Newsletter for Saturday, March 08th 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (53) :::
[001] - Abacus Formula Compiler 1.0.1
[002] - AgileWiki 0.10.2 (COODBMS)
[003] - Avian 0.0.1
[004] - Avis 1.2.1
[005] - Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript 2008-03-08
[006] - Botan 1.6.4 (Stable)
[007] - ChibiTracker 1.2
[008] - clapf 0.3.30 (Stable)
[009] - Dave's Unit Test 0.8.3
[010] - Domain Technologie Control 0.28.3
[011] - EditiX 2008 SP 1
[012] - Flickcurl 1.3
[013] - fs-check 0.8
[014] - GOZERBOT 0.8.0.4
[015] - Grapple 0.9.2
[016] - HAproxy 1.3.14.3 (Development)
[017] - Hiawatha 6.5
[018] - Horde Groupware 1.0.5
[019] - Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 1.0.6
[020] - iDiet Release Candidate 2
[021] - IKEv2 2.0beta1
[022] - Java GetOpt Generator 0.81.1
[023] - JRemoteControl 2.0.4
[024] - libgee 0.1.2
[025] - libpwmd 5.0.4
[026] - lm_sensors 2.10.6 (Legacy)
[027] - Meta-CVS 1.1.98 (1.1)
[028] - Mother ORM 0.6.4-r4
[029] - mpg123 1.3.1
[030] - MPI-IO Test 1.000.20
[031] - Munin 1.3.4 (Development)
[032] - Munin 1.2.6rc0 (Stable)
[033] - mxallowd 1.4
[034] - Nelisys Management System 0.3.0
[035] - NetworkManager 0.6.5
[036] - optparse_gui 0.1
[037] - orDrumbox 0.7.07
[038] - Paludis 0.26.0_alpha12
[039] - Password Manager Daemon 1.9
[040] - peppy 0.7.2.7
[041] - Rapid Application Development Library 2.7.3
[042] - Sahi 2008-03-05
[043] - shush 1.2
[044] - Simple Invoices 2008 03 09
[045] - ssqlfs 0.3.7
[046] - TEA for Linux 17.6.0
[047] - The Battle for Wesnoth 1.4.0
[048] - The Cell Messaging Layer 1.1
[049] - TurboGears 1.0.0.4
[050] - uxdstools 0.5.1
[051] - Whitix 0.01a
[052] - XWiki 1.3
[053] - Yaalr 1.0
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - Abacus Formula Compiler 1.0.1
by Peter Arrenbrecht (http://freshmeat.net/users/peo1306/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:01
Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Libraries
About: The Abacus Formula Compiler (AFC) compiles computations defined in
spreadsheet files directly to Java byte code. Users can thus customize an
application using Excel or OpenOffice Calc. AFC compiles against your own
Java interfaces to obtain input values and compute output values (it
essentially generates strategy implementations for you), and supports
internal computations with either double or BigDecimal (for financial
applications).
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/formulacompiler/
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[002] - AgileWiki 0.10.2 (COODBMS)
by Bill la Forge (http://freshmeat.net/users/laforge49/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:33
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: Operation access control is now in place, providing different
sets of operations to different groups of users. It is fully configurable
and extensible, and you can define new operations, operation sets, and
user groups. The initial configuration allows guests to create their own
accounts and for admins to set the passwords for other accounts. Logins
are controlled by a single database and tokens are issued for subsequent
access and for access to other databases on the same server.
License: Common Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/agilewiki/
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[003] - Avian 0.0.1
by Joel Dice (http://freshmeat.net/users/dicej/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:32
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: Avian is a lightweight virtual machine and class library, both
written from scratch to provide a useful subset of Java's features. It's
well-suited to cross-platform applications which need a typesafe language
but must remain small and self-contained.
Changes: This release fixes the algorithm responsible for static stack
analysis to determine where the object references are on the stack for
garbage collection. The old version gave false positives in rare cases,
leading to a crash when garbage collecting.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/avian/
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[004] - Avis 1.2.1
by Matthew Phillips (http://freshmeat.net/users/scramjet/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 23:15
Internet
Software Development
About: Avis is a multicast event bus. It provides a fast publish/subscribe
event routing service compatible with the commercial Elvin implementation
developed by Mantara Software.
Changes: This release fixes an error that could occur when using multiple
federation links from a single router.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/avis/
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[005] - Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript 2008-03-08
by Terry Burton (http://freshmeat.net/users/terryburton/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 16:07
Information Management
Multimedia :: Graphics
Office/Business
About: Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript implements the printing of many
barcode formats entirely within level 2 PostScript, so that the process of
converting the input string into the printed output is performed by the
printer itself. This avoids the need to re-implement the barcode
generation process whenever your language needs change. The project
supports most major barcode formats including EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E,
ISBN, Code 128 (A, B, and C), Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5, Postnet, Code 2
of 5, and Codabar.
Changes: A bug in the treatment of the human readable text when using
special text alignment with Code 128C was fixed.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/postscriptbarcode/
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[006] - Botan 1.6.4 (Stable)
by Jack Lloyd (http://freshmeat.net/users/randombit/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 15:17
Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Botan is a C++ library of cryptographic algorithms. It includes a
wide selection of cryptographic algorithms (including AES, DES, SHA-1,
RSA, and DSA, among many others). It also support X.509 certificates and
several common certificate-related formats and protocols. It has a high
level interface, is easily portable to most systems and compilers, and
includes a substantial tutorial and API reference.
Changes: This release fixes a compilation problem using Visual Studio C++
2003.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/botan/
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[007] - ChibiTracker 1.2
by reduz (http://freshmeat.net/users/reduz/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:20
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Mixers
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Sound Synthesis
About: ChibiTracker is a portable IT (Impulse Tracker) clone. It is not an
exact clone though, as it adds more features, such as chorus and reverb,
stereo samples, an advanced sample editor, and more. The user interface
also presents some changes, as it can be custom themed and resized.
Changes: Several bugs were fixed, especially on Windows. Features were
enhanced. Audio mixing quality was increased.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/chibitracker/
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[008] - clapf 0.3.30 (Stable)
by SJ (http://freshmeat.net/users/hcoder/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:31
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Filters
About: clapf is an email content filter application. It includes a
statistical (inverse chi-square) anti-spam module, interfaces to several
anti-virus products, a minefield (blackhole), spam quarantine, support for
various RBL lists, training utilities, and much more. It can be used as an
after queue content filter with Postfix (including as an appliance) or via
a local delivery agent (LDA), preferably maildrop.
Changes: A timestamp field was added to the tokens table so that you can
purge aged entries. Virus infected emails are silently discarded. The
attachment analysis code was removed. LMTP/SMTP local delivery support was
added. A smarter configure script and Makefile were provided along with
whitelist and blacklist support and an auto-learning feature. Messages are
stored in a per-user directory (not in SQL). Retraining went to clapf and
spamdrop. The blackhole/minefield is handled by spamdrop. XFORWARD
extension support was added to catch DHA attacks. Administrative support
was provided in spam quarantine. Training is handled by spamdrop.
License: zlib/libpng License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/clapf/
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[009] - Dave's Unit Test 0.8.3
by David McKee (http://freshmeat.net/users/dwmckee/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:33
Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Testing
About: Dave's Unit Test (DUT) is a simple infrastructure for doing unit
testing in C and C++. It can test boolean assertions, and test for the
existence of expected C++ exceptions or POSIX signals. It also traps
unexpected exceptions or signals.
Changes: This version adds an optional, simple-minded locking mechanism
based on POSIX semaphores.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dut/
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[010] - Domain Technologie Control 0.28.3
by Thomas Goirand (http://freshmeat.net/users/zigo/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:13
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: POP3
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
About: Domain Technologie Control (DTC) is a Web-based control panel for
hosting that can delegate the task of creating subdomains, email, and FTP
accounts to users for the domain names they own. It has support for many
programs, including bind 8 and 9, MySQL, Apache, PHP 4, qmail, Postfix,
Courier, Dovecot, ProFTPD, Webalizer, and mod-log-sql. It can also
generate backup scripts, calculation scripts, and config files using a
single system UID/GID, and monitor all traffic accounting per user and per
service. It is fully skinnable and translated into several languages.
Changes: This version adds support for dkimproxy instead of dkfilter
(which supports both domain keys and DKIM). Some fixes were made for
gentoo and Mac OS X. Lots of translation work was done. Many minor bugs
were fixed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dtc/
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[011] - EditiX 2008 SP 1
by Alexandre Brillant (http://freshmeat.net/users/abrillant/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:42
Text Editors :: Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
Text Processing :: Markup :: DocBook
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML
About: EditiX is a cross-platform and multi-purpose XML editor and XSLT
debugger (1.0 and 2.0), which helps Web authors and programmers use XML
and XML-related technologies, such as XSLT, FO, and XSD schemas. It
provides a lot of functionality within a refined IDE, which guides the
user with intelligent entry helpers, and has real-time XPath location and
syntax error detection. It allows the user to apply an XSLT or FO
transformation, and shows the result in a separate view. It includes
default templates for XML, DTD, XHTML, XSLT, XSD, XML RelaxNG, SVG,
MathML, and XML FO. It can generate schema W3C, DTD or RelaxNG from a
document instance.
Changes: This service pack includes an XSLT profiler and fixes various
problems with the XSLT debugger. Users can transform an XSL-FO document
from an XSLT action, all in one operation. Actions were added for nodes
for duplicating the previous/next sibling node. This release also fixes
dozen of bugs and improves global performance.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/editix/
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[012] - Flickcurl 1.3
by Dave Beckett (http://freshmeat.net/users/dajobe/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:34
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Flickcurl is a C library for calling the Flickr Web service API. It
handles the API signing, token management, and parameter encoding and
decoding, resulting in C functions for the Web services APIs. It uses
libcurl to call the REST Web service, and libxml2 to manipulate the XML
responses. The library supports reading photo, tag, and comments
information, the photo upload and searching APIs, and writing tags and
comments. It provides utilities such as "flickcurl" to exercise the API
and "flickrdf" to get RDF metadata descriptions out of photos, tags, and
machine tags.
Changes: Four new API functions were added for the new flickr.prefs APIs
and support was added for updated places API woeid fields. Several minor
bugs were fixed and several portabiilty fixes were made for Win32.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/flickcurl/
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[013] - fs-check 0.8
by R. Bernstein (http://freshmeat.net/users/rocky/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:33
System :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration
About: fs-check checks filesystem sizes to see if they are getting too
full. It uses a configuration file that specifies the filesystems to
check, email contacts, trigger thresholds (percentage or amount
used/unused), and a report program to run. It includes fs-report, which
shows things like the largest files, the newest files, the intersection
of these and core files. It can be run from cron or as a daemon.
Changes: A bug for handling the --pidfile option was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fs-check/
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[014] - GOZERBOT 0.8.0.4
by Bart Thate (http://freshmeat.net/users/bthate/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:41
About: GOZERBOT is an IRC and Jabber bot. It can fetch RSS feeds, keep
todo and shopping lists, manage karma and quotes, and remember items. It
supports plugins, has a built-in Web server, and can communicate with
other bots. It can also relay messages received by UDP to a channel or
person, which could be useful for monitoring systems. Relaying between IRC
and Jabber is also possible.
Changes: IRC now runs without depending on xmpp. setup.py was fixed for
Python 2.5.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gozerbot/
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[015] - Grapple 0.9.2
by Michael Simms (http://freshmeat.net/users/lgpmichael/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:32
Communications
Internet
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Grapple is designed to be a simple network layer, allowing the
addition of multiuser features to an application for as little as a dozen
lines of code. However, it also allows for more. It features simple
client-server networking that keeps all clients aware of all other
clients, passworded servers, and data transfer via TCP, UDP, or reliable
UDP. Advanced features include network messaging via push, pull, or a
combination, multiple methods of querying users, user groups for client
bandwidth saving, network load reacting data transmission and
retransmission, background pinging to monitor network states, server
failover, and a fully functional lobby system.
Changes: This release provides many bugfixes and speedups, including some
pretty major changes such as a new wrapper around pthreads to completely
eliminate deadlock issues (soft locks). New features include the addition
of a password callback handler to allow integration into your own password
system, name policies, and group passwords. A basic STUN server has been
added. The STUN system is to be considered a work in progress but should
be usable. This release is not protocol compatible with earlier releases.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/grapple/
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[016] - HAproxy 1.3.14.3 (Development)
by Willy Tarreau (http://freshmeat.net/users/wtarreau/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 16:02
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
System :: Networking
About: HAproxy is a high-performance and highly-robust TCP and HTTP load
balancer which provides cookie-based persistence, content-based switching,
advanced traffic regulation with surge protection, automatic failover,
run-time regex-based header control, Web-based reporting, advanced logging
to help trouble-shooting buggy applications and/or networks, and a few
other features. Its own event-driven state machine achieves 20,000 hits
per second and surpasses GigaEthernet on modern hardware, even with tens
of thousands of simultaneous connections.
Changes: Several minor bugfixes and documentation updates have been
merged. Nothing critical was done, but since it also means greater
reliability, it's probably the right moment for distribution packagers to
upgrade.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/haproxy/
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[017] - Hiawatha 6.5
by Hiawatha (http://freshmeat.net/users/hsleisink/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:39
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Security
About: Hiawatha is an advanced and secure Web server for Unix. It has been
written with security as its main goal. It's very secure and fast and is
really easy to configure. It features a rootjail, the ability to run CGIs
under any UID/GID you want, prevention of SQL injection and cross-site
scripting, banning of clients who try such exploits, and many other
features. These features make Hiawatha an interesting Web server for those
who need more security than what the other available Web servers are
offering.
Changes: Several small bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hiawatha/
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[018] - Horde Groupware 1.0.5
by Jan Schneider (http://freshmeat.net/users/Yunosh/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:03
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: An arbitrary file inclusion vulnerability, through abuse of the
theme preference, has been fixed.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/horde-groupware/
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[019] - Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 1.0.6
by Jan Schneider (http://freshmeat.net/users/Yunosh/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:04
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: An arbitrary file inclusion vulnerability, through abuse of the
theme preference, has been fixed.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/horde-webmail/
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[020] - iDiet Release Candidate 2
by TeraHz (http://freshmeat.net/users/terahz/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:36
Information Management
About: iDiet is a diet management tool that helps people choose,
customize, and follow their diet. Several diets are supported (e.g.
Atkins, Summer Fresh, The Zone, Weight Watchers, Body for Life), with
details for every one of them.
Changes: The option to edit meals (and rename them) was added. Save
confirmation when you change something in your diary was added. A bug
where you can use bad characters and be unable to save was fixed. A check
was added to detect double user creation. The food database was updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/idiet/
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[021] - IKEv2 2.0beta1
by sgros (http://freshmeat.net/users/sgros/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:49
Communications
Internet
Security
About: IKEv2 is an implementation of the Internet Key Exchange protocol
version 2. It is still in development, and currently targeted/developed on
Fedora Core 5. Other Unix-like operating system are left for a later stage
of development.
Changes: All planned features have been implemented and are (hopefully)
working. There is no IPv6 CFG payload, as this is being further discussed
at the IETF.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ikev2/
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[022] - Java GetOpt Generator 0.81.1
by David Farrell (http://freshmeat.net/users/davidpfarrell/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 23:22
Software Development
Software Development :: Code Generators
Utilities
About: Java GetOpt Generator is a tool that generates a command-line
argument parser from an XML file. Both a "parser" and "config" class are
generated, which allows your program to either be launched from the
command-line or programmatically configured and executed from another Java
application. GetOpt Generator is self-hosting, meaning that it uses itself
to generate its command-line parser.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jgetopt_gen/
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[023] - JRemoteControl 2.0.4
by fildiv (http://freshmeat.net/users/fildiv/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 05:09
Communications :: Telephony
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions
About: JRemote Control is a simple Bluetooth remote control. It allows you
to initiate virtually any task on your PC from a J2ME enabled device. The
server is fully configurable via an XML configuration file to allow you to
choose how to map tasks on your PC to remote device commands. Commands are
organized in contexts. Configuration is synchronized to the client when it
connects. It could be used to assign the mobile phone "1" key the command
to start your favorite media player, the "2" key to move to the next
track, and so on. Both commands could be organized in a "Media Player"
context.
Changes: System Tray icons that work on Windows and Linux were added. The
icon shows the server's state (not running, running in listen mode, or
client connected). A "Minimize on Tray" configuration item was added along
with a "Suppress server output (including command stdout/stderr) if GUI is
minimized)" item. The Linux scripts were revised.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jremcntl/
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[024] - libgee 0.1.2
by Jürg Billeter (http://freshmeat.net/users/juergbi/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:41
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Software Development :: Libraries
About: libgee is a collection library providing GObject-based interfaces
and classes for commonly used data structures. It provides Collection,
Iterable, Iterator, List, Map, and Set interfaces and ArrayList, HashMap,
and HashSet implementations.
Changes: This release adds unit tests and fixes a bug in the HashSet
iterator.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libgee/
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[025] - libpwmd 5.0.4
by Ben Kibbey (http://freshmeat.net/users/bjk/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:39
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Utilities
About: libpwmd is a library that makes it easy to patch applications to
use pwmd (Password Manager Daemon). It supports password retrieval from a
pinentry program.
Changes: The pwmc command line option was added to specify the number of
iterations when saving.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libpwmd/
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[026] - lm_sensors 2.10.6 (Legacy)
by Jean Delvare (http://freshmeat.net/users/khali/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:42
System :: Hardware
System :: Monitoring
About: lm_sensors provides essential tools for monitoring the
temperatures, voltages, and fans of Linux systems with hardware monitoring
devices. It contains a library for sensors access (libsensors), a
command-line tool for sensor reporting (sensors), and a daemon (sensord).
It also contains scripts for sensor hardware identification and fan speed
control.
Changes: This maintenance release includes five months of fixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lm_sensors/
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[027] - Meta-CVS 1.1.98 (1.1)
by Kaz Kylheku (http://freshmeat.net/users/kazkylheku/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:34
Software Development :: Version Control
Software Development :: Version Control :: CVS
About: Meta-CVS is version control system created around CVS. It retains
most of the features of CVS while adding support for first class directory
structure versioning, storage of symbolic links, and versioning of execute
permissions and user-defined properties. Meta-CVS greatly simplifies
branching and merging by keeping track of what is merged where. It records
file types and automatically assigns a CVS keyword expansion mode to newly
added files whose suffixes match previously recorded types. Meta-CVS also
has an importing feature that automatically figures out renames and moves,
making it possible to easily keep up with patches from multiple sources in
spite of directory structure changes.
Changes: Major changes have been made to how Meta-CVS is built. It now
adheres to the de-facto configure/make/make install standard. A C compiler
is no longer required, only an installation of CLISP (but only glibc and
cygwin are supported target platforms, since the program now targets the
platform ABI directly rather than through C wrappers). The output of
certain commands is now automatically filtered to convert the F-hex names
to paths.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mcvs/
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[028] - Mother ORM 0.6.4-r4
by efphe (http://freshmeat.net/users/efphe/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:21
Database
About: Mother is a Python module that hides SQL syntax and gives you a set
of intelligent classes and methods that can self-adapt and understand
various situations. It could be considered as an Object Relational Mapper
with strong introspection. In fact, configuration files, tables, fields,
and keys declarations are not needed.
Changes: The MotherMany class, introduced recently, had some trivial bugs
that were fixed.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbmother/
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[029] - mpg123 1.3.1
by Thomas Orgis (http://freshmeat.net/users/sobukus/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 15:56
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Mpg123 is a fast, free and portable MPEG audio player for Unix. It
supports MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers 1, 2, and 3, with CD quality playback
even on relatively slow CPUs.
Changes: This release should fix playback for people who have an old ALSA
library and trouble with mpg123 1.3.0 where 1.2.1 worked.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpg123/
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[030] - MPI-IO Test 1.000.20
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 05:00
Software Development :: Testing
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
System :: Diagnostics
About: The MPI-IO Test is built on top of MPI's I/O calls and is used to
gather timing information for reading from and writing to file(s) using a
variety of I/O profiles. A data aggregation capability is available and
the user can pass down MPI-IO, ROMIO, and file system specific hints. The
MPI-IO Test can be used for performance benchmarking and, in some cases,
to diagnose problems with file systems or I/O networks.
Changes: This release added MySQL support for storing results tables.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpiiotest/
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[031] - Munin 1.3.4 (Development)
by Nicolai Langfeldt (http://freshmeat.net/users/janl/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:35
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: Munin is a system to gather and graph all sorts of information. You
can install a node on the various machines in your network, as well as on a
central server. The nodes will know how to extract various kinds of
information, such as load average and bandwidth usage, and will wait for
the server to request these values. The output is in HTML format. The
server can optionally send notifications if any of the values move outside
of a specified range (and when they move back into it).
Changes: Many bugfixes, new and enhanced plugins, and nested groups.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/munin/
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[032] - Munin 1.2.6rc0 (Stable)
by Nicolai Langfeldt (http://freshmeat.net/users/janl/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:36
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: Munin is a system to gather and graph all sorts of information. You
can install a node on the various machines in your network, as well as on a
central server. The nodes will know how to extract various kinds of
information, such as load average and bandwidth usage, and will wait for
the server to request these values. The output is in HTML format. The
server can optionally send notifications if any of the values move outside
of a specified range (and when they move back into it).
Changes: Minor feature enhancements were made to stay plugin-compatible
with the development branch. Many bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/munin/
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[033] - mxallowd 1.4
by sECuRE (http://freshmeat.net/users/sECuRE6/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 16:00
Communications :: Email :: Filters
Internet
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: mxallowd is a daemon for Linux Netfilter (using libipq) which
implements a slightly improved nolisting mechanism. It requires your name
server to be configured to return two MX IP addresses, and the one with
higher priority must not run a mail server on port 25. mxallowd blocks
attempts to connect to the mail server unless the sender tries to connect
to the first mail server before the second. Since most spammers will
attempt direct connections to each mail server, they will be blocked.
Changes: The timeout for whitelist entries has been increased to 3600
seconds. Quiet mode has been implemented. mxallowd now uses
libnetfilter-queue instead of libipq by default.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mxallowd/
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[034] - Nelisys Management System 0.3.0
by nelisys developer (http://freshmeat.net/users/nelisys/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:13
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: Nelisys is a Web-based network management system (NMS) to manage
and monitor systems and networks, including routers, switches, servers,
SNMP mibs, and more. There are performance and fault management functions.
Changes: This release is for testing only. It includes only basic features
for NMS. You can add, edit, or delete devices and monitor some basic device
statistics, ping up/down, and interface traffic usage.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nelisys/
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[035] - NetworkManager 0.6.5
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:59
Desktop Environment :: Tools
Internet
System :: Installation/Setup
About: The GNOME NetworkManager is a set of co-operative tools that make
networking simple and straightforward. Whether wireless or wired,
NetworkManager allows you to quickly move from one network to another:
once a network has been configured and joined once, it can be detected
and re-joined automatically at a later date. It was designed to
auto-detect as much information as possible, seamlessly switches
connections when necessary, and provides immediate feedback of the network
state to users and applications. It utilizes D-Bus and HAL.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/networkmanager/
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[036] - optparse_gui 0.1
by slider fry (http://freshmeat.net/users/sliderfry/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:18
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
About: optparse_gui is a drop-in replacement for Python's built-in
optparse. It allows the user to enter command line arguments in a
dynamically generated WX-based dialog. optparse_gui generates the dialog
depending on the provided optparse options: CheckBox for boolean options,
ComboBox for "choice" options, TextCtrl for all other options, and an
extra TextCtrl for entering non-option command line arguments. Also, the
dialog contains context-sensitive help for every option.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/optparsegui/
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[037] - orDrumbox 0.7.07
by OisoftRekords (http://freshmeat.net/users/OisoftRekords/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:40
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Sound Synthesis
About: orDrumbox is a fully-featured drum machine and audio sequencer that
is pattern oriented, has an automatic composer, automatic sound
assignations, custom drum kits, loop support, and the ability to import
and export songs.
Changes: Cosmetic changes, GUI rendering optimizations, some minor
bugfixes, and a 'check for new version' help screen.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ordrumbox/
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[038] - Paludis 0.26.0_alpha12
by Ciaran McCreesh (http://freshmeat.net/users/ciaranm/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 16:08
System :: Software Distribution
System :: Software Distribution Tools
About: Paludis is a package management library that works with Gentoo
style ebuilds, together with a simple console client. It is entirely
independent of Portage.
Changes: The merger is able to detect hardlinks and tries to merge them as
such. Environment checking from VDB is less strict to avoid issues with
packages installed several years ago when USE_EXPAND didn't include
KERNEL, etc. A quoting bug that would result in unwanted wildcard
expansion when rewriting *DEPEND values was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/paludis/
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[039] - Password Manager Daemon 1.9
by Ben Kibbey (http://freshmeat.net/users/bjk/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:38
Information Management
Security
Security :: Cryptography
About: Password Manager Daemon serves clients data via a local socket. The
data is stored in an encrypted XML file, and the client must provide the
key to modify it. There is also a library available to make patching
applications to use the daemon easier.
Changes: The GETPID command was added. A few bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pwmd/
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[040] - peppy 0.7.2.7
by Rob McMullen (http://freshmeat.net/users/robm351/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:16
Text Editors
About: peppy ((ap)Proximated (X)Emacs Powered by Python) is a
wxPython/Scintilla-based editor written in and extensible through Python.
It attempts to provide an XEmacs-like multi-window, multi-tabbed framework
with low coupling, so it's easy to add support for new types of files.
Changes: The parsing of Vim modeline options and Emacs file local
variables was added. A simple bookmark list was added to remember file
URLs. Most editor settings were changed to be local to the file being
edited. Image clipping was added for hyperspectral image view mode.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/peppy/
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[041] - Rapid Application Development Library 2.7.3
by Mark Teel (http://freshmeat.net/users/mteel/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:19
Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Libraries
System
About: radlib is a C language library developed to abstract details of
interprocess communications and common Linux/Unix system facilities so
that application developers can concentrate on application solutions. It
encourages developers to use a proven paradigm of event-driven,
asynchronous design. By abstracting interprocess messaging, events,
timers, and any I/O device that can be represented as a file descriptor,
radlib simplifies the implementation of multi-purpose processes, as well
as multi-process applications. In short, radlib is a sincere attempt to
provide real-time OS capability on a non-real-time OS.
Changes: Several boundary issues with timers were fixed.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/radlib/
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[042] - Sahi 2008-03-05
by V Narayan Raman (http://freshmeat.net/users/narayanraman/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:39
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
About: Sahi is an automation and testing tool for Web applications, with
the facility to record and playback scripts. Features include, in-browser
controls, text based scripts, ant support for playback of suites of tests,
and multi threaded playback. It supports HTTP and HTTPS. Sahi runs as a
proxy server, and the browser needs to use the sahi server as its proxy.
Sahi then injects JavaScript so that it can access elements in the Web
page. This makes the tool independent of the Web site or Web application.
Changes: This release fixes multi-threaded playback on Firefox and adds
features like custom event logging, assertion on print events, and better
identification of spans and divs.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sahi/
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[043] - shush 1.2
by Christophe Kalt (http://freshmeat.net/users/kalt/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 16:05
Communications :: Email
System
Utilities
About: shush runs a command and optionally reports its output by email.
It is a powerful wrapper around cron jobs.
Changes: This version allows more flexibility with report generation.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/shush/
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[044] - Simple Invoices 2008 03 09
by justinjameskelly (http://freshmeat.net/users/justinjameskelly/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 23:17
Office/Business
Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
About: Simple Invoices is a clean, simple, and basic Web-based invoicing
system. It is meant for personal invoices, home office invoicing, small
organization invoicing, and basic POS (point of sale) systems for light
usage. Its goals are to be easy to use, simple and clean, and focused on
its task. It is not meant for heavy-use POS applications, nor is it meant
to be enterprise ready.
Changes: This is a minor update to fix a problem with editing products
that was introduced in the 2008 03 03 release.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/simpleinvoices/
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[045] - ssqlfs 0.3.7
by david a thompson (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomp/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 14:15
Database
About: ssqlfs uses a defined file/directory structure to generate an SQL
database which corresponds to that file/directory structure. Along with
support for one-to-many tables, ssqlfs includes support for representing
many-to-many tables. Ideally, the filesystem would be interconvertible
with an SQL database, but at this point the functions for generating a
file/directory structure from the SQL database remain to be thoroughly
tested.
Changes: Significant changes were made in function names and arguments. It
is not fully backwards-compatible with earlier versions.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ssqlfs/
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[046] - TEA for Linux 17.6.0
by roxton (http://freshmeat.net/users/roxton/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 15:48
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Text Editors
Text Processing
About: TEA is a modest and easy-to-use GTK+2-based editor with many useful
features for HTML editing. It features a small footprint, a tabbed layout
engine, support for multiple encodings, code snippets, templates,
customizable hotkeys, an "open at cursor" function for HTML files and
images, miscellaneous HTML tools, preview in external browser, string
manipulation functions, SRT subtitles editing, Morse-code tools,
bookmarks, syntax highlighting, and drag-and-drop support.
Changes: A lot of fixes were made. A new function was added to check for
broken links.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/teaforlinux/
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[047] - The Battle for Wesnoth 1.4.0
by Sirp (http://freshmeat.net/users/Sirp/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 16:01
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
About: The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy
theme.
Changes: This version contains seven new mainline campaigns, a redesigned
user interface, a variety of high-quality new game music, and a refresh of
the game artwork, including improved portrait images for many unit types.
For designers, the map editor and WML have been enhanced to significantly
increase your creative options in writing scenarios. Over 300 individual
bugs were resolved during the 1.3 development period, and several new
tools were introduced that prevent entire classes of bugs by
sanity-checking the game's data files.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wesnoth/
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[048] - The Cell Messaging Layer 1.1
by Scott Pakin (http://freshmeat.net/users/pakin/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:31
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
About: The Cell Messaging Layer is a communication library for clusters of
Cell Broadband Engine processors. It implements a subset of the popular MPI
message-passing API on the Cell's SPE processors, with one MPI rank per SPE
across any number of Cells and the ability for any SPE to communicate
directly with any other SPE, even across a network. The Cell Messaging
Layer thereby makes programming clusters of Cell processors similar to
programming clusters of conventional CPUs.
Changes: On the PPE side, some of cellmsg_init()'s arguments have been
moved to cellmsg_run(). The PPE API now includes cellmsg_finalize(),
cellmsg_ppes(), and cellmsg_this_ppe(). The SPE API is unmodified.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cellmessaging/
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[049] - TurboGears 1.0.0.4
by Chris Arndt (http://freshmeat.net/users/strogon14/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 23:11
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
About: TurboGears is a complete front-to-back Web development
mega-framework in Python. It is built from four core projects and several
other packages to provide a powerful set of tools for building modern Web
applications.
Changes: The quickstart templates have been cleaned-up. The session cookie
handling routines have been made more robust and more cross-browser
compatible. It is now possible to have an SSL login page while the rest of
the Web site uses normal HTTP. Compatibility with SQLAlchemy 0.4.3 was
added. This release marks the last active version of the 1.0 branch. All
new developments will now occur in the 1.1 branch.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/turbogears/
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[050] - uxdstools 0.5.1
by Michael Brown (http://freshmeat.net/users/tipt0e/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 23:16
System :: Networking :: LDAP
About: uxdstools is a set of Unix directory service tools. It is a suite
of command tools to administer POSIX user and group accounts in an LDAP
directory. It is similar in spirit to the useradd/mod/del tools found on
Linux and Solaris, the pw tools on BSD, the mk|ch|rmuser/group tools on
AIX, etc. However, instead of manipulating local accounts, uxdstools
manages POSIX-type accounts that can be found in LDAP directory services
installations, namely those with posixAccount and posixGroup attributes.
Changes: The code was cleaned up to silence gcc warnings. The "-Wall"
option was added to the gcc arguments in Makefile.am.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uxdstools/
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[051] - Whitix 0.01a
by Matthew Whitworth (http://freshmeat.net/users/mwhitworth/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 15:49
System :: Operating System Kernels
About: Whitix is a modern operating system eventually aimed at the desktop
market. It currently runs on x86 processors and features a text editor,
shell, C compiler, assembler, and make equivalent. Whitix is available in
a live CD format for download.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/whitix/
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[052] - XWiki 1.3
by Vincent Massol (http://freshmeat.net/users/vmassol/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 04:40
Information Management
Information Management :: Document Repositories
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: XWiki is a WikiWiki clone written in Java that supports many
popular features of other Wikis like the Wiki syntax, version control,
attachments, security, and searching, but also many advanced features like
templates, database and dynamic development using the velocity or groovy
scripting language, a plugin system and skinability, J2EE scalability,
XML/RPC remote API, Portlet integration, statistics, an RSS feed, PDF
exporting, and WYSIWYG editing.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xwiki/
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[053] - Yaalr 1.0
by miahfost (http://freshmeat.net/users/miahfost/)
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 15:50
Internet :: Log Analysis
About: Yaalr (Yet Another Apache Log Reader) is a simple tool to give a
clearer view of who is visiting your Web site.
Changes: Error handling was improved. More documentation was written.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yaalr/
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