Newsletter for Tuesday, August 19th 2008

::: L I N K S   F O R   T H E   D A Y :::

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::: R E L E A S E   H E A D L I N E S (48) :::

[001] - abcMIDI 2008_08_13 
[002] - ALSA driver 1.0.17a (Stable)
[003] - ALSA driver 1.0.18rc1 (Development)
[004] - Amahi Linux Home Server 8.19 
[005] - Armangil's podcatcher 3.1.3 
[006] - AskoziaPBX pb14.2 
[007] - bbJewel 1.0 
[008] - bemDB 0.3.5 
[009] - bonnie++ 1.94 
[010] - Cerberus Helpdesk 4.0 (Build 726) 
[011] - ClamSAP 0.9.1 
[012] - constat 1.2.0 
[013] - deltasql 0.950 
[014] - echinus 0.3.1 
[015] - Elgg: the Learning Landscape 1.0 
[016] - Expense Submittal System 6.1.1 
[017] - flactagger 3.1.1 
[018] - GLib 2.17.7 (Development)
[019] - HTML Forms generation and validation 2008.08.18 
[020] - KnowledgeTree 3.5.3 (Stable)
[021] - libchipcard 4.2.0 (Stable)
[022] - Manent 0.10.11 
[023] - Midgard 1.8.9 
[024] - Multiplication Puzzle 6.0 
[025] - Nemo 0.2.3 
[026] - OpenAFS 1.5.52 (Development)
[027] - OpenAIS 0.90 (Trunk)
[028] - OpenXava 3.0.3 
[029] - Piggy Market Squeak 0.6.0 
[030] - Policy Daemon 2.0.3 (2.x (Cluebringer))
[031] - Py-Lepton 0.6a 
[032] - QmailLDAP/Controls 20080819 
[033] - QMC2 0.2 beta 4 
[034] - Restlet 1.1 RC1 (Development)
[035] - Rush Hour 'Traffic Jam' Solver 0.2.9 
[036] - SmartSVN 4.0.3 
[037] - StorYBook 2.1.3 
[038] - Strasheela 0.9.6 
[039] - Syntax Highlighting in JavaScript 0.5 
[040] - The Corosync Cluster Engine 0.91 
[041] - the mg2bot 0.71 
[042] - TurtolCMS 0.6 
[043] - WeOCR 0.12 
[044] - XIST 3.4 
[045] - xplain2sql 4.0.0 
[046] - YML 1.3.1 
[047] - ZABBIX 1.5.4 (Development)
[048] - Zina 1.0rc4 


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[001] - abcMIDI 2008_08_13 
  by Guido Gonzato (http://freshmeat.net/users/goccia/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:03

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 bug that affected the "%%MIDI trim" command was fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[002] - ALSA driver 1.0.17a (Stable)
  by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:09

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Capture/Recording
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio

About: The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is composed of several parts.
The first is a fully modularized sound driver which supports module
autoloading, devfs, isapnp autoconfiguration, and gives complete access to
analog audio, digital audio, control, mixer, synthesizer, DSP, MIDI, and
timer components of audio hardware. It also includes a fully-featured
kernel-level sequencer, a full compatibility layer for OSS/Free
applications, an object-oriented C library which covers and enhances the
ALSA kernel driver functionality for applications (client/server, plugins,
PCM sharing/multiplexing, PCM metering, etc.), an interactive configuration
program for the driver, and some simple utilities for basic management. 

Changes: The IEC958 consumer status channel definitions were updated.
Several small fixes to the PCM API were made. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[003] - ALSA driver 1.0.18rc1 (Development)
  by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:11

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Capture/Recording
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio

About: The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is composed of several parts.
The first is a fully modularized sound driver which supports module
autoloading, devfs, isapnp autoconfiguration, and gives complete access to
analog audio, digital audio, control, mixer, synthesizer, DSP, MIDI, and
timer components of audio hardware. It also includes a fully-featured
kernel-level sequencer, a full compatibility layer for OSS/Free
applications, an object-oriented C library which covers and enhances the
ALSA kernel driver functionality for applications (client/server, plugins,
PCM sharing/multiplexing, PCM metering, etc.), an interactive configuration
program for the driver, and some simple utilities for basic management. 

Changes: A jack reporting API was added. Simultaneous compilation of both
PXA AC97 drivers is now possible. Drivers were added for TI TLV320AIC26,
WM8900, WM8580, TriTech 28023, Asus V1Sn, ASUS Eeepc P90*, 92HD81/83, AMD
HDMI Audio, and several more. Code was cleaned up. Many fixes were made. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[004] - Amahi Linux Home Server 8.19 
  by cpg (http://freshmeat.net/users/cpg/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 00:36

Information Management
Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: The Amahi Home Server is a Linux Home Server based on Fedora (and
later on Ubuntu). Your machine becomes a "Home Digital Assistant" or HDA
after the installation. Each HDA is a Fedora-based server targeted for home
and home office environments. It provides an iTunes server, calendaring, a
wiki, shared network storage, network backups, a printer server, VPN, and a
plug-in architecture built on Ruby on Rails. 

Changes: A number of new Amahi wallpapers are added in this release, which
is included with the Amahi Slideshow app.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[005] - Armangil's podcatcher 3.1.3 
  by doga (http://freshmeat.net/users/armangild/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:37

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Video

About: Armangil's podcatcher is a podcast client for the command line. It
provides several download strategies (new shows only, back-catalog allowed,
etc), offers cache management, supports BitTorrent, and generates playlists
for media player applications.

Changes: A bug that failed to filter out some illegal characters in
directory names when using the --restrictednames option was fixed. The
--restrictednames option is now enabled by default. The sponsor message
that appears in verbose mode was updated. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[006] - AskoziaPBX pb14.2 
  by Michael Iedema (http://freshmeat.net/users/askozia/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:01



About: AskoziaPBX is more than another GUI for Asterisk. It is an embedded
PBX solution which eases system upgrades, backups, and provisioning. 

Changes: A major fix was made to the JavaScript changes introduced in
pb14.1. Those changes have been reverted as they broke much more than they
fixed. A few new localizations have been added (Polish, German, and
Bulgarian). The internationalization support was cleaned up and finalized
for 1.0. Also, a new feature on the "Services -> Voicemail" page was added
which allows you to test your mail settings. 

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[007] - bbJewel 1.0 
  by bb (http://freshmeat.net/users/bb42/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 18:00

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio

About: bbJewel creates a PDF of a cover for the listed MP3 files for the
purpose of printing a jewel case insert. It parses each file and extract
the title, artist, and length of the recording. It also scans the files for
included cover images. You can provide the CD title and the cover image to
use on the command line.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[008] - bemDB 0.3.5 
  by Jeff Thompson (http://freshmeat.net/users/jeffiet/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 20:33

Database

About: bemDB is a PostgreSQL database designed to store benefit and
enrollment information for members of group health insurance plans. Its
main feature is the ability to output HIPAA-compliant 834 Benefit
Enrollment and Maintenance EDI transaction sets with all required segments
and situational segments for which there is data.

Changes: This release changes copyright notices to Phat Geeks, Inc. The
tables structures have been changed so that they all have a single field
primary key. A syntax error in the function prepare_member834 has been
corrected. Parse and front end code have been removed; these functions are
no longer within the scope of this project. The TODO list has been updated.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[009] - bonnie++ 1.94 
  by etbe (http://freshmeat.net/users/russellcoker/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:14

System :: Benchmark
System :: Filesystems

About: Bonnie++ is based on the Bonnie hard drive benchmark by Tim Bray.
The most notable features that have been added are support for >2G of
storage and testing operations involving thousands of files in a directory.
This program is used by ReiserFS developers, but can be useful for anyone
who wants to know how fast their hard drive or file system is. It now
includes ZCAV in the package. This program tests the performance of
different zones on the hard drive. ZCAV has been released separately before
but will now only be released as part of the Bonnie++ suite. 

Changes: The program now works correctly with 64-bit file access (which
means bonnie++ should work correctly on machines with more than 1G of RAM).
Zcav support now skips chunks of the disk to give a faster result (some
modern disks can take several hours for a single pass otherwise). All units
were changed to GiB and MiB. The zcav output units were changed to match
the new bigger and faster disks. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[010] - Cerberus Helpdesk 4.0 (Build 726) 
  by Jeff Standen (http://freshmeat.net/users/jstanden/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 14:59

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Information Management :: Issue Tracking

About: Cerberus Helpdesk is an email application which focuses on teams
sharing mailboxes. It features Fetch and Retrieve, Super Sorter, and
Virtual Community Tools. 

Changes: A dozen new reports have been added from community feedback. The
reporting plugin has been ported to the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) "Chart"
module to provide dynamic Flash-based charts on reports. The universal
importer is now stable for importing ticket and worker information as XML. 

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

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

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[011] - ClamSAP 0.9.1 
  by Markus Strehle (http://freshmeat.net/users/ehhle/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 00:23

Security
Utilities

About: ClamSAP consists of two C shared libraries that link between ClamAV
and the Virus Scan Interface (VSI) of SAP (official name: NW-VSI). A SAP
application can use the ClamAV engine to scan for malicious uploads in HTTP
uploads, for example.

Changes: Improvements to redruce compiler warnings. The library vslcam has
been tested on Linux (x86 and x86_64), Sun Solaris, and Windows.

License: Open Software License

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

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[012] - constat 1.2.0 
  by Ivan Cat (http://freshmeat.net/users/cativan/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 04:42

System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
Utilities

About: constat is an application that monitors, logs, and reports the
activity of network connections present on a system. It reports
sent/received traffic information for every live network device, giving you
the option of displaying its output in units of kilobytes, megabytes, and
gigabytes, along with the number of transmitted packets. It also includes a
real time monitoring option based on a timer. Additionally, constat
provides the option to view the socket table (local/remote IPs with ports
they are binded to) for a specific protocol or all protocols at once. It
does not require the X server.

Changes: An output only numbers option has been added (-n). A new style of
output formatting (transmitted packets are shown on a separate line). An
option to use old style formatting (-o). A new log format (same as syslog).
The log file has been moved to /var/log/ and renamed to constat.log. The -s
option is extended (the 'more' command is automatically executed when
viewing all entries; -s=<n> shows the last n entries). The monitoring timer
(-m option) default value has changed to 30 seconds. configure has been
added. COPYRIGHT has been renamed to COPYING. INSTALL, TODO, and AUTHORS
files have been added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - deltasql 0.950 
  by Tiziano Mengotti (http://freshmeat.net/users/dangermouse_1/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:03

Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Software Development :: Version Control

About: deltasql is a tool to synchronize databases with source code, which
helps to keep database evolution under control. While developing mid-sized
or big applications, developers make changes to the data model that go
along with changes to the source code. From time to time, branches of
source code are done to stabilize the code that will go to production. A
sort of data model branch is also needed. deltasql provides a simple way to
collect all scripts that change the data model and means to handle data
model branches. The deltasql server runs on Apache and is backed by MySQL.

Changes: Project module management was improved with the possibility to
delete modules and less confusing navigation. User management was improved
with the possibility to delete users for administrators. Error management
was improved with bugfixes, more error types, and a link to error
documentation if the format is HTML. XML can be exported for advanced
deltasql clients. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - echinus 0.3.1 
  by polachok (http://freshmeat.net/users/polachok/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 20:34

Desktop Environment
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers

About: echinus is a lightweight window manager for X based on dwm's source
code. It manages windows in tiled, maximized, and floating layouts. It is
extremely small, rather fast, and supports Xft. It features nice titlebars,
multiple desktops, theming support, a simple configuration file, the
ability to switch desktops with the mouse wheel, X bitmaps for title
buttons, and true transparency support (through xcompmgr). There is no need
to recompile or restart X to change its configuration. 

Changes: Many bugfixes: iconification, compositing, layering, and xxkb.
New features: view left/right tag, mwfact and nmaster setup, focus policy
setup, and more.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[015] - Elgg: the Learning Landscape 1.0 
  by Ben (http://freshmeat.net/users/bwerdmuller/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 04:50

Information Management
Information Management :: Document Repositories
Internet

About: Elgg is a community building platform written in PHP for Apache and
MySQL. It gives you the tools to create active and vibrant learning
communities, featuring Weblogging, podcasting, social networking, file
storage, tag searching, customised user themes, gettext multi-language
support, and more. Users can control exactly who has access to each bit of
their profile, each blog post, file, etc., and then search using tags to
find other resources and people related to the same topic. Although
originally designed for education, it has a broad range of uses in a
variety of different settings.

Changes: This release has been completely rewritten. It is very flexible
and extensible, has excellent programming APIs, and runs well as a
stand-alone network out of the box.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - Expense Submittal System 6.1.1 
  by ESS-Jim (http://freshmeat.net/users/jimholton/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 00:37

Office/Business
Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting

About: The Expense Submittal System (ESS) is a Web-based solution for the
creation of expense reports, expense report approval, payment, and
accounting. The complete expense reporting process is covered. ESS provides
report entry, approval routing, corporate policy checking, credit card
statement importation, and report payment.

Changes: This release adds the ability to attach receipt scan files (or
any "approved" file type) to a report for review by auditors. This allows
the creation of a paperless expense report environment.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/expense-ss/

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[017] - flactagger 3.1.1 
  by tochiro (http://freshmeat.net/users/tochiro/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 20:31

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
System :: Archiving

About: flactagger is a script for tagging FLAC files. It can extract
information from file names if they're named according to etree.org's
naming standards. It can also extract information from info files like song
titles, location, and date. Tags can also be edited in an editor. 

Changes: This release fixes a few bugs related to the -e option.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[018] - GLib 2.17.7 (Development)
  by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:04

Software Development :: Libraries

About: GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things such
as trees, hashes, and lists. GLib was previously distributed with the GTK
toolkit, but has been split off as of the developers' version 1.1.0.

Changes: Several bugs were fixed. Translations were updated. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[019] - HTML Forms generation and validation 2008.08.18 
  by Manuel Lemos (http://freshmeat.net/users/mlemos/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:05

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes

About: HTML Forms generation and validation is a PHP class that generates
HTML forms supporting many built-in validation types on server and client
sides. It prevents security attacks by discarding spoofed values, has
multiple submit protection, outputs HTML for fields displayed as fully
accessible or in read-only mode, and has field value filtering and
reformatting. It can be extended with custom control plug-ins. AJAX based
form submission, upload monitor progress bar, auto-complete text input,
automatic layout renderer, calendar date, CAPTCHA, Google Maps world
location selection, linked select, and animation effects plug-ins are
available. 

Changes: Several bugs were fixed in the main forms class, as well in the
plug-ins for paged layout, CAPTCHA validation, and calendar dates. Several
HTML validation issues were fixed in the templates of some example scripts.


License: BSD License (original)

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

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[020] - KnowledgeTree 3.5.3 (Stable)
  by Lindy Grobler (http://freshmeat.net/users/lindygrobler1/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:27

Information Management :: Document Repositories
Office/Business :: Groupware

About: KnowledgeTree is a powerful Web-based document management system
built on the popular LAMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack. It is a leading
PHP-based commercial document management software project. KnowledgeTree is
used by Fortune 500 companies, community organizations, local and state
governments, and educational and scientific institutions around the world. 

Changes: Drag and drop was added for Microsoft Windows users. The system
now has all APIs required to support a tool (which is available on product
registration) that allows users to drag documents from their desktop into
KnowledgeTree. The BitRock network is supported, so opt-in access provides
product update news and security notifications straight to the dashboard.
Usability was enhanced. The code was refactored. The document indexer was
improved. FireFox 3 and Ubuntu 8.04 are fully supported. Performance was
improved. The logging mechanism was improved to simplify debugging. System
configuration was made easier. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[021] - libchipcard 4.2.0 (Stable)
  by aquamaniac (http://freshmeat.net/users/aquamaniac/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:18

System :: Hardware

About: Libchipcard is a framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards
via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI or IFD driver provided
by manufacturers. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, and
Windows, and has been tested with many different readers (even in
parallel). 

Changes: This release reintroduces a CryptToken for STARCOS cards and
improves support for the upcoming "Elektronische Gesundheitskarte" which
can now be read by the kvkread tool along with old
"Krankenversichertenkarte" cards. Hardware scans can now be triggered by
signals again. (This was broken in previous releases.) 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[022] - Manent 0.10.11 
  by Sasha (http://freshmeat.net/users/gsasha/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:38

System :: Archiving
System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: Manent is an algorithmically strong backup and archival program. It
features efficient backup to anything that looks like storage. Currently it
supports plain filesystems ("directories"), FTP, and SFTP. Planned are
Amazon S3, optical disks, and email (SMTP and IMAP). It can work (making
progress towards finishing a backup) over a slow and unreliable network. It
can offer online access to the contents of the backup. Backed up storage is
completely encrypted. Backup is incremental, including changed parts of
large files. Moved, renamed, and duplicate files will not require
additional storage. Several computers can use the same storage for backup,
automatically sharing data. Both very large and very small files are
supported efficiently. Manent does not rely on timestamps of the remote
system to detect changes.

Changes: Some crashes of the Unicode code under Windows were fixed. On
Windows, Manent now automatically switches the code page to 65001 (UTF8),
so Unicode names show correctly. 

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[023] - Midgard 1.8.9 
  by Piotr Pokora (http://freshmeat.net/users/piotras/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:30

Database
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: Midgard is a freely-available solution for managing content on Web,
Extranet, and Intranet services. It is also a toolkit for building dynamic
applications to power eBusiness and Information Management processes.
Writing applications and functionalities for the platform is done using the
easy-to-learn PHP scripting language. All interfacing with the system is
done via a regular Web browser, and no special tools are needed for
developers or content authors.  

Changes: Major memory bugfixes and enchancements were made. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[024] - Multiplication Puzzle 6.0 
  by Michael Terry (http://freshmeat.net/users/mikix/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 04:47

Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games

About: Multiplication Puzzle is a simple math puzzle game written for GTK+
2, inspired by Emacs' multiplication game. It displays a multiplication
problem where every digit is replaced by a letter. Your job is to figure
out which letters are which digits. 

Changes: The interface for guessing digits/letters has been simplified. A
new Indonesian translation was added, and the Vietnamese and simplified
Chinese translations were updated. The code has been rewritten in Vala and
relicensed under the GPL v3+.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[025] - Nemo 0.2.3 
  by Anders Rune Jensen (http://freshmeat.net/users/daserver/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 18:37



About: Nemo is a new way of managing files, or rather, not managing files.
Currently, it's a cross between a calendar and a file browser with labels.

Changes: Some crash fixes and 3 new translations.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[026] - OpenAFS 1.5.52 (Development)
  by Edgester (http://freshmeat.net/users/edgester/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 04:48

Communications :: File Sharing
System :: Filesystems

About: AFS is a distributed filesystem which offers a client-server
architecture, transparent data migration abilities, scalability, a single
namespace, and integrated ancillary subsystems.

Changes: There are many changes on Windows. On NetBSD, broken sigwait()
has been worked around to allow the fileserver to shut down correctly pre
NetBSD 5.0. On all platforms, potential corruption of directories during
salvage is avoided.

License: IBM Public License

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

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[027] - OpenAIS 0.90 (Trunk)
  by Steven Dake (http://freshmeat.net/users/stevendake/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 18:37

Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: OpenAIS is an open source implementation of the SA Forum
(www.saforum.org) Application Interface Specification. The project
currently implements APIs to improve availability by reducing MTTR. APIs
available are cluster membership, application failover, checkpointing,
eventing, distributed locking, messaging, closed process groups, and
extended virtual synchrony passthrough. It is possible to write redundant
applications that tolerate hardware, operating system, and application
faults. Cluster software developers can write plugins to use the
infrastructure provided by OpenAIS.

Changes: This is the first release designed to build with the corosync
cluster engine framework.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[028] - OpenXava 3.0.3 
  by javierpaniza (http://freshmeat.net/users/javierpaniza/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 18:01

Software Development
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: OpenXava is a framework to develop JavaEE/J2EE applications rapidly
and easily. It allows you to define applications only with POJOs, JPA, and
Java 5 annotations. It is feature rich and flexible. It generates JSR-168
portlet applications (Liferay, WebSphere Portal, Jetspeed, etc.). 

Changes: Full support for Liferay 5.0 and 5.1, including visual style
integration. Labels, messages, and reference documentation have been
translated to French and Chinese. HttpUnit has been replaced by HtmlUnit
for implementing ModuleTestBase. Qualified properties are allowed for
'condition' and 'orderBy' of @DescriptionsList even it they are not in
'descriptionProperties'. There is a new'format' property for
JasperReportBaseAction. It can be 'pdf' or 'excel'. There are many new
minor features and fixes.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[029] - Piggy Market Squeak 0.6.0 
  by guilpms (http://freshmeat.net/users/guilpms/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 00:38

Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
Office/Business :: Financial :: Investment

About: Piggy Market Squeak is an easy-to-use alert system for trends in
stocks and shares. It has a user-friendly graphical user interface and
email alerts. It can highlight and sort buy and sell signals from
marketplaces or portfolios. It is versatile and integrates new trend
indicators. 

Changes: This release adds an auto-managed portfolio feature.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[030] - Policy Daemon 2.0.3 (2.x (Cluebringer))
  by Nigel Kukard (http://freshmeat.net/users/nkukard/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:15

Communications :: Email :: Filters

About: Policyd v2 (codenamed "cluebringer") is a multi-platform policy
server for popular MTAs. This policy daemon is designed mostly for large
scale mail hosting environments. The main goal is to implement as many spam
combating and email compliance features as possible while at the same time
maintaining portability, stability, and performance. Its features include
detailed policy and group specification, access control, helo/ehlo checks
(helo randomization prevention and RFC compliance), SPF checks,
Greylisting, Quotas, and Amavisd-new integration. 

Changes: Policy debugging was improved. Various bugs were fixed. Handling
of folding groups into policy sources and destinations was improved. Group
negation in source and destination policies was fixed. A special case $-
for matching no SASL username was added. Matching SASL usernames which look
like email addresses was fixed. The DEFER option was fixed for quotas. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[031] - Py-Lepton 0.6a 
  by HarryTormey (http://freshmeat.net/users/HarryTormey/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 00:48

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: First Person Shooters
Multimedia :: Graphics

About: Py-Lepton is a high-performance, pluggable particle engine and API
for Python. The engine is designed to be very flexible and does not rely on
any other libraries directly. You can use it either with OpenGL (via pyglet
or PyOpenGL), or with pygame by selecting the appropriate renderer.
Examples are provided using pyglet and pygame. Note that this is in an
alpha state, so expect the API to change somewhat in future releases.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[032] - QmailLDAP/Controls 20080819 
  by Turbo Fredriksson (http://freshmeat.net/users/fransurbo/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 21:04

Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents
Database

About: QmailLDAP/Controls stores control information for Qmail in an LDAP
database instead of files. It requires the Qmail-LDAP patch.

Changes: Many issues in control.c and build issues have been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qmailldap-controls/

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[033] - QMC2 0.2 beta 4 
  by Prian (http://freshmeat.net/users/prianthefist/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 20:30

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: The joystick test and calibration widgets are now enclosed in
scrollable areas to allow for better handling of high amounts of axes and
buttons - PS3/Sixasis users will profit most (though there are still some
open issues with Sixasis controllers). There are minor speed improvements
for loading of XML and gamelist caches by reading data block-wise. The XML
cache data has been trimmed, saving memory and disk space. The number of
(real/virtual) CPUs is displayed on the system information page. The
frontend and emulator log browsers can now be limited to the amount of
lines they keep in memory.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[034] - Restlet 1.1 RC1 (Development)
  by Jerome Louvel (http://freshmeat.net/users/jlouvel/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 18:36

Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: Restlet is a REST framework for Java. It supports all REST concepts
(Resource, Representation, Connector, Component, etc.) and is suitable for
both client and server Web applications. It supports major Web standards
like HTTP, SMTP, XML, JSON, WADL, and Atom. Many extensions are also
available to integrate with Servlet, Spring, Jetty, Grizzly, Simple, JAXB,
JAX-RS, JiBX, Velocity, or FreeMarker. A GWT version is also available. 

Changes: This release fixes chunked encoding issues in Grizzly and
internal connectors. Grizzly was updated to version 1.8.4. The performance
of internal HTTP connectors was vastly improved. Significant improvements
and stabilization have been made for the WADL extension. Major refactoring
of logging to have more consistency and better organization for logger
names. Completed support for partial GETs and partial PUTs in the FILE
client connector. Completed support for representation digests (MD5 and
more).

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[035] - Rush Hour 'Traffic Jam' Solver 0.2.9 
  by Henrik Theiling (http://freshmeat.net/users/theiling/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 18:11

Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games

About: Rush Hour 'Traffic Jam' Puzzle Solver is a program that reads a
board from a text file and produces a nice PostScript file that shows the
shortest solution.

Changes: The compilation process was fixed to work with newer Unix
variants and with 64-bit machines. A new error message was added to
complain about duplicate cars.

License: Freely Distributable

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

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[036] - SmartSVN 4.0.3 
  by SyntEvo GmbH (http://freshmeat.net/users/syntevo/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:00

Software Development :: Version Control :: Subversion

About: SmartSVN is a feature-rich and easy-to-use Subversion client. It
runs on Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, and Windows. In addition to the normal
SVN commands like checkout, update, commit, merge, etc., it provides tag
and branch handling (no need to deal with URLs just to switch to a
different tag or branch), a built-in file compare and conflict solver, and
much more. There is no need to install additional tools for handling SVN
working copies, like a command line SVN client or a file comparison tool. 

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[037] - StorYBook 2.1.3 
  by Martin Mustun (http://freshmeat.net/users/intertec/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 18:11

Documentation
Text Editors :: Documentation

About: StorYBook is a scene-based program for creative writers, novelists,
and authors that helps to keep the overview over the strands while writing
a book, a novel, or a story. It assists you in structuring your book.

Changes: A time stamp has been added to export file names. ODT export
(OpenDocument Text, Open Office) has been added. Bug #2049282: "Text is cut
off on export" has been fixed. The H2 Database Engine has been updated to
version 1.0.77 (2008-08-16). The program was translated to Dutch.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[038] - Strasheela 0.9.6 
  by Torsten Anders (http://freshmeat.net/users/tanders/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 18:41

Artistic Software
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: Strasheela is a highly expressive constraint-based music
composition system. Users declaratively state a music theory and the
computer generates music which complies with this theory. A theory is
formulated as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) by a set of rules
(constraints) applied to a music representation in which some aspects are
expressed by variables (unknowns). Music constraint programming is
style-independent and is well-suited for highly complex theories (e.g. a
fully-fledged theory of harmony). Results can be output into various
formats including MIDI, Lilypond, and Csound.

Changes: This release supports new techniques for constraining the musical
form, and demonstrates them in examples. Also, the definition of complex
distribution strategies (variable orderings in the search) is simplified by
special constructor functions. Several further examples have been added,
and many other extensions and bugfixes have been made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[039] - Syntax Highlighting in JavaScript 0.5 
  by gnombat (http://freshmeat.net/users/gnombat/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 00:24

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Documentation

About: SHJS (Syntax Highlighting in JavaScript) is a JavaScript program
which highlights source code passages in HTML documents. Documents using
SHJS are highlighted on the client side by the Web browser. 

Changes: Improvements include the ability to automatically load language
script files, better highlighting of C/C++ and JavaScript, a new language
file for Oracle SQL, and various bug fixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[040] - The Corosync Cluster Engine 0.91 
  by Steven Dake (http://freshmeat.net/users/stevendake/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 18:39

Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: The Corosync Cluster Engine provides a cluster plug-in engine for
third party cluster service developers. Designers develop service engines
for use with Corosync that can take advantage of its features including
messaging, membership, IPC, a configuration object database, a handle
database, automatic replication, and more.

Changes: The openALs tree and Corosync tree are fully split. openALs,
cman, and pacemaker build on Corosync. The internal plugin API is nearing
freeze.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[041] - the mg2bot 0.71 
  by Mikey G (http://freshmeat.net/users/mgregoro/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 17:55

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat

About: the mg2bot is an IRC bot that was originally written to do unique
channel maintenance but which now sports a homebrew plugin system,
increased channel awareness, and a bot networking capability.

Changes: This release fixes a scheduled event bug that caused the bot to
freeze up in certain situations. It adds a wowitem plugin for looking up
World of Warcraft items on wowhead. It adds random_quote, areacode, and
emeter general bot plugins. It has a major overhaul of the calc plugin,
which allows for the use of math functions like abs(), sqrt(), etc.

License: Perl License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mg2bot/

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[042] - TurtolCMS 0.6 
  by TurtolCMS (http://freshmeat.net/users/turtol/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 04:45

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

About: TurtolCMS is a powerful, flexible Web content management system.
With it, you can manage every aspect of your Web content directly from your
Web browser with intuitive editing tools. TurtolCMS does not restrict you
with a template, but allows a designer full freedom to build any desired
look and then gracefully re-use that design consistently for any new
content that is added. 

Changes: This is the first release since the breakup of Turtol; the
TurtolCMS is now under new management. Changes are focused on making
TurtolCMS a better platform for future development, so there are not many
user-visible changes in this release. The pages/widgets subsystem has been
reworked to be more granular and improve performance, memory footprint, and
flexibility. A lot of IE compatibility work has been merged, though not
tested much. A lot of cruft is gone.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[043] - WeOCR 0.12 
  by Hideaki Goto (http://freshmeat.net/users/hgot/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:35

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Office/Business
Text Processing

About: WeOCR is a platform for Web-enabled OCR (Optical Character
Reader/Recognition) systems. It enables people to use character recognition
over networks. A WeOCR server receives document images from users,
recognizes text in the images, and returns recognition results to the
users. WeOCR does not have its own character recognition engine. Instead,
it is intended to accommodate various existing character recognition
engines.

Changes: A simple input buffer (queue) has been added so that the server
can handle more requests at once. 

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[044] - XIST 3.4 
  by Walter Dörwald (http://freshmeat.net/users/doerwalter/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:34

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML

About: XIST is an extensible HTML and XML generator. It is also an XML
parser with a very simple and Python-esque tree API. Every XML element type
corresponds to a Python class, and these Python classes provide a
conversion method to transform the XML tree (e.g. into HTML). XIST can be
considered 'object-oriented XSLT'.

Changes: A cross-platform templating language has been added to XIST with
implementations of compilers and renderers in Python and Java. Actions for
compiling and rendering these templates and actions for gzipping und
unzipping have been added to ll.make. Parameters for make actions can now
be generated by other make actions. TOXIC now supports outputting
procedures for SQL Server. The default XML parser for XIST is now expat and
XIST works even if the C modules are missing, which makes XIST usable on
Google App Engine. 

License: Python License

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

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[045] - xplain2sql 4.0.0 
  by Berend de Boer (http://freshmeat.net/users/berenddb/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 00:25

Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: xplain2sql converts files from Xplain to SQL. It supports a very
large subset of Xplain, and it can convert from Xplain to Microsoft SQL
Server, DB/2, Inprise InterBase, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL 5, SQLite 3 or
ANSI-92 SQL. It can also generate an XML description of the generated SQL.
This XML description can be used to create low-level middle-tier code.
Example stylesheets for Eiffel/ECLI and Delphi/ADO are included. The C
source code release should compile on any platform with an ANSI C compiler.
There are binary releases for FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris x86, and Windows
2000.

Changes: Much better code generation for the count, min, max, and total
functions using left outer joins instead of sub-selects. A new extension to
mimic SQL's insert into ... select. Extended attributes can now be updated
for most dialects. A variety of bugfixes. Now includes an Ubuntu 8.0.4
package.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xplain2sql/

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[046] - YML 1.3.1 
  by Volker Birk (http://freshmeat.net/users/fdik/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 21:03



About: YML (Why a Markup Language?!) is an easy language to compile into
XML. YSLT is an easy language for code generation, automating your software
development tasks. 

Changes: This release adds a feature for generating debug info comments,
so the programmer can determine which line in the script generated a line
in the output.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[047] - ZABBIX 1.5.4 (Development)
  by Alexei Vladishev (http://freshmeat.net/users/hugetoad/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 15:35

System :: Logging
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: ZABBIX is an enterprise-class distributed monitoring solution
designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network
servers, devices, and other IT resources. It supports distributed and
Web-based monitoring, auto-discovery, real-time monitoring, SLA assurance,
trending, and more.

Changes: This release introduces a significant performance improvement for
ZABBIX server, a mass update for triggers, an improved permission schema
for the front-end, and other pieces of functionality and fixes. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[048] - Zina 1.0rc4 
  by Ryan (http://freshmeat.net/users/pancake/)
  Tue, Aug 19th 2008 04:42

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3

About: Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal
jukebox, a Podcaster and an MP3 streamer. It can run alone, be embedded
into an existing Web site, or be used as a module in Postnuke, PHPNuke,
Xoops, Mambo, Drupal, phpWebSite, e107, or DragonflyCMS. It is similar to
Andromeda.

Changes: This release fixes an XSS vulnerability and another minor bug
(CVE-2008-2494 and CVE-2008-2495). It also includes a new Serbian
translation.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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



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