freshmeat.net announcements (Unix)

Frescobaldi 0.7.2 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:56:09 GMT

Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music editor for KDE4. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
New actions were added to open the current folder, view or print PDF documents, play MIDI files, and email documents. A new "Run LilyPond" icon has been added, based on the LilyPond lily icon. Shift-up and shift-down selection in the editor while a PDF is visible was fixed. A message saying that LilyPond crashes is no longer displayed if the user terminates the process. The startup notification is ended if a running instance is found.

pam_mount module 1.8 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:52:24 GMT

pam_mount is a Pluggable Authentication Module that can mount volumes for a user session upon login, using the same passwords as for login. It supports any filesystem your kernel is capable of, including FUSE, SMB/CIFS, various crypto types, and more.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Changes:
Segfaults in the program suite when used with cron were fixed.

WebGUI 7.5.38 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:51:53 GMT

WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time of busy IT staff. WebGUI comes with a full host of features including shopping cart, subscriptions, forums, photo galleries, FAQs, link lists, blogs, SQL reports, a Web services interface, and a very configurable user privilege and profiling system.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A number of internationalization issues, some minor Gallery issues, and several other minor issues were fixed.

ThinkUI SQL Client 1.0.9 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:51:19 GMT

The ThinkUI SQL Client is a graphical program that allows Java developers to browse a database structure, edit data in the tables, issue SQL queries, and generate code (e.g. Java Bean, DAO, SQL queries, JSP files, etc.) based on customizable Velocity templates.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

Changes:
This release adds support for generating Ant scripts for executing SQL CREATE TABLE and SQL INSERT statements. Improved keyboard shortcuts have been added, as well as UNDO/REDO support in all text editors. A custom test data generation feature has been added by integrating with the ThinkUI Data Generator. In addition, this release also includes various GUI related enhancements and several bugfixes.

Lightweight IMage-browser for PHP 3.0 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:41:53 GMT

LIMP is a Lightweight Image browser for PHP. It requires no database or complex setup; simply upload and go. It supports "albums" in subdirectories and generates thumbnails automatically.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Near-complete rewrite. New design and implementation.

Mahara 1.0.8 (Stable branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:35:34 GMT

Mahara is fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder, and social networking system for connecting users and creating online communities.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
This release fixes a bug that prevented email from being sent in 1.0.7, and makes it much easier to install new language packs.

Alkitab Bible Study 2.1 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:31:43 GMT

Alkitab Bible Study is a desktop bible study software. It supports single/parallel view, commentaries, lexicons, dictionaries, glossaries, daily devotions, etc. It also comes with a powerful search capability. It features rich and user friendly bible software study tools.

License: Public Domain

Changes:
This release has many new features and adds more localization.

Snort 2.8.3.1 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:29:51 GMT

Snort is a lightweight network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. Snort uses a flexible rule based language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, and a modular detection engine. Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alert mechanisms for syslog, a user specified file, a UNIX socket, or WinPopup messages to Windows clients using Samba's smbclient.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Many changes, fixes, and features have been engineered since then.

Curie 6 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:26:21 GMT

Curie is a very minimalistic, tiny C library. It supports basic I/O, basic networking, S-expression based I/O, signal handling, process handling, and I/O multiplexing. If the target architecture is explicitly supported, statically linked binaries may be as small as 4-20 kilobytes; if not, then it only relies on the host's C library. The library explicitly does not provide a POSIX interface so that it may be used in conjunction with a regular host libc (or without one).

License: BSD License (revised)

Changes:
Apart from the regular bugfixes, this release adds directory handling and regular expression matching to the list of curie's features. Both new features should also have gotten proper documentation and a good batch of testing, and a couple of oddities about the graph code have been fixed in the process.

Bugzilla 3.3.1 (Development branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:17:09 GMT

Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking system, with high-profile installations at mozilla.org, GNOME, Red Hat, and NASA, among others. It features a comprehensive set of fields, attachment management, inter-bug dependencies, email notification of changes, a powerful query interface, reporting, and Web, XML, email, and console interfaces. It can be managed entirely using a Web-based UI. The user UI is customizable using templates.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

Changes:
Users can choose their time zone. The "Bug ID" custom field type was added. Values and visibility of custom fields can now be controlled by other fields. Bug lists show a description of what you searched for at the top of the list. Many other features were added. This is an unstable release; it should only be used in testing environments.

Hierarchical Data Format 1.9.26 (Pre-release branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:00:39 GMT

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).

License: BSD License (original)

Changes:
Assorted minor bugfixes were made to the code and test suites.

Measuring Buffer 20090106 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:55:54 GMT

Measuring Buffer is an enhanced version of buffer. It features display of throughput, memory-mapped file I/O for huge buffers, network support, and multithreading.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The use of the deprecated atoi fucntion was replaced with strtol. Build fixes were made for FreeBSD.

eTcl 1.0.1 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:52:53 GMT

eTcl is a "batteries-included" thread-enabled Tcl/Tk runtime available as a single standalone executable. It includes several popular extensions (Thread, Sqlite, Zlib, etc.), together with a Tcl wrapper for the Pixane image processing library.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

Changes:
This release updates the Tcl/Tk core to 8.5.6 and sqlite to 3.6.7. An argument parsing issue, which could cause eTcl 1.0.0 to fail when launching eTcl kits (.etk files), has been fixed. Support for arm-linux (EABI) target architectures has been added and made compatible with the Android platform.

libkate 0.3.0 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:41:28 GMT

Kate is a codec for karaoke and text encapsulation for Ogg. Most of the time, this would be multiplexed with audio/video to carry subtitles, song lyrics (with or without karaoke data), etc, but it doesn't have to be. A possible use of a lone Kate stream would be an e-book. Moreover, the motion feature gives Kate a powerful means to describe arbitrary curves, so hand drawing of shapes can be achieved. This was originally meant for karaoke use, but can be used for any purpose. Motions can be attached to various semantics, like position or color, so scrolling or fading text can be defined.

License: BSD License (revised)

Changes:
Repeats are supported to help seeking. The katalyzer tool was added to display information about Kate streams. The KateDJ GUI remuxing tool was added. kate_encode_set_id is now obsolete, and an event's ID is now autogenerated. A problem in which kate_granule_time ignored the time offset was fixed. kate_granule_split_time was exposed in the API. More validation is done for UTF-8 text from SRT input files.

IP-Array 0.05.74c (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:37:11 GMT

IP-Array is a Linux iptables firewall script written in bash. It allows the creation of precise, stateful rules, while remaining easy to configure. IP-Array supports VPN, traffic shaping (creation of custom HTB and SFQ qdiscs, classes, and filters), multiple external interfaces, multiple LANs, multiple DMZs, NAT, logging, MAC address matching, packet marking, syslog logging, and various sysctl settings. It also includes some presets and autoconfig options for common needs like DNS, FTP, SMTP.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes three important bugs and one minor bug.

Jailer 2.7.1.beta (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:41:37 GMT

Jailer is a tool for model-based data exporting, schema browsing, and rendering. It exports consistent, referentially intact row-sets from relational databases. It removes obsolete data without violating integrity. It is DBMS agnostic (by using JDBC), platform independent, and generates DbUnit datasets, hierarchically structured XML, and topologically sorted SQL-DML.

License: The Apache License 2.0

Changes:
Sybase compatibility release.

table2gridbag 1.0 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:41:11 GMT

java.awt.GridBagLayout is a very versatile layout manager. Unfortunately, it is also very difficult to configure. Table2gridbag is a simple tool that can translate the logical layout of a GUI, described as an HTML table, into actual Java code.

Simple Groupware 0.500 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:20:15 GMT

Simple Groupware is a complete enterprise application offering email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, synchronization with cell phones and Outlook, full-text search, and much more. Simple Groupware combines standards like RSS, iCalendar, vCard, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CIFS, CSV, WebDAV, LDAP, and SyncML under one platform. Unlike other groupware software, Simple Groupware contains the programming language sgsML to enable the quick customization and creation of powerful Web applications.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A new module was implemented for viewing folders and attachments in the Web browser when being offline. A new module was implemented for showing and building Graphviz diagrams. The CMS module was extended with a XML sitemap. A patch was added to stabilize the spreadsheet export. The database API was improved and the Smarty library was updated.

vfplot 1.0.5 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:19:30 GMT

vfplot is a program for plotting two-dimensional vector fields using curved arrows and adaptive placement. The field can be specified as an input grid (in several formats) or compiled-in. Output is in PostScript.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
Output to the POV-Ray scene language.

GroundWork Monitor Community Edition 5.3.0-br33 (Unstable branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:19:08 GMT

GroundWork Monitor Community Edition can give you insight into your computing infrastructure, allowing you to see the current and historical states of all your computers: servers, desktops, and laptops, all of your network devices, all of your services (like TCP/IP and Web services), and all of your applications (like mail servers and database apps). You can choose to be alerted when something goes awry via pager, SMS, email, or phone, and even set up automatic restarts or fall-overs.

Tiled 0.7.2 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:14:52 GMT

Tiled is a general purpose tile map editor. It's built to be easy to use, yet it is capable of catering to a host of varying game engines, whether your game is an RPG, platformer, or Breakout clone. Tiled supports plugins to read and write map formats other than its own map format.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release adds support for associating an image with a map object. Several fixes have also been made, including being able to move an object group and select small map objects, and references to external tilesets that are not in the same directory are now saved correctly. The minimum required Java version is now 1.5.

get_iplayer 1.13 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:51:39 GMT

get_iplayer allows a user to download or stream any BBC iPlayer TV program (H.264/Quicktime), ITVplayer TV programs (ASF/WMV), iPlayer radio programs (MP3/RealAudio), and BBC podcasts (MP3/AAC). It even downloads iPlayer subtitles. It supports RTMP iPlayer downloads. It has full PVR functionality for automatic downloading.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
This release adds ITVplayer Catch-up Indexing and Searching support (use --type=itv). It fixes a bug in --list option: program names were being incorrectly parsed.

galculator 1.3.2 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:49:05 GMT

galculator is a GTK 2 based scientific calculator supporting algebraic mode, RPN, and formula entry mode. Features include arithmetic operations plus precedence handling, full keypad support, trigonometric functions, power, square root, natural and common logarithm, constants (e, PI), and inverse and hyperbolic functions. It supports different number bases (decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary) and angle bases (radiant, degree, and grad).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release addresses several bug reports and includes some patches received over the last few months.

Net-C 0.1.1 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:30:20 GMT

Net-C is a cross-platform LAN chat system for LANs. It supports, smilies, private messaging, user status, group chats, and more.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
Support for starting minimized, status in the tray icon tooltip, a fix for missing tooltips on buttons, and a fix for an creating group chats.

Tunnel Manager 0.5 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:27:58 GMT

Tunnel Manager is a program that manages regularly used SSH tunnels. It supports both SSHv1 and SSHv2 tunnels and can be configured to manage the keys in your ssh-agent.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
Translation support and dialog validation.

Fotoxx 5.8 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:27:39 GMT

Fotoxx is a program for improving digital photos. Navigate large image collections using a pageable window of thumbnails. Create HDR (high dynamic range) images by combining bright and dark images to improve detail in both bright and dark areas. Create panoramas by joining overlapped images. Adjust brightness and color intensity independently for different underlying brightness levels. Rotate an image (level a tilted image or turn 90 degrees). Remove red eyes from electronic flash photos. Sharpen, resize, crop, reduce noise, and change color depth. Warp an image by dragging the mouse. Edit tags/keywords and search images by date or tags.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Visual feedback for brightness/contrast/color edits was made faster. Erratic mouse drag in the warp function was fixed. Color balance was separated from brightness/whiteness adjustments. A problem where the last translation in a .po file sometimes had a comment appended was fixed. Sharpen, blur, and noise reduction, when applied within an image area, can now blend the boundaries. A modified "top hat" noise reduction method was added, which is more effective for some types of noise.

CitrusDB 1.3 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:27:03 GMT

CitrusDB is a Web based customer care and billing solution that uses PHP and a database backend to keep track of customer information, operational CRM, services, products, billing invoices and credit cards, and support information.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release includes the ability to indicate a service as carrier dependent, to show that it is sold through a third party who needs separate notification when that service type is activated or deactivated. The Account Activation tool has been removed in favor of the statusupdate script. The statusupdate script will also email pastdue notices to customers, as well as shutoff and cancel notices to customers with carrier dependent services.

COPASI 4.4.29 (Development branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:24:16 GMT

COPASI is a software application for modeling and simulation of biochemical networks. The software package has a GUI that lets users define biochemical network models by entering chemical reactions and kinetic equations. A powerful simulation engine can then perform simulations of the dynamics of the networks and carry out many different computational analyses. COPASI can simulate dynamics using either an ODE approach or a stochastic chemical kinetics approach (Gillespie-type algorithms).

License: Free for non-commercial use

Changes:
Bugfixes.

Mylene 7.20081231 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:23:52 GMT

Mylene is a command line MPEG audio player. It can play plain and system embedded MPEG audio streams and works for Linux OSS and ALSA emulated OSS and Mac OS X. The player can be used interactively by telling it to establish a UNIX or INET server on which commands can be received. It features sophisticated song selection filters, the ability to interpret programs written in a C-like programming language and user formatted text output among others. The seek-h262 MPEG decoder is required for audio and system MPEG decoding.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release features bug and security fixes along. An extended library is available for interpreted programs.

unattended-gui 1.875 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:23:30 GMT

unattended-gui is a system to support unattended installations of Linux and Windows on multiple machines. It is also a collection of scripts for inventory, uninstallation, and other add-ons like dhcp-ldap, php-ssh, samhain, syslog-ng, switch managment, and an LDAP browser.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
Major bugs were fixed and a new PXE module was implemented.

MplayerXP 0.7.1 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:58:34 GMT

MplayerXP is branch of the well-known mplayer which is based on a new, thread-based core. The new core provides better CPU utilization and improves performance of video decoding.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Many 64-bit related fixes were made. Widescreen scaling was fixed. Ffmpeg's codecs were updated. New code was imported from mphq. The xvid wrapper was reworked; now it supports xvidcore-1.1.3+. The divx-6 wrapper was reworked; now it supports divx-6.1.1+. ffmpeg's codecs now have lowest priority during automatic codec selection. A bug regarding a compilation error was fixed. Support for the IPv6 protocol and better network configuration were added. libmpeg was upgraded to 0.4.1.

StreamOS 0.2 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:55:47 GMT

StreamOS is a free operating system written in Object Pascal using the FreePascal compiler. It's designed as an over-DOS extender that is 32-bit and multitasked.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

Changes:
A new experimental shared memory manager was added. A new locking subsystem was added. Applications' timers were implemented. HX Runtime was updated. Support for FPC 2.2.2 was added. The coding style was fixed to be well-used with vim. A new build subsystem "sgen" was added. Dependence on wine were removed. Initial StreamFS support was added. New system-level applications were added. Managing code with Mercurial was implemented. The license was updated. New system calls were added. Lots of bugs were fixed.

IMDbPY 3.9 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:52:13 GMT

IMDbPY aims to provide an easy way to access the IMDb's database using a Python package. It is theoretically independent from the data source (since IMDb provides two or three different interfaces to their database). It is mainly intended for programmers and developers, but some example scripts are included.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Searching for series episodes and support for dumping data in CSV files were improved. Many bugs were fixed. Other minor improvements were introduced. Some new versions of IMDbPY-based programs were released.

webERP cvs-20090106 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:49:42 GMT

webERP is a Web-based integrated accounting system. It offers multi-currency sales orders and accounts receivable, multi-currency purchase orders and accounts payable, multiple inventory locations, unlimited number of price lists, pricing by customer and currency, integrated general ledger journals created for all transactions in accounts receivable and payable, standard costing, user definable sales analysis reports, and standard cost stock valuation and stock planning reports. It also features serialised inventory and lot tracking that is all multi-language capable.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Many bugs were fixed. JavaScript was incorporated. The ability to update prices en masse was added.

PHP-PAPA 1.1 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:47:48 GMT

PHP-PAPA is a fast, flexible, and intuitive MVC framework for PHP. It has a small footprint and little overhead. It follows the OOP and MVC paradigms. It supports component development. It supports multiple languages in two ways. It features flexible and smart content selection. It produces SEO-friendly URLs with the ".html" extension. It supports access control based on URL patterns. Themes and layout are supported by default. Sub-folder grouping is done for controllers, views, and layouts.

License: Freeware

Changes:
The documentation was updated with screenshots. Localized view selection was updated.

ThinkUI Data Generator 1.0.0 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:46:35 GMT

The ThinkUI Data Generator is an Ant-based tool that allows testers and Java developers to quickly generate custom data for testing purposes. The data generated can be customized by providing the appropriate statistics and by developing custom generators or data writers.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

Changes:
This is the first official release of the ThinkUI Data Generator. This version supports the generation of data for all Java primitive types as well as custom types such as first names, last names, phone numbers, etc. Generated data can be saved to file as CSV or SQL INSERT statements. In addition, the generated data can be inserted directly into a supported database. Customized attribute generators and data object writers can be developed to support any data format.

tinybrain 02 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:45:34 GMT

tinybrain is an artificial intelligence module that can be embedded into desktop applications. It observes user-computer interaction, learns, and reasons. Over time, it begins to assist the user by correcting mistakes, offering suggestions, and automating repetitive tasks.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

Changes:
A new string transformation puzzle was added. The oracle was improved and is now able to solve said puzzle.

TomOS 0.1 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:43:20 GMT

TomOS is a simple 16-bit operating system for x86. It is based on MikeOS version 2.0.0. It is entirely written in assembly language. TomOS is an educational project. It features mouse support, 8KB RAM available for applications, FAT 12 support, and aproximimately 70 system calls.

RazorSQL 4.5.0 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:43:01 GMT

RazorSQL is a database query tool, SQL editor, database browser, and database administration tool with support for all major databases. Some of the main features included in RazorSQL are visual tools for creating, viewing, and altering database objects; tools for importing and exporting data; and tools for editing stored procedures, triggers, and functions.

License: Shareware

Changes:
A DDL Generation tool for all major databases was added. The data import and export tools were enhanced. A table and view search tool was added. Auto SQL statement generation was added for tables and views.

DB Solo 3.7 Beta (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:45:18 GMT

DB Solo is a powerful database development and management tool for developers and DBAs. It has an intuitive user interface that allows you to explore and manage your database objects as well as execute ad-hoc queries. It supports Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, DB2, Solid, PostgreSQL, and MS SQL Server. In addition to viewing and managing objects such as schemas, tables, indexes, views, tablespaces, users, roles, sessions, and stored procedures, you can view, edit, print, and export data from tables or the results of queries. You can also graphically view foreign key relationships.

License: Shareware

Changes:
A result set comparison feature was added that allows one to compare two result sets and quickly identify differences between them. The Query Editor and Export Tool now supports XML and Excel output formats. Support for custom key bindings was added. Support for SQL Server Agent was added, including configuration for Jobs, Alerts, and Operators.

Whitix 0.2 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:39:54 GMT

Whitix is a modern operating system eventually aimed at the desktop market. It currently runs on x86 processors and features a fully functional desktop and graphical user interface, text editor, shell, Python, Lua C compiler, assembler, and make equivalent. Whitix is available in a live CD format for download.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
New features in this release include: hard drive installation; Whitix can now be installed to a hard drive using �textinstall� and booted using GRUB. Also included are new shell features: new shell features. The Burn shell now uses color highlighting to display correct commands and parameters. Extensible tab completion is used for the new help system. Device configuration and management is much more dynamic than competing operating systems. ioctl has now disappeared from the Whitix API, to be replaced by the KeObject subsystem and ICFS.

TkResolver++ 0.6.0 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:38:00 GMT

TkResolver++ is a suite of software for conducting experiments into psychokinesis (specifically retropsychokinesis.) It uses the output from a random number generator to determine the course of a line as it is drawn down the computer screen. Experiments consist of an operator who attempts to influence the behaviour of the line drawing. The software records in a database the operator's details, the experimental variables, and the observed results. The suite includes programs for conducting visualisation and statistical analysis of the database.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
The operator and location tables are now property-based. There is a new data editor to edit properties in any domain. The randomness and randomness_bits fields of the experiment table are now stored as properties. A critical bug that produced invalid randomness was fixed.

Amahi Linux Home Server 9.9 (F9 branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:34:57 GMT

The Amahi Home Server is a Linux Home Server based on Fedora (and later on Ubuntu). Your machine becomes a "Home Digital Assistant" or HDA after the installation. Each HDA is a Fedora-based server targeted for home and home office environments. It provides an iTunes server, calendaring, a wiki, shared network storage, network backups, a printer server, VPN, and a plug-in architecture built on Ruby on Rails.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
This is the first (alpha) introduction of the new online webapps with a proper installer and uninstaller of online webapps, including separation of of the html and logs directories and better layout of the MyApps section.

cutmp3 1.9.4 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:34:39 GMT

cutmp3 is a small command line MP3 editor. It lets you select sections of an MP3 interactively or via a timetable and save them to separate files without quality loss. Silence and ID3 tag searching are also possible. For playback it uses mpg123. The program works with VBR files and files bigger than 2GB. There is also a simple frontend for it, called xcutmp3.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Pressing M enlarges playback by 1 second, pressing N shortens playback by 1 second. No maximum silence length will be set for -s0. The display has been fixed for negative and too big time values. Error messages have been improved.

mxallowd 1.7 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:32:51 GMT

mxallowd is a daemon for Linux Netfilter (using libnetfilter-queue) and BSD pf (using pflog) which implements a slightly improved nolisting mechanism. It requires your name server to be configured to return two MX IP addresses, and the one with higher priority must not run a mail server on port 25. mxallowd blocks attempts to connect to the mail server unless the sender tries to connect to the first mail server before the second. Since most spammers will attempt direct connections to each mail server, they will be blocked.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
mxallowd is now correctly started in the background. The pidfile is written correctly (using O_TRUNC).

dlib C++ Library 17.13 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:32:45 GMT

dlib C++ library is a modern general C++ library with a focus on portability and program correctness. It comes with extensive documentation and thorough debugging modes. The library provides a platform abstraction layer for common tasks such as interfacing with network services, handling threads, and creating graphical user interfaces. Additionally, the library implements many useful algorithms such as data compression routines, linked lists, binary search trees, linear algebra and matrix utilities, machine learning algorithms, XML and general text parsing, and many other general utilities.

License: Boost Software License

Changes:
This release brings support for futures for thread synchronization. This release was also focused on improving the speed and usability of the matrix object provided by the library. Most notably, dlib is now capable of using optimized BLAS libraries to significantly speed up matrix expression evaluation.

Guido van Robot 4.1 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:29:40 GMT

Guido van Robot, or GvR for short, is a minimalistic programming language that provides just enough syntax to help students learn the concepts of sequencing, conditional branching, looping, and procedural abstraction. Its biggest strength is that it permits this learning in an environment that combines the thrill of problem-solving with instant visual feedback.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A bug which lead to a crash in the worldbuilder was fixed.

Patch Check Advanced 20090105-01 (Development branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:29:30 GMT

Patch Check Advanced (pca) generates lists of installed and missing patches for Sun Solaris systems and optionally downloads patches. It resolves dependencies between patches and installs them in the correct order. It works on all versions of Solaris and on both SPARC and x86.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

Changes:
Apply checks for a lot of new patches have been added.

GLib 2.19.4 (Development branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:28:52 GMT

GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things such as trees, hashes, and lists. GLib was previously distributed with the GTK toolkit, but has been split off as of the developers' version 1.1.0.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Changes:
GIO was slightly enhanced. Several bugs were fixed. Translations were updated.

advene 0.36 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:28:43 GMT

Advene (Annotate Digital Video, Exchange on the NEt) is aimed at providing a model and a format to share annotations about digital video documents (movies, courses, conferences, etc.), as well as tools to edit and visualize the hypervideos generated from both the annotations and the audiovisual documents. Teachers, moviegoers, etc. can use them to exchange multimedia comments and analyses about video documents. The project also aims at studying the way that communities of users (teachers, moviegoers, students, etc.) will use these self-publishing tools to share their audiovisual "readings", and to envision new editing and viewing interfaces for interactive comment and analysis of audiovisual content.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version integrates the shotdetect application, and can display an activity trace to provide a feedback about the current activity. A new Edition history view displays the elements that were most recently edited or created. Static views can be exported as static HTML files, so that video analyses can be uploaded to a Web site. The Mac OS X version now uses the gstreamer video player, which offers frame-by-frame navigation. A summarized change list can be found in the changelog: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/advene/tags/0.36/debian/changelog?view=markup

xorriso 0.3.2 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:25:18 GMT

xorriso creates, loads, manipulates, and writes ISO 9660 filesystem images with Rock Ridge extensions. It can load the management information of existing ISO images, and it writes the session results to optical media or to filesystem objects. This is the standalone version that incorporates the libraries of libburnia-project.org and thus depends only on Linux 2.4 (or later), libc, and libpthread. No mkisofs and no CD/DVD/BD burn program are needed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
xorriso is now able to handle BD-R media. It can produce and execute commands for mounting older sessions from all kinds of media. Pseudo-drives outside the /dev/ tree can now be addressed without the "stdio:" prefix. A minor bug was fixed.

Policy Daemon 2.0.6 (2.x (Cluebringer) branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:24:16 GMT

Policyd v2 (codenamed "cluebringer") is a multi-platform policy server for popular MTAs. This policy daemon is designed mostly for large scale mail hosting environments. The main goal is to implement as many spam combating and email compliance features as possible while at the same time maintaining portability, stability, and performance. Its features include detailed policy and group specification, access control, helo/ehlo checks (helo randomization prevention and RFC compliance), SPF checks, Greylisting, Quotas, and Amavisd-new integration.

Piggydb 3.1 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:24:08 GMT

Piggydb is an easy-to-use Web application for building a personal knowledge repository. The knowledge in the repository is composed of knowledge fragments which you input in a manner similar to blogging. You can also input any file as a knowledge fragment. Piggydb enables you to create highly structural knowledge by providing features such as flexible relationships between knowledge fragments and hierarchical tagging. It encourages you to organize your knowledge continuously to discover new ideas or concepts, and moreover enrich your creativity.

License: The Apache License 2.0

Changes:
This is a minor update with one new feature (Trash Tag) and bugfixes. You can hide fragments from list view by tagging them as a trash (there are shortcut buttons to do this). And you can also completely delete trash-tagged fragments at the trash-tag page.

SDLHana 0.33 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:19:35 GMT

SDLHana is an SDL-based Hanafuda game. Hanafuda is a Japanese card game that is also played in Korea, where it is known as "Hwa-T'u".

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This is a minor bugfix release for GCC 4.3.

The EDDIE Tool 0.37.3 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:18:21 GMT

The EDDIE Tool is a system and network monitoring, security, and performance analysis agent developed entirely in threaded Python. Its key features are portability, extendibility, and powerful configuration.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Eddie is now a properly installable Python package. This allows it to be distributed in package format and can be very easily installed using "easy_install EDDIE-Tool". Other bugfixes and minor enhancements are included.

CPPSERV 0.2.1 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:10:37 GMT

CPPSERV is a Web application server / servlet container that provides a Servlet-like API to C++. It also contains CSP (C++ Server Pages) functionality, similar to pre-compiled JSP. It consists of stand-alone application server and Web server front-ends. Modules for Apache and lighttpd are available.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Include path support was added to the CSP (C++ Server Pages) parser. Support was added for reducing white space size in CSP output.

Lbzip2 0.09 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:09:41 GMT

Lbzip2 is a Pthreads-based parallel bzip2/bunzip2 filter, passable to GNU tar with the --use-compress-program option. It isn't restricted to regular files on input, nor output. Successful splitting for decompression isn't guaranteed, just very likely (failure is detected). Splitting in both modes and compression itself occur with an approximate 900k block size. On an Athlon-64 X2 6000+, lbzip2 was 92% faster than standard bzip2 when compressing, and 45% faster when decompressing (based on wall clock time). Lbzip2 strives to be portable by requiring UNIX 98 APIs only, besides an unmodified libbz2.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Now the Makefiles, with the help of the standard getconf utility, select a programming environment, if there is one, in which large files are supported.

Visualization Library Alpha 2 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:01:59 GMT

Visualization Library is a C++ middleware for 2D/3D graphics applications based on the industry standard OpenGL 2.1. It supports advanced features like OpenGL Shading Language, Frame Buffer Objects, Multiple Render Targets, Vertex and Pixel Buffer Objects, KdTree/AABB frustum culling, a multilingual Unicode-based text engine, advanced texturing, DDS cubemaps, mipmaps, compressed textures, and much more. Visualization Library can be especially useful in 3D/2D scientific visualization, virtual reality, augmented reality, visual simulation, data visualization, presentations, multimedia applications, special effects, and 3D/2D games.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
The rendering architecture is very fast. There are native Win32, SDL, GLUT, and Qt4 bindings. Support for 3DS, OBJ, AC3D, MD2, and PLY was improved. An image class supporting DDS, BMP, TIF, TGA, and DAT files was added. A String class was added to manipulate UTF16, UTF8, Latin1, and ASCII text. A virtual file system was added to access disk, ram, and zip files. A powerful GLSL 1.30-like C++ math library was added. Support was added for geometry shaders, integer textures, and multi-instancing. GL_EXT_texture_array and GL_ARB_texture_rectangle support were added. A cross-platform CMake building system was added. More API documentation was written.

JOpt Simple 3.0-rc2 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:58:16 GMT

JOpt Simple is a simple, test-driven command line parser for Java programs. It supports POSIX getopt() and GNU getopt_long().

License: MIT/X Consortium License

Changes:
This version supports Java 5 and greater only. Where appropriate, existing API calls have been updated to use Java generics. The OptionSpec interface was extracted and surfaced. OptionSpecs returned by the fluent interface methods are used to retrieve arguments of the options they represent in a type-safe manner. Some List parameter types and return types of methods to Collection were relaxed. OptionArgumentConversionException no longer drops the original cause on the floor, so OptionException can now be created with a cause.

Mandos 1.0.3 (Default branch)

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:57:17 GMT

The Mandos system allows computers to have encrypted root file systems and at the same time be capable of remote or unattended reboots. The computers run a small client program in the initial RAM disk environment which will communicate with a server over a network. All network communication is encrypted using TLS. The clients are identified by the server using an OpenPGP key that is unique to each client. The server sends the clients an encrypted password. The encrypted password is decrypted by the clients using the same OpenPGP key, and the password is then used to unlock the root file system.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
The server now tries to change to user and group "_mandos" before falling back to trying the old values "mandos", "nobody:nogroup", and "65534". Server startup no longer aborts even if no clients are defined in clients.conf. Plugins named "*.dpkg-bak" are now ignored by the client. A compilation failure on some architectures where the C compiler does not recognize the "-z" option as a linker option was hopefully fixed.