Newsletter for Friday, November 17th 2006

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (48) :::

[001] - amforth 0.5
[002] - aproc 0.1
[003] - Aranea framework 1.0.2
[004] - Berkeley Unified Parallel C 2.4.0
[005] - Bibble 4.9d
[006] - Crystal Space 1.0pre2
[007] - driveplugger 11-17-2006
[008] - DrKnock 0.2.0
[009] - EDB (Evan's Debugger) 0.8.4
[010] - eispice 0.7
[011] - Extend For JavaScript 1.1
[012] - Geneious 2.5.2
[013] - GhostKit 0.1.5
[014] - GLASHCtl 0.4.1
[015] - Gnash 0.7.2
[016] - gnome-yum 0.1.5
[017] - GNU Parted 1.8.0
[018] - GNU Transport Layer Security Library 1.6.0
[019] - GOsa 2.5.6
[020] - GradeL 0.7.3
[021] - itools 0.14.5
[022] - JayOS 20061108-2
[023] - JGraph 5.9.2.1
[024] - KSmoothDock 4.3
[025] - Methane IRC Daemon 1.1.2
[026] - MiniUPnP Client and Daemon 20061117
[027] - mkvtoolnix 1.8.0
[028] - ModSecurity 2.0.4 (Stable)
[029] - Mr. LDIF 1.0
[030] - Multiplication Flash 1.1
[031] - nessquik 2.0
[032] - Nuxeo EP 5.0.0.RC (Development)
[033] - Pansophica 1.2-6
[034] - PDF Split and Merge 0.6 stable release 2
[035] - phpWebSite 1.0.0
[036] - RabbIT 3.6
[037] - Rehersal 2006.11.16.21
[038] - Subsonic 2.9
[039] - TagFu 0.2
[040] - tc-viewer 1.5
[041] - TEA for Linux 14.3.1
[042] - Tera-WURFL Beta 1.4.2
[043] - Typeface 0.3
[044] - web-chpass 1.3
[045] - WebAPP 0.9.9.4 (Development)
[046] - xCHM 1.10
[047] - XMacroJ 0.1.0
[048] - XStream 1.2.1

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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::

[001] - amforth 0.5
by Matthias Trute (http://freshmeat.net/users/mtrute/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 14:08

Software Development :: Embedded Systems

About: amforth is a distribution of Forth running on the AVR ATmega
microcontroller. Once put into flash, it needs only a serial connection to
the host computer. New words are compiled directly into flash, thus
extending the dictionary immediately. It is ans94 Forth oriented with some
minor exclusions and a few words from the extension word sets. It is
written in assembly language and Forth itself. The main development uses
ATmega8 and ATmega32 controllers; other ATmega controllers should work
with small adjustments.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/amforth/

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[002] - aproc 0.1
by Chef! (http://freshmeat.net/users/sl0815/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 17:29

System :: Monitoring

About: aproc displays some information about all PCM devices of a sound
card from the ALSA proc tree on the console in real time (like top).

License: Open Software License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aproc/

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[003] - Aranea framework 1.0.2
by Taimo (http://freshmeat.net/users/taimo/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 11:27

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: Aranea is a hierarchical Model-View-Controller Web framework that
provides a common, simple approach to building Web application components,
reusing custom or general GUI logic, and extending the framework. The
framework enforces programming using object oriented techniques with POJOs
and provides a JSP tag library that facilitates the programming of Web GUIs
without writing HTML. In addition to being a full-fledged Web framework in
its own right, it provides a powerful and simple component system that
allows the framework to be tailored by configuring the reusable modules
and adding modules only for the missing features.

Changes: This is a maintenance and bugfix release.

License: The Apache License 2.0

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aranea/

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[004] - Berkeley Unified Parallel C 2.4.0
by Jason Duell (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcduell/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 22:18

Software Development :: Compilers
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: Unified Parallel C (UPC) is an extension of the C programming
language designed for high performance computing on large-scale parallel
machines. The language provides a uniform programming model for both
shared and distributed memory hardware. The programmer is presented with a
single shared, partitioned address space, where variables may be directly
read and written by any processor, but each variable is physically
associated with a single processor. UPC uses a Single Program Multiple
Data (SPMD) model of computation in which the amount of parallelism is
fixed at program startup time, typically with a single thread of execution
per processor. Berkeley UPC provides a portable, high-performance compiler
for developing UPC software on systems ranging from clusters to custom
supercomputers and even laptop-grade systems.

Changes: Initial native support for the Cray XT3 was added. The Parallel
Performance Wizard (PPW) is now supported. Finer granularity timer query
is supported. UPC collectives and UPC-IO were added to GCCUPC+UPCR. A
upcdecl command-line tool was added. Performance improvements were made to
the BUPC semaphore library. A remote fetch-and-add UPC library extension
was included. Configure-time tuning of bit distribution in packed
pointer-to-shared rep was implemented. Numerous miscellaneous bugfixes
were made.

License: BSD License (original)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bupc/

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[005] - Bibble 4.9d
by mwieser (http://freshmeat.net/users/mwieser/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 06:23

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture :: Digital Camera
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion

About: Bibble is a professional image-manipulation application for
processing of raw photos from digital cameras. It provides a fast and high
quality raw workflow. It features a fully integrated browser, user
configurable tools/views, powerful batch processing, raw optimized
printing, a flexible renaming system, advanced settings for copy and
paste, IPTC meta-data support, and tethered shooting.

Changes: This release fixes a number of issues with 4.9, including a
severe problem with sonny a100 files. It adds support for the lecia Dlux3,
but mainly fixes problems and memory leaks.

License: Shareware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bibble/

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[006] - Crystal Space 1.0pre2
by Jorrit Tyberghein (http://freshmeat.net/users/jorrit/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 00:09

Games/Entertainment :: First Person Shooters
Games/Entertainment :: Real Time Strategy
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing

About: Crystal Space is a free and portable 3D engine written in C++. It
supports a large number of 3D features.

Changes: Several build system changes and fixes were made. Several Python
and Perl related fixes were made. Bullet plugin fixes were made. Several
fixes were made to the software renderer. A bug with frustvis and dynavis
was fixed, which could cause assertion errors in case of objects with
empty bounding boxes. A VC7 compiler bug which could cause serious crashes
in shader handling was worked around. Some changes were made in gmeshanim
to help speed it up. The new preadvance option was added in the particle
system. Significant changes were made in the sound manager. Some other
smaller fixes and changes were made.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/crystalspace/

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[007] - driveplugger 11-17-2006
by Calin (http://freshmeat.net/users/calin/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 13:55

Desktop Environment :: Tools
System :: Filesystems
System :: Hardware

About: driveplugger is a removable storage manager that safely puts
control into the hands of the user. It makes devices such as USB drives,
CDROMs, or any other removable media easy to use. The user can assign
names to devices. Browsing, ejection, and other operations can be done
through a tray icon.

Changes: The Linux::CDROM dependency has been removed in favor of plain
ioctl. Event caching has been added to handle events that occur when the
user agent is not running. uid= and gid= options have been added to fstab
entries to fix incorrect permissions with some filesystems.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/driveplugger/

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[008] - DrKnock 0.2.0
by Olivier ROCH VILATO (http://freshmeat.net/users/olivierrochvilato/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 11:15

Internet
Security
System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: DrKnock is a port knocking solution based on sig2knock by Cappella
and Tan Chew Keong (http://www.security.org.sg/code/portknock1.html). The
client and server work on both Unix and Windows.

Changes: The client can now choose among multiple services to be forwarded
to, and select a range of possible ports for the randomly allocated port
(if allowed by server). User and password can be set via client command
line. If wanted, multiple connections can be made to the allocated port.
The configuration file format has changed

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/drknock/

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[009] - EDB (Evan's Debugger) 0.8.4
by proxy (http://freshmeat.net/users/eteran/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 00:17

Software Development :: Debuggers
Software Development :: Disassemblers

About: EDB (Evan's Debugger) is a QT4 based binary mode debugger with the
goal of having usability on par with OllyDbg. It uses a plugin
architecture, so adding new features can be done with ease. The current
release is for Linux, but future releases will target more platforms.

Changes: Minor code cleanups were made. A slight change was made to
DebuggerCoreInterface to have waits specify a timeout. It is not required
that the class actually do anything with the timeout, but the groundwork
is being set. This is a good solution for terminating the event server
thread. This release removes parts of libdisasm that aren't needed for
libdisasm.a to build, which cuts the download size by 75%.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/edebugger/

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[010] - eispice 0.7
by Charles (http://freshmeat.net/users/charleseidsness/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 13:52

Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Scientific/Engineering :: Physics

About: eispice is a ground-up re-write of the Berkley Spice 3 Simulation
engine in the form of a Python Module. It contains a subset of standard
spice device models and a set of unique models that are targeted towards
PCB level Signal Integrity Simulation. It should run faster than Berkley
Spice 3 for most SI simulations.

Changes: A major memory leak was plugged, and support for importing ibis
files for local driver and receiver models was added. A Tkinter-based
plotter was also added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eispice/

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[011] - Extend For JavaScript 1.1
by Sébastien Pierre (http://freshmeat.net/users/kze/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 14:08

Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: Extend allows you to use traditional single-class inheritance in
your JavaScript applications. It also gives you many advanced features
such as runtime class modification, introspection, and change. It is
simple, and does not depend on any other library. It works well with
Prototype, jQuery, or MochiKit.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/extendjs/

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[012] - Geneious 2.5.2
by yogi (http://freshmeat.net/users/yogibear/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 00:02

Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

About: Geneious is an integrated bioinformatics tool suite for
manipulating, finding, sharing, and exploring biological data such as DNA
sequences or proteins, phylogenies, 3D structure information,
publications, etc. It features sequence alignment and phylogenetic
analysis, access to biological databases, BLAST, protein structure
viewing, NCBI, EMBL, PubMed auto-find, and more. It includes an API for
creating your own plugins.

Changes: A bug was fixed where users who had never installed Geneious
before did not get a free pro trial. These people will get a pro trial
when upgrading to version 2.5.2.

License: Freeware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/geneious/

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[013] - GhostKit 0.1.5
by Richard Harris (http://freshmeat.net/users/r_e_h/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 22:31

System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions :: CD-Based

About: GhostKit allows you to build a live CD from a Slackware
installation. It includes several build and development scripts,
documentation, example files of what must be altered in /etc/rc.d, and
much more. Instead of shipping with a particular kernel version, the
scripts build it from whatever version you have. It uses SquashFS and
UnionFS.

Changes: This version was updated for Slackware 10.2.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ghostkit/

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[014] - GLASHCtl 0.4.1
by Lars Luthman (http://freshmeat.net/users/larsl/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 06:31

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI

About: GLASHCtl is a simple applet for controlling the LASH Audio Session
Handler. When you run it, it will appear as a small LASH icon in your
"notification area" or "system tray" (if your desktop manager is
compatible with freedesktop.org's "System tray" standard). This is
typically somewhere in the panel in KDE or GNOME.

Changes: This release fixes the DockApp frontend so it works in Fluxbox
and Ion.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/glashctl/

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[015] - Gnash 0.7.2
by Rob Savoye (http://freshmeat.net/users/rsavoye/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 13:54

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: Gnash is a Flash movie player and Web browser plugin for Firefox,
Mozilla, Konqueror, and Opera. Gnash supports many SWF v7 features and
ActionScript3 classes. Gnash supports the majority of Flash opcodes up to
SWF version 7, and a wide sampling of ActionScript classes for SWF version
8.5. Gnash also runs on many GNU/Linux distributions, embedded GNU/Linux,
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, non x86-processors, and 64-bit architectures.
There is also a standalone player for GNOME or KDE based desktops.

Changes: A new GUI abstraction layer supporting GTK2, KDE, SDL, and a bare
framebuffer. Movies are parsed by a background thread, so they start
playing while still loading. The plugin supports Web navigation and starts
playing while the stream is loading. A new AntiGrain (AGG) 2D backend has
been added for framebuffer devices without OpenGL support. There is a new
Framebuffer GUI for devices without X11. Sound now works using ffmpeg,
Gstreamer, or libMad. This release supports cross-configuration and cross
compiling for embedded targets. A whole slew of minor bugs that kept
various movies from playing have been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnash/

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[016] - gnome-yum 0.1.5
by Tóth, András (http://freshmeat.net/users/tbandi/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 00:11

System :: Installation/Setup

About: gnome-yum is a graphical program which makes it easier to use and
setup the YUM install program. It displays the packages available on the
package service sites with filtering. The settings for package services
may be managed. The cache used by YUM can be managed to free up disk
space, manually install, and transfer downloaded packages. Detailed
information is displayed regarding the installed packages or package
files. The files in the packages can be displayed with a program chosen by
the user.

Changes: A Swedish translation was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnome-yum/

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[017] - GNU Parted 1.8.0
by David Cantrell (http://freshmeat.net/users/dcantrell/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 11:23

System :: Filesystems
System :: Installation/Setup

About: GNU Parted is a package for creating, destroying, resizing,
checking, and copying partitions and the file systems on them. This is
useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk
usage, copying data between hard disks, and disk imaging. It contains a
library, libparted, and a command-line frontend, parted, which also serves
as a sample implementation and script backend.

Changes: GPT disk label feature enhancements and bugfixes. IBM zSeries
disk label support for DASD block devices. AIX disk label support.
Geometry read problems on 64-bit systems have been fixed. Macintosh
(PowerPC and Intel) disk label fixes. Support for binary units (KiB, MiB,
and GiB). Support for /dev/mapper logical block devices via libdevmapper.
Exception handling fixes and other error fixes. User interface
improvements to the parted(8) interactive program.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnuparted/

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[018] - GNU Transport Layer Security Library 1.6.0
by Simon Josefsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/jas4711/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 11:16

Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries

About: GNU Transport Layer Security Library is a library which implements
a secure layer over a reliable transport layer such as TCP/IP. It
implements the TLS 1.1 and SSL 3.0 protocols, accompanied with
authentication methods such as X.509, OpenPGP, and SRP.

Changes: The first stable release of the development branch. Compared to
the 1.4.x branch, this release adds a GnuTLS C++ library and new APIs for
custom push/pull function error reporting. Windows is a supported
platform. Self tests are run under Valgrind, if available.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnutls/

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[019] - GOsa 2.5.6
by Cajus (http://freshmeat.net/users/cajus/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 06:25

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
System
System :: Systems Administration

About: GOsa is a PHP-based administration tool for role-based managing of
accounts and systems in LDAP databases. Standard configurations can manage
generic, POSIX/shadow, postfix/cyrus/sieve, pureftpd, fax, and samba 2/3
accounts in LDAP. It has plugins for Asterisk, FAI, and system/terminal
management. The look and feel can be easily adapted to users' needs.

Changes: Copy-and-paste functionality has been updated for a set of
plugins that didn't support it yet. Setup support for GraphicsMagick has
been added, and the netatalk plugin has been fixed to work with
copy-and-paste. Setup bugs have been cleaned. The Kerberos password method
has been fixed and updated to work with SASL. Several W3C fixes have been
implemented.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gosa/

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[020] - GradeL 0.7.3
by Allen Murphy (http://freshmeat.net/users/msumurph/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 00:01

About: GradeL is a gradebook program for teachers. It features an
easy-to-use GUI, and produces multiple reports.

Changes: AddDate now correctly sets the menu and context menu to
Attendance (check mark). The help system was updated. Grading modes for
"Straight Points" and "Weighted Categories" were added. The resizing of
the Gradel window was improved. This is now done using the menu item,
"VIEW | GRID SIZE", not with mouse dragging border. A distribution report
for marking period grades was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gradel/

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[021] - itools 0.14.5
by J. David Ibáñez (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdavidip/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 11:17

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Internationalization
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: itools is a collection of Python libraries which provides a wide
range of capabilities, including an abstraction over directory and file
resources, a search engine, type marshallers, datatype schemas, i18n
support, URI handlers, a Web programming interface, a workflow interface,
and support for data formats such as (X)HTML, XML, iCalendar, RSS 2.0, and
XLIFF.

Changes: The focus of this release is the new icms-make-package script,
which alongside the Quick Start document intends to make it easier for
Python developers to start building Web applications with itools.cms.
Apart from this new feature, some small bugs have been fixed, most notably
in itools.vfs and itools.stl.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/python-itools/

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[022] - JayOS 20061108-2
by Jay Lewis (http://freshmeat.net/users/modernpharoah/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 11:28

Software Development :: Embedded Systems
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: JayOS is a live CD distro intended for use as a more secure mobile
environment. It integrates in-RAM filesystem encryption with plausible
deniability for a system that can be difficult to alter without
rebuilding. This offers a user with a high degree of data integrity; since
all filesystems are either static or encrypted, the system is resistant to
physical attacks. Features 2.6 kernel, unionfs, many network security and
filesystem tools, UML, and QEMU. It runs well on low-end x86 hardware, and
requires only 128MB RAM and a bootable CD drive to get started. There is
some PowerPC support. Also included is standard desktop software. It is
based on Linux From Scratch.

Changes: The Web site was updated to be more user-friendly. A new hcreate
script will build an ISO with a blessed HFS+ filesystem suitable for
booting Intel machines with EFI firmware.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jayos/

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[023] - JGraph 5.9.2.1
by bensond (http://freshmeat.net/users/BessyBoo/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 06:42

Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation
Scientific/Engineering

About: JGraph is a free, mature, and robust Java Graphing framework that
fully complies with Swing design principles. It contains all the graph
visualization and interaction functionality you might expect in a graph
library, including multiple views, layering, zoom, drag and drop, undo,
automatic expanding and collapsing, routing, and layouts. You can create
stunning workflow editors, call graphs, CAD tools, network diagrams,
database visualization tools, and more. It can also be deployed on the
server-side with a large range of image exporting functionality. It is
fully documented and commercially supported.

Changes: This release fixes a critical bug in 5.9.2 which caused the
ordering of cells in the model not to be retained through specific
operations. It adds an option to not delete empty group cells in
DefaultGraphModel. This is currently the stable branch of JGraph; the 5.10
branch remains in beta.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jgraph/

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[024] - KSmoothDock 4.3
by dangvd (http://freshmeat.net/users/dangvd/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 11:20

Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)

About: KSmoothDock is a desktop panel, similar to KDE's kicker, for KDE
3.2. Its most distinctive feature is smooth icon zooming in one of two
modes: normal and parabolic. Its aim is to provide a cool alternative and
complement to kicker. As it is intended for KDE and Linux, its behavior
resembles that of kicker.

Changes: The "auto-hiding" feature has been re-implemented. A right-click
popup menu has been added for the pager, taskbar (re-added), and clock. An
option has been added to not show the Dock Position Conflict Dialog again.
The range of icon sizes has been increased. The desktop icon area is now
adjusted correctly. There are some other minor fixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ksmoothdock/

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[025] - Methane IRC Daemon 1.1.2
by Daniel Moss (Acidic32) (http://freshmeat.net/users/acidic32/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 17:29

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat

About: The Methane IRC Daemon is an advanced ircd based on Bahamut 1.4.35.
It sports dynamic config, host masking, advanced user modes, channel
admins, and half-operators. It also has SETHOST/SETIDENT/SETNAME as well
as CHGHOST/CHGNAME/CHGIDENT.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/methaneircd/

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[026] - MiniUPnP Client and Daemon 20061117
by nanard (http://freshmeat.net/users/nanard0/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 06:31

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: The MiniUPnP project is a library and a daemon. The library is
aimed to enable applications to use the capabilities of a UPnP Internet
Gateway Device present on the network to forward ports. The daemon adds
the UPnP Internet Gateway Device functionality to a NAT gateway running
OpenBSD through PF.

Changes: The daemon is now fully functional under Linux.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/miniupnp/

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[027] - mkvtoolnix 1.8.0
by Moritz Bunkus (http://freshmeat.net/users/Mosu/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 11:33

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion

About: 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, and RealVideo files. Supported audio formats include
Vorbis, RealAudio, MP3, MP2, FLAC, AC3, and AAC. Several subtitle formats
are supported, including SRT, SSA, ASS, VobSub, and many others. The
resulting files can be played back with various media players on
Linux/Unix or the Matroska Direct Show filters under Windows.

Changes: Support for the "stereo mode" and libFLAC 1.1.3 was added.
Several bugs were fixed in the Quicktime/MP4 and the AAC input module as
well as in mmg. mmg's "input" tab was reorganized to be less crowded.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mkvtoolnix/

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[028] - ModSecurity 2.0.4 (Stable)
by Ivan Ristic (http://freshmeat.net/users/ivanrristic/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 06:40

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: ModSecurity is an intrusion detection and prevention engine for Web
applications (sometimes called a Web application firewall). Operating
embedded or as part of an Apache reverse proxy, it increases Web
application security, protecting Web applications from known and unknown
attacks. It is flexible and easy to configure. It monitors HTTP traffic
(including POST payloads), detects or prevents attacks, enhances logging,
performs anti-evasion, and allows administrators to create custom rules to
suit their specific needs. It excels in HTTP traffic monitoring and
just-in-time vulnerability patching.

Changes: This release fixes the actions "deprecatevar" and "nolog", a rule
inheritance problem which occurred when there were no rules in the child
context, and a problem which caused the contents of a request body to be
lost between internal redirects. It is now possible to decrease a variable
value (not possible previously only because of a bug).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/modsecurity/

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[029] - Mr. LDIF 1.0
by giles hall (http://freshmeat.net/users/gilesh/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 22:32

System :: Networking :: LDAP

About: Mr. LDIF is a script that builds a seed LDAP authentication
database. It's similar to the PADL Migration Tools, but includes support
for porting Samba v3 users.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mr.ldif/

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[030] - Multiplication Flash 1.1
by Paul Sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/psherma1/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 00:04

Education :: Testing

About: Multiplication Flash is a simple flash card program to help kids
with their multiplication tables. There is nothing to set up; just open
the program and start practicing. It includes a lot of sounds and
encouragement, as well as playful disappointment (although sound can be
turned off if it gets to be too much for Mom or Dad.). You can practice
random problems or select a particular number to work on.

Changes: This version was tweaked to reset the current problem immediately
after setting a number series to concentrate on. Any initialization errors
that might cause sound to hang are now trapped.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mflash/

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[031] - nessquik 2.0
by Tim Rupp (http://freshmeat.net/users/caphrim007/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 11:13

Security

About: nessquik is a fast Web-based Nessus scanner that is intended to
replace the Nessus stand alone client. It uses the prototype.js library to
provide a responsive interface even when dealing with all of the available
Nessus plugins.

Changes: This release adds a settings page to configure individual scan
settings. It adds a scans page to view scan progress. It adds a scheduling
feature. You can save reports in text or HTML format, and email reports to
others.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nessquik/

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[032] - Nuxeo EP 5.0.0.RC (Development)
by Nuxeo (Open Source ECM) (http://freshmeat.net/users/nuxeo/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 06:27

Documentation
Education
Information Management :: Document Repositories

About: Nuxeo EP (Enterprise Platform) is the server-side, Java EE-based
part of the Nuxeo Enterprise Content Management platform. It provides a
framework and set of components to address document management and
collaboration needs, including metadata/taxonomies, versioning, lifecyle
management, workflow, relations, searching, reporting, transformation,
auditing, and retention. Its flexible extension system, based on OSGi,
allows developers to quickly configure and extend the platform by creating
new components. Its default Web user interface, based on the JSF standard,
uses AJAX to create a pleasant user experience. It can also be accessed by
a rich client interface through the use of Web services, for instance using
the Eclipse-based Nuxeo RCP rich client platform.

Changes: This release is a major rewrite of the Nuxeo CPS platform in
Java, using many available open source components from JBoss, Apache, and
Eclipse. The license has changed to the LGPL. An full-Java installer has
been developed to allow installing the application on Linux, Unix, MacOS,
or Windows in a few clicks.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nuxeoep/

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[033] - Pansophica 1.2-6
by dean (http://freshmeat.net/users/deanbittner/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 22:16

Information Management :: Document Repositories
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering

About: Pansophica employs artificial intelligence to analyze and present
Web sites and searches in a navigable, searchable and personal virtual
reality, making it easy to find Web documents.

Changes: This release was updated for the new Google page layout.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pansophica/

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[034] - PDF Split and Merge 0.6 stable release 2
by torakiki (http://freshmeat.net/users/torakiki/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 17:24

Utilities

About: PDF Split and Merge (pdfsam) is an easy-to-use tool that provides
functions to split and merge PDF files or subsections of them.

Changes: A French translation has been added. iText and JGoodies libraries
have been updated. There is print style selection for PDF pages in the
merge section, and a Win32 exe starter.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdfsam/

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[035] - phpWebSite 1.0.0
by phpwebber (http://freshmeat.net/users/phpwebber/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 13:53

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: phpWebSite provides a complete Web site content management
solution. All client output is valid XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web
Accessibility Initiative requirements. Features include articles, page
creation, menu management, an event scheduler, a form generator, and much
more.

Changes: This release is a total rewrite. It has better performance,
functionality, platform-independence, and ease of use.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwebsite/

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[036] - RabbIT 3.6
by Ernimril (http://freshmeat.net/users/ernimril/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 00:12

Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: RabbIt is a mutating, caching Web proxy used to speed up surfing
over slow links like modems. It does this by removing advertising and
background images and scaling down images to low quality JPEGs. RabbIT is
written in Java and should be able to run on any platform. It does depend
upon an image converter if image scaleing is on. The recommended image
converter is "convert" from the ImageMagick package.

Changes: GZip handling has been rewritten and rabbit can now unpack,
filter, and repack resources that are compressed. It is now possible to
configure the handlers of the same class differently. A bug with file
transfers that could cause rabbit to enter an infinite loop was fixed.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rabbit/

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[037] - Rehersal 2006.11.16.21
by Raph (http://freshmeat.net/users/raphaelcohn/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 06:23

Software Development :: Quality Assurance
Software Development :: Testing

About: Rehersal is a testing framework for Scala. It replaces the built-in
SUnit functionality. It uses Expectations rather than Assertions, with real
boolean operators. Tests can have any name, with any punctuation.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rehersal/

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[038] - Subsonic 2.9
by Sindre Mehus (http://freshmeat.net/users/sindre_mehus/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 04:16

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3

About: Subsonic is a Web-based media streamer. Although primarily
designed for MP3, it works for any media format that can stream over HTTP
(for instance WMA and OGG). With Subsonic you have access to your entire
music collection wherever you are. It is designed to handle very large
music collections (many thousand albums). It uses a combination of
directory structure and tag parsing to organize the music.

Changes: This release contains some significant performance and quality
improvements. Excessive disk and memory usage when (re)scanning the music
library has been eliminated. Thumbnails are now cached on disk; expect
significant speed-ups (after a while), particularly for huge images. The
thumbnail quality has been improved using step-wise bilinear resampling.
Searching is now twice as fast. Wiki markup is now supported in album
comments. Spanish and German translations have been added.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/subsonic/

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[039] - TagFu 0.2
by Alexander Botero-Lowry (http://freshmeat.net/users/draxvaz/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 00:05

Information Management :: Metadata/Semantic Models
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: TagFu is a Python library for tagging entities (which can be
anything with a URL) with Tags or metadata. It very closely mimics basic
Python data structures.

Changes: The extended attribute file association support was properly
integrated. The included example tool was made to work with the current
API. __contains__ and __getitem__ methods in Entity and Entities were made
more sane.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tagfu/

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[040] - tc-viewer 1.5
by Pawel 'snaj' Pawilcz (http://freshmeat.net/users/pawel_snaj/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 13:59

System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration

About: tc-viewer provides the ability to watch current transfers that take
place in HTB and HFSC traffic shaping classes on a specified interface.

Changes: A problem with high values of the parameter 'top' has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tcv/

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[041] - TEA for Linux 14.3.1
by roxton (http://freshmeat.net/users/roxton/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 04:14

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Text Editors
Text Processing

About: TEA is a modest and easy-to-use GTK+2-based editor with many useful
features for HTML editing. It features a small footprint, a tabbed layout
engine, support for multiple encodings, code snippets, templates,
customizable hotkeys, an "open at cursor" function for HTML files and
images, miscellaneous HTML tools, preview in external browser, string
manipulation functions, SRT subtitles editing, Morse-code tools,
bookmarks, syntax highlighting, and drag-and-drop support.

Changes: This release fixes some important and old bugs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/teaforlinux/

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[042] - Tera-WURFL Beta 1.4.2
by Steve Kamerman (http://freshmeat.net/users/kamermans/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 11:14

About: Tera-WURFL is a PHP class that can identify the capabilities of
mobile devices using the standardized Wireless Universal Resource File
(WURFL). This implementation uses the same methods as the stock PHP WURFL
library, but significantly improves performance by storing the WURFL data
in a MySQL database. You can also obtain a thumbnail image of the device
and include your own device definitions in a patch file. It can figure out
if the client visiting your site is a mobile device or a desktop Web
browser. It can also identify a wide variety of capabilities.

Changes: The Web update URL for the wurfl.xml file has been changed. The
file locations have been made absolute instead of relative, so you can run
the class from a different directory. An issue with the searching algorithm
has been fixed.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tera_wurfl/

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[043] - Typeface 0.3
by Lamer0 (http://freshmeat.net/users/CableLamer0/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 00:02

About: Typeface is blogging software geared toward developers who wish to
blog about their development cycle. This blog makes it easy to convey
thoughts and ideas about programming by posting syntax highlighted code
snippets. It supports the metaweblog API, extensive caching for speed, and
captcha image verification to fight against comment spam.

Changes: This is the second public release of typeface. The link for
creating a new page was fixed. Modification of pages was fixed. Code
cleanups were done. The ability to create pages that do not get added to
the tab drawer was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/typeface/

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[044] - web-chpass 1.3
by Chip Rosenthal (http://freshmeat.net/users/chiprosenthal/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 06:43

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
System :: Systems Administration

About: The web-chpass utility allows users to change their account
password through the Web. It was written with security and flexibility as
the primary concerns, and runs on systems that use PAM to manage user
authorizations.

Changes: This release resolves a Fedora 5 portability issue and gives a
useful message when a password has expired.

License: Freeware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/web-chpass/

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[045] - WebAPP 0.9.9.4 (Development)
by bantychick (http://freshmeat.net/users/bantychick/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 03:23

About: WebAPP stands for Web Automated Perl Portal. It features topics,
forums, instant messaging, "who's online", download sections, link
sections, wireless and Palm Pilot support, integrated newsletters,
complete site administration, admin database backups, multiple language
support, customization, password encryption, polls, administration
blocks and language administration, IP banning, and multiple spambot
protection.

Changes: A lot of changes and additions have gone into updates leading up
to this version. Many bugfixes, several security patches, and quite a few
new features are included. Improvements were made to existing features.
Some general overall core code cleanup was done.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webapp/

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[046] - xCHM 1.10
by Razvan Cojocaru (http://freshmeat.net/users/thewhiterabbit/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 04:13

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: xCHM is a cross-platform GUI frontend for CHMLIB, written with
wxGTK. It is able to display the topics tree, work with displayed pages
history, print the current page, work with bookmarks, change fonts and
fast search through all the pages of the loaded .chm document. Being
indirectly dependent on GTK+, the possibility of changing GTK+ skins makes
xCHM theme-friendly.

Changes: A major bug with wxGTK mutilated links is now fixed at the
filesystem handler scope, thus printing broken path images works now. It
is now possible to start with a known page instead of the CHM start page
(by using an argument of the form "file:fname.chm#xchm:/path/to/page" on
the command line). It is now possible to toggle the contents pane with the
F9 key (a la Firefox). The code was refactored to be wxGTK 2.7.x and 2.8.x
friendly. Swedish and Portuguese translations were added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xchm/

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[047] - XMacroJ 0.1.0
by Colin Saxton (http://freshmeat.net/users/ccs_embrace/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 01:53

Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Text Processing :: Markup

About: XMacroJ is an XML macro language for building text documents from
XML components. XMacroJ removes the reliance on using the include
directives and frees the programmer from locking the development directly
into a specific framework. Using XMacroJ, the developer can loosely couple
the development process to a framework by developing macros that wrap the
framework and then creating target documents that are based on the macros.
If the developer chooses to use a different framework, then only the macros
are changed and the target documents can be recompiled.

Changes: Insertions functionality was added. Insertions allow XML macros
to insert into multiple streams which are then concatenated together in
the target destination file. For example, you could use an insertion in a
macro to insert an include directive in an XHTML document header element,
or an import line when generating a Java file.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmacroj/

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[048] - XStream 1.2.1
by joehni (http://freshmeat.net/users/joehni/)
Fri, Nov 17th 2006 11:26

About: XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back
again. It is easy to use, does not require the definition of mappings, is
fast, and integrates with other XML APIs. It features customizable
conversion stategies.

Changes: A lot has changed since 1.1.2, especially for writing DOM
structures or JSON. A lot of new converters have been added. There is more
support for JDK 5-specific elements. JRockit and certain CGLIB proxies are
supported. Many more abilities are available to tweak the processed XML.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xstream/

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