Newsletter for Friday, August 15th 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (55) :::
[001] - Anyterm 1.1.25 (Development)
[002] - aria2 0.15.2
[003] - Auto Project Planner 2.3 (APP.NET)
[004] - awesome 3.0-rc3 (3.x)
[005] - Blitz templates for PHP 0.6.2
[006] - Brain Workshop 2.7
[007] - Brain Workshop 3.0
[008] - commonc++ 0.5
[009] - Dejitun 0.15
[010] - dlib C++ Library 17.8
[011] - DN-Gallery 1.0.0
[012] - DoCASU 1.3
[013] - Docx to Text 0.2
[014] - DRBPoll 1.5
[015] - FFMQ 1.1.0
[016] - FireflySEO HTTP Viewer 1.0
[017] - Gambas 2.8.0 (2.x)
[018] - Gecko Media Player 0.7.0
[019] - GNOME Mplayer 0.7.0
[020] - GNU PSPP 0.6.0
[021] - GtkSpell 2.0.14
[022] - Horde Groupware 1.1.2
[023] - Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 1.1.2
[024] - Interleave 5.0 20080815
[025] - iptables Netflow module 1.1
[026] - jonpy 0.07
[027] - jurpopage 0.1.0
[028] - libpng 1.2.30
[029] - Magic Assistant 1.0.2.12
[030] - Mercurial 1.0.2
[031] - microQuestMaker64 0.1.5.3
[032] - mnkPasswordKeeper 1.1.0
[033] - mod_spin 1.1.8
[034] - MPlayer Tools 6.0.20080815
[035] - OpenSCDP 3.6.474
[036] - peekabot 0.5.2
[037] - PhpCalendar 0.2.0
[038] - process-getopt 1.0
[039] - pulse 2.0.11 (Beta)
[040] - RapidMiner (YALE) 4.2
[041] - Reverse Snowflake Joins 0.07
[042] - SAOImage DS9 5.3beta
[043] - Seismic Unix 4.1
[044] - SHOGUN 0.6.4
[045] - Simple Groupware 0.420
[046] - spamdyke 4.0.3
[047] - spin_auth 1.1.6
[048] - spin_feedback 1.1.6
[049] - TAU 2.17.2
[050] - TOMOYO Linux 1.6.3
[051] - WebIssues 0.9.3-beta1 (Client)
[052] - Wiaflos Accounting 0.0.12
[053] - WordPress Release 2.6.1
[054] - xclip 0.11
[055] - xine xine-lib 1.1.15
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[001] - Anyterm 1.1.25 (Development)
by Phil Endecott (http://freshmeat.net/users/endecotp/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:29
Communications :: WAP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals
About: Anyterm provides a terminal emulator on a Web page using Javascript
and an Apache module. The module forks a shell and communicates with the
script using XMLHTTP on port 80, or securely using SSL. This provides you
with shell access to your machine from almost any Web browser, even when
firewalls are in the way. Experimental features include support for
standalone operation without Apache, and the my.anyterm.org service
provides access without the need to install anything on your servers.
Changes: You can now specify a URL to which the browser will be redirected
once the terminal is closed. Copying to the clipboard should now work on
Mozilla-based browsers, if the appropriate security settings are in force.
Delete and backspace should now behave as expected in more programs. An
untested change may make keyboard input work on Safari again.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/anyterm/
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[002] - aria2 0.15.2
by SlotGazer (http://freshmeat.net/users/slotgazer/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:28
Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: aria2 is a utility for downloading files. The supported protocols
are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink. It has a powerful segmented
downloading ability, downloading a file from multiple sources and multiple
protocols and utilizing your download bandwidth to the maximum. It supports
downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP and BitTorrent at the same time, while
the data downloaded from HTTP(S)/FTP is uploaded to the BitTorrent swarm.
Using Metalink's chunk checksums, aria2 automatically validates chunks of
data while downloading a file like BitTorrent.
Changes: This release fixes a memory leak and an occasional assertion
failure bug. Danish and Greek translations were added. Catalan, Norwegian
Nynorsk, and Spanish translations were updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aria2/
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[003] - Auto Project Planner 2.3 (APP.NET)
by Dietmar Schinnerl (http://freshmeat.net/users/dondidi/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:31
Desktop Environment :: Tools
Office/Business
Office/Business :: CRM
About: Auto Project Planner automatically calculates a proper project plan
based on your effort estimations and the due dates you have in mind. A list
of tasks and a list of employees can be defined. Tasks can be assigned to
one or more employees. It is also possible to define a maximum percentage
value an employee can/should work on a task. Public holidays, leaves,
weekly working hours, and more parameters can be specified and are
considered in the calculation. According to this input, the software
computes time plans by minimizing the MSE (mean squared error) between
expected and computed end dates.
Changes: It is possible to arrange tasks and workers. The drag and drop
problem is fixed and the GUI has been reworked.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/project-planner/
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[004] - awesome 3.0-rc3 (3.x)
by Julien Danjou (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdanjou/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 13:03
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
About: awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window
manager for X. It is very fast, light, and extensible. It is primarily
targeted at the power user, developer, and anyone dealing with everyday
computing tasks who wants to have fine-grained control over a graphical
environment.
Changes: This release fixes the systray widget to work with KDE apps and
makes Zaphod mode work again. It adds a history for the prompt.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/awesome/
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[005] - Blitz templates for PHP 0.6.2
by Alexey Rybak (http://freshmeat.net/users/alexeyrybak/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 13:03
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: Blitz templates is a fast PHP template engine written in C and
compiled as a PHP extension. It started as a php_templates replacement, but
developed into much more. It is based on extensible template controllers
(custom view classes in PHP) and weakly-active templates (simple logic in
HTML). Benchmarks show that it is one of the fastest template engines for
PHP, even though it's not trivial and makes Web application closer to a
smart MVC-like architecture model with maximal separation of HTML from your
code. It was designed for big high-load Internet projects with a lot of
complex presentation logic.
Changes: Path-variables ($object.property.something and
$hash.key.something) in IF/UNLESS multi-line blocks have been fixed. Minor
win32-compilation fixes have been made.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/blitz-templates/
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[006] - Brain Workshop 2.7
by radix (http://freshmeat.net/users/radix42/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 13:04
Education
Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Games/Entertainment
About: Brain Workshop is an implementation of the Dual N-Back mental
exercise. This exercise is the only mental activity that is scientifically
proven to improve your short-term memory and fluid intelligence (IQ). The
game involves remembering a sequence of spoken letters and a sequence of
positions of a square at the same time. Brain Workshop includes an optional
Triple N-Back mode that introduces differently colored squares as a third
stimulus.
Changes: This release adds one new music clip, displays an encouraging
message if you get below 40%, and adds a workaround for the OpenGL
MissingFunctionException which occurs on certain video cards.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/brainworkshop/
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[007] - Brain Workshop 3.0
by radix (http://freshmeat.net/users/radix42/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 23:58
Education
Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Games/Entertainment
About: Brain Workshop is an implementation of the Dual N-Back mental
exercise. This exercise is the only mental activity that is scientifically
proven to improve your short-term memory and fluid intelligence (IQ). The
game involves remembering a sequence of spoken letters and a sequence of
positions of a square at the same time. Brain Workshop includes an optional
Triple N-Back mode that introduces differently colored squares as a third
stimulus.
Changes: Three consecutive scores of >=80% are now required to advance
levels. A 100% score will advance levels instantly. The history chart has a
new look. This release reduces CPU usage on OS X and disables Vsync to
eliminate an error message on certain machines. New columns have been added
to the stats file.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/brainworkshop/
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[008] - commonc++ 0.5
by Mark Lindner (http://freshmeat.net/users/mesmerism/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 20:49
Software Development :: Libraries
About: commonc++ is a C++ class library for developing cross-platform
systems software for POSIX and Windows systems. It provides an intuitive,
object-oriented abstraction and portability layer around common operating
system facilities like threads, concurrency mechanisms, sockets,
networking, shared memory and other IPC mechanisms, regular expressions,
files, streams, logging, process execution, scheduling, and more. It also
includes a collection of common abstractions like strings, buffers, and
object pools.
Changes: This release adds wide (Unicode) strings, UUID generation,
parsing of dates and times, and ANSI color-coding support in console log
messages on Windows. It includes a number of important bug and portability
fixes and various other enhancements.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/commoncpp/
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[009] - Dejitun 0.15
by Marvin (http://freshmeat.net/users/marvin123/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 20:55
Internet
System :: Networking
About: Dejitun creates a jitter (variance in round-trip time) removing
tunnel between hosts to remove the jitter that normally destroys TCP
performance. An example of high-jitter connections is mobile Internet such
as 3G and GPRS.
Changes: This release will actually use port parameters from the command
line. It has support for adding simulated jitter. It compiles on Solaris.
The meaning of the -f switch has been inverted (it now runs in the
foreground).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dejitun/
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[010] - dlib C++ Library 17.8
by Davis King (http://freshmeat.net/users/davis685/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 12:55
Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Software Development :: Libraries
About: dlib C++ library is a modern general C++ library with a focus on
portability and program correctness. It comes with extensive documentation
and thorough debugging modes. The library provides a platform abstraction
layer for common tasks such as interfacing with network services, handling
threads, and creating graphical user interfaces. Additionally, the library
implements many useful algorithms such as data compression routines, linked
lists, binary search trees, linear algebra and matrix utilities, machine
learning algorithms, XML and general text parsing, and many other general
utilities.
Changes: This release adds relevance vector machines for solving
regression and classification problems.
License: Freely Distributable
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dclib/
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[011] - DN-Gallery 1.0.0
by ad@m (http://freshmeat.net/users/displacesux/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 20:53
Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
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.
Changes: This release has CAPTCHA verification, user comments, and user
registration, including username and password reset.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dn-gallery/
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[012] - DoCASU 1.3
by Yann Duponchel (http://freshmeat.net/users/duponchel/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:34
Information Management :: Document Repositories
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Office/Business
About: DoCASU is a Rich Internet Application (RIA) for the Alfresco
Enterprise Content Management platform. With DoCASU, Alfresco users have a
simplified and easy to use solution solution to access, search, and manage
documents. DoCASU is based on Alfresco Web Scripts and Ext JS, and
showcases what can be done with state-of-the-art frontend components. It
can easily be extended and adapted to meet specific needs.
Changes: This release has support for Alfresco Lab 3, many usability
enhancements, and many bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/docasu/
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[013] - Docx to Text 0.2
by Sandeep Kumar (http://freshmeat.net/users/idiotkid/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 23:48
Text Editors :: Word Processors
Text Processing :: General
About: The Docx to Text project aims at generating equivalent text files
from Microsoft .docx document files, preserving as much formatting and
document information as possible along with appropriate character
conversions for a good text experience.
Changes: Docx text extraction can now be done in two ways (check the
version README for further details): "docx2txt.sh file.docx", or
"docx2txt.pl infile.docx outfile.txt".
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/docx2txt/
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[014] - DRBPoll 1.5
by Don (http://freshmeat.net/users/drb072378/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 02:36
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: DRBPoll is a simple PHP poll script that doesn't require a
database. It allows you to put a poll form on virtually any page on your
Web site. The results page displays a colored bar graph of the votes. The
look and feel of the poll form and results page can be customized using a
standard CSS file. Data is stored in flat files, so no database is
required.
Changes: This version adds an option to hide the vote counts.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/drbpoll/
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[015] - FFMQ 1.1.0
by TimeWalker (http://freshmeat.net/users/timewalker74/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 06:50
Communications
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Software Development :: Object Brokering
About: FFMQ is a fully Java, lightweight, fast native JMS 1.1
implementation. From the conception stage, emphasis was made on
architecture and performance. As a consequence, extra features were not a
priority and may appear scarce compared to other available implementations.
Changes: Destinations can now be looked up in JNDI. Queue browsers are now
implemented. Spring integration is supported. Some important fixes were
made.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ffmq/
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[016] - FireflySEO HTTP Viewer 1.0
by FireflySEO (http://freshmeat.net/users/fireflyseo/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 20:44
About: FireflySEO HTTP Viewer is an HTTP Header analyzer. It parses URI
request header responses into an easy to read HTML format. It handles
special characters and allows the user to spoof user agents.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/seo-http-viewer/
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[017] - Gambas 2.8.0 (2.x)
by gambas (http://freshmeat.net/users/gambas/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:27
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic
interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use
any other toolkit that a module is written for.
Changes: This release compiles correctly with gcc 4.3. When displaying a
method signature, the current argument is underlined. IDE shortcuts of
different menus should not interfere anymore. The GTK+ component can deal
with font underline and strikeout in many places. The Qt component tray
icons are now visible inside Gnome or XFCE.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gambas/
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[018] - Gecko Media Player 0.7.0
by Kevin DeKorte (http://freshmeat.net/users/kdekorte/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 20:51
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Video :: Display
About: Gecko Media Player is a browser plugin that uses GNOME MPlayer to
play media in a browser. It should work with all browsers on Unix-ish
systems (Linux, BSD, and Solaris) that use the NS4 API (Mozilla, Firefox,
Opera, etc.).
Changes: Less CPU usage while caching, build fixes, and support for the
audio MP4 MIME type.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gecko-mediaplayer/
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[019] - GNOME Mplayer 0.7.0
by Kevin DeKorte (http://freshmeat.net/users/kdekorte/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 20:52
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Video :: Display
About: GNOME Mplayer is a simple GUI for Mplayer that tries to follow the
GNOME HIG. It is tightly integrated with gecko-mediaplayer
Changes: Several new features including DVD playing from local folders,
getting the default volume from ALSA when ALSA support is complied in, and
several GUI updates.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnome-mplayer/
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[020] - GNU PSPP 0.6.0
by Crownail (http://freshmeat.net/users/crnagle/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 02:32
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: PSPP is a free version of SPSS, a proprietary program. It performs
statistical analysis of sampled data. It is multi-platform and comes with
GUI and command line interfaces.
Changes: This release has a graphical interface that allows you to enter
data and variable definitions interactively. Commands may be executed in
syntax form, or by using the interactive dialog boxes. REGRESSION is a new
procedure for fitting linear models to data. NPAR TESTS is a new procedure
for non-parametric tests. It supports binomial and chi-square tests. RANK
is a new procedure to rank variables. It supports numerous forms of
ranking. FREQUENCIES can now output histograms and pie charts.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnupspp/
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[021] - GtkSpell 2.0.14
by Eduardo Pérez Ureta (http://freshmeat.net/users/edpeur/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 20:53
Software Development :: Libraries
About: GtkSpell provides word-processor-style highlighting and replacement
of misspelled words in a GtkTextView widget.
Changes: Patches have been applied, and there is one new translation.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtkspell/
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[022] - Horde Groupware 1.1.2
by Jan Schneider (http://freshmeat.net/users/Yunosh/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 23:41
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: Update functionality has been added to the setup script.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/horde-groupware/
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[023] - Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 1.1.2
by Jan Schneider (http://freshmeat.net/users/Yunosh/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 23:49
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: Update functionality has been added to the setup script. The
address book with favorite recipients has been activated. Sending messages
while using the SQL token driver has been fixed.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/horde-webmail/
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[024] - Interleave 5.0 20080815
by Hidde (http://freshmeat.net/users/hidde/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 23:51
Information Management :: Document Repositories
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Information Management :: Workflow Frameworks
About: CRM-CTT Interleave allows you to create entities (tickets) to which
you can attach files, place alerts, prioritize, etc. It is multi-lingual
and customizable. It can be used for any department in which something
comes in, must be handled, and goes out, such as bug tracking, systems
management (including assets), helpdesk call tracking, and even as a CMS to
host your complete Web site. It creates management information and exports
in PDF and Excel, and reports and invoices in RTF format.
Changes: This release introduces a whole set of new tools to use the
application better and faster. FlexTables are also introduced. With
FlexTables, you can create your own tables and refer to and from them.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/interleave/
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[025] - iptables Netflow module 1.1
by ABC (http://freshmeat.net/users/aabc/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 20:42
Internet
System :: Networking
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: iptables Netflow modules is a very fast and effective Netflow
exporting module for the Linux kernel. It is designed for Linux routers
with heavy network load.s It is based on iptables, but does not use
conntrack for performance reasons.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ipt-netflow/
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[026] - jonpy 0.07
by Jon Ribbens (http://freshmeat.net/users/jribbens/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:32
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
About: jonpy is a set of Python modules which provide simple and powerful
multi-threaded, object-oriented facilities for CGI, FastCGI, mod_python,
and HTML-templating.
Changes: Unicode support. Support for gzip-encoded output. Minor
functionality improvements and bugfixes. Improved documentation.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jonpy/
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[027] - jurpopage 0.1.0
by softwhole (http://freshmeat.net/users/softwhole/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 12:59
Artistic Software
Database
Internet
About: Jurpopage is a dynamic Web site scripting project. The project's
goal is to help others to create their own Web sites with a design that can
be easily changed.
Changes: This release adds a tinymce version update (3_1_0_1).
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jurpopage/
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[028] - libpng 1.2.30
by Glenn Randers-Pehrson (http://freshmeat.net/users/glennrp/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:26
Software Development :: Libraries
About: libpng (PNG library) is a collection of routines used to create
and manipulate PNG format graphics files. The PNG format was designed as a
replacement for GIF and, to a lesser extent, TIFF, with many improvements
and extensions.
Changes: There are many cosmetic changes from 1.2.29, and a potential DoS
due to memory leaking on read error is fixed. Reading and writing of chunk
length and chunk type are combined into a single I/O operation.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libpng/
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[029] - Magic Assistant 1.0.2.12
by Alena (http://freshmeat.net/users/laskava/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 12:53
Games/Entertainment
About: Magic Assistant is a multi-platform Eclipse application for
managing "Magic: The Gathering" cards. It currently includes a card browser
with advanced sorting and filtering, as well as library and deck
organizers. It comes with a default MTG card database and allows custom
updates.
Changes: This release includes an updated MTG cards database which
includes cards from latest "Eventide" set, as well as some minor bugfixes
and usability enhancements, such as icons for decks, deck removal
confirmation, and card image caching.
License: Eclipse Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mtgbrowser/
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[030] - Mercurial 1.0.2
by Martin Geisler (http://freshmeat.net/users/mgeisler/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:35
Software Development :: Version Control
About: Mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system
designed for the efficient handling of very large distributed projects.
Changes: Two security issues were fixed: git patches could touch files
outside the repository (CVE-2008-2942) and the "allowpull" permission was
ignored by hgweb. Python 2.3 compatibility has been fixed. Copies of
previously deleted files are now handled correctly when committing. MQ
patches and .hgtags were made hard-link safe again. The convert extension
has been updated to work with Subversion 1.5 and git 1.5.6.5. There are
various documentation fixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mercurial/
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[031] - microQuestMaker64 0.1.5.3
by lodger (http://freshmeat.net/users/lodger/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:18
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
About: microQuestMaker64 is a native Commodore 64 application that makes
it easy to design small text adventure games in the tradition of "Zork" or
the legendary "Cave" adventure. It will run in an emulator as well as on
native C64 hardware. At the moment, it supports up to 100 rooms and 30
objects within a single game. Although the program is still incomplete and
under development, you can already edit rooms, define objects, and test-run
your game. Game data is stored in the Commodore "REL" file format, allowing
random access of records.
Changes: Extended object attributes: an object can now be defined as a
"container" (e.g. a box), so other objects can be placed in it. There are
four new commands (open, close, lock, and unlock) that can be used with the
new "container object" attribute. The drop/put command has been extended
for use with container objects, so you can now type "put x into y". An
object can be defined to act as a key in order to lock/unlock a container
object. You can specify a drive number for each game data file.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/microquestmaker64/
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[032] - mnkPasswordKeeper 1.1.0
by mycroft (http://freshmeat.net/users/pmarie/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:32
Security :: Cryptography
About: mnkPasswordKeeper is a simple password manager. The goal of this
project is to permit the saving of passwords/notes on a USB key and be able
to use the software on many platforms. It uses the Qt framework for GUI and
XML reading. It uses Camellia from NTT as cipher. It has been run
successfully on MS Windows, GNU/Linux, and Mac OS X.
Changes: Design changes, a new file format, French locale support, and a
new UUID generation function.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mnkpk/
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[033] - mod_spin 1.1.8
by bojan (http://freshmeat.net/users/bojans/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 06:56
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: mod_spin is an Apache module that provides a simple template
language with data replacement capabilities, persistent application and
session tracking, database connection pooling, dynamic linking of
applications into Apache as shared libraries, parameters, cookies, and
multipart/form data parsing, and a simple API for MVC controller
functionality.
Changes: This version marks major changes in the data API. Data is now an
opaque type and all access to it is through functions. Many functions
changed their names, some were deleted, some added, etc. APR-util resource
lists are now used to manage database connections. References with fixed
indexes were introduced.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mod_spin/
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[034] - MPlayer Tools 6.0.20080815
by Soos Gergely (http://freshmeat.net/users/soger/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 12:56
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Video :: Capture
Multimedia :: Video :: Display
About: mplayer-tools is a collection of CLI tools for MPlayer users. You
can record and timeshift easily from your TV tuner. It also remembers
movies and positions, so you can resume a movie with a short command. It
has support for movie series and many more features.
Changes: With this major update, mcatcher is not compatible with the
previous release.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mplayer-tools/
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[035] - OpenSCDP 3.6.474
by Andreas Schwier (http://freshmeat.net/users/aschwier/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:25
Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Testing
About: OpenSCDP is a collection of smart card application development and
testing tools using JavaScript based on Global Platform scripting and
profiles technology.
Changes: Support for AES and ECC on F2M curves has been added. The code
has been split into a core library and the shell itself. Based on the core
library, a new sub-project "Smart Card Scripting Environment for Eclipse"
has been started to provide a development environment for Smart Card Shell
scripts. Many bugs have been fixed, and the documentation has been
improved. Application scripts have been moved to a separate package and are
no longer bundled with the shell.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openscdp/
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[036] - peekabot 0.5.2
by Staffan Gimåker (http://freshmeat.net/users/gimaker/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 12:53
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: peekabot is a versatile 3D visualization tool targeted at robotics
researchers and developers. It's multi-platform, general purpose, easily
extendable, scalable, and does not depend on any other frameworks to
function. It also provides some functionality for interacting with your
robots using the GUI. You can test your algorithms in both simulated and
real environments. The only requirement is that the device can use TCP/IP.
Changes: This is a bugfix-only release that mainly fixes issues relating
to building and running peekabot on MacOS X.
License: Boost Software License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/peekabot/
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[037] - PhpCalendar 0.2.0
by ad@m (http://freshmeat.net/users/displacesux/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 20:54
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
Software Development :: Widget Sets
About: PhpCalendar is a PHP library to present a calendar which you can
simply use to link to URLs that depend on which date a user clicked on.
Changes: A user can use a Javascript action instead of URL linking.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/php_calendar/
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[038] - process-getopt 1.0
by Bob Hepple (http://freshmeat.net/users/bhepple/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 20:42
Documentation
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: User Interfaces
About: process-getopt is a wrapper around getopt(1) for bash that allows a
developer to define command line options with their descriptions through a
single function call. These definitions are then used in runtime processing
of command line options as well as in generating help and man pages. This
results in more internal consistency in bash scripts, particularly when
they are maintained and changed later. It also saves a little time in
coding and producing nicely formatted documentation. It is quite similar to
GNU's argp in glibc for compiled languages. Samples and a manual are
included.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/processgetopt/
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[039] - pulse 2.0.11 (Beta)
by Jason Sankey (http://freshmeat.net/users/jsankey/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 23:40
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: Changes include the addition of a build log with build hook
output, fixes for LDAP integration, fixes for agent state management, and
other minor bugfixes.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pulse/
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[040] - RapidMiner (YALE) 4.2
by ingomierswa (http://freshmeat.net/users/ingomierswa/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:15
Adaptive Technologies
Database
Education
About: RapidMiner (formerly YALE) is a flexible Java environment for
knowledge discovery in databases, machine learning, and data mining. Many
nestable learning and preprocessing operators (including Weka) are
provided. It features an XML-based graphical user interface, a plugin
mechanism, and high-dimensional plotting, and provides an easy-to-use
extension mechanism that makes it possible to integrate new operators and
adapt the system to your personal requirements. A command line version is
also included.
Changes: This is a minor bugfix and feature release. In particular, two
errors that caused problems in the new parameter optimization wizard for
string and integer parameters were fixed. New features include a new 64-bit
version for Windows x64 systems, multiple groupings for aggregations,
better support for date and time columns, the grouping and ungrouping of
models, and an improved attribute subset preprocessing. Additionally, the
runtime of several analysis schemes was drastically reduced, in some cases
up to a factor of 13.
License: Affero General Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rapidminer/
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[041] - Reverse Snowflake Joins 0.07
by alxtoth (http://freshmeat.net/users/alxtoth/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 20:48
About: Reverse Snowflake Joins is a tool that parses SQL Select statements
and generates a diagram. In addition to joins, the diagram shows parts of
the underlying SQL directly in the diagram. For example x=30, GROUP BY
(year), SUM(profit), HAVING MIN(age) > 18.
Changes: This release has a bugfix for "class Simplifier()", which is
valid in Python 2.5 but not in 2.4.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/revj/
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[042] - SAOImage DS9 5.3beta
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 23:46
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
About: SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization
application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame
buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colormaps. It
provides for easy communication with external analysis tasks and is highly
configurable and extensible. DS9 is a stand-alone application that requires
no installation or support files. It supports advanced features such as
multiple frame buffers, mosaic images, tiling, blinking, geometric markers,
colormap manipulation, scaling, arbitrary zoom, rotation, pan, and a
variety of coordinate systems.
Changes: This release fixes a bug relating to Mac OS X with a firewall
enabled. There are assorted enhancements and bugfixes.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/saoimageds9/
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[043] - Seismic Unix 4.1
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 23:44
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Archeology
Scientific/Engineering :: Physics
About: The CWP/SU Seismic Un*x (SU) package is a software environment for
seismic processing and seismic and wave-propagation related research. It is
used not only in seismology but in other areas involving time-dependent
data, such as Ground Penetrating RADAR.
Changes: This release adds a 2D cellular automata program for generating
rough velocity models with voids, the ability to generate a histogram of
the Probability Density, and a routine to convert latitude and longitude
into UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinates. It adds the ability
to sense machine endianness automatically. Other minor improvements and
enhancements have been made. The documentation has been cleaned up, and
extra examples have been added. There are minor bugfixes.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/seismicunix/
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[044] - SHOGUN 0.6.4
by Soeren Sonnenburg (http://freshmeat.net/users/sonnenburg/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:33
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
About: SHOGUN is a machine learning toolbox whose focus is on large scale
kernel methods and especially on Support Vector Machines (SVM). It provides
a generic SVM object interfacing to several different SVM implementations,
all making use of the same underlying, efficient kernel implementations.
Apart from SVMs and regression, SHOGUN also features a number of linear
methods like Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Linear Programming Machine
(LPM), (Kernel) Perceptrons, and algorithms to train hidden Markov models.
SHOGUN can be used from within C++, Matlab, R, Octave, and Python.
Changes: This release contains major feature enhancements and bugfixes. It
implements 2-norm Multiple Kernel Learning, has greatly extended
documentation, adds a Gaussian kernel for 32-bit floating point features,
and implements the test suite for most of the functions for most
interfaces. It also fixes a bug in filtering out duplicate signals in the
signal handler, and fixes random number generator initialization.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/shogun/
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[045] - Simple Groupware 0.420
by Thomas Bley (http://freshmeat.net/users/simplegroupware/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 23:33
Communications
Information Management
Office/Business
About: Simple Groupware is a complete enterprise application offering
email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, synchronization
with cell phones and Outlook, full-text search, and much more. Simple
Groupware combines standards like RSS, iCalendar, vCard, IMAP, POP3, SMTP,
CIFS, CSV, WebDAV, LDAP, and SyncML under one platform. Unlike other
groupware software, Simple Groupware contains the programming language
sgsML to enable the quick customization and creation of powerful Web
applications.
Changes: A new Funambol interface was implemented to support the Funambol
v7 SyncML server in combinatioT with MySQL and PostgreSQL. The CMS module
was expanded with a function for getting data from other Web pages. the
Spanish translation was updated. Fixes were applied to PmWiki page
variables and updating the search index when deleting events.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/simplegroupware/
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[046] - spamdyke 4.0.3
by Sam Clippinger (http://freshmeat.net/users/samc_silence_org/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:26
Communications :: Email :: Filters
About: spamdyke is a drop-in filter for qmail to provide connection-time
blacklisting, graylisting, DNS RBL/RHSBL checking, sender MX checking,
improved logging, and more. spamdyke will provide SMTP AUTH and TLS to
unpatched qmail servers. Installing spamdyke does not require patching or
recompiling qmail.
Changes: This release fixes an integer argument parsing bug on FreeBSD and
handling of invalid nameserver entries in /etc/resolv.conf.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spamdyke/
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[047] - spin_auth 1.1.6
by bojan (http://freshmeat.net/users/bojans/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 06:57
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: spin_auth is an authentication wrapper. It can be used by other
mod_spin applications to authenticate users specified in a traditional
Apache manner, but without actually employing dangerously breakable basic
authentication. It also enables non-encrypted applications to temporarily
switch to SSL/TLS for authentication only.
Changes: This application was brought in line with mod_spin 1.1.8.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spin_auth/
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[048] - spin_feedback 1.1.6
by bojan (http://freshmeat.net/users/bojans/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 06:57
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: spin_feedback collects parameters of an (X)HTML form, as either
multipart/form-data or application/x-www-form-urlencoded, validates them,
stores them into an SQL database, and emails them to a designated email
address. Emailing of attachments is supported, but only the name of the
uploaded file is stored in the database.
Changes: This application was brought in line with mod_spin 1.1.8.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spin_feedback/
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[049] - TAU 2.17.2
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 02:38
Education
Education :: Testing
Software Development
About: TAU (Tuning and Analysis Utilities) is a set of tools for analyzing
the performance of C, C++, Fortran and Java programs. It collects much more
information than is available through prof or gprof, the standard Unix
utilities, including per-process, per-thread, and per-host information,
inclusive and exclusive function times, profiling groups that allow you to
organize data collection, access to hardware counters on some systems,
per-class and per-instance information, the ability to separate data for
each template instantiation, start/stop timers for profiling arbitrary
sections of code, and support for collection of statistics on user-defined
events.
Changes: This release expands the ability of tau_instrumentor to insert
generic tool-specific instrumentation to code. TAU now supports generation
of selective instrumentation files in paraprof. ParaProf can now bring up
separate windows for each metric to allow users to compare multiple metrics
simultaneously within a given trial. TAU now enables throttling of routines
at runtime. C++ detection has been fixed. There is improved linkage to
application-specific timing APIs. Support has been added for PathScale and
GNU compilers on Cray XT4/XT3 systems. Support has been improved for
DyninstAPI and vampirtrace.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tau/
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[050] - TOMOYO Linux 1.6.3
by toshi (http://freshmeat.net/users/toshiharu/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:16
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: TOMOYO Linux is an extension for Linux to provide mandatory access
control (MAC) functions. It is provided in the form of patches to the Linux
vanilla kernel and utilities for policy management.
Changes: editpolicy will treat ASCII code's BS character as ncurses code's
BS character. In the proxy, suid-root has been dropped, because
/usr/lib/ccs/ is globally accessible since 1.6.2.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tomoyo/
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[051] - WebIssues 0.9.3-beta1 (Client)
by Michal Mecinski (http://freshmeat.net/users/mimec/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 20:48
Communications
Database
Information Management
About: WebIssues is a system that supports team collaboration across the
Internet. It can be used for storing bugs and other information with
customizable attributes, comments, and file attachments. The server can be
installed on any host with PHP and MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MS SQL Server. The
client is a native desktop application for both Windows and Linux.
Changes: This release features support for SSL connections and printing
and exporting reports in CSV, HTML, and PDF formats. In addition, various
parts of the code have been refactored and relicensed under a BSD-style
license, allowing them to be reused in both open source and commercial
applications.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webissues/
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[052] - Wiaflos Accounting 0.0.12
by Nigel Kukard (http://freshmeat.net/users/nkukard/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 13:04
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
Office/Business :: Financial :: Point-Of-Sale
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: Wiaflos Accounting is an attempt to create a multi-platform
server-client based accounting system. The goal is to have a central
accounting engine which can either run on a dedicated server or on the same
PC as the client interface. A SOAP API allows for the easy writing of GUI
or Web interfaces or for tying into in-house systems. It is intended to be
useful for everyone from single-person organizations to multinational
corporate entities.
Changes: This release includes mostly bugfixes and preliminary support for
tracked transactions on client GL accounts, allowing the allocation of
receipts to GL transactions.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wiaflos/
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[053] - WordPress Release 2.6.1
by Dougal Campbell (http://freshmeat.net/users/emc3/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 17:29
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: News/Diary
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: WordPress is a state-of-the-art, semantic, personal publishing
platform with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. It was
born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing
system. While primarily geared towards functioning as a Weblog, WordPress
is also a flexible CMS capable of managing many types of Web sites. In
addition to the basic blog functions, it also has an integrated link
manager (e.g. for blogrolls), file attachments, XFN support, support for
stand-alone pages, Atom and RSS feeds for both content and comments,
blogging API support (Atom Publishing Protocol, Blogger, MetaWeblog, and
Movable Type APIs), spam blocking features, advanced cruft-free URL
generation, a flexible theme system, and an advanced plugin API.
Changes: This update fixes several minor bugs from 2.6. Changes include
improved RTL (right-to-left) language support in the admin interface;
permalink fixes for IIS users; a fix for an image insertion problem in the
"Press This" bookmarklet; improved performance in the admin sections for
blogs with many plugins installed; and many other fixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wordpress/
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[054] - xclip 0.11
by Peter Åstrand (http://freshmeat.net/users/altic/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 06:51
Text Processing
About: xclip is a command line interface to the X11 clipboard. It can also
be used for copying files, as an alternative to sftp/scp, thus avoiding
password prompts when X11 forwarding has already been setup.
Changes: xclip-copyfile is now compatible with recent tar versions. UTF-8
text is now supported.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xclip/
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[055] - xine xine-lib 1.1.15
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 12:57
Multimedia :: Video :: Display
About: xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and
VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from
local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It
interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some
of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable
library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications.
Changes: Several security fixes have been made, such as for crashes with
various corrupted media files, as reported in CVE-2008-3231. An exploitable
ID3 heap buffer overflow has been fixed. Some checks for memory allocation
failures have been added. A V4L segfault has been resolved. AMR audio and
Snow video are now recognized. Xv deinterlacing image corruption on some
chipsets has been solved. Crashes with MP3 files with metadata consisting
only of separators have been fixed. An Xv port and type selection have been
added. Content type detection for HTTP streams has been improved. Several
DVB and V4L improvements and fixes have been made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xine/
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