Newsletter for Thursday, May 01st 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (25) :::
[001] - AstroCam System 2.7.4
[002] - Automated Testing Framework 0.5
[003] - BalanceNG 2.084
[004] - Burr Tools 0.4.0
[005] - Coccinella 0.96.8
[006] - Day Planner 0.9
[007] - dk.brics.automaton 1.10-4
[008] - DocumentBurster 0.0.5
[009] - Freeside 1.7.3
[010] - Howto: PPPOE with Bandwidth Management for OpenBSD 2.8
[011] - JerkLib 0.6r697
[012] - JumpBox for phpBB 1.0.1
[013] - keyTouch 2.4.0 beta
[014] - libgee 0.1.3
[015] - Mon Petit Site 1.1
[016] - msn-pecan 0.0.12
[017] - MyClipboard 0.1
[018] - Newsbeuter 0.9
[019] - PAPFIP 1.0
[020] - piglet jotter 0.28
[021] - Pioneers 0.12.2
[022] - Rosegarden 1.7.0
[023] - Social Networks Visualiser 0.44
[024] - SPTK 3.5.7.07
[025] - Thousand Parsec C++ Server 0.5.0
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - AstroCam System 2.7.4
by Steffen Wendzel (http://freshmeat.net/users/cdpxe/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 04:23
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
System :: Networking
About: AstroCam is an C-based stepper motor control system including both
a PHP and a Perl based Web interface. You can use it for controlling
webcams over the Internet or an intranet, or for everything else you could
want to do with a stepper motor.
Changes: This release fixes a possible XSS hole. Some small bugs in the
PHP and Perl code were fixed. A new feature was also added: one can now
set the image refresh time in the configuration file.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/astrocam/
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[002] - Automated Testing Framework 0.5
by Julio M. Merino Vidal (http://freshmeat.net/users/jmmv/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 10:31
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
Software Development :: Testing
About: ATF is a collection of libraries and utilities designed to ease
unattended application testing in the hands of developers and end users of
a specific piece of software. Tests can currently be written in C/C++ or
POSIX shell and, contrary to other testing frameworks, ATF tests are
installed into the system alongside any other application files. This
allows the end user to easily verify that the software behaves correctly
on her system. Furthermore, the results of the test suites can be
collected into nicely-formatted reports to simplify their visualization
and analysis.
Changes: The code has been relicensed under a 2-clause BSD license. A new
C-only binding (atf-c) has been added so that developers do not need to
use C++ at all to write test cases. The C++ binding has been renamed to
atf-c++, and the POSIX shell binding to atf-sh for consistency. Test
programs now support a -w flag to indicate the work directory they have to
use. Test programs now preserve the order of test cases when stated by the
user on the command line.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/atf/
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[003] - BalanceNG 2.084
by Thomas Obermair (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomasobermair/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 05:32
Internet
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: BalanceNG is a modern software IP load balancing solution. It is
small, fast, and easy to use and setup. It offers session persistence,
different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random,
Least Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a
customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It supports VRRP to
set up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It supports
SNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with Net-SNMPD. It integrates pcap
packet dumping for debugging purposes and allows the implementation of a
"transparent forensic logging bridge".
Changes: Minor bugs with command handling (reversion) have been resolved.
(This was also resolved in the "stable" branch, resulting in release
1.925). The Debian/Ubuntu release 2 package now also contains a
precompiled BalanceNG agent ("bngagent").
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/balanceng/
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[004] - Burr Tools 0.4.0
by Andreas Röver (http://freshmeat.net/users/roever/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 04:21
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: Burr Tools is a set of programs for solving some kinds of puzzles,
namely puzzles that are made out of square, cube-shaped, spherical, or
triangular units, and whose solution also contains only pieces aligned
along those grids. The program finds assemblies for the puzzle and
animates how you have to assemble for some of them.
Changes: A new space grid was included: rhombic tetrahedras. STL export
was improved. Exporting to vector images (SVG and PDF) was implemented.
Help is now available within the program instead of as a separate PDF.
There were lots of internal cleanups.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/burrtools/
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[005] - Coccinella 0.96.8
by Mats Bengtsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/matben/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 00:10
Communications :: Conferencing
Communications :: File Sharing
About: Coccinella is a Jabber client with a whiteboard. The whiteboard is
a shared desktop which supports text, drawings, images, and multimedia in
a number of formats, such as MP3 and video. It runs in two main modes, a
peer-to-peer configuration and a mode compatible with the Jabber Instant
Messaging system. A flexible plugin architecture may be used to support
additional formats. It should run on any machine that runs Tcl/Tk.
Changes: This release contains a number of minor fixes, making the client
even more pleasant. Along with a number of bugfixes, it includes an
improved user interface with cleaner registration dialogs, undo/redo of
text, close page buttons in tabs, collapsible tool bars (Mac), chasing
arrows while waiting for something (Mac), and much more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/coccinella/
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[006] - Day Planner 0.9
by Eskild Hustvedt (http://freshmeat.net/users/ZeroDogg/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 06:05
Office/Business :: Scheduling
About: Day Planner is a simple time management program. It is designed to
help you easily manage your time. It can manage appointments, birthdays,
and more. It makes sure you remember your appointments by popping up a
dialog box reminding you about them.
Changes: Most of the iCalendar back-end was rewritten. It is now more
flexible, faster, and preserves the files better). Various minor bugs were
fixed. The daemon's data loading was made more robust. Various other fixes
were made.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dayplanner/
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[007] - dk.brics.automaton 1.10-4
by Anders Møller (http://freshmeat.net/users/amoeller/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 06:18
Software Development :: Libraries
Text Processing
About: dk.brics.automaton is a DFA/NFA implementation with Unicode
alphabet and support for all standard regular expression operations:
concatenation, union, intersection, complement, Kleene star, etc.
Changes: A bug in recomputation of Automaton hash code was fixed.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/automaton/
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[008] - DocumentBurster 0.0.5
by Virgil (http://freshmeat.net/users/virgiltrasca/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 04:21
Office/Business :: CRM
Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
About: DocumentBurster splits PDF reports based on metadata. Generated
documents can be delivered on a variety of destinations like email, FTP,
fax, archive, and many more. It works on all versions of Windows and most
Unix systems. It works by reading metadata, which is easily included in
the document, to indicate the splitting and delivery methods to be used.
It is easy to define your own custom delivery targets with the help of a
plugin architecture. This will handle the delivery of reports to any
target that can be imagined. It is easy to define simple or complex
schedules for bursting.
Changes: Minor fixes.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/documentburster/
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[009] - Freeside 1.7.3
by ivan (http://freshmeat.net/users/ivan420/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 10:33
Information Management :: Records Management
Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
About: Freeside is an open-source billing and trouble ticketing package
for ISPs, VoIP, hosting, service, and content providers, and other online
businesses.
Changes: The tax rate editor and VoIP rate and plan editors were rewritten
and are much easier to use. Import of Asterisk CDR files was fixed. The
integrated RT ticketing system now auto-associates incoming email with the
appropriate customer. Package changes show change date and old package
information. MySQL is supported as a backend database in addition to
PostgreSQL. Packages are available for Debian and RHEL/CentOS. XML-RPC and
PHP APIs have been added, allowing access to customer signup and
self-service functionality. The license has changed to the Affero GPL.
License: Affero General Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freeside/
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[010] - Howto: PPPOE with Bandwidth Management for OpenBSD 2.8
by Scatman (http://freshmeat.net/users/scatman/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 13:45
Documentation
Internet
System :: Networking
About: The PPPOE with Bandwidth Management for OpenBSD Howto is a document
which explains how to build an OpenBSD based router for a small
flat-sharing community with four residents. The router should manage the
available bandwidth fairly between the paying users and their guests. For
the residents, it should be possible to use incoming ports for services
like Skype or Emule. The howto basically addresses IT professionals with a
rough idea of what OpenBSD is about.
Changes: The document has been updated to OpenBSD 4.3.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openbsd_altq/
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[011] - JerkLib 0.6r697
by mohadib (http://freshmeat.net/users/mohadib_/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 13:48
Communications :: Chat
About: JerkLib is a NIO-based object oriented Java IRC library.
Changes: This update provides new features, bugfixes, and more control.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jerklibisaniobasedjavairclibrary/
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[012] - JumpBox for phpBB 1.0.1
by Grid7 (http://freshmeat.net/users/grid7/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 10:33
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Message Boards
About: phpBB is a popular discussion forum system. The JumpBox for phpBB
allows anyone to be up and running with this system in under a minute on
any OS. Its self-contained nature makes it perfect for offline
development, and the backup/restore feature simplifies the process of
upgrading to newer versions.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpbbjumpbox/
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[013] - keyTouch 2.4.0 beta
by MarvinR (http://freshmeat.net/users/marvinr/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 04:33
Desktop Environment :: Tools
System :: Hardware
Utilities
About: keyTouch makes it possible to easily configure the extra function
keys of a keyboard (like multimedia keys). It allows the user to define
which program will be executed when a key is pressed.
Changes: Syntax version 1.2 is now used for keyboard files.
keytouch-config now checks if KDE is running by checking the
KDE_FULL_SESSION environment variable. keytouch-init now has support for
USB keyboards. In keytouch-keyboard the keyboard list is now presented as
a tree view. When started, the current keyboard is selected. When a
keyboard file is successfully imported, it will also be selected.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/keytouch/
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[014] - libgee 0.1.3
by Jürg Billeter (http://freshmeat.net/users/juergbi/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 13:52
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 more unit tests and is updated to work with the
new nullable type support in Vala 0.3.1.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libgee/
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[015] - Mon Petit Site 1.1
by Laurent Hugé (http://freshmeat.net/users/lhuge/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 04:22
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: Mon Petit Site is a Web site made to be a simple family Web site.
It is only written in PHP, is Strict XHTML 1.0 and CSS compliant, and
makes a limited use of cookies. It provides a blog, a photo album, a
calendar, a geographical address page, a member directory, a gold book, a
simple forum, and a link page.
Changes: Albums and photos can now be sorted according to comments added.
Albums can now be filtered by theme. The parameter file was cleaned up to
only contain personalized changes. All installation files were translated
into French. Some bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/monpetitsite/
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[016] - msn-pecan 0.0.12
by Felipe Contreras (http://freshmeat.net/users/felipec/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 13:50
Communications :: Chat
About: msn-pecan is an alternative MSN protocol plug-in for libpurple. The
goal is to provide much faster development than in the official libpurple
(Pidgin) plug-in.
Changes: OS X support, a fix for a nasty Win32 bug, and many other
bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/msn-pecan/
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[017] - MyClipboard 0.1
by HASAN (http://freshmeat.net/users/hasanen/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 10:31
System :: Networking
Utilities
About: MyClipboard is a cross-platform network shared clipboard. it is
built with C++ using the Qt library. With the AutoUpdate option enabled ,
you can do Ctrl+C on one computer and Ctrl+V immediately on the other.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/myclipboard/
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[018] - Newsbeuter 0.9
by Andreas Krennmair (http://freshmeat.net/users/akrennmair/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 04:25
Office/Business :: News/Diary
About: Newsbeuter is an RSS feed reader designed to be used on text
terminals on Unix and Unix-like systems. It was developed with texttools
users in mind, and thus its interface is similar to tools like mutt and
slrn.
Changes: Locking of cache files was improved. It is now possible to run
several instances of Newsbeuter at the same time, each with a different
cache file. Flagged articles are now excluded from being deleted. A
command line option was added for automatically starting the download of
enqueued podcasts. A configuration option was added for specifying the
sort order of article lists. The ability to explicitly delete articles was
added. A lot of minor bugs were fixed.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/newsbeuter/
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[019] - PAPFIP 1.0
by Attitude Adjuster (http://freshmeat.net/users/AttitudeAdj/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 13:46
Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: PAPFIP (Python And PGPLOT-based FITS Image Plotter) is a FITS image
plotter based on the Python bindings to the pgplot graphics library. It is
intended as a non-interactive (command line or script-driven) astronomical
image plotter intended for the automated or repeated production of
finalized publication-quality Postscipt files, rather than a method of
inspecting or visualizing the data.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/papfip/
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[020] - piglet jotter 0.28
by Sreekant (http://freshmeat.net/users/skodela/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 10:34
Office/Business :: News/Diary
About: piglet jotter is a tree data store, in the thread of kjots but
using GTK. It stores an arbitrarily deep tree, with data stored in the
same hierarchy in a single directory as plain text. It can handle
exporting to HTML. It is simple to use, install, and modify.
Changes: This release deals with directories better. It has better HTML
output. TeX output [currently not active] has been added. There is some
code cleanup and minor bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pigletjotter/
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[021] - Pioneers 0.12.2
by Roland Clobus (http://freshmeat.net/users/rclobus/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 13:47
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
About: Pioneers is a faithful Gtk2 translation of the excellent board game
"Settlers of Catan", with server-client multiplayer, computer players, and
support for the changes made in the Seafarers of Catan expansion to the
original board game.
Changes: This release fixes bugs that could cause the server to crash when
malformed messages were sent. A Czech translation was added. Various
cosmetic changes and bugfixes were applied. An OpenBSD port has been
added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pioneers/
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[022] - Rosegarden 1.7.0
by cannam (http://freshmeat.net/users/cannam/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 10:31
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI
About: Rosegarden is an audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and
general-purpose music composition and editing environment. It is an
easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux. It is ideal for
composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording
environments.
Changes: This release focuses mostly on notation enhancements, although
there are also substantial bugfixes in other areas.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rosegarden/
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[023] - Social Networks Visualiser 0.44
by Dimitris B. Kalamaras (http://freshmeat.net/users/oxy86/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 13:49
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: Social Networks Visualiser (SocNetV) imports and exports various
network file formats (pajek, sociomatrix, dot) and displays the network on
screen. It can create random networks (lattice, same degree, etc.). The
user can visually modify an existing network or draw a new one using the
mouse. Network and actor properties, such as distances, centralities,
diameter, etc., can easily be computed.
Changes: The license has changed to the GPLv3. This release is a complete
code rewrite built on Qt 4.x. It has an improved GUI with docks, threaded
loading of networks, and a new Shortest Path algorithm (BFS/dijkstra).
Centralities are calculated much faster. It has a real-time Spring
Embedder layout, and layout in circles and levels by centrality. Simple
zoom in/out on the networks, better graphics and antialiasing, and a new
centrality index (Eccentricity) are included.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/socnetv/
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[024] - SPTK 3.5.7.07
by Ilya VE (http://freshmeat.net/users/iluxa/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 06:17
Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Widget Sets
About: SPTK (Simply Powerful Toolkit) is a cross-platform toolkit that
provides a set of C++ classes for fast and easy application development.
It provides GUI components that use FLTK, and features database support
with seamless connection to GUI components. There are drivers for use of
SQLite and PostgreSQL directly, as well as support for other database
engines through UnixODBC. SPTK includes many classes for working with
strings, dynamic arrays, and maps, and is faster and has a smaller
footprint than STL. It also supports reading, writing, and creating Excel
7 files, high-level GUI components with dataset support, support for
automatic layouts, and support for Aspell.
Changes: This release includes several fixes for the CSocket class. In
CSocket::close(), the call of ::shutdown() was replaced with a call of
::close(). The call of ::shutdown() doesn't actually close the socket and
doesn't release the socket descriptor. Several exceptions were added,
which are thrown in case of errors in socket-related system calls.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sptk2/
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[025] - Thousand Parsec C++ Server 0.5.0
by Lee Begg (http://freshmeat.net/users/llnz/)
Thu, May 1st 2008 06:04
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Simulation
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
About: Thousand Parsec is a turn-based space empire building game, as well
as a framework for creating a similar group of games, which are often
called 4X games (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate). Some examples
of games from which Thousand Parsec draws ideas are Reach for the Stars,
Stars!, VGA Planets, Master of Orion, and Galactic Civilizations. Unlike
commercial alternatives, it is designed for long games supporting
universes as large as your computer can handle. It allows a high degree of
player customization, and features a flexible technology system where new
technologies may be introduced mid-game.
Changes: This release includes last year's Google Summer of Code project,
Reach for the Stars Clone ruleset. A large number of other improvements
have been made, such as a new Object model, TP04 protocol support, better
control over what players can see on the server, and a history that
supports MySQL persistence. This release is a significant step towards the
goal of a fully featured server.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tp/
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