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Pinot 0.87 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 02:57 PM

Pinot is a D-Bus service that crawls, indexes your documents, and monitors them for changes. It is also a GTK-based user interface that enables you to query the index built by the service or your favorite Web engine, and display and analyze the results. It makes full use of advanced indexing and search facilities offered by Xapian, features language detection, dynamic document summaries, easy labelling of documents, and internal support for common file types. The D-Bus interface allows easy integration with other applications. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Support for drag-n-drop to the stored queries list was implemented. Dropping a file will create a query to look for similar documents. Search plugins may define editable parameters. Preferences and pinot-search allow assigning values to those parameters. A basic Xesam back-end based on xesam-glib is available. Abstracts can be selected, copied, and dropped onto the queries list to create new queries. Abstract generation is less skewed towards common terms. Very short non-CJKV terms are skipped when expanding queries. The mangling of some CJKV queries was fixed.

Glossword Checker 1.2 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 02:51 PM

Glossword Checker is PHP script which checks if your server configuration meets the requirements for running specific PHP applications. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes: This version features the support for MediaWiki, Moodle, VBulletin, and Wordpress. A Spanish translation was added.

Secured Object for Database Abstraction 1.0 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 02:50 PM

Secured Object for Database Abstraction is a database abstraction layer for PHP with the ability to store encrypted properties in a read-only or write-only way. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes: Bugs from the 1.RC3.2 release were fixed. The code comments were translated into English. This version is stable for production use.

Photorec 6.10 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:10 PM

PhotoRec is a small tool to recover pictures from digital camera memory. It searches for JPEG and MOV headers, and because there is (usually) no data fragmentation, it can recover the whole file. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Photorec now sets the file time for JPEG files from the EXIF header. 23 new file formats were added.

nss-ldapd 0.6.4 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:08 PM

nss-ldapd is a (glibc) NSS module for doing name lookups to an LDAP server. This module allows retrieval of information about Unix accounts, groups, hosts, and other information from an LDAP directory. It is a fork from the nss_ldap module to do some architectural changes. This implementation splits the functionality into an NSS part and a local daemon to do the lookups. This works around a number of problems in the original implementation. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes: This release fixes a problem in the tls_checkpeer option and fixes a check for ldaps:// URIs in combination with the ssl option. Automatic retreival of search base from the LDAP server was implemented and some documentation was improved.

Animath 1.6 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:07 PM

Animath is a Finite Element Method library entirely implemented in C++. It is suited for fluid-structure interaction simulation, and it is mathematically based on higher-order tetrahedral elements. It provides front-ends to matrix solvers and mesh generators. License: BSD License (revised) Changes: There is a new base class, cfd_solver_c, for CFD solvers in this release. solid_c unifies the structural analysis interface, and now also supports generalized/anisotropic linear elasticity, especially orthotropic materials. Many minor feature enhancements and new convenience increasing routines come with this version. Of course, bugs were fixed and inconsistencies were removed.

Mapyrus 0.805 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:06 PM

Mapyrus is software for creating plots of points, lines, polygons, and labels in PostScript, PDF, SVG, and Web image output formats. It combines the following three components: A Logo or turtle graphics language, reading of GIS datasets and RDBMS tables, and running as a stand-alone program or as a Web server. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes: Support was added for Oracle Spatial geometry types (MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY).

SPT Object Database 0.2.0 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:05 PM

SPT Object Database is a pure Java Object Database developed around the Prevayler transactional object persistence framework. SPT Object Database attempts to address some of the most glaring deficiencies in Prevayler while making full use of its great features. License: The Apache License 2.0 Changes: The user can query for objects based on indexed field(s). Null value fields are indexed, and queries can be based on null value. Metadata features are exposed in PrevalentObject. A bug was fixed in update where modifying non-prevalent objects did not update the index with a new value.

BzrLog 1.1 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 12:59 PM

BzrLog is a log-oriented GUI for the Bazaar version control system. It allows you to take notes as you hack, structuring the changes by categories. At commit time, BzrLog will generate a consistently and nicely-formatted log file. It features assigning new versions to a project tree, adding/removing/ignoring files for a project, packing a project into archives (tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar, and zip), a todo manager with categorized tasks, global or per-project preferences, TODO, NEWS and VERSION files generation, and full customization from the GUI. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This version was complete rewritten from ArchLog in order to work with bzr instead of tla and baz.

Address Book Server 20th July Beta (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 12:57 PM

Address Book Server is a shared server to the Address Book application. Address Book Client (included) provides bi-directional synchronization between the server and the participating clients. There is support for synchronizing over the local network as well as the Internet. It has the potential to support most mainstream databases. License: Shareware Changes: This release contains support for many new features, including the Enterprise Edition, which offers a friendly Web interface to view shared contact details as well as SSL. Support for subscribing a subset of already shared groups has also been added to this release. The server discovery mechanism has also been improved.

Smuxi 0.6.0 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 12:55 PM

Smuxi is a flexible, cross-platform IRC client for advanced users, targeting the GNOME desktop. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release includes multi-server support, multi-protocol support (currently only IRC is included), a detachable frontend, basic theming, a server manager, the ability to find group chats (channels), the ability to connect quickly to servers, a configurable interface, the ability to set commands to be executed on startup or on connection (both global and per server), and nickname completion (either normal or bash-style).

ATLAS 3.9.0 (Development branch) - 07/20/2008 12:51 PM

The ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) project is an ongoing research effort focusing on applying empirical techniques in order to provide portable performance. It provides C and Fortran77 interfaces to a portably efficient BLAS implementation, as well as a few routines from LAPACK. License: BSD License (original) Changes: DGEMM kernels were improved for Core2Duo64 and K10h64 architectures. LAPACK support was improved, including on-the-fly tuning of LAPACK.

GMime 2.2.22 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 12:51 PM

GMime is a library and set of utilities for parsing and creating messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME). License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes: The uudecode program was fixed to properly handle base64-encoded input. Some fixes were made to prevent reading past the end of buffers in some corner-cases.

highest 1.0 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 12:50 PM

highest is a program that efficiently finds the n highest (or lowest) numbers in a list of numbers on stdin. The traditional way of computing this using GNU sort should have a running time of O(n log n), where n is the number of numbers to check. Highest should have a running time of O(n log m), where m is the number of numbers you want to keep. A graph comparing the performance of highest to that of GNU sort is provided.

HylaFAX 5.2.6 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 12:49 PM

HylaFAX is a fax and paging system for Unix. It supports sending facsimile, receiving facsimile, polled retrieval of facsimile, transparent shared data use of the modem and sending alpha-numeric pages. The software is structured around a client-server architecture. Fax modems may reside on a single machine on a network and clients can submit outbound jobs from any machine that can communicate with the machine on which the modems reside. An access control mechanism is included to control which users on which machines may access a server. License: Freely Distributable Changes: A timeout in sendClass1Data-putModemData was fixed. $PCL6CMD was fixed in the pcl2fax script. Control frame receipt is handled in Class 1 V.34-Fax sending when switching to primary channel. Building on SCO 6.0.0 was fixed.

Choria 0.1 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 12:29 PM

Choria is a game set in the land of chores. It is a 2D MMORPG in 800x600 with 3D accelerated graphics. Its features include doing chores, slaying monsters, killing goblins, getting great loot, earning money for college, and vacuuming virtual carpet. You can play with builds that include up to 30 different skills. PVP play is open and always available.

CoverFinder 0.2.0 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 10:52 AM

CoverFinder is a tool that finds cover images via the Amazon Web Services API and saves them locally. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This version was completely rewritten with gvfs as the HTTP backend. The code is based on GObject, making it easier to extend. The UI was improved with its own entries for artist, title, and keywords.

runawk 0.14.1 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 03:27 AM

runawk is a small wrapper for the AWK interpreter that helps one write standalone AWK scripts. Its main feature is to provide a module/library system for AWK which is somewhat similar to Perl's "use" command. It also allows you to select a preferred AWK interpreter, to setup the environment for your scripts. It also provides other helpful features. runawk makes programming AWK easy and efficient, despite the fact that AWK is a very simple programming language. runawk also provides many useful AWK functions and extensions implemented in the separate files/modules. License: MIT/X Consortium License Changes: The use of "runawk -e" with the #use directive inside the program was fixed.

FET 5.6.0 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 03:25 AM

FET (free timetabling tool) automatically schedules the timetable of a school, high school, or university. It aims to have the same functionality as expensive scheduling programs. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Filters to import and export CSV (text with comma separated values) were added. A constraint for the minimum gaps between activities was added.

IT++ 4.0.5 (Stable branch) - 07/20/2008 03:23 AM

IT++ is a C++ library of mathematical, signal processing, and communication classes and functions. Its main use is in simulation of communication systems or for performing research in the area of communications. The kernel of the library consists of generic vector and matrix classes and lots of functions for vectors and matrices. Such a kernel makes the IT++ library similar to MATLAB or GNU Octave. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes: Bugs were fixed. A few warnings reported in MSVC++ 2008 and GCC 4.3 are suppressed. The default debugging CFLAGS was changed slightly. The source code formatting is now unified thanks to the Artistic Style (astyle) code formatter and beautifier.

LilyKDE 0.6.1 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 03:21 AM

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. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Support for embedding .ly files in PDF using PDFTK (www.accesspdf.com/pdftk) has been added. An option to let LilyPond delete intermediate files has been added. New translations (Russian and Italian) have been added. Various small fixes and improvements were made.

Taglib-GIO 0.1 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 03:20 AM

Taglib-GIO is a port of the popular TagLib to use the GIO I/O framework. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes: This release contains no tag write support, so it is for reading only.

AudioSource Player alpha1 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 03:19 AM

AudioSource Player is a modular audio player with extensive support for MusicBrainz and Last.fm. It integrates various online services and keeps the details out of the user's view.

Writer's World Maker 1.0.2 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 03:10 AM

Writer's World Maker (WWMKR) is software written for fiction writers. It allows the writer to write non-consecutively, in a scene based environment, have character development and tracking, and world development and tracking. This software is for the creation phase of writing. It is designed to help you get the story written and develop your characters and plot. Currently, WWMKR uses simple text editing. Other software should be used for spell checking, grammar, and formatting. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The basic module was completed and is ready for serious testing.

keyTouch 2.4.1 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:41 AM

keyTouch makes it possible to easily configure the extra function keys of a keyboard (like multimedia keys). It allows the user to define which program will be executed when a key is pressed. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: keytouchd now detects if KDE or GNOME is running. It does so by checking if there is a process "kdesktop" or "gnome-session". If there is such a process, keytouchd will use the values of all environment variables for its own environment variables. As a result, the applications launched by keytouchd will appear on the XGL display if XGL is running and GTK applications will use the theme as set by KDE when running KDE.

AsmLib 0.9.50 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:36 AM

AsmLib is a library written in assembler for the Linux terminal or console. It has functions for a wide range of topics, includeing string, psuedo ttys, disassembly, conversion, ptrace, memory management, and windows. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This is a minor feature enhancement and bugfix release. A possible segfault was isolated in the memory manager and was fixed. Some documentation was improved, and a few functions were added.

AsmLibx 0.9.46 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:34 AM

AsmLibx is an X server library. It talks directly to the X server and is small and fast. It can be used in place of xlib for applications that need a few basic functions. It is written in assembly and is easy to use. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes: This is a major upgrade to support the xhelper project and fix outstanding bugs. Several functions were added to communicate with window managers.

xhelper 0.9.06 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:34 AM

xhelper is a tool to automate and control the desktop. It can resize windows, move windows, feed keystrokes to windows, run programs, and automate a group of programs. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds mouse controls, a window save option, and a simple library capability. A few bugs were fixed and more sample scripts were added.

Cacheboy Squid 1.4.PRE1 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:31 AM

Cacheboy Squid is a Squid-2 deriative that aims to build on top of the Squid-2 codebase stability. The primary short-term aims of this codebase are a cleaner, better organised codebase, HTTP/1.1 support, compression support, IPv6 support, better storage, and initial threading support for certain subsystems. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes: Much code reorganization was done in preparation for larger changes. Better looking error pages were implemented. The async storage defaults are more sensible for FreeBSD and Solaris. aufs should now perform as well as diskd. An example "tcp proxy" was added, which demonstrates the code reuse available with the current work.

JamochaMUD 3.2 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:18 AM

JamochaMUD offers Unicode, plug-in, and multi-language support (8 different languages) to allow a more enjoyable MUCKing/MUDding experience. It features command history, synchronized window controls, experimental SOCKS 5 support, and greatly improved ANSI colour support. It plays nice on Unix systems, supports a wide range of MU*s, and also includes emulation of some TinyFugue editor controls. JamochaMUD includes classes that may be easily reused in other Java applications. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release of JamochaMUD fixes a major issue with the use of the "Connect" button when creating a new connection. JamochaMUD also now gives a more user-friendly message when attempting to connect to an SSL connection using a plain-text socket. The /puppet command has been enhanced so that output may be properly routed to separate windows. Some additional on-screen help has been added for setting and removing of variables and definitions.

awesome-status 1.3 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:13 AM

awesome-status populates the awesome window manager's widgets. It features CPU usage, date/time, lm_sensors (CPU temperature, fan RPMs, etc.), memory/swap information, mpd information, network download/upload, sound card information (volume and outgoing level), and uptime information. An example commented configuration file is included. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes: A simple (postfix) calculator was added. An automatically generated skeleton-config was added. It's possible to run an external program and read its stdout and use it.

webcheck 1.10.3 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:11 AM

webcheck is a Web site checking tool for Web masters. It crawls a given Web site and generates a number of reports. The whole system is pluggable, allowing extra reports and checks to be added easily. It supports retrieving Web sites over HTTP, file, and FTP protocols and produces reports on site structure, broken links, old Web pages, overviews of external links, and more. The links that webcheck considers external are configurable through regular expressions, and webcheck honors robots.txt. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds fixes for a number of small problems in the 1.10.2 release. It also adds parsing of the iframe and script tags and style attributes. It also implements calling tidy when it is available on the system.

C++Test 1.1.0 (Stable branch) - 07/20/2008 01:11 AM

C++Test is a portable and powerful, yet simple, unit testing framework for handling automated tests in C++. The focus lies on usability and extendability. Several output formats are supported and new ones are easily added. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes: This release comes with several bugfixes and an improved HTML output module which now produces XHTML 1.0 Strict.

LinuxBIOS 2-3427 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:09 AM

Coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a project that aims to replace the normal BIOS with a little bit of hardware initialization and a payload. Payloads can include a compressed Linux kernel, FILO, GRUB2, OpenBIOS, Open Firmware, SmartFirmware, GNUFI (UEFI), Etherboot, ADLO (for booting Windows and OpenBSD), Plan 9, or memtest86. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: PCI IDs were added for EPIA-CN. Support was added for flashing the system with Nvidia MCP67. Support for the AMIC A29002 was added. Trivial SPI cleanups were done. A coreinfo module was added, which can hexdump arbitrary RAM regions. The coreboot image detection heuristic, compilation on NetBSD, and USB port4 setup were fixed. Fam10 Gart table walk enable was added. Assorted code cleanups and style fixes were made.

gumnut 0.1.9 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:05 AM

gumnut is a program to aid a group of people to perform cooperative decentralized decision making. The text or GUI client can create, moderate, and display proposals over a decentralized communication network (currently gnutella). Proposals are text files with a simple naming convention that uses the filename to describe field attributes (such as topic and geographical location). Popular proposals are found by searching on one or more of these fields and then calculating the support for each proposal based on the number of occurrences on the network. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Search result rows are colored for easier reading. A dropdown box was added to search for the last query again. Minor GUI fixups and additions were made to the options page. Code cleanup was done.

xorriso 0.2.2 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:02 AM

xorriso creates, loads, manipulates, and writes ISO 9660 filesystem images with Rock Ridge extensions. It can load the management information of existing ISO images, and it writes the session results to optical media or to filesystem objects. This is the standalone version that incorporates the libraries of libburnia-project.org and thus depends only on Linux 2.4 (or later), libc, and libpthread. No separate mkisofs and no CD/DVD burn program are needed. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes: The emulations of mkisofs and cdrecord are now capable of multi-session writing. Alias links get installed, which trigger emulations via their command names. By setting the MKISOFS environment variable to "xorrisofs", it is possible to use xorriso as replacement for mkisofs underneath growisofs.

diggZ-Et 1.1.4 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 01:00 AM

diggZ-Et is a WordPress plugin for displaying Digg It buttons. Its admin settings allow you to customize everything including the skin type. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Two major bugs were fixed. The admin panel was cleaned up for organization and better visual appeal.

Font Industry 0.0.8 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 12:59 AM

Font Industry (字体工业) makes big charset font creation easier. The program converts a scanned in grid sheet, containing a lot of glyphs, into a bitmap font. The glyphs will be automatically indexed by Unicode or with a user-selected charset order. The bitmap font can then be converted to an outline font like TTF or OpenType font. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes: Invalid encoding for Unicode is handled. Conversion to UTF-8 is done before saving the pathname for non-latin1 pathnames. A mouse problem for large images was fixed. Both RGB (JPEG) and RGBA images are handled. A font is generated using the UnicodeFull? encoding. A function to set a Unicode glyph from a piece of a string was added. A menuitem was added to clear the charcode for all the glyphs. A new application icon was created. RPM and deb package files were added (but might be buggy). Some setup.py problems were fixed.

transtoba2 0.17 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 12:55 AM

transtoba2 facilitates the transliteration or transcription of a word or text from the Roman script into the Toba Batak script. Transliterating from the Roman into the Batak script is not an easy undertaking, as the Batak script has a number of peculiarities that complicates the process of transliteration. This program uses a set of algorithms which enables the user to effortlessly transliterate from the Roman to the Toba Batak script. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes: The GUI was improved and beautified and one performance relevant bug was fixed.

Collaber 1.1.23 Beta (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 12:53 AM

Collaber provides a virtual office environment for your team to share files, events, and tasks, manage projects, and get the work done as if they are all located in the same location, no matter where the members are physically located. It keeps your data safe and secure. License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial Changes: Collaber now uses Eclipse 3.4. XULRunner 1.8.13 is included. Collaber no longer depends on any platform specific browser. The HTML Editor component used for Chat, Message, Discussion, Notepad, Wiki, et cetera is much improved now. The default font size was increased on all platforms. Many bugs were fixed in all tools. Startup speed was improved by lazy loading of data. The speed of uploading and downloading was improved. The IM window was improved with status and history features. All IM conversations are now stored.

RDV 1.9 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 12:45 AM

RDV is a visualization environment for scientific and engineering data. Built on top of the Data Turbine dynamic data server, it supports local and remote data sources and can visualize numeric, video, image, and audio data in a number of different ways. License: MIT/X Consortium License Changes: This release contains significant new features for viewing images and video, a new dial visualization, and support for exporting MATLAB files. A number of smaller improvements for plotting have been added, in addition to a few bugfixes.

Brasero 0.8.0 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 12:45 AM

Brasero (formerly known as Bonfire) is a application to burn CDs and DVDs for the GNOME desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible, and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The brasero.desktop file now follows the freedesktop standard. CD/DVD drives can now be found properly on Solaris. A build failure against the GTK+ trunk was fixed. Brasero no longer crashes with the libburn backend. Files from FAT32 partitions can now be added correctly. Failure to display drive speed was fixed. The toc image type is now autodetected correctly.

OpenLDAP 2.3.43 (LDAPv3 branch) - 07/20/2008 12:41 AM

The OpenLDAP Project is a collaborative effort to provide a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, open source LDAP software suite. The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop OpenLDAP Software and its related documentation. OpenLDAP Software provides a complete LDAP implementation including server, clients, C SDK, and associated tools. License: OSI Approved Changes: A potential denial-of-service in the liblber packet decoder was fixed. A few other minor bugs were fixed.

Webconverger 3.2 (Default branch) - 07/20/2008 12:40 AM

Webconverger is a Web kiosk Linux distribution. It is designed to get on the Web easily, with security and privacy. License: DFSG approved Changes: The kioskresetstation= boot option was fixed, which broke in 3.x from 2.x. The Iceweasel browser packages were updated. The video drivers were unstripped to improve compatibility on older video cards.