Newsletter for Tuesday, September 16th 2008

The freshmeat daily newsletter <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:10:02 +0000 (UTC)

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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/2008/09/16/
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::: A D V E R T I S I N G :::

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

[001] - ACE 5.6.6 (Development)
[002] - Beesoft Commander 4.0.08.beta
[003] - bigloo 3.1b
[004] - BuildBot 0.7.9
[005] - Cernunnos 1.0.0
[006] - Critterding 1.0-beta6
[007] - EJBCA 3.7.1 (Development)
[008] - epris 0.1git
[009] - Erwin Data Structures 2.1.89795
[010] - ExactImage 0.6.1
[011] - Exiv2 0.18-pre1
[012] - fb_mhash 1.2.01
[013] - fb_shash 1.0.01
[014] - Fedora Directory Server 1.1.2
[015] - Gallery 1.6-RC2 (1.0)
[016] - giv 0.9.7
[017] - GOZERBOT 0.8.2-BETA (Development)
[018] - GROUP-E 1.6.45
[019] - Hyperic HQ 4.0.0-853 Beta 2 (4.0 Beta)
[020] - iotools 1.0
[021] - JExpress 7.2.3
[022] - JRubyStack 1.1.4-0
[023] - Lbzip2 0.06
[024] - Le Petit Poucet GPS Software 0.2.0
[025] - magent 0.3
[026] - mod_cidr_lookup 1.2
[027] - netrik 1.15.8
[028] - newsstar 1.5.3
[029] - Open Auto Classifieds 1.4.6b
[030] - openQRM 4.1
[031] - prettyprint 0.2
[032] - psycopg 2.0.8 (Stable)
[033] - RwdFoldEditor 0.03
[034] - RwdRuby 1.05
[035] - SAcc 1.81-RC1
[036] - scord 1.0.5
[037] - SiSU 0.69.0
[038] - Solido Smtp Proxy 5.0 build 52.d18
[039] - Talend Open Profiler 1.1.0RC2 (Development)
[040] - TestLink 1.8 beta3
[041] - Tsung 1.3.0
[042] - Vim 7.2
[043] - VLC media player 0.9.2 (Stable)
[044] - WebGuru Publisher CMS 2.0.5
[045] - Whups H3 (1.0-RC2)
[046] - xdiff-ext 0.2.0

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

[001] - ACE 5.6.6 (Development)
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 09:05

Software Development :: Libraries

About: The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE) is an object-oriented
(OO) C++ framework that helps you develop and deploy high-performance
networked applications faster and with less code to write and maintain. ACE
is especially useful for systems that use network and/or inter-process
communications and that take advantage of multithreading. While the ACE
source code is free, that's not the only way you save money with ACE. ACE's
wrappers and higher-level patterns help you develop your software quickly
and portably, helping you to complete your projects on time and within
budget.

Changes: Support for use of wide characters in environment under Windows
was improved. The ACE_Stack_Trace class was added to allow users to obtain
a stack trace within their application on supported platforms. Iterator
support was added to the ACE_Message_Queue_Ex class. Support was added for
FC9, OpenSuSE 11.0, and CodeGear C++ Builder 2009. Support for GCC 4.2 and
4.3 was improved. ZIOP support was added to TAO. A new text based monitor
was added to the Notify_Service to keep track of timed-out consumers. Many
major bugs were fixed.

License: OSI Approved

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

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[002] - Beesoft Commander 4.0.08.beta
by Piotr Pszczolkowski (http://freshmeat.net/users/PiotrPsz/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 15:08

About: Beesoft Commander is a file manager (like Norton Commander) for
Linux. It is based on Qt-GUI.

Changes: Small bugs in the file diff process were corrected. A new file
joining feature was implemented.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[003] - bigloo 3.1b
by Serrano (http://freshmeat.net/users/manuelserrano/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 09:18

Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Interpreters

About: Bigloo is an implementation of the Scheme programming language. It
relies on an optimizing compiler from Scheme to C. Bigloo enables
connections between Scheme code and C code. It proposes many extensions to
Scheme such as a regular parser compiler, an lalr parser compiler, pattern
matching, an object layer, etc.

Changes: A significant performance improvement was made for multi-threaded
applications. Performance of the IO system was improved. New APIs have been
added for cryptography and multimedia. New functions extend the existing
APIs for things like dates, sockets, and IO.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[004] - BuildBot 0.7.9
by Brian Warner (http://freshmeat.net/users/brianwarner/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 18:02

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

About: The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle
required by most software projects to validate code changes. It builds and
tests the tree each time a change is committed, providing status updates
through a Web page or other protocols.

Changes: The location of the public_html directory is now configurable,
new "lock access modes" have been added, and the buildslave
missing_timeout= should no longer fire too early. Compatibility with recent
versions of Mercurial and Git has been improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - Cernunnos 1.0.0
by Drew Wills (http://freshmeat.net/users/awills/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 18:03

Communications :: Email
Database :: API
Documentation

About: The Cernunnos Project makes Java professionals more effective by
helping them reuse their work extensively. It accomplishes this aim by
defining the shape of software components independent of their function.
Put another way, Cernunnos makes software less like puzzle pieces and more
like Lego bricks.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[006] - Critterding 1.0-beta6
by B0bke (http://freshmeat.net/users/B0bke/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 09:55

Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Scientific/Engineering :: Neuroscience

About: Critterding is a "Petri dish"-universe with a 3D view that
demonstrates simple artificial intelligence by evolution. Critters start
out with completely random brains, but will automatically start evolving
into something with much better survival skills.

Changes: An input bug was fixed, amongst other bugs. A corpse entity was
introduced. Age inputs were introduced.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[007] - EJBCA 3.7.1 (Development)
by Tomas Gustavsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/anatom/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 11:45

About: EJBCA is a fully functional Certificate Authority in Java using
J2EE technology. It builds on the J2EE platform to create a robust, high
performance, platform independent, flexible, and component-based CA to be
used standalone or integrated in any J2EE app. EJBCA comes with a flexible
and powerful Web-based admin GUI.

Changes: CVC support for EC keys was added. External CA certificates can
be imported. Lots of CVC usability improvements and interoperability fixes
were made. Certificates are ordered in view certificates with the newest
ones first. An upgrade bug for upgrades between 3.6 to 3.7 was fixed.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[008] - epris 0.1git
by elmarco (http://freshmeat.net/users/overtime/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 05:17

Desktop Environment
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: Epris is a D-Bus service and command line client to listen to
music. Unlike xmms2 or mpd, it uses GStreamer and D-Bus. It is written in
Vala.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[009] - Erwin Data Structures 2.1.89795
by Henrik Theiling (http://freshmeat.net/users/theiling/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 05:18

Software Development
Utilities

About: The Erwin library is a very efficient and robust data structure
template library for C and C++. No templates are used; a Perl script
generates C files. Vectors (dynamic arrays), lists, and hash tables (maps)
of arbitrary key and value types are provided. Several tools are included
for auto-generating a C interface around C++ libraries, C++ extensions like
slots/properties, symbol (=hashed string) management, sophisticated
assertion macros, and documentation extraction.

Changes: Operator== was broken in Map and Vector: its const qualifier was
missing. This is potentially very hazardous, because the C++ compiler will
silently use the default byte-wise comparison instead if the static type is
const. Several years of testing had not revealed this; it was fixed
immediately upon discovery.

License: Freely Distributable

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/erwin2/

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[010] - ExactImage 0.6.1
by René Rebe (http://freshmeat.net/users/ReneRebe/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 17:54

Multimedia :: Graphics

About: ExactImage is a fast C++ image processing library. Unlike
ImageMagick, it allows operation in several color spaces and bit depths
natively, resulting in much lower memory and computational requirements.
Some optimized algorithms operate in 1/20 of the time ImageMagick requires,
and displaying large images can be as fast as 1/10 of the time the
"display" program takes.

Changes: The new PDF writer was improved to write PDF files with fewer
text objects and thus not crash Adobe Acrobat 7 and older versions. Some
typos in the human-readable output, including help text, were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/exact-image/

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[011] - Exiv2 0.18-pre1
by Andreas Huggel (http://freshmeat.net/users/ahuggel/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 09:51

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

About: Exiv2 is a C++ image metadata manipulation library that makes
reading and writing Exif, IPTC, and XMP image metadata easy. It provides
full Exif makernote and thumbnail support. The Exiv2 command line utility
prints Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata including Makernote tags in various
formats, adjusts Exif timestamps, renames images according to the Exif
timestamp, extracts and inserts Exif, IPTC, and XMP metadata and JPEG
comments, or deletes the thumbnail or a specific type of metadata from an
image.

Changes: This pre-release adds write support for TIFF, DNG, NEF, PEF, PNG,
and JP2 images and provides the basis for write support for other TIFF-like
RAW formats. The library's API was streamlined and internal symbols were
removed from the ABI. Under the hood, the TIFF parser code was
consolidated: JPEG images now also use the new TIFF parser to read and
write Exif metadata and the old obsolete code was removed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/exiv2/

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[012] - fb_mhash 1.2.01
by Richard Kotal (http://freshmeat.net/users/kotalr/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 15:17

Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Security
Software Development :: Libraries

About: fb_mhash is a UDF library for Firebird/Interbase. It implements an
interface to the mhash library (libmhash). It support hash, hmac, and key
generation algorithms, such as SHA1, MD5, MCRYPT, and S2K_SALTED. It
support BLOB data.

Changes: The dependency on the Firebird library was removed.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[013] - fb_shash 1.0.01
by Richard Kotal (http://freshmeat.net/users/kotalr/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 15:17

Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Security
Software Development :: Libraries

About: fb_shash is a UDF library for Firebird/Interbase. It implements
hash and hmac interfaces to the openssl library. It supports hash and hmac
algorithms such as SHA1 and MD5. It supports BLOB data.

Changes: The dependency on the Firebird library was removed.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[014] - Fedora Directory Server 1.1.2
by Rich Megginson (http://freshmeat.net/users/richm31415/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 17:42

About: Fedora Directory Server is a full-featured LDAPv3 compliant server.
In addition to the standard LDAPv3 operations, it supports multi-master
replication, fully online configuration and administration, chaining,
virtual attributes, access control directives in the data, Virtual List
View, server-side sorting, SASL, TLS/SSL, and many other features. The
transactional Berkeley DB 4.2 is used as its data store and a full plug-in
API allows developers to extend the the functionality of the server in many
ways, and many of the core features of the server are already implemented
using this API. The server is very mature, having started out as Netscape
Directory Server.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fedora-ds/

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[015] - Gallery 1.6-RC2 (1.0)
by Chris Kelly (http://freshmeat.net/users/ckdake/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 17:35

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is
easy to install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the
ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via
an intuitive Web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail
creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning and more. Albums
can have read, write, and caption permissions per individual authenticated
user for an additional level of privacy.

Changes: This release fixes several security issues and resolves a handful
of bugs found in 1.6-RC1.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - giv 0.9.7
by Dov Grobgeld (http://freshmeat.net/users/dovg/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 19:18

About: giv, the G(reat|tk|NU) Image Viewer, is an image and hierarchical
vector viewer. It was designed especially for scientific vision and
computational geometry.

Changes: This version solves several redrawing and flickering problems of
previous versions. It also solves a bug in the display of "narrow" marks
files.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[017] - GOZERBOT 0.8.2-BETA (Development)
by Bart Thate (http://freshmeat.net/users/bthate/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 11:43

About: GOZERBOT is an IRC and Jabber bot. It can fetch RSS feeds, keep
todo and shopping lists, manage karma and quotes, and remember items. It
supports plugins, has a built-in Web server, and can communicate with other
bots. It can also relay messages received by UDP to a channel or person,
which could be useful for monitoring systems. Relaying between IRC and
Jabber is also possible.

Changes: Most of the plugins were removed from the core bot and moved into
their own tarball. This will keep the core clean and easier to maintain.
This is a big change that needs testing. Furthermore, the core has been
rewritten to better handle callbacks and commands. A REST server and client
was added to allow different gozerbots to communicate with each other. New
plugins include powernick, throttle, register, anon, cloud, and traclog.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[018] - GROUP-E 1.6.45
by Endo7 GmbH/srl (http://freshmeat.net/users/shaberl/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 09:32

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Address Book
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP

About: GROUP-E is collaboration software which integrates groupware,
project management, and business server on one platform. The solution is
based on a LAMP architecture (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). GROUP-E offers
project management, transparent Samba (file server) integration,
integration of Cyrus IMAP server with administration and personal SIEVE
filters, support for SyncML 1.0, LDAP-based user management with single
sign-on authentication, and LDAP contact databases.

Changes: Several minor bugs were fixed in the syncml, projects, email,
address, and calendar modules. The primary group is set per user in user
administration. A new right, called "export adressbook", was added in the
addressbook. The number of members in a role in is defined in the "config"
interface. Target hours for activities are defined per project in time
recording. A statistic is maintained for target/actual hours in projects.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[019] - Hyperic HQ 4.0.0-853 Beta 2 (4.0 Beta)
by Chip Witt (http://freshmeat.net/users/cwitt/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 05:16

System :: Networking :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration

About: Hyperic HQ is systems management software designed for the next
generation data center integrating all of the Web infrastructure
technologies, including virtualization, Apache, IIS, WebSphere, LAMP, WAMP,
JBoss, WebLogic, and more. HQ's design is meant to deliver on the promise
of a single integrated management portal capable of managing unlimited
types of technologies in environments that range from small business IT
departments to the operations groups of today's largest financial and
industrial organizations.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hyperic-hq/

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[020] - iotools 1.0
by Tim Hockin (http://freshmeat.net/users/thockin/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 05:15

System :: Hardware

About: The iotools package provides a set of simple command line tools
that allow access to hardware device registers. Supported register
interfaces include PCI, I/O, memory mapped I/O, SMBus, CPUID, and MSR. Also
included are some utilities that allow for simple arithmetic, logical, and
other operations. If you ever have to debug hardware, you could probably
use these tools.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[021] - JExpress 7.2.3
by DeNova (http://freshmeat.net/users/denovasale/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 15:10

Software Development
Software Development :: Build Tools
System :: Installation/Setup

About: JExpress is a cross platform Java installer builder. JExpress
generates native installers on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It installs
the exact version of the JVM you want and also configures your customers'
machines to launch your Java application from a native executable on
Windows and Mac OS X. You customize your installer, updater, and
uninstaller using Java. Installers can be designed with multiple install
types or components. An installer can be created quickly with a simple
wizard or a powerful advanced interface.

Changes: A null pointer which was encountered when creating a menu without
an icon was fixed.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[022] - JRubyStack 1.1.4-0
by vbit (http://freshmeat.net/users/vbit/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 09:37

About: BitNami RubyStack provides a fast, easy way to develop and deploy
Ruby on Rails applications on a Java runtime using JRuby. It includes
JRuby, Rails, Java, Tomcat, the GlassFish gem, MySQL, and Subversion. It
supports Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, so you can share the same Rails
environment on multiple platforms.

Changes: JRuby was updated to 1.1.4. Rails was updated to 2.1.0. The
actionmailer gem was updated to 2.1.0. The actionpack gem was updated to
2.1.0. The activerecord gem was updated to 2.1.0. The
activerecord-jdbc-adapter gem was updated 0.8.2. The
activerecord-jdbcmysql-adapter gem was updated to 0.8.2. The activeresource
gem was updated to 2.1.0. The activesupport gem was updated to 2.1.0. The
jruby-openssl gem was updated to 0.3. The rspec gem was updated to 1.1.4.
The warbler gem was updated to 0.9.10. gem_highline 1.4.0, gem_echoe 3.0,
and gem_rubyforge 1.0.0 were added.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[023] - Lbzip2 0.06
by lacos (http://freshmeat.net/users/lacos/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 05:19

System :: Archiving :: Compression

About: Lbzip2 is a Pthreads-based parallel bzip2/bunzip2 filter, passable
to GNU tar with the --use-compress-program option. It isn't restricted to
regular files on input, nor output. Successful splitting for decompression
isn't guaranteed, just very likely (failure is detected). Splitting in both
modes and compression itself occur with an approximate 900k block size. On
an Athlon-64 X2 6000+, lbzip2 was 92% faster than standard bzip2 when
compressing, and 45% faster when decompressing (based on wall clock time).
Lbzip2 strives to be portable by requiring UNIX 98 APIs only, besides an
unmodified libbz2.

Changes: When decompressing with a single worker thread, lbzip2 was
previously 45% slower than standard bzip2. The new, dedicated single-worker
decompressor is only 3% slower, and provides input and output buffering,
which is useful in pipelines and on network file systems. Hence using
lbzip2 incurs virtually no performance penalty over bzip2 even on a
single-core machine. A script was added to help automated testing. Some
thread notification conditions have been cleaned up. This release
compresses an empty file to a valid bzip2 stream instead of an empty file.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lbzip2/

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[024] - Le Petit Poucet GPS Software 0.2.0
by Antoine Hue (http://freshmeat.net/users/tonio_73/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 15:16

Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

About: Le Petit Poucet is a program to display and edit GPS routes and
tracks in a 3D scene. The aim is to build the scene around the GPS data and
2D maps or 3D terrain models.

Changes: 3D rendering of tracks and waypoints was improved: elevation is
now automatically corrected to pop GPS data above 3D terrain. The graphical
user interface was improved with contextual menus, easier imagery server
selection, track and waypoint selection, a "Save as" feature", and 3D
terrain cancellation. Overall improvement of the software quality was done:
numerous bugs have been fixed in the graphical interface, application
stability, 3D scene management, and imagery download optimization.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[025] - magent 0.3
by Que HY (http://freshmeat.net/users/qhy/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 05:19

Internet :: Proxy Servers

About: magent is a simple but useful proxy program for memcached servers.
It supports most of the memcached protocol, keeping connections alive, and
backing up server farms.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[026] - mod_cidr_lookup 1.2
by hirose31 (http://freshmeat.net/users/hirose31/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 11:57

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: The mod_cidr_lookup is an Apache module for version 2.2 and 2.0.
The mod_cidr_lookup detects client type by looking up the client's source
IP address in CIDR blocks. This module sets the environment variable
X_CLIENT_TYPE and the HTTP request header X-Client-Type, so it can be used
in both Apache (httpd.conf) and Web applications.

Changes: The hook point "ap_hook_post_read_request" was added so that
mod_cidr_lookup and SetEnvIf will work fine together in a server or virtual
host context.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[027] - netrik 1.15.8
by antrik (http://freshmeat.net/users/antrik/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 19:14

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: Netrik is an advanced text mode WWW browser. Its purpose is to give
access to as much of the Web as possible in text mode, without forsaking
any comfort.

Changes: This release fixes HTTP header handling to be case insensitive,
fixing some redirects that were silently broken before.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[028] - newsstar 1.5.3
by Tony Houghton (http://freshmeat.net/users/realh/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 17:53

Communications :: Usenet News

About: Newsstar fetches news and posts it to a local news server: INN,
s-news, and sn are supported. What makes newsstar special is that it can
make multiple simultaneous connections, not only to one server, but to
several, supporting up to 10 "threads". Before fetching each article, it
checks that it hasn't already been downloaded by another thread or in a
previous session. It can also "pipeline" article requests to make better
use of available bandwidth. SSL is supported.

Changes: This release avoids updating stats too often, which caused
flickering. It processes all outgoing feeds, not just ones with
corresponding newsrc files.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[029] - Open Auto Classifieds 1.4.6b
by bkeep (http://freshmeat.net/users/bkeep/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 08:52

About: OpenAutoClassifieds is a vehicle classifieds manager. Intended to
be both easy to install and easy to administer, it uses PHP to drive a
MySQL backend, thus creating a tool that is fast and flexible. No HTML
coding is required to add, delete, or modify listings. You can upload
photos via your Web browser. If photos are not uploaded for a vehicle, a
"photo not available" image will be automatically displayed for the
listing.

Changes: A search glitch when browsing previous and next pages on
listings.php was fixed. A quick search glitch was fixed. listings.php can
be sorted by price, make, or model. Sold listings are automaticly sorted to
the bottom of the listings.php list. When addlisting fails, you no longer
have to refill all fields. Featured listings on an index now have the ad
title displayed underneath. Vin and Stock numbers were added to the
descriptions on listings.php. Seller information can be viewed on a single
listing details page. JavaScript code was added to allow for tabs on the
listings pages.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[030] - openQRM 4.1
by M. Rechenburg (http://freshmeat.net/users/waplocater/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 19:18

Information Management
Scientific/Engineering
System :: Networking

About: openQRM is a systems management platform that integrates with
existing components in enterprise data centers to create scalable, highly
available, and customizable infrastructures.

Changes: Support for KVM virtualization was added, and an image-shelf
plugin now provides ready-made and ready-to-deploy server images to get
started easily. This version also provides many usability enhancements,
shorter GUI sequences (meaning fewer mouse clicks), some security fixes,
and other bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[031] - prettyprint 0.2
by Tim Hockin (http://freshmeat.net/users/thockin/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 05:15

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Hardware

About: prettyprint is intended to provide an infrastructure and tools to
describe and manipulate hardware registers and fields. Once described, it
is possible to read and write fields symbolically. This allows one to
browse the state of their hardware. Examples provided include simple state
dumpers as well as a FUSE filesystem.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[032] - psycopg 2.0.8 (Stable)
by Federico Di Gregorio (http://freshmeat.net/users/fog/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 09:50

Database
Software Development :: Libraries

About: psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming
language. Its main advantages are that it supports the full Python DBAPI
2.0 and it is thread safe at level 2. It was designed for heavily
multi-threaded applications that create and destroy lots of cursors and
make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs. The psycopg
distribution includes ZPsycopgDA, a Zope Database Adapter.

Changes: Some minor memory leaks were fixed. This release also adds a new
get_backend_pid() method on the connection object and provides support for
large objects.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[033] - RwdFoldEditor 0.03
by Gibby (http://freshmeat.net/users/gibsons/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 05:21

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.

Changes: This release adds dictionary search and thesaurus search using
OpenOffice, and the Internet AI interface. Sorting has been removed from
the display of fold links (the default order is desired). Text boxes that
display the path and name of note files are wider. Old bad buttons have
been removed from the bottom of the note view tab. A save button has been
added to the bottom of the note view tab.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[034] - RwdRuby 1.05
by Gibby (http://freshmeat.net/users/gibsons/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 11:55

Desktop Environment
Desktop Environment :: Tools

About: rwdruby uses the RubyWebDialogs GUI to run shell commands in a Web
browser. It uses the rwdtinker framework for removal and installation of
applets. You have a Ruby eval screen, a shell command line, and a shell
script runner. You can edit scripts and run Ruby scripts.

Changes: acpi was combined into rwdshell and renamed to rwdruby. A big
refactoring was done to work with rwdtinker 1.70+, so it should load and
unload live, without restarting rwdtinker.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[035] - SAcc 1.81-RC1
by slavik (http://freshmeat.net/users/alienvirus/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 09:37

Internet :: Log Analysis
System :: Systems Administration

About: SAcc is an access control system for Squid. It provides Web based
account managment and restrictions.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[036] - scord 1.0.5
by Chris Frost (http://freshmeat.net/users/ChrisFrost/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 09:12

Software Development :: Version Control :: Subversion

About: scord reduces the disk space used by a Subversion working copy by
storing only a single copy of unmodified files.

Changes: A bug in 64-bit builds that prevented detection of errors in the
startscord configuration file was fixed.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[037] - SiSU 0.69.0
by Ralph Amissah (http://freshmeat.net/users/ralph222/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 09:16

Database
Information Management
Information Management :: Document Repositories

About: SiSU (Structured information, Serialized Units) is a lightweight
markup based, text structuring and publishing framework (that features
granular search). With minimal markup of a plaintext file, it produces:
plain-text, HTML, XHTML, XML, ODF, LaTeX, PDF, and populates an SQL
database at an object/paragraph level for granular searches. Prepare
documents using your text editor of choice, then use SiSU to generate the
desired output formats. SiSU is controlled from the command line.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[038] - Solido Smtp Proxy 5.0 build 52.d18
by Kasper J. Jeppesen (http://freshmeat.net/users/kapper/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 15:14

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents

About: Solido Smtp Proxy is an in-memory SMTP proxy which offers high
performance load balancing and securing of backend mail servers.

Changes: This release fixes several bugs related to the insertion of
headers in malformed email messages.

License: Other/Proprietary License

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

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[039] - Talend Open Profiler 1.1.0RC2 (Development)
by S. Correia (http://freshmeat.net/users/scorreia/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 15:14

Database :: Front-Ends
Information Management :: Metadata/Semantic Models
Information Management :: Records Management

About: Data profiling is the process of examining the data available in
existing data sources (e.g. databases, applications, files, etc.) and
collecting statistics and information about this data. Data profiling
enables the assessment of the quality level of the data contained in the
information system, according to a defined set of metrics and goals. Talend
Open Profiler allows business users or data management staff to define a
set of indicators for each data element that needs to be analyzed or
monitored. It produces sophisticated reports and graphs that let users
gauge at a glance the level of quality of the data and the status of the
indicators that were defined.

Changes: An exception which occurred when a JDBC driver was not found was
fixed. Exploration of invalid data when doing a pattern match gives the
correct result. Various bugs regarding indicator option wizards were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[040] - TestLink 1.8 beta3
by Martin Havlat (http://freshmeat.net/users/havlatm/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 11:48

Software Development :: Quality Assurance
Software Development :: Testing

About: TestLink is a testcase management and execution tracking system
built using PHP, MySQL, and several other open source tools. It is a tool
that helps streamline the software development process. It enables quality
assurance teams to create and manage their test cases and organize them
into test plans. These test plans allow team members to execute test cases
and track test results dynamically.

Changes: The main purpose of this release is to work on test automation of
a project. This release brings back test prioritization. Note that you must
enable it on the Project Edit page. A new tree menu component, EXTJS, was
established as default. Performance was improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[041] - Tsung 1.3.0
by Nicolas Niclausse (http://freshmeat.net/users/nniclau/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 11:55

Communications :: Chat
Database
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: Tsung (formerly known as IDX-Tsunami) is a distributed load testing
tool. It is protocol-independent and can currently be used to stress HTTP,
WebDAV, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP, and XMPP/Jabber servers. It simulates user
behavior using an XML description file, reports many measurements in real
time (statistics can be customized with transactions, and graphics
generated using gnuplot). For HTTP, it supports 1.0 and 1.1, has a proxy
mode to record sessions, supports GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE methods,
Cookies, and Basic WWW-authentication. It also has support for SSL.

Changes: This release adds three new plugins (LDAP, MySQL, WebDAV), a
major dynamic variable enhancement, for/repeat loops in a scenario, and
many other smaller improvements and bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[042] - Vim 7.2
by Bram (http://freshmeat.net/users/vimboss/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 18:28

Text Editors
Text Processing

About: Vim is an almost fully-compatible version of the Unix editor Vi.
Many new features have been added including multi-level undo, syntax
highlighting, commandline history, online help, filename completion, and
block operations. It is descended from the vi clone "stevie" and runs on
many systems, including Unix, MS Windows, OS/2, Macintosh, VMS, and Amiga.

Changes: This is a stable version with many bugfixes and updated runtime
files. The only new feature worth mentioning is support for floating point.
Upgrading from a previous version is highly recommended: A few crashing
bugs and several security issues were fixed.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[043] - VLC media player 0.9.2 (Stable)
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf (http://freshmeat.net/users/kempfjb/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 05:17

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Video :: Display

About: VLC media player is a media player, streamer, and encoder for Unix,
Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, QNX, and PocketPC. It can play from many inputs
like files, network streams, capture device, desktops, or DVD, SVCD, VCD,
and audio CD. It can play most audio and video codecs (MPEG 1/2/4, H264,
VC-1, DivX, WMV, Vorbis, AC3, AAC, etc.), but can also convert to different
formats and/or send streams through the network.

Changes: This version adds a new interface module for Linux and Windows, a
media library, and an improved playlist and many new audio and video
filters. Video playback is enhanced with new protocols, new codecs, and new
demuxers. Audio playback has cover art, metadata support (and editing), and
has been vastly enhanced. It can play audio when the playback speed is
changed. libVLC has been simplified and improved, many bindings for many
languages were added, and there is a new Mac OS X framework. Scripts
written in Lua can expand VLC media player's capabilities.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[044] - WebGuru Publisher CMS 2.0.5
by Ondrej (http://freshmeat.net/users/rafiki270/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 15:11

Information Management
Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: WebGuru is a professional content management system for complete
building of dynamic Web sites, oriented on search engine optimization and
speed. The CMS is self-installing, multi-user, has full language switching
support, and is a fully modular system. The backend supports users'
permissions to access different part of the system, modules, editing pages,
etc. The entire system is designed for strong SEO (search engine
optimization). The Forms module can help you build customized forms and
send anwers to a database or via email.

Changes: TinyMCE version 3.0 is used. Modules were fixed. System bugs were
fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[045] - Whups H3 (1.0-RC2)
by Jan Schneider (http://freshmeat.net/users/Yunosh/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 17:52

Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Software Development :: Bug Tracking

About: Whups is a Horde ticket-tracking application. It is very flexible
in design, and can be used for help-desk requests, tracking software
development, and anything else that needs to track a set of requests and
their status.

Changes: This release adds date search criteria. It implements editing for
query elements. It allows you to save searches as queries. Feeds for
searches and queries have been added.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[046] - xdiff-ext 0.2.0
by Serg (http://freshmeat.net/users/serg_z/)
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 05:20

Desktop Environment :: File Managers
Software Development
Utilities

About: Diff-ext is an extension for file managers such as Windows
Explorer, Nautilus, Konqueror, and Thunar that allows the user to launch
diff and merge tools on selected files.

Changes: More than one file can be saved for later comparison. The list of
saved files is accessible through a sub-menu.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xdiff-ext/

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