Newsletter for Monday, September 03rd 2007
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (53) :::
[001] - Absolute OS 12.0.4
[002] - Adaptive Quality of Service Architecture 0.3.0 (aquosa-monitor)
[003] - Atomic OS 1.0.44
[004] - aurora framework 20070903
[005] - Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.6.8
[006] - biosdevname 0.2.3
[007] - BitNami LifeRay Stack 0.9
[008] - camp2ascii 0.9
[009] - cdrtools 2.01.01a35 (Development)
[010] - Claws Mail 3.0.0
[011] - CompBenchmarks 0.5.0-BETA2 (Development)
[012] - Conquest 8.3
[013] - coords 0.6
[014] - Decimail Server 0.14
[015] - DutchPIPE 0.4.1
[016] - ESMTP 0.6.0
[017] - FET 5.2.16
[018] - GNU TeXmacs 1.0.6.11
[019] - Grails 0.6
[020] - Griffith 0.9.5
[021] - gThumb 2.10.6
[022] - Holtz 1.2.0 (Beta)
[023] - ioCalendar 0.5feisty-InfodomesticObjects0.8.6
[024] - Java Classic RPG 2007-09-03
[025] - KSquirrel 0.7.1try2
[026] - Last File Manager 2.0
[027] - lftp 3.5.14
[028] - libpwmd 4.0.3
[029] - libquantum 0.9.1
[030] - Log for C++ 1.0 (Stable)
[031] - msort 8.41
[032] - Nuface 1.2.5
[033] - Nulog2 2.0-alpha1
[034] - OpenGrade 2.7.16
[035] - OpenVISP Stats 1.01
[036] - Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 32
[037] - Password Manager Daemon 1.0
[038] - php user class 1.0
[039] - phplist 2.10.5 (Stable)
[040] - phpPeanuts 1.4.beta1
[041] - policyd-spf-fs 21
[042] - poppler 0.5.91 (Development)
[043] - QuickFunctor 0.8.1.0
[044] - Statfink 0.9.8
[045] - TextCite: Publication Quotation Manager 1.0
[046] - The Blue Programming Language 1.2
[047] - Vortex Library 1.0.7
[048] - white_dune 0.29beta676 (Development)
[049] - Xerces-C++ 2.8.0
[050] - XINS 2.1-beta1 (Development)
[051] - Xournal 0.4.0.1
[052] - xtermcontrol 2.9
[053] - YourKit Java Profiler 7.0-build2092 (EAP)
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - Absolute OS 12.0.4
by Paul Sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/psherma1/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 14:03
About: Absolute is a lightweight Slackware Linux derivative distribution
that uses an Icewm, ROX-Filer window/file manager combination. It comes
with Firefox, The GIMP, MPlayer, K3B, kTorrent, Gaim, Frostwire, Gftp,
StarDict, Skype, and many other titles all set up and ready to run.
Several utilities are included to ease configuration and management. It is
compatible with all Slackware 11 packages and can be installed just like a
Slackware disk, except that you cannot choose which packages to install or
remove, as it just installs everything.
Changes: The kernel source was misconfigured (to compile against), and
kernel size was too large for older PCs. This has been fixed. The source
code for ROX was altered for nice interface additions, NTFS read-write was
implemented, and K3B now works for user accounts without any extra
configuration.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/absolute-os/
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[002] - Adaptive Quality of Service Architecture 0.3.0 (aquosa-monitor)
by cucinotta (http://freshmeat.net/users/cucinotta/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 03:57
Multimedia
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: AQuoSA is an open architecture for the provisioning of adaptive
Quality of Service functionality into the Linux kernel. The project
features a flexible, portable, and lightweight software architecture for
supporting QoS-related services on top of a general-purpose operating
system as Linux. The architecture is well founded on formal scheduling
analysis and control theoretical results. At the core of the software is
an adaptive Resource Reservation layer that is capable of dynamically
adapting the CPU allocation for QoS-aware applications based on their
run-time requirements.
Changes: It is now possible to enclose threads (besides processes) in a
reservation. There is one more tab that allows servers and tasks enclosed
within to be graphically managed. In fact, with simple drag and drop
operations, it is possible to move processes or threads (tasks) across
servers.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aquosa/
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[003] - Atomic OS 1.0.44
by Scott Elcomb (http://freshmeat.net/users/dl33t/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 10:47
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: User Interfaces
About: Atomic OS is a responsive Web 2.0 operating environment and
development platform. Based on AJAX techniques, it emulates/provides
standard operating system features including a command line shell,
interpreter, filesystem, database access, and GUI services.
Changes: This interim release is a complete rewrite, providing an object
oriented core, support for embedded graphics, and offline persistence.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/atomos/
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[004] - aurora framework 20070903
by Oktay Acikalin (http://freshmeat.net/users/TheBlackLion/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 04:48
Database :: API
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: aurora framework is a slim modular MVC framework written in PHP5
for rapid development of Web or console applications featuring an
integrated database API, template logic, pretty URLs,
internationalization, caching, data models, and a multi-layered file tree.
Changes: URLs can now be named and called within templates. A bug within
the DB API where a query could destroy a collection was fixed. Models now
ignore empty values so that you can't add empty elements to an m2m-list
(so model-example works again).
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/auroraframework/
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[005] - Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.6.8
by napi (http://freshmeat.net/users/napi/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 03:53
Software Development :: Compilers
About: AMPC compiles C programs directly into Java bytecode to run on any
platform where a Java runtime is available. AMPC can also be used to
integrate C and Java programs since AMPC's C functions can directly call
numerous Java methods and vice versa. AMPC supports ANSI C 1989 (ISO
1990). A JNI (JVM Native Interface) feature is available for calling
native C or C++ functions. AMPC supports the C standard library as well as
TCP/IP, ODBC, and graphics libraries. J2ME CDC 1.1 for mobile devices is
also supported.
Changes: Error handling of parameter passing of struct/union variables was
improved.
License: Other/Proprietary License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ampc/
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[006] - biosdevname 0.2.3
by Matt Domsch (http://freshmeat.net/users/mdomsch/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 07:12
System :: Hardware
System :: Systems Administration
About: biosdevname in its simplest form takes a kernel device name as an
argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it "should" be. This is
necessary on systems where the BIOS name for a given device (e.g. the
label on the chassis is "Gb1") doesn't map directly and obviously to the
kernel name (e.g. eth0).
Changes: libbiosdevname and the libsysfs dependency were eliminated.
Packaging for Fedora and OpenSUSE RPMs and integration with udev 114 were
improved.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/biosdevname/
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[007] - BitNami LifeRay Stack 0.9
by Daniel Lopez (http://freshmeat.net/users/ridruejo/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 13:57
Information Management
Internet
About: BitNami Roller stack is an easy to install distribution of the
LifeRay portal software. It includes pre-configured, ready to run versions
of Tomcat and MySQL, so users can get LifeRay install up and running in
minutes after answering a few questions. Although the initial version is
only for Linux x86 systems, Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris versions are
planned.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bitnamiliferay/
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[008] - camp2ascii 0.9
by Mathias Bavay (http://freshmeat.net/users/math/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 13:58
Scientific/Engineering
About: camp2ascii is a tool for converting Campbell Scientific binary
files into ASCII (formatted as CSV, SQL, etc.). It extracts the data
stored in the binary files created by data loggers while trying to be
fast, reliable, and to extract as much information as possible. It should
also work on a wide range of platforms.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/camp2ascii/
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[009] - cdrtools 2.01.01a35 (Development)
by Jörg Schilling (http://freshmeat.net/users/schily/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 04:41
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Ripping
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Writing
System :: Archiving
About: cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs/DVDs with a
CDR/CDRW/DVD recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications.
It supports CD/DVD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc-
and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features
include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs,
and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), DVD-R/-RW,
DVD+R/+RW, TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools
includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD/DVD
writers.
Changes: Cdda2wav now has new option, -start-sector, to start on an
absolute sector number as a first step to allow cdda2wav to be used as a
GStreamer plugin. The cdda2wav man page now lists all options. Libparanoia
dynamic overlap setup now uses a correct start value.
License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdrecord/
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[010] - Claws Mail 3.0.0
by Paul Mangan (http://freshmeat.net/users/daWB/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 03:52
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Communications :: Usenet News
About: Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client.
Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many
features such as multiple accounts, POP3/SMTP/IMAP/NNTP support, OpenSSL,
GnuPG, and LDAP support, a plugin system, spell checking, filtering,
Actions, spam and virus filters, an address book, internationalization,
and much more.
Changes: A Tags feature, a "watch thread" feature, options to stop or
enable writing logs to disc, the ability to edit all LDAP Person
attributes, a new script that imports a Mew address book, and a new script
that will open selected messages in POPFile control center were added. The
running of folder Processing rules on demand was enabled. Threads can now
be sorted by the most recent message. Rendering of larger msgs was sped up
and cleaned up. Many improvements were made for the Maemo port. The manual
was updated. 12 translations were updated. Several bugs were fixed. The
license was changed to GPLv3 or later.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/claws-mail/
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[011] - CompBenchmarks 0.5.0-BETA2 (Development)
by Frederic Trouche (http://freshmeat.net/users/xft/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 16:20
Software Development
Software Development :: Compilers
System :: Benchmark
About: CompBenchmarks automates installation, configuration (using
specific compilers or arbitrary options), and evaluation of some
well-known C/C++ benchmarks and applications. Results are given in easily
parseable plain text files that can be sent to the CompBenchmarks Web
site.
Changes: An improved build process. An automated test suite. Many
bugfixes. 61 supported benchmarks and applications. Precision of measures
up to a millisecond. XML-based configuration and messages. An XML compiler
options database.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/compbench/
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[012] - Conquest 8.3
by Jon Trulson (http://freshmeat.net/users/jont/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 16:25
Games/Entertainment :: Real Time Strategy
Internet
About: conquest is a real-time multi-player space warfare game originally
written in ratfor for the vax/vms platform. It was an early predecessor to
netrek.
Changes: This version is a major upgrade from 8.2. It adds full sound
support via SDL and SDL_Mixer, magfactors (zoom in/out on LR/SR scan), and
several fixes and improvements to the GL client. TCP Wrappers is now
optionally supported in conquestd and conqmetad.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/conquest/
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[013] - coords 0.6
by before (http://freshmeat.net/users/before/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 10:42
Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
About: coords is a planetarium program. It's still under construction, but
it does a good job of showing the sky with stars and planets at the correct
positions.
Changes: The BSC has been replaced with the better Hipparcos star catalog.
There are other minor changes.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/coords/
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[014] - Decimail Server 0.14
by Phil Endecott (http://freshmeat.net/users/endecotp/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 14:00
Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP
Database
About: Decimail Server is a mail server supporting IMAP and SMTP that uses
a PostgreSQL database to store messages. Mailboxes are defined using SQL
queries, allowing complex client-independent automatic message filtering
and categorisation. For example you can partition your messages
chronologically, by correspondent, and by mailing list at the same time,
with each message appearing in several mailboxes. You can also use
PostgreSQL's text indexing extension for fast keyword searching. Decimail
also features anti-spam processing of outgoing messages.
Changes: This version fixes a couple of bugs in the daemons that had
prevented operation with mutt and could lead to infinite loops while
receiving mail. It also replaces the three database tables for to, cc, and
bcc addresses with a single 'recipients' table, which simplifies many
database queries.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/decimail/
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[015] - DutchPIPE 0.4.1
by Lennert Stock (http://freshmeat.net/users/lennert/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 14:02
Communications :: Chat
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Multi-User Dungeons (MUD)
About: DutchPIPE allows Web developers to make virtual multi-user "avatar"
environments. Each Web page becomes an abstracted environment or location
where visitors and other items on the page are visualized. This status is
retained as visitors move around. A lot of real-time interaction is
possible, resulting in persistent interactive page environments. DutchPIPE
uses AJAX and the DOM for the browser, and it works without Java, Flash,
plugins, or firewall adjustments.
Changes: Users can now upload their own avatar using a new AJAX upload
feature. There are improvements in object image handling.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dutchpipe/
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[016] - ESMTP 0.6.0
by José Fonseca (http://freshmeat.net/users/jrfonseca/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 10:19
Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents
About: ESMTP is a user-configurable relay-only MTA with a
sendmail-compatible syntax, based on libESMTP and supporting the AUTH
(including the CRAM-MD5 and NTLM SASL mechanisms) and StartTLS SMTP
extensions.
Changes: This release handles CR-LF newline endings when parsing the
headers. It has a wrapper script for offline mail delivery. It documents
how to get CA certificates. There are corrections to the man pages. Tips
for adding missing Date: headers in messages for local delivery. A
reasonable default for the reverse path is used when one is not specified,
instead of an empty one. A segfault when expanding %F in the MDA string
when the reverse path is not specified has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/esmtp/
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[017] - FET 5.2.16
by Zsolt Udvari (http://freshmeat.net/users/uzsolt/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 03:53
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
About: FET (free timetabling tool) automatically schedules the timetable
of a school, high school, or university. It aims to have the same
functionality as expensive scheduling programs.
Changes: The precomputation now displays a progress bar. Small bugfixes
and improvements were made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fet/
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[018] - GNU TeXmacs 1.0.6.11
by Joris van der Hoeven (http://freshmeat.net/users/vdhoeven/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 10:44
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Office/Business :: Office Suites
Scientific/Engineering
About: GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want)
editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims
to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured
documents with different types of content: text, mathematics, graphics,
interactive content. TeXmacs can also be used as an interface to many
external systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, and statistics.
New presentation styles can be written by the user and new features can be
added to the editor using Scheme.
Changes: This version re-implements the TeXmacs file system in C++ and
provides additional control for developers over windows and buffers. A
plugin for Sage has been added, a long-standing menu bug has been
corrected, and further reorganization of the graphics mode is in progress.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/texmacs/
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[019] - Grails 0.6
by dr_jumba (http://freshmeat.net/users/dr_jumba/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 07:08
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: Grails is a high-productivity Web framework for the Java platform
designed according to the MVC paradigm.
Changes: Joint Groovy/Java compilation was added. Spring Web Flow was
integrated. Spring scopes are supported to allow scoped services. Support
for REST was improved with automatic XML/JSON marshalling and RESTful URL
mappings. A new Config DSL was added for configuration that is not
possible by convention. The scaffolding interface and branding were
refreshed. Sitemesh inline decorators are supported. Controllers can now
call tag libraries as methods. New GSP tags were added. Massive
improvements were made to the speed of start-up, unit tests, and
generation tools.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/grails/
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[020] - Griffith 0.9.5
by iznogoud (http://freshmeat.net/users/_iznogoud_/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 04:42
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
About: Griffith is a film collection manager application. Adding items to
the movie collection is as quick and easy as typing the film title and
selecting a supported source. Griffith will then try to fetch all the
related information from the Web.
Changes: The backup function was fixed. The movie plugins for 7arte,
IMDB-de, and KinoDE were updated. Several changes were made to the loan
email reminder system. A loan email reminder timeout was implemented. TLS
SMTP auth handshaking is supported. SMTP server port usage was added.
Gmail SMTP server support was added. Catalan and Norwegian Bokmal
translations were added. The Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French,
German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian translations were
updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/griffith/
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[021] - gThumb 2.10.6
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 10:30
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: gThumb is an image viewer written for the GNOME environment. It
lets you browse your hard disk, showing you thumbnails of image files. It
also lets you view single files (including GIF animations), organize
images in catalogs, print images, view slideshows, set your desktop
background, and more. gThumb also supports Nautilus thumbnails.
Changes: Several new key bindings were added. The speed of remote location
browsing was improved. The GUI was made more responsive during remote
operations and during video thumbnail creation. The loading of EXIF
DataTime tags was sped up significantly. Thumbnails of deleted files are
now also deleted. Several minor bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gthumb/
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[022] - Holtz 1.2.0 (Beta)
by Martin Trautmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/martintrautmann/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 14:01
Games/Entertainment
About: Holtz is an implementation of the abstract strategy games Zèrtz and
Dvonn from the GIPF project. Zertz is about placing and capturing marbles
on a shrinking board. Dvonn is about moving stacks of pieces. The higher
the stack, the faster it moves, so the tension increases until the very
end. Holtz allows playing locally, over a TCP/IP network, or against a
rudimentary AI. It also offers some user hints for an easy start into the
game.
Changes: Zertz and Dvonn are supported. This release has a more robust
network protocol, and fewer bugs than previous versions.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/holtz/
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[023] - ioCalendar 0.5feisty-InfodomesticObjects0.8.6
by Luca Cappelletti (http://freshmeat.net/users/LucaCappelletti/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 04:02
Office/Business :: Scheduling
About: ioCalendar is a calendar for Infodomestic Objects. It is developed
and tested under Ubuntu Linux, and can be run with just one click without
installation on your system. It is based on Mozilla Sunbird Calendar.
Changes: This version uses the original Mozilla Sunbird 0.5 binary, and
was packed using Infodomestic Objects SpatialBundles 0.8.6. The tray icon
now has full access to Sunbird ProfileManager via the Action->Controls
menu. Interaction and experience were improved via the Infodomestic
Objects style layout runtime add on. All the source code of the
SpatialBundle wrapper is inside the wrapper (but is not ready for the
masses).
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/iocalendar/
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[024] - Java Classic RPG 2007-09-03
by skrionius (http://freshmeat.net/users/skrionius/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 07:08
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
About: Java Classic RPG is an RPG framework, engine, and game that uses
OpenGL, a challenging AI, huge territories, and classic pen-and-paper
turn-based combat. It is in the tradition of games like Wizardry 7 and
EOB, but incorporates innovations made possible by modern computing
technology. The framework and engine feature a self-containing, playable,
algorithmically-generated world, and can be the base for new games.
Changes: This is an optimization release with the addition of the new Cave
geography. Many parts of the 3D core were optimized. Vertex and fragment
shaders were added for a grass and foliage wind effect. Geometry batching
was added to the loading of terrain tiles, models, grass, and foliage. A
cave inside the mountain is now available.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jcrpg/
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[025] - KSquirrel 0.7.1try2
by Krasu (http://freshmeat.net/users/Krasu/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 10:34
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: KSquirrel is an image viewer for KDE. Image loading is based on
external codecs (ksquirrel-libs). Customized filters, external programs, a
file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails with the information on the
image, a DCOP interface, preview window and flexible options are
available. Since version 0.7.0-pre1, KIPI support is also available. It
currently supports 51 image formats, including Photoshop PSD, CRW, DXF,
WMF, MNG, SVG, and JPEG2000.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ksquirrel/
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[026] - Last File Manager 2.0
by Iñigo Serna (http://freshmeat.net/users/inigo/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 16:24
System :: Filesystems
Utilities
About: Lfm is a curses-based file manager for the Unix console written in
Python.
Changes: Many new features and improvements. This release implements tabs,
coloring files by extension, complete rewriting/refactoring/cleaning of the
code, new IPC code and API, a new un/compress VFS API, support for .zip and
rar files, some speed-ups, man pages, and locale support. It has been
updated to the GPL v3, and many bugs have been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lfm/
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[027] - lftp 3.5.14
by Alexander V. Lukyanov (http://freshmeat.net/users/avl/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 04:37
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: lftp is a sophisticated command line based file transfer program.
Supported protocols include FTP, HTTP, SFTP, and FISH. It has a
multithreaded design allowing you to issue and execute multiple commands
simultaneously or in the background. It also features mirroring
capabilities and will reconnect and continue transfers in the event of a
disconnection. Also, if you quit the program while transfers are still in
progress, it will switch to nohup mode and finish the transfers in the
background. Additional protocols supported: FTP over HTTP proxy, HTTPS and
FTP over SSL. There are lots of tunable parameters, including rate
limitation, number of connections limitation and more.
Changes: FTP reply is handled with code 125, the same as code 150. The
French translation was updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lftp/
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[028] - libpwmd 4.0.3
by Ben Kibbey (http://freshmeat.net/users/bjk/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 10:27
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Utilities
About: libpwmd is a library that makes it easy to patch applications to
use pwmd (Password Manager Daemon). It supports password retrieval from a
pinentry program.
Changes: A few command line options to the pwmc client for adjusting
pinentry settings and ouputting command output to a specified file
descriptor. A couple of minor bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libpwmd/
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[029] - libquantum 0.9.1
by Hendrik Weimer (http://freshmeat.net/users/hweimer/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 07:05
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Libraries
About: libquantum is a C library for the simulation of quantum mechanics,
especially for quantum computing. It provides an interface for a quantum
register and for all important quantum operations. An efficient model for
decoherence allows an analysis of quantum computation in a realistic
environment.
Changes: This release adds an interface for time-evolution of arbitrary
Hamiltonians using a fourth-order Runge-Kutta algorithm. The license has
been changed to GPLv3 and several bugs have been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libquantum/
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[030] - Log for C++ 1.0 (Stable)
by Waffel (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomaswabner/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 14:00
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Logging
About: Log for C++ is a library of classes for flexible logging to files,
syslog, and other destinations. It is modeled after the Log for Java
library and stays as close to its API as is reasonable.
Changes: This release includes many bugfixes and enhancements.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/log4cpp/
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[031] - msort 8.41
by Bill Poser (http://freshmeat.net/users/billposer/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 03:52
Text Processing
Text Processing :: Linguistic
Utilities
About: Msort sorts files in sophisticated ways. Records may be fixed size,
newline-separated blocks, or terminated by any specified character. Key
fields may be selected by position, tag, or character range. For each key,
distinct exclusions, multigraphs, substitutions, and a sort order may be
defined or locale collation rules used. Comparisons may be lexicographic,
numeric, numeric string, hybrid, random, by string length, angle, domain
name, date, time, month name, or ISO8601 timestamp. Keys may be reversed
so as to generate reverse dictionaries. Optional keys are supported.
Unicode is supported, including full case-folding. Msort itself has a
somewhat complex command line interface, but may be driven by an optional
GUI.
Changes: Time and date-time keys may now contain ISO 8601 timezone
specifiers. The hyphen and colon separators in ISO 8601 date-time strings
are now optional, as per the standard.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/msort/
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[032] - Nuface 1.2.5
by Vincent Deffontaines (http://freshmeat.net/users/gryzor/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 04:23
Security
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: Nuface is a Web-based administration tool that generates Edenwall,
NuFW, or simple Netfilter firewall rules. It features a high level
abstraction on the security policy set by the administrator, and works
internally on an XML data scheme. Its philosophy is to let you agglomerate
subjects, resources, or protocols into meta-objects, and use those meta
objects to generate ACLs, which are then interpreted as netfilter rules by
Nupyf, the internal XML parser. This tool may easily be extended to support
firewall implementations other than Netfilter.
Changes: A new option, "$disable_check_net", was introduced for tricky
network topologies. A bug in index where language persists through the
session was fixed. Support for IPSEC VPN integration was added. Various
interface bugs were fixed, especially for 100% non-NuFW firewalls.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nuface/
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[033] - Nulog2 2.0-alpha1
by regit (http://freshmeat.net/users/regit/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 13:58
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: Nulog2 is a complete rewrite of Nulog, the historical filtering log
analysis solution from INL. It is an application built upon Twisted, an
advanced Python framework. It analyzes logs from Netfilter and/or NuFW and
displays them on a Web page.
Changes: All features of the original Nulog have been implemented, and
there are also new features like the ability to display graphics on a
summary page or IPv6 support.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nulog2/
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[034] - OpenGrade 2.7.16
by Ben Crowell (http://freshmeat.net/users/bcrowell/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 13:58
Education
About: OpenGrade is software for teachers to keep track of grades. It can
put the students' grade reports on a Web server and allow the students
password-protected access to them.
Changes: Features have been added to make it more convenient to print
reports, or open them in a text editor. For categories that are ignored
for purposes of computing grades, informational statistics are now
displayed in the GUI and in the appropriate reports.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/opengrade/
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[035] - OpenVISP Stats 1.01
by Xavier Beaudouin (http://freshmeat.net/users/magicduck/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 10:41
Communications :: Email
Internet :: Log Analysis
System :: Logging
About: OpenVISP Stats is a merge of mailgraph and couriergraph. It
contains some enhancements that mailgraph doesn't have, and aims to be
more generic than mailgraph and avoid duplicate code between two separate
projects.
Changes: This release has an updated init script, and adds dovecot, exim,
and a spamassin milter. Changes from mailgraph 1.14 have been ported.
Minor cosmetic stuff has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ovs/
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[036] - Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 32
by Dr Proctor (http://freshmeat.net/users/DrProctor/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 07:09
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: Fixes were made for 64-bit UNIX compatibility.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pantheios/
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[037] - Password Manager Daemon 1.0
by Ben Kibbey (http://freshmeat.net/users/bjk/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 10:22
Information Management
Security
Security :: Cryptography
About: Password Manager Daemon serves clients data via a local socket. The
data is stored in an encrypted XML file, and the client must provide the
key to modify it. There is also a library available to make patching
applications to use the daemon easier.
Changes: It is now up to the client to determine if a file is new or not.
There are a few minor bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pwmd/
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[038] - php user class 1.0
by Nick Papanotas (http://freshmeat.net/users/Nikolas1/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 13:58
Database
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
About: phpUserClass is a flexible solution for user management under PHP
and MySQL. The class uses variable settings for most things (database
tables, fields, cookie and session variables, etc.), so it can be easily
used with new or established projects.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpuserclass/
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[039] - phplist 2.10.5 (Stable)
by Michiel (http://freshmeat.net/users/michiel/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 14:01
Communications :: Email :: Mailing List Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: phplist is a mailing list and newsletter manager that allows
posting via a Web page. It works well when used for announcements, and can
handle very large email address lists. Users can sign up to multiple lists,
but will only receive a single copy of cross-posted messages. When signing
up, users can identify their geographical location, and messages can be
targetted to these. You can add place holders in your email that will be
replaced with personal details (such as the person's name). Users can
update their own information, and unlike many other mailing list systems,
they can change their email address. HTML emails are supported.
Changes: Quite a few bugs and confusing elements were ironed out.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phplist/
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[040] - phpPeanuts 1.4.beta1
by phpPeanuts (http://freshmeat.net/users/phppeanuts/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 07:04
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: PhpPeanuts is a framework for developing database-backed
applications in PHP. It supports high and sustainable developer
productivity by default reasoning and the "once and only once" principle.
It features the extended dynamic scaffolding of complete Web-based
applications (user interface and ORM) from meta data, including CRUD,
relations, and Query By Example. Its dynamic nature and high adaptability
allow a very agile development style to remain highly productive (thus
enjoyable) in later phases of development and maintenance.
Changes: Support was added for user authorization on the application and
type level, cross site scripting and request forgery prevention, cascaded
delete, protection against delete if dependents exist, the use of database
transactions, database abstraction with direct support for MySQL and
SqlLite 2 databases and other databases through the PDO interface
(requires PHP5). A user administration and authentication plugin is
avaliable separately.
License: Academic Free License (AFL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phppeanuts/
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[041] - policyd-spf-fs 21
by squid (http://freshmeat.net/users/cramer/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 10:31
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents
About: policyd-spf-fs is a policy daemon for Postfix to check SPF records
(RCF 4408). It uses the libspf2 library. Currently, it is only tested to
run under Debian/GNU Linux, but it should be compilable under most *NIX
derivates with a recent gcc.
Changes: The debug code has been cleaned up. 2mx code that caused problems
has been disabled.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/policyd-spf-fs/
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[042] - poppler 0.5.91 (Development)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 14:02
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: Poppler is a PDF rendering library derived from xpdf. It has been
enhanced to utilize modern libraries such as freetype and cairo for better
rendering. It also provides basic command line utilities.
Changes: Various memory leaks were fixed. Building with the Sun Force
compiler was fixed. Access to document metadata in the Glib and QT4
frontends was enabled. A crash on accessing embedded files was fixed.
Password form fields now display asterisks instead of the true content.
Japanese font support was improved. Files that confuse libjpeg do not lead
to an abort anymore. Cairo >= 1.4 is now required.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/poppler/
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[043] - QuickFunctor 0.8.1.0
by Ciobi (http://freshmeat.net/users/ciobi07/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 14:04
Software Development :: Libraries
About: QuickFunctor is a C++ functor library with many improvements over
the standard-provided implementation, as well as over some competing
implementations in Boost, TR1, or Loki. Its strong points are
arithmetic/boolean expressions with functors, a pretty complete set of
operations to create new functors from existing ones, simplicity of types
used, the ability to deal with an arbitrary number of parameters for
functors, the ability to create a functor out of pretty much anything, and
more.
Changes: This release adds "pointer use policy" to named functors (this
involved changing the syntax used by named functors), moves cast helper
functions from Functor.h to TemplMiscUtils.h, updates the documentation to
reflect the changes, and adds a release history.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/quickfunctor/
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[044] - Statfink 0.9.8
by StickMan (http://freshmeat.net/users/fewli0/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 10:30
Games/Entertainment
About: Statfink is a Fantasy (American) Football statistics tracker and
live scoring program that is best suited for working with leagues hosted
at Yahoo!. It is meant to be run by one member of the league so that the
rest of the members can view the output.
Changes: This release allows Statfink to work for the 2007/2008 season.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/statfink/
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[045] - TextCite: Publication Quotation Manager 1.0
by Erik Norvelle (http://freshmeat.net/users/enorvelle/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 04:37
Education
Information Management
About: TextCite is a program for organizing and commenting textual
citations from texts (books, articles, or other published works) for use
in producing scientific or academic publications. You can organize by
publication, author, category, or outline. It works with bibliographic
management programs like Citation, EndNote, RefWorks, and BibTeX,
providing important text/citation management capabilities that these
programs lack, while still allowing for rapid footnote and bibliography
generation by means of your favorite bibliography manager. It also exports
to PDF and Word (RTF).
Changes: This release contains a number of improvements and new features,
such as help files, a preferences control panel, the ability to select the
citation display font, the ability to export citations with user-chosen
reference style, auto-upgrading file opening and saving, more robust file
structure, a "tip of the day" feature, an update checker, automatic file
backups, and many bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/textcite/
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[046] - The Blue Programming Language 1.2
by Erik Lechak (http://freshmeat.net/users/elechak/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 03:59
About: Blue is a high-level programming language designed to support
advanced algorithms and techniques used in computer science, engineering,
and other mathematically intense fields. It is easy to expand by writing
plugin modules in C. Modules can implement types, algorithms, and even
programming paradigms.
Changes: This update introduces cross platform graphics capabilities to
blue. The GUI plugins utilize Xlib, OpenGL, freetype, and libpng
libraries. Other minor changes include an enhanced Windows build
environment, a cross-compile environment for building Win32 blue in Linux,
additions to the automated test system, and several bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bluelang/
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[047] - Vortex Library 1.0.7
by Advanced Software Production Line (http://freshmeat.net/users/aspl/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 07:11
Communications
Internet
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Vortex Library is a BEEP Core protocol implementation, following
the standard defined in RFC 3080 and RFC 3081. It has a clean and
easy-to-use API that allows you to write new application protocols very
quickly. Vortex Library has been developed within the Af-Arch project, and
it is being used at the data transport layer. However, Vortex Library can
be used independently of Af-Arch.
Changes: Updates to the BEEP session connection to control default TCP
timeout were included. A missing feature that now allows you to properly
handle cross close in transit is also included, allowing BEEP peers to
issue a channel close at the same time. The frame dispatching and send
reply code have been updated not to block the caller if a wrong deliver
order is found, but to store that frame, unlock the caller, and to perform
such delivery later. Some minor bugs were fixed and the regression tests
were updated. A set of new functions have been also added.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vortexlibrary/
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[048] - white_dune 0.29beta676 (Development)
by MUFTI (http://freshmeat.net/users/mufti22/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 04:45
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
About: white_dune is a graphical VRML97 editor, simple NURBS/Superformula
3D modeller and animation tool. VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language)
is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the Web via browser plugins
("HTML for realtime 3D"). It has support for animation, real-time
interaction, and multimedia (images, movies, and sounds). white_dune can
read, create and display VRML97 files and let the user change the
scenegraph/fields. It also has support for stereoscopic view via
"quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals, and support for 3D input devices like
a joystick, spaceball, or magnetic tracker.
Changes: Automatic use of the "toNurbs" operation in the 4Kids "new" menu
is avoided, and the "make deformable (NURBS)" icon/menupoint was added
instead. Color change of a selected point handle was added. Yet another
better workaround for problems with the 3D cursor was added. A crash when
using conversion to NurbsSurface on a root node was fixed. A wrong OpenGL
stack underflow was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/whitedune/
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[049] - Xerces-C++ 2.8.0
by Boris Kolpackov (http://freshmeat.net/users/bosk/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 16:26
Software Development :: Libraries
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
About: Xerces C++ is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset
of C++. The parser was designed with high performance, modularity, and
scalability in mind. It provides DOM, SAX, and SAX2 APIs and supports
validation of XML documents against DTD and W3C XML schema.
Changes: This release is primarily focused on bugfixes, optimizations, and
build system improvements. It comes with a wide range of precompiled
libraries that cover all widely-used CPU architectures, operation systems,
and C++ compilers.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xercesc/
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[050] - XINS 2.1-beta1 (Development)
by Anthony Goubard (http://freshmeat.net/users/agoubard/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 03:58
Communications
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Build Tools
About: XINS is a technology used to define, create, and invoke remote
APIs. XINS is specification-oriented. When API specifications are written
(in XML), XINS will transform them to HTML-based documentation and Java
code for both the client-side and the server-side. The communication is
based on HTTP. XINS competes with the complex SOAP technology. Main design
goals include simplicity, scalability, and testability. XINS is not only a
specification technology, but also an application development framework.
It offers transaction logging, unique log documentation, and active code
generation.
Changes: The user interface has been improved. A new tool command has been
added to execute the Glean utility. Documentation has been added on how to
set up Servlet filters. HttpClient has been upgraded. This release also
fixes several bugs.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xins/
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[051] - Xournal 0.4.0.1
by Denis Auroux (http://freshmeat.net/users/auroux/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 10:19
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Education
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based
About: Xournal is a GTK+/GNOME application for notetaking, sketching, and
keeping a journal using a stylus on Tablet PCs and other platforms. It
aims to provide superior graphical quality (subpixel resolution) and
overall functionality.
Changes: This release fixes several bugs that arise on GTK+ 2.11 systems.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xournal/
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[052] - xtermcontrol 2.9
by Jess Thrysoee (http://freshmeat.net/users/Thrysoee/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 14:04
Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals
Utilities
About: xtermcontrol enables dynamic control of XFree86 xterm properties.
It makes it easy to change colors, titles, fonts, and the geometry of a
running xterm, as well as to report the current settings of the
properties. Window manipulations such as (de)iconify, raise and lower,
maximize and restore, and reset are also supported. It also lets advanced
users issue any xterm control sequence.
Changes: This release adds a troubleshooting note that xterm resource
allowWindowOps should be set true, to allow xtermcontrol to use extended
window control sequences, and avoid that it hangs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xtermcontrol/
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[053] - YourKit Java Profiler 7.0-build2092 (EAP)
by YourKit Team (http://freshmeat.net/users/YourKitTeam/)
Mon, Sep 3rd 2007 04:12
Software Development
Software Development :: Debuggers
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
About: YourKit Java Profiler is a CPU and memory profiler that makes it
easy to solve wide range of CPU- and memory-related performance problems.
It features automatic leak detection, powerful tools for the analysis of
memory distribution, an object heap browser, comprehensive memory tests as
part of your JUnit testing process, extremely low profiling overhead,
transparent deobfuscation support, and integration with Eclipse, JBuilder,
IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, and JDeveloper IDEs.
Changes: All reported profiler agent crashes were fixed. Integration with
Eclipse 3.3 was improved. Documentation was updated.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yjp/
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