Newsletter for Thursday, November 29th 2007
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (42) :::
[001] - AsmXml 0.6
[002] - awesome 2.0-rc2
[003] - Cairo 1.4.12
[004] - DBTree 0.8.4
[005] - DynaStop 07333.1750
[006] - eGroupWare 2.0 Alpha Milestone 1
[007] - Feng 0.1.15
[008] - FreeDup 1.1-1
[009] - GeoQO 0.95
[010] - Gerber Viewer 1.0.3
[011] - gpgutils 0.3
[012] - Horde Groupware 1.1-RC1
[013] - Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 1.1-RC1
[014] - HylaFAX 5.1.12
[015] - inoclam 1.0.0
[016] - JOpt.SDK Vehicle Routing Component 2.0.8
[017] - libnemesi 0.6.4-rc1
[018] - Mod_Survey 3.2.5-pre1 (Development)
[019] - Netembryo 0.0.4
[020] - Nuhe 0.05
[021] - Open BEAGLE 3.0.3
[022] - OpenGTS 1.6.1
[023] - PapyrusBB 0.4
[024] - QBankManager 0.9.48
[025] - QtiPlot 0.9.2
[026] - Qtractor 0.0.9.778
[027] - Rally 0.2.1
[028] - RESTORE 4.0b30-2 (RESTORE-DC)
[029] - rsyslog 1.19.11 (Development)
[030] - Rule Set Based Access Control 1.4.0pre1 (Testing)
[031] - Shttp 0.0.7
[032] - SilverStripe 2.2.0
[033] - Smb4k 0.8.7
[034] - Snort2PF 4.3
[035] - Subsonic 3.3.beta1
[036] - TraffStats 0.10.1
[037] - UMLet 8
[038] - UMLGraph 5.0
[039] - wxCam 0.9.7
[040] - yaGTD 0.1.8
[041] - YouGrabber 0.29
[042] - zoem 07-333
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[001] - AsmXml 0.6
by Marc Kerbiquet (http://freshmeat.net/users/mkerbiquet/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 10:57
Software Development :: Libraries
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
About: AsmXml is a very fast XML parser and decoder for x86 platforms. It
is written in pure assembler and supports only a subset of the XML 1.0
specification.
Changes: This release fixes minor bugs and adds an option to ignore
attributes not declared in the schema.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/asm-xml/
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[002] - awesome 2.0-rc2
by Julien Danjou (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdanjou/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 10:54
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
About: awesome is a window manager for X. It manages windows in several
layout modes, such as tiled or floating. Each layout can be applied
dynamically. Windows can be grouped by tags, and each window can be tagged
with one or multiple tags, and each tag can have its own layout.
Changes: This release fixes some UICB function argument parsing, fixes
some random bugs, and adds a new padding feature.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/awesome/
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[003] - Cairo 1.4.12
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 04:57
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Cairo is a vector graphics library with cross-device output
support. It currently supports the X Window System and in-memory image
buffers as output targets. It is designed to produce identical output on
all output media while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration
when available (eg. through the X Render Extension). It provides a
stateful user-level API with capabilities similar to the PDF 1.4 imaging
model and provides operations including stroking and filling Bezier cubic
splines, transforming and compositing translucent images, and antialiased
text rendering.
Changes: Many significant bugfixes preventing crashes were made. Several
rendering problems were addressed. Minor build fixes and optimizations
were made.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cairo/
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[004] - DBTree 0.8.4
by Cameron Shelton (http://freshmeat.net/users/csshelton/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 16:22
Database
Database :: Front-Ends
About: DBTree is a cross-platform (both database and operating system)
general purpose database query tool. Some of the primary features of
DBTree are a tabbed interface which allows you multi-database connectivity
and multiple Workbooks per connection. A Workbook is the main query
interface and is optimized for productivity and ease of use. DBTree also
features automatic session saving and loading upon startup.
Changes: This release corrects a temporary GUI locking issue introduced in
0.8.3 that affects certain JDBC drivers. Insert/Update times have also been
beautified.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbtree/
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[005] - DynaStop 07333.1750
by BpMatthias (http://freshmeat.net/users/BpMatthias/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 16:30
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Filters
Internet
About: DynaStop is a utility to examine IPv4 based addresses for Exim and
procmail for the purpose of filtering based upon patterns defined by the
administrator. This can be a pivotal factor in email filtering and server
load management, since dynamic IP addresses are typically used for
dial-up, DHCP, and DSL accounts. All of which have a designated mail
exchange server through which all outbound mail flows as defined with
many, if not most, large Internet service providers.
Changes: This release fixes pattern conflicts in the TLD expressions. This
caused some patterns to be missed that were clearly dynamic. This release
updates conf files and consolidates similar patterns.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dynastop/
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[006] - eGroupWare 2.0 Alpha Milestone 1
by Lars Kneschke (http://freshmeat.net/users/knecke/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 11:26
Communications
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Office/Business :: Groupware
About: eGroupWare 2.0 is an effort to increase the usability and stability
of eGroupWare with a rewrite in a separate code-base, as KDE 4 and Typo3
have done before. eGroupWare 2.0 will become a Web-based groupware
solution including an address book, email, calendar, notes, and CRM. It is
based on Web 2.0.
Changes: The current state is interesting for developers only, as the
setup process is still very complicated, and no user management is
available.
License: Affero General Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/egw20/
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[007] - Feng 0.1.15
by lu_zero (http://freshmeat.net/users/lu_zero/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 04:54
Multimedia :: Video
About: Feng is a multimedia streaming server that is compliant with the
IETF's standards for real-time streaming of multimedia content over the
Internet. Feng implements RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) (rfc2326)
and RTP/RTCP (Real-Time Transport Protocol/RTP Control Protocol)
(rfc3550). It supports the RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences
with Minimal Control (rfc3551).
Changes: Many annoying bugs were fixed, including a race condition under
heavy load.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/feng/
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[008] - FreeDup 1.1-1
by Andreas Neuper (http://freshmeat.net/users/aneuper/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 04:52
System :: Filesystems
System :: Systems Administration
Utilities
About: Freedup eliminates duplicate files using links and thus reduces the
amount of used disk space within one or more file systems. Freedup searches
for identical files and replaces them with links to the same file. If the
devices differ, a symbolic link is used, otherwise a hard link is
established by default. Many options allow you to modify the file
comparison, the linking behavior, and the output. The input is either
taken from external pipe input or from an internally generated pipe using
find.
Changes: Freedup is now also is capable of comparing the payload of audio
files like MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, (F)AAC, Ogg, and others. Currently only the
JPEG graphics format is supported. When using these styles the tags
themselves are ignored - only the encoded sound/graphics will be compared.
If the file shows correct magic, the algorithm will be used. This allows
also an automatically selecting mode. This function is new and thoroughly
tested, but linking direction in not prioritized, i.e. you may loose
header information due to linking. Please use the no action or interaction
switch until you are satisfied.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freedup/
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[009] - GeoQO 0.95
by Wes Hardaker (http://freshmeat.net/users/hardaker/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 16:19
Games/Entertainment
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical
About: GeoQO is a waypoint, geocaching, and waymarking database. It is
extremely fast and offers a wide variety of utilities for manipulating
waypoints. Though designed for geocaching and waymarking, it should be
usable for any waypoint management. It is highly extensible; writing new
import, export, search, display, and other plugins is easy to do.
Changes: The biggest changes in this release are all related to GeoQO's
ability to create Google Earth files. There are now special icons for each
geocache/waypoint, and the ability has been added to create 528 circles
around waypoints to help determine where new geocaches can be placed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/geoqo/
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[010] - Gerber Viewer 1.0.3
by Stefan Petersen (http://freshmeat.net/users/spe/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 04:56
Scientific/Engineering :: Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
About: Gerber Viewer is a viewer for Gerber files, also called RS274X. It
lets you load several files on top of each other, do measurements on the
displayed image, etc. With GDK-PixBuf it is also possible to export images
as PNGs.
Changes: This release include patches collected over one and a half years.
The step-and-repeat command now works. An endless loop bug when gerbv
encountered an unknown % code was fixed. Better support was provided for
small drill files and window size handling was improved when the screen is
bigger than the display. Maintainership has broadened to include several
more members of the gEDA project.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gerbv/
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[011] - gpgutils 0.3
by Tim Brown (http://freshmeat.net/users/tbrown/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 11:26
Security :: Cryptography
System :: Software Distribution Tools
Terminals :: Telnet
About: gpgutils is a set of utilities for GNUPG. It includes gpgedit,
gpgsignfiles, and gpgverifyfiles. These allow encryption and code signing
tasks to be simplified.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpgutils/
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[012] - Horde Groupware 1.1-RC1
by Jan Schneider (http://freshmeat.net/users/Yunosh/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 08:12
Communications :: Email :: Address Book
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Office/Business :: Groupware
About: Horde Groupware is an enterprise ready browser-based collaboration
suite. Users can manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes
with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project. Horde
Groupware bundles the separately available applications Kronolith, Turba,
Nag, and Mnemo. It can be extended with any of the released Horde
applications or the Horde modules that are still in development, like a
file manager, a bookmark manager, a forum, or a wiki.
Changes: A central alarm system was added with email, inline, and sound
notifications. Databases can be read and written. Database fallback was
added. Performance was improved. Slick new themes were added.
Accessibility standards are followed. memcache clustering can be used.
Virtual address books were implemented. The default address book schema
was improved. LDIF can be imported and exported. iCalendar and vCalendar
support were improved. More event recurrence types were added. Holidays
are shown in the calendar.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/horde-groupware/
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[013] - Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 1.1-RC1
by Jan Schneider (http://freshmeat.net/users/Yunosh/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 08:20
Communications :: Email :: Address Book
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Communications :: Email :: Filters
About: Horde Groupware Webmail Edition is an enterprise ready
browser-based communication suite. Users can read, send, and organize
email messages and manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes
with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project. It bundles
the separately available applications IMP, Ingo, Kronolith, Turba, Nag, and
Mnemo. It can be extended with any of the released Horde applications or
the Horde modules that are still in development, like a file manager, a
bookmark manager, a forum, or a wiki.
Changes: AJAX and mobile webmail clients were added. A central alarm
system with several notifications was added. Performance was improved.
Slick new themes were added. Accessibility standards are followed. Email
rate can be limited. Symmetric PGP encryption is supported. Contact
searches are automatically completed. IDN is supported. Timed vacation
messages, SQL filter storage, virtual address books, favorite recipients
address books, daily agenda emails, and more recurrence types were added.
The default address book schema was improved.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/horde-webmail/
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[014] - HylaFAX 5.1.12
by Lee Howard (http://freshmeat.net/users/faxguy/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 13:18
Communications :: Fax
About: HylaFAX is a fax and paging system for Unix. It supports sending
facsimile, receiving facsimile, polled retrieval of facsimile, transparent
shared data use of the modem and sending alpha-numeric pages. The software
is structured around a client-server architecture. Fax modems may reside
on a single machine on a network and clients can submit outbound jobs from
any machine that can communicate with the machine on which the modems
reside. An access control mechanism is included to control which users on
which machines may access a server.
Changes: Numerous internationalization fixes in notify, faxrcvd, and
pollrcvd. JobControl stderr output is not parsed. The client FIFO file is
cleaned up when the client disconnects from a non-root directory. A
TagLineLocale modem configuration option and corresponding tagtest feature
have been added for using UTF-8 fonts and format. A build error with Mac OS
X Leopard (Darwin9) has been fixed. The time format has been changed to
always include hours.
License: Freely Distributable
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hylafax/
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[015] - inoclam 1.0.0
by Thomas Cort (http://freshmeat.net/users/tcort/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 05:03
Security
System :: Systems Administration
About: inoclam is a virus scanner that uses inotify to watch user
specified directories. When a file is created, changed, or copied to one
of the monitored directories, the file is checked with ClamAV. If a virus
is detected, the file is optionally removed from the file system and the
administrator is optionally notified.
Changes: This release implements directory monitoring and virus scanning.
An e-mail notification feature and an auto-delete feature are available
and configurable through the configuration file.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/inoclam/
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[016] - JOpt.SDK Vehicle Routing Component 2.0.8
by dnaevolutions (http://freshmeat.net/users/dnaevolutions/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 07:41
Office/Business :: Scheduling
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: JOpt.SDK is an automated vehicle routing and dispatching component
for both Java/J2SE and .NET. It can solve Travelling Salesman Problems
(TSP) and Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows
(CVRP,VRPTW). It offers route and transport optimisation with respect to
various constraints such as time windows, load capacities, and prescribed
itinerary. The component is based on genetic algorithms, and automatically
determines an optimized allocation of vehicels to an arbitrary set of
orders.
Changes: It is now possible to define individual time matrix factors for
each resource. Compared to revision 2.0.7, this allows for individual
speed profiles instead of only one general speed profile as introduced in
2.0.7. Furthermore, additional best practices examples have been added to
the evaluation kit.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/joptsdk/
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[017] - libnemesi 0.6.4-rc1
by lu_zero (http://freshmeat.net/users/lu_zero/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 07:42
Multimedia :: Video
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Libnemesi lets you add multimedia streaming playback in your
applications in a quick and straightforward way. This software is fully
compliant with IETF's standards for real-time streaming of multimedia
contents over the Internet. libnemesi implements RTSP (RFC2326) and
RTP/RTCP (RFC3550). It supports the RTP profile for audio and video
conferences with minimal control (RFC3551).
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libnemesi/
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[018] - Mod_Survey 3.2.5-pre1 (Development)
by faidros (http://freshmeat.net/users/faidros/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 04:53
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: Mod_survey is an Apache mod_perl module which allows users to
create their own Web questionnaires using an XML-based tag notation. It
supports exporting of data into several file formats, including SPSS
syntax, semi-colon delimited fields, and SQL script. It also provides
limited support for descriptive statistics of the submitted data, and
stylesheet customizations of layout.
Changes: It is now possible to use delimited fields with all characters
(it previously failed on pipe, plus, asterisk, dot, and some other chars).
It is now possible to customize the error message for a MUSTANSWER in a
CUSTOM. Many minor bugs with Windows compatibility were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/modsurvey/
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[019] - Netembryo 0.0.4
by lu_zero (http://freshmeat.net/users/lu_zero/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 04:58
System :: Networking
About: Netembryo is a network abstraction library (originated from an old
wrapper socket) plus some miscellaneous utility functions used as a
foundation for feng, libnemesi, and felix.
Changes: This release was updated for new versions of feng and libnemesi.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/netembryo/
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[020] - Nuhe 0.05
by Tuomo Makinen (http://freshmeat.net/users/tjam/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 16:28
Internet :: Log Analysis
Security
System :: Logging
About: Nuhe is a rule based log monitoring system which is capable of
taking action when rules are matched againsts log activity. By default,
Nuhe runs in the background (as a daemon), but it can also be used in the
foreground in a log analyzer mode. Log analyzer mode just analyzes given
logs and prints results to stdout; no actions are taken when Nuhe is in
analyzer mode.
Changes: Nuhe sensor is now capable of sending a list of pending events to
node manager, and allows explicit running of subsequent event phases or
locking/unlocking of current event phase for pending events by user
action. Sensor also has cleaner phase functionality for actions; now it's
possible to specify a cleaner phase that can be executed by user action.
This release has an ftpd.rules ruleset, some bugfixes, and overall
improvements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nuhe/
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[021] - Open BEAGLE 3.0.3
by Christian Gagné (http://freshmeat.net/users/raspingoo/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 10:53
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
About: Open BEAGLE is a C++ evolutionary computation framework. It
provides a high-level software environment to do any kind of evolutionary
computation, with support for tree-based genetic programming, bit string,
integer-valued vector, and real-valued vector genetic algorithms,
evolution strategy, co-evolution, and evolutionary multi-objective
optimization.
Changes: This release fixes a bug in reading ephemeral random constants
from XML files.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openbeagle/
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[022] - OpenGTS 1.6.1
by MDFlynn (http://freshmeat.net/users/mdflynn/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 04:53
About: OpenGTS is a full-featured GPS tracking system that includes the
OpenDMTP server, yet also can support other remote tracking device types.
It also provides a Web interface that provides GPS tracking and location
reporting. Server configuration experience is required to use this.
Changes: "Fleet" based GPS tracking and mapping is now included along with
support for Microsoft SQL Server (in addition to the standard MySQL server
support). Default map size has been increased. There were also many other
new features and fixes.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/opengts/
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[023] - PapyrusBB 0.4
by Josh Schmidt (http://freshmeat.net/users/oyejorge/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 16:25
Communications
Communications :: BBS
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: PapyrusBB is a forum that was designed specifically for use with
WikyBlog. It's written in PHP with a MySQL backend, fully integrates with
the WikyBlog system using the AJAX-enhanced interface, and is UTF-8
compatible.
Changes: This release improves upon and fixes bugs in a number of features
including CAPTCHA usage, editing, and synchronizing. The beginnings of a
template system are also in place.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/papyrusbb/
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[024] - QBankManager 0.9.48
by aquamaniac (http://freshmeat.net/users/aquamaniac/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 13:12
Office/Business :: Financial
About: QBankManager is a home banking program. It is the reference
application for AqBanking, AqHBCI, AqDTAUS, and AqGeldkarte, therefore it
supports all transfer types and jobs of those projects.
Changes: With this release, transaction exports are available again. When
loading prepaid cards, the cell phone number is now asked for twice to
catch typos.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qbankmanager/
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[025] - QtiPlot 0.9.2
by Ion Vasilief (http://freshmeat.net/users/ion_vasilief/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 13:14
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: QtiPlot is a clone of Origin for data analysis and scientific
plotting.
Changes: Python scripts can now be executed from the different menus and
toolbars in QtiPlot. You can fully customize the new actions (description,
icon, shortcut, tooltip) via a user-friendly dialog.The 2D plot legends can
now be placed everywhere inside the plot layer. In-line text editing for 2D
plot texts has been implemented. A format tool bar has been added for all
operations concerning 2D plot texts. The behavior of the Import ASCII
dialog has been fixed. Bugs in the Fit Wizard and some other minor bugs
have been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qtiplot/
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[026] - Qtractor 0.0.9.778
by Rui Nuno Capela (http://freshmeat.net/users/rncbc/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 16:35
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
About: Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application. The
initial target platform is Linux, using the infrastructure of the Jack
Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI. It is meant to be a fairly-featured Linux
desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home
studio.
Changes: Drag-and-drop of MIDI files has been improved. Actual recorded
MIDI clip length is honored. Connections lists are sorted properly, and
session persistence has been addressed. New panning/balance control on
MIDI output buses. Subtle duplication of MIDI events on playback has been
squared. A transport menu and toolbar are featured on each MIDI editor
widget. There are many other usability fixes affecting session naming,
transport loop setting, and MIDI clip and event duration adjustment.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qtractor/
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[027] - Rally 0.2.1
by Maxim Udushlivy (http://freshmeat.net/users/maxim_udushlivy/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 08:14
Desktop Environment :: Tools
System :: Installation/Setup
System :: Software Distribution Tools
About: Rally is a fast GuiLoader-based front end for RPM. It provides RPM
package management functionality via an intuitive tree-less graphical
interface. Users are able to browse available repositories, search for
packages, and perform updates, installations, and removals. Rally employs
Parallel Installer, which downloads and updates packages simultaneously,
potentially reaching a vast performance boost. Rally is a part of the Crow
Designer project, and was started as a sample GuiLoader-based application.
Changes: A quit confirmation dialog was added to warn about package
selections. The problem report dialog now validates UTF-8 strings. The
post-Rally rpmdb cache may now be updated correctly even in test mode.
Minor code cleanups were done.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rally/
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[028] - RESTORE 4.0b30-2 (RESTORE-DC)
by Garret (http://freshmeat.net/users/Gacott/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 08:21
System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Networking
About: RESTORE is an enterprise network backup and recovery solution for
Windows, Novell, Mac OS X (data fork), Unix, and Linux systems. It is
scalable to a complete backup solution for multiple workstations, servers,
and data centers. It operates over local area networks, wide area networks,
and the Internet.
Changes: Simple scheduling was added. Port options are provided for most
protocols for those that are running on non-standard ports. Debian
packages for Ubuntu are available.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/restore_backup/
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[029] - rsyslog 1.19.11 (Development)
by Rainer Gerhards (http://freshmeat.net/users/rgerhards/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 04:57
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 maintenance release fixed a segfault issue that occured in
multi-threaded mode on rare occasions. There are no other fixes or
enhancements. As such, this update is recommended to users experiencing
the issue, only.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rsyslog/
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[030] - Rule Set Based Access Control 1.4.0pre1 (Testing)
by frealek (http://freshmeat.net/users/frealek/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 08:29
Security
About: Rule Set Based Access Control (RSBAC) is a Free Software security
extension for current Linux kernels. It is based on the Generalized
Framework for Access Control (GFAC) by Abrams and LaPadula and provides a
flexible system of access control based on several modules. All security
relevant system calls are extended by security enforcement code. This code
calls the central decision component, which in turn calls all active
decision modules and generates a combined decision. This decision is then
enforced by the system call extensions.
Changes: This version includes all the bugfixes from version 1.3.6, as
well as the new virtual user management feature. This feature lets you
have many virtual user sets in your system. As an example, you can start
your mail server in a different set, and the users you're getting mail to
will not be any of the system users. Likewise, your jails can be started
in a different set so that the users in that jail will never be the same
ones as the real system users.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rsbac/
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[031] - Shttp 0.0.7
by swivel (http://freshmeat.net/users/swivel/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 08:26
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Software Development :: Embedded Systems
About: Shttp is a simple, partial HTTP/1.1 implementation built using the
ServerKit framework. It's a little over 1000 lines of code, and serves
well as a minimal lightweight HTTP server in closed/controlled/static
content settings, as well as a learning tool for those interested in
developing TCP-service-providing modules using ServerKit. Illustrating how
easy it is to build efficient server programs using ServerKit, this module
has demonstrated 7200 requests/second in AB benchmarks.
Changes: Efficiency has been improved by utilizing the new
SERVER_THREAD_POOL_QUEUE_ENTRY_SUPPLIED option added in ServerKit 1.2.0. A
few other cleanups have been performed, including the removal of a
redundant per-request memset() call.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/shttp/
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[032] - SilverStripe 2.2.0
by silverstripe (http://freshmeat.net/users/silverstripe/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 10:57
About: SilverStripe is a Web application framework and content management
system. It differs from many of the better known CMSes in that it uses
fully object orientated code, has native Ajax support, and allows you to
very cleanly customize the system to suit your needs.
Changes: A major release containing a staggering quantity of new features.
A new interface, usability improvements, OpenID, online image editing,
sitemap.xml support, i18n (multilingual) support, canvas graphing, and
more.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/silverstripe/
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[033] - Smb4k 0.8.7
by Marc Hansen (http://freshmeat.net/users/marcgie/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 13:12
Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE) :: Themes KDE 3.x
Security
System :: Filesystems
About: Smb4K is a SMB and CIFS (Windows) share browser for KDE. It uses
the Samba software suite to access the SMB and CIFS shares of the local
network neighborhood. Its purpose is to provide a program that's easy to
use and has as many features as possible.
Changes: This maintenance release of the 0.8 branch predominantly fixes
problems experienced when mounting and unmounting shares. This will
especially please FreeBSD users who could not work with the previous
version because of these bugs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smb4k/
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[034] - Snort2PF 4.3
by Jeremie Le Hen (http://freshmeat.net/users/ttz/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 16:32
Security
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: With Snort2Pf, you can turn your local Snort installation easily
into an "intrusion detection and prevention system", rather than simply
using it for post-mortem analysis. Such a system also blocks the
recognized violations.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/snort2pf/
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[035] - Subsonic 3.3.beta1
by Sindre Mehus (http://freshmeat.net/users/sindre_mehus/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 13:16
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3
About: Subsonic is a Web-based music streamer, jukebox, and Podcast
receiver. It provides access to your entire music collection wherever you
are. Use it to share your music with friends, or to listen to your music
while away from home.
Changes: Client-side playlists have been implemented, with support for
random skipping within songs. Resumable downloads are now supported. Two
new themes specially designed for large HD screens have been added. A
Russian translation was added. The layout and usability of the Podcast
management page has been improved.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/subsonic/
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[036] - TraffStats 0.10.1
by Klaus Zerwes zero-sys.net (http://freshmeat.net/users/zerosys/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 10:33
Database
Internet
System :: Monitoring
About: TraffStats is a monitoring and traffic analysis application that
uses SNMP to collect data from any enabled device. It has the ability to
generate graphs (using jpgraph) with the option to compare and sum up
different devices. It has a multiuser-design with rights-management and
support for multiple languages (English and German are implemented).
Changes: fixSysUptime.pl has been fixed. This release adds vertical lines
on ticks in graphs. The reset of loaded view on changes has been fixed.
There is a small new homepage.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/traffstats/
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[037] - UMLet 8
by Martin (http://freshmeat.net/users/auer_martin/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 10:29
Education
Software Development
Software Development :: Documentation
About: UMLet is a lightweight tool for rapidly drawing UML diagrams, with
a sound and pop-up-free user interface. UMLet lets you draw diagram
sketches quickly, teach UML with a simple user interface, and export
diagrams to SVG, JPG, PDF, and LaTeX-friendly EPS. It features a fast,
text-based way of editing UML elements.
Changes: A new activity diagram with text-based syntax. Variable font
size. New elements. Better crop when exporting to the clipboard. String
IDs in the sequence diagram. Numerous bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/umlet/
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[038] - UMLGraph 5.0
by Diomidis Spinellis (http://freshmeat.net/users/diomidis/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 08:32
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based
Software Development :: Documentation
About: UMLGraph facilitates the declarative specification and drawing of
UML class and sequence diagrams. One can specify a class design using the
Java syntax complemented by Javadoc tags. Running the UmlGraph doclet on
the specification generates a Graphviz diagram specification that can be
automatically processed to create Postscript, GIF, SVG, JPEG, fig, or
Framemaker drawings. Similarly, sequence diagrams are specified using
declarative pic macros and compiled with the GNU plotutils pic2plot
program into a PNG, PNM, (pseudo) GIF, SVG, AI, Postscript, CGM, FIG, PCL,
HPGL, Regis, or TEK drawing.
Changes: This new version adds support for six new shapes: node,
component, package, collaboration, use case, and active class. It also
allows the annotation of class diagram nodes through comments. These
options require GraphViz 2.16. Another option allows the placing of
arbitrary text in class diagram boxes.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/umlgraph/
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[039] - wxCam 0.9.7
by Marco Lorrai (http://freshmeat.net/users/iking/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 10:52
Multimedia :: Video :: Capture
About: wxCam is a webcam application for Linux. It supports video
recording (in an uncompressed AVI format or Xvid format), snapshot taking,
and some special commands for Philips webcams, so you can also use the
program for astronomy purposes. It supports both video4linux 1 and 2
drivers.
Changes: This release adds the ability to choose the Web cam microphone
device during recording (usually /dev/dsp1). It has a new layout in some
configuration dialogs. A Brazilian translation has been added.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxcam/
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[040] - yaGTD 0.1.8
by klnavarro (http://freshmeat.net/users/klnavarro/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 16:21
Office/Business
About: yaGTD is a very simple utility designed to make the management of
your to-do list quick and easy. It incorporates major features from
Allen's Getting Things Done philosophy and a notion of urgency and
importance preached by Stephen Covey in his Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People book.
Changes: This release adds an Emacs major mode for editing yaGTD to-do
lists.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yagtd/
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[041] - YouGrabber 0.29
by Quetzy Garcia (http://freshmeat.net/users/quetzyg/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 08:14
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Video
About: YouGrabber is a lightweight, multi-threaded command line
YouTube.com video downloader with proxy support, made from scratch in ANSI
C. Although it has only been tested on GNU/Linux systems, it should
compile/run on other POSIX platforms.
Changes: In the interface, URLs with more than 128 characters will be
truncated. An elapsed time bug was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yougrabber/
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[042] - zoem 07-333
by Stijn van Dongen (http://freshmeat.net/users/micans/)
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 04:57
Documentation
Software Development :: Documentation
Text Processing :: General
About: Zoem is a general-purpose macro/programming language that submits
text to a two-stage transformation process. Macro expansion and
interpretation is followed by application of customizable character
filtering rules. Zoem supports inside-out evaluation, comprehensive IO,
control operators, iteration, dictionary stacks, multidimensional data
storage, arithmetic expressions, regular expressions, system commands, and
more. PUD (Portable Unix Documentation) is shipped with zoem. It provides
two mini-languages for authoring manual pages and FAQ documents that
output to troff, HTML, plain text, and PostScript.
Changes: A bug in set#3 was removed, and a batch definition mode and a
more legible way of appending to keys were added. Keys local to
environments can now be defined using the same signature as when invoked.
This release also continues the focus on retiring what few special case
syntax still exists. The format#2 specification syntax has been reworked
(in an incompatible way) into a standard and extensible key-value syntax.
The format#2 implementation was redone and several new directives were
added. XML/HTML syntactic sugar now stops introducing whitespace
formatting when so instructed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zoem/
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