. It can scale from one computer to a 50,000-student university and is used in 175 countries around the world.

Release Notes: This release updates Moodle to 2.3 and PHP to 5.3.14.

02 Jul 21:26 BitNami Cloud Tools 1.3-8

BitNami Cloud Tools packages together Amazon Web Services tools with preconfigured Java and Ruby language runtimes to work out of the box. It is a self-contained, easy to use distribution with one goal in mind: to make it simple to get started using AWS services from the command line.

Release Notes: This release has the following updates: aws-ec2-api 1.5.5.0, aws-elb 1.0.17.0, aws-iam 1.5.0, aws-auto-scaling 1.0.61.0, aws-sdk-java 1.3.11, and aws-sdk-ruby 1.5.4.

02 Jul 21:25 DBeaver 1.6.0

DBeaver is a universal database manager and SQL Client. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, MSSQL, Sybase, Mimer, HSQLDB, SQLite, Derby, and any database that has a JDBC driver. It is a GUI program that allows you to view the structure of a database, execute SQL queries and scripts, browse and export table data, handle BLOB/CLOB values, modify database meta objects, etc. It has a native UI (provided by the Eclipse SWT library), great performance, and relatively low memory consumption.

Release Notes: DBeaver is open-source now (GPL). Chinese, Russian and Italian translations. Metadata tree filters. ResultSet editor improvements (support of copy/paste for cells). An Oracle cursors viewer. Read-only connections support. Many other UI fixes and improvements.

02 Jul 21:19 klish 1.6.0

The klish is a framework for implementing Cisco-like command-line interfaces on Unix systems. It is configurable through XML files. "Klish" stands for "Kommand Line Interface SHell". The klish is a fork of clish 0.7.3 developed by Graeme McKerrell. The klish has some new features, but it's as compatible as possible with clish's XML configuration files.

Release Notes: The klish uses C code only. It can be built without C++ now. The tinyXML internal implementation was removed. Now klish can use the following external XML backends to parse its XML config files: libxml2, expat, and libroxml. These XML parsers are C-based. For details about XML backends, see the wiki.

02 Jul 21:17 Samba 3.5.16

Samba is a software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. It is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients.

Release Notes: This is a bugfix release in the 3.5 release series.

02 Jul 21:17 strongSwan 5.0.0

strongSwan is a complete IPsec implementation for the Linux, Android, Maemo, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X operating systems. It interoperates with with most other IPsec-based VPN products via the IKEv2 or IKEv1 key exchange protocols. The focus of the strongSwan project is on strong authentication mechanisms using X.509 public key certificates and optional secure storage of private keys on smartcards through a standardized PKCS#11 interface. A rich choice of modular plugins adds additional features like Trusted Network Connect or advanced cryptographical algorithms.

Release Notes: The IKEv1 protocol was re-implemented from scratch by extending the successful IKEv2 code. The charon keying daemon now supports both protocols, which allowed the old IKEv1 pluto daemon to be removed. Support for the IKEv1 Aggressive and Hybrid Modes has been added.

02 Jul 21:16 Concurrency Kit 0.2.4

Concurrency Kit provides a plethora of concurrency primitives and lock-less and lock-free data structures designed to aid in the design and implementation of high performance scalable concurrent systems. It was designed to minimize dependencies on operating system-specific interfaces, and most of the interface relies only on a strict subset of the standard library and more popular compiler extensions.

Release Notes: This release includes a family of try operations for the lock-free FIFO and stack implementations and a recursive writer reader-write lock implementation (ck_rwlock_recursive). trylock variants have yet to be introduced to the latter, but will be included in next week's release including saturated back-off behavior.

02 Jul 21:15 CryptoHeaven 3.6.3

CryptoHeaven offers secure email and online file sharing/storage. Its main features are secure and highly encrypted services such as group collaboration, file sharing, email, online storage, and instant messaging. It integrates multi-user based security into email, instant messaging, and file storage and sharing in one unique package. It provides real time communication for text and data transfers in a multi-user secure environment. The security and usability of CryptoHeaven is well-balanced; even the no-so-technically oriented computer users can enjoy this crypto product with very high level of encryption.

Release Notes: This release adds the ability to increase font size for message viewing and composing, adds an info status bar to better communicate warning/error messages, changes rendering of timestamps, and has various other cosmetic improvements.

02 Jul 21:14 DBSight 4.3.13

DBSight is a J2EE search platform for instant scalable full-text search on any relational database, for both beginners and experts. It lets you add Lucene-based searching to any Web page with SQL and JavaScript. It features a built-in database crawler that follows user-defined SQL, incremental indexing, configurable result ranking, highlighted search results (like Google), categorized result counts (like Amazon), and sharded distributed search. Scaffolding supports tag cloud, suggest-as-you-type, spell checker, and much more. It easily integrates with other languages through XML, JSON, and HTML, and can embed the search UI and results to any Web page by just copying a section of JavaScript. No Java coding is necessary. All managing operations are UI-based. Deleted or updated records in the database can be synchronized. Content outside the database can also be searched.

Release Notes: This release adds index freshness and scheduling information to the front page.

02 Jul 21:10 Hierarchical Data Format 4.2.7

HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) is a general purpose library and file format for storing scientific data. It arranges data into datasets (multidimensional arrays) and groups (a structure for organizing objects).

Release Notes: Support was added for IBM XL Fortran for Linux 64-bit and Linux PowerPC 64 Version 13.1. Numerous bugfixes.

02 Jul 21:09 MSS Code Factory 1.11.4191

MSS Code Factory is a rule-based expert system for translating application models to source code.

Release Notes: This release manufactures a PostgreSQL CLI driver for the SAX Loader, and cleans up the RAM CLI driver to implement consistent naming. The pieces are all in place to begin creating and exercising S1DbTest20 XML loading to test the PostgreSQL database interface (though bugs will likely crop up during testing).

01 Jul 22:26 perltidy 20120701

Perltidy is a Perl script indenter and beautifier. By default it approximately follows the suggestions in perlstyle(1), but the style can be adjusted with command line parameters. Perltidy can also write syntax-colored HTML output.

Release Notes: This release fixes two minor bugs. It adds a convergence test when iterations are made.

01 Jul 22:25 TomP2P 4.2

TomP2P is a P2P-based high performance key-value pair storage library. Each peer has a table (either disk-based or memory-based) to store its values. A single value can be queried or updated with a secondary key. The underlying communication framework uses Java NIO to handle many concurrent connections.

Release Notes: This release adds better MapReduce support, adds a new API for put/get/add/etc., fixes an issue with disk-based persistence with more than 8MB, updates to the latest Netty and JDBM, and adds many fixes and improvements.

01 Jul 22:18 Sunflower 0.1a-43

Sunflower is a small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux with support for plugins. It is intended to be an easy-to-use and powerful file manager that seamlessly integrates into the GNOME desktop environment.

Release Notes: This release changes the configuration backend, so users need to update their configurations.

01 Jul 22:17 WackoWiki 5.1.0

WackoWiki is a small, lightweight, handy, expandable Wiki clone. Its main advantages are a visual (WYSIWYG) editor, an easy installer, full Russian support, many localizations, email notification on changes/comments, several cache levels, design themes (skins) support, XHTML compliance, page rights (ACLs), and page comments.

Release Notes: This minor release serves mainly to remove old legacy code.

01 Jul 22:17 mu 0.9.8.5

mu is a collection of utilities for maildirs, in particular for indexing and searching them. mu fills a database with information about your emails, which can then be queried using an easy query language. It can work stand-alone or be integrated with a mail client. It also provides an emacs-based email client ("mu4e") and bindings for Guile/Scheme.

Release Notes: This release supports larger amounts of email and improves non-Latin support. Mu4e (the Emacs frontend) now support address autocompletion based on the hottest addresses in your mail corpus, richtext email with org-mode, navigation through all queries, narrowing of search results, support for inline images, and more.

01 Jul 22:13 cegojdbc 1.4.0

cegojdbc implements the JDBC driver for the Cego database system. a Java 1.5 runtime environment is required.

Release Notes: This release supports the cego serial network protocol.

01 Jul 22:13 cego 2.13.2

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: This release adds small fixes.

01 Jul 22:09 MusE 2.0

MusE is a multitrack virtual studio for Linux. It supports real-time editing of both MIDI and audio in an integrated environment. It has support for LADSPA and DSSI plugins (with Win VST support), JACK, and ALSA-MIDI output and input as well as internal softsynths. Numerous MIDI editors are available, including a piano roll, score editor, and drum editor. There is full automation for both MIDI and audio.

Release Notes: This release adds a score editor, a project dialog, and many improved functions, including new MIDI editing dialogs.