Newsletter for Saturday, July 19th 2008

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (20) :::

[001] - AsmLib 0.9.50
[002] - AsmLibx 0.9.46
[003] - awesome-status 1.3
[004] - Brasero 0.8.0
[005] - C++Test 1.1.0 (Stable)
[006] - Cacheboy Squid 1.4.PRE1
[007] - Collaber 1.1.23 Beta
[008] - diggZ-Et 1.1.4
[009] - Font Industry 0.0.8
[010] - gumnut 0.1.9
[011] - JamochaMUD 3.2
[012] - keyTouch 2.4.1
[013] - LinuxBIOS 2-3427
[014] - OpenLDAP 2.3.43 (LDAPv3)
[015] - RDV 1.9
[016] - transtoba2 0.17
[017] - webcheck 1.10.3
[018] - Webconverger 3.2
[019] - xhelper 0.9.06
[020] - xorriso 0.2.2

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[001] - AsmLib 0.9.50
by Jeff Owens (http://freshmeat.net/users/rabidrecluse/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 23:36

About: AsmLib is a library written in assembler for the Linux terminal or
console. It has functions for a wide range of topics, includeing string,
psuedo ttys, disassembly, conversion, ptrace, memory management, and
windows.

Changes: This is a minor feature enhancement and bugfix release. A
possible segfault was isolated in the memory manager and was fixed. Some
documentation was improved, and a few functions were added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[002] - AsmLibx 0.9.46
by Jeff Owens (http://freshmeat.net/users/rabidrecluse/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 23:34

About: AsmLibx is an X server library. It talks directly to the X server
and is small and fast. It can be used in place of xlib for applications
that need a few basic functions. It is written in assembly and is easy to
use.

Changes: This is a major upgrade to support the xhelper project and fix
outstanding bugs. Several functions were added to communicate with window
managers.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[003] - awesome-status 1.3
by Zsolt Udvari (http://freshmeat.net/users/uzsolt/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 23:13

Desktop Environment
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
System :: Monitoring

About: awesome-status populates the awesome window manager's widgets. It
features CPU usage, date/time, lm_sensors (CPU temperature, fan RPMs,
etc.), memory/swap information, mpd information, network download/upload,
sound card information (volume and outgoing level), and uptime information.
An example commented configuration file is included.

Changes: A simple (postfix) calculator was added. An automatically
generated skeleton-config was added. It's possible to run an external
program and read its stdout and use it.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/awesome-status/

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[004] - Brasero 0.8.0
by Luis Medinas (http://freshmeat.net/users/metalgod/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 22:45

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Writing

About: Brasero (formerly known as Bonfire) is a application to burn CDs
and DVDs for the GNOME desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible,
and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily
and quickly.

Changes: The brasero.desktop file now follows the freedesktop standard.
CD/DVD drives can now be found properly on Solaris. A build failure against
the GTK+ trunk was fixed. Brasero no longer crashes with the libburn
backend. Files from FAT32 partitions can now be added correctly. Failure to
display drive speed was fixed. The toc image type is now autodetected
correctly.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - C++Test 1.1.0 (Stable)
by Sebastian Pipping (http://freshmeat.net/users/dllmain/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 23:11

Software Development :: Testing

About: C++Test is a portable and powerful, yet simple, unit testing
framework for handling automated tests in C++. The focus lies on usability
and extendability. Several output formats are supported and new ones are
easily added.

Changes: This release comes with several bugfixes and an improved HTML
output module which now produces XHTML 1.0 Strict.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[006] - Cacheboy Squid 1.4.PRE1
by adrian chadd (http://freshmeat.net/users/adrianchadd/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 23:31

About: Cacheboy Squid is a Squid-2 deriative that aims to build on top of
the Squid-2 codebase stability. The primary short-term aims of this
codebase are a cleaner, better organised codebase, HTTP/1.1 support,
compression support, IPv6 support, better storage, and initial threading
support for certain subsystems.

Changes: Much code reorganization was done in preparation for larger
changes. Better looking error pages were implemented. The async storage
defaults are more sensible for FreeBSD and Solaris. aufs should now perform
as well as diskd. An example "tcp proxy" was added, which demonstrates the
code reuse available with the current work.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[007] - Collaber 1.1.23 Beta
by Rajesh Akkineni (http://freshmeat.net/users/netforay/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 22:53

Communications :: File Sharing
Information Management
Office/Business :: Groupware

About: Collaber provides a virtual office environment for your team to
share files, events, and tasks, manage projects, and get the work done as
if they are all located in the same location, no matter where the members
are physically located. It keeps your data safe and secure.

Changes: Collaber now uses Eclipse 3.4. XULRunner 1.8.13 is included.
Collaber no longer depends on any platform specific browser. The HTML
Editor component used for Chat, Message, Discussion, Notepad, Wiki, et
cetera is much improved now. The default font size was increased on all
platforms. Many bugs were fixed in all tools. Startup speed was improved by
lazy loading of data. The speed of uploading and downloading was improved.
The IM window was improved with status and history features. All IM
conversations are now stored.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[008] - diggZ-Et 1.1.4
by Gorkfu (http://freshmeat.net/users/Gorkfu/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 23:00

About: diggZ-Et is a WordPress plugin for displaying Digg It buttons. Its
admin settings allow you to customize everything including the skin type.

Changes: Two major bugs were fixed. The admin panel was cleaned up for
organization and better visual appeal.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/diggz-et/

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[009] - Font Industry 0.0.8
by hashao (http://freshmeat.net/users/hashao2/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 22:59

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors
Text Processing :: Fonts

About: Font Industry (&#23383;&#20307;&#24037;&#19994;) makes big charset
font creation easier. The program converts a scanned in grid sheet,
containing a lot of glyphs, into a bitmap font. The glyphs will be
automatically indexed by Unicode or with a user-selected charset order. The
bitmap font can then be converted to an outline font like TTF or OpenType
font.

Changes: Invalid encoding for Unicode is handled. Conversion to UTF-8 is
done before saving the pathname for non-latin1 pathnames. A mouse problem
for large images was fixed. Both RGB (JPEG) and RGBA images are handled. A
font is generated using the UnicodeFull? encoding. A function to set a
Unicode glyph from a piece of a string was added. A menuitem was added to
clear the charcode for all the glyphs. A new application icon was created.
RPM and deb package files were added (but might be buggy). Some setup.py
problems were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[010] - gumnut 0.1.9
by fooscope (http://freshmeat.net/users/fooscope/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 23:05

Communications

About: gumnut is a program to aid a group of people to perform cooperative
decentralized decision making. The text or GUI client can create, moderate,
and display proposals over a decentralized communication network (currently
gnutella). Proposals are text files with a simple naming convention that
uses the filename to describe field attributes (such as topic and
geographical location). Popular proposals are found by searching on one or
more of these fields and then calculating the support for each proposal
based on the number of occurrences on the network.

Changes: Search result rows are colored for easier reading. A dropdown box
was added to search for the last query again. Minor GUI fixups and
additions were made to the options page. Code cleanup was done.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[011] - JamochaMUD 3.2
by Jeff Robinson (http://freshmeat.net/users/Kfox/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 23:18

Games/Entertainment :: Multi-User Dungeons (MUD)

About: JamochaMUD offers Unicode, plug-in, and multi-language support (8
different languages) to allow a more enjoyable MUCKing/MUDding experience.
It features command history, synchronized window controls, experimental
SOCKS 5 support, and greatly improved ANSI colour support. It plays nice on
Unix systems, supports a wide range of MU*s, and also includes emulation of
some TinyFugue editor controls. JamochaMUD includes classes that may be
easily reused in other Java applications.

Changes: This release of JamochaMUD fixes a major issue with the use of
the "Connect" button when creating a new connection. JamochaMUD also now
gives a more user-friendly message when attempting to connect to an SSL
connection using a plain-text socket. The /puppet command has been enhanced
so that output may be properly routed to separate windows. Some additional
on-screen help has been added for setting and removing of variables and
definitions.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[012] - keyTouch 2.4.1
by MarvinR (http://freshmeat.net/users/marvinr/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 23:41

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: keytouchd now detects if KDE or GNOME is running. It does so by
checking if there is a process "kdesktop" or "gnome-session". If there is
such a process, keytouchd will use the values of all environment variables
for its own environment variables. As a result, the applications launched
by keytouchd will appear on the XGL display if XGL is running and GTK
applications will use the theme as set by KDE when running KDE.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - LinuxBIOS 2-3427
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 23:09

System :: Boot

About: Coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a project that aims to
replace the normal BIOS with a little bit of hardware initialization and a
payload. Payloads can include a compressed Linux kernel, FILO, GRUB2,
OpenBIOS, Open Firmware, SmartFirmware, GNUFI (UEFI), Etherboot, ADLO (for
booting Windows and OpenBSD), Plan 9, or memtest86.

Changes: PCI IDs were added for EPIA-CN. Support was added for flashing
the system with Nvidia MCP67. Support for the AMIC A29002 was added.
Trivial SPI cleanups were done. A coreinfo module was added, which can
hexdump arbitrary RAM regions. The coreboot image detection heuristic,
compilation on NetBSD, and USB port4 setup were fixed. Fam10 Gart table
walk enable was added. Assorted code cleanups and style fixes were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - OpenLDAP 2.3.43 (LDAPv3)
by Howard Chu (http://freshmeat.net/users/highlandsun/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 22:41

Database
Internet
Software Development :: Libraries

About: The OpenLDAP Project is a collaborative effort to provide a robust,
commercial-grade, fully featured, open source LDAP software suite. The
project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the
Internet to communicate, plan, and develop OpenLDAP Software and its
related documentation. OpenLDAP Software provides a complete LDAP
implementation including server, clients, C SDK, and associated tools.

Changes: A potential denial-of-service in the liblber packet decoder was
fixed. A few other minor bugs were fixed.

License: OSI Approved

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

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[015] - RDV 1.9
by Jason P. Hanley (http://freshmeat.net/users/paltasoftware/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 22:45

Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

About: RDV is a visualization environment for scientific and engineering
data. Built on top of the Data Turbine dynamic data server, it supports
local and remote data sources and can visualize numeric, video, image, and
audio data in a number of different ways.

Changes: This release contains significant new features for viewing images
and video, a new dial visualization, and support for exporting MATLAB
files. A number of smaller improvements for plotting have been added, in
addition to a few bugfixes.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[016] - transtoba2 0.17
by Leander Seige (http://freshmeat.net/users/maxleo/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 22:55

Text Processing :: Linguistic

About: transtoba2 facilitates the transliteration or transcription of a
word or text from the Roman script into the Toba Batak script.
Transliterating from the Roman into the Batak script is not an easy
undertaking, as the Batak script has a number of peculiarities that
complicates the process of transliteration. This program uses a set of
algorithms which enables the user to effortlessly transliterate from the
Roman to the Toba Batak script.

Changes: The GUI was improved and beautified and one performance relevant
bug was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/transtoba2/

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[017] - webcheck 1.10.3
by Arthur (http://freshmeat.net/users/tiearthur/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 23:11

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management :: Link Checking

About: webcheck is a Web site checking tool for Web masters. It crawls a
given Web site and generates a number of reports. The whole system is
pluggable, allowing extra reports and checks to be added easily. It
supports retrieving Web sites over HTTP, file, and FTP protocols and
produces reports on site structure, broken links, old Web pages, overviews
of external links, and more. The links that webcheck considers external are
configurable through regular expressions, and webcheck honors robots.txt.

Changes: This release adds fixes for a number of small problems in the
1.10.2 release. It also adds parsing of the iframe and script tags and
style attributes. It also implements calling tidy when it is available on
the system.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webcheck.py/

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[018] - Webconverger 3.2
by hendry (http://freshmeat.net/users/hendry/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 22:40

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Office/Business

About: Webconverger is a Web kiosk Linux distribution. It is designed to
get on the Web easily, with security and privacy.

Changes: The kioskresetstation= boot option was fixed, which broke in 3.x
from 2.x. The Iceweasel browser packages were updated. The video drivers
were unstripped to improve compatibility on older video cards.

License: DFSG approved

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

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[019] - xhelper 0.9.06
by Jeff Owens (http://freshmeat.net/users/rabidrecluse/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 23:34

Desktop Environment
Desktop Environment :: Tools
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers

About: xhelper is a tool to automate and control the desktop. It can
resize windows, move windows, feed keystrokes to windows, run programs, and
automate a group of programs.

Changes: This release adds mouse controls, a window save option, and a
simple library capability. A few bugs were fixed and more sample scripts
were added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[020] - xorriso 0.2.2
by scdbackup (http://freshmeat.net/users/scdbackup/)
Sat, Jul 19th 2008 23:02

System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Filesystems

About: xorriso creates, loads, manipulates, and writes ISO 9660 filesystem
images with Rock Ridge extensions. It can load the management information
of existing ISO images, and it writes the session results to optical media
or to filesystem objects. This is the standalone version that incorporates
the libraries of libburnia-project.org and thus depends only on Linux 2.4
(or later), libc, and libpthread. No separate mkisofs and no CD/DVD burn
program are needed.

Changes: The emulations of mkisofs and cdrecord are now capable of
multi-session writing. Alias links get installed, which trigger emulations
via their command names. By setting the MKISOFS environment variable to
"xorrisofs", it is possible to use xorriso as replacement for mkisofs
underneath growisofs.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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