Newsletter for Saturday, October 18th 2008

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::: R E L E A S E   H E A D L I N E S (23) :::

[001] - Asymptote 1.45 
[002] - BalanceNG 2.196 
[003] - Code Browser 3.6 
[004] - cpipe 3.0.2 
[005] - Cypher 1.9 
[006] - Fonomo Pidgin Plugin 0.1.2 
[007] - FoxTray 0.2.3 
[008] - jsapigen 0.2.1 
[009] - Klavaro 1.1.7 
[010] - Ksplice 0.9.2 
[011] - libburnia libisoburn/xorriso 0.2.8
[012] - libcaca 0.99.beta16 (Development)
[013] - Mandos 1.0.2 
[014] - Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 168 
[015] - pngslice 0.66 
[016] - Prex 0.8.1 
[017] - Rats! 1.14.2 
[018] - releaser 0.4.5 
[019] - sshpass 1.04 
[020] - TCPDF 4.1.000 (PHP5)
[021] - uHub 0.2.0-3293 
[022] - Varnish 2.0.1 
[023] - YASIS 3.2 


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

[001] - Asymptote 1.45 
  by John Bowman (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcbowman/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 17:10

Education
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based
Scientific/Engineering

About: Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for
technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like
syntax. It provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting
that LaTeX does for scientific text. Asymptote is a programming language as
opposed to just a graphics program. It can exploit the best features of
script (command-driven) and graphical user interface (GUI) methods.
High-level graphics commands are implemented in the language itself,
allowing them to be easily tailored to specific applications.

Changes: Bugs in the solids of revolution and graph3 modules were fixed;
longitudinal curves are split into front and back pieces. Rendering
artifacts are now avoided. When render=0, 2D and 3D objects are now sized
consistently. Automatic camera adjustment was improved. Bugs in thick
three-dimensional lines were fixed; thick lines are now drawn with fewer
Bezier patches and 3D Linetype offsets are supported. The appearance of
unitcones and arrows was improved. New arrowhead3 types HookHead3 and
TeXHead3 were added. The default surface color is now black. New surface
and path constructors were added. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[002] - BalanceNG 2.196 
  by Thomas Obermair (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomasobermair/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 17:29

Internet
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: BalanceNG is a modern software IP load balancing solution. It is
small, fast, and easy to use and setup. It offers session persistence,
different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random, Least
Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a
customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It supports VRRP to set
up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It supports SNMP,
integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with Net-SNMPD. It implements a very fast
in-memory IP-to-location database, allowing powerful location-based server
load-balancing. 

Changes: A general problem with NAT and multiple instances on the same
machine has been fixed; upgrading is recommended if multiple instances are
being used in conjunction with NAT. A problem with packet processing and
multiple instances on Solaris based machines has been fixed and a new
controlling parameter has been added (bngfilter). Upgrading is recommended
if multiple instances are being used on Solaris. Both fixes have also been
applied to the 1.x branch, resulting in release 1.934. The manuals have
been updated accordingly. The Ubuntu JeOS VMware virtual appliance has been
updated accordingly. 

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[003] - Code Browser 3.6 
  by Marc Kerbiquet (http://freshmeat.net/users/mkerbiquet/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 16:51

Text Editors

About: Code Browser is a folding and outlining editor.  It is a
lightweight but powerful tool for  structuring and browsing source code
using  folders and links. It is especially designed to  keep a good
overview of the code of a large  project.

Changes: A crash which occurred when closing a modified untitled document
was fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/code-browser/

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[004] - cpipe 3.0.2 
  by Harald Kirsch (http://freshmeat.net/users/pifpafpuf/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 17:11

System :: Benchmark
System :: Systems Administration
Utilities

About: Cpipe copies its standard input to its standard output while
measuring the time it takes to read an input buffer and write an output
buffer. Statistics of average throughput and the total amount of bytes
copied are printed to the standard error output.

Changes: An uninstall target was added to the makefile. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - Cypher 1.9 
  by sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/sdmonroe/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 05:23

Communications :: Chat
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Text Processing

About: Cypher is an AI program that generates the RDF graph and SPARQL
query representations of plain language input, allowing users to speak
plain language to update and query databases. With robust definition
languages, Cypher's grammar and lexicon can quickly and easily be extended
to process highly complex sentences and phrases of any natural language,
and can cover any vocabulary. Equipped with Cypher, programmers can begin
building next generation semantic Web applications that harness natural
language.

Changes: Patterns involving named entities were returning pattern instance
URIs. The logic has been changed to omit the internal and grammar
repositories from the lexicon search targets. A bug dealing with cached
word sense results has been fixed. The Meta Language Ontology, draft
specification 1.0 is now complete and fully implemented. Gestalt logic has
been added to lexical processing.

License: Free for non-commercial use

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

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[006] - Fonomo Pidgin Plugin 0.1.2 
  by Fonomo Desktop Solutions (http://freshmeat.net/users/fonomo/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 05:21

Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Conferencing
Communications :: Internet Phone

About: The Fonomo Pidgin Plugin makes it easy to send video chat
invitations through Pidgin conversation windows.

Changes: All known bugs should now be fixed. This release should no longer
crash, no longer requires Gnome, and should compile on Win32.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pidgin-fonomo/

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[007] - FoxTray 0.2.3 
  by ProgChild (http://freshmeat.net/users/ProgChild/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 17:14

Desktop Environment :: Tools

About: FoxTray is a tray icon class for the FOX Toolkit. It displayes an
icon in the system tray. FoxTray works under X11 and Windows. 

Changes: Some issues with less known tray managers were fixed. Size hints
were added for better sizing behavior. 

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[008] - jsapigen 0.2.1 
  by Thomas Zimmermann (http://freshmeat.net/users/tdz/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 17:18

Software Development :: Code Generators

About: jsapigen generates glue code for embedding Mozilla's JavaScript
engine (SpiderMonkey) into C applications. A simple interface definition
language is used to describe the connection between native C code and the
JavaScript engine. jsapigen takes such descriptions and converts them into
C code. This code is then compiled into the application.

Changes: Empty IDL files are supported. Braces in comments are supported.
Error checking was improved. Cleanup is done at exit. Code cleanups were
made. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[009] - Klavaro 1.1.7 
  by Felipe Castro (http://freshmeat.net/users/felipo/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 17:17

Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)

About: Klavaro is a touch typing tutor that is very flexible and supports
customizable keyboard layouts. Users can edit and save new or unknown
keyboard layouts, as the basic course provided by the program was designed
to not depend on specific layouts.

Changes: Localization support for the United Kingdom was added. Logging
the keyboard layout name to the fluidness contest was implemented. Some
orthographic corrections were made. Tutor comments about performance try to
be less rude. The least number of chars to apply for the fluidness ranking
now is 500. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[010] - Ksplice 0.9.2 
  by Anders Kaseorg (http://freshmeat.net/users/andersk/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 05:21

Security
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux

About: Ksplice is practical technology for updating the Linux kernel
without rebooting. It enables you to avoid the disruptive process of
rebooting for kernel security updates and bugfixes. By making it easy to
keep your systems up to date, Ksplice helps you avoid the security and
stability risks of running out-of-date software.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[011] - libburnia libisoburn/xorriso 0.2.8
  by scdbackup (http://freshmeat.net/users/scdbackup/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 16:50

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Writing
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: libburnia is a project comprised of libraries and binaries for
reading, mastering, and writing optical discs. It provides libburn, a
CD/DVD/BD burn library, libisofs, a manipulation library for ISO 9660
filesystems, and libisoburn, a ISO 9660 multi-session library. On top of
them there is cdrskin, a cdrecord emulator, and xorriso, a all-in-one
application for ISO 9660 multi-session operations which additionaly
provides a limited emulation of mkisofs. 

Changes: libisoburn now depends on libisofs-0.6.10 and libburn-0.5.4 to
ensure use of their recent bugfixes. xorriso now can activate an ISOLINUX
boot image by an EL Torito boot record. Two minor xorriso bugs were fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[012] - libcaca 0.99.beta16 (Development)
  by Sam Hocevar (http://freshmeat.net/users/sammy/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 17:15

Software Development :: Libraries

About: The libcaca library is a graphics library that outputs text 
instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards  or text
terminals. It is not unlike the famous AAlib library  except it supports
colour output. 

Changes: This bugfix release improves backwards compatibility by
installing legacy headers. 

License: WTFPL

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

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[013] - Mandos 1.0.2 
  by Teddy (http://freshmeat.net/users/Teddy2/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 17:11

Security
Security :: Cryptography
System :: Boot

About: The Mandos system allows computers to have encrypted root file
systems and at the same time be capable of remote or unattended reboots.
The computers run a small client program in the initial RAM disk
environment which will communicate with a server over a network. All
network communication is encrypted using TLS. The clients are identified by
the server using an OpenPGP key that is unique to each client. The server
sends the clients an encrypted password. The encrypted password is
decrypted by the clients using the same OpenPGP key, and the password is
then used to unlock the root file system. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[014] - Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 168 
  by Dr Proctor (http://freshmeat.net/users/DrProctor/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 17:10

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Logging

About: Pantheios is a C/C++ logging API library. It offers an optimal
combination of complete type-safety, very high efficiency, genericity, and
extensibility. It is simple to use and extend, highly portable (platform
and compiler independent), and it upholds the C tradition of only paying
for what you use. Pantheios supports logging of message statements of
arbitrary complexity, consisting of heterogenous types. Pantheios supports
filtering of log messages based on severity level. 

Changes: This release removes previously deprecated header files, adds
implementations of functions deprecated (and renamed) in 1.0.1 beta 167 for
backwards compatibility, and fixes a defective using declaration in
pantheios/util/com/exception_helpers.hpp. It also includes two new FAQ
items. 

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[015] - pngslice 0.66 
  by J.J. Green (http://freshmeat.net/users/jjgreen/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 05:20

Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML

About: The pngslice utility is a tool for creating ragged images in HTML:
Eric Meyer's ragged floats. The idea is to slice the image into thin strips
that are trimmed and stacked vertically. The program produces the trimmed
PNG slices and a fragment of HTML to include them.

Changes: Improved handling of alt text in the generated HTML.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[016] - Prex 0.8.1 
  by Kohsuke Ohtani (http://freshmeat.net/users/kohtani/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 16:49

Software Development :: Embedded Systems
System :: Operating System
System :: Operating System Kernels

About: Prex is a portable real-time operating system for embedded systems.
The small, reliable, and low power kernel is written in the C language
based on microkernel design. The file system, Unix process, and networking
features are provided by user mode tasks.

Changes: This release adds MMU support code for the ARM processor
architecture. 

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[017] - Rats! 1.14.2 
  by Robert Grimm (http://freshmeat.net/users/rgrimmm/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 17:17

Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Compilers

About: Rats! is a parser generator for C-like languages (though currently
it only generates parsers in Java). It has been designed so that grammars
are concise and easily extensible. To this end, grammars are organized into
modules that can be easily changed by adding, removing, or modifying
alternatives in individual productions and composed with each other through
module parameters. Furthermore, it relies on ordered choices to avoid
ambiguities, supports syntactic predicates for unlimited lookahead, and
integrates lexing with parsing. Finally, it has extensive support for
automatically generating abstract syntax trees, thus greatly reducing the
need for explicit semantic actions.

Changes: This release improves error reporting by generated parsers and
fixes a code generation bug. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[018] - releaser 0.4.5 
  by Lost Goblin (http://freshmeat.net/users/lostgoblin/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 16:48

freshmeat.net
Information Management :: Workflow Frameworks
Software Development

About: Releaser is a set of scripts to automate and manage the tasks
related to software package releases. It is designed to be modular and to
make it easy to both select a particular set of actions associated with
releases of a particular project (such as changelog generation, uploading
of tarballs, posting announcements to mailing lists), and create new
actions that integrate seamlessly into the process. Its status is still
somewhat experimental, but the most basic functionality is there. 

Changes: Fixes and improvements were made. The only major new feature
allows you to explicitly override the list of tasks to execute from the
command line.  

License: Public Domain

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

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[019] - sshpass 1.04 
  by Shachar Shemesh (http://freshmeat.net/users/TheSun/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 17:12

Communications
Utilities

About: Sshpass is a tool for non-interactivly performing password 
authentication with SSH's so called "interactive keyboard  password
authentication". Most users should use SSH's more  secure public key
authentication instead.

Changes: Support was added for reporting the reason for failure through
the program's return codes. All outstanding bugs were fixed. The password
is hidden from the command line, which is not a perfect security measure,
but better than nothing. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[020] - TCPDF 4.1.000 (PHP5)
  by Nicola Asuni (http://freshmeat.net/users/nicolaasuni/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 17:34

Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
Text Processing

About: TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring
external extensions. TCPDF supports all ISO page formats and custom page
formats, custom margins and units of measure, UTF-8 Unicode, RTL languages,
HTML, barcodes, TrueTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1, and CID-0
fonts, images, graphic functions, clipping, bookmarks, JavaScript, forms,
page compression, and encryption. 

Changes: This version contains several HTML-related improvements,
including justification alignment and support for internal links.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[021] - uHub 0.2.0-3293 
  by Jan Vidar Krey (http://freshmeat.net/users/jvk/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 05:20

Communications :: File Sharing
Communications :: File Sharing :: Direct Connect

About: µHub is a high performance peer-to-peer hub designed for Unix-like
operating systems. It has a clean design and small memory footprint. It is
scalable, and will work for small hubs on embedded hardware, as well as big
hubs running on high preformance servers with thousands of users. µHub uses
the ADC protocol (i.e. the next generation Direct Connect), and is
compatible with DC++, Elise, QuickDC, and other ADC clients. 

Changes: This release adds full support for the ADC/1.0 protocol
specification in addition to the PING extension. It is now possible to
configure min and max share size, slots, hubs, etc. Many stability fixes
have been made. uHub now also builds and runs on Windows (via Mingw).

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[022] - Varnish 2.0.1 
  by perbu (http://freshmeat.net/users/perbu/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 17:29

Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: Varnish is a high-performance HTTP accelerator designed for sites
with large amounts of non-personalized dynamic content, such as online
newspapers. 

Changes: This release contains a fix for a denial of service vulnerability
in which Varnish could crash when receiving a malformed HTTP request. 

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[023] - YASIS 3.2 
  by s0ulslack (http://freshmeat.net/users/s0ulslack/)
  Sat, Oct 18th 2008 05:22

Communications :: Chat
System :: Diagnostics

About: YASIS is a very detailed sysinfo script that displays individual
stats or grouped info. It only requires lspci and common tools found in any
distribution. Check the page for example outputs. It displays
distribution/kernel, CPU count/cache/load, disk/swap/RAM used/free, network
info/speed, CPU temp/fan speeds, X environment info (wm/de and display
info), bandwidth speeds, and more.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yasis-perl/



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