Newsletter for Sunday, September 14th 2008

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

Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2008/09/14/
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (50) :::

[001] - Adventure-(PHP-)Framework 1.7-RC2 (PHP5)
[002] - AgileWiki 7-0 (Element Model)
[003] - aiParts 0.9.1
[004] - Ajisai 0.5.0
[005] - BeeDiff 1.9
[006] - C Algorithms Library 1.2.0
[007] - codemetre 0.16.2
[008] - Ctalk 0.0.73a
[009] - equivs2 3.0
[010] - FastDup 0.1
[011] - FeShoot Wiki 0.3.1-alpha
[012] - Free-SA 1.4.5
[013] - FreedroidRPG 0.11
[014] - Galera Load Balancer 0.6.0
[015] - gedit-plugins-extra 2.24.1
[016] - Ghouls'n Ghosts Remix 0.47
[017] - glfer 0.4.0
[018] - HAproxy 1.3.15.4 (Development)
[019] - LedgerSMB 1.2.16
[020] - LibRaw 0.6.0 Beta1
[021] - mididings 20080913
[022] - Mobius Forensic Toolkit 0.3.1
[023] - msn-pecan 0.0.16
[024] - MySQL Backup 3.3 (Stable)
[025] - NanoBlogger 3.4 RC2
[026] - NCurses Disk Usage 1.4
[027] - NovaTK 1.1
[028] - onPHP 1.0.7 (Current)
[029] - pandoc 1.0.0.1
[030] - Post Scriptum 1.0-beta
[031] - Prawn 0.2.0
[032] - Quod Libet 2.0
[033] - RwdFoldEditor 0.02
[034] - sakura 2.2.1
[035] - Simple Groupware 0.423
[036] - SMILE Slideshow 0.8.1
[037] - Statfink 2.0.7
[038] - Surfraw 2.2.3
[039] - Tellico 1.3.4
[040] - The Appconf Library 1.0.30
[041] - Truecrypt Installer for Debian 20080914
[042] - Tuatara 2.0
[043] - UrJTAG 0.9
[044] - Useful Java Application Components 1.0.0
[045] - Wally 1.3.0
[046] - Webalizer Xtended RB23
[047] - Weblog 1.1
[048] - xLightweb 2.0
[049] - Xsshfs 0.3
[050] - YML 1.3.2

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[001] - Adventure-(PHP-)Framework 1.7-RC2 (PHP5)
by Christian Achatz (http://freshmeat.net/users/ChristianAchatz/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 04:32

Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes

About: The Adventure-(PHP-)Framework is a Web development framework that
helps you design and create object oriented and reusable PHP Web
applications. It features a unique DOM model, the generic page controller
component, and a set of shipped XML tag libraries to build GUIs based on
XML/HTML templates. The framework core contains components like front
controller, global benchmark concept, global error handling, and a
configuration management class. It includes complete modules like a
guestbook, a comment function, and a generic pager.

Changes: This release candidate includes major enhancements to the dynamic
form generation feature. The CAPTCHA module contains a taglib that can be
included in forms to prevent automated posting. The first beta version of
the genericormapper module is available, which lets you easily save, load,
and manipulate objects in a relational database. Beside several bugfixes,
the documentation was updated and a quicknavi was added to gain clarity.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[002] - AgileWiki 7-0 (Element Model)
by Bill la Forge (http://freshmeat.net/users/laforge49/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 14:58

Database
Documentation
Information Management

About: AgileWiki is meant to create software systems which are fluid,
easily configured and can be reorganized on-the-fly to meet ever changing
requirements. It includes a COW-based database, the Rolonics programming
paradigm, and semantic inferencing.

Changes: A basic Swing capability is now complete. The latest additions
include dynamically configured dialogs for commands with multiple
arguments, property editors for well known and child names, and a
goWellKnown command. The command and swing packages have been reorganized
as well.

License: Common Public License

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

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[003] - aiParts 0.9.1
by Brian Marshall (http://freshmeat.net/users/bmarshal/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 19:17

Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence

About: aiParts is a set of C++ classes that can be used to implement
artificial intelligence, subclasses that implement the HighHope technique,
and some sample programs (including "find the shortest path"). A problem
assembled from subclasses of the High-Hope classes knows how to solve
itself by searching for a good solution.

Changes: The README.txt and project Web site were improved.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[004] - Ajisai 0.5.0
by Jack Lloyd (http://freshmeat.net/users/randombit/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 19:16

Communications
Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Ajisai is a SSL/TLS implementation providing a high level C++
interface. It uses the Botan library for cryptographic operations and
certificate handling.

Changes: This release adds support for handshake messages split across
record boundaries. It has also been updated to use the latest Botan API.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[005] - BeeDiff 1.9
by Piotr Pszczolkowski (http://freshmeat.net/users/PiotrPsz/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 08:25

Software Development

About: BeeDiff (beediff) is a program with graphical user interface (GUI)
for comparing and merging files. User have the possibilty to work with two
text files, each in separate panel. Panels are side by side. All
differences of both texts are highlighted in color. Operation buttons (such
as merge and remove) are located directly inside the compared texts in
appropriate positions. The program is user-friendly, very simple, and
efficient.

Changes: A new configuration option was added. Input text can now be
treated as encoded in UTF-8 rather than the local 8-bit encoding.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[006] - C Algorithms Library 1.2.0
by Simon Howard (http://freshmeat.net/users/phraggle/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 04:31

Software Development :: Libraries

About: C Algorithms Library is a collection of commonly used Computer
Science algorithms. The focus is on code that is well documented and
tested, portable, and reusable.

Changes: This version includes several bugfixes plus extensive
improvements to the test suite.

License: OSI Approved

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/c-algorithms/

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[007] - codemetre 0.16.2
by Guillaume Lemaître (http://freshmeat.net/users/guillaume_lemaitre/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 08:22

Software Development :: Quality Assurance

About: codemetre is able to produce source line count and comment line
count for languages such as Ada95, C++, or Eiffel. It also proposes
different models to measure effort between two versions of a file.

Changes: Internationalization of command line options and keywords was
done. Bugs were fixed in the command line interpreter.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[008] - Ctalk 0.0.73a
by thx1132 (http://freshmeat.net/users/kiesling3/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 19:16

Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Ctalk provides object oriented programming features, like classes,
methods, operator overloading, and inheritance to otherwise standard C
programs. You can use only a few objects and classes in a program, or you
can write programs entirely in Ctalk. The package provides a translator
from Ctalk source code into C for compilation and a library that provides
run-time support for class objects. The preprocessor, ctpp, is also
available separately, and the package includes sample programs and
documentation.

Changes: This release contains many improvements in the creation and
deletion of objects, bugfixes, and the example program, lclock.c.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ctalk-lang/

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[009] - equivs2 3.0
by Dan Stromberg (http://freshmeat.net/users/strombrg/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 23:21

About: equivs2 can relatively (or very, depending on options and input
size) quickly divide a series of files into equivalence classes. It's
suitable for use with a very large number of files and/or very large files.
It can perform its task strictly in terms of cryptographic digests, or use
cryptographic digests backed up at the end with full byte-for-byte
comparisons. It also uses some heuristics like comparing the beginnings of
files and the device number and inode number and file sizes. Further, it
knows to only read in the parts that it needs "so far", to avoid a huge
inhale at the beginning of the run, instead trying an initial method and
falling back to subsequent methods as needed.

Changes: In addition to the previous Python and Perl versions, there's now
a Java version that can be compiled with OpenJDK and gcj. Compiling with
the Sun JDK should be trivial.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/equivs2/

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[010] - FastDup 0.1
by John Brooks (http://freshmeat.net/users/aspecial/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 04:23

Utilities

About: FastDup is a tool to find identical files within directory trees,
with a focus on the ability to scan very large trees and files in
reasonable amounts of time. The use of clever techniques and optimizations
to avoid comparisons allows fastdup to significantly outperform many
existing solutions, and has a benefit of being entirely I/O bound
(insignificant CPU usage). It is released under a modified BSD license,
allowing all use, redistribution, and modification for non-commercial
purposes.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[011] - FeShoot Wiki 0.3.1-alpha
by Dereck (http://freshmeat.net/users/dereckmartin/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 04:25

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Wiki

About: FeShoot is an AJAX-enabled wiki for personal or small group use. It
uses PHP and the XAJAX API.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[012] - Free-SA 1.4.5
by Sapon Oleg (http://freshmeat.net/users/xsaper/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 04:23

Internet :: Log Analysis

About: Free-SA is tool for statistical analysis of daemons' log files,
similar to SARG. Its main advantages over SARG are much better speed
(7x-20x), more support for reports, and W3C compliance of generated
HTML/CSS reports. It can be used to help control traffic usage, to control
Internet access security policies, to investigate security incidents, to
evaluate server efficiency, and to detect troubles with configuration.

Changes: Due to the different cases of usernames in log files, all
usernames are now converted to lower case, which will also simplify
filtering and improve porting to Cygwin. The sort order in the user's
fullurl report is correct now. A new option for placing every site into a
separate file in a user's fullurl report has been implemented. If the month
and year of the start and end of the period are the same, then user
graphics reports are built using a month scale, not year. Earlier, there
was simply a check whether the period was not longer than 30 days, but
there are months with 31 days. Minor code optimizations have been
implemented.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/free-sa/

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[013] - FreedroidRPG 0.11
by Arthur Huillet (http://freshmeat.net/users/ahuillet/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 15:29

Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing

About: FreedroidRPG is an isometric RPG game inspired by Diablo and
Fallout. There is a war, and we are losing it. No one really knows why the
bots started killing us. Most don't even want to know. The human race is
reduced to little more than a few isolated groups of people trying to
survive. Somewhere in a place known as Temple Wood, a hero is about to wake
up from a long sleep...

Changes: This first version in the 0.11 series brings a lot of
improvements in all areas. There is more content (items, levels, music
tracks), a faster and more reliable game engine, improved gameplay balance,
and a more intuitive level editor.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - Galera Load Balancer 0.6.0
by Codership Oy (http://freshmeat.net/users/codership/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 14:52

System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
System :: Networking

About: GLB is a TCP load balancer similar to Pen. It lacks most of
advanced Pen features, as the aim was to make a user-space TCP proxy which
is as fast as possible. It can utilize multiple CPU cores. A list of
destinations can be configured at runtime. Destination "draining" is
supported. It features weight-based connection balancing (which becomes
round-robin if weights are equal).

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[015] - gedit-plugins-extra 2.24.1
by Christopher Bratusek (http://freshmeat.net/users/Flashrider/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 15:33

About: gedit-plugins-extra is a huge, unofficial set of third-party
plugins for gedit (2.13+) and some styles for GTKSourceView (2.0+). Plugins
include advanced bookmarks, advanced editing, align, auto tab, browser
preview, classbrowser, currentline, deletion, doc prop, edit shortcut, find
in documents, latex, line spacing, python outline, reopen tabs, scratch
tab, snap open, splitview2, todo, trailsave, and wordcompletion. Styles
include aurora-borealis, babymate, blue-dream, chela, darkmate, dazzl,
dessert, emacs, emacsdark, fluffy, textmate, tinge, and turbo.

Changes: The LaTeX plugin is correctly installed. A .pc file was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - Ghouls'n Ghosts Remix 0.47
by arraffaele (http://freshmeat.net/users/arraffaele/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 15:56

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade

About: Ghouls'n Ghosts Remix is a remake of Ghouls'n Ghosts, a platform
action game from Capcom 1988 with some differences from the original game.
It's a mix of Ghosts'n Goblins, Ghouls'n Ghosts, and Super Ghouls'n Ghosts.

Changes: Some particle effects were added (smoke in level 2). A magician
and other various enemies were added. Some graphic elements and some minor
bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[017] - glfer 0.4.0
by in3otd (http://freshmeat.net/users/in3otd/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 23:23

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis
Scientific/Engineering

About: glfer is a GTK+ application that shows the input signal frequency
spectrum in a waterfall display and can also control a transmitter to emit
slow-CW (QRSS) signals. The signal to be analyzed can be acquired in
real-time from the sound card or can be read from a WAV file. The signal
spectrum can be computed using four different spectral estimators. The
spectrogram display can be saved as an image; you can choose to save the
entire window, or select a rectangular region to save with the mouse.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[018] - HAproxy 1.3.15.4 (Development)
by Willy Tarreau (http://freshmeat.net/users/wtarreau/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 19:16

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
System :: Networking

About: HAproxy is a high-performance and highly-robust TCP and HTTP load
balancer which provides cookie-based persistence, content-based switching,
advanced traffic regulation with surge protection, automatic failover,
run-time regex-based header control, Web-based reporting, advanced logging
to help trouble-shooting buggy applications and/or networks, and a few
other features. Its own event-driven state machine achieves 20,000 hits per
second and surpasses GigaEthernet on modern hardware, even with tens of
thousands of simultaneous connections.

Changes: The connections regulation mechanism could send more connections
than the allowed limit to a server when this server had just rejected a
connection attempt; for servers with very low connection limits such as
mongrel, this could easily trigger timeouts. The slowstart mechanism could
return a limit of zero connections for very low maxconn values, causing
servers to re-enter the farm a bit late.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[019] - LedgerSMB 1.2.16
by Chris Travers (http://freshmeat.net/users/einhverfr/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 19:09

Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
Office/Business :: Financial :: Point-Of-Sale

About: LedgerSMB is a fork of SQL-Ledger that seeks to provide better
security and data integrity controls, better community support, open
documentation, and more.

Changes: This release corrects two bugs: an Access Denied error searching
for timecards, and a variable scoping issue that caused problems running
with Perl 5.10.0.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ledger-smb/

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[020] - LibRaw 0.6.0 Beta1
by Alex Tutubalin (http://freshmeat.net/users/pupkin2008/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 23:17

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture :: Digital Camera
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Software Development :: Libraries

About: LibRaw is a library for reading RAW files obtained from digital
photo cameras (CRW/CR2, NEF, RAF, DNG, and others). LibRaw is based on the
source codes of the dcraw utility, though some of the drawbacks of dcraw
have been eliminated. The users of the library are provided with an API to
be used when writing their software programs.

Changes: Calls for 3-component RGB-bitmap output. Gamma-corrected 16-bit
output. Input/output ICC profiles via the LCMS library. Bad pixels map
support (similar to dcraw). Dark frame subtraction (similar to dcraw). A
bug in adjust_sizes_info_only() has been fixed. An API to list supported
cameras. Callback calls for progress indication and fast processing
termination. OpenMP support on Unix (gcc) systems. An up to 30% speedup on
2-core machines.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[021] - mididings 20080913
by Dominic Sacré (http://freshmeat.net/users/sacred/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 04:15

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: mididings is a MIDI router and processor for ALSA or JACK MIDI.
It's implemented as a Python module, thereby offering a powerful and
flexible means to set up patches, while the actual MIDI processing code is
written in C++.

Changes: This release adds some convenience functions to run shell
commands, and to send OSC or DBUS messages. The validity checking of
function arguments has been improved to produce more helpful error
messages.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[022] - Mobius Forensic Toolkit 0.3.1
by Eduardo Aguiar (http://freshmeat.net/users/aguiar/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 23:20

Security :: Forensics

About: Mobius Forensic Toolkit is a forensic framework written in
Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract
interface for developing extensions. Cases and item categories are defined
using XML files for easy integration with other tools.

Changes: An Attribute Viewer extension has been created. Mediator
implements signals and loose coupled function calls.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[023] - msn-pecan 0.0.16
by Felipe Contreras (http://freshmeat.net/users/felipec/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 23:18

Communications :: Chat

About: msn-pecan is an alternative MSN protocol plug-in for libpurple. It
aims to have a much faster development process, a low barrier for
contributions, and close contact with the user base.

Changes: Random bugfixes plus a few features.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/msn-pecan/

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[024] - MySQL Backup 3.3 (Stable)
by Peter Falkenberg Brown (http://freshmeat.net/users/peterbrown/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 19:20

Database
Database :: Front-Ends
System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: MySQL Backup is a Perl script that uses mysqlshow to grab the
database names and "show tables" to grab the table names for a user's
account, and then uses mysqldump to save the data in a subdirectory named
in the script. It then tars and gzips the files, using the date and time
for the file name. It can be run from cron on a daily basis. It removes old
files and has an option to email the gzip file to an admin, and/or FTP the
file to a remote server. It also has options to use "select data into
outfile" or a regular "select" for users who can't use mysqldump. It
supports LARGE sets of databases and tables.

Changes: Code to correctly delete remote FTP files by forcing a check on
the remote directory name and setup variable. Code to remove '.' and '..'
from the remote FTP list of files. Code to not break if the remote FTP
directory didn't have any files in it. Code to delete remote FTP files
based on the variable $number_of_files_to_save.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[025] - NanoBlogger 3.4 RC2
by Kevin Wood (http://freshmeat.net/users/n1xt3r/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 04:30

Communications
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: NanoBlogger is a small Weblog engine written in bash. It uses
common Unix tools such as cat, grep, and sed to create static HTML content.
It's command line driven and supports archiving by category, year, month,
day, and entry. It's designed to be modular, flexible, and independent of
external databases.

Changes: This release brings a notable improvement over the previous
command line interface that debuted in 3.4 RC1, and features a new command
for creating articles and three new modernly designed style sheets.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[026] - NCurses Disk Usage 1.4
by YorHel (http://freshmeat.net/users/YorHel/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 08:26

System :: Systems Administration
Utilities

About: ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a curses-based version of the
well-known "du", and provides a fast way to see what directories are using
your disk space.

Changes: The obsolete startup window was removed. Filenames ending with a
tidle are now considered as "hidden". Several bugs and portability issues
were fixed.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[027] - NovaTK 1.1
by realmz (http://freshmeat.net/users/realmz/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 04:20

Software Development :: User Interfaces
Software Development :: Widget Sets

About: NovaTK is an object-oriented, cross-platform GUI toolkit. One of
the focuses of NovaTK is to facilitate rapid development of cross-platform
applications requiring fewer lines of code. The event system is based upon
a powerful callback mechanism that makes application design simpler, easier
to read, and logical.

Changes: This release has several improvements and bugfixes as well as
some new additions. Some of the new features include a new widget, Slider,
and an interface class, Viewer, which is used by all widgets that use a
Viewport to provide a common interface to controlling the viewports of
these widgets. Other changes include fixed support for alpha blending
images on systems using pre-multiplied alpha, better menu behaviour, full
support for disabling/enabling widgets, scrolling by selection dragging in
TextEntry widgets, and font families are now sorted in the Font Selection
Dialog.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[028] - onPHP 1.0.7 (Current)
by voxus (http://freshmeat.net/users/voxus/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 23:24

Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: onPHP is an object-oriented framework aimed at rapid development of
scalable robust applications with outstanding code reusability level. It
also provides code generation tools to save your time, and a PHP extension
(module) to save the CPU time of your servers.

Changes: The OQL was introduced, inspired by Hibernate's Query Language
(HQL) tool based on Criteria. Many performance-related bugfixes were ported
from trunk.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[029] - pandoc 1.0.0.1
by John MacFarlane (http://freshmeat.net/users/johnmacfarlane/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 04:29

Text Processing :: Markup
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML
Text Processing :: Markup :: TeX/LaTeX

About: Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format
to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read
markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX, and it can
write markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, DocBook, OpenDocument XML,
RTF, ODT, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki markup, and S5 HTML slide shows. Pandoc
extends standard markdown syntax with footnotes, embedded LaTeX, and more.
A compatibility mode is provided for those who need a drop-in replacement
for Markdown.pl. Included wrapper scripts make it easy to convert markdown
to PDFs and Web pages to markdown documents. It has a modular design where
the addition of a new input or output format requires only the addition of
a reader or writer module.

Changes: This release adds four new output formats: OpenDocument XML, GNU
Texinfo, ODT, and MediaWiki markup. Pandoc's markdown now supports a new
delimited (or "fenced") code block syntax, with optional syntax
highlighting. The build system has been cleaned up, and the API now
provides handy generic functions for querying and transforming documents.
Support for LaTeX math in Markdown documents has been improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[030] - Post Scriptum 1.0-beta
by M.L. (http://freshmeat.net/users/marekletowski/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 23:23

Printing
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: Post Scriptum is a programming language for preparing PostScript
documents and programs. The language is procedural, and uses classical
control structures (functions, loops, and conditional statements) and
commonly known data types (numbers, arrays, strings, and dictionaries). Its
syntax is simple, clear, and easy to learn. The compiler translates
programs written in Post Scriptum directly to a PostScript file, which can
be than executed by a PostScript interpreter (such as Ghostscript),
printed, or used as a procset, driver, or library.

Changes: The program is fully functional. Distribution files contain
documentation and examples.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[031] - Prawn 0.2.0
by Greg Brown (http://freshmeat.net/users/greg7224/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 04:13

Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules

About: Prawn is a pure Ruby PDF generation library with the long term goal
of providing a suitable replacement for PDF::Writer.

Changes: This release brings several new enhancements, including improved
header and footer support, a more robust font system, and additional
components to make graphics and text rendering easier.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[032] - Quod Libet 2.0
by piman (http://freshmeat.net/users/jwreschnig/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 04:30

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

About: Quod Libet is a music library management program. Rather than
categorize songs by genre, artist, and album, it lets you search and
display them however you want. It supports regexp-based searches, album
cover display, tag editing, ReplayGain, multimedia keys, and an OSD. Also
included is Ex Falso, a tag editor that has the same editing features found
in Quod Libet, but does not play audio files.

Changes: This release includes many improvements to the architecture, as
well as a new distutils-based build and test system to ease frequent
releases. The audio playback engine is now replaceable, and Xine and
GStreamer-based implementations are included. Numerous bugfixes and minor
enhancements have been made since 1.0.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[033] - RwdFoldEditor 0.02
by Gibby (http://freshmeat.net/users/gibsons/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 19:09

About: RwdFoldEditor is a book writing tool. It can be used to build
linked lists of text files, used to edit text files, has context-sensitive
help, and can submit bug reports with one click. This is part of the
rwdtinker framework, using the RubyWebDialogs GUI. Rwdtinker provides a
system for developing programs, and uses a Web-based interface. It allows a
developer to combine and create applets to implement an application. It
features built-in bug report submission, a test framework, and
context-sensitive help. RwdFoldEditor is usable in building your own tinker
applets.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[034] - sakura 2.2.1
by davidge (http://freshmeat.net/users/davidge/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 15:31

Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals

About: sakura is a vte-based terminal emulator. It aims to provide a
terminal emulator that only depends on GTK and VTE. It uses a notebook to
allow multiple tabs in the same window.

Changes: A bug in scrollbar configuration was fixed. The French
translation was updated. The tab name is set when window the title changes
and the new hold command line option was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[035] - Simple Groupware 0.423
by Thomas Bley (http://freshmeat.net/users/simplegroupware/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 15:30

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: New events were added for slow pages in the CMS module. The
Smarty library was updated to the latest version. A fix was applied to the
PostgreSQL (8.1.x) setup.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[036] - SMILE Slideshow 0.8.1
by csgib36 (http://freshmeat.net/users/csgib36/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 15:32

Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Animation
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors

About: SMILE (Slideshow Maker In Linux Environment) is a rewrite of
Manslide. Its function is to create 3D slideshows.

Changes: Small bugs were fixed. New effects were added. A Polish
translation was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[037] - Statfink 2.0.7
by StickMan (http://freshmeat.net/users/fewli0/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 04:14

Games/Entertainment

About: Statfink is a Fantasy (American) Football statistics tracker and
live scoring program that is best suited for working with leagues hosted at
Yahoo!. It is meant to be run by one member of the league so that the rest
of the members can view the output.

Changes: This release fixes a couple of player stats not being recorded
properly.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[038] - Surfraw 2.2.3
by Ian Beckwith (http://freshmeat.net/users/ianbeckwith/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 14:59

freshmeat.net
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: Surfraw (Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web)
provides a Unix command line interface to a variety of popular Web search
engines and sites, including Google, Altavista, Wikipedia, Babelfish, Ebay,
Wayback, Research Index, Yahoo!, Slashdot, freshmeat, CPAN, dictionaries,
weather, currency conversion, and many others.

Changes: Surfraw now defaults to graphical mode. The surfraw(1) man page
explains how to change the default back. Default browsers are now detected
during build. To override this, use the --with-text-browser=BROWSER
--with-graphical-browser=BROWSER options of the ./configure script. New
search tools were added: piratebay and genportage. Various small fixes were
made.

License: Public Domain

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

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[039] - Tellico 1.3.4
by Robby Stephenson (http://freshmeat.net/users/parys/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 08:23

Database
Information Management

About: Tellico is a collection manager for KDE. It includes default
collections for books, bibliographies, comic books, videos, music, video
games, coins, stamps, trading cards, and wines, and also allows custom
collections. Unlimited user-defined fields are allowed. Filters are
available to limit the visible entries by definable criteria. Full
customization for printing is possible through editing the default XSLT
file. It can import CSV, Bibtex, Bibtexml, RIS, MODS, CDDB, and audio file
metadata and exports CSV, HTML, Bibtex, Bibtexml, ONIX, and PilotDB.
Entries may be imported directly from Amazon.com, imdb.com, any z39.50
bibliographic server, PubMed, or an external script.

Changes: The IMDb searching was updated. Drag-and-drop was improved to
match on file extension. Linked images in HTML reports was fixed, and a bug
in CSV import with consecutive whitespace was fixed. Board game searching
was added from Amazon.com.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[040] - The Appconf Library 1.0.30
by madyogi (http://freshmeat.net/users/madyogi/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 10:50

Software Development :: Libraries

About: The Appconf Library is a library responsible for managing the
configuration data of other, bigger, standalone applications. It lets you
read configuration files and feed your applications with required data. The
library supports storing information in ini-like files and MySQL tables.

Changes: The spec files for RPM were fixed. Integers can also be read as
doubles now.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[041] - Truecrypt Installer for Debian 20080914
by Jari Aalto (http://freshmeat.net/users/jaalto/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 19:10

System :: Filesystems

About: Truecrypt Installer for Debian helps to get Truecrypt running with
a minimum of effort under Debian-based Linux systems (Debian and Ubuntu are
officially supported). Truecrypt is Open Source disk encryption software
which uses a concept of containers to store encrypted data. The containers
(or volumes) can be read transparently under Linux and Windows. The
installer creates installable *.deb packages from the Truecrypt sources,
and those debs can be used in turn to activate Truecrypt.

Changes: Kernel 2.6.26 support. The Module.symvers is now properly linked
with the *.ko module. This should fix the modprobe error "Invalid module
format" and dmesg "truecrypt: no symbol version for struct_module".

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/truecrypt-installer/

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[042] - Tuatara 2.0
by Houman Atashbar (http://freshmeat.net/users/houman001/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 14:49

Communications :: Email :: Address Book
Home Automation

About: Tuatara is a complete address book system with command-line and
Web-based interfaces. It is deployed under the J2EE framework.

Changes: This release is actually a rewrite. Tools used in this release
are as follows: JPA for persistence, JSF for the views, OpenEJB for
testing, MySQL as the default database, Maven as a build tool, and
GlassFish as the default application server. This is the first milestone.
It does not cover all the same functionality as the previous release, but
it's a starting point for a project using EJB, Maven, and JSF.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[043] - UrJTAG 0.9
by Kolja Waschk (http://freshmeat.net/users/kawk/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 14:52

Communications
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

About: UrJTAG aims to create an enhanced, modern tool for communicating
over JTAG with flash chips, CPUs, and many more. It takes on the well
proven openwince jtag tools code. Future plans include conversion of the
code base into a library that can be used with other applications. A
flexible remote communication protocol that can be used over almost any
type of serial link (including TCP/IP) is currently being defined.

Changes: The BSDL parser has been rewritten with added support for IEEE
1532 extensions. Internally, many global variables were removed, which is a
major improvement for everyone who wants to use UrJTAG as a library. The
low level communication with USB cables has been properly separated from
that with parport cables into new "usbconn" and "parport" link drivers,
making it easier to support new USB cables with their custom protocols
natively. Many annoyances and bugs have been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[044] - Useful Java Application Components 1.0.0
by Christian Lauer (http://freshmeat.net/users/lauerc/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 15:32

Software Development :: Interpreters
Text Processing

About: Useful Java Application Components (UJAC) is a collection of
components that may be useful for your project. It provides a powerful
expression interpreter, an iText-based document processing engine that
generates PDF documents based on XML templates, a charting library
supporting JSP custom tags, and much more.

Changes: This release fixes all known issues from the release candidates.
The main features are improvements of 2D-Barcode output and floating layout
of form fields in PDF documents.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[045] - Wally 1.3.0
by TortugaLabs (http://freshmeat.net/users/tortugalabs/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 23:18

Desktop Environment :: Tools

About: Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper changer using multiple sources like files,
folders, Flickr, Yahoo!, and Panoramio. It runs under Linux and Win32 (Mac
OS X support is in progress). Supported Linux window managers are GNOME,
KDE3, XFCE4, BlackBox, FluxBox, Window Maker, and FVWM (experimental).

Changes: This release adds Pixeo and Riya support (experimental). The
"About" dialog now shows which image formats are supported. GNOME
environment detection now should work.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[046] - Webalizer Xtended RB23
by Patrick Frei (http://freshmeat.net/users/pfrei/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 14:53

Internet :: Log Analysis

About: Webalizer Xtended is a fork of Webalizer and contains a great
number of feature improvements, such as monthly statistics for all "HTTP
404 Not Found" errors (including the number of these errors and the
corresponding URLs), IPv6 support, and additional configuration file
keywords. Furthermore, all colors of the statistics can be defined by the
user. Webalizer Xtended also fixes several (security-related) bugs in the
original Webalizer code and contains the "Geolizer" and "Apache mod_logio"
patches to generate faster and more reliable geographic traffic statistics.

Changes: Several bugs (e.g. compiler warnings) and typographical errors
were fixed. The country code list was updated and new configuration
directives were added. The default values for several configuration
keywords were modified.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[047] - Weblog 1.1
by Henry (http://freshmeat.net/users/Henry8/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 04:14

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: News/Diary

About: Weblog is a blog publisher. It takes structured text files as input
and outputs static HTML and RSS files. It aims to be simple and robust.

Changes: This release adds Markdown markup and an Atom feed.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/python-weblog/

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[048] - xLightweb 2.0
by feki (http://freshmeat.net/users/fekete99/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 19:08

Communications
Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: xLightweb is an easy-to-use HTTP network library to build high
performance, highly scalable network applications in Java. xLightweb
provides a simple and intuitive API to write client side HTTP applications
as well as server side HTTP applications. In contrast to the Servlet API,
xLightweb is not only focused on server side programming. xLightweb also
supports client side programming by providing high-capacity client side
classes such as an HttpClient. It supports both blocking/synchronous
programming as well as non-blocking/asynchronous programming.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[049] - Xsshfs 0.3
by David M. (http://freshmeat.net/users/kepon/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 19:10

Internet

About: Xsshfs is a small program to manage mount/umount of the sshfs
directory for Linux. It is a GUI utility for GTK sshfs (of the branch
fuse).

License: Common Public License

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

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[050] - YML 1.3.2
by Volker Birk (http://freshmeat.net/users/fdik/)
Sun, Sep 14th 2008 04:15

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: Plain text escaping in plain YML files now works correctly.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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