Newsletter for Friday, November 21st 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (44) :::
[001] - ANDREW 1.3
[002] - Avis client library for C 1.1.0
[003] - awesome 3.1-rc3 (3.x)
[004] - CacheGuard Appliance 5.3.6
[005] - Campagnol VPN 0.3
[006] - cproto 4.7g
[007] - Cuneiform for Linux 0.5
[008] - DBIx::Perlish 0.49
[009] - dhcpcd 4.0.5
[010] - erdlauncher 0.5
[011] - file 4.26 (Stable)
[012] - fwknop 1.9.9
[013] - GIMP SCRIPT-FUs for 2.6 18
[014] - Gmsh 2.2.6
[015] - irrKlang 1.1.2c
[016] - J!Research 1.1 Alpha 2 (Development)
[017] - jwaBlogger 1.2.1
[018] - LilyKDE 0.6.6
[019] - Melas 0.11.0
[020] - Mylene 7.20081117
[021] - ncmpc 0.12 Alpha 1
[022] - NoMachine NX 3.3.0-8 (Server)
[023] - OSD Monitors 0.1
[024] - PLT Scheme 4.1.3
[025] - pycups 1.9.43
[026] - Really Slick XScreenSavers 1.0
[027] - relocalizable flex 20081118
[028] - rsvndump 0.4.3
[029] - SNAKES 0.9.5 (Main)
[030] - Spicebird 0.7
[031] - Support Incident Tracker 3.40
[032] - sux0r 2.0.1
[033] - system-config-printer 1.0.11 (Stable)
[034] - TaDaPro 0.8.3
[035] - TestLink 1.8 RC1
[036] - Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha (Testing)
[037] - TurnKey Django Live CD appliance 2008.11.09-hardy-x86
[038] - TurnKey Ruby On Rails Live CD appliance 2008.11.18-hardy-x86
[039] - V6 Thompson Shell Port 20081122
[040] - viPlugin 1.16.0
[041] - WebGUI 7.5.34
[042] - wxRemind 99
[043] - xhtml2pdf 3.0.28
[044] - XML Parse Lib 0.60
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - ANDREW 1.3
by Alessandro Di Rubbo (http://freshmeat.net/users/sbregudal/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 09:47
Multimedia
Multimedia :: Video
Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion
About: ANDREW's Not a DVD Ripping and Encoding Wizard, but an interactive
command-line interface that simplifies the use of some programs to create
AVI, Matroska, or OGM files from DVDs. ANDREW works on-the-fly or with
ripped DVDs; handles progressive, telecine, and interlaced NTSC and PAL
formats; encodes an entire title or a few chapters only; splits movies into
several files or encodes them by target size or video bit rate; supports
AVI, Matroska, and OGM containers; controls needed disk space availability;
and more.
Changes: This release fixes a number of bugs and adds some new features,
such as AVI container support; manual audio selection mode and video
resolution selection modes; video bit rate creation mode; and support for
low resolution, pan and scan, and DVD-SVCD format. ANDREW is now released
under GLPv3.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/andrew/
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[002] - Avis client library for C 1.1.0
by Matthew Phillips (http://freshmeat.net/users/scramjet/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 09:49
Internet
Software Development :: Libraries
About: The Avis client library is a C API for clients accessing Elvin
event routers, including the open source Avis event router and the
commercial Mantara Elvin product.
Changes: This release includes some minor improvements to the API and
documentation and adds binary packages for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/avis_client_c/
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[003] - awesome 3.1-rc3 (3.x)
by Julien Danjou (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdanjou/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 10:33
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
About: awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window
manager for X. It is very fast, light, and extensible. It is primarily
targeted at the power user, developer, and anyone dealing with everyday
computing tasks who wants to have fine-grained control over a graphical
environment.
Changes: This version fixes some bugs in client stack handling. awsetbg
and naughty were enhanced.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/awesome/
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[004] - CacheGuard Appliance 5.3.6
by Afshin Tajvidi (http://freshmeat.net/users/tajflow/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 10:38
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Security
About: CacheGuard is a Linux-based OS/appliance dedicated to Web traffic
security and optimization. It transforms an x86-based machine into a
powerful Web gateway appliance. It allows you to control Web traffic for
Web surfers and Web servers by acting as a forwarding and reverse HTTP /
HTTPS proxy. It supports HTTP transparent implementation, HTTP compression,
Web caching, URL black- and whitelist guarding, and Web server load
balancing. It features a stateful firewall with NAT and PAT, and a content
filtering module blocking malicious HTTP requests like XSS, SQL and Command
Injection. It integrates a caching DNS, a DHCP server, a bandwidth shaper
to manage the QoS, a load sharing system, and an HA (high availability)
mode with VRRP and link bonding.
Changes: The bug in the Health Checking module that inadvertently
restarted services has been fixed. Now the "rweb" mode is turned off by
default. An option to cancel the running "apply" operation has been added.
The patching module has been completely reviewed. The Web Auditing GUI has
been enhanced. Generic content filtering rules have been updated. The
reverse Web auditing GUI properly displays all warning messages. The
reverse Web mode works properly even if there is only one declared HTTP Web
site name. The reverse Web mode works properly even if there is no DNS
declared.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cacheguard/
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[005] - Campagnol VPN 0.3
by Florent Bondoux (http://freshmeat.net/users/fbondoux/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 18:49
Internet
Security
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: Campagnol is a distributed IP-based VPN program able to open new
connections through NATs or firewalls without any configuration. It uses
UDP for the transport layer, and utilizes tunneling and encryption (with
DTLS) and the UDP hole punching NAT traversal technique. The established
connections are P2P.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/campagnol/
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[006] - cproto 4.7g
by T.E.Dickey (http://freshmeat.net/users/tedickey/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 09:45
Software Development
Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Documentation
About: cproto generates function prototypes for functions defined in the
specified C source files to the standard output. The function definitions
may be in K&R or ANSI C style, or in the lint library form. cproto can also
convert function definitions in the specified files from the K&R style to
the ANSI C style.
Changes: The "-q" (quiet) option was made to apply to C-preprocessing.
Strict type-conversion warnings were cleaned up (as part of validating
changes to byacc and flex).
License: Freely Distributable
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cproto/
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[007] - Cuneiform for Linux 0.5
by JussiP (http://freshmeat.net/users/JussiP/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 21:38
Text Processing
About: Cuneiform is a commercial grade optical character recognition (OCR)
system. It was originally developed and open sourced by Cognitive
technologies, and was originally Windows-only. This project aims to port
Cuneiform to run natively on Linux.
Changes: This release adds hOCR output and all sorts of general tweaks. It
also compiles on Windows using MinGW.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cuneiformlinux/
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[008] - DBIx::Perlish 0.49
by Grrrr (http://freshmeat.net/users/Grrrr/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 18:49
About: The DBIx::Perlish module provides the ability to work with
databases supported by the DBI module using Perl's own syntax for the four
most common operations: SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, and INSERT. By using
DBIx::Perlish, you can write most of your database queries using a
domain-specific language with Perl syntax. However, the module is not
intended to replace all use of SQL in your program. The DBIx::Perlish
module quite intentionally neither implements nor cares about database
administration tasks like schema design and management.
Changes: This release adds support for PgLite databases.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbixperlish/
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[009] - dhcpcd 4.0.5
by Roy Marples (http://freshmeat.net/users/uberl0rd/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 14:06
About: dhcpcd is an RFC2131 compliant DHCP client. It is fully featured
and yet lightweight: the binary is 46k as reported by size(1) on Linux
i386. It has support for duplicate address detection, IPv4LL, carrier
detection, and a merged resolv.conf and ntp.conf for which other DHCP
clients require third party tools.
Changes: This release no longer sends a ClientID by default (which mirrors
the in-kernel DHCP client).
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dhcpcd/
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[010] - erdlauncher 0.5
by Gibby (http://freshmeat.net/users/gibsons/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 19:06
System :: Filesystems
About: ERDlauncher is a simple file launcher written in Erlang and using
the ERDialog framework for a Web interface. It will list files in a Web
browser, and clicking will open files in the browser or handle them
according to the browser setup for that MIME type.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/erdlauncher/
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[011] - file 4.26 (Stable)
by Gürkan (http://freshmeat.net/users/tarzeau/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 18:50
Utilities
About: File attempts to classify files depending on their contents and
prints a description if a match is found.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/file/
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[012] - fwknop 1.9.9
by Michael Rash (http://freshmeat.net/users/michaelrash/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 09:50
Security
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: fwknop implements an authorization scheme called Single Packet
Authorization that requires only a single encrypted packet to communicate
various pieces of information, including desired access through an iptables
or ipfw firewall policy and/or specific commands to execute on the target
system. The main application of this program is to protect services such as
SSH with an additional layer of security in order to make the exploitation
of vulnerabilities much more difficult. The authorization server works by
passively monitoring authorization packets via libpcap. Also supported is a
robust port knocking implementation based around iptables log messages.
Changes: Support was added to fwknop for the Linux "any" interface, which
allows SPA packets to be received on multiple interfaces on a Linux system.
Support was added for interfacing fwknop with third party software through
the addition of three new variables in the access.conf file (or set
globally in the fwknop.conf file): EXTERNAL_CMD_OPEN, EXTERNAL_CMD_CLOSE,
and EXTERNAL_CMD_ALARM. The IPTables::* modules were updated to the latest
versions, which are now available via CPAN as well. IPT_EXEC_STYLE was
added to control the execution method used for iptables commands in the
IPTables::ChainMgr module.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fwknop/
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[013] - GIMP SCRIPT-FUs for 2.6 18
by Paul Sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/psherma1/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 09:57
Multimedia :: Graphics
About: GIMP SCRIPT-FUs for 2.6 is a collection of SCRIPT-FUs edited to
work in GIMP-2.6.x. The compiler of this collection is usually not the
original author for most of the scripts, but was able to tweak or get them
working better in GIMP 2.6 and consolidate them in a sane menu hierarchy.
Changes: This release was updated to work with gimp-2.6.1 for film-grain,
fuzzyborder, tasty-frame, and edge-sign scm files.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/script_fu26/
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[014] - Gmsh 2.2.6
by Christophe Geuzaine (http://freshmeat.net/users/geuz/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 18:50
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: Gmsh is an automatic 3D finite element grid generator with built-in
CAD and post-processing facilities. Its design goal is to provide a simple
meshing tool for academic problems with parametric input and advanced
visualization capabilities. It is built around four modules: geometry,
mesh, solver, and post-processing. The specification of any input to these
modules is done either interactively using the graphical user interface
(based on FLTK and OpenGL) or in ASCII text files using Gmsh's own
scripting language.
Changes: This release improves the transfinite algorithm, introduces a new
uniform mesh refinement scheme, and fixes the high order meshing crashes
observed on Windows and Linux.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gmsh/
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[015] - irrKlang 1.1.2c
by Nikolaus Gebhardt (http://freshmeat.net/users/irrlicht/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 14:18
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Mixers
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
About: irrKlang is a high level 2D and 3D cross platform sound engine and
audio library that plays WAV, MP3, OGG, MOD, XM, IT, S3M, and other file
formats. It can be used by C++ and all .NET languages (C#, Visual
Basic.NET, etc.). It has all of the features common to low-level audio
libraries as well as lots of useful features like a sophisticated streaming
engine, extendable audio reading, single and multi-threading modes, 3D
audio emulation for low-end hardware, a plugin system, multiple rolloff
models, sound effects, and more. All of these can be accessed via an
extremely simple API using an object oriented design.
Changes: This release adds support for (external) multichannel sound
hardware on MacOS X.
License: Other/Proprietary License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/irrklang/
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[016] - J!Research 1.1 Alpha 2 (Development)
by Luis Galárraga (http://freshmeat.net/users/lgalarra/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 10:58
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Scientific/Engineering
About: J! Research is a component for Joomla! 1.5 that allows for
management of research-related work such as publications, projects, and
theses categorized by research area.
Changes: Support was added for CSE and Chicago (author-date system)
citation styles. Support was added for cooperations, facilities, and
project financiers. User interface enhancements were made. Multiple bugs
were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jresearch/
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[017] - jwaBlogger 1.2.1
by DaveB (http://freshmeat.net/users/dbulmore/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 09:55
Communications
Office/Business
Office/Business :: News/Diary
About: jwaBlogger is an easy-to-configure, set up, customize, and use
social links and blogging environment that provides you the ability to have
your own Web site similar to sites like Digg, Yahoo Buzz, DZone, The Server
Side, InfoQ, Slashdot, etc. It also makes a very nice personal blogging
environment.
Changes: The main Web framework class, Blogger.java, was refactored by
factoring out all framework specific code. Several more options were added
to the configuration. CAPTCHA support was added for comments and entries.
License: Affero General Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jwablogger/
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[018] - LilyKDE 0.6.6
by Wilbert Berendsen (http://freshmeat.net/users/wbsoft/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 15:29
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors
Utilities
About: LilyKDE is a set of tools to integrate the LilyPond music
typesetter into KDE. It consists of icon and MIME type information for
LilyPond files, a Kate plugin to run LilyPond and embed a preview with
clickable notes and error messages, and a Konqueror service menu.
Changes: All translations (Dutch, French, Turkish, Spanish, Russian, and
Italian) have been updated, and other minor improvements have been made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilykde/
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[019] - Melas 0.11.0
by Igelle Project (http://freshmeat.net/users/pokxm/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 10:29
Software Development :: Build Tools
System :: Archiving :: Packaging
About: Melas is an uncomplicated build and packaging tool. It is used to
compile software and create installable package files. Melas can be used to
reliably reproduce builds and perform dependency tracking.
Cross-compilation is supported through integration with Sbox2.
Changes: Builds may be automatically configured. Standard Makefile, GNU
autotools, and Python -type packages are supported. URLs can be built
without an mls spec (for a fully autodetected build). Version number and
package name can be guessed, based on package URL. Packages for -dev, -doc,
and -locale-xx are automatically created. Dependency handling was
redesigned to work much faster. Scratchbox2 was fully integrated. "Vacuum
builds" were added, allowing cross-compilation against a set of
pre-compiled packages.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/melas/
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[020] - Mylene 7.20081117
by Ciprian Niculescu (http://freshmeat.net/users/x1f42/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 21:38
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3
About: Mylene is a command line MPEG audio player. It can play plain and
system embedded MPEG audio streams and works for Linux OSS and ALSA
emulated OSS and Mac OS X. The player can be used interactively by telling
it to establish a UNIX or INET server on which commands can be received. It
features sophisticated song selection filters, the ability to interpret
programs written in a C-like programming language and user formatted text
output among others. The seek-h262 MPEG decoder is required for audio and
system MPEG decoding.
Changes: Some bugs related to playlist editing and tagged playlist writing
have been fixed. The executed programs available library has been extended.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mylene/
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[021] - ncmpc 0.12 Alpha 1
by Max Kellermann (http://freshmeat.net/users/mkellermann/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 17:13
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
About: ncmpc is a curses client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). ncmpc
connects to a MPD running on a machine on the local network, and controls
it with an interface inspired by cplay.
Changes: This release an artist screen, a lyrics screen, full support for
Unicode and wide characters, optimized memory usage, fixes for memory
leaks, and LIRC support.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ncmpc/
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[022] - NoMachine NX 3.3.0-8 (Server)
by NXAdmin (http://freshmeat.net/users/NXAdmin/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 16:57
Communications
Desktop Environment
Software Development
About: NoMachine NX is a fast terminal server and desktop virtualization
system based on the X11 protocol. NX is an order of magnitude faster than
VNC or X11 and can run on bandwidth as narrow as 10 kBit/sec. In addition,
NX translates and embeds the MS Windows Terminal Server and VNC protocols
into X/NX, enabling users to compress and accelerate remote Windows and VNC
sessions. The NX project provides a suite of libraries and X11 proxying
agents implementing efficient compression and optimized transport of X11,
SMB, IPP, HTTP, and arbitrary protocols like audio and video over the
Internet.
Changes: The new server, which collects all the fixes sported by the 3.2.0
maintenance releases, adds solutions for problems such as: upgrading of NX
Server causes replacement of the DSA custom key, and NX Server may choose a
wrong display number when looking for a free display.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nx/
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[023] - OSD Monitors 0.1
by Tomas Dvorak (http://freshmeat.net/users/tomas_dvorak/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 21:38
Desktop Environment :: Tools
System :: Monitoring
About: OSD Monitors is a tool for those who prefer simple window managers
and don't want precious screen space cluttered with panels, icons, etc. It
uses the xosd library to display various textual monitors (clock, CPU
usage, net, swap, disk, etc.) transparently at a fixed position on the
screen. It has a very low memory and CPU footprint.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/osd_monitors/
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[024] - PLT Scheme 4.1.3
by Eli Barzilay (http://freshmeat.net/users/elibarzilay/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 19:20
Education
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development
About: PLT Scheme is a programming language suitable for implementation
tasks ranging from scripting to application development, including GUIs,
Web services, etc. It includes the DrScheme programming environment, a
virtual machine with a just-in-time compiler, tools for creating
stand-alone executables, the PLT Scheme Web server, extensive libraries,
documentation for both beginners and experts, and more. It supports the
creation of new programming languages through a rich,expressive syntax
system. Example languages include Typed Scheme, ACL2, FrTime, Lazy Scheme,
and ProfessorJ (which is a pedagogical dialect of Java).
Changes: This is mostly a bugfix release. The documentation has been
rewritten to separate servlet and extension APIs. HTTPS is supported on the
"plt-web-server" command line with "--ssl". Stateless servlets are
supported through a 'stateless interface-version. 'web-server/servlet-env'
supports top-level servlets through #:servlet-path. Servlets are served
from anywhere in htdocs. A template system based on the Scribble syntax.
Many other internal modifications to make extension easier.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/plt-scheme/
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[025] - pycups 1.9.43
by Tim Waugh (http://freshmeat.net/users/tmw/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 19:01
Printing
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
About: pycups is a set of Python bindings for the CUPS API.
Changes: Threading support has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pycups/
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[026] - Really Slick XScreenSavers 1.0
by Michael Chapman (http://freshmeat.net/users/foonly/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 10:40
Desktop Environment :: Screen Savers
Multimedia :: Graphics
About: Really Slick XScreenSavers is a GLX port of the Really Slick
Screensavers collection by Terry Welsh. The screensavers can be installed
as standalone programs or as XScreenSaver hacks.
Changes: This release brings compatibility with "modular" XScreenSaver
configurations (such as that as used by Fedora). The Skyrocket window
reshape handler was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rsxs/
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[027] - relocalizable flex 20081118
by T.E.Dickey (http://freshmeat.net/users/tedickey/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 09:48
Software Development :: Code Generators
About: REFLEX (relocalizable flex) is an updated variation of flex 2.5.4
with support for relocalizable scanners. Unlike flex, it supports non-POSIX
locales.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/re-flex/
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[028] - rsvndump 0.4.3
by Jonas Gehring (http://freshmeat.net/users/saubue/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 09:48
Software Development :: Version Control :: Subversion
System :: Archiving :: Backup
About: rsvndump is a command line tool that is able to dump a subversion
repository that resides on a remote server. All data is dumped in the
format that can be read/written by svnadmin, so the data produced by
rsvndump can easily be imported into a new subversion repository.
Changes: This release includes new features and bugfixes. The command line
option --dump-uuid has been added, which includes the uuid of a repository
in the dump. A bug which could occur when dumping a sub-directory via a
file:// URL has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rsvndump/
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[029] - SNAKES 0.9.5 (Main)
by Franck Pommereau (http://freshmeat.net/users/fpatalterndotorg/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 17:10
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
About: SNAKES is the Net Algebra Kit for Editors and Simulators. It is a
Python library that provides all that is necessary to define and execute
many sorts of Petri nets, in particular those of the PBC and M-nets family.
Its main aims are to be a general Petri net library, being able to cope
with most Petri nets models, and providing the researcher with a tool to
quickly prototype new ideas.
Changes: A "setup.py" file has been added for easy installation, as well
as an Ubuntu package. Some bugs have been fixed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/snakes/
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[030] - Spicebird 0.7
by Sunil Mohan Adapa (http://freshmeat.net/users/sunilmohan/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 17:07
Communications
Communications :: Email
Office/Business :: Scheduling
About: Spicebird is a collaboration suite that simplifies communication
for users by providing integrated access to the various tools of
collaboration, like email, calendaring, and instant messaging, in a single
application. It provides easy access to various Web services while
retaining all the advantages of a desktop application. The application is
built on top of Mozilla Thunderbird, Sunbird, and Xmpp4moz. The
extensibility of the Mozilla platform makes adding new tools and
customization of the suite easy.
Changes: This release lets users chat with friends on services like Yahoo,
Google Talk, AIM, ICQ, and Jabber, add iGoogle Gadgets to Spicebird,
disable the applications that are unused, access Google calendar, and
import data from Thunderbird, Outlook, and Outlook Express. It adds
experimental support for managing blogs, support for more than 10
languages, and a basic set of add-ons.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spicebird/
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[031] - Support Incident Tracker 3.40
by Ivan Lucas (http://freshmeat.net/users/ericthefish/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 21:38
About: Support Incident Tracker (or SiT!) is a Web-based application for
tracking technical support calls or emails. It can manage contacts, sites,
technical support contracts, and support incidents in one place. You can
send and receive email directly from SiT!, attaching files and recording
every communication in the incident log. SiT! is aware of Service Level
Agreements, and incidents are flagged if they stray outside of them.
Changes: This release provides Danish and Portuguese language support and
an updated Spanish translation, along with important new features such as
billing, inventory, and POP/IMAP incoming mail support. Many minor and some
not so minor bugs have been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sitracker/
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[032] - sux0r 2.0.1
by conner_bw (http://freshmeat.net/users/conner_bw/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 19:06
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: sux0r is a blogging package, an RSS aggregator, a bookmark
repository, and photo publishing platform with a focus on Naive Bayesian
categorization and probabilistic content.
Changes: Support for Atom 1.0. The ability to recover lost passwords.
Microformat hcard support on user profile pages. Template tweaks. An
exception for template designers (HTML/CSS/graphics) so they can license
their own branding efforts under simple permission terms instead of the
AGPL. Optimizations, bugfixes, and third party symbiont upgrades.
License: Affero General Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sux0r/
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[033] - system-config-printer 1.0.11 (Stable)
by Tim Waugh (http://freshmeat.net/users/tmw/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 19:01
Printing
About: system-config-printer configures a CUPS server. It uses the CUPS
API (bound to Python with pycups) to do this. The communication with the
server is performed using IPP. As a result, it is equally able to configure
a remote CUPS server as a local one.
Changes: Many small bugfixes and updated translations.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/system-config-printer/
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[034] - TaDaPro 0.8.3
by Sergio Davis (http://freshmeat.net/users/sergdavis/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 17:00
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: TaDaPro (Tabular Data Processor) is a command-line utility to
operate with numerical column tabulated data. It is intended for operations
that are cumbersome to do by hand in a spreadsheet and for transformations
that have to be applied as a batch process on many files.
Changes: This release adds command history in ~/.tadapro.history, the
error message "Out of range", the flag "inplace" in "celleval" to replace
values "on the fly", the option "padrow" in "load" to pad rows with empty
columns, and the type specifier "b:" for boolean arguments. It fixes a bug
in argument handling, a bug in the command completer, and several
regression bugs. Several searches and substitutions have been implemented
with regular expressions. The variable "autoload" is used to customize
automatic loading of files (when using -e or -c).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tadapro/
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[035] - TestLink 1.8 RC1
by Martin Havlat (http://freshmeat.net/users/havlatm/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 17:03
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: This release adds improved performance, a user documentation
update, usability improvements of new features (API and event log),
importation of requirements from document formats via DocBook, and
bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/testlink/
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[036] - Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha (Testing)
by Martin Balvers (http://freshmeat.net/users/nosferatu/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 10:43
Communications
Internet
Internet :: Proxy Servers
About: Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups
to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables
software developers to create new communication tools with built-in
privacy features. It provides the foundation for a range of applications
that allow organizations and individuals to share information over public
networks without compromising their privacy. Individuals can use it to
keep remote Websites from tracking them and their family members. They can
also use it to connect to resources such as news sites or instant
messaging services that are blocked by their local Internet service
providers (ISPs).
Changes: This release fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
packages (and maybe other packages). A smaller security flaw that might
allow an attacker to access local services was fixed. Defense against DNS
poisoning attacks on exit relays was improved. Hidden service performance
was further improved. A variety of other issues were fixed.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tor/
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[037] - TurnKey Django Live CD appliance 2008.11.09-hardy-x86
by liraz (http://freshmeat.net/users/zaril/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 09:44
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
About: TurnKey Django is an easy-to-use, lightweight, installable live CD
of the Django Web framework that can run on real hardware in addition to
most types of virtual machines. It features a Mac OS X themed Web
management interface and a Python configuration and installation console.
It is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy LTS, and is designed to provide users
with a pre-integrated, automatically updated, turn-key operating system
environment that is carefully built from the ground up with the minimum
components needed to run Django Web applications with maximum usability,
efficiency, and security.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/turnkey-django/
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[038] - TurnKey Ruby On Rails Live CD appliance 2008.11.18-hardy-x86
by liraz (http://freshmeat.net/users/zaril/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 09:44
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
About: TurnKey Ruby on Rails is an easy-to-use, lightweight, installable
live CD of the Ruby on Rails Web framework that can run on real hardware in
addition to most types of virtual machines. It features a Mac OS X themed
Web management interface and a Python configuration and installation
console. It is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy LTS, and is designed to provide
users with a pre-integrated, automatically updated, turn-key operating
system environment that is carefully built from the ground up with the
minimum components needed to run Ruby on Rails Web applications with
maximum usability, efficiency, and security.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/turnkey-rails/
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[039] - V6 Thompson Shell Port 20081122
by J.A. Neitzel (http://freshmeat.net/users/jneitzel/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 16:56
System :: Shells
About: V6 Thompson Shell Port provides two ports of the original /bin/sh
from Sixth Edition (V6) Unix (circa 1975). osh is an enhanced port of the
shell, and sh6 is an unenhanced port of the shell. This project also
includes the following external shell utilities: glob6, if, goto, and fd2.
Changes: This release adds a configure case for DragonFly BSD to prevent a
"config.h" compilation warning. It fixes a bug introduced in version
20081026 which causes the shell to incorrectly print empty termination
messages for the SIGINT signal in some cases when it should not do so. It
also fixes a bug introduced in version 20061230 which causes the shell to
incorrectly handle unescaped terminating backslash (\) characters at the
end of strings when invoked as "osh -c string".
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/v6shell/
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[040] - viPlugin 1.16.0
by Michael Bartl (http://freshmeat.net/users/midramas/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 10:32
Text Editors :: Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
About: viPlugin is an Eclipse plugin that adds vi functionality to the
editors that are provided with Eclipse (JDT, CDT, etc.).
Changes: A moveable statusbar was added. Improvements were made for
opening an external vim instance. A fair share of bugs were fixed.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/viplugin/
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[041] - WebGUI 7.5.34
by Graham Knop (http://freshmeat.net/users/Haarg/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 09:48
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Office/Business
About: WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average
business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular,
pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people
who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management
taking up the time of busy IT staff. WebGUI comes with a full host of
features including shopping cart, subscriptions, forums, photo galleries,
FAQs, link lists, blogs, SQL reports, a Web services interface, and a very
configurable user privilege and profiling system.
Changes: Fixes a number of small issues with Data Form, profile fields,
Calendar, and other areas.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webgui/
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[042] - wxRemind 99
by Dan Graham (http://freshmeat.net/users/dgraham/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 19:01
Information Management
Office/Business :: Scheduling
About: wxRemind is a wxPython-based front/back-end for Remind, a powerful
calendar and alarm application. The display features a calendar and daily
event list suitable for visualizing your schedule at a glance. Dates and
associated events can be quickly selected either with the mouse or cursor
keys, and dates in the calendar are color coded to reflect the total
duration of scheduled events. wxRemind integrates with an external editor
of your choice to make editing of reminder files more efficient, provides
hotkeys to quickly access the most commonly used options, and allows popup,
sound, and/or spoken alarms.
Changes: Various minor bugfixes involving color settings and Unicode
issues with local weekday abbreviations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxrem/
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[043] - xhtml2pdf 3.0.28
by holtwick (http://freshmeat.net/users/holtwick/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 19:01
Documentation
Education
Office/Business
About: xhtml2pdf converts HTML/XHTML/XHML to PDF using the ReportLab
Toolkit, the HTML5lib, and pyPdf. It supports HTML 5 and CSS 2.1 (and some
of CSS 3). The main benefit of this tool that a user with Web skills like
HTML and CSS is able to generate PDF templates very quickly without
learning new technologies.
Changes: Background colors for inline elements like SPAN. Inline images
and left and right aligned images. The option "--system" for a command line
tool to dump system version info. The CSS attribute -pdf-line-spacing for
fix space between lines. Creation and handling of data URIs with base64
encoding (others to come). A new general file loader that is also able to
load remote data and data URIs. PDF Joiner to concatenate many PDF and pisa
documents. Page backgrounds can now be images or PDF files.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xhtml2pdf/
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[044] - XML Parse Lib 0.60
by kindman (http://freshmeat.net/users/kindman/)
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 10:32
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
About: XML Parse Lib is a lightweight set of re-usable functions for
general purpose parsing, checking, and creation of XML files. It supports
stream-oriented, SAX, or DOM parsing styles, and includes an optional xsd
schema validator and a graphical schema generator. It supports all valid
XML, and includes checking for validity. It has minimal dependencies, and
is totally self-contained. It is both speed- and memory-efficient, and is
simple to use.
Changes: The ability to handle escaped numeric symbols in XML files was
added. Such values begin with an ampersand and a pound-sign, followed by a
hexidecimal or base-10 value, and then a semi-colon.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmlparselib/
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