Newsletter for Thursday, March 06th 2008

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (52) :::

[001] - AgileWiki 0.10.1 (COODBMS)
[002] - AllianceP2P 0.9.8
[003] - Antares Project 0.0.5.2
[004] - atop 1.23
[005] - ClarkConnect Internet Server/Gateway 4.2 SP1
[006] - CorneliOS 0.8.3r6
[007] - Disko 1.1.1
[008] - Dovecot 1.0.12
[009] - dvbyell 0.99.4
[010] - Expect-lite 3.1.0
[011] - Fail2ban 0.8.2
[012] - Florence 0.1.0
[013] - GAMGI 0.13.2
[014] - Gammu 1.19.0 (Stable)
[015] - IT++ 4.0.3 (Stable)
[016] - JOTWiki 0.1.3
[017] - JRubyStack 1.0 beta 0
[018] - JSummer 0.1.0.0
[019] - KLone 2.0.2
[020] - libkdtree++ 0.6.2
[021] - Linux LiveCD Hotspot Server 2.0.26
[022] - LiVES 0.9.8.8
[023] - Lua Filesystem Extension Library 0.2
[024] - Mail Avenger 0.7.9
[025] - MetaForum 0.1046 beta
[026] - Mguesser 0.4
[027] - multiwalk2c 0.2
[028] - MxGraph 0.10.0.12
[029] - NeroLINUX 3.1.1.0
[030] - Neural Network Framework 1.0.4
[031] - niche.sh 0.3
[032] - PeerStream Audio Video Streaming Server 4.71 (A/V Streaming
Server)
[033] - PHP 4.4.8 (Version 4)
[034] - Pipe Viewer 1.1.4
[035] - Pondus 0.3.0
[036] - Python Tracer 1.0
[037] - Pyxer 0.1
[038] - Risk 1.0.9.5
[039] - rsyslog 3.12.1 (Development)
[040] - Seismic Unix 4.0-revision10
[041] - SPWrapper 0.9
[042] - Sun Java Platform, Standard Edition 6u5 (Java 6)
[043] - Sun Java Platform, Standard Edition 1.5.0_15 (Java 5)
[044] - SymPy 0.5.13
[045] - TCPDF 2.4.000 (PHP5)
[046] - Thread Safe Template Library 1.1.3
[047] - Userful DiscoverStation 5.8-276 (Live CD)
[048] - Userful DiscoverStation 5-276
[049] - Web-GMUI 0.2.8 (PHP)
[050] - Wt 2.1.0
[051] - xlike Kernel Patchset 0.22b
[052] - XPTracker 722

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[001] - AgileWiki 0.10.1 (COODBMS)
by Bill la Forge (http://freshmeat.net/users/laforge49/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 13:45

Database
Documentation
Information Management

About: AgileWiki is meant to create software systems which are fluid,
easily configured and can be reorganized on-the-fly to meet ever changing
requirements. It includes a COW-based database, the Rolonics programming
paradigm, and semantic inferencing.

Changes: A new exit method for ending a script allows operations to return
an error result rather than throwing an exception. RoleML now supports
account creation and password management. Passwords have been secured.

License: Common Public License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/agilewiki/

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[002] - AllianceP2P 0.9.8
by abe (http://freshmeat.net/users/abelau/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 03:55

Communications :: Chat
Communications :: File Sharing

About: AllianceP2P takes the best from BitTorrent and Direct Connect and
creates a decentralized and secure private P2P/friend-to-friend network
for instant messaging and file sharing. It supports file swarming
(multi-source download) and is Unicode capable.

Changes: A speed column is now shown in search results. It approximates
the download speed you will get when you choose to download the file. An
ETA is also shown for search results. Popup menus were added to the friend
and download tabs. Java 6.0 is now supported. Listening ports higher than
40000 are no longer selected. Files that you already have are shown
grayed-out in search results. The download grid in the download tab is
smarter about selecting downloads to display.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/alliancep2p/

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[003] - Antares Project 0.0.5.2
by Phillip Jacobs (http://freshmeat.net/users/phillyqueso/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 08:10

Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: Antares is a PHP 5 framework intended to provide a community
network allowing developers to publish, rate, and grow code up the Antares
ladder. The main idea is reusability, agility, and standards-compliant
non-intrusive development.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/antares-project/

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[004] - atop 1.23
by Gerlof Langeveld (http://freshmeat.net/users/gela/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 05:20

System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration

About: Atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor that is capable of
reporting the activity of all processes (even if processes have finished
during the interval), daily logging of system and process activity for
long-term analysis, highlighting overloaded system resources by using
colors, etc. At regular intervals, it shows system-level activity related
to the CPU, memory, swap, disks, and network layers, and for every active
process it shows the CPU utilization, the memory growth, priority,
username, state, and exit code.

Changes: The atop command shows the number of running and sleeping
(interruptible/non-interruptible) threads per process and shows the PPID
per process. The command atopsar is now able to make summary reports and
shows information about the top 3 most active processes per sample. In
both commands, several bugs have been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/atop/

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[005] - ClarkConnect Internet Server/Gateway 4.2 SP1
by Peter Baldwin (http://freshmeat.net/users/petebaldwin/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:24

Internet
System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: ClarkConnect is a powerful yet easy-to-use server/gateway software
solution designed for the small/medium-sized organization. The software
provides all the necessary server tools to run an organization: email,
antivirus, antispam, file sharing, groupware, VPN, firewall, intrusion
detection/prevention, content filtering, bandwidth management, multi-WAN
and more.

Changes: This service pack release includes a number of important bug and
security fixes. Notable updates include an antivirus engine upgrade,
anti-phishing updates, content filter server bugfixes, and kernel security
fixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/clarkconnect/

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[006] - CorneliOS 0.8.3r6
by Jos Kirps (http://freshmeat.net/users/joskirps/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 13:43

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 features an improved HTML parser introducing new
tags, an enhanced system packaging command, updated SQL application
handlers and SQL table definitions, an updated invoice management
application handler, and HTTP and SQL monitoring features as part of the
io.pl script.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cornelios/

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[007] - Disko 1.1.1
by Matthias Hardt (http://freshmeat.net/users/matha/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 03:52

Multimedia
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: Disko is a plugin-based framework providing components to create
media-oriented applications with special user interfaces on embedded
platforms. It is closely connected to the DirectFB hardware abstraction
library and specialized in touchscreen and remote control navigation.
There's a plugin-based management component which enables easy
development, customization, and extension of embedded applications. Disko
has been ported to the TI Davinci platform together with DirectFB, and
runs on x86, as well. The goal is to have Disko up and running on every
single platform DirectFB is working on.

Changes: This release is mainly a bugfix release but also includes some
performance enhancements, especially in the GUI-related parts.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/disko/

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[008] - Dovecot 1.0.12
by Toni Viemerö (http://freshmeat.net/users/skithund/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 01:24

Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: POP3

About: Dovecot is an IMAP server whose major goals are security and
extreme reliability. It uses index files to optimally store the mailbox
state, which makes it very fast even with huge mailboxes. Indexes won't
prevent external mailbox updates, so Dovecot is still fully compatible
with standard Maildir and mbox formats. There's also a fully featured POP3
server included.

Changes: Small fixes.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dovecot/

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[009] - dvbyell 0.99.4
by Jonny (http://freshmeat.net/users/jonnyh/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 13:48

Multimedia :: Video

About: dvbyell is a streaming solution for DVB(-S/-S2/-C/-T). It will read
streams from Linux DVB devices (/dev/dvb/*) and send them to the network
using UDP multicast. This kind of software is often referred to as "DVB
to IP gateway" or "IPTV server".

Changes: Elementary stream descriptors are now passed through, which
should fix the problems with missing language identifiers, AC3 audio, and
DVB subtitles.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dvbyell/

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[010] - Expect-lite 3.1.0
by Craig Miller (http://freshmeat.net/users/cvmiller/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:36

Software Development :: Quality Assurance

About: Expect-lite is a wrapper for expect, created to make expect
programming even easier. The wrapper permits the creation of expect script
command files by using special character(s) at the beginning of each line
to indicate the expect-lite action. Basic expect-lite scripts can be
created by simply cutting and pasting text from a terminal window into a
script, and adding '>' '

Changes: This release adds 'math variable' permitting math operations, ie.
=$answer*$five/2.0. It supports arithmetic operators: + = * / %, and
bitwise operators: << >> & | ^. The result is always assigned to the 'math
variable'. Pseudo arrays have been added by permitting dereferencing of
variables on the left side of an equals assignment statement, except the
first variable name. Example: $two=2 $array$two=value ; === show value of
$array2. Limitation: additional variables on the left side (i.e. $two)
must only contain legal variable characters [A-Za-z0-9_].

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/expect-lite/

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[011] - Fail2ban 0.8.2
by Cyril Jaquier (http://freshmeat.net/users/lostcontrol/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 13:47

Internet
Security
System :: Monitoring

About: Fail2ban monitors log files and temporarily or persistently bans
failure-prone addresses by updating existing firewall rules. The software
allows easy specification of different actions to be taken such as to ban
an IP address using iptables or hostsdeny rules, or simply to send a
notification email. It supports many services, and configuration can be
easily extended for monitoring any other ASCII file. All filters and
actions are given in the configuration files, thus fail2ban can be adopted
to be used with a variety of files and firewalls.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fail2ban/

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[012] - Florence 0.1.0
by François Agrech (http://freshmeat.net/users/agrech/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 13:44

Desktop Environment :: Gnome

About: Florence is a virtual keyboard for GNOME that appears on screen. It
is adapted for people who are able to use a pointing device but have
difficulties using a real keyboard. It aims at being easy and pretty.

Changes: This is the most polished version released yet, and should put an
end to random bugs. The infrastructure is in place for future extensions.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/florence/

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[013] - GAMGI 0.13.2
by carlos (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcgp/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 08:09

Education
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry

About: GAMGI (General Atomistic Modelling Graphic Interface) is a program
to build, view, and analyze atomic strucures such as molecules, crystals,
glasses, liquids, etc. It aims to be useful for: the scientific community
working in Atomistic Modelling that needs a graphic interface to build
input data and to view and analyse output data, calculated with Ab-Initio
and Molecular Mechanics programs; the scientific community at large
studying chemistry, physics, materials science, geology, etc., that needs
a graphic interface to view and analyse atomic structural information and
to prepare images for presentations in classes and seminars; teaching
chemistry and physics in secondary schools and universities; science
promotion in schools, exhibitions and science museums.

Changes: GAMGI was ported to GTK 2.0 and GTKGLext 1.0. Apart from very
minor details, everything seems to be working fine. Some widgets still
need to be replaced, but the main issues are solved. A man page, images
for icons, and instructions for distributions were added. Light, plane,
and direction bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gamgi/

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[014] - Gammu 1.19.0 (Stable)
by Michal &#268;iha&#345; (http://freshmeat.net/users/nijel/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 01:26

Communications :: Telephony
Utilities

About: Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is a cellular manager for
various mobile phones/modems. It supports a wide variety of Nokia,
Symbian, and AT devices (Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom, WaveCom, IPAQ, Samsung,
SE, and others) over cables, infrared, or BlueTooth. It contains libraries
with functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time,
alarm, calls, and more (used by external applications like Wammu). It also
includes a command line utility that can make many things (including
backups) and an SMS gateway with full MySQL and PostgreSQL support from
the PHP interface.

Changes: Lot of fixes in the AT engine and other minor fixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gammu/

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[015] - IT++ 4.0.3 (Stable)
by ediap (http://freshmeat.net/users/ediap/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 03:52

Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Software Development :: Libraries

About: IT++ is a C++ library of mathematical, signal processing, speech
processing, and communications classes and functions. It is being
developed by researchers in these areas and is widely used by researchers,
both in the communications industry and universities. Since 2004, IT++ is
also being developed as a part of the European Network of Excellence in
Wireless Communications (NEWCOM).

Changes: This release fixed incorrect calling of the BLAS zdotu_ function,
which caused blas_test and vec_test failures on some architectures (e.g.
Debian SPARC/Alpha/ARM) or when using non-standard optimization flags
(e.g. -fomit-frame-pointer). The problem is due to the fact that the
std::complex<double> C++ type is not compatible with COMPLEX in Fortran.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/itpp/

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[016] - JOTWiki 0.1.3
by tcolar (http://freshmeat.net/users/tcolar/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:23

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Wiki
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search

About: JOTWiki is a full featured wiki engine, which allows you to create,
edit, and link Web pages easily without having to learn a difficult
language like HTML. It features no dependencies other than a J2EE engine,
multiple namespaces (allowing you to have multiple "sites"), easy
administration, template support, a built-in database, saving of pages in
plain text, and full support for profiles, users, and permissions.

Changes: A bugfix for Windows installation. The installer now deals with
Java policies so it will work on Debian. There is a fix in the Unix/Linux
installer launch script. Support has been added for internal links:
(page#anchor) or (#anchor).

License: Free for non-commercial use

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jotwiki/

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[017] - JRubyStack 1.0 beta 0
by Daniel Lopez (http://freshmeat.net/users/ridruejo/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 23:38

About: BitNami RubyStack provides a fast, easy way to develop and deploy
Ruby on Rails applications on a Java runtime using JRuby. It includes
JRuby, Rails, Java, Tomcat, the GlassFish gem, MySQL, and Subversion. It
supports Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, so you can share the same Rails
environment on multiple platforms.

Changes: This release includes JRuby 1.1RC2, Rails 2.0.2, Java 1.5.0,
GlassFish gem 0.1.1-universal-java, Warbler gem 0.9.3, Apache Tomcat
5.5.25, Subversion 1.4.6, SQLite 3.5.1, and MySQL 5.0.45.

License: The Apache License 2.0

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jrubystack/

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[018] - JSummer 0.1.0.0
by Klaus Zerwes zero-sys.net (http://freshmeat.net/users/zerosys/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 08:04

Desktop Environment :: File Managers
Security
System :: Archiving

About: JSummer is a tool to compute and check MD5, MD4, MD2, SHA-160,
SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, RIPEMD128, RIPEMD160, WHIRLPOOL, TIGER, and
HAVAL message digests. It includes a graphical interface and a console
tool that is is compatible with GNU md5sum and sha1sum.

Changes: The following message digest and hash algorithms are now
supported: MD5, MD4, MD2, SHA-160, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, RIPEMD128,
RIPEMD160, WHIRLPOOL, TIGER, and HAVAL. Additionally, several bugs have
been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jsummer/

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[019] - KLone 2.0.2
by KoanLogic (http://freshmeat.net/users/koanlogic/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:19

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: KLone is a fully-featured, multi-platform framework which allows
dynamic Web pages to be written in C/C++ (with the usual <% code %>
style). The pages can then be embedded (in compressed and/or encrypted
form) into a single executable that also contains KLone's high-performance
HTTP/S server. Given its nature, it can be linked natively to any C/C++
library (database, XML, graphics, etc.), without an intermediate layer,
and it is especially suited for low-resource (embedded) systems.

Changes: External libraries were mistakenly found by the ./configure
script in cross compilation environments (thus breaking the build).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/klone/

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[020] - libkdtree++ 0.6.2
by madduck (http://freshmeat.net/users/madduck/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 01:39

Games/Entertainment
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence

About: libkdtree++ is a C++ template container implementation of
k-dimensional space sorting, using a kd-tree. It sports a theoretically
unlimited number of dimensions, and can store any data structure. Provided
the data structure, it provides operator[0 - k-1] to access the individual
dimensional components (arrays, std::vector already do) and a std::less
implementation for the type of dimensional components. It has support for
custom allocators, implements iterators, and provides standard find as
well as range queries. It has amortised O(lg n) time (O(n lg n) worst
case) on most operations (insert/erase/find optimised) and worst-case O(n)
space, and also provides a means to rebalance and thus optimise the tree.

License: OSI Approved

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libkdtree/

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[021] - Linux LiveCD Hotspot Server 2.0.26
by jaimeghirelli (http://freshmeat.net/users/jaimeghirelli/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:29

About: Linux LiveCD Hotspot Server is a live CD for WiFi hotspots that
features auto-configuration of end users, a splash Web page, and
commercial support. It supports both wired and wireless users, pre-paid
cards with time limits and support for monthly users, an integrated
firewall, and support for external APs or multiple PCI, PCMCIA, or USB
WiFi cards per computer.

Changes: This release uses Linux kernel 2.6.24-3. It has new ASUS EEEpc
atl2 ethernet and madwifi drivers. It has a new option to install to hard
disk, USB flash, or SD memory cards. USB device support has been improved.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdhotspot/

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[022] - LiVES 0.9.8.8
by salsaman (http://freshmeat.net/users/salsaman/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 08:04

Multimedia
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
Multimedia :: Video

About: LiVES is a simple to use yet powerful video effects, editing,
conversion, and playback system aimed at the digital video artist and VJ.
It uses commonly available tools (Mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+), so it
works on most Unix-like systems. It runs under Linux, BSD, Mac OS
X/Darwin, IRIX, and openMosix. It can handle almost all types of video,
and is fully extendable through plugins and the included plugin builder
tool. It can also be controlled remotely using OSC.

Changes: More intelligent encoder plugins (with parameters for the user)
can be used. Rendered generators have been implemented. Regressions in
file open preview were fixed. Bugs with custom effects and utilities were
patched. An audio ID can now be selected for DVD import. An option to
deinterlace on open or preview was added. Some bugs with opening remote
streams were fixed. A broken translation in the "please wait" dialog was
corrected. The preview in the file selector was improved. lv2 (project)
import works again.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lives/

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[023] - Lua Filesystem Extension Library 0.2
by Steve Kemp (http://freshmeat.net/users/skx/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:43

Software Development :: Libraries

About: This extension library provides the filesystem primitives to your
Lua scripts, which are missing from the core language. The exported
primitives include mkdir, rmdir, stat, chown, chmod, and more.

Changes: This release updates the sample test code to be more current, and
to ensure there are no failures.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lua-fs/

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[024] - Mail Avenger 0.7.9
by xxx (http://freshmeat.net/users/fmxxx/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 01:23

Communications :: Email

About: Mail Avenger is a highly-configurable, MTA-independent SMTP server.
It lets users run messages through filters like ClamAV and SpamAssassin
during SMTP transactions, so the server can reject unwanted email before
assuming responsibility for its delivery. Other unique features include
TCP SYN fingerprint and network route recording, SPF (sender policy
framework) as a general policy language, qmail-style delivery of extension
addresses, validation of sender addresses through SMTP callbacks, mail-bomb
protection, integration with kernel firewalls, and more.

Changes: Support for newer BerkeleyDB versions, two new configuration
options (LogTag and IdentTimeout), and a MSGID environment variable that
can be used to correlate rcpt commands with message bodies.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mailavenger/

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[025] - MetaForum 0.1046 beta
by Brian B. Culler (http://freshmeat.net/users/bculler/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 08:25

Communications
Communications :: BBS
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Message Boards

About: Blursoft MetaForum utilizes AJAX to generate a unique forum
experience. Threads and posts auto-update in real time, with no refreshing
required. User-based moderation ensures only the most interesting topics
emerge above your viewing threshold, and private threads invite multiple
users to engage in a private conversation. Complete with advanced quoting
mechanisms, CSS based templates, and statistically normalized user
rankings, MetaForum is a fresh, fast, efficient, and completely new
perspective on forums and message boards.

Changes: This release sees the introduction of the "QuickReply" feature
that lets you reply to the last post without actually entering the thread.
Also, the QuickQuote mechanism has been improved to allow double-clicking,
which jumps the user to the reply window. Signatures can now have BBCode
in them for images and links. YouTube and MetaCafe video embedding support
has been added. Full IE6 compatibility has been achieved. Thread filters
allow users to view all, private, subscribed, or buried threads.

License: Other/Proprietary License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/metaforum/

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[026] - Mguesser 0.4
by Alexander Barkov (http://freshmeat.net/users/shuric/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 05:51

Text Processing :: Filters
Text Processing :: General
Text Processing :: Linguistic

About: Mguesser is a tool to guess a text's character set and language. It
is a standalone part of the mnoGoSearch engine. More than 100 various
character set and language combinations are supported.

Changes: The -d command line option was added to load language maps from a
non-default directory. A colon-separated list of directories is also
supported. The -t command line option was added to specify how many top
n-grams to print into the output map. The default value is 200, which can
be decreased for better performance or increased for better detection
quality. About 30 new model maps were added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mguesser/

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[027] - multiwalk2c 0.2
by Zbigniew Michal Kempczynski (http://freshmeat.net/users/wegorz/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 13:48

System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: multiwalk2c is a multi-threaded SNMP scanner. It is a modified
version of snmpbulkwalk. It can scan agents listed in special agents file,
write to a single or many output files, and traverse different parts of a
MIB tree in one thread.

Changes: A race condition could occur when the main thread tried to join
created threads. Now multiwalk threads detach themselves, so the main
thread is only waiting for them.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/multiwalk2c/

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[028] - MxGraph 0.10.0.12
by bensond (http://freshmeat.net/users/BessyBoo/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:20

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 support for Firefox 3 on all platforms. A new
example demonstrating a real-time monitoring application has been added,
as well as deployment examples for the .NET, PHP, and Java back-ends. A
number of important bugfixes and enhancements have also been made.

License: Free for non-commercial use

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mxgraph/

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[029] - NeroLINUX 3.1.1.0
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 13:49

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Ripping
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Writing
System :: Archiving

About: NeroLINUX is flexible graphical application to assist in burning
writable CDs and DVDs in many formats. It supports all types of internal
and external recorders that are supported by the API of the established
Nero application for Windows. It features kernel optimizations for both
2.4 and 2.6 kernels, digital audio extraction, FreeDB support, and USB
hotplugging. Video editing capabilities are not yet included.

Changes: The GUI was modified to support small screens such as on the Asus
Eee PC. The internal NeroAPI was updated to support many new drives. A new
ASPI implementation was introduced supporting HAL and vastly improving
hotplug behavior. Several issues with the audio CD engine were fixed. Many
minor bugs were resolved.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nerolinux/

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[030] - Neural Network Framework 1.0.4
by emmegian (http://freshmeat.net/users/emmegian/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 05:27

Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Scientific/Engineering :: Neuroscience
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Neural Network Framework is a C++ framework to develop, simulate,
and analyze arbitrary complex neural networks. The programmer can use the
classes provided to create neural networks with arbitrary topology and
mixed type of neurons. It's very easy to add customized neurons and
layers.

Changes: Two bugs in parsing the CopyLinker tag in the XML file were
resolved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nnfw/

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[031] - niche.sh 0.3
by 19 (http://freshmeat.net/users/19/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 05:18

System :: Shells
Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals

About: niche.sh is an experimental shell that aims to be platform neutral,
operate multiple machines, and provide a simple and efficient command line.

Changes: Handling of the escape key under Mac OS X was corrected. The
DISPLAY environment variables are suppressed for Mac OS X and Windows
based clients by default. Some bugs related to storing environment
variable settings were fixed.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/niche/

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[032] - PeerStream Audio Video Streaming Server 4.71 (A/V Streaming
Server)
by Oxygenic (http://freshmeat.net/users/oxygenic/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 13:34

Internet
Multimedia
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

About: PeerStream Audio Video Streaming server is a lightweight, scalable
and multi-purpose streaming server for broadcasting nearly every known
audio and video format. It supports all major formats and can be
configured to use other, not directly supported media types. Encoding of
live data is also possible. Streaming via unicast, multicast, podcast,
UPnP shares and bandwidth-saving via a peer-to-peer-network is supported.

Changes: The LIVE variant was updated to work correctly with the latest
versions of ffmpeg.

License: Other/Proprietary License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/peerstream/

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[033] - PHP 4.4.8 (Version 4)
by Toni Viemerö (http://freshmeat.net/users/skithund/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 01:26

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Interpreters

About: PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language
that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into
HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. PHP
runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone
executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has excellent
support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various Internet protocols,
and general data manipulation, and is extensible via its powerful API. It
is actively developed and supported by a talented and energetic
international team. Numerous Open Source and commercial PHP-based
application packages are available.

Changes: This release improves security and stability and all users are
strongly encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible. This release wraps up
all the outstanding patches for the PHP 4.4 series, and is therefore the
last normal PHP 4.4 release.

License: The PHP License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/php/

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[034] - Pipe Viewer 1.1.4
by Andrew Wood (http://freshmeat.net/users/ivarch/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 05:22

System :: Benchmark
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: pv (Pipe Viewer) is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the
progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal
pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly
data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it
is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

Changes: SIGINT, SIGHUP, and SIGTERM are trapped so that IPCs are cleaned
up on exit. The program is aborted if a numeric option, such as -L, has a
non-numeric value. Compilation fixes were made for Darwin 9 and Mac OS X.

License: Artistic License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pv/

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[035] - Pondus 0.3.0
by Eike Nicklas (http://freshmeat.net/users/stufam/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 13:46

Utilities

About: Pondus is a personal weight manager that keeps track of your body
weight. It aims to be simple to use, lightweight, and fast. The data is
stored in XML files for easy access and modification with other programs.

Changes: A preferences dialog has been added, with options to use 'kg' or
'lbs' as the weight unit and to remember window size. A plot can be saved
to a file. Plotting functions are disabled if matplotlib is not available
to make matplotlib only recommended, but not required.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pondus/

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[036] - Python Tracer 1.0
by GNUPeaker (http://freshmeat.net/users/gnupeaker/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:43

Software Development :: Debuggers
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
System :: Benchmark

About: Python Tracer lets you see your Python program's execution as a
tree of function invocations, each tree node exposing the real time and
CPU time (user/sys) of that call. The project consists of two main
components: a Python tracer that can run your Python programs (much like
"cProfile" and friends), and a GTK+ based GUI that can show the trace
results. It uses a tiny auxiliary library (graphfile) to allow append-only
writing and reading static DAGs directly from a file without reading it
whole into memory at any stage.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pythontracer/

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[037] - Pyxer 0.1
by holtwick (http://freshmeat.net/users/holtwick/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 03:52

Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: Pyxer is a Python Ajax server/ framework similar to the Jaxer
project. Instead of writing client side code in JavaScript you can use
Python. The Python code will be translated to JavaScript before being sent
to the client. You may also define server-side code in the HTML file that
can be called from the client in the background with Ajax.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyxer/

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[038] - Risk 1.0.9.5
by Yura (http://freshmeat.net/users/yuranet/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 05:24

Education
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy

About: Risk is a Java version of the classic RISK board game, with a
simple map format, network play, single player mode, hotseat, map editor,
and many more features. It works on all operating systems that run Java
1.4 or higher.

Changes: This version has support for maps of any size, and any map can
now be played fullscreen. Other features were added and bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/risk/

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[039] - rsyslog 3.12.1 (Development)
by Rainer Gerhards (http://freshmeat.net/users/rgerhards/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:17

System :: Logging

About: Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd. Among other
features, it offers support for on-demand disk buffering, reliable syslog
over TCP, writing to databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and many more),
fully configurable output formats (including high-precision timestamps),
the ability to filter on any part of the syslog message, on-the-wire
message compression, and the ability to convert text files to syslog. It
is a drop-in replacement for stock syslogd and able to work with the same
configuration file syntax.

Changes: This release is primarily aimed at bug fixing and code cleanup.
An important bug that could cause message loss in queued mode (if the
receiver went down) was fixed, and a new capability has been added to
discard timestamps received on local Unix sockets. This is needed to
prevent ill-behaving programs from messing up the system log. Many
internal workings have been cleaned up and improved, and library plugin
modules have been introduced. Portability has been enhanced, and rsyslog
now compiles on HP UX. This is a recommended update for all users of the
v3 branch.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rsyslog/

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[040] - Seismic Unix 4.0-revision10
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:36

Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Archeology
Scientific/Engineering :: Physics

About: The CWP/SU Seismic Un*x (SU) package is a software environment for
seismic processing and seismic and wave-propagation related research. It
is used not only in seismology but in other areas involving time-dependent
data, such as Ground Penetrating RADAR.

Changes: The license has changed to BSD-style. There are numerous
bugfixes.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/seismicunix/

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[041] - SPWrapper 0.9
by bricconi (http://freshmeat.net/users/bricconi/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 13:42

Database
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: SPWrapper is a source code generator whose input is an SQL
statement, or with some limitations the name of a stored procedure. Each
SQL statement become a Java class, iterable to fetch results if the
statement is a SELECT. It is possible to generate Python classes for the
cx_Oracle module. SPWrapper is designed to require little configuration:
it tries to automatically guess input parameters form SQL code, and output
parameters from the SQL result set fetched. All the SQL statements can be
translated to source code, even those with proprietary syntax. It
currently supports 4 databases for Java (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL
Server) and Oracle with Python. A Netbeans plugin is also available (for
stored procedures only).

Changes: With this release, it is also possible to generate Python classes
for the cx_Oracle module. The core of the project has been refactored to
make it simple to support new programming languages. Writing a Java class
and a configuration file is enough to support a new database or a new
language.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spwrapper/

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[042] - Sun Java Platform, Standard Edition 6u5 (Java 6)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:16

Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: The Sun Java Platform, Standard Edition (JSE) Development Kit (JDK)
contains the essential compiler, tools, runtime libraries, and APIs for
developers writing, deploying, and running applets and applications in the
Java programming language. The JSE Runtime Environment (JRE) contains the
runtime libraries and tools for running applets and applications.

Changes: Several security flaws were eliminated. New root certificates
from AOL, DigiCert, and TrustCenter are now included. Olson time zone data
was updated to version 2007k.

License: SUN Community Source License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sunjdk/

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[043] - Sun Java Platform, Standard Edition 1.5.0_15 (Java 5)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:16

Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

Changes: Several crashes due to heap buffer out-of-bounds were fixed,
along with several other bugs. New root certificates from AOL, DigiCert,
and TrustCenter are now included. Olson time zone data was updated to
version 2007k.

License: SUN Community Source License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sunjdk/

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[044] - SymPy 0.5.13
by Kirill Smelkov (http://freshmeat.net/users/kirr/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 13:51

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Software Development :: Libraries

About: SymPy is a symbolic manipulation package, written in pure Python.
Its aim is to become a full featured CAS in Python, while keeping the code
as simple as possible in order to be comprehensible and easily extensible.
Currently, Sympy has only around 1600 lines of code (including comments),
and its capabilities include basic arithmetics, basic simplification,
series expansion, functions (exp, ln, sin, cos, tan, etc.),
differentiation, integration (currently it can do only very simple
integrals), basic substitution, arbitrary precision integers and
rationals, standard (Python) floats, basic complex numbers, and symbolic
limits.

Changes: This release is 2 times faster on average than before. The
integrator was improved, and can handle most of the basic integrals. The
interactive experience with isympy was improved through adding support for
containers to pretty-printer. The plotting facility now supports geometry
objects directly. The pretty-printer now uses Unicode by default.
Recognition of geometric sums was generalized. The SymPy User's Guide has
been started. Many bugfixes were made.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sympy/

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[045] - TCPDF 2.4.000 (PHP5)
by Nicola Asuni (http://freshmeat.net/users/nicolaasuni/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 13:47

Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
Text Processing

About: TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF files on-the-fly without
requiring external extensions. TCPDF is an extension and improvement of
the FPDF class that supports UTF-8, Unicode, HTML, and barcodes.

Changes: This version includes several bugfixes and improvements for
right-to-left languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, etc.).

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tcpdf/

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[046] - Thread Safe Template Library 1.1.3
by Slava I. Levtchenko (http://freshmeat.net/users/sll/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 08:07

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Operating System Kernels
System :: Operating System Kernels :: BSD

About: Thread Safe Template Library (TSTL) is a C++ library that provides
thread-safe storage data structures without global locking. It includes
classes for maps based on a non-binary extensible hashing tree for very
fast access, a pipe, a queue, a timercache, a limitcache, and a fast
writer multiple reader guard (WMRG) without global locking (which uses the
interlocked instruction set of the CPU). It's useful for writing
multithreaded applications and operating system components.

Changes: The AllocCache template was reimplemented.

License: Freeware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tstl/

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[047] - Userful DiscoverStation 5.8-276 (Live CD)
by Userful (http://freshmeat.net/users/Userful/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:46

Desktop Environment
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: DiscoverStation is a desktop Linux distribution specifically
designed for kiosks, Internet cafes, and public access computers. The
software also includes Userful's unique "Desktop Multiplier" software that
turns 1 PC into 10. Desktop settings can be easily managed via session
profiles which are created and stored via a central Web-portal. This lets
you customize, update, and view usage reports for hundreds of desktops at
once. Key features include time management, revenue from pre-paid cards,
Internet filtering, privacy protection, automated clean-up, print-job
costing, and much more.

Changes: Userful (Live CD) is a simple way to temporarily transform your
dual-monitor PC (or laptop) into a "dual-station" PC, effectively turning
1 PC into 2. Simply insert the CD, plug in an extra USB keyboard and
mouse, and reboot. With just one PC you'll be able to support two
independent users, each with their own screen and keyboard, surfing the
Web independently at the same time.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/discoverstation/

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[048] - Userful DiscoverStation 5-276
by Userful (http://freshmeat.net/users/Userful/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:27

Desktop Environment
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

Changes: Improvements to the discoverprint service means that print jobs
should not get stuck in the queue and that the number of print pages are
reported correctly. There is a new Internet filter block page. Some
problems with starting some multi-lingual sessions have been fixed.
Problems with the welcome screen crashing sometimes have been fixed. There
are various fixes to authentication with ILS systems. A problem has been
fixed with 8 and 10 station machines saying keyboards were not
initialized.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/discoverstation/

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[049] - Web-GMUI 0.2.8 (PHP)
by krlsn (http://freshmeat.net/users/krlsn/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 01:23

Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: Web-GMUI (Graphical Multi User Interface) is a multi -user Web
frontend for MLDonkey (a P2P client) written in PHP. It provides
independent and restricted accounts for a single MLDonkey instance.

Changes: This is the final version. It is no longer being maintained.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gmui/

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[050] - Wt 2.1.0
by Koen Deforche (http://freshmeat.net/users/kdeforche/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 08:14

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Software Development :: Embedded Systems

About: Wt is a C++ library for developing Web applications with an API
that is widget-centric and inspired by existing C++ graphical user
interface APIs. To the developer, it offers complete abstraction of any
Web-specific implementation details. Under the hood, the library uses the
latest techniques (AJAX) to handle user events and update the Web page.

Changes: This release upgrades support for extjs to version 2.0, giving Wt
a full set of layout managers and more versatile and capable top-level GUI
panels. In addition, support for server-initiated events ("server push")
was improved and the latest versions of boost and boost asio are now
supported. The build system was upgraded to allow more features to be
optional, including compression and HTTPS, and to have more consistency
between Windows and UNIX builds.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/witty/

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[051] - xlike Kernel Patchset 0.22b
by m0hs|n (http://freshmeat.net/users/inaam/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 10:25

System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
System :: Filesystems
System :: Networking

About: xlike is a patch collection for the Linux vanilla kernel. It
includes as many stable enhancements for the Linux kernel as possible.
These include code from Xen, Kernel Mode Linux, Rule Set Based Access
Control, Novell AppArmor, Openswan, grsecurity, Linux VServer, Linux-PHC,
web100, Nefilters, Suspend2, Speakup, SquashFS, UnionFS, Bootsplash,
BadRAM, and more. It also contains many drivers and fixes.

Changes: This version was updated for Linux 2.6.22. Completely Fair
Scheduler (CFS) 24.1, Realtime Linux Security Module (LSM), WRR, AUFS,
UnionFS 2.2.3, SquashFS 3.3, and CKO were added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xlike/

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[052] - XPTracker 722
by Stephen Starkey (http://freshmeat.net/users/firepoet78/)
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 08:22

Office/Business
Office/Business :: Scheduling
Software Development

About: XPTracker is a radical alternative agile planning tool aimed at
keeping out of your way and making sure you can see the stuff you care
about at a glance. Included in this tool is a very advanced search system
based on Lucene, an easy-to-use planning system based on Queues, and a
customizable reporting engine (with burndown/scope creep charts) called
Timelines.

Changes: The ability to mass-move stories between states was added. Mass
rejection is allowed from the Planning Page. Sources and destinations were
organized by type (i.e. States, Queues, Saved Searches), so you can tell
the difference between them.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xptracker/

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