Newsletter for Tuesday, July 15th 2008

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (46) :::

[001] - 123 Flash Chat 6.9.4 (phpBB3 chat Module)
[002] - 123 Live Help Chat Server 3.2
[003] - 123-Flash-Chat-Server-Software 6.9.4
[004] - abcMIDI 2008_07_02
[005] - apt-dater 0.5.4
[006] - Boost.Join 5
[007] - clive 0.4.18
[008] - COAST 0.4a
[009] - DbWrench 1.5.0
[010] - DN-Gallery 0.1.0
[011] - dtrx 6.1
[012] - EasyTAG 2.1.6 (Development)
[013] - Fotoxx 4.9
[014] - gPhoto 2.4.2
[015] - gPodder 0.12.0
[016] - H2 Database Engine 1.0.75 (2008-07-14)
[017] - Herrie 2.1
[018] - JACL Adventure Creation Language 2.1
[019] - Jaikoz 2.5.0
[020] - JOpt.ASP 2.2.2
[021] - JumpBox for vTiger 1.1.0
[022] - Konstrukt 0.4
[023] - Laptop Mode Tools 1.44
[024] - libgphoto 2.4.2
[025] - libmemcached 0.22
[026] - LiVES 0.9.9.1
[027] - MeTA1 1.0.PreAlpha27.0
[028] - MikeOS 1.4.0
[029] - Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.15 (2.0.0.x)
[030] - Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.10 (Stable)
[031] - MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.26 (Old Production)
[032] - phpMyAdmin 2.11.7.1
[033] - phppython 0.1
[034] - picurl 0.0.3
[035] - pulse 2.0.8 (Beta)
[036] - QMC2 0.2 beta 3
[037] - Quick.Cart 3.1
[038] - rsyslog 3.19.10 (Beta)
[039] - Simple Stuff 0.1
[040] - SMI 0.9.9o
[041] - Syntext Serna 3.8.0 RC2 (Serna2)
[042] - TCExam 5.4.002
[043] - Typos 1.0
[044] - UNFS3 0.9.21
[045] - Word War vi 0.19
[046] - Yzis 1.0-alpha1

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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::

[001] - 123 Flash Chat 6.9.4 (phpBB3 chat Module)
by 123fcserver (http://freshmeat.net/users/123fcserver/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 09:23

Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Chat :: AOL Instant Messenger
Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat

About: 123 Flash Chat is a Java chat server with a Flash client with
custom skins, linkable to external databases. It is fast, easy, secure, and
scalable to support businesses of any size. It can be used for community
chat events, online dating sites, etc. It's also flexible with moderated
chat, CRRC, avatar chat, and event chat.

Changes: An optional handwriting chat module was added. Chat backgrounds,
Flash emotions, Flash sound files, and chat advertisement banners can now
be easily changed in the visual Admin Panel. Chatting speed was increased.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/flash1chat1room/

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[002] - 123 Live Help Chat Server 3.2
by 123fcserver (http://freshmeat.net/users/123fcserver/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 09:22

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat
Communications :: Chat :: Unix Talk
Communications :: Conferencing

About: 123 Live Help Chat Server allows sales and support staff to invite
Web site visitors to begin one-to-one chat. Users are greeted by a friendly
notification that the staff would like to chat with them to offer
assistance. The invitation won't be blocked by a pop-up killer. Clients can
also request help from a staff member. It supports real-time text chat and
optional video chat. Chats can be transferred from one staff member to
another, and a Canned Answers Agent has predefined answers to serve clients
more efficiently and eliminate typing of repetitive answers.

Changes: Remote control of 123 Live Help via MSN was added.

License: Shareware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/123livehelp3.1/

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[003] - 123-Flash-Chat-Server-Software 6.9.4
by 123fcserver (http://freshmeat.net/users/123fcserver/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 09:24

Communications :: Chat

About: 123-Flash-Chat-Server-Software is a full-featured chat server for
high-load websites. It features a range of customization options, can be
smoothly integrated with the database of almost any popular portal or forum
system including Joomla!, phpBB, PHP-Nuke, and PostNuke, includes plain
text chat and video chat options, and is scalable enough to fit the needs
of small business and large enterprises.

Changes: An optional handwriting chat module was added. Different chat
rooms can now have a unique robot that automatically sends messages, and
each message may use a special style. The whiteboard can be enabled or
disabled on a per-room basis. The chat server may now be restarted from the
Admin Panel. Chat backgrounds, Flash emotions, Flash sound files, and chat
advertisement banners can now be easily changed in the visual Admin Panel.
Chatting speed was increased.

License: Shareware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/123flashchat/

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[004] - abcMIDI 2008_07_02
by Guido Gonzato (http://freshmeat.net/users/goccia/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 13:15

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion

About: The abcMIDI suite consists of programs for turning ABC music files
into MIDI and vice versa, typesetting them as PostScript files, and
manipulate them in several ways.

Changes: A new "%%MIDI drumbars" command was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - apt-dater 0.5.4
by Andre Ellguth (http://freshmeat.net/users/ellguth/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 09:28

System :: Systems Administration

About: apt-dater provides an ncurses frontend to manage package updates on
a large number of remote hosts using SSH. At the moment, only Debian based
hosts running apt are supported on the client side.

Changes: An initial configuration file was created.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/apt-dater/

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[006] - Boost.Join 5
by Yigong Liu (http://freshmeat.net/users/yigongliu/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 09:27

Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: Boost.Join is an asynchronous, message based C++ concurrency
library based on join calculus. It is applicable both to multi-threaded
applications and to the orchestration of asynchronous, event-based
applications. It follows Comega's design and implementation and builds with
Boost facilities. It provides a high level concurrency API with
asynchronous methods, synchronous methods, and chords which are
"join-patterns" defining the synchronization, asynchrony, and concurrency.

Changes: This release added schedulers as the template policy arguments of
the actor class, added timed synchronous calls, added documentation and
samples for the port API 4, and expanded documentation about Join
internals.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[007] - clive 0.4.18
by legatvs (http://freshmeat.net/users/legatvs/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 20:44

Multimedia :: Video

About: clive is a video extraction tool for user-uploaded video hosts such
as Youtube, Google Video, Dailymotion, Guba, Metacafe, and Sevenload. It
can be chained with 3rd party tools for subsequent video re-encoding and
playing.

Changes: This release fixes metacafe support and makes minor improvements
to the program.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[008] - COAST 0.4a
by Steven Koutstaal (http://freshmeat.net/users/skoutstaal/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 17:16

System :: Networking

About: COAST (COA Service Tester) is a Perl script to send Change of
Authority requests to network devices (typically BRAS devices) and report
some statistics. Change of Authorization is specified in RFC 5176 (Dynamic
Authorization Extensions to RADIUS).

Changes: Support for RFC 5176 has been started (by no means complete) by
adding all possible identifiers. The -i option for attributes has been
removed. The -v option is used now with default vendor, or vendor 0
specifically. The default vendor is now 0 (means IETF attr). Support for
tagged attributes has been added. The CLI specification of the dictionary
is enabled.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[009] - DbWrench 1.5.0
by harnekr (http://freshmeat.net/users/harnekr/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 09:28

Database
Database :: Front-Ends

About: DbWrench is multi-vendor, multi-platform database design and
synchronization software. Features include a syntax highlighting SQL query
editor, support for many of today's most popular databases, a graphic
entity relation diagram (ERD) designer, and the ability to forward and
reverse engineer databases. Its multi-vendor and multi-platform
functionality makes it ideal for heterogeneous database environments.

Changes: In this release the primary focus was to upgrade to newer
versions of the third party software used within DbWrench. DbWrench now
uses upgraded JDBC drivers for PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server. The look and
feel of the user interface for Mac and Linux users has also been upgraded.
Phasing out support for older versions of DBMSs also began in this release.
There were general bugfixes as well.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[010] - DN-Gallery 0.1.0
by ad@m (http://freshmeat.net/users/displacesux/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 20:48

Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: DN-Gallery is a simple PHP/AJAX Web-based gallery. It features
automatic thumbnail creation, auto-resizing images for faster loading, and
simple album and photo management.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dn-gallery/

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[011] - dtrx 6.1
by Brett Smith (http://freshmeat.net/users/bretts/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 13:17

About: dtrx intelligently extracts many different archive types. It will
get the contents from tar, zip, rpm, deb, and cpio archives, as well as
compressed files, with one simple command. It helps keep your filesystem
sane by putting every archive's contents into a dedicated directory, and
making sure the owner can read and write whatever's extracted. It can even
recursively extract archives.

Changes: This release adds support for InstallShield archives, fixes a
number of bugs related to archives that only had one file or directory in
them, and adjusts the wording of several interactive prompts to make it
easier for the user to make their decisions.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[012] - EasyTAG 2.1.6 (Development)
by Jérôme COUDERC (http://freshmeat.net/users/djeje/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 13:16

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3

About: EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2,
FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, MP4/AAC, MusePack, Monkey's Audio, and WavPack
files. It features a simple and attractive GTK+ interface.

Changes: This version adds shortcuts to the Desktop, Documents, Download,
and Music directories. The process for saving multiples files was improved
when an error occurs. Handling of the CDDB track list, problems with
displaying pictures, and several crashes were fixed. The French, German,
Polish, Swedish, and Japanese languages were updated.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - Fotoxx 4.9
by kornelix (http://freshmeat.net/users/kornelix/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 09:26

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Raster-Based
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: Fotoxx is a program for improving digital photos. It allows you to
navigate through large image directories using a window of thumbnail
images, create HDR (high dynamic range) images by combining bright and dark
images to improve details visible in both bright and dark areas, create
panoramas by joining overlapped images, adjust brightness and color
intensity independently for different underlying brightness levels, reduce
fog or haze by removing "whiteness" and intensifying colors, rotate an
image (level a tilted image or turn 90 degrees), remove red-eyes from
electronic flash photos, sharpen, resize, or crop images, reduce noise in
low-light photos, change color depth, and stretch an image by dragging the
mouse.

Changes: A French user manual was added. A new function was added to
"flatten" the brightness distribution using a sliding scale from 0% (no
change) to 100% (uniform distribution). This is a fast method for bringing
out detail in areas that are too dark, too bright, or have little contrast.
A few other minor improvements and fixes were added.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[014] - gPhoto 2.4.2
by Marcus Meissner (http://freshmeat.net/users/msmeissn/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 21:05

Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture :: Digital Camera

About: gphoto2 is a command line application which enables you to transfer
digital photos from almost any serial-port or USB digital camera. It uses
the programming interface provided by libgphoto2.

Changes: In libgphoto2, camera abilities list sorting now uses qsort(),
increasing startup speed by seconds. Many translation updates. PTP2 driver:
a full merge of TRUNK ptp2 camlib. Canons can capture to CF/SD cards and
internal memory. EOS capture is enhanced. Download cancellation support.
Handles Canon cameras with shorter timeouts on startup to avoid long
startup delays. Configuration of Flash, Beep, and Zoom in the Canon driver.
Enable/disable remote mode only once per session (on demand). A new driver
for Topfield PVR5000 devices.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[015] - gPodder 0.12.0
by Thomas Perl (http://freshmeat.net/users/thp/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 09:29

Communications :: File Sharing
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Desktop Environment :: Tools

About: gPodder is a Podcast receiver/catcher written in Python and pyGTK.
It manages podcast feeds for you, and automatically downloads all podcasts
from as many feeds as you like. If you are interested in Podcast feeds,
simply put the feed URLs into gPodder and it will download all episodes for
you automatically. If there is a new episode, it will get it for you. It
supports download resume, if the server supports it.

Changes: This release features a new SQLite-based backend for saving local
podcast data. This speeds up the processing and display of podcasts and
also improves maintainability and stability. Usability improvements that
have been suggested in the May 2008 User Test have also been implemented.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - H2 Database Engine 1.0.75 (2008-07-14)
by ThomasM (http://freshmeat.net/users/ThomasMueller/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 09:25

Database :: Database Engines/Servers
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: H2 is an SQL database engine written in Java that implements the
JDBC API. Embedded, server, and clustering modes are available. A browser
based console application is included. The database has strong security
features. Disk based and in-memory databases and tables are supported.

Changes: The JaQu (Java Query) tool has been improved. The H2 Console can
be started with an open connection. Referential constraint checking is now
faster. Running out of memory could result in a corrupted databases.
Stopping a WebServer didn't always work. A multi-version concurrency (MVCC)
problem has been fixed. The Oracle mode now allows multiple rows with NULL
in a unique index. A bug int the Lucene fulltext implementation has been
fixed.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/h2/

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[017] - Herrie 2.1
by Ed Schouten (http://freshmeat.net/users/EdSchouten/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 17:19

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: Herrie is a command line music player. It has a split-screen file
manager and playlist interface and supports a number of file formats (MP3,
Ogg Vorbis, wave, FLAC, etc). It also has some nice features, including a
chroot() function for untrusted setups (remote logins, parties, etc).
AudioScrobbler is also implemented using Curl.

Changes: This release includes various stability fixes. There are minor
usability improvements such as the 'F' button, which allows you to jump
back to a track in the file browser after adding it to the playlist.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[018] - JACL Adventure Creation Language 2.1
by Stuart Allen (http://freshmeat.net/users/jacl/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 13:16

Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Interpreters

About: JACL is an interpreted language for creating interactive fiction
(text adventure games). Using a variety of Glk libraries, JACL has
cross-platform support for graphics and sound.

Changes: Support for Web access has been removed to focus on Glk support
for cross-platform multimedia. The status bar is now fully customizable.
New string manipulation commands have been added along with a new syntax
for creating arrays. There were many bugfixes and a major revision of the
manual.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[019] - Jaikoz 2.5.0
by paul taylor (http://freshmeat.net/users/paultaylor1/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 13:13

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors

About: Jaikoz is a powerful tag editor that allows you to organize, edit,
and correct thousands of audio tags with ease. Jaikoz has powerful
automation features. Jaikoz uses MusicBrainz and MusicIP, online databases
of over 5 million songs, which can match your songs automtically based on
the actual music as well as the metadata. Jaikoz uses a convenient
spreadsheet view to allow you to edit information very quickly and provides
many autoformatting tasks which do most of the work for you.

Changes: Jaikoz now fixes your genres and submits them back to
Musicbrainz. Retrieve Acoustic Ids now utilizes all of your CPUs for
quicker retrieval. An embedded database is used to store details of every
release and artist downloaded from Musicbrainz and is preserved between
invocations.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jaikozmp4tagger/

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[020] - JOpt.ASP 2.2.2
by dnaevolutions (http://freshmeat.net/users/dnaevolutions/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 20:44

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Software Development :: Libraries

About: JOpt.ASP is a consistent advancement of JOpt.NET that exposes the
unique JOpt vehicle routing capabilities via standard HTTP/SOAP interfaces.
JOpt.ASP has been designed for enterprise applications and Web-based
solutions that are based on ASP.NET. JOpt.ASP provides its optimization
facilities through a stateful Web service that comes with a comfortable
programming interface that is very similar to JOpt.NET.

Changes: This release adds problem-specific logic to the core algorithm,
which dramatically speeds up the algorithm. For large scale problems,
execution time has been reduced by 95%.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jopt.asp/

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[021] - JumpBox for vTiger 1.1.0
by Grid7 (http://freshmeat.net/users/grid7/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 21:07

Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Office/Business :: CRM

About: vTiger is a Web-based customer relationship management (CRM) system
that competes with applications like Goldmine, SugarCRM, and
Salesforce.com. The JumpBox for vTiger is a virtual appliance that requires
minimal technical knowledge to install. It has a built in Web
administration console, and a backup system that supports archiving the
state of the JumpBox to NFS, Windows file shares, and Amazon S3.

Changes: This JumpBox is now running on the production release of the
v.1.1 platform, and includes several enhancements. Most notably, this
includes built-in automated backups to Amazon S3, integrated Web stats for
the application, a GUI-based SSL cert configuration tool, a GUI-based
method for configuring an email relay, and an update of the underlying OS
to Ubuntu Base 8.04 LTS.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jumpbox-vtiger/

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[022] - Konstrukt 0.4
by Troels Knak-Nielsen (http://freshmeat.net/users/troelskn/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 09:22

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: Konstrukt is a minimalistic framework which provides a foundation
on which to build rather than a boxed solution to all problems. It focuses
on the controller layer, and tries to encourage the developer to deal
directly with the HTTP protocol instead of abstracting it away. Konstrukt
uses a hierarchical controller pattern, which provides a greater level of
flexibility than the popular routed front controller frameworks.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[023] - Laptop Mode Tools 1.44
by Mandyhan (http://freshmeat.net/users/Mandyhan/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 13:14

Desktop Environment :: Tools
System :: Filesystems
Utilities

About: Laptop Mode Tools allows you to control various power management
settings based on AC/battery power state. Among other things, it controls
Linux's "Laptop Mode" feature that allows your hard drive to spin down for
extended periods. It can also control CPU frequency scaling and screen
blanking timeouts (both terminal and X). It supports automatic hibernation
when battery is low.

Changes: New modules for disabling video outputs using xrandr and for
controlling the Linux process scheduler multi-core power optimization mode.
In addition, various minor fixes were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/laptop-mode-tools/

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[024] - libgphoto 2.4.2
by Marcus Meissner (http://freshmeat.net/users/msmeissn/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 21:01

Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture :: Digital Camera

About: libgphoto2 is a user space library which provides applications with
camera independent access to almost 300 digital cameras. It contains more
than 30 drivers to complement the drivers in your operating system kernel.

Changes: The initial libgphoto2 startup was sped up (by seconds).
Translations were updated. The PTP2 driver received improvements in MTP
handling, Canon Capture handling, EOS Capture handling, and download
cancellation. The Canon driver received various bugfixes increasing its
stability.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[025] - libmemcached 0.22
by Brian Aker (http://freshmeat.net/users/briantangentorg/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 09:20

Software Development :: Libraries

About: libmemcached is a C client library for interfacing to a memcached
server. It has been designed to be light on memory usage, thread safe and
to provide full access to server side methods. It also implements several
command line tools: memcat, memflush, memrm, memstat, and memslap (for load
generation). The library has been designed to allow for different hashing
methods on keys, partitioning by keys, and to use consistent hashing for
distribution.

Changes: A fix for a problem where the master key was not being checked
for "bad key" and fixes for bugs in stats output (the thread output was
wrong). It was clarified that MEMCACHED_BAD_KEY_PROVIDED is returned for
bad prefix keys. A bug in Flags return was fixed along with an issue with
compiling on Visual Studio.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[026] - LiVES 0.9.9.1
by salsaman (http://freshmeat.net/users/salsaman/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 13:14

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: Real-time effects were optimized. A WAV audio loading bug was
fixed. Crashes/hangs on undo-cut, undo-delete-audio, cancel-Resize all
Frames, and some RFX plugins were fixed. Rendering quality is improved.
LiVES to LiVES streaming has been implemented. A preview quality setting
was added to preferences. The video playback plugin API was frozen.
Advanced playback plugin settings were added in Preferences. Resize, Trim
Frames, and Rotate tools were updated. Colour replace, sepia, and skip
ahead effects were added. The French and Portuguese translations were
updated, the GUI polished, and various minor bugs fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[027] - MeTA1 1.0.PreAlpha27.0
by Claus Assmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/casmx/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 09:25

About: MeTA1 is a modularized message transfer agent (MTA) consisting of
five (or more) persistent processes, four of which are multi-threaded. A
queue manager controls SMTP servers and SMTP clients to receive and send
email messages, an address resolver provides lookups in various maps
(including DNS) for mail routing, and a main control program starts the
other processes and watches over their execution. The queue manager
organizes the flow of messages through the system and provides measures to
avoid overloading the local or remote systems by implementing a central
control instance. It is simple to configure using a C-like syntax and is
secure and efficient.

Changes: This version is the first step towards anti-spam measures per
recipient using smtps_rcpt_conf as a tag in the access map. For now only
greylisting can be requested, but further development is planned.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/meta1/

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[028] - MikeOS 1.4.0
by Mike Saunders (http://freshmeat.net/users/TheRealMSaunders/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 21:06

System :: Operating System

About: MikeOS is an operating system for x86 PCs, written entirely in
assembler. It's not intended to to become a fully-fledged general purpose
OS. Instead, it's designed for learning basic OS design and x86 assembly
language. Consequently, it runs in 16-bit mode (for BIOS access) and has
very low system requirements. It features rudimentary DOS compatibility.

Changes: New system calls were added, and bugs were fixed in the FAT12
filesystem code. Other small changes were made to the code and
documentation.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[029] - Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.15 (2.0.0.x)
by Tomasz Ostrowski (http://freshmeat.net/users/tometzky/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 09:32

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: Firefox (formerly known as Phoenix and Firebird) is a redesign of
the Mozilla browser component. It is similar to Galeon, K-Meleon, and
Chimera, but it is written using the XUL user interface language and was
designed to be cross-platform.

Changes: Security issues with critical maximum severity were fixed.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

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

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[030] - Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.10 (Stable)
by Tomasz Ostrowski (http://freshmeat.net/users/tometzky/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 13:14

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Communications :: Usenet News

About: Mozilla is a project to continue Netscape Navigator/Communicator as
an open project. The project was founded and staffed by Netscape, and has
now contributors from other companies as well as volunteers. The Netscape 6
and original Mozilla browser and email client is called Seamonkey. Mozilla
is also the basis of Firefox and Thunderbird, thus Seamonkey shares 90% of
its code with them.

Changes: Critical security issues were fixed.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

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

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[031] - MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.26 (Old Production)
by jim winstead (http://freshmeat.net/users/jimw/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 20:57

Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries

About: MySQL Connector/ODBC is an ODBC driver for the MySQL database
server.

Changes: This release adds an option to work around server limitations in
returning function results as character data. Other minor bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[032] - phpMyAdmin 2.11.7.1
by phpMyAdmin Devel Team (http://freshmeat.net/users/phpmyadmin/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 20:36

Database :: Front-Ends
System :: Systems Administration

About: phpMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the administration of MySQL
over the Web. It can create, rename, and drop databases, create/drop/alter
tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on
fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data, and
administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[033] - phppython 0.1
by bvidinli (http://freshmeat.net/users/bvidinli/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 12:36

About: phppython is a PHP to Python code converter that currently can
convert small PHP code snippets and functions to Python code.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[034] - picurl 0.0.3
by Thomas Perl (http://freshmeat.net/users/thp/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 17:19

Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Multimedia :: Graphics

About: Picurl is a client for uploading, downloading, querying, and
sorting files on remote stores, like HTTP directory listings, HTML pages,
FTP servers, or Flickr photo albums. The focus of this project is making
tagging and dealing with metadata as easy as possible.

Changes: This version brings better tagging support, integration of exiv2
for advanced EXIF/IPTC tagging, an interactive picurl shell for managing
your stores, and implementations for placeholder thumbnails and RSS feeds.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[035] - pulse 2.0.8 (Beta)
by Jason Sankey (http://freshmeat.net/users/jsankey/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 09:22

Software Development
Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Quality Assurance

About: Pulse is an automated build (or continuous integration) server
designed to work with you to ensure the integrity of your code. Pulse
regularly checks your source code out from your SCM, builds your projects,
and notifies you of the results. Key features include simple setup and
administration using a full-featured Web UI, adapability to existing
environments, distributed building, personal builds (test using Pulse
before committing), and individual developer dashboards and notification
preferences.

Changes: This beta build includes automatic configuration backups, a
reworked browse UI, a new UI for database migration, improved APIs for
writing post-processor plugins, several bugfixes for personal and local
builds, and other minor bugfixes.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[036] - QMC2 0.2 beta 3
by Prian (http://freshmeat.net/users/prianthefist/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 20:44

System :: Emulators

About: M.A.M.E. Catalog / Launcher II (also referred to as QMC2) is the
successor of one of the first XMAME GUI frontends available, QMamecat
(derived from MAMECAT, which was text-only). QMC2 has been rebuilt from
scratch as a Qt 4 project. Parts of the design and code were inspired by
its predecessor. The new design was made as flexible as possible to
minimize dependencies from frontend- and CLI-related MAME changes, which
was a major deficiency of QMamecat. QMC2 uses a template-based MAME
configuration scheme, which can easily be enhanced with additional command
line options (defined in an XML template file).

Changes: Direct GUI control via digital and analog joysticks through SDL.
Optional use of OpenGL to draw images. Support for MAME's history.dat and
mameinfo.dat information databases. Full screen toggle for the main widget.
Style handling has been improved to allow for on-the-fly switching to the
system's default GUI style. Improved window flags to better handle
individual windows. Architecture-independant OS detection. Several widget
restoration bugs have been fixed, as well as a number of other/older bugs.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qmc2/

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[037] - Quick.Cart 3.1
by treewood (http://freshmeat.net/users/treewood/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 13:12

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Office/Business :: Financial

About: Quick.Cart is a small, simple, and multilingual shopping cart
script. It offers plenty of options. It is very easy to setup and install,
based on Flat Files, XHTML 1.1 compliant, WAI compliant, and very easy to
customize. It has good support via email and forums, a WYSIWYG editor, SEO
tools, no limits to products and pages depth, no limit to images per page,
and more.

Changes: New pages and product files list management, new "Display files
from server in form" and "Change files name to page and product name"
options in settings, the ability to add carriers to payment methods, a
htaccess file in "templates/" that disables viewing of template files for
security reasons, and a few small bugfixes. The tinyMCE editor was updated
to version 3.1.0.1.

License: Freeware

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

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[038] - rsyslog 3.19.10 (Beta)
by Rainer Gerhards (http://freshmeat.net/users/rgerhards/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 17:18

System :: Logging

About: Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd. Among others, it
offers support for on-demand disk buffering, reliable syslog over TCP, SSL,
TLS, and RELP, writing to databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and many
more), email alerting, 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 starts a new iteration of the beta branch, bringing
all the features of the previous development version to the beta. It
contains all features from 3.19.9 and a number of bugfixes. The most
important one is for a bad memory leak that occurred if queues were running
in one of the disk-queuing modes. Also, a number of cross-platform problems
on FreeBSD were sorted out. This is a suggested update for all beta branch
users.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[039] - Simple Stuff 0.1
by Vincenzo Vitale (http://freshmeat.net/users/vicio/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 17:32

Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: Simple Stuff includes utility classes for handling repetitive
common operations. It currently includes the SimpleBean utility, which
implements simple equals, hashCode, and toString replacements.

License: Common Public License

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

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[040] - SMI 0.9.9o
by Galawa (http://freshmeat.net/users/Galawa/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 17:13

Office/Business

About: SMI (Services Maintenance Interventions) is a complete free
solution to manage services and technical support to customers with
frontoffice and backoffice modules. It can manage contracts, asset
tracking, repair orders, working time, rentals, tasks, subcontractors, and
has many other functionalities.

Changes: Contracts and repairing reports can now be sent directly to
customers as PDF attachments. There are minor bug corrections.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[041] - Syntext Serna 3.8.0 RC2 (Serna2)
by Syntext Team (http://freshmeat.net/users/syntext/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 17:17

Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
Text Processing :: Markup :: XSL/XSLT

About: Syntext Serna is a highly customizable, multi-platform, pure
XSL-driven WYSIWYG XML content editor. It looks and works like a
conventional word processor, yet it gives you much more flexibility to
alter or reuse content while keeping its integrity intact. It lets you
collaborate on compound documents that contain embedded data from various
sources. Content is viewed as an integrated whole that is intuitively
transparent to authors.

Changes: This version fixes problems with WebDAV locking in case of an
incorrect response from a WebDAV server.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[042] - TCExam 5.4.002
by Nicola Asuni (http://freshmeat.net/users/nicolaasuni/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 17:12

Education :: Testing

About: TCExam is Web-based assessment software for generating and managing
online tests and exams. It simplifies the exam cycle, including generation,
execution, evaluation, presentation, and archiving.

Changes: This version contains a German language translation and minor
bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[043] - Typos 1.0
by Daniel Calvi (http://freshmeat.net/users/doublebee/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 17:32

About: The Typos class can be used to generate variants of words based on
common typing errors. It takes a given word and generates variants of that
word by replacing its letters with others that are usually near the letter
position on a QWERTY keyboard. The class returns an array with all of the
generated word variants.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[044] - UNFS3 0.9.21
by Pascal Schmidt (http://freshmeat.net/users/cobol/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 17:33

Communications :: File Sharing
System :: Networking

About: UNFS3 is a user-space implementation of the NFSv3 server
specification. It is designed to be portable to different operating
systems, with built-in Linux and Solaris support.

Changes: This release fixes a problem where a Solaris client was unable to
remove a directory with rm -r if the directory was sufficiently full and
READDIR and REMOVE operations were run concurrently.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/unfs3/

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[045] - Word War vi 0.19
by Stephen Cameron (http://freshmeat.net/users/StephenCameron/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 17:12

Games/Entertainment :: Arcade

About: Word War vi is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up '80s style arcade
game. You pilot your "vi"per craft through core memory, rescuing lost .swp
files, avoiding OS defenses, and wiping out those memory hogging emacs
processes. When all the lost .swp files are rescued, head for the socket
which will take you to the next node in the cluster.

Changes: Improved collision detection. It is easier to enter the "socket"
at the end of each level. A less annoying missile alarm sound is used.
Missiles turn a bit more realistically. Shorts are used instead of ints in
point structure for a very slight increase in performance. Now high scores
are saved in ~/.wordwarvi/.highscores.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[046] - Yzis 1.0-alpha1
by Thomas Capricelli (http://freshmeat.net/users/orzel/)
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 20:45

Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Text Editors

About: Yzis is a vim-like editor that holds all core functionality inside
a C++ library, which does most of the "editing" stuff. Various interfaces
(including ncurses and KDE) use this library to provide a nice interface
to users.

Changes: Mostly rewritten.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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