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fxmoviemanager 1.4 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:08:44 GMT

FxMovieManager is a file manager which can display thumbnails of movie files. It can also manage a playlist of movies and act as a simple front-end to MPlayer.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
Many new icons were added. Buttons were added to increase and decrease the size of the thumbnails in the filelist. All file operation buttons have been moved to the right of the main application area. More video formats can be loaded into the playlist (e.g. 3gp and 3gp2).

AYUMiS 0.1 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:06:35 GMT

AYUMiS is a project aiming to create a cross-platform MMORPG set in space. It is developed in C++ with ClanLib. It will give the player full control over the game universe, with no NPCs or pre-planned storyline. It attempts to give the player a full range of choices and open-ended gameplay.

DSpace 1.5.1 beta (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:00:23 GMT

DSpace is a digital asset management system that enables services for access, provision, stewardship, and reuse of digital assets with a focus on educational and research materials. It provides mechanisms for handling multiple policies and practices for redistribution, and supports a range of metadata types for digital formats.

FET 5.6.2 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:59:23 GMT

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:
A constraint was added to specify the maximum days per week for an interval for teachers and students. This can be used, for example, to specify that teachers and students must not work more than 2 times per week in the last hours of the day. A constraint was added to specify for a group of activities that they should end the day for students. When modifying a constraint's (sub)activities preferred starting times or time slots, the activity tag is now correctly updated.

Lbunzip2 0.02 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:53:05 GMT

Lbunzip2 is a multi-threaded bunzip2 filter (a parallel bzip2 decompressor) that doesn't depend on the lseek() system call and so isn't restricted to regular files. Its only command line argument is the number of decompressor threads. It should be able to decompress valid bzip2 streams on the fly, i.e. statistically anything that bunzip2 itself can decompress. Bzip2 streams created with a different block size than 900k seem to be supported, too. On an Athlon-64 X2 6000+, lbunzip2 was 42% faster (based on wall clock time) than standard bunzip2.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Version 0.01 didn't throttle the decompressor threads when the multiplexer thread was blocked on the write() system call, thus memory consumption could grow indefinitely. This is fixed now. Some performance testing was done on five multicore machines (Alpha, Athlon, Itanium, Sparc, and Xeon). The README file was rewritten.

Kukkaisvoima 9 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:30:45 GMT

Kukkaisvoima is a lightweight blog system made with the Python programming language. It stores all blog entries as plain text files and has no external dependencies outside of Python's standard library (no need for a database engine, etc.).

License: Affero General Public License

Changes:
The search system introduced in version 8 had some minor flaws when searching for text in blog entries with broken HTML code. This release fixes the search feature in those cases.

DeVeDe 3.10 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:22:56 GMT

DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs (compatible with home players) from nearly any video format. It only uses Python, MPlayer, Mencoder, DVDAuthor, VCDImager, and mkisofs, so it has very few dependencies.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
Official Debian packages. The limit of 12 titles is gone; now you can create discs with up to 90 titles and/or 90 files. You can add a title to the menu and shadows to the menu texts. You can place the menu text to the right, left, or center. YADIF deinterlace filter support. Contextual help. Support for a resolution of 160x128 pixels in DivX. Now, when creating a PAL disk from a 24 FPS source, DeVeDe speeds it up instead of adding one frame per 24, obtaining a more fluid animation.

Cryptographic Implementations Analysis Toolkit 1.0 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:18:43 GMT

The Cryptographic Implementations Analysis Toolkit (CIAT) is a compendium of command line and graphical tools whose aim is to help in the detection and analysis of encrypted byte sequences within files (executable and non-executable). It is particularly helpful in the forensic analysis and reverse engineering of malware using cryptographic code and encrypted payloads.

Flickcurl 1.5 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:15:30 GMT

Flickcurl is a C library for calling the Flickr Web service API. It handles the API signing, token management, and parameter encoding and decoding, resulting in C functions for the Web services APIs. It uses libcurl to call the REST Web service, and libxml2 to manipulate the XML responses. The library supports reading photo, tag, and comments information, the photo upload and searching APIs, and writing tags and comments. It provides utilities such as "flickcurl" to exercise the API and "flickrdf" to get RDF metadata descriptions out of photos, tags, and machine tags.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Changes:
Support for the Tag Clusters API and new photo search API parameters contacts, has_geo, lat, lon, radius, and radius_units fields was added.

Brain Workshop 3.1 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:13:25 GMT

Brain Workshop is an implementation of the Dual N-Back mental exercise. This exercise is the only mental activity that is scientifically proven to improve your short-term memory and fluid intelligence (IQ). The game involves remembering a sequence of spoken letters and a sequence of positions of a square at the same time. Brain Workshop includes an optional Triple N-Back mode that introduces differently colored squares as a third stimulus.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version resolves some sound issues on various systems. The preferred sound driver on Linux is now ALSA. High performance VBO is now enabled to increase graphics performance.

Dapper Dataflow Engine 0.92 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:13:02 GMT

Dapper, or "Distributed and Parallel Program Execution Runtime", is a tool for taming the complexities of developing for large-scale cloud and grid computing, enabling the user to create distributed computations from the essentials: the code that will execute, along with a dataflow graph description. It supports rich execution semantics, carefree deployment, a robust control protocol, modification of the dataflow graph at runtime, and an intuitive user interface.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Changes:
On the fly generation and aliasing of dataflow graph edges are now possible. The API has been simplified, and redundant interfaces have been done away with; at the same time, dataflow graphs are now robust to tampering from malicious users. The concept of execution domain has been introduced to control what executes where. The manual is now substantially complete, and has been updated with a bevy of examples and diagrams. The SourceForge mailing lists dapper-user and dapper-announce have been created.

Sound-Rec-Ed 1.1 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:11:42 GMT

Sound-Rec-Ed provides simple GUIs to record and edit sound files, similar to operating a tape-deck. Buttons start and stop recording or break incoming audio into separate files. It can cut sections from audio files or join files. It saves files in WAV, OGG, or MP3 format.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

Changes:
Tool-tip hover-boxes were added to explain features. When buttons are not active, they are now grayed out. All sequential file names now have four digits to help with alphabetic sorting. Progress bars were added to the SoundEditor tool. A Makefile was also added.

NTP 4.2.4p5 (Stable branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:11:16 GMT

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. It provides client accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on WANs relative to a primary server synchronized to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) via a Global Positioning Service (GPS) receiver, for example.

License: Public Domain

Changes:
This release fixes a number of Windows-specific ntpd bugs and platform-independent ntpdate bugs. A logging bugfix has been applied to the ONCORE driver. The "dynamic" keyword is now obsolete and deferred binding to local interfaces is the new default. The minimum time restriction for the interface update interval has been dropped. A number of minor build system and documentation fixes are included. This is a recommended upgrade for Windows.

SMPlayer 0.6.2 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:11:33 GMT

SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for Mplayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for Mplayer filters and more. One of the main features is the ability to remember the state of a played file, so when you play it later it will resume at the same point and with the same settings. SMPlayer is developed with the Qt toolkit, so it's multi-platform. An executable for Windows is also available.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
An audio equalizer and a dialog to search for subtitles from opensubtitles.org have been added. The toolbars can be customized. A portable version for Windows is available.

OpenNetAdmin 08.08.16 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:11:10 GMT

OpenNetAdmin provides a database managed inventory of your IP network (IPAM). Each host can be tracked via a centralized AJAX-enabled Web interface that can help reduce tracking errors. It also has the ability to generate DHCP and DNS configuration for individual servers from the data stored in the database. There is a command line interface for batch scripting that can be accessed remotely or locally.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
Fixes to various DNS related bugs as well as a bug that prevented you from adding new hosts. Support has been added for SRV records.

mididings 20080817 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:10:23 GMT

mididings is a MIDI router/processor implemented as a Python module. It's primarily geared towards live keyboardists, but should be useful for MIDI processing in other settings as well. While the actual MIDI processing is done in C++ for speed reasons, it is possible to explicitly call back into Python, allowing you to process MIDI events any way you want.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Many crucial parts of the MIDI processing code have been rewritten from scratch to make the code more flexible and allow for new features. The meaning of filters has changed to make it more consistent, and duplicate events are now automatically removed.

An Gramadóir 0.7 (Default branch)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:09:59 GMT

An Gramadóir is a grammar checking engine that is designed for the rapid development of grammar checkers for minority languages and other languages with limited computational resources. Rule specifications are given according to a simple syntax combining XML and regular expressions. Part-of-speech tagging can be learned from text corpora using statistical methods. It is currently implemented for Irish (Gaeilge).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release features improvements to the morphological analyzer and tokenizer, four new localizations, a new XML-based API, and a number of important bugfixes.

Password Manager Daemon 1.13 (Default branch)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:25:48 GMT

Password Manager Daemon serves clients data via a local socket. The data is stored in an encrypted XML file, and the client must provide the key to modify it. There is also a library available to make patching applications to use the daemon easier.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes a bug that may have caused invalid DECRYPT status messages to be sent. It parses ~/.pwmd/pinentry.conf when adding files from the command line.

Base4r 0.2 (Default branch)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:25:07 GMT

Base4r is a client library for Google Base, written in Ruby. It is currently able to authenticate and to create, update, and delete Base items from your Ruby project.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
This release adds a required "unique_id" attribute to Item, as this is now required for all Base items. It works around XML formatting issues that appeared since the unit tests were last run by removing inter-tag whitespace in unit tests. The default values for "target_country" and "item_lang" in the constructor for UniversalItem and ProductItem have been removed to make the code a little less Brit-centric.

libpwmd 5.0.7 (Default branch)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:23:32 GMT

libpwmd is a library that makes it easy to patch applications to use pwmd (Password Manager Daemon). It supports password retrieval from a pinentry program.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes setting the pin entry title string after an invalid password was entered.

gbsplay 0.0.91 (Default branch)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:23:04 GMT

gbsplay emulates the sound hardware of the Nintendo Gameboy. It is able to play the sounds from a Gameboy module dump (.GBS format) over /dev/dsp , ALSA, and NAS. Also included is an XMMS input plugin, a tool to display information about a .GBS file, and a demo file.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Enhancements include more accurate handling of channel 3 and master volume as well as the removal of possible garbage sounds on song change. An output to write MIDI files has been added. The XMMS plugin is currently broken and has been disabled. The build process offers more options, and a bash completion template has been added.

Password Manager Daemon 1.12 (Default branch)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:22:15 GMT

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes a segfault when adding a file to the cache from the command line.

Glossword 1.8.11 (Default branch)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:21:42 GMT

Glossword is a system to publish dictionaries, glossaries, and encyclopedias. It features an installation wizard, support for multiple languages, visual themes, multi-domain installation, an administrative interface with multi-user support, built-in search and cache engines, the ability to export/import dictionaries in XML format, and W3C-validated code. Glossword is useful for any sort of dictionary-like content, including sites with game cheat codes, online translators, references, and various kinds of CMS solutions.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
This release features an updated print version of terms, and minor changes in the visual themes manager. Several bugfixes have been made.

Shttp 0.0.9 (Default branch)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:21:06 GMT

Shttp is a simple, partial HTTP/1.1 implementation built using the ServerKit framework. It's a little over 1000 lines of code, and serves well as a minimal lightweight HTTP server in closed/controlled/static content settings, as well as a learning tool for those interested in developing TCP-service-providing modules using ServerKit. Illustrating how easy it is to build efficient server programs using ServerKit, this module has demonstrated 7200 requests/second in AB benchmarks.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
A buffer overflow has been fixed.

VFSJFileChooser 0.0.3 (Default branch)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:20:33 GMT

VFSJFileChooser is a Java Swing component that allows you to browse both remote and local filesystems. It is based on the Apache Commons VFS library. It can replace the standard Java JFileChooser in applications that need to access remote files. It supports all the protocols available in Commons VFS: FTP, FTPS, SFTP to access files using SSH, SMB to browse Windows/Samba shares, HTTP, and HTTPS.

License: The Apache License 2.0

Changes:
A large speed improvement. The navigation icons are now visible all the time. The VFSUtils class supports many new options. This release has been upgraded to the commons-vfs 2.0 snapshot. It has switched from Jakarta Slide to webdavclient4j. It has a cleaner but incompatible API (Enums instead of int fields). Sorting support is back. The bookmarks dialog scrolling issues have been fixed.

Seed7 2008-08-17 (Default branch)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:19:10 GMT

Seed7 is a general purpose programming language. It is a higher level language compared to Ada, C++, and Java. In Seed7, new statements and operators can be declared easily. Functions with type results and type parameters are more elegant than a template or generics concept. Object orientation is used when it brings advantages and not in places when other solutions are more obvious. Although Seed7 contains several concepts of other programming languages, it is generally not considered as a direct descendant of any other programming language.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The FAQs about "static type checking" and "development speed and type checking" were added or improved. The chapters about boolean, string, set, category, and reference in the manual were added or improved. The functions toUuencoded and fromUuencoded were added to the encoding.s7i library. The 'configValue' function was improved to support more values.The function growStri was improved to work correctly when memory is scarce. The makefiles were improved to define TWOS_COMPLEMENT_INTTYPE when appropriate. The file setlib.c was improved to work correctly with bitsettypes of different sizes.

SlackRoll v29 (Default branch)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:16:48 GMT

SlackRoll is a package or upgrade manager for Slackware Linux. It is designed to work with official mirrors in systems mainly composed of official packages with a few unofficial packages. It lets you automatically upgrade or install packages, and displays which packages have been added or removed from the Slackware tree.

License: Public Domain

Changes:
Among other minor changes, this release makes pkgtools and all the subprocesses run with C locale settings for consistency with the expected behaviour of several tools like tar, and makes the list-transient and list-new operation print the package paths next to the package names for new packages.