Newsletter for Tuesday, September 04th 2007
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (56) :::
[001] - Ampache 3.4-Alpha2 (Development)
[002] - Andy's PHP Knowledgebase 0.85.20070904
[003] - Arena Scripting Language 0.9.13
[004] - Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.6.8 (Mac OS X)
[005] - Bitgate Server Software Environment 0.5.1
[006] - Bos Wars 2.4.1
[007] - brisk 0.7.3
[008] - Chiron FS 1.0RC4
[009] - Citra FX 1.3
[010] - CorneliOS 0.7.9r4
[011] - Daikon 4.3.2
[012] - dd_rhelp 0.1.2
[013] - deco archive file extractor 0.5.2
[014] - Elm Millennium Edition 2.4 PL124 (Elm 2.4ME+)
[015] - fotofix 1.44
[016] - GNOME Structured File Library 1.14.6
[017] - GNU Transport Layer Security Library 2.0.0
[018] - Gnumeric 1.7.12 (Development)
[019] - GOffice 0.5.0 (Development)
[020] - Google::Adwords 1.5
[021] - HTML Purifier 2.1.2
[022] - HTTP extension for PHP 1.5.5
[023] - incron 0.5.7
[024] - JAMWiki 0.6.0
[025] - JasperAssistant 2.3.1
[026] - jumpstart 0.3
[027] - Karmen 0.13
[028] - Lanshark 0.0.1
[029] - ldapuseradd 0.7.3
[030] - libprelude 0.9.15.2
[031] - LightBlue 0.2.2
[032] - MoMEUnit 1.1.2
[033] - Monitorix 1.0.0
[034] - MxGraph 0.9.12.5
[035] - myAJAX 6.1.2
[036] - Open MP Template Library 20070904
[037] - OpenXava 2.2.2
[038] - PAQ 8Ov2
[039] - Paypal Shopping Cart 3.5.4
[040] - pktstat 1.8.4
[041] - PLCIO 4.1.0
[042] - PRepS 2.1.1 (Development)
[043] - RebeccaAIML 1.1tp2
[044] - rsyslog 1.19.4 (Development)
[045] - Simple Invoices 2007 08 29
[046] - Spket IDE 1.6.3
[047] - SSHMenu 3.14
[048] - TEA for Linux 17.2.1
[049] - UNFS3 0.9.18
[050] - update-zoneinfo 0.5
[051] - USBSink 0.3.3
[052] - VirtualBox 1.5.0
[053] - Webshare 0.6 Alpha
[054] - WikyBlog 1.5
[055] - WordPress 2.3 beta 2 (Testing)
[056] - xdock 0.0.1
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - Ampache 3.4-Alpha2 (Development)
by Karl Vollmer (http://freshmeat.net/users/vollmerk/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 10:01
Communications :: File Sharing
Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: Ampache is a Web-based audio file manager. It allows you to view,
edit, and play your audio files via the Web. It has support for playlists,
artist and album views, album art, random play, playback via HTTP with
on-the-fly transcoding and downsampling, vote based playback, playback via
MPD and Icecast, an integrated Flash player, and per-user themes and song
play tracking. You can also link multiple Ampache servers together using
XML-RPC. Ampache supports gettext translations and has full translations
into many languages.
Changes: This release includes all features from 3.3.x except for
Localplay/Democratic play. The Classic theme is significantly improved
from the Alpha1. There are major improvements to the Now Playing code, and
LastFM submissions should increase reliability, and correctly handle almost
any player. Limited Album disk support has been added, along with an
improved paging system that should lead to a noticeable performance
increase.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ampache/
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[002] - Andy's PHP Knowledgebase 0.85.20070904
by KeyMonkey (http://freshmeat.net/users/keymonkey/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:12
About: Andy's PHP Knowledgebase is a database-driven knowledge base
management system. It features bookmark friendly URLs, easy search with
browsing by category, article submission, and a professional and
attractive interface. It is intended to be used to store, manage, and
update article content for a knowledge base, but is very customizable and
enables any number of creative uses.
Changes: This release includes a fix for the initial setup screen.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aphpkb/
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[003] - Arena Scripting Language 0.9.13
by Pascal Schmidt (http://freshmeat.net/users/cobol/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 13:17
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: Arena is a light-weight scripting language that features a C-like
syntax and library, automatic memory management, and runtime polymorphism.
Changes: This release fixes a serious bug that made the interpreter crash
when static methods attempted to call each other.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/arena/
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[004] - Axiomatic Multi-Platform C 1.6.8 (Mac OS X)
by napi (http://freshmeat.net/users/napi/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:55
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 C
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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[005] - Bitgate Server Software Environment 0.5.1
by Ken Hollis (http://freshmeat.net/users/Tsuichi1/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:20
Internet
About: Bitgate Server Software Environment aims to build a multi-protocol
environment in which server protocol handlers can be eventually loaded and
unloaded on the fly using a center console or controller Web page. It aims
to have 99.9% uptime, and have high-availability (Java 6) compliance. It
is written in Java 5, and relies completely on Java's I/O functionality to
provide non-blocking support for both SSL and non-SSL sockets
(transparently). All configuration is done via XML files, as this is
easier to maintain. It includes a minimal demonstration HTTP server.
Changes: This code fixes a major change in the HTTP protocol code, which
now properly outputs the HTTP headers on file requests. Some more missing
documentation and some more optimizations of code were added.
License: Common Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bsse/
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[006] - Bos Wars 2.4.1
by feb (http://freshmeat.net/users/francoisbe/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 15:16
Games/Entertainment :: Real Time Strategy
About: Bos Wars is a futuristic real-time strategy game featuring a
dynamic rate-based economy. Resources are continuously produced while also
being consumed by creating buildings and training new units. Bos Wars aims
to create a completely original and fun RTS game.
Changes: This update uses a new map layout, fixes a load/save bug, and
makes OpenGL a run-time option.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/boswars/
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[007] - brisk 0.7.3
by mop (http://freshmeat.net/users/nastasi/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:29
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: brisk is an implementation of the Briscola in 5 card game that uses
Ajax technology.
Changes: A proxy was added for client status, dramatically reducing the
server-side CPU usage.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/brisk/
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[008] - Chiron FS 1.0RC4
by Luis Otávio Furquim (http://freshmeat.net/users/vuco/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:17
System :: Archiving :: Mirroring
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
System :: Filesystems
About: Chiron FS is a FUSE based filesystem that implements replication at
the filesystem level like RAID 1 does at the device level. The replicated
filesystem may be of any kind you want; the only requisite is that you
mount it. There is no need for special configuration files; the setup is
as simple as one mount command (or one line in fstab).
Changes: False positives in the failure log file when creating directories
were fixed. Wrong permissions when creating directories were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/chironfs/
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[009] - Citra FX 1.3
by kiyut (http://freshmeat.net/users/kiyut/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:17
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Raster-Based
About: Citra FX is a set of image filter effects for digital photos or
images. It allows anyone, regardless of experience, to turn digital images
into unique artistic looks. Citra FX comes with many prebuilt filters from
color adjustment, contrast, and exposure to advanced filters like water
ripple, emboss, etc. You also get instant visual feedback on what you
changed. It is well suited for both simple and advanced digital photo or
image filtering.
Changes: This release adds the following new filters: gamma, gain, vivid,
and curl filter effects.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/citra/
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[010] - CorneliOS 0.7.9r4
by Jos Kirps (http://freshmeat.net/users/joskirps/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 13:21
Information Management
Internet
About: CorneliOS is an easy-to-use and cross-browser "Web Desktop
Environment", "Web Operating System", or "Web Office" that comes with a
set of cool applications. It includes a Content Management System (CMS) so
that you can easily set up and manage your own website as well as a
Database Management System that allows you to rapidly build any kind of
database application.
Changes: This release offers multiple CorneliOS Virtual Enterprise
Application enhancements, as well as some updated forum application
handler features.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cornelios/
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[011] - Daikon 4.3.2
by Jeff Perkins (http://freshmeat.net/users/jhpnez/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 09:52
Documentation
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: Daikon is an implementation of dynamic detection of likely
invariants. An invariant is a property (such as "x=2*y+5" or
"this.next.prev = this" or "myarray is sorted by <") that holds at a
certain point or points in a program. Invariants are often seen in assert
statements, documentation, and formal specifications. Invariants can be
useful in program understanding and a host of other applications. Daikon
runs a program, observes the values that the program computes, and then
reports properties that were true over the observed executions. It can
detect properties in Java, C, C++, Perl, and IOA programs, in spreadsheet
files, and in other data sources.
Changes: Bugfixes and minor enhancements were made to Daikon, Kvasir, and
DynComp (Java). The "repair" output format is no longer supported by
Daikon.
License: Open Software License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/daikon/
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[012] - dd_rhelp 0.1.2
by vaab (http://freshmeat.net/users/vaab/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:54
System :: Recovery Tools
About: dd_rhelp allows users to retrieve, quickly and easily, recoverable
data from any device with bad sectors. It will copy it using dd_rescue in
all the appropriate ways (reverse copy, setting start and stop offset
accordingly to previously rescued data) to recover the maximum data
possible before spending time on bad sectors. It is straightforward to
use, supports ctrl-c at anytime, can resume a job (or standalone dd_rescue
job) by parsing the dd_rescue logs, and displays a nice ASCII bar showing
rescue progress.
Changes: Some annoying bugs were corrected. Installation is easier. Log
file creation is checked for a sane environnement. More and simpler
information is displayed. The behavior has been tweaked to avoid creation
of too many data chunks, which greatly slowed the execution of dd_rhelp
and the recovery process.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dd_rhelp/
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[013] - deco archive file extractor 0.5.2
by P. Hartlich (http://freshmeat.net/users/phartlich/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 13:43
System :: Archiving
About: deco is a generic archive file extractor that has a consistent
command line interface ("deco 1.tar.bz2 2.zip 3.flac 4.rar 5.deb" will
just work) and consistent behavior (it never deletes archives after
extraction, extracts relative to the current working directory, and
extracts just verbosely enough, all unless explicitly requested
otherwise). It provides automatic handling of extractor gotchas by
creating an extraction directory if there is more than one file or
directory at the archive top level and by being able to fix strange
permissions. Dozens of archive file extensions are supported out of the
box, and adding support for others requires very little work.
Changes: This release fixes a silly bug regarding filenames that contain
white space. crename and symlinktargets are now always built (this means
that if you decide to switch from a GNU toolchain to a non-GNU one, it
will not break deco.) Default CFLAGS conform to the SUS. ccs parameter -s
has been moved into LDFLAGS, so distributors no longer need to patch the
Makefile to enable debug symbols. The writeout utility has been replaced
with pure shell code. Minor code cleanups.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/decoex/
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[014] - Elm Millennium Edition 2.4 PL124 (Elm 2.4ME+)
by Kari Hurtta (http://freshmeat.net/users/hurtta/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 10:02
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office
About: Elm Millennium Edition is an interactive mail system based on Elm
2.4. It contains enhanced MIME and character set support. A subset of
UTF-8 (Unicode) is handled. It can read mail from a local mbox and POP and
IMAP folders and can pass mail to the PGP or GPG programs. It can also view
digests as a mailbox and reassemble fragmented (message/partial) messages.
It includes modules for TLS/SSL, iconv, and SMTP.
Changes: This release collects patches Elm 2.4ME+ PL123a - PL123f. It
fixes a bug in the c)hange folder -command that caused lost mail. Some
other bugs are also fixed. This release adds some new sub-commands to the
elmregister -command.
License: Freely Distributable
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/elmme/
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[015] - fotofix 1.44
by Dmitry Karasik (http://freshmeat.net/users/uint32/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 08:06
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: FotoFix is a very simple image viewer mostly for managing freshly
downloaded photos from your camera. It can walk through image lists,
rotate images, and remove red eyes (with some luck). It was inspired by
IrfanView for Windows. It requires the Prima and IPA libraries.
Changes: A slideshow and some minor enhancements were added.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fotofix/
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[016] - GNOME Structured File Library 1.14.6
by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdassen/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 13:38
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Office/Business
Office/Business :: Financial :: Spreadsheet
About: The GNOME Structured File Library is a utility library for reading
and writing structured file formats. Support for MS OLE2 streams is
complete, as is zip import. There is also support for document metadata
and some initial work on decompressing VBA streams in OLE files for future
conversion to other languages. This library replaces libole2 and is used in
gnumeric, mrproject, abiword, libwv2, koffice. It is also part of the AAF
format.
Changes: Some safety checks for out of memory conditions were added, as
were some extensions to simplify OOX export. The documentation was
improved.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libgsf/
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[017] - GNU Transport Layer Security Library 2.0.0
by Simon Josefsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/jas4711/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:39
Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries
About: GNU Transport Layer Security Library is a library which implements
a secure layer over a reliable transport layer such as TCP/IP. It
implements the TLS 1.1 and SSL 3.0 protocols, accompanied with
authentication methods such as X.509, OpenPGP, and SRP.
Changes: This is a major stable release. External RSA/DSA signing for TLS
client authentication is supported. Signing X.509 certificates using RSA
with SHA-256/384/512 is supported. There is experimental support for TLS
1.2. X.509 Proxy Certificates (RFC 3820), Supplemental handshakes messages
(RFC 4680), TLS authorization extension (draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07),
and the X.509 "otherName" Subject Altnerative Names (for XMPP) are
supported. Guile bindings for GnuTLS were added. Several new APIs were
added. Build improvements were made for Windows, Mac OS X, uClinux, etc.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnutls/
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[018] - Gnumeric 1.7.12 (Development)
by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdassen/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 13:45
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Office/Business :: Financial :: Spreadsheet
About: Gnumeric is a powerful and easy to use spreadsheet using GNOME. Its
goal is to provide a full featured spreadsheet and a smooth migration path
for people and organizations currently using proprietary applications. It
provides more sheet functions and greatly improved accuracy when compared
to Microsoft's Excel. A plugin system lets you extend Gnumeric, adding
functions, I/O formats, and real time data capabilities. The existing
Python, Guile, and Perl plugins let you define complex functions. Gnumeric
is capable of reading and writing MS Excel (XLS and Office Open XML), and
reading Lotus, Applix, Quattro Pro, OpenCalc (ODF), XBase, DIF, SYLK,
HTML, Psion, MPS, oleo, sc, misc. text formats, and its native XML. It can
also generate Latex, HTML, and others.
Changes: Improvements to the handling (import and export) of various file
formats and to the Windows port. Various bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnumeric/
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[019] - GOffice 0.5.0 (Development)
by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdassen/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 13:44
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Office/Business
Software Development :: Libraries
About: GOffice is a library of document-centric objects and utilities
building on top of GLib and Gtk+ and used by software such as Gnumeric.
Changes: Fill support for polar xy plots. Interpolation support for polar
plots. Win32 portability and locale fixes. A fix for "fd://0" handling in
go_shell_arg_to_uri. Fix default date format. A function to tell month/day
order in format has been added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/goffice/
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[020] - Google::Adwords 1.5
by Rohan Almeida (http://freshmeat.net/users/arcofdescent/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 09:57
Software Development :: Libraries :: Perl Modules
About: Google::Adwords is a collection of Perl modules that provides an
easy-to-use object oriented interface to the Google Adwords SOAP API. You
dont need to understand SOAP or Web services to use it.
Changes: Support for v10 of the Adwords API. All methods that use
geoTargeting now use the Google::Adwords::GeoTarget object instead of a
hashref. Five new modules have been added for geoTargeting support.
AdService.checkAds() has been implemented.
License: Perl License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/google-adwords/
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[021] - HTML Purifier 2.1.2
by Edward Z. Yang (http://freshmeat.net/users/edwardzyang/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:11
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
Text Processing :: Filters
About: HTML Purifier is PHP software for HTML filtering. It is an
alternative to BBCode or other obscure custom markup languages. It will
not only remove all malicious code (XSS), but will also make sure the HTML
is standards compliant.
Changes: This version is a mix of experimental features and stability
updates. Among the new features are an Object module for trusted users,
support for the CSS property "border-spacing", and HTML 5 style parsing
using PH5P. Bugfixes have resolved a few obscure issues, including
border-collapse:seperate, a DirectLex parsing error, broken HTML in
printDefinition.php, and problems with the experimental standalone
distribution. Also, there were large amounts of behind-the-scenes
refactoring and the removal of URIScheme inclusion reflection.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmlpurifier/
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[022] - HTTP extension for PHP 1.5.5
by Michael Wallner (http://freshmeat.net/users/_mike_/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 09:58
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
About: The HTTP extension for PHP aims to provide a convenient and
powerful set of functionality for one of PHP's major applications. It
eases handling of HTTP URLs, dates, redirects, headers, and messages,
provides means for negotiation of clients' preferred language and charset,
as well as a convenient way to send any arbitrary data with caching and
resuming capabilities. It provides powerful request functionality if built
with CURL support. Parallel requests are available for PHP 5 and greater.
Changes: Bug #11929 (http_negotiate does not return default value on
non-match) has been fixed. SSL library detection for libcurl >= 7.16.2 has
been fixed. The max_recv_speed and max_send_speed request options have been
removed again due to LFS dependence.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pecl_http/
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[023] - incron 0.5.7
by aiken_cz (http://freshmeat.net/users/aiken_cz/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 10:00
System :: Filesystems
System :: Monitoring
Utilities
About: incron is an "inotify cron" system. It works like the regular cron
but is driven by filesystem events instead of time periods. It contains
two programs, a daemon called "incrond" (analogous to crond) and a table
manipulator "incrontab" (like "crontab").
Changes: Supplementary group access list initialization has been added. A
few "includes" have been added due to compatibility with GCC 4.3. Manual
pages now contain an explanation of used symbols.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/incron/
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[024] - JAMWiki 0.6.0
by Ryan (http://freshmeat.net/users/wrh2/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:24
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Wiki
About: JAMWiki is a Java-based Wiki engine. It features Java servlet 2.3
and JDK 1.4 compatibility, offers many of the features of MediaWiki,
provides quick and easy setup, and supports running either with or without
an external database.
Changes: This release introduces significant new functionality as well as
numerous bugfixes, code cleanups, and cosmetic changes. Notable changes
made during this release include a new authentication mechanism that
allows site administrators to tightly control access to wiki
functionality, conversion of the project repository to Maven, a new tab on
user pages to allow viewing of user contributions, and upgrades to Spring
2.06, Lucene 2.2, Acegi 1.0.4, and ehcache 1.3.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jamwiki/
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[025] - JasperAssistant 2.3.1
by JasperAssistant (http://freshmeat.net/users/jasperassistant/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:30
Database
Database :: Front-Ends
Printing
About: JasperAssistant is a visual report designer tool for JasperReports,
a popular open-source reporting engine. It is built on top of the Eclipse's
plug-in architecture, and its main goal is to help you create JasperReports
report definition files through an intuitive graphical interface.
Changes: This version adds support for JasperReports 1.3.1.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jasperassistant/
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[026] - jumpstart 0.3
by John Reiser (http://freshmeat.net/users/jreiser/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 13:45
Utilities
About: jumpstart is a performance hack for Linux/x86 that runs an
application with shared libraries already loaded. The executable file is
started, then stopped after the runtime loader has mapped the shared
libraries, but before any application code has run. Then the process acts
as a server, reading command line arguments and environment via a named
pipe, and executing the task in a fork()ed child.
Changes: Propagates attributes and the file position of stdin, stdout, and
stderr. Copes with a missing symbol table or linking view for ld-linux.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jumpstart/
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[027] - Karmen 0.13
by Johan Veenhuizen (http://freshmeat.net/users/veenhuizen/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 15:15
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
About: Karmen is an easy-to-use window manager for X. It is designed to
"just work". There is no configuration file, and no library dependencies
other than Xlib. The input focus model is click-to-focus. It aims at ICCCM
and EWMH compliance.
Changes: This release offers "smart" window placement and a stay-on-click
menu, among other things.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/karmen/
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[028] - Lanshark 0.0.1
by Jonas Wagner (http://freshmeat.net/users/veerz/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 10:13
Communications :: File Sharing
About: Lanshark is a file sharing tool for local area networks. It allows
you to share files with other users in the same network more efficiently.
It automatically detects other lanshark users in the same network and lets
you browse through their shares. It has a very fast search function that
allows you to search through all the shares in the network in a few
seconds.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lanshark/
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[029] - ldapuseradd 0.7.3
by Greg Schenzel (http://freshmeat.net/users/inittab/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:14
System :: Networking :: LDAP
System :: Systems Administration
About: ldapuseradd is a set of utilities that aid in the management and
deployment of user accounts, Web sites and links, email Maildirs and
links, Pure-FTPd quotas, Apache VirtualHosts, and SQL databases. The LDAP
user management program uses a highly configurable user group profile
system to distinguish targeted services and paths. It is like an
LDAP-based useradd drop-in replacement program with modular features. It
is primarily intended for ISPs, Web hosting providers, and universities.
Changes: This version was almost completely redesigned. This is the first
release since taking over the webmanage source code. At least the
following is included: completely customizable schema support, modular
shared object support, a drop-in replacement for useradd/mod/del and
groupadd/mod/del, and native LDAP library support (so there are much fewer
calls to system/popen).
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ldapuseradd/
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[030] - libprelude 0.9.15.2
by yoann (http://freshmeat.net/users/yoann/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 09:52
Security
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Monitoring
About: The Prelude Library (libprelude) is the glue that binds all aspects
of Prelude together. Prelude is a hybrid Intrusion Detection framework
implementing an open communication layer for use by any security
application. libprelude is a library that enables Prelude components to
communicate with the Prelude concentrator. It also makes it easy for third
party software to be made 'Prelude Aware' (able to communicate with Prelude
components). It provides common, useful features used by every sensor.
Changes: The children PID are written into a specified PID file (this
fixes a regression). A double free in the idmef_criterion_value_t cloned
regexp object has been fixed. Python thread is allowed to run while
entering the libprelude C function. PRELUDE_ERROR_ASSERTION is returned
when an API check fails, in place of PRELUDE_ERROR_GENERIC.
prelude_plugin_unsubcribe() works as expected (the plugin instance destroy
function is called). There are various bugfixes and minor enhancements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libprelude/
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[031] - LightBlue 0.2.2
by blammit (http://freshmeat.net/users/blammit/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:43
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
System :: Networking
About: LightBlue is a cross-platform Python Bluetooth API for Mac OS X,
GNU/Linux, and Python For Series 60. It provides easy programmatic access
to device and service discovery, RFCOMM sockets, L2CAP client sockets,
sending and receiving files over OBEX, service advertising, and local
device information.
Changes: This fixes the Python for Series 60 3rd Edition builds as well as
components of the 2nd Edition FP2 and FP3 builds. There are also
improvements for the sockets implementation on Mac OS X.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lightblue-bluetooth/
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[032] - MoMEUnit 1.1.2
by drmoro75 (http://freshmeat.net/users/drmoro75/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 09:54
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Software Development :: Testing
About: MoMEUnit is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing
of J2ME applications. It is derived from the JUnit framework. It is only
CLDC 1.1 compliant. It overcomes the lack of a reflection API in the J2ME
MIDP API and supports main features of the JUnit framework such as ease of
development and running of tests, sharing of fixtures among different
tests, the ability to perform simultaneous test runs, and much more. The
results of tests are displayed with a progress bar, statistics, and lists
of failures or errors with detailed messages for each test.
Changes: preverify, haltonerror, and haltonfailure functionality has
changed. Java 1.2 compliance of the Ant integration package has been
established. The 4device package is included, and minor and major bugs
have been fixed. Developers can specify preverification of classes or the
whole jar file, to cease test execution on error or failure, and use the
new 4Device package as library for building J2ME test applications to be
deployed on mobile devices.
License: Common Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/momeunit/
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[033] - Monitorix 1.0.0
by Jordi Sanfeliu (http://freshmeat.net/users/Mikaku/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:29
System :: Monitoring
About: Monitorix is a lightweight monitoring tool designed to monitor as
many services as it can. At this time, it monitors from the CPU load and
temperatures to the users on the system. Network device activity, network
service demand, and even the devices' interrupt activity are also
monitored. It uses RRDtool as its logging and graphing back-end. The
current status of any corporate UNIX/Linux server with Monitorix installed
can be accessed via a Web browser.
Changes: A new graph was added to see the temperatures of the system
motherboard, CPUs, fan speeds, and hard disk drives using lm_sensors and
the hddtemp tool. Among other improvements, the ability to select the
percentages layout in the kernel usage stats has been added. The ability
to change the refresh rate value in the statistics Web page was added.
Some bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/monitorix/
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[034] - MxGraph 0.9.12.5
by bensond (http://freshmeat.net/users/BessyBoo/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 13:19
Information Management
Information Management :: Workflow Frameworks
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based
About: mxGraph is a JavaScript library that uses built-in browser
capabilities to provide an interactive drawing and diagramming solution.
Target applications are Web based applications that require workflow/BPM,
diagram, network, or general graph editing to be available in-place on a
Web page.
Changes: This release adds the ability to use a connect image for adding
connections in the diagram editor. The mxConstants.VALID_COLOR flag has
been added for displaying valid connection previews in another colour. A
possible NPE in mxTerminalMarker.init has been fixed. Nested sub-menus
have been added to popup menus in mxPanningHandler; previously, only
single-level menus were possible. The ordering of HTML labels in Firefox
now works correctly.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mxgraph/
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[035] - myAJAX 6.1.2
by Raul (http://freshmeat.net/users/ionescu_raul/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:30
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Libraries
Utilities
About: myAJAX is an AJAX JavaScript OOP implementation made for ease of
use.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/myajax/
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[036] - Open MP Template Library 20070904
by wateenellende (http://freshmeat.net/users/wateenellende/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:55
Software Development :: Libraries
About: The OMPTL reimplements the algorithmic and numeric parts of the
Standard Template Library of C++ to take advantage of parallel computing
hardware such as Dual-Core and HyperThreading processors. The
parallelization is done with the OpenMP API. The range of data is
partitioned, and then the computation is executed in parallel.
Changes: A copy-paste mistake was corrected.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/omptl/
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[037] - OpenXava 2.2.2
by javierpaniza (http://freshmeat.net/users/javierpaniza/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:48
Software Development
Software Development :: Code Generators
About: OpenXava is an XML/Java Framework for rapidly and easily developing
J2EE business applications. It is based on business components defined with
XML. It is feature rich and flexible, since it has been used for years to
create real business applications.
Changes: A default module is assumed for each component of the application
without declaring it in application.xml. A new element, default-module, was
added in application.xml for defining the controllers for default modules.
A static final field for each property is generated for interfaces on code
generation. Qualified properties (properties of references) in order of
collections is supported. A row-style is available for collection-view.
Many fixes were made.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openxava/
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[038] - PAQ 8Ov2
by Eugene Varnavsky (http://freshmeat.net/users/varnav/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:42
About: PAQ is a series of archivers which achieve very high compression
rates at the expense of speed and memory.
Changes: This version fixes a bug which incorrectly added a .paq8n file
extension instead of .paq8o, and a "paq8n" identifier to the archive
header. Unfortunately, this makes the two versions incompatible with each
other, even though compression is the same. paq8o is derived from paq8n,
modified with an improved BMP model. Compression and decompression times
below are about the same.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/paq/
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[039] - Paypal Shopping Cart 3.5.4
by paypal (http://freshmeat.net/users/paypal/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:44
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: A new super user management permissions area was added into the
affiliate version of the shopping cart. Unlike other users, a super user
is able to manage all available accounts on the system.
License: Other/Proprietary License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/paypalshoppingcart/
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[040] - pktstat 1.8.4
by David Leonard (http://freshmeat.net/users/dleonard/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 08:04
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: pktstat listens to the network and shows the bandwidth being
consumed by packets of various kinds in realtime. It understands some
protocols (including FTP, HTTP, and X11) and adds a descriptive name next
to the entry (e.g., 'RETR cd8.iso', 'GET http://slashdot.org/' or 'xclock
-fg blue').
Changes: This release increases packet and octet counter ranges from 32
bit to 64 bit, improves window resize event handling, fixes an over-by-one
buffer overflow bug, and adds a single-shot batch output mode.
License: Public Domain
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pktstat/
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[041] - PLCIO 4.1.0
by Byron Stanoszek (http://freshmeat.net/users/klynn/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 09:52
About: PLCIO is a library designed to read and write data on a
programmable logic controller (PLC). It allows the programmer to address
PLC memory by their tag names for different data types, regardless of the
computer architecture, with the PLC linked either directly or remotely. It
also includes a sample CGI interface for PLC access from a Web browser. It
runs under Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, and QNX, and supports the ethernet
protocols of the Allen-Bradley PLC-5, SLC 500, and Logix series PLCs, the
Modicon Quantum PLC, the Wago 750-842 PLC, and the Siemens Step 7 CP-315.
It also supports the Siemens Step 5 AS511 protocol either serially or via
ethernet using the INAT Echolink.
Changes: This release adds support for Windows operating systems. It adds
the ability to communicate with PLCs physically connected to other
computers via the 'remote' module.
License: Other/Proprietary License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/plcio/
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[042] - PRepS 2.1.1 (Development)
by Ken Sodemann (http://freshmeat.net/users/stuffle/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 04:24
Software Development :: Bug Tracking
About: PRepS is a problem reporting and tracking system similar to Gnats,
only simpler to use. Currently, PRepS is best used with smaller projects
or projects where all developers have access to the same network. For more
"remote" projects, Gnats may be a better choice.
Changes: The ability for users to define their own data fields for storing
with problem reports was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/preps/
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[043] - RebeccaAIML 1.1tp2
by iamwoodyjones (http://freshmeat.net/users/iamwoodyjones/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:25
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: RebeccaAIML is an enterprise cross platform AIML development
platform. RebeccaAIML supports C++, Java, C#, Python, and many other
programming languages. It allows AIML development out of the box.
RebeccaAIML also comes with an array of AIML administration tools, great
documentation, and an Eclipse AIML editor plugin.
Changes: Berkeley DB was upgraded to 4.6.19, ICE to 3.2.1, and xerces to
2.8.0. A bug with the networking C++ API where
addDirectoryUnlessAlreadyAdded was calling the wrong order of arguments
was fixed. A bug where the directory containing the embedded database
would not create itself if it was on a version of Windows XP which was not
English based was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rebeccaaiml/
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[044] - rsyslog 1.19.4 (Development)
by Rainer Gerhards (http://freshmeat.net/users/rgerhards/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 09:57
System :: Logging
About: Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd. Among other
features, it offers support for reliable syslog over TCP and RFC 3195,
writing to MySQL databases, fully configurable output formats (including
great timestamps), the ability to filter on any part of the syslog
message, and on-the-wire message compression. It is designed as a drop-in
replacement for stock syslogd and thus is able to work with the same
configuration file syntax. Of course, some enhanced features require
changing the configuration file, but in general, this should be fairly
easy.
Changes: This release contains no new features, but stability updates.
Most importantly, it addresses some bugs that lead to program aborts. It
is a recommended update for all users.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rsyslog/
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[045] - Simple Invoices 2007 08 29
by justinjameskelly (http://freshmeat.net/users/justinjameskelly/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:18
Office/Business
Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
About: Simple Invoices is a clean, simple, and basic Web-based invoicing
system. It is meant for personal invoices, home office invoicing, small
organization invoicing, and basic POS (point of sale) systems for light
usage. Its goals are to be easy to use, simple and clean, and focused on
its task. It is not meant for heavy-use POS applications, nor is it meant
to be enterprise ready.
Changes: A severe security bug with the login system was fixed.
Previously, you could bypass the login system with a blank username and
password.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/simpleinvoices/
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[046] - Spket IDE 1.6.3
by Eric Suen (http://freshmeat.net/users/eric_suen/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 06:51
Software Development
Text Editors :: Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
About: Spket IDE is a powerful editor for JavaScript, XUL/XBL, Laszlo,
SVG, Silverlight, and Yahoo! Widget development. It provides features like
code completion, syntax highlighting, and a content outline that helps
developers create efficient JavaScript code. It can run as a standalone
application or as an Eclipse plugin.
Changes: The content assistance for JavaScript now supports ExtJS custom
classes. A feature called automatically adding include statements for the
LZX source editor was added. Other minor bugfixes and feature enhancements
were made.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spket/
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[047] - SSHMenu 3.14
by Grant McLean (http://freshmeat.net/users/grantm/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 15:17
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
System :: Networking
Utilities
About: SSHMenu is a GNOME panel applet that makes starting up a new
terminal window with an SSH connection to a remote host just a click away.
A preferences dialog allows you to add and organise hosts. Window positions
and sizes can be set along with a profile for controlling text and
background colours as well as font details. It also includes a version
without GNOME dependencies that can be run as a small standalone window or
swallowed into the panel of another window manager.
Changes: This release adds support for environment settings (useful for
locale adjustments), improved quoting, bcvi in tabbed mode, and other
minor updates. The project Web site has moved to SourceForge.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sshmenu/
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[048] - TEA for Linux 17.2.1
by roxton (http://freshmeat.net/users/roxton/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 07:06
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Text Editors
Text Processing
About: TEA is a modest and easy-to-use GTK+2-based editor with many useful
features for HTML editing. It features a small footprint, a tabbed layout
engine, support for multiple encodings, code snippets, templates,
customizable hotkeys, an "open at cursor" function for HTML files and
images, miscellaneous HTML tools, preview in external browser, string
manipulation functions, SRT subtitles editing, Morse-code tools,
bookmarks, syntax highlighting, and drag-and-drop support.
Changes: This release expands the GtkSourceView2 support (use ./configure
--enable-GtkSourceView2). Now you can choose the syntax highlighting color
scheme (Kate, Classic, Tango) in the Preferences - Highlighting page. Some
inner changes were made in the built-in image viewer. The code was cleaned
up. A new function was added to convert Roman numerals to Arabian numerals.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/teaforlinux/
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[049] - UNFS3 0.9.18
by Pascal Schmidt (http://freshmeat.net/users/cobol/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 13:19
Communications :: File Sharing
System :: Networking
About: UNFS3 is a user-space implementation of the NFSv3 server
specification. It is designed to be portable to different operating
systems, with built-in Linux and Solaris support.
Changes: This release fixes possible problems with Solaris 10 clients and
adds an option to test the syntax of the exports file. It is also now
possible to instruct the daemon to write a PID file.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/unfs3/
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[050] - update-zoneinfo 0.5
by Everton da Silva Marques (http://freshmeat.net/users/evertonm/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 13:37
About: update-zoneinfo is a utility for synchronizing a host's time zone
information according to definitions stored on a central server. Linux
and Solaris are currently supported. It can be periodically run from
crontab to deal with changes in daylight saving times.
Changes: A new command line option to automatically extract the zone info
from a tarball (.tar.gz) package.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/update-zoneinfo/
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[051] - USBSink 0.3.3
by Marko Anastasov (http://freshmeat.net/users/anastasov/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 15:18
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
System :: Archiving
System :: Filesystems
About: USBSink is a GNOME program for automatic file synchronization with
removable drives, such as flash drives or external hard disks. In USBSink,
you define a task associated to a particular drive, and then have a
complete automation of data transfers. With file monitoring and hardware
detection features, the program is able to respond and act according to
relevant events on the desktop.
Changes: This release resolves a compilation error reported on 32-bit
systems.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/usbsink/
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[052] - VirtualBox 1.5.0
by mynamewastaken (http://freshmeat.net/users/mynamewastaken/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 09:55
System :: Operating System
About: innotek VirtualBox is a family of x86 virtualization products for
enterprise and home use.
Changes: Improved stability on the Linux platform, seamless Windows,
virtual serial ports, and support for 64-bit Windows hosts. This release
adds Intel PXE 2.1 network boot and guest additions for IBM OS/2 Warp.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/virtualbox/
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[053] - Webshare 0.6 Alpha
by Malicia (http://freshmeat.net/users/malicia75020/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 08:02
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: WebShare is a Web-based FTP explorer that is very user-friendly. It
can handle Web documents as easily as if they were on your own computer.
Like a classic explorer, you can view, copy, edit, or save, but you can
access and share it from anywhere.
Changes: Configuration is no longer necessary. Many bugs were corrected.
Administration was improved and clarified with the possibility of removing
accounts. Precise rules concerning the rights of the users and the elements
to be filtered were added. The administration is now multilingual. The
integrity of the software was increased. The progress bar of the remote
loading is posted correctly.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webshare/
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[054] - WikyBlog 1.5
by Josh Schmidt (http://freshmeat.net/users/oyejorge/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 13:34
Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: News/Diary
About: WikyBlog is a Wiki/Blog CMS/groupware application with an AJAX
enhanced tabbed interface that enables users to view and edit multiple
files within the same page. UTF-8 support for multi-language abilities,
integrated custom template editing, file upload, a flexible user privilege
system, and Google Maps integration number among its many features.
Changes: This release takes WikyBlog to a new level of design, usability,
and security. Among the many enhancements, It improves administrator
abilities to manage user accounts, updates the file uploading options, and
further optimizes the database design and indexes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wikyblog/
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[055] - WordPress 2.3 beta 2 (Testing)
by Dougal Campbell (http://freshmeat.net/users/emc3/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 15:16
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: News/Diary
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: WordPress is a state-of-the-art, semantic, personal publishing
platform with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. It was
born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal
publishing system, and is the official successor to b2/cafelog. While
primarily geared towards functioning as a Weblog, it is also a flexible
CMS capable of managing many types of Web sites. In addition to the basic
Weblog functions, it also has an integrated link manager (e.g. for
blogrolls), XFN support, support for "static" pages, Atom and RSS feeds
for both content and comments, XML-RPC blogging API support (Blogger,
MetaWeblog, and Movable Type APIs), spam blocking features, advanced
cruft-free URL generation, a flexible theme system, and an advanced plugin
API.
Changes: Changes since beta 1 are mainly improvements to the tagging
system and Atom Publishing Protocol support, along with various bugfixes
in other portions of the sytem.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wordpress/
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[056] - xdock 0.0.1
by Andre Wagner (http://freshmeat.net/users/andre_nho/)
Tue, Sep 4th 2007 07:25
Desktop Environment
About: xdock is a program that emulates the Window Maker docks, with the
following differences: it runs in any window manager, is client/server,
and it is very easy to write docks for it.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xdock/
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