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February 6, 2005

17:43
Mobile Bookshelf converts text file(s) to a MIDlet (a Java program that can be run on a mobile phone), making it possible to read your favourite books on your handset. Changes:
A number of bugfixes. A new 'autoexit' plugin to automatically turn off the backlight to preserve battery charge. Backlight control on Sonyericsson phones. ISO-8859-2 codepage is supported. Hyphenation patterns for Italian, Spanish, Hungerian, and other languages.
17:15
The xterm program is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102/VT220 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly. If the underlying operating system supports terminal resizing capabilities (for example, the SIGWINCH signal in systems derived from 4.3bsd), xterm will use the facilities to notify programs running in the window whenever it is resized. Changes:
The configure script has been improved to allow building on most platforms without imake. Some minor feature enhancements, e.g. new resource settings and configure options. Many small bugfixes.
17:13
AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that contain repetitive text with varied substitutions. Its goal is to simplify the maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. This is especially valuable if there are several blocks of such text that must be kept synchronized. Output is specified with a Scheme-enhanced output template. Input, if required by your template, may come from AutoGen definitions, CGI data, or XML files. Changes:
AutoGen macros were added for inserting definition file line numbers into the output files: (def-file-line "value-name"). AutoGen will no longer try to catch real time signals.
17:11
scsiadd lets you insert or remove SCSI devices from the Linux SCSI subsytem on the fly. This is especially useful for external devices like scanners or tapes, which can be powered on after system boot. Devices can be added or removed at any time. Changes:
Scsiadd won't output bogus error messages when used with non-wide SCSI host adapters.
17:10
Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL) provides a diskless or systemless environment for client machines. It works on Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and Fedora. Unlike LTSP, it uses distributed hardware resources and makes it possible for clients to fully access local hardware. It also includes Clonezilla, a partitioning and disk cloning utility similar to Symantec Ghost. Changes:
This version officially supports Fedora Core 3. A function to check the input MAC file is added.
17:08
Phaos is a browser-based RPG. Current features include character creation, the ability to purchase/sell potions, weapons and armor, traveling, inter-player chat, the ability to fight in the arena, an admin system, random encounters, the ability to trade with other players, and the ability to fight other players. Future releases will include a storyline and quests. Changes:
Many bugs from the addition of the language file have been fixed. There is also a private messaging system now.
17:07
L7-filter is a Netfilter match module which classifies packets based on application layer (OSI layer 7) data. This means that it is able to classify packets as HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, Kazaa, etc., regardless of ports. It complements existing matches that classify based on port numbers, packet length, TOS bits, and so on. Combined with Linux QoS, it allows for full layer 7 packet shaping. Changes:
This release adds a definition for SIP (Session Initiation Protocol).
17:06
mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split Matroska media files. Supported video stream types include streams from AVIs, Ogg/OGM, and RealVideo files. Supported audio formats include Vorbis, RealAudio, MP3, MP2, FLAC, AC3, and AAC. Several subtitle formats are supported, including SRT, SSA, ASS, VobSub, and many others. The resulting files can be played back with various media players on Linux/Unix or the Matroska Direct Show filters under Windows. Changes:
Compilation with the latest libebml and libmatroska releases was fixed. The handling of deprecated elements for XML files was fixed. Negative audio displacement was not working correctly for some formats. mmg could be crashed due to freeing a dialog resource too early.
13:30
fewnn is a frontend for different game emulators (such as xmame and tuxnes). It's written for the GNOME 2.x platform using C#/Gtk#. Although designed for Linux, it should run on any platform that supports Mono and GTK#. Changes:
This release uses app.config to define the location of the plugin directory. A stale reference to GConf hsa been removed. There is code cleanup and bugfixes.
13:29
Qjackctl is a simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server daemon, specifically for the Linux Audio Desktop infrastructure. It is written in C++ around the Qt3 toolkit for X11, most exclusively using Qt Designer. It provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK daemon parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way to control of the status of the audio server daemon. With time, this primordial interface has become richer by including an enhanced patchbay and connection control features. Changes:
JACK/ALSA client and port name renaming (aliasing) is now an optional feature for the connections window. Tooltips are now also featured on connections, status, and patch bay windows. A new actual hardware device selection menu is featured in the setup dialog. A rare connection port item removal/disconnection dangling pointer bug has been fixed.
13:28
NewsFeed is an RSS/RDF/Atom reader and aggregator that features minimal dependencies (it uses Python/Tk), a live search function, and audio notification when new items are available. Changes:
NewsFeed is now Unicode-aware, so it can handle international characters in feeds. Also new are support for feeds in Atom format and display of enclosures.
13:28
MindRaider is a Semantic Web outliner/mind mapper. It aims to connect the tradition of outline editors with emerging technologies. MindRaider's mission is to organize not only the content of your hard drive but also your cognitive base and social relationships in a way that enables quick navigation, concise representation, and inferencing. Changes:
This minor MR release brings export of notebooks to TWiki and OPML. It fixes bugs related to Graph navigator and streams.
13:27
zsync is a client-side implementation of the rsync algorithm. It allows updating of files from a remote Web server without requiring a full download or a special remote server application. It uses a metafile, which must be created on the server, to determine which parts of a file the user already has; it then downloads the remaining parts via HTTP. No special server or Web server module is needed. It can also look inside gzip files, allowing efficient update transfers even when files are compressed. Changes:
Optimisations to the algorithm used have allowed the size of the control file to be greatly reduced.
13:24
blur6ex is a simple, fast, and moderately feature-rich content system. It supports a blog, a simple content system for article publishing, RSS feed generation, CSS-based layouts (no tables at all), simple galleries for your photos, authentication, and QuickQuotes for citing passages in your comments. Changes:
This is an update to the initial announcement. It has support for trackbacks, blog categories, and various other small enhancements and bugfixes.
13:24
Quod Libet is an audio player that lets you use all features available in the ID3 and Ogg Vorbis tagging standards. It supports arbitrary tag names and multiple values per tag, and is aware of the more obscure tags such as 'version', 'conductor', or 'discnumber'. Playlists are constructed by searching your audio library's tags, either by a text search or a simple regular expression-based query syntax. It also supports editing tags, including editing many files at once even if they are different audio formats. Changes:
This release fixes two crashes on startup that affect users running Python 2.4 or in the "C" locale, respectively. If you are already using 0.8, there is no reason to upgrade.
13:23
Joone (Java Object Oriented Neural Engine) is an artificial neural network Java framework. It is used to build and train neural networks with a powerful visual environment. It has a modular design and can be easily extended by writing new modules to implement new learning algorithms or architectures. Changes:
This release adds many new features, including the Radial Basis Function, a new Input Connector useful to share the same data source between several layers, a new weights' initializing mechanism, new learning algorithms, etc. A lot of bugs have been fixed and the documentation has been improved.
13:22
The Heirloom Toolchest is a collection of standard Unix utilities. It was derived from original Unix material released as open source by Caldera and contains multiple versions of each utility corresponding to SVID3/SVR4, SVID4/SVR4.2MP, POSIX.2-1992/SUSV2, POSIX.1-2001/SUSV3, and 4BSD (SVR4 /usr/ucb). It processes lines of arbitrary length and in many cases binary input data, supports characters in UTF-8 and many East Asian encodings, and contains more than 100 individual utilities including bc, cpio, diff, ed, file, find, grep, man, nawk, oawk, pax, ps, sed, sort, spell, and tar. Extensive documentation is included. Changes:
Support for POSIX.1-2001 has been introduced; since it is partially incompatible with the existing implementation, another set of utilities has been added for it. Many bugs and conformance issues have been fixed.
13:21
redland-bindings provides high-level language bindings for the Redland RDF C libraries, allowing full access to the C APIs along with enhancements for individual languages. It currently provides bindings in C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl. Changes:
The bindings were synchronised with Redland 1.0.0. The Python binding gained returning of RDF graph and boolean results. The Ruby API was updated to rdf-redland 0.5.3.1. Installation support and test cases have been fixed.
13:00
Redland is a library providing high-level APIs for the Resource Description Framework (RDF), allowing it to be stored, parsed, serialized, queried, and manipulated. It has an object-based, modular design and comes with detailed reference documentation and examples. APIs are provided in C#, C, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, and Tcl. Redland supports all RDF vocabularies such as FOAF, RSS 1.0, Dublin Core, DOAP, and OWL. Changes:
The library was made V1.0.0. The rasqal RDF query library was updated to 0.9.6 for better query and SPARQL support. The raptor RDF parser and serializing library was updated to 1.4.5 for new new RDF/XML abbreviated serializer, improved RSS tag soup parser, and an RSS 1.0 serializer. A new experimental SQLite storage was added.
12:59
Primrose is a database connection pool which supports all databases that have JDBC drivers. It provides control over SQL transaction monitoring, configuration, and dynamic pool management via a Web interface. Changes:
This release adds encryption for the Web management tool password (works the same as the db password encryption). An option to not disconnect idle connections has been added (set idleConnections=-1 in poolConfig). There are various minor bugfixes to the core codebase.