Newsletter for Monday, November 10th 2008

The freshmeat daily newsletter <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:10:03 +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/2008/11/10/
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (54) :::

[001] - ActiveState Komodo IDE 5.0.1
[002] - AgileWiki 10.2.0 (Element Model)
[003] - alterMIME Pro 1.2.00336
[004] - amforth 3.1
[005] - AqBanking 3.99.1beta
[006] - AqBanking Command Line Interface Tool 1.9.0beta
[007] - ASUS G50 OLED 1.0.1
[008] - Babel Router 0.91
[009] - Back In Time 0.8.1
[010] - ClamTk 4.03
[011] - Ctalk 0.0.86a
[012] - DBsight 2.0.4 (Upgrade)
[013] - Deliantra MORPG Client 0.9978
[014] - dnsbalance 1.00
[015] - DocBook Doclet 5.1.18
[016] - File-Dir-Dumper 0.0.4
[017] - freedomeditor 0.1.5
[018] - GNU nano 2.1.7 (Unstable)
[019] - GOsa 2.6
[020] - GraphicsMagick 1.3
[021] - GSmartControl 0.8.1
[022] - j-Interop 2.02 (RC 7)
[023] - JBrownie 1.1
[024] - Kwok Information Server 2.6.9
[025] - LinuxSpeaks 2.21
[026] - mididings 20081109
[027] - MinGW cross compiling environment 2.0
[028] - Mitter 0.4
[029] - mpg123 1.6.1
[030] - Music Player Daemon 0.14~alpha1
[031] - Netty 3.0.1.GA
[032] - Notes/Tasks 0.9
[033] - NSPluginWrapper 1.1.4 (Development)
[034] - OpenGrade 2.8.3
[035] - OpenInviter 1.5.1
[036] - Origramy 1.00
[037] - Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 170
[038] - PeaZip 2.4
[039] - peppy 0.8.34
[040] - poppler 0.10.1 (Stable)
[041] - QiQu 1.0.7
[042] - Rapidshare Download 0.3.6
[043] - Roma Framework 1.0.0
[044] - rss_store 0.0
[045] - Scala 2.7.2 (Scala 2)
[046] - SoX 14.2.0
[047] - storebackup 2.0
[048] - Subtitle Editor 0.30-alpha1
[049] - Task Coach 0.71.3
[050] - Term::VT102 0.91
[051] - Thread Safe Template Library 1.1.9
[052] - Untangle 5.4.2
[053] - Vacuum Magic 0.7
[054] - Yii 1.0 RC

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[001] - ActiveState Komodo IDE 5.0.1
by Activator (http://freshmeat.net/users/activator/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 22:05

Software Development :: Assemblers
Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Compilers

About: Komodo IDE is a multi-platform, multi-language IDE for end-to-end
development of dynamic Web applications. It makes creating robust apps fast
and easy, with a rich feature set for client-side AJAX technologies such as
CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and XML, coupled with advanced support for dynamic
languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl. Features include
comprehensive editing and debugging plus intelligent tools for regular
expressions, team development, customization, and extensibility. The result
is a powerful coding environment for framework stacks like Ruby on Rails
and CakePHP and client libraries such as the Yahoo! UI Library and Dojo.

Changes: Mercurial, Bazaar, and Git support. Code formatting.
Multi-Window. Source code control checkout. UI improvements. Built on
Mozilla 1.9. Performance improvements. Tabstops/abbreviations.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[002] - AgileWiki 10.2.0 (Element Model)
by Bill la Forge (http://freshmeat.net/users/laforge49/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 07:37

Database
Documentation
Information Management

About: AgileWiki is an SDK for assembling 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: The validate utility has been rewritten to report even the btree
inode blocks. The report is now far less verbose as well. The list of free
blocks is again being persisted.

License: Common Public License

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

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[003] - alterMIME Pro 1.2.00336
by Paul L Daniels (http://freshmeat.net/users/pldaniels/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 01:16

Communications :: Email :: Filters
Office/Business

About: alterMIME Pro is a server-side application that integrates with
your existing Postfix, Sendmail, and Exim installations to provide
disclaimer and X-header insertion facilities for email messages. Management
is made easy via the Web administration tool. alterMIME Pro is designed
with ease of use and email safety in mind. It was built on the alterMIME
engine and extended with the most commonly wanted facilities.

Changes: This release updates the ripMIME and alterMIME internal engines.
It fixes statistics generation.

License: Other/Proprietary License

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

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[004] - amforth 3.1
by Matthias Trute (http://freshmeat.net/users/mtrute/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 21:51

Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Embedded Systems
System :: Hardware

About: amforth is a Forth distribution for the the AVR Atmega
microcontroller. Once put into flash, it needs only a serial connection to
the host computer to work interactivly. New words are compiled directly
into flash, thus extending the dictionary immediately. It provides most of
the ANS94 Forth Standard plus extensions. It is written in AVR standard
assembly language and Forth itself. The main development uses Atmega8 and
Atmega32 controllers; other Atmega controllers work with small adjustments.

Changes: This release changes the storage structure of the dictionary, and
simplifies many words operating on it. It adds only a few new words, such
as environment, however.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - AqBanking 3.99.1beta
by aquamaniac (http://freshmeat.net/users/aquamaniac/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 21:45

Office/Business :: Financial
Software Development :: Libraries

About: AqBanking is a modular and generic interface to online banking
tasks, financial file formats (import/export) and bank/country/currency
information. It provides frontends for Qt, KDE, GTK, and console. AqBanking
uses backend plugins to actually perform the online tasks. HBCI, OFX
DirectConnect, YellowNet, GeldKarte, and DTAUS discs are currently
supported. AqBanking is used by GnuCash, KMyMoney,and QBankManager.

Changes: The configuration file management has been improved to allow for
multiple applications to use AqBanking4 concurrently. Some bugs have been
fixed, and some importers/exporters and aqhbci-tool have been improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[006] - AqBanking Command Line Interface Tool 1.9.0beta
by aquamaniac (http://freshmeat.net/users/aquamaniac/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 21:48

Office/Business :: Financial

About: aqbanking-cli is a command line tool for AqBanking. It has support
for the HBCI protocol and optional support for the EBICS protocol (both are
German homebanking protocols).

Changes: This is the first beta of AqBanking-CLI-2. It takes advantage of
AqBanking4's new features (such as concurrent use of AqBanking4 by multiple
applications) and fixes some bugs. The EBICS code has been improved. This
release features an internal database for transfers and bank statements
with built-in duplicate detection, and allows to automatically reconcile
transfers by comparing them against downloaded bank statements.

License: Free for non-commercial use

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aqbanking-cli/

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[007] - ASUS G50 OLED 1.0.1
by Costin Grigoras (http://freshmeat.net/users/costing/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 18:55

Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: ASUS G50 OLED is a daemon that controls the ASUS G50/G70 OLED to
display system monitoring statistics such as load, CPU usage, battery
level, total network traffic, CPU core operating frequency, and the current
time and date. The package includes ACPI event handlers that stop writing
to the display when the lid is closed and stop or start the daemon by one
of the blue buttons.

Changes: This release adds more monitoring modules (CPU cores frequency
and CPU and HDD temperatures) and support for displaying email and instant
messaging notifications. There is also support for rearranging the display
and writing external monitoring modules.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/asug50oled/

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[008] - Babel Router 0.91
by Juliusz Chroboczek (http://freshmeat.net/users/jech/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 21:51

Internet
System :: Networking

About: Babel is a distance-vector routing protocol for IPv6 and IPv4. It
is designed to be robust and work efficiently on both wired networks and
wireless mesh networks.

Changes: This version fixes some bugs and improves a number of heuristics
to make Babel noticeably less chatty without increasing convergence time.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/babel-router/

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[009] - Back In Time 0.8.1
by Dan (http://freshmeat.net/users/danleweb/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 10:50

System :: Archiving :: Backup
Utilities

About: Back In Time is a simple backup system for the GNOME desktop
inspired by the "flyback project" and "TimeVault". The backup is done by
taking snapshots of a specified set of directories. All you have to do is
configure: where to save snapshot, what directories to backup, and when a
backup should be done (manually, every hour, every day, every week, or
every month). It acts as a "user mode" backup system. This means that you
can backup and restore only folders to which you have write access.

Changes: An automatic backup can now be taken every 5 or 10 minutes.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[010] - ClamTk 4.03
by phenom (http://freshmeat.net/users/phen0m/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 01:15

About: ClamTk is a graphical frontend for Clam Antivirus. It is designed
to be a lightweight, easy-to-use, point-and-click virus scanner.

Changes: This release updates the Polish, French, Russian, and Brazilian
language files to the 4.x series. A few missing translation lines were
added. The display of the GUI and the logs were improved.

License: Perl License

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

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[011] - Ctalk 0.0.86a
by thx1132 (http://freshmeat.net/users/kiesling3/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 16:51

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 fixes a bug in class and instance variable
initialization and adds several performance improvements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[012] - DBsight 2.0.4 (Upgrade)
by Chris (http://freshmeat.net/users/chrislusf/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 08:22

Database
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search

About: DBSight is a J2EE search platform for instant scalable full-text
search on any relational database, for both beginners and experts. It
features a built-in database crawler following user-defined SQL,
incremental indexing, user-controllable result ranking, the ability to
return results with highlights (like Google), and categorized result counts
(like Amazon). It can easily integrate with other languages with
XML/JSON/HTML. There is a UI for all operations, so no Java coding is
necessary. Deleted or updated records in database can be synchronized also.

Changes: This release improves search performance by avoiding repeatedly
loading configuration files. It defaults to getting an auto-commit database
connection to avoid extra setAutoCommit operations. It fixes incorrect
error reporting for BufferIndex submit.do.

License: Freely Distributable

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

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[013] - Deliantra MORPG Client 0.9978
by Marc A. Lehmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/pcg1/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 07:37

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
Games/Entertainment :: Multi-User Dungeons (MUD)

About: Deliantra is a client for Deliantra game servers. It offers an
intuitive user interface for exploring the vast game world, a persistent
minimap, powerful macros and keymaps, dialog-based NPC interaction, and
easy configuration for the skill, spell, and item system. It is based on
Perl, SDL, and OpenGL for high performance on modern systems, and works on
both Unix and Windows. Ports to other platforms should be very easy and are
underway.

Changes: The healthbar is now smoothly moved correctly. Your own text in
NPC dialogues is emphasized now. A crash bug in the macro dialogue has been
fixed. The tooltips in the Mesage Window tabs are updated correctly now.
Alt+x won't let Message Window tabs disappear forever anymore.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - dnsbalance 1.00
by Karel Kubat (http://freshmeat.net/users/karelk/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 01:16

About: Dnsbalance is a program to forward DNS requests to a number of
servers, and to balance requests in a round-robin fashion over these
servers. It uses source port randomization, worker IP address checks, and
transaction ID verification. It may be used as a prefix gateway in front of
DNS servers that don't randomize local ports and hence are potentially
vulnerable to DNS cache poisoning attacks.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[015] - DocBook Doclet 5.1.18
by Michael Fuchs (http://freshmeat.net/users/mfuchs/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 21:46

Software Development :: Documentation
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
Utilities

About: The DocBook Doclet creates DocBook XML from Java source
documentation or HTML files. It is helpful if you want to create reference
handbooks of your API. Normally it is used with the Javadoc tool but it can
also be used as a standalone application to convert HTML to DocBook.
Additionally it comes with a Swing application to manage documentation
projects and to transform the resulting DocBook files to PDF, Postscript,
HTML, or JavaHelp.

Changes: Improved support for generics. DocBook 5.0 schema violation
fixes. A fix for the statistics chapter. Many minor fixes and improvements.

License: Freeware

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

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[016] - File-Dir-Dumper 0.0.4
by Shlomi Fish (http://freshmeat.net/users/shlomif/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 18:53

Software Development :: Libraries :: Perl Modules
System :: Archiving
System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: File-Dir-Dumper is a CPAN module that serializes the metadata (file
names, file sizes, permissions, mtimes, etc.) from a directory structure to
a stream of JSON data structures. The output format aims to be
machine-readable, and mostly human-readable.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/file-dir-dumper/

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[017] - freedomeditor 0.1.5
by barttt (http://freshmeat.net/users/bartb000/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 03:20

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Pre-processors

About: freedomeditor is a Web-based GUI focused on creating an extensively
modular Web development environment (with filesystem browsing
functionality) that uses multiple integrated Web development environments.

Changes: Less chance of folder navigation system errors. You can now type
a folder name manually in the "location bar" and hit ENTER to process. The
translation system previously had errors saving files in certain cases.
Saving a new text file now works without pressing save twice (you can
simply write a file name inside the Editor > Element input field). bgb
find/replace grabs the file filter from structure view as a default value,
and supports recursive find on Windows.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[018] - GNU nano 2.1.7 (Unstable)
by Chris Allegretta (http://freshmeat.net/users/astyanax/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 21:56

Text Editors

About: GNU nano (Nano's ANOther editor, or Not ANOther editor) is an
enhanced clone of the Pico text editor.

Changes: This release includes a new check for external modifications when
saving a file, some code and documentation cleanups, and more bugfixes for
the new undo code.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[019] - GOsa 2.6
by Cajus Pollmeier (http://freshmeat.net/users/cajus/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 16:52

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
System
System :: Systems Administration

About: GOsa² provides a powerful framework for managing accounts and
systems in LDAP databases. Using GOsa² allows system administrators to
easily manage users and groups, fat and thin clients, applications, phones
and faxes, mail distribution lists, and many other parameters. In
conjunction with FAI (Fully Automatic Installation), GOsa² allows the
highly automated installation of preconfigured systems. GOsa² therefore
provides a single, LDAP-based point of administration for large and small
environments, thus making the administration of users and systems and all
related parameters manageable and easy.

Changes: This release includes major changes and removes compatiblity with
PHP4. Changes include a complete redesign of ACL handling, interface
redesign, major speed improvements, support for a backend daemon handling
MIT kerberos, mail queues, OPSI, FAI, and queues. FAI integration has been
greatly improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[020] - GraphicsMagick 1.3
by Bob Friesenhahn (http://freshmeat.net/users/bfriesen/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 03:18

Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Raster-Based
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion

About: GraphicsMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries which
support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 90 major
formats including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, JPEG-2000,PNG, PDF,
PhotoCD, SVG, and GIF. A high-quality 2D renderer is included, which
provides a subset of SVG capabilities. C, C++, Perl, Tcl, and Ruby are
supported. Originally based on ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick focuses on
performance, minimizing bugs, and providing stable APIs and ABIs. It runs
on all modern variants of Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X.

Changes: This release is a significant re-write to support multi-core
systems via OpenMP, unlocking the full performance of today's multi-core
CPUs, and being fully prepared for the future. Performance is currently
much better than ImageMagick for most operations. Note that OpenMP is not
currently tested or enabled under Microsoft Windows, although it may work.
Additional enhancements include a 'compare' subcommand, a secure operating
mode for servers, and a large number of bug and security fixes.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[021] - GSmartControl 0.8.1
by Alexander Shaduri (http://freshmeat.net/users/alex_sh/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 21:57

System :: Hardware
System :: Monitoring

About: GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl. It allows
you to inspect the hard drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well
as run various tests on it.

Changes: This release disables Linux "by-id" drive detection, as it's
unreliable on some broken systems. It adds some more attribute
descriptions. The project's names for attributes override smartctls' now. A
proper "Add Device" dialog has been added for Windows. An icon and resource
file have been added for Windows. Minor bugs have been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[022] - j-Interop 2.02 (RC 7)
by Vikram Roopchand (http://freshmeat.net/users/vikramrc/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 08:28

Software Development :: Object Brokering

About: j-Interop is a Java Open Source library (under LGPL) that
implements the DCOM wire protocol (MSRPC) to enable development of Pure,
Bi- Directional, Non-Native Java applications which can interoperate with
any COM component. The implementation is itself purely in Java and does
not use Java Native Interface (JNI) to provide COM access. This allows
the library to be used from any Non-Windows platform. It comes with pre-
implemented packages for automation. This includes support for IDispatch,
ITypeInfo, and ITypeLib. For more flexibility (in the cases where
automation is not supported), it provides an API set to directly invoke
operations on a COM server.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/j-interop/

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[023] - JBrownie 1.1
by Patrick Ahlbrecht (http://freshmeat.net/users/PatrickAhlbrecht/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 17:01

Software Development :: Build Tools

About: JBrownie is a companion tool for Java developers preferring to use
plain text editors for writing programs over a resource hungry IDE. The
downside of this is that the Java compiler has to be started manually,
which may seriously slow down work. JBrownie addresses this problem by
monitoring the source tree and automatically recompiling any modified Java
source files on the fly.

Changes: Feedback to the user about what's happening was greatly improved.
A bug concerning capturing output of started programs was fixed.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[024] - Kwok Information Server 2.6.9
by Wai-Lun Kwok (http://freshmeat.net/users/wailun_kwok/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 17:08

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

About: Kwok Information Server is an IT management system. Kwok
Information Server provides a single application for managing IT assets,
software licenses, service contracts, issues, and vendor contacts.
Additional modules include portal, RSS, and blog management.

Changes: In the administrative interface, a basic authentication option
was added, an "Assigned Hardware" tab was added to the user detail page,
and serial number and status are now selectable columns. Contract searching
was added. A Portuguese localization was added. A problem in which the
follow-up field was not included in an email message was fixed. A problem
was fixed in which the hardware detail page returned an error when there is
software associated without an available license.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[025] - LinuxSpeaks 2.21
by joekamphaus (http://freshmeat.net/users/joekamphaus/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 07:46

About: The LinuxSpeaks project is a collection of scripts and library
modules that aspire to be a comprehensive vocal, sight-free user interface
to the Linux operating system. Excluding the editor, these scripts are
merely front end applications to many command line applications already
written and thoroughly tested. Both a tarball installation package and a
Live CD ISO are available for download. Configurations for eSpeak,
festival, and cepstral are easily made within LinuxSpeaks.

Changes: New features were added for the Web browser: the user may select
bookmarks; the user may select the home page; email links open the
speakmail program. ALSA errors were fixed on some systems for the editor. A
problem in which the main menu would ask the user to setup programs and or
read the documentation on startup was fixed. This is no longer the default.
A CD player was added. The default is still to use dcd, but it has trouble
on some systems.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[026] - mididings 20081109
by Dominic Sacré (http://freshmeat.net/users/sacred/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 03:17

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: Several problems with the JACK backend have been fixed. This
release also features support for channel aftertouch, a few additional
units, and a new operator (%) for filters. A new function has been added to
mididings.extra that allows saving the selected patch number and restoring
it the next time the script is run.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[027] - MinGW cross compiling environment 2.0
by Volker Grabsch (http://freshmeat.net/users/vog/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 16:25

Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Software Distribution

About: MinGW cross compiling environment is a script that compiles a MinGW
cross compiler and cross compiles many free libraries such as GD and SDL.
Thus, it provides a nice MinGW cross compiling environment. All necessary
source packages are downloaded automatically.

Changes: The shell script has been rewritten as a Makefile and supports
partial builds and parallel builds. As usual, this release also supports
some new packages and some newer versions of the already supported
packages.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[028] - Mitter 0.4
by Julio Biason (http://freshmeat.net/users/SlowSloth/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 08:24

Communications :: Chat

About: Mitter is a simple application to keep your Twitter status
up-to-date and to see your friends' updates. It aims to be simple and have
a small requirement list, while supporting multiple different interfaces.

Changes: A new right-click menu with options to tweet, the list of links,
and a new "retweet" option were added. You now can have multiple
configuration files. The .desktop file was updated. A problem with the
loading of some avatars was fixed. A crash when loading icons was fixed.
The char count in double-byte languages was fixed. A problem when deleting
tweets was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[029] - mpg123 1.6.1
by Thomas Orgis (http://freshmeat.net/users/sobukus/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 01:17

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Mpg123 is a fast, free and portable MPEG audio player and decoder
library mainly for Unix (but also ported to other platforms). It supports
MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers 1, 2, and 3, with CD quality playback even on
relatively slow CPUs.

Changes: This is a small bugfix release for large file offsets in the
remote control interface and some portability.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpg123/

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[030] - Music Player Daemon 0.14~alpha1
by avuton (http://freshmeat.net/users/avuton/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 17:13

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3
System :: Networking

About: Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a server that allows remote access for
playing music in various formats and managing playlists. It makes a great
desktop player with frontend options (Qt, GTK, ncurses, Windows, and Web
clients are available). It is also appropriate as a console player that is
scriptable, and is especially useful if X is restarted frequently. A set of
rapid development tools for clients are being developed and include a C
library, Python module, PHP class, Perl module, and Java Class. The goals
are to be easy to install and use, to have minimal resource requirements,
to be stable and flexible, and easy to interface.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[031] - Netty 3.0.1.GA
by Trustin Lee (http://freshmeat.net/users/anoripi/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 03:18

Communications
Internet
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous,
event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development
of maintainable, high-performance, high-scalability protocol servers and
clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework that
enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol
servers and clients. It simplifies and streamlines network programming such
as TCP/IP socket servers.

Changes: This release fixes various race conditions that occurred when
Netty was under heavy load.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[032] - Notes/Tasks 0.9
by mjreich (http://freshmeat.net/users/mjreich/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 01:21

Desktop Environment :: Tools
Information Management
Information Management :: Records Management

About: Notes/Tasks is a GTD compatible multi-platform note and task
manager. The focus is on quick, intuitive access to any note or task by
project or full text search. It features synchronization with
notestasks.com, giving you free access to your notes and tasks from
anywhere via the Web.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[033] - NSPluginWrapper 1.1.4 (Development)
by Gwenole Beauchesne (http://freshmeat.net/users/gbeauche/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 16:32

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: NSPluginWrapper is a cross-platform Netscape 4 (NPAPI) compatible
plugins viewer. It makes it possible to use plugins that are not available
yet to a specific platform. For example, you can use the Adobe Flash Player
9 (Linux/i386) plugin on Linux/x86_64, NetBSD, and FreeBSD platforms along
with a native JVM in the same browser. NSPluginWrapper is also useful to
confine native plugins into a specific execution domain for reliability and
security purposes.

Changes: XEMBED support was improved by working around Gtk2 and Firefox
bugs. Memory leaks in the NPRuntime bridge were fixed. Some other bugs were
fixed to improve compatibility, namely supported NPAPI version,
NPP_URLNotify(), and DiamondX in Konqueror.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[034] - OpenGrade 2.8.3
by Ben Crowell (http://freshmeat.net/users/bcrowell/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 01:15

Education

About: OpenGrade is software for teachers to keep track of grades. It can
put the students' grade reports on a Web server and allow the students
password-protected access to them.

Changes: The external application for playing sounds is now aplay rather
than sox's "play" utility, which no longer works on many systems. The
installer and its documentation have been updated and improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[035] - OpenInviter 1.5.1
by OpenInviter (http://freshmeat.net/users/openinviter/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 10:46

Communications
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Address Book

About: OpenInviter is a script to import contacts (address book data) from
email providers like Yandex, Lycos, Rambler.ru, Live / Hotmail, OperaMail,
GMX.net, Mail.ru, Mail.com, GMail, Yahoo!, Rediff, AOL, and KataMail. It
can import from content management systems like SimpleMachines Forum (SMF),
Drupal, Social Engine, Wordpress, PunBB, Joomla, JamRoom, and PhpBB. It
also imports from social portals like Twitter, Facebook, Hi5, Friendster,
Orkut, Myspace, and LinkedIn. It offers basic "tell a friend" features.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[036] - Origramy 1.00
by Origramy (http://freshmeat.net/users/Origramy/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 16:33

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation

About: Origramy is a Flash component for online editing and displaying of
diagrams, graphs, workflows, organograms, fluxograms, timelines, tree
structures, business processes, and even build simple presentations. In
edit mode, you can build the scene, place various objects and blocks and
images, and connect them. The data is stored in an XML format. It has a
rich and intuitive interface, JavaScript support, and remote data forming
methods.

License: Free for non-commercial use

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

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[037] - Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 170
by Dr Proctor (http://freshmeat.net/users/DrProctor/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 10:51

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 includes enhancements to the pantheios::pointer
inserter class, adding a 3-parameter ctor to remove ambiguity between width
and format. Also added are compile-time user-customization of
pantheios_log_n() internal buffer size and pantheios_logprintf() stack
size.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[038] - PeaZip 2.4
by giorgiotani (http://freshmeat.net/users/giorgiotani/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 16:25

Security :: Cryptography
System :: Archiving
System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: PeaZip is a cross platform, desktop neutral file and archive
manager with strong encryption features (up to AES256). It has full support
for: 7Z, 7Z-sfx, ARC/WRC, BZ2/TBZ2, GZ/TGZ, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ,
split, TAR, UPX, and ZIP. It can open, browse, extract, and test: ACE, ARJ,
CAB, CHM, COMPOUND (MSI, DOC, XLS, PPT), CPIO, ISO, Java (JAR, EAR, WAR),
Linux (DEB, PET/PUP, RPM, SLP), LHA/LZH, LZMA, NSIS, OOo, PAK/PK3/PK4, RAR,
SMZIP, U3P, WIM, XPI, and Z/TZ. It can split/join files, securely delete
files, compare, checksum, and hash files, benchmark systems, generate
random passwords and keyfiles, and bookmark files and paths.

Changes: New localizations and new icons are featured. The clipboard
optionally allows multiple cut/copy operations to be stored. UI items were
redesigned to be customizable in height (which fixes visual problems on
Ubuntu). Linux installable packages are now built to place files in
/usr/share/.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[039] - peppy 0.8.34
by Rob McMullen (http://freshmeat.net/users/robm351/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 08:19

Text Editors

About: peppy ((ap)Proximated (X)Emacs Powered by Python) is a
wxPython/Scintilla-based editor written in and extensible through Python.
It attempts to provide an XEmacs-like multi-window, multi-tabbed framework
with low coupling, so it's easy to add support for new types of files.

Changes: This release fixes two problems when saving a file with a new
name: it now sets the file access permissions correctly, and the new name
is added to recently opened file list.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[040] - poppler 0.10.1 (Stable)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 16:48

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: Poppler is a PDF rendering library derived from xpdf. It has been
enhanced to utilize modern libraries such as freetype and cairo for better
rendering. It also provides basic command line utilities.

Changes: Several memory leaks were fixed, as well as a potential crash on
text search. Poppler now tries to render documents with invalid indexed
color space parameters. Improvements were made to Optional Content support.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[041] - QiQu 1.0.7
by Hansjoerg (http://freshmeat.net/users/hansjoergw/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 10:09

Software Development :: Code Generators

About: QiQu is a framework to support the MDA and MDSD approach. It
transforms a UML model into source code. It lets you build your own
domain-specific generators that transform your models into the code of your
choice, respecting your architectural design. You are not limited to any
predefined transformation engines or cartridges, nor to any predefined
transformation rules. Since QiQu heavily relies on XML, you can not only
convert from XMI (representing UML) to source code, but from any XML format
into anything else.

Changes: The "exists" function now supports document references. The
"FileExists" function is now aware of the set "BaseDirectory". The
"fileList" function was added to the "extra-lib". This function returns the
names of all files in a directory.

License: Eclipse Public License

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

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[042] - Rapidshare Download 0.3.6
by Zootropo (http://freshmeat.net/users/Zootropo/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 16:32

Internet

About: Rapidshare Download is a program which helps downloading files from
Rapidshare using a Premium Account.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rapidshare-download/

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[043] - Roma Framework 1.0.0
by Luca Garulli (http://freshmeat.net/users/LucaGarulli/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 21:42

Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: ROMA is a POJO-based Java framework with concepts taken from Ruby
On Rails. It allows you to build an AJAX-enabled Web application with a
database and generated CRUD in a few minutes.

Changes: New modules management. A new Logging aspect to abstract logging
and to use logging facilities. Support for new View Aspect that works with
XHTML 1.0, CSS2, and JSP. Support for new Semantic Aspect using the OS Jena
framework. JGraph integration. A new Persistence Aspect implementation
using DataNucleus technology that supports JDO and JPA. New Scripting
engines. A new module to expose a POJO as a Web service using the Apache
CXF framework. A new Workflow module with a transactional engine and Web
GUI. A lot of issues are resolved, and there are many minor improvements.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[044] - rss_store 0.0
by Richard Snow (http://freshmeat.net/users/rssnow/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 07:35

About: rss_store is a small set of PHP scripts that provide a Web store
integrated with the hotbuy4.com dropship site and PayPal. It is
configurable via one include file.

Changes: This release is quite stable and has been in use for over a year.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[045] - Scala 2.7.2 (Scala 2)
by Antonio Cunei (http://freshmeat.net/users/cunei/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 16:50

Software Development :: Compilers

About: Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language designed to
express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe
way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional
languages including mixins, algebraic datatypes with pattern matching,
genericity, and more. It is well integrated with Java and .NET: the Scala
compiler produces standard Java class files or .NET assemblies, and
Java/.NET libraries and frameworks can be used without glue code or
additional declarations.

Changes: The Scala compiler now generates Java's generic signatures, so
that Scala generics are visible to Java. The compiler can now parse (but
not translate) Java source files, enabling mixed Java/Scala projects with
recursive dependencies between them. The first beta version of the
ScalaSwing library is now bundled with the distribution. New
implementations of IntMap, LongMap, TreeHashMap (immutable), ArrayStack,
and OpenHashMap (mutable) were added.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[046] - SoX 14.2.0
by cbagwell (http://freshmeat.net/users/cbagwell/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 21:46

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: SoX is the Swiss Army knife of sound processing tools: it can
convert sound files between many different file formats and audio devices,
and can apply many sound effects and transformations, as well as doing
basic analysis and providing input to more capable analysis and plotting
tools.

Changes: The processing chain now supports unlimited input files, multiple
input pipes, and in some cases, multiple output files. Improved large file
support and improved rate/dither/mcompand effects. A new Mac OSX audio
driver as well as several new effects.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[047] - storebackup 2.0
by Heinz-Josef Claes (http://freshmeat.net/users/hjclaes/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 21:54

System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Archiving :: Compression

About: storebackup is a backup utility that stores files on other disks.
It includes several optimizations that reduce the disk space needed and
improve performance, and unifies the advantages of traditional full and
incremental backups. Depending on its contents, every file is stored only
once on disk. It includes tools for analyzing backup data and restoring.
Once archived, files are accessible by mounting filesystems (locally, or
via Samba or NFS). It is easy to install and configure.

Changes: The main changes since 2.0_rc2 are a -b shortcut for the option
--backupDir and a bugfix related to the option keepRelative.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[048] - Subtitle Editor 0.30-alpha1
by kitone (http://freshmeat.net/users/kitone/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 17:10

Multimedia :: Video
Utilities

About: Subtitle Editor is a GTK+2 tool to edit subtitles for
GNU/Linux/*BSD. It can be used for new subtitles or as a tool to transform,
edit, correct, and refine existing subtitles. It also shows sound waves,
which makes it easier to synchronize subtitles to voices.

Changes: The architecture of subtitleeditor works around a extension
system, but in previous versions it was hard-coded. In this release, each
function is an extension that can be turned on or not, as visible in the
preferences. This release is simply a snapshot from SVN to test the
installation, packaging, and use.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[049] - Task Coach 0.71.3
by Frank Niessink (http://freshmeat.net/users/fniessink/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 21:55

Office/Business :: Scheduling

About: Task Coach is a simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and
todo lists. It grew out of a frustration that well-known task managers,
such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide
facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things to do consist
of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks.

Changes: Bugs fixed include a hanging application when exiting and all
effort being shown in the effort tab of task editors.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[050] - Term::VT102 0.91
by Andrew Wood (http://freshmeat.net/users/ivarch/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 01:14

Software Development :: Libraries :: Perl Modules
Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals

About: Term::VT102 emulates most of the functions of a DEC VT102 terminal.
Once initialised, data passed to a VT102 object is processed and the
in-memory "screen" modified accordingly, enabling programs to interact with
full-screen terminal applications.

Changes: Unicode handling has been cleaned up. A method to return text in
color using ANSI escape sequences has been added. Tab stops have been
implemented. Line wrapping has been cleaned up. Various additional escape
sequences are now supported. Extra example scripts have been added.

License: Artistic License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/termvt102/

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[051] - Thread Safe Template Library 1.1.9
by Slava I. Levtchenko (http://freshmeat.net/users/sll/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 16:44

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Operating System Kernels
System :: Operating System Kernels :: BSD

About: Thread Safe Template Library (TSTL) is a C++ library that provides
thread-safe storage data structures without global locking. It includes
classes for maps based on a non-binary extensible hashing tree for very
fast access, a pipe, a queue, a timercache, a limitcache, and a fast writer
multiple reader guard (WMRG) without global locking (which uses the
interlocked instruction set of the CPU). It's useful for writing
multithreaded applications and operating system components.

Changes: A separate template was added that includes optimization for
compilation. A second port was made for MS VC 8.0 (.NET 2005). File names
were changed according to C++ rules. The library usage sample was expanded.
All base implementations were moved to the "impl/" subfolder. Little
changes were made to the readme.txt file.

License: Freeware

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

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[052] - Untangle 5.4.2
by Untangle (http://freshmeat.net/users/Untangle/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 21:51

System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking
System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: Untangle is a Linux-based network gateway with pluggable modules
for network applications like spam blocking, Web filtering, anti-virus,
anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, VPN, SSL VPN, firewall, and more.

Changes: Minor bugfixes for the ISO build.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[053] - Vacuum Magic 0.7
by UPi (http://freshmeat.net/users/UPi/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 08:23

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade

About: Vacuum Magic is a fast-paced action game. The point of the game is
using your magical vacuum field to collect food and defend against
monsters. Food and certain monsters can also be spat out and used as a
projectile against other monsters. Vacuum Magic can be played by up to six
players, either cooperatively or against each other.

Changes: Trial area 5 (Bat's Nest) was replaced with a new one
(Asteroids). An Asteroids-like minigame was created. All the minigames are
now in a separate menu. Miscellaneous bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[054] - Yii 1.0 RC
by Qiang Xue (http://freshmeat.net/users/qiangxue/)
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 18:09

Database :: API
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes

About: Yii is a high-performance programming framework for developing Web
applications in PHP 5. It encourages reusability in Web programming and can
significantly accelerate the development process. Yii is easy to learn and
use. You only need to know PHP and object-oriented programming. You are not
forced to learn a new configuration or templating language. Yii is fast;
its overhead to applications written on top of it is negligible.

Changes: This release adds three new components: CGettextMessageSource,
CHtmlPurifier, and CMarkdown. It adds support for persistent page state,
and support to allow controller classes to be organized in subdirectories.
CHtml has been enhanced by adding checkBoxList, radioButtonList,
activeCheckBoxList, activeRadioButtonList, and ajaxSubmitButton. A hangman
demo has been added. Nearly a dozen issues have been fixed.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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