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gnoMint 0.5.0 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:37:45 GMT

gnoMint is a tool for easily creating and managing certification authorities. It provides fancy visualization of all the pieces of information that pertain to a CA, such as x509 certificates, CSRs, and CRLs. gnoMint is currently capable of managing a CA that emits certificates that are able to authenticate people or machines in VPNs (IPSec or other protocols), secure HTTP communications with SSL/TLS, authenticate and cipher HTTP communications through Web-client certificates, and sign or crypt email messages.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
Multiple CA support. Now, each gnoMint database is able to keep and manage several CAs and their generated certificates (even several self-signed CA certificates). Support for 20-byte serial certificates, according to RFC5280. Support for inherit subject fields from certification authorities, depending on each CA policy. Detailed certificate view. A French translation. A default database, ~/.gnomint/default.gnomint, is opened if no other indication is given. Other bugs have been fixed.

GIMP 2.4.7 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:35:36 GMT

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc.

ATA over Ethernet driver 64 (For Linux 2.6 branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:35:17 GMT

This driver allows the Linux kernel to use the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) network protocol. Using AoE, a Linux system can use AoE block devices like EtherDrive (R) storage blades. The block devices appear as local device nodes (e.g. /dev/etherd/e0.0).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The compatibility system was generalized. Support for the 2.6.26 Linux kernel was added.

CleanHome 0.5 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:34:56 GMT

CleanHome cleans up a user's home directory by analyzing the hidden configuration files and directories ("dot-files") against a collaboratively maintained database. Its pluggable approach makes it easy to develop various extensions. For example, extensions could provide general information about the investigated file or directory or could process a directory in a very special way. For example, it could clean up the browser cache in .mozilla upon the user's request.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
This release adds remote upload and retrieval of SimpleDB entries. This is done via the Google App Engine "chome" project. As a side effect, CleanHome has a Web interface for this database (view and submit). The SVN holds the Google App Engine source as well, as the Perl script file releases will just contain the CleanHome program itself.

FreeVikings 0.6 pre2 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:33:01 GMT

FreeVikings reimplements the DOS game Lost Vikings.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Moving items between directories is now possible both in the traditional way (keyboard; a bit complicated and hard to learn) and using the mouse (simply drag-and-drop). The format of levels has been slightly modified. Some new graphics have been added.

NeoOffice 2.2.4 Patch-5 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:32:14 GMT

NeoOffice is a project that is developing a native Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org with an Aqua look-and-feel. NeoOffice is under active development and is stable enough for daily use (NeoOffice/C is no longer under development). It provides the foundation upon which the user interface can be redesigned to adhere to the conventions of the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes several problems related to drawing errors in complex presentations with the recent slideshow speed improvements, including a bug that caused background images to be rendered as black rectangles when exporting to image, a bug where EPS images were not rendered when running slideshows, and an issue where light transparent objects appear dark when running slideshows. The patch also fixes a bug that caused the last character to be clipped when typing in the Calc header dialog and a bug that could allow document-modal dialogs to lose focus.

SMILE Slideshow 0.7.2 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:30:54 GMT

SMILE (Slideshow Maker In Linux Environment) is a rewrite of Manslide. Its function is to create 3D slideshows.

deco file extraction framework 1.5.1 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:38:16 GMT

deco is a command-line program that, together with the deco-archive package, allows you extract dozens of popular archive file formats. It has a consistent interface ("deco 1.tar.bz2 2.rar 3.zip 4.flac 5.deb") and consistent behavior (never deleting archives after extraction and extracting relative to the current working directory, just verbosely enough, all unless explicitly requested otherwise). It creates an extraction directory if there is more than one file or directory at the archive top level, and it is able to fix strange permissions.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
The default archive extractor wrappers have been moved to a separate package, deco-archive; from now on, the deco package only includes the core program. A bug was fixed that caused a temporary directory not to be deleted when creating symbolic links in it failed. The code has been improved.

FrontAccounting 2.0 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:32:05 GMT

FrontAccounting is a Web-based accounting system for ERP chains. It is multiuser, multilingual, and multicurrency.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A new company logo. GL summaries in Tax Report. The first registered admin (company 0) now becomes 'Global-Admin' for all company admins. Currency selection in the Price Listing Report. Customer Dimension overrides an Item Dimension when creating GL transactions. Better calculation of price diff during PO receive and PO invoice. Elimination of voiding of dangerous items. Replacement of the PDF engine. Full support for Unicode and right-to-left (utf8bidi).

LaTeX::Table 0.8.0 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:30:08 GMT

LaTeX::Table is a Perl module that provides functionality for an intuitive generation of LaTeX tables for reports or theses. It ships with some predefined, good-looking table styles, and supports multipage tables via the xtab package.

License: Perl License

Changes:
Support for the rotating and tabularx LaTeX packages was added. Some minor bugs have been fixed.

pdfposter 0.4.4 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:29:46 GMT

pdfposter can be used to create a large poster by building it from multple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together, thus building the poster. The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size. This is much like poster does for Postscript files, but works with PDF instead, since sometimes poster does not like your files converted from PDF. Indeed, pdfposter was inspired by poster.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
This release allows fractions for the width and height of media- and postersize.

ESXX 0.9.20080821 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:28:47 GMT

ESXX, pronounced Essex, is a Web application server that executes Web applications written in JavaScript (a.k.a. ECMAscript) on the server-side. It's written in Java and has no external dependencies except for J2SE 6.0. Everything else that's required is packaged in one single, executable JAR file, ready to be tested in Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows or any other platform where Java 6 is available.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
Many bugfixes, some new runtime features, and JMX and MXBean (JConsole/VisualVM) and RHEL/CentOS 4.x support.

AgileWiki 4-4 (Element Model branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:27:56 GMT

AgileWiki is meant to create 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.

License: Common Public License

Changes:
New up and destroy commands. The sleep command now demonstrates an asynchronous response. A thread pool is now used in place of dedicated threads. The command API now includes the path name of the target. All commands have been rewritten for improved thread safety.

deco-archive 1.0 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:26:54 GMT

deco-archive is a collection of extractor wrappers for the deco file extraction framework. It provides support for dozens of popular archive formats such as tar, rar, and zip.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
This is the initial release as a separate package of the extractor wrappers previously included in deco. 7za is now used to extract 7z and tar.7z/t7z archives, because 7zr seems not to support password-protected archives. FLAC archives are extracted with the --keep-foreign-metadata option.

QuteCom 2.2-RC1 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:25:52 GMT

QuteCom (formerly WengoPhone) is a multi-platform VoIP client. The GUI is Qt-based, and the Video-over-IP engine is based on the eXosip, oSIP, oRTP, ffmpeg, and libgaim projects. The eXosip module is extended by a phApi module, which implements a high-level, easy-to-use call control API. It supports PC-to-PC voice, video, and chat. One can use a standard SIP service provider such as Wengo to be assigned an incoming number, make calls to PSTN/cell phones, get voice mail, and more. In addition to SIP/SIMPLE QuteCom provides IM functionality using libgaim, so it is compatible with all protocols supported by libgaim.

ga-flamoot 1 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:25:38 GMT

ga-flamoot is a genetic algorithm in Python for evolving programs that write a given string to an allocated dataspace, using a made-up machine language with only 7 instructions and flow reversal.

X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha16 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:25:16 GMT

X-CD-Roast is a program-package dedicated to easy CD creation under most Unix-platforms. It combines command line tools like "cdrecord", "cdda2wav", and "mkisofs" into a nice graphical user interface.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This is a small update release to merge in all patches received in past years and to be compatible again with the current version of cdrtools.

apbcdb 0.2 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:23:56 GMT

Apbcdb is a high performance, read-only database library. It provides one API for creating a database and another for looking up values. Apbcdb efficiently supports multiple reading threads or processes.

Prelude LML 0.9.13 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:23:42 GMT

Prelude-LML is a signature-based log analyzer monitoring your log file and received syslog messages for suspicious activity. It handle events generated by a large set of components, including but not limited to: APC Emu, BigIP, Cisco PIX, Clamav, Dell-OM, Grsecurity, Honeyd, ipchains, Netfilter, ipfw, Nokia ipso, Apache ModSecurity, Ms-SQL, Nagios, Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, NTsyslog, Pam, Portsentry, Postfix, Proftpd, SSH, and others. It is part of Prelude, a hybrid Intrusion Detection framework implementing an open communication layer for use by any security application.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A ModSecurity ruleset rewrite that handles the ModSecurity 2.0 log format. New rulesets for FreeBSD su attempts. An additional format in the default configuration to deal with the Apache error_log file format. Some classification has been normalized: Remote Login and Credentials Change have been introduced. The SSH ruleset has been improved. Automated regression tests on make check.

Open Mashups 0.8.6 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:21:27 GMT

Open Mashups is a unique solution that empowers creative users to design, run, and share their own applications. These applications are built by assembling components. It features a clean separation between functional aspects (what the application is doing) and non-functional aspects (e.g. look and feel). It is user-friendly enough to be used by someone who isn't a coder. It is also independent of any particular device and execution platform.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
Much simpler behavior editing. Suggestions are made for empty method calls. Variables can be removed. Text fields can be multi-line. A repository browser and help tips have been added.

EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0.20 (Community Edition branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:19:27 GMT

Engineered from the ground-up with specific regard to security, EnGarde Secure Linux incorporates intrusion alert capabilities, a complete suite of e- business applications using AllCommerce, improved authentication and access control, strong cryptography, and complete SSL secure Web-based administration capabilities. EnGarde protects against many forms of attack, not just a particular form of vulnerability. It is also not just a repackaged version of another distribution that claims to be secure. EnGarde is a collection of best-of-breed applications from many sources tuned to provide exactly what is necessary to maintain a secure Internet presence. Featuring the Linux Intrusion Detection System integrated into its design, as well as Web-manageable Tripwire, tools from many Open Source security projects including Openwall, snort network intrusion detection system, and extensive host security improvements, EnGarde Secure Linux strives to be the most secure, yet functional, Linux distribution to date.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release includes many updated packages and bugfixes, and some feature enhancements to the EnGarde Secure Linux Installer and the SELinux policy.

CitrusDB 1.2.3 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:18:30 GMT

CitrusDB is a Web based customer care and billing solution that uses PHP and a database backend to keep track of customer information, operational CRM, services, products, billing invoices and credit cards, and support information.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release supports multiple brand organizations for billing and services. A new settings screen has been added for global billing settings. A new cancel reason has been added to help determine reasons for customer churn. A new footer field has been added to invoices. The invoice and email text invoice have been modified with better formatted dates and listings. A new service report shows the customer status totals for selected services and cancel reasons. A new source report shows the customer source count for each service category.

Instrument Element 1.0.1 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:38:39 GMT

The Instrument Element is a Grid/Cloud component that provides the computational/data Grid with an abstraction of real instruments and provides users with a more interactive interface to control them.

fvs_transconv 1.0.1 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:36:54 GMT

transconv (transparency converter) makes the color which appears in the upper left corner of the image translucent and converts the image into the PNG format, which supports transparency.

Cubit POS 2 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:19:25 GMT

Cubit POS is a network point of sale system.

License: BSD License (revised)

Changes:
A bunch of minor bugs were fixed in CashSale.java. Some unused code was removed. More comments were added and some code was made more readable. The navigation buttons now align better. The ability to change the currency symbol was added. The ability to change the name of the type of Tax used (eg. VAT, Sales Tax) was added. The ability to change the Tax percentage was added. A report to view daily tax from sales was added. A bug concerning printing was fixed. Installation documentation was added.

Ecasound 2.5.1 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:19:11 GMT

Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording, and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. It supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs, and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console-mode user interface is included in the package.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
One major bug in the 2.5.0 release that caused the whole X session to terminate on some systems has been fixed. Additionally, a few lesser bugs have been fixed.

spriteconv 1.0.1 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:16:21 GMT

spriteconv stitches several individual still images into a single image with all the components side by side, arranged into a specified number of rows and columns. Such output images are typically used in 2D video games to realize the various states of animation for a particular graphical element, known as a "sprite".

MonoDecrypt 1.0.0 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:11:56 GMT

MonoDecrypt uses pattern matching and its knowledge about character frequencies in order to decrypt messages encoded with a monoalphabetic substitution cipher. MonoDecrypt can decrypt texts of any language, as long as it has sufficient information about the language. Depending on the information you give it, the tool decrypts about 50%-100% on its own. Then you can decrypt the remaining data by filling the gaps or correcting bad guesses. MonoDecrypt can also encrypt texts using monoalphabetic substitution.

JEXIT 1.0 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:10:34 GMT

JEXIT (Java Regular EXpression ITerator) is a tool for simple and quick testing of regular expressions. It allows you to input the regular expression to test and some sample data on which to test it.

AskoziaPBX pb14.3 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:09:11 GMT

AskoziaPBX is more than another GUI for Asterisk. It is an embedded PBX solution which eases system upgrades, backups, and provisioning.

License: BSD License (revised)

Changes:
New outgoing Caller ID options for ISDN and Analog Providers was added. New Portuguese language audio prompts were added. WebGUI localizations for Greek, German, Italian, and Dutch were updated. The annoying "Remote UNIX connection" messages are no longer generated. Two old hardware compatibility bugs have also been resolved: systems with Cyrix 5530 ATA controllers and Intel D201GL* boards are now working.

Qote 0.1 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:09:06 GMT

Qote is a small FTP simulator. It could be used as a honeypot of sorts. It logs date, time, IP address, and whatever usernames and passwords have been used to try to access the (nonexistent) FTP server. It has been tested and runs on Fedora 8 Linux.

libpng 1.2.31 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:07:21 GMT

libpng (PNG library) is a collection of routines used to create and manipulate PNG format graphics files. The PNG format was designed as a replacement for GIF and, to a lesser extent, TIFF, with many improvements and extensions.

License: OSI Approved

Changes:
This release fixes a new bug with reading the PNG cHRM chunk, and reverts the png_flush() behavior to that of version 1.2.29.

fixx bug tracker 1.4 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:07:09 GMT

fixx is a bug tracking and issue tracking system for software teams in the enterprise. By focusing on the needs of software developers and their managers, fixx enables you to collaborate, painlessly resolve bugs, and deliver quality software on time.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

Changes:
An iPhone interface was added. The ability to have private or restricted projects was added. Various bugs were fixed.

Yet Another Dynamic Engine 0.12.0 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:03:56 GMT

Yet Another Dynamic Engine (YADE) is an extensible framework that is designed with dynamic libraries in a way that it is easy to add new numerical models and objects. There are four different models: Discrete Element Method based on spheres, a second method based on tetrahedra, modelling with lattice elements, and Finite Element Method.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release has major improvements. The Qt3 interface was refactored and a Python scripting console was added. It is now possible to control most of the simulation from within a Python script. Clipping planes were added to the graphical view and plotting of resultant curves is possible. A new moment rotation law for DEM spheres was added and fully tested. The DEM triaxial test was improved in many aspects. Finally, an STL entity importer was added, making it possible to import shapes from sources such as blender 3D modeling software.

Gambas 2.8.1 (2.x branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:01:59 GMT

Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Gambas object files are now kind with rmplint. The gb.qt menu shortcut management has been fixed. The gb.gtk system tray icons management has been fixed.

Ctpp 1.0.42 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:00:35 GMT

Ctpp is the C99-compatible C preprocessor of the Ctalk language, which provides object oriented extensions for C. The preprocessor is compatible with GNU cpp and provides extensions like macro expansion in warning and error messages, saving expanded macros to files, and built-in symbol definition for many command line options. You can download the preprocessor separately while Ctalk is between versions for development.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
This release contains updated configuration files and simpler method declaration parsing.

KDE3TO4 0.0.4 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:00:05 GMT

KDE3TO4 is a wizard implemented as a set of modular bash scripts to help users migrating from KDE3 to KDE4 by easily migrating settings for various applications from their old KDE3 settings directory to their new KDE4 settings directory. It requires that you keep the two directories in separate locations. The modular design makes it easy for anybody to add support for any application. On average, the amount of work for a given application is very little and the wizard takes care of integrating it into the overall process easily.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
Support for migrating konqueror search providers setup was added. A bug in the konqueror script was fixed. Several more important blacklists were added.

Rapla 1.3.2 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:58:27 GMT

Rapla is a flexible multi-user resource and event management system. It features multiple calendars, periods, conflict management, hierarchies, and fully configurable resource and reservation types. The primary target of the program was universities. It allows coordination beetween the lectures and the administration. It offers multiple ways to view the available resources and schedule the events. It started as simple room booking software, but in the last five years it has evolved into a fully configurable framework for event and resource management.

The Gamebook Engine 0.1.4 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:56:30 GMT

The Gamebook Engine is a cross-platform engine for writing gamebooks, such as the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series or the "Lone Wolf" series. TGE can interpret scripts that use the "Hyena" gamebook format.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
A few errors in ring-of-thieves.gamebook were fixed. A crash when loading a gamebook and then loading a gamebook again was fixed. More detailed installation and compile instructions were added to the README file. The Linux binary was linked against Qt 4.2.1. Previous TGE versions were linked against 4.4.0, and would not work properly if a previous Qt version was used at run-time. find-error.cpp was added to the source archive, which helps to find scripting errors in gamebooks.

Recovery Is Possible! 6.3 (Stable branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:54:38 GMT

Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or USB boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for many filesystem types (Reiserfs, Reiser4, Ext2/3/4, HFS+, ISO-9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS2, CIFS, MS DOS, NTFS, and VFAT) and contains several utilities for system recovery. It also has IDE/SCSI/SATA, RAID, LVM2, and Ethernet/DSL/cable network support.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Some software updates and fixes and improvements were done.

Contentteller 1.0.0 RC2 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:54:31 GMT

Contentteller is a content management system designed for sites of all sizes and types. It is powerful but simple to use, and search engine friendly out of the box. It has support for multiple Web sites, caching for high traffic Web sites, the ability to import and update everything from RSS feeds, POP3 email accounts, news servers, PAD, CompatDB XML files, a powerful template and style system, integration with 3rd party applications such as vBulletin, UBB.threads, phpBB 3.0, MyBB, SMF, and IP.Board 2.x, and an optional Windows installer to install Contentteller without the need of a FTP client. It is fully extensible with modules.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
The entire admin subsession security system was rewritten to store hashes in the database rather than using sessions. An edit option was added for site_header/site_footer in the instant style editor. Support for language files was added in the module installer. Multiple small issues were fixed in the download module.

schily 2008-08-21 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:51:40 GMT

The "Schily" Tool Box is a set of tools written or managed by Jörg Schilling. It includes programs like: cdrecord, cdda2wav, readcd, mkisofs, smake, bsh, btcflash, calc, calltree, change, compare, count, devdump, hdump, isodebug, isodump, isoinfo, isovfy, label, mt, p, sccs, scgcheck, scpio, sdd, sfind, sformat, smake, sh, star, star_sym, suntar, gnutar, tartest, termcap, and ved.

License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)

Changes:
SCCS now supports a -R option for recursive operation on complete source trees instead of only single files. A problem was fixed in SCCS with 64-bit compatibility.

Bournal 0.2 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:51:31 GMT

Bournal is a minimalistic bash script that allows you to keep a personal, password-protected journal, log, or diary. It includes encryption, regexp searches, and a date-sorted list for editing old entries. Since Bournal is pure bash, it should be easily editable for the CLI-savvy.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Code cleanup was done. Formatting options were added for vim and nano. Error checks were added. nano is now the default editor.

Decibel Audio Player 0.11 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:48:52 GMT

Decibel is a GTK+ audio player designed for GNU/Linux. It aims at being very straightforward to use by means of a very clean and user-friendly interface. It aims also at being a real audio player and, as such, it does not include features that are not meant to be part of an audio player.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Album covers may now be fetched from the Internet. Miscellaneous bugs have also been fixed.

Tiny Tiny RSS 1.2.26 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:47:55 GMT

Tiny Tiny RSS is a Web-based news (RSS, RDF, or Atom) feed aggregator designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release adds an inline Flash-based player for podcasts, interface tweaks, and various bugfixes.

RackTables 0.16.2 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:47:50 GMT

RackTables is a tool to manage tens of racks, hundreds of servers, and thousands of MAC and IP addresses. It will work with a single rack as well. It features a real-life rackspace model, typed rack objects with flexible attribute sets, a tagging system, IP address management ready for NAT, virtual routers and load balancers, accurate network connection handling, a universal search function, a multi-user access model, and an extensible dictionary.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
This maintenance release features cleanups, bugfixes, and user contributions in the following areas: message processing, SNMP, tag processing, eDirectory LDAP server support, and database. The secondary focus has been made onto IPv4 records management, which now uses a new "extended" layout for data display. SLB configuration export has been reviewed and now uses a new, more consistent "sendfile" data gateway. Some initial means to integrate with site-local mods have been provided.

Policy Daemon 2.0.4 (2.x (Cluebringer) branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:43:56 GMT

Policyd v2 (codenamed "cluebringer") is a multi-platform policy server for popular MTAs. This policy daemon is designed mostly for large scale mail hosting environments. The main goal is to implement as many spam combating and email compliance features as possible while at the same time maintaining portability, stability, and performance. Its features include detailed policy and group specification, access control, helo/ehlo checks (helo randomization prevention and RFC compliance), SPF checks, Greylisting, Quotas, and Amavisd-new integration.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Incorrect resolution of group policies was fixed.

Netty 3.0.0.CR2 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:23:29 GMT

The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable, high-performance, high-scalability protocol servers and clients. It includes related out-of-the-box protocol extensions and a tool suite.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Changes:
Various bugs were fixed, including the performance degradation in the NIO transport. The overall stack trace depth was reduced to help application debugging.

XML Construction Kit 1.0 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:46:12 GMT

The XML Construction Kit is a library for generating XML in a builder pattern. It is only for generating valid XML, not parsing it. There are dozens if not hundreds of projects for parsing XML. Very few address a lightweight low/no dependency way of generating XML.

SDL Asylum 0.2.4 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:45:28 GMT

SDL Asylum is a C/SDL port of Andy Southgate's 1994 game Asylum, originally for the Acorn Archimedes. In the game, Young Sigmund has a few problems. To help him resolve his mental instability, you must enter the surreal world of his inner mind and shut down the malfunctioning brain cells.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
The entire codebase has been run through 'uncrustify' and the original monolithic source separated into 11 moderately-sized files, with additional refactoring to make them reasonably modular. This release also includes fixes to build with g++ 4.3, with MinGW, and on Haiku.

Mjrz.net Personal Finance Manager 1.0.64 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:44:23 GMT

Personal Finance Manager is a finance and expense tracking tool for those with limited or no accounting experience. You can use it to manage expenses and track account balances, generate reports, create and save complex filters to search the transaction history, create charts and graphs for assets, liabilities, and daily net worth tracking, view stock prices/quotes, store contacts, email, and phone numbers, and import OFX data for banks and credit cards. It supports the latest Quicken format, and also supports downloading current statement for bank and credit card accounts.

License: The Apache License 2.0

Changes:
Many changes and updates to the portfolio manager. The addition of support for many worldwide stock exchanges. More work on i18n.

Pukka 1.7 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:41:30 GMT

Pukka is a fast and light del.icio.us client that supports multiple accounts.

License: Shareware

Changes:
The description length can now be up to 1,000 characters in order to match recent changes to Delicious. The latest ten bookmarks across accounts are now shown in the dock and menu bar menus, if they are enabled. A backup of each of your accounts' bookmarks, as retrieved from the server, is made from time to time. When selecting a bookmark from any of Pukka's menus, holding down the Option key will allow editing of that bookmark in Pukka. There are many more enhancements and bugfixes.

FiForms Framework 1.1.0 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:40:12 GMT

The FiForms Framework is an application development framework for building Web-database applications in XML, powered by MySQL and PHP. AJAX-enhanced forms, sub-forms, custom reports, and dynamically generated menus create a seamless user experience. The FiForms Framework lets you rapidly prototype and develop a Web/database front end using the latest PHP and XML technologies. It currently includes data-entry classes and XML report generation scripts. The libraries utilize the new XML capabilities of PHP 5 to create a framework for developing Web applications completely in XML languages.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release has had a complete overhaul. It uses XML as the primary application development method, and marks a freezing of the 1.1 XML schemas. There are significant additions to the XML Application Framework and documentation, a new Web-based administration interface, AJAX scripts, dynamic search and selection boxes, and more. This version is licensed under the GNU GPL.

WikyBlog 1.7.1b2 (Beta branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:39:08 GMT

WikyBlog is a groupware application that fuses the collaborative editing features of wikis with the user friendly publishing characteristics of blogs. Designed for speed and ease of use, WikyBlog has a unique AJAX enhanced tabbed interface that enables users to view and edit multiple files within the same page. Custom templates, file attachments, a flexible user privilege system, and Google Maps number among its many features.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Admin verification was changed to a more secure and efficient method. Image display for feeds and comment renaming was also fixed, in addition to other improvements.

Cacheonix 2.0 EAP build 129 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:38:03 GMT

Cacheonix is a reliable coherent distributed cache and in-memory data grid for Java. It provides cache partitioning for low-latency operations, load balancing, and data replication for high availability.

OrangeHRM 2.4-beta.7 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:37:42 GMT

OrangeHRM is an Human Resource Management (HRM) system that implements employee personal information management, leave and vacations, time and attendance tracking, benefits, applicant tracking (recruitment), configurable, user defined reports, and employee self service.

DesktopLyrics 1.0.6 (Default branch)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:01:36 GMT

DesktopLyrics is an application that displays the lyrics of the song currently playing in "iTunes" right on your desktop. The lyrics for the song have to be set in iTunes; DesktopLyrics does nothing to fetch them if they aren't available in iTunes. If you don't want to set all your lyrics manually, you can use an application like "Harmonic".

License: MIT/X Consortium License

Changes:
This release disables the update check on Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4, as those won't be supported in future releases. "Sparkle" (the framework used for version checking and automatic updates) has been updated to fix possible crashes. A problem where DesktopLyrics might display the lyrics of the previous song because iTunes was busy while being asked for lyrics has been fixed. A problem where DesktopLyrics would still display lyrics after quitting iTunes when not using the option "Hide lyrics when iTunes is paused" has been fixed.A French translation has been added.

SMARTReporter 2.3.8 (Default branch)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:59:34 GMT

SMARTReporter warns of ATA hard drive failures before they happen by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T. status of the drives. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard drives that acts as an "early warning system" for pending drive problems. SMARTReporter can notify you of impending drive failures by sending email messages, displaying a warning dialog, or executing an application. The current status of your drives is always displayed through the customizable menu item.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

Changes:
This release disables the update check on Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4, as those won't be supported in future releases. To automatically update to future releases, you must first update to this version. "Sparkle" (the framework used for version checking and automatic updates) has been updated to fix possible crashes. A possible crash while sending crash reports has been fixed. A possible problem sending email through broken SMTP servers has been fixed.

MikeOS 1.4.2 (Default branch)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:58:14 GMT

MikeOS is an operating system for x86 PCs, written entirely in assembler. It's not intended to to become a fully-fledged general purpose OS. Instead, it's designed for learning basic OS design and x86 assembly language. Consequently, it runs in 16-bit mode (for BIOS access) and has very low system requirements. It features rudimentary DOS compatibility.

License: BSD License (revised)

Changes:
The minicom-like serial terminal program can now be exited using the F8 key. A new command, VOL, has been added to the command line interface to display information about the floppy disk. There were minor updates to the documentation.

Autoglade 0.4 (Default branch)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:57:48 GMT

autoglade is a tool that automagically creates a fully working application from a GUI Glade definition plus some declarative information with no programming.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release adds support for a lot of widgets and actions (button, tool button, font button, cut/copy/paste clipboard actions, etc.). A new autoeditor example application demonstrating new features.

CONSIDEO MODELER 4.5 (Default branch)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:57:06 GMT

CONSIDEO MODELER allows you to mindmap a complex problem, analyse it qualitatively to discover levers and bottlenecks, and even to simulate it by automatically building a system dynamics model. One can integrate any external data and setup a customized management cockpit for playing out scenarios. It is useful for organizational problems, project management, financial analysis, production processes, score cards, and much more.

License: Freeware

Changes:
SQL and Excel import. A model explorer for hundreds of subsystems and thousands of factors. Mind map import.

pdfrecycle 0.03 (Default branch)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:56:22 GMT

pdfrecycle creates a PDF file by composing pages from other PDF files. It lets you define PDF bookmarks, scale and rotate pages, put multiple logical pages onto each physical sheet, and add metadata. It uses a simple text file format to define the layout and what pages to include. From this input file, it creates a LaTeX file and then runs pdflatex to produced the PDF file.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Last included pages were included twice; this has been fixed. There are new features like the ability to scale and rotate pages.

Calf 0.0.15 (Default branch)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:55:57 GMT

Calf is a set of audio effect plugins. Several plugins are provided: flanger, reverb, multimode filter, vintage delay, phaser, simple monophonic VA synthesizer, and organ/pad synthesizer. LADSPA+LRDF, DSSI, and LV2 versions are available, as well as GTK+ based UIs and a standalone application using GTK+2 and JACK.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Changes:
Usability of knob controls has been improved. A new FM-based percussive module has been added to Calf Organ. The rotary speaker effect is more flexible due to added parameters, and sounds more subtle due to a changed algorithm. A freeze-on-exit bug has been fixed in the JACK host. The JACK host license has been changed back to the GPL due to use of the LASH client library.