Newsletter for Saturday, November 17th 2007
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (25) :::
[001] - aria2 0.11.5
[002] - arpalert 2.0.9 (Stable)
[003] - aTunes 1.8.0
[004] - Dataguzzler 1.0.0
[005] - EJOE 0.4.1
[006] - Equinox Desktop Environment 1.2
[007] - fwknop 1.8.3
[008] - Gajim 0.11.3
[009] - GD-Octave 0.6
[010] - Genius 1.0.1
[011] - Gwenhywfar 2.9.14rc5
[012] - JACL Adventure Creation Language 1.12.0
[013] - libchipcard 3.9.10rc3 (Beta)
[014] - Make Run Script 7.11.14.7
[015] - Momomoto 0.1.12
[016] - nmr-relax 1.2.12 (1.2)
[017] - Open Movie Editor 0.0.20071117
[018] - OpenVZ kernel 2.6.18-028stab049.1 (2.6.18)
[019] - OpenVZ kernel 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 028stab049.1 (RHEL5 2.6.18)
[020] - OpenVZ kernel 2.6.22-ovz005 (2.6.22)
[021] - Osmo 0.1.2
[022] - Personal Finance Manager R1.0.21
[023] - Rgbtrade 0.11
[024] - xen-shell 1.8
[025] - Xfprot 1.21
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[001] - aria2 0.11.5
by SlotGazer (http://freshmeat.net/users/slotgazer/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 02:21
Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: aria2 is a utility for downloading files. It has completely new
design concept from its predecessor, Aria, and is written from scratch.
aria2 has a segmented downloading engine in its core. It can download one
file from multiple URLs or multiple connections from one URL. This results
in very high speed downloading, much faster than ordinary browsers. This
engine in was implemented in a single-thread model. The architecture is
clean and easy to extend. aria2 currently supports HTTP, FTP, and
BitTorrent. It also supports Metalink version 3.0.
Changes: This release adds the ability to urlencode given URLs and fixes
several bugs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aria2/
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[002] - arpalert 2.0.9 (Stable)
by Thierry FOURNIER (http://freshmeat.net/users/fourniert/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 23:42
Security
System :: Logging
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: arpalert uses ARP address monitoring to help prevent unauthorized
connections on the local network. If an illegal connection is detected, a
program or script is launched, which could be used to send an alert
message, for example.
Changes: An error message was fixed. The script API documentation was
updated. New API functions were added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/arpalert/
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[003] - aTunes 1.8.0
by fleax (http://freshmeat.net/users/fleax/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 21:22
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Ripping
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
About: aTunes is a full-featured audio player and organizer, with some
ripping and encoding tools included. It supports MP3, Ogg, WMA, WAV, FLAC,
and MP4.
Changes: Podcast support and bugfixes were added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/atunes/
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[004] - Dataguzzler 1.0.0
by Steve Holland (http://freshmeat.net/users/sdh4/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 01:34
Scientific/Engineering :: Physics
About: Dataguzzler is a laboratory data acquisition platform for high
performance waveform and image acquisition. It uses a reconfigurable
modular architecture and is controllable from a command console, graphical
interface, and by remote over TCP/IP. A variety of prebuilt modules, for
hardware from function generators to waveform capture cards to
framegrabbers, are included. As distributed, Dataguzzler comes
pre-configured for two applications: A software oscilloscope, based on the
Measurement Computing PCI-DAS4020/12 card, and a CameraLink imager, based
on the EDT PCI-DV/CLink card.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dataguzzler/
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[005] - EJOE 0.4.1
by netseeker (http://freshmeat.net/users/netseeker/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 23:45
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Software Development :: Object Brokering
About: EJOE is a lightweight Java remoting framework built to send and
receive objects through pluggable (de)serialization mechanisms. It offers
a high-performance, simple, and clean object request broker (whereby ORB
is meant in its natural manner and not in its relation with CORBA), with
server and client components for your client/server applications. It's a
highly scalable implementation of the common request-process-response
pattern based on Java NIO. It does support optional remote class loading
to avoid redundant classpath entries, but doesn't require stubs and/or
proxy objects.
Changes: Just a maintenance release containing some minor bugfixes and
updated dependencies. Some incompatibilities with Java 5 as well as a
java.lang.ClassCastException when activating remote classloading in
EJServer were fixed.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ejoe/
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[006] - Equinox Desktop Environment 1.2
by Sanel Z. (http://freshmeat.net/users/karijes/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 03:36
About: Equinox Desktop Environment is simple, fast, and user-friendly
environment. It works on all popular UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems,
and is based on eFLTK.
Changes: This is a bugfix release of EDE and eFLTK packages. Notable
changes are improved support for 64-bit platforms and full German and
French translations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ede/
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[007] - fwknop 1.8.3
by Michael Rash (http://freshmeat.net/users/michaelrash/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 23:58
Security
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: fwknop implements an authorization scheme that requires only a
single encrypted packet to communicate various pieces of information,
including desired access through a Netfilter policy and/or specific
commands to execute on the target system. The main application of this
program is to protect services such as SSH with an additional layer of
security in order to make the exploitation of vulnerabilities much more
difficult. The authorization server works by passively monitoring
authorization packets via libpcap.
Changes: External IP resolution was updated to point to
http://www.whatismyip.org, and http://www.cipherdyne.org/cgi/clientip.cgi
was added as a backup site for fwknop IP resolution. Storage of source IP
along with the SPA MD5 sum was added. This allows the user to infer which
networks are more hostile if an SPA packet is replayed. The legacy port
knocking mode was reinstated. SPA packet hex dumps were added in "fwknopd
--debug" mode so that the integration of third-party encryption algorithms
is easier to troubleshoot.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fwknop/
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[008] - Gajim 0.11.3
by Yann Leboulanger (http://freshmeat.net/users/asterix86/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 03:36
Communications :: Chat
About: Gajim is a Jabber client written in PyGTK. The goal is to provide a
full featured and easy to use XMPP client for GTK+ users. It does not
require GNOME to run, though it exists with it nicely.
Changes: This is a bugfix release. It improves support for bookmarks, file
transfer, and zeroconf.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gajim/
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[009] - GD-Octave 0.6
by Muthu (http://freshmeat.net/users/MuthuKutty/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 01:09
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
Software Development :: Libraries
About: GD-Octave is a library glue for exporting GD library functions into
octave. It features string and text rendering to the PNG, JPEG, GIF, and
WBMP image formats. Line, Point, Arc, Polygon, and Fill are supported as
primitives.
Changes: This release supports Octave 2.9.x or later and libgd 2.0 and
later. autoload() compatibility was added and minor maintenance issues
were fixed. New examples were included.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gdoctave/
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[010] - Genius 1.0.1
by Jiri (George) Lebl (http://freshmeat.net/users/vicious/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 01:10
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Education
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: Genius is an arbitrary precision integer and multiple precision
floating point calculator. It includes its own programming language
similar in some aspects to C, bc, or Pascal. It can deal with rational
numbers and complex numbers. It has matrix support as well. It uses the
gmp library so it is very fast for calculations of large numbers. It has a
command line and a GNOME interface. The GNOME interface supports plotting
functions and 3D surfaces.
Changes: Support for viewing of variables and backtraces, updated GtkExtra
graphing, soft memory limits with the possibility of interrupts, nicer
matrix printing, chopping of small numbers, and lots of other improvements
and bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/genius/
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[011] - Gwenhywfar 2.9.14rc5
by aquamaniac (http://freshmeat.net/users/aquamaniac/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 01:25
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Gwenhywfar is a multi-purpose library that provides useful
functions such as configuration file handling, a full featured message
generation and parsing engine, and an operating system abstraction layer.
It is used by Libchipcard2, AqBanking, QBankManager, OpenHBCI, AqMoney,
and various other projects.
Changes: This release fixes some problems with the SSL server code.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gwenhywfar/
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[012] - JACL Adventure Creation Language 1.12.0
by Stuart Allen (http://freshmeat.net/users/jacl/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 01:09
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: JACL is an interpreted language for creating HTML-based games. The
JACL interpreter contains an integrated Web server, allowing games to be
played locally or across the network with minimal configuration. As all
execution takes place on the server, users require nothing more than a
plain Web browser to play.
Changes: The console interpreter now uses the Readline library to
implement tab completion for verbs and objects and command history. The
CGI interpreter now uses REMOTE_USER as player's user_id if available. The
manual has been completely edited and revised. Many other minor feature
enhancements and bugfixes were made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webjacl/
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[013] - libchipcard 3.9.10rc3 (Beta)
by aquamaniac (http://freshmeat.net/users/aquamaniac/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 01:34
System :: Hardware
About: Libchipcard is a framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards
via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI or IFD driver provided
by manufacturers. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, and
Windows, and has been tested with many different readers (even in
parallel).
Changes: This release enables "private" and "secure" IPC modes (using SSL
secured sockets). Therefore, master and slave modes of the chipcard daemon
work again.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libchipcard/
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[014] - Make Run Script 7.11.14.7
by tieTYT (http://freshmeat.net/users/tieTYT/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 00:15
Software Development :: Build Tools
About: MakeRunScript is a custom task for ant that generates run scripts
for Java applications. Even if you are developing on windows, you can make
a run script for *nix, and vice-versa. If you've used the built-in Java
task before, you already know how to use 90% of MakeRunScript.
Changes: Documentation was written
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/makerunscript/
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[015] - Momomoto 0.1.12
by Sven Klemm (http://freshmeat.net/users/nevs/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 23:28
Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules
About: Momomoto is an object-relational mapper written in Ruby for
PostgreSQL. It features support for combined primary keys, support for
stored procedures, and support for schemas. Metadata for tables, views,
and stored procedures are fetched directly from the database to keep
declaring classes as simple as possible.
Changes: Nested logical operators are now properly parenthesized.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/momomoto/
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[016] - nmr-relax 1.2.12 (1.2)
by Edward d'Auvergne (http://freshmeat.net/users/dauvergne/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 23:36
Scientific/Engineering
About: relax is a program designed for the study of the dynamics of
proteins or other macromolecules though the analysis of NMR relaxation
data. It supports exponential curve fitting for the calculation of the R1
and R2 relaxation rates, calculation of the NOE, reduced spectral density
mapping, and the Lipari and Szabo model-free analysis.
Changes: This is an important bug fix release solving major issues with
the writing of results files, with the failure of model elimination, and
with the 'latex_mf_table.py' sample script.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nmr-relax/
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[017] - Open Movie Editor 0.0.20071117
by Richard Spindler (http://freshmeat.net/users/oracle2025/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 23:54
Artistic Software
Multimedia :: Video :: Non-Linear Editor
About: The Open Movie Editor is designed to be a simple tool that
provides basic movie making capabilities. It aims to be powerful enough
for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use. It is a non-linear video
editor that features several video and audio tracks where clips can be
manipulated using the mouse.
Changes: This release adds a simple node based filter graph and the
ability to export to the kino smil format and to the SRT subtitle format.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openmovieeditor/
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[018] - OpenVZ kernel 2.6.18-028stab049.1 (2.6.18)
by Kir Kolyshkin (http://freshmeat.net/users/k001/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 01:08
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: OpenVZ is a modified Linux kernel with additional support for
OpenVZ Virtual Environments (VE, also known as VPS). VEs are isolated,
secure environments on a single physical server, enabling better server
utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. Each VE
performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; VEs can be
rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory,
processes, files, applications, system libraries, and configuration files.
Due to a single kernel model, OpenVZ has native performance and very high
density. It is the core of Virtuozzo.
Changes: TUN/TAP checkpointing support, ipt_recent virtualization, a bunch
of iptables 32-bit compatibility fixes, and minor compilation and other
fixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vzkernel/
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[019] - OpenVZ kernel 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 028stab049.1 (RHEL5 2.6.18)
by Kir Kolyshkin (http://freshmeat.net/users/k001/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 01:08
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: OpenVZ is a modified Linux kernel with additional support for
OpenVZ Virtual Environments (VE, also known as VPS). VEs are isolated,
secure environments on a single physical server, enabling better server
utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. Each VE
performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; VEs can be
rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory,
processes, files, applications, system libraries, and configuration files.
Due to a single kernel model, OpenVZ has native performance and very high
density. It is the core of Virtuozzo.
Changes: TUN/TAP support in CPT, ipt_recent virtualization, a bunch of
iptables 32-bit compatibility fixes, and minor compilation and other
fixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vzkernel/
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[020] - OpenVZ kernel 2.6.22-ovz005 (2.6.22)
by Kir Kolyshkin (http://freshmeat.net/users/k001/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 01:08
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: OpenVZ is a modified Linux kernel with additional support for
OpenVZ Virtual Environments (VE, also known as VPS). VEs are isolated,
secure environments on a single physical server, enabling better server
utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. Each VE
performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; VEs can be
rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory,
processes, files, applications, system libraries, and configuration files.
Due to a single kernel model, OpenVZ has native performance and very high
density. It is the core of Virtuozzo.
Changes: A rebase to the 2.6.22.12 kernel, netfilter/iptables support, SIT
(IPv6 over IPv4) virtualization, and a number of bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vzkernel/
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[021] - Osmo 0.1.2
by pasp (http://freshmeat.net/users/pasp/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 23:55
About: Osmo is a handy personal organizer which includes calendar, task
manager, and address book modules. It was designed to be a small,
easy-to-use, and good looking PIM tool to help to manage personal
information.
Changes: A many new features have been added. Also, many bugfixes have
been made.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/osmo/
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[022] - Personal Finance Manager R1.0.21
by Mjrz (http://freshmeat.net/users/mjrz/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 01:11
Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
About: Personal Finance Manager is a finance and expense tracking tool for
those with limited or no accounting experience. You can use it to manage
expenses and track account balances, generate reports, create and save
complex filters to search the transaction history, create charts and
graphs for assets, liabilities, and daily net worth tracking, view stock
prices/quotes, store contacts, email, and phone numbers, and import OFX
data for banks and credit cards. It supports the latest Quicken format,
and also supports downloading current statement for bank and credit card
accounts.
Changes: Lots of bugfixes, a code cleanup, GUI updates, and improvements.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mjrz/
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[023] - Rgbtrade 0.11
by Ichnaton (http://freshmeat.net/users/ichnaton/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 01:25
Office/Business
Other/Nonlisted Topic
About: Rgbtrade is a Web-based marketplace for the Rainbow Trading
economic system, which is based on ecological and social principles such
as energy, recycling, fairness, transparancy, and responsibility. It is a
tool for sustainable development. It requires a typical Web hosting
environment with PHP and MySQL.
Changes: The system is now more usable and should work for the major part
on Firefox. IE does not work well.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rgbtrade/
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[024] - xen-shell 1.8
by Steve Kemp (http://freshmeat.net/users/skx/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 23:35
About: xen-shell is a simple console program to allow a hosting company to
delegate control of Xen instances directly to their clients. The shell
allows a user to boot, shutdown, or reimage their own personal Xen guest
without giving the user general access to the Xen host system or allowing
the user to touch the instances of other users.
Changes: This release updates the per-user reimaging support such that it
passes on all the arguments a user would commonly need. The new "whoami"
command was also added to allow administrators to see who they are within
the shell environment.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xen-shell/
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[025] - Xfprot 1.21
by Tito (http://freshmeat.net/users/Titox/)
Sat, Nov 17th 2007 23:32
Utilities
About: XFPROT is a graphical frontend for the F-Prot Antivirus for Linux
Small Business Edition.
Changes: An experimental freedesktop.org menu support was added.
Auto-detection at configure time and code fixes for the new GTK tooltip
API were added. Auto-detection at configure time and code fixes for the
new GTK file chooser API were added. A workaround to circumvent the
GtkFileChooser limitation of not being able to open files or directories
was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xfprot/
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