Newsletter for Thursday, August 02nd 2007
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (47) :::
[001] - AntiVirus Scanner 3.2.1 (GPL)
[002] - BFlow 1.1beta
[003] - BlockOut II 2.3
[004] - CrissCross 0.6.5
[005] - Dolphin Accounting Software 6.0
[006] - DynaStop 07213.1821
[007] - EiffelStudio 6.1.6.9765 (Development)
[008] - FET 5.0.0
[009] - fetchconfig 0.8
[010] - Freeverb3 1.5.0 (VST plugin)
[011] - GAMGI 0.12.8
[012] - GeoTools 2.3.3 (Stable)
[013] - Ghostscript 8.60
[014] - GNU FreeIPMI 0.4.2
[015] - Greenstone 2.74
[016] - GUPnP 0.3
[017] - Humax 0.1
[018] - iksemel 1.3
[019] - itools 0.16.5
[020] - Jubler 3.3.0
[021] - jZeno 1.0.36
[022] - KCall 0.7.0
[023] - libAfterImage 1.15
[024] - libptytty 1.2
[025] - libTorrent 0.11.6
[026] - Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
[027] - Newsbeuter 0.5
[028] - Open Blue Lab Financial / Budget 1.1.7
[029] - OpenBerg Lector 2007.07.28
[030] - openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7 (Development)
[031] - OutKafe 5.2.0
[032] - Pairing 1.0
[033] - Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 28
[034] - Paypal Shopping Cart 3.5.2
[035] - Photo Organizer 2.34-rc1 (Development)
[036] - Pixane 0.5
[037] - Python Audio Tools 2.1
[038] - RabbitMQ 1.1.0-alpha
[039] - rTorrent 0.7.6
[040] - sudo 1.6.9p3
[041] - Ultimate++ 708-dev1 (Development)
[042] - Untangle Gateway Platform 5.0.1
[043] - VisIt 1.6.1
[044] - vlock 2.0-beta2 (Development)
[045] - WebGUI 7.4.1
[046] - WebLOAD Open Source 8.1.0.116
[047] - WorldForge::Ember 0.5.0
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[001] - AntiVirus Scanner 3.2.1 (GPL)
by Tara Milana, Wolfpack Entertainment
(http://freshmeat.net/users/learfox/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 05:30
Security
About: AVScan is an anti-virus scanner that uses the ClamAV library
(libclamav). It allows you to create a list of scan items for frequently
scanned locations and features on-demand virus database updating, manual
drag and drop object scanning, and pausing and resuming of scanning, all
in a simple GUI environment.
Changes: The scanner was updated to work with the new Clam Antivirus
0.91.x series.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/avscan/
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[002] - BFlow 1.1beta
by Paul Gillingwater (http://freshmeat.net/users/PaulGillingwater/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 06:03
About: BFlow is a Web-based business workflow management and help desk
tool. It features email and SMS notifications of tasks organized into
arbitrarily complex business processes. It includes escalations,
group-based access control, reporting, SLA measurements, and trouble
tickets.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bflow/
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[003] - BlockOut II 2.3
by Jean-Luc (http://freshmeat.net/users/Jean_Luc/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 11:06
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games
About: BlockOut II is an adaptation of the original Blockout DOS game
edited by California Dreams in 1989. It uses OpenGL on Linux and Direct3D
on Win32. BL II has the same features as the original game. Score
calculation is also nearly similar to the original.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/blockout/
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[004] - CrissCross 0.6.5
by moz (http://freshmeat.net/users/mozillagodzilla/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 08:07
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: CrissCross is a small cross-platform C++ library for console and
file I/O, fast data structures, CPU identification (CPUID), and sockets
(TCP and UDP). The main goal is to provide the ability to write a program
using identical calls on the major platforms (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Mac OS X) without needing to rewrite code. CPUID is
only currently supported on Linux and Windows running on x86 processors.
There is also theoretical support for IA-64 and x64 processors in 64-bit
mode, but only 32-bit mode has been tested.
Changes: CrissCross::Data::Compare now can compare C-style strings. An x64
target was added for Visual Studio 2005 projects. The
crisscross/crisscross.h file was added, which basically includes every
common CrissCross header. RedBlackTree now works with char* string keys.
The DStack::peek() function was added. XCrashReports support was added for
release builds. A few more cache descriptors were added to CPUID (Core 2
related ones). FastestSort and MemoryEfficientSort aliases were added by
request.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/crisscross/
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[005] - Dolphin Accounting Software 6.0
by Zeke Walker (http://freshmeat.net/users/zekebms/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 11:16
Internet
Office/Business
Office/Business :: Financial
About: Dolphin is Web-based accounting software that allows access to a
database from anywhere with an Internet connection, and features order
entry, invoicing, a shopping cart, inventory control, accounts payable,
accounts receivable, purchasing, general ledger, a CRM, marketing, a user
friendly point-and-click environment, the ability to email directly from
program, bulk emailing, a basic calculator for quick computations, and an
easy-to-use user administration area. The manual can be downloaded or
viewed online.
Changes: This release includes minor feature enhancements and bug fixes.
Dolphin is also available in modular form now.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dolphacct/
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[006] - DynaStop 07213.1821
by BpMatthias (http://freshmeat.net/users/BpMatthias/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 13:26
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Filters
Internet
About: DynaStop is a utility to examine IPv4 based addresses for Exim and
procmail for the purpose of filtering based upon patterns defined by the
administrator. This can be a pivotal factor in email filtering and server
load management, since dynamic IP addresses are typically used for
dial-up, DHCP, and DSL accounts. All of which have a designated mail
exchange server through which all outbound mail flows as defined with
many, if not most, large Internet service providers.
Changes: The DynaWall server is now fully supportive of shared memory by
using semaphores for locks. The need for /tmp or tmpfs for the lock file
has been removed, thus doubling the speed of the DynaStop server. More
code clean up has been done. Example configuration files have been
updated.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dynastop/
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[007] - EiffelStudio 6.1.6.9765 (Development)
by Emmanuel Stapf (http://freshmeat.net/users/manus_eiffel/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 11:16
Database
Office/Business
Software Development
About: EiffelStudio is an IDE for the Eiffel language (ECMA-367, ISO/IEC
25436, and ACM Software System Award 2006). It includes an Eiffel
compiler, an Eiffel GUI editor, an Eiffel code browsing tool, a diagram
editor with round-trip, a refactoring tool, a debugger, a profiler, and
Eiffel analysis tools (Metrics, Dependencies, etc.). Eiffel generates C or
CLI for .NET or Mono. Eiffel applies O-O principles and Design by Contract
for high-quality software. Many Eiffel libraries are included: ADT,
network, GUI, database, parsing (including an Eiffel parser), XML, Web,
COM, and more.
Changes: This is the first intermediate release of 6.1. The major change
is on Windows, where it now supports the MinGW C compiler. Other changes
includes all the fixes in the 6.0 MR release.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eiffelstudio/
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[008] - FET 5.0.0
by Zsolt Udvari (http://freshmeat.net/users/uzsolt/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 05:43
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
About: FET automatically schedules the timetable of a school, high school,
or university. It aims to have the same functionality as expensive
scheduling programs.
Changes: This release added place constraints and uses less memory.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fet/
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[009] - fetchconfig 0.8
by Everton da Silva Marques (http://freshmeat.net/users/evertonm/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 08:08
System :: Systems Administration
About: fetchconfig is a script for retrieving configurations for multiple
devices. It has been tested under Linux and Windows, and currently
supports a variety of devices, including Cisco IOS, Cisco Catalyst,
FortiGate, ProCurve, Parks, Alcatel Ethernet Routers (Riverstone), and
Dell PowerConnect switches.
Changes: Dell.pm for Dell PowerConnect switches was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fetchconfig/
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[010] - Freeverb3 1.5.0 (VST plugin)
by Teru KAMOGASHIRA (http://freshmeat.net/users/tkamogashira/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 07:31
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3
About: Freeverb3 is a sound processing library that includes a sampling
rate scaling enabled version of freeverb with some fixes, an extended
implementation of N Reverb by CCRMA, and an implementation of impulse
response convolution reverb. This library's oversampling feature may
provide higher quality of audio processing. It includes XMMS/beep media
player (BMP)/audacious effect plugins and sample programs, which can be
used to test the sound effect easily.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freeverb3/
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[011] - GAMGI 0.12.8
by carlos (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcgp/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 10:51
Education
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry
About: GAMGI (General Atomistic Modelling Graphic Interface) is a program
to build, view, and analyze atomic strucures such as molecules, crystals,
glasses, liquids, etc. It aims to be useful for: the scientific community
working in Atomistic Modelling that needs a graphic interface to build
input data and to view and analyse output data, calculated with Ab-Initio
and Molecular Mechanics programs; the scientific community at large
studying chemistry, physics, materials science, geology, etc., that needs
a graphic interface to view and analyse atomic structural information and
to prepare images for presentations in classes and seminars; teaching
chemistry and physics in secondary schools and universities; science
promotion in schools, exhibitions and science museums.
Changes: This release can export .ppm files (natively) plus .png, .jpeg,
and .tiff (thanks to pnmtopng, pnmtojpeg, and pnmtotiff). A trivial but
crashing bug in Group->Modify has been fixed. Documentation for all the
Object->Remove and Object->Modify dialogs and for Plane and Direction
interfaces and formats. Updated Help->Current, Help->Topic, and
Help->Start code to account for all the changes. Small changes in Bond and
Cell labels in interfaces, formats, and documentation, including Tutorials.
gamgi.org has been updated to reflect all the documentation and label
changes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gamgi/
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[012] - GeoTools 2.3.3 (Stable)
by Andrea Aime (http://freshmeat.net/users/aaime/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 10:47
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: GeoTools is a GIS toolkit that is used for OGC-based projects via
GeoAPI interfaces. It includes two great SLD based renderers and tools for
raster access and reprojection as well as plugins for Shapefile, ArcGrid,
ArcSDE, Postgis, OracleSpatial, MySQL, and many more.
Changes: The most notable changes are Oracle datastore improvements
(bugfixes and speed-ups), as well as improvements in coverage serving and
rendering speed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/geotools/
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[013] - Ghostscript 8.60
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 05:36
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: Ghostscript is a processor for PostScript and PDF files. It can
rasterize these files to a wide variety of printers, devices for screen
preview, and image file formats. Since applications tend to prepare pages
for printing in a high-level format such as PostScript, most Unix users
with low-level bitmap printers, such as inkjets, use GhostScript as part
of the printing process. In addition, Ghostscript is capable of converting
PostScript files, functionality comparable to Adobe Acrobat Distiller, but
on the command line. In addition, Ghostscript is used for file import and
viewing by a great many other applications, including xv, ImageMagick,
gimp, and xdvi. Several GUI wrappers for viewing PostScript and PDF files
exist, including GSview, ghostview, gv, ggv, and kghostview. This is far
from a comprehensive list.
Changes: This release finalizes the merge with ESP Ghostscript, adding
support for CUPS raster printer drivers. It also contains IJS and
OpenPrinting Vector interfaces for driver plug-ins, all built-in printer
drivers listed in the OpenPrinting database, X display drivers in a
separate shared library, and many other improvements and bugfixes. The
build process is now autotools-based. Temporarily, the GCC build defaults
to the 'bbox' device instead of the 'x11' device. The GPL is also now
applicable to the newest Ghostscript version, removing any functional
differences between AFPL and GPL Ghostscript.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ghostscript/
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[014] - GNU FreeIPMI 0.4.2
by Albert Chu (http://freshmeat.net/users/chu11/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 13:25
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
System :: Diagnostics
About: GNU FreeIPMI is a suite of packages for controlling hardware that
provides an interface compliant with the Intelligent Platform Management
Interface (IPMI) specification.
Changes: A bug in ipmimonitoring that could cause segfaults has been
fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freeipmi/
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[015] - Greenstone 2.74
by Oran Fry (http://freshmeat.net/users/oranfrycs/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 05:41
Communications
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
About: Greenstone is a complete digital library creation, management, and
distribution package for Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X. Users create
collections by gathering a set of input documents, specifying a
configuration file, and running the build script. It provides full-text
and fielded searching, browsable indexes, customised formatting, metadata
extraction (acronyms, languages, etc), a Z39.50 client, and many other
features. It supports many input formats, the interface is configurable
and multi-lingual, and collections can be distributed on the Web or on
CD-ROM.
Changes: This release fixed authentication bugs on Windows and bugs in the
remote GLI. Interface improvements were made in GLI. New 'NoText' metadata
can be used to suppress the dummy text. The remote GLI now works on IIS 6.
Open on the File menu is now disabled while a collection is loading to
prevent exceptions. You can now double click an index to bring up the
'Edit Index' window. Catalan and Vietnamese GLI interfaces were added.
There were also other improvements and bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/greenstone/
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[016] - GUPnP 0.3
by Zeeshan Ali (http://freshmeat.net/users/zeenix/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 05:43
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Object Brokering
About: GUPnP is an object-oriented open source framework for creating UPnP
devices and control points, written in C using GObject and libsoup. The
GUPnP API is intended to be easy to use, efficient, and flexible. The
GUPnP framework consists of two libraries. GSSDP implements resource
discovery and announcement over SSDP, and GUPnP implements the UPnP
specification: resource announcement and discovery, description, control,
event notification, and presentation (basic Web server functionality
through libsoup). GUPnP does not include helpers for construction or
control of specific standardized resources (e.g. MediaServer); this is
left for higher level libraries utilizing the GUPnP framework.
Changes: Embedded devices are now allowed to have their own UDNs. A
portability fix was included.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gupnp/
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[017] - Humax 0.1
by udooz (http://freshmeat.net/users/udumanm/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 07:28
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: Humax is a framework for developing RIA Web 2.0 applications. It
provides a rich set of object-oriented client-side libraries which work
seamlessly regardless of the server side technology used.
Changes: This was released with complete object orientation support.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/humax/
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[018] - iksemel 1.3
by Gürer Özen (http://freshmeat.net/users/madcat42/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 07:29
Communications :: Chat
Software Development :: Libraries
About: iksemel is a simple XML-parsing library written in C, oriented
towards use in the Jabber network. It's fast, has low memory overhead, and
is used in a number of embedded Jabber projects.
Changes: New functions for appending and prepending tree nodes were added
to the API. A file size bug in iks_load() was fixed. Extra padding in the
base64 encoder was fixed. Some possible leaks in the SASL code were fixed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/iksemel/
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[019] - itools 0.16.5
by J. David Ibáñez (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdavidip/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 08:01
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: This minor release includes better support for the Windows
platform. There are also several user interface improvements for the CMS,
including the tracker and the HTML editor.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/python-itools/
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[020] - Jubler 3.3.0
by Panayotis Katsaloulis (http://freshmeat.net/users/teras/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 05:52
Multimedia :: Video
Utilities
About: Jubler is a tool for editing text-based subtitles. It can be used
an an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert,
transform, correct, and refine existing subtitles. Some of its key
features are subtitle preview, smooth cooperation with MPlayer, full
subtitle editing, and ASpell support.
Changes: Automatic detection of MPlayer/ASpell executables, preview window
GUI updates, and support for Spruce DVDMaestro (STL) and MPL2 subtitles
(without formatting). Alt-mouse wheel or alt-click slows down rotation in
JTimeSpinner boxes. Autoload was fixed for Java 1.6 in Linux. Missing
tooltips were added. A gettext bug with the ' character was fixed. ffmpeg
support was improved. The application is now kept alive if "Close window"
is selected. A new window will not fully overlap old ones. Spanish,
French, and Serbian translations were introduced and the Czech, German,
Portuguese, and Greek translation were corrected. There were various
bugfixes and improvements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jubler/
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[021] - jZeno 1.0.36
by Dimitry D'hondt (http://freshmeat.net/users/dimitry_dhondt/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 13:22
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development
About: jZeno is a meta-project that integrates a collection of Java
libraries to form a ready-to-use Web development environment. The main
architectural goal of jZeno is to allow people to create Web applications
by using pure Java development as much as possible, largely reducing the
need to know technologies like Javascript, HTML, CSS, database-specific
SQL, and tons of different APIs.
Changes: A bug in errormessagescomponent (warnings) has been fixed.
Validation has been fixed to pre-render/rebind invisible pages on
DynaTables before validation. The TTL for DNS caching has been set to a
maximum of 5 minutes. SessionSyncFilter will always serialize unless using
an image/script service. A McKoi startup bug when using hibernate
annotations has been fixed. Processing of radio buttons with action
listeners has been fixed. BigDecimalViewer and ComponentUI have been added
for consistency. A bug in the NewsTicker component has been fixed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jzeno/
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[022] - KCall 0.7.0
by Tobias Hunger (http://freshmeat.net/users/bsk_hunger/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 08:09
Communications :: Internet Phone
Communications :: Telephony
Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
About: KCall is the telephony application of Kontact. It supports computer
telephony integration and at the same time integration into KDE's
infrastructure. KCall does this by using KDE's addressbook, which in turn
can be a server-based groupware addressbook. KCall uses the Decibel
realtime communication framework for call management.
Changes: This version is a port of the KDE3 codebase of earlier versions
of KCall to the KDE4 environment. This version now uses the Decibel
realtime communication framework to manage calls. DTMF tone support was
added.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kcall/
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[023] - libAfterImage 1.15
by Sasha Vasko (http://freshmeat.net/users/sashav/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 10:59
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Graphics
About: libAfterImage is an image import, storage, manipulation, and output
library for X. It features support for antialiased, TrueTypei, and X text,
a 128-bit internal graphics engine, in-memory RLE image compression, high
quality image scaling/flipping/blending, multipoint linear gradients,
superior quality image output on X drawables, and much more.
Changes: New features include image slicing, better support for 32-bit
visuals, and proper Gaussian blur with radii up to 128.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libafterimage/
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[024] - libptytty 1.2
by Marc A. Lehmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/pcg1/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 08:44
Security
Software Development :: Libraries
System
About: Libptytty is a small library that offers pseudo-TTY management in
an OS-independent way. It was created out of frustration over the many
differences of PTY/TTY handling in different operating systems for use
inside "rxvt-unicode". It also offers session database support (utmp and
optional wtmp/lastlog updates for login shells) and supports forking after
startup and dropping privileges in the calling process. It offers C++ and
C-only APIs.
Changes: This release fixes libptytty on systems that don't support
TIOCSCTTY (such as Cygwin and Solaris). It works around a bug in some
openpty implementations by using ttyname again. A small memory leak when
_getpty is being used was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libptytty/
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[025] - libTorrent 0.11.6
by Rakshasa (http://freshmeat.net/users/Rakshasa/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 05:44
Communications :: File Sharing
Software Development :: Libraries
About: LibTorrent is a BitTorrent library written in C++ for Unix. It is
designed to avoid the redundant buffers and data copying that most (all?)
other BitTorrent implementations suffer from. The library is
single-threaded and the client handles the select loop. An interactive
ncurses client is included as an example.
Changes: Numerous bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libtorrent/
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[026] - Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
by Tomasz Ostrowski (http://freshmeat.net/users/tometzky/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 05:32
Communications :: Email
About: Mozilla Thunderbird is a total redesign of the Mozilla mail
component to produce a cross-platform, stand-alone mail application using
the XUL user interface language. It has many new features, among them the
ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them. a new look and
feel with a large number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance
of the client, and the ability to add UI extensions.
Changes: Critical security problems were fixed.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/thunderbird/
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[027] - Newsbeuter 0.5
by Andreas Krennmair (http://freshmeat.net/users/akrennmair/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 08:10
Office/Business :: News/Diary
About: Newsbeuter is an RSS feed reader designed to be used on text
terminals on Unix and Unix-like systems. It was developed with texttools
users in mind, and thus its interface is similar to tools like mutt and
slrn.
Changes: Unicode compatibility has been added. A filter language for
flexible queries of feeds and articles has been implemented. Lock file
handling has been improved. HTML rendering has been improved. Support for
notifications (directly to screen sessions or via external programs) has
been added. The configurability of keys has been improved.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/newsbeuter/
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[028] - Open Blue Lab Financial / Budget 1.1.7
by Myriam (http://freshmeat.net/users/MyriamM/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 07:54
Office/Business
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
Office/Business :: Groupware
About: Open Blue Lab is a modular ERP, built on a plugin architecture.
Each business domain (such as Groupware, Financial, HCM, PLM, or SCM) is
separated into subdomains which are implemented through plugins. This
architecture permits you to choose only the components that suit your
needs. Each plugin is certified Zero Code, configurable through a GUI, and
may be adapted through the UML models provided.
Changes: In this version, the visibility of attributes was changed from
"public" to "private". All entities (classes, attributes, and methods) are
documented in order to allow HTML documentation generation. Finally,
iReport reporting has been integrated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openbluelab/
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[029] - OpenBerg Lector 2007.07.28
by Yoric (http://freshmeat.net/users/Yoric/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 08:05
Education
Information Management
Scientific/Engineering
About: OpenBerg Lector is an open-standards-based, multi-platform eBook
reader based on Firefox. It is comparable to Adobe Acrobat in its
purposes, but for a variety of book formats, including Microsoft Reader or
Comic Book Archives.
Changes: Several bugs related to automatic download of books were fixed.
Reading comfort with respect to comic books was slightly improved. Book
opening speed was improved. Error messages were improved.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openberg_lector/
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[030] - openSUSE 10.3 Alpha 7 (Development)
by binner (http://freshmeat.net/users/stbinner/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 11:17
System :: Operating System
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions
About: The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by Novell. It
promotes the use of Linux everywhere, and provides free, easy access to the
openSUSE Linux distribution.
Changes: The GNOME/KDE single CD installation media have been improved.
The distribution is now running on Linux 2.6.22.1, compiled with GCC
4.2.1, and managed by a stabilized libzypp software package library. New
artwork for the 10.3 release is now included.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/suselinux/
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[031] - OutKafe 5.2.0
by A.J. Venter (http://freshmeat.net/users/datadictator/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 07:55
About: OutKafe is a next-generation Internet cafe management suite. It was
forked from ZybaCafe with the aim of ultimately replacing all proprietary
parts with completely free components. It includes a server-side
administration suite as well as clients for managing time control on
machines. A powerful plugin architecture allows for easy extensibility and
integration with other tools such as accounting packages and CRM systems.
Changes: A powerful theme system for the login screens was added.
Multilingual support was added through gettext. Afrikaans and Portuguese
translations are already available. Several critical bugs were fixed. The
Windows client is no longer considered beta.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/outkafe/
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[032] - Pairing 1.0
by Andras Horvath (http://freshmeat.net/users/raas123/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 13:22
System :: Networking
About: Pairing is a tool to be run on a set of machines to get them paired
up for network-related activities, like network benchmarking or automated
software testing.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pairing/
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[033] - Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 28
by Dr Proctor (http://freshmeat.net/users/DrProctor/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 07:32
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Logging
About: Pantheios is a C/C++ logging API library. It offers an optimal
combination of complete type-safety, very high efficiency, genericity, and
extensibility. It is simple to use and extend, highly portable (platform
and compiler independent), and it upholds the C tradition of only paying
for what you use. Pantheios supports logging of message statements of
arbitrary complexity, consisting of heterogenous types. Pantheios supports
filtering of log messages based on severity level.
Changes: The Pantheios Tracing API was added, which enhances the standard
logging API for compilers that support variadic macros to include file and
line information in log statements. This requires STLSoft 1.9.4.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pantheios/
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[034] - Paypal Shopping Cart 3.5.2
by paypal (http://freshmeat.net/users/paypal/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 05:33
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Office/Business :: Financial
About: Paypal Shopping Cart is designed to accept PayPal payments. It
supports multiple categories and products, custom total price calculation,
discount pricing, image upload, a HTML order page generator, and instant
payment notification.
Changes: The international USPS shipping module was updated to supply USPS
server with supported weight values.
License: Other/Proprietary License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/paypalshoppingcart/
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[035] - Photo Organizer 2.34-rc1 (Development)
by Solomon Peachy (http://freshmeat.net/users/ShaftNet/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 10:56
Information Management :: Records Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: Photo Organizer is multi-user photo management tool that was
designed for professional photographers. It offers a searchable photo
database that supports photo version control, client management, photo
submission history, EXIF, IPTC, XML, and XMP, user quotas, a datebook, and
printing labels and color brochures in PDF and PS formats. It uses
PostgreSQL, features a Web interface, and uses ImageMagick and DCRAW to
handle over a hundred image formats including several RAW formats.
Changes: This release is under the GPLv3. A UI rework to use CSS and
improve themability. Full i18n support. UTF-8 internals. Real session
management. A new preferences backend. Improved importing and exporting. A
rewritten spool. Significant database speedups. Improved reliability and
error reporting. The old shopping cart infrastructure has been removed.
There are many other changes.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/photoorganizer/
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[036] - Pixane 0.5
by Evolane (http://freshmeat.net/users/evolane/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 06:04
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Libraries :: Tcl Extensions
About: Pixane is an image processing library for Tcl that allows the
scripting of all kind of image transformations. It supports reading from
and writing to a large set of file formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, WBMP,
etc) and provides anti-aliased text rendering and a set of built-in fonts.
It doesn't requires Tk, so it can be used to easily generate images
dynamically from CGI. Binaries are provided for many platforms as dynamic
libraries with no external dependencies for easy deployment. It is also a
core component of the eTcl distribution.
Changes: Dfont support on Mac OS X was added. A bug with reading
multi-frame GIF images with local palettes was fixed. A larger set of
compositing operators was implemented.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pixane/
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[037] - Python Audio Tools 2.1
by Brian Langenberger (http://freshmeat.net/users/tuffy/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 10:54
Documentation
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Ripping
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Writing
About: Python Audio Tools is a collection of audio handling programs that
work from the command line. These include programs for CD extraction,
track conversion from one audio format to another, track renaming and
retagging, track identification, CD burning from tracks, and more. It
supports internationalized track filenames and metadata using Unicode. It
works with high-definition, multi-channel audio as well as CD-quality.
Track conversion uses multiple CPUs or CPU cores if available to greatly
speed the transcoding process. Track metadata can be retrieved from FreeDB
or FreeDB-compatible servers. Audio formats supported are WAV, FLAC,
WavPack, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, M4A, and more.
Changes: This release adds a Python-based FLAC decoder and documentation
so that others can understand how the format is implemented.
Subdirectories are now created automatically as needed during track
creation.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/audiotools/
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[038] - RabbitMQ 1.1.0-alpha
by Matthias Radestock (http://freshmeat.net/users/mradestock/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 05:33
Communications
Software Development
System :: Networking
About: RabbitMQ is an implementation of AMQP, the emerging standard for
high performance enterprise messaging. The RabbitMQ server is based on a
proven platform, Erlang/OTP, offering exceptionally high reliability,
availability, and scalability. It delivers good throughput and latency
performance that is predictable and consistent. The code base is compact
and easily maintainable, facilitating rapid customization and hot
deployment. The RabbitMQ distribution also includes a Java client that
interoperates with any compliant AMQP server.
Changes: This release contains several bugfixes and enhancements in the
RabbitMQ server, the Java client libraries, and the examples, as well as
improvements to the documentation and packaging. It is recommended that
all users of earlier versions upgrade.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rabbitmq/
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[039] - rTorrent 0.7.6
by Rakshasa (http://freshmeat.net/users/Rakshasa/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 05:43
Communications :: File Sharing
About: rTorrent is a console-based BitTorrent client. It aims to be a
fully-featured and efficient client with the ability to run in the
background using screen. It supports fast-resume and session management.
Changes: Support for XMLRPC.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rtorrent/
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[040] - sudo 1.6.9p3
by Todd Miller (http://freshmeat.net/users/courtesan/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 11:00
About: Sudo (su "do") allows a system administrator to give certain users
(or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root
while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per-command
basis, it is not a replacement for the shell.
Changes: This release fixes a bug related to the supplemental group
matching introduced in 1.6.9.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sudo/
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[041] - Ultimate++ 708-dev1 (Development)
by Daniel Kos (http://freshmeat.net/users/unodgs/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 13:25
Software Development
Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Debuggers
About: Ultimate++ is a cross-platform C++ rapid application development
suite. It includes set of libraries (for things like GUI and SQL) and an
integrated development environment. Rapid development is achieved by smart
and aggressive use of C++ rather than through fancy code generators. In
this respect, U++ competes with popular scripting languages while
preserving C/C++ runtime characteristics. Its integrated development
environment, TheIDE, introduces modular conception to C++ programming, and
can be used to develop non-U++ applications.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/upp/
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[042] - Untangle Gateway Platform 5.0.1
by Untangle (http://freshmeat.net/users/Untangle/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 11:10
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: The Untangle Gateway Platform is a Linux-based network gateway with
pluggable modules for network applications like spam blocking, Web
filtering, anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, VPN, SSL VPN,
firewall, and more.
Changes: Bugfixes from 5.0.0-beta; this release is stable.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/untangle/
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[043] - VisIt 1.6.1
by Brad Whitlock (http://freshmeat.net/users/BradWhitlock/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 11:07
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Scientific/Engineering
About: VisIt is an interactive parallel visualization and graphical
analysis tool for viewing scientific data. Users can quickly generate
visualizations from their data, animate them through time, manipulate
them, and save the resulting images for presentations. VisIt contains a
rich set of visualization features so that you can view your data in a
variety of ways. It can be used to visualize scalar and vector fields
defined on two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) structured and
unstructured meshes. It was designed to interactively handle very large
data set sizes in the terascale range, and works well down to small data
sets in the kilobyte range.
Changes: This release includes a number of bugfixes and new features.
VisIt can be built automatically with the build_visit script on many
Linux, Mac OS X, and AIX platforms. The build_visit script downloads
relevant VisIt and 3rd party source code, and configures and builds it all
using your C++ compiler. This release can tunnel its network connections
through SSH, has support for reading several new file formats, and has a
new Macros window that allows 1-click access to user-defined Python
functions. Support for user settings and file association on the Windows
platform has been improved.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/visit/
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[044] - vlock 2.0-beta2 (Development)
by Frank Benkstein (http://freshmeat.net/users/toidinamai/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 05:37
Desktop Environment :: Tools
Security
Terminals
About: vlock is a program to lock one or more sessions on the Linux
console. This is especially useful for Linux machines which have multiple
users with access to the console. One user may lock his or her session(s)
while still allowing other users to use the system on other virtual
consoles. If desired, the entire console may be locked and virtual console
can be switching disabled.
Changes: Many improvements were made to security. As a result the commend
line can now no longer be called without locking the terminal. The source
code tree was cleaned up and all source code now resides in the "src"
subdirectory. A ChangeLog was added. The man pages, LICENSE, and README
files were updated. A SECURITY blurb was added. The -n,--new option was
changed and now implies -a,--all instead of requiring it.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vlock/
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[045] - WebGUI 7.4.1
by Graham Knop (http://freshmeat.net/users/Haarg/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 13:26
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Office/Business
About: 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)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webgui/
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[046] - WebLOAD Open Source 8.1.0.116
by WebLOAD (http://freshmeat.net/users/webload/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 05:42
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Software Development :: Testing
Software Development :: Testing :: Traffic Generation
About: WebLOAD is a professional performance testing, load testing, and
stress testing tool for Internet applications.
Changes: This build is much more stable than the previous one but still
contains several known issues. A "load generator stopped" isse was fixed.
Safer multi-threading support and better memory management were provided.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webload/
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[047] - WorldForge::Ember 0.5.0
by Alistair Riddoch (http://freshmeat.net/users/ajr/)
Thu, Aug 2nd 2007 11:10
Games/Entertainment :: Multi-User Dungeons (MUD)
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
About: Ember is a 3d client for the WorldForge project. It uses the Ogre
3d graphics library for presentation and CEGUI for its GUI system.
Changes: A completely new entity editor for in-game entity authoring has
been added. Some interface improvements such as terrain aware camera and
click to move have been made. The code has been upgraded to use Ogre 1.4.3
and CEGUI 0.5.0, as well as newer versions of OgreOpcode and PLSM2.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/worldforgeember/
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