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About: Keepalived for LVS aims to add a strong and robust keepalive facility to the Linux Virtual Server project. This project is written in C with multilayer TCP/IP stack checks. It implements a framework based on three family checks: Layer3, Layer4, and Layer5. This framework gives the daemon the ability of checking a LVS server pool states.When one of the servers in the LVS server pool is down, keepalived informs the Linux kernel via a setsockopt call to remove this server entry from the LVS topology. In addition, it implements a VRRPv2 stack to handle director failover. Changes: Support for reloading the configuration file on the fly upon receiving a SIGHUP has been added. Some code dependencies have been fixed. Two new daemon arguments that permit one to not release VRRP VIPs and IPVS topology on daemon stop have been added. A MISC_CHECK forking issue has been fixed. The IPVS wrapper uses allocated IPVS rules. The keepalived.init Red Hat script has been extended to support restart and reload arguments. Some typos have been fixed, and some code cleaned up.
About: vsftpd is a secure and fast FTP server for UNIX-like systems that is used on many large and critical Internet sites. Its rich feature set includes SSL encryption, IPv6, bandwidth throttling, PAM integration, virtual users, virtual IPs and per-user / per-IP configuration. Changes: Support for large (>2Gb) files on Linux/ia32, support for per-user configuration, support for simple standalone mode, support for client limit (in standalone mode), support for multi-line connect banners, support for localtime (not GMT), and support for passive address override have been added. Support for chroot jailing has been greatly improved. More documentation and examples have been added. Fixes for AIX and HPUX builds have been applied. A "bug" has been fixed which could cause the Linux kernel to log network stack related messages.
About: Straw is a desktop RSS and Atom aggregator for the GNOME 2 environment, written in Python. Changes: There are some new user-visible features to navigate through the items, and lots of internal changes probably accompanied by new, exciting bugs.
About: lcvs maintains a global log file for a CVS module and does automated tagging on each commit. Also, informative email may be sent for changes to the repository. Some generally usefuls functions for CVS are also available. Changes: This release supports CVS repositories on a remote repository server.
About: Dispair (DISPlay Archives In Realtime) is a tiny CGI-script written in Perl that lets users browse tar.gz archives. Changes: A remote command execution exploit was fixed.
About: OpenOffice Indexer generates an index for OpenOffice.org documents. It can extract keywords and make documents accessible for various keyword systems. Changes: Error messages have been improved. An outOfArrayException has been fixed. Internationalisation has been fixed. There is now an English Web site. The broken source download has been fixed.
About: TR-IRCD is an ircd and a collection of services programs for IRC networks. The ircd is heavily influenced by ircd-hybrid and Bahamut. It includes support for IRC extensions such as md5-encrypted hostnames, modules, threads, different protocols, channel modes, and languages. It supports IPv6 and Web-based configuration, and includes a proxy scanner. Changes: Many bugs, some of which lead to crashes, are fixed. There are many additional fixes to make the ircd operable on Solaris.
About: LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting many "exotic" filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, httpfs, socketfs, freenetfs, and nutellafs) transparently for any application. It can be regarded as doing the same job as the VFS (virtual filesystem switch) in the kernel: it is a switch, distributing the filesystem calls to its supported filesystems. However, LUFS filesystems are implemented in userspace. This would be a drawback for local filesystems where the access speed is important, but proves to be a huge advantage for networked filesystems where the userland flexibility is most important. Changes: This release builds with gcc 3.x.
About: Story Server is a server for managing and tracking stories for iterative development processes. Stories can be assigned to iterations and users, are tracked as they go from pending, to underway, to complete, and can be abandoned and annotated. The server also computes a few metrics based on estimates and actual time spent on work. Changes: Support for story abandonment.
About: IMAPScrape is a utility to scrape messages which match certain criteria from an IMAP server and place them in a mailbox file.
About: The Python XML package contains parsers, SAX and DOM interfaces, sample programs, and documentation. It is currently in beta. Changes: Python 1.5 is not supported anymore; Python 2.0 or higher is required. Expat has been updated to 1.95.4. Various enhancements for pyexpat have been made, and various bugs in sgmlop have been fixed. Various DOM L1, L2, and L3 features have been added to minidom. The new module xml.dom.expatbuilder allows you to create minidom trees more efficiently. Minor bugs in xmlproc have been fixed. The xml-howto has been updated, and bugs in the MSIE, ADR, and NS XBEL parsers have been fixed.
About: SpiffyWeb is a system to rapidly create and easily maintain CGI-based Web applications, especially applications that have a database backend. A common API is provided to handle CGI aplpication tasks such as login managment, session management, and more.
About: out2syl.sh is a shell script to export your Outlook Express contact list to GNU/Sylpheed format.
About: ftpcopy is a small mirror-like utility to copy files or directory trees with FTP. ftpcopy understands EPLF and traditional listing formats. Changes: An option to limit the maximum download file size was added. ftpcopy will no longer re-get files when the FTP server has changed the date representation in /bin/ls style listings.
About: camorama is a GNOME 2 Webcam application featuring various image filters. Changes: This release has a large frame rate increase, a minor GUI redesign, and a slider for white-balance. Prefs are now saved.
About: Dovecot is an IMAP server whose major goals are security and extreme reliability. It uses index files to optimally store the mailbox state, which makes it very fast even with huge mailboxes. Indexes won't prevent external mailbox updates, so Dovecot is still fully compatible with standard Maildir and mbox formats. There's also a fully featured POP3 server included. Changes: This release adds SSL support and DIGEST-MD5 authentication, and fixes a few nasty bugs.
About: Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans. Changes: This is the third 0.13.0 beta release. It fixes twenty bugs, focusing on posting articles, charset support, and memory leaks.
About: Sinstall (Source INSTALLer) is a flexible source package installer. It's able to build and install any kind of source, trace make install installations, and create uninstall records. It's also able to correct some configure and make errors, optimize the compilation, check existing installations, download packages, guess configure parameters and Makefile's targets, find dependencies, and create distribution packages. Changes: This release has bugfixes, and adds --uninstall and FTP support.
About: SkunkWeb is a scalable, extensible, and easy-to-use Web application server written in Python. It is designed for handling both high-traffic sites and smaller sites. Its features include a powerful component model and an elegant templating language that encourages component-based design, highly configurable caching (on disk and/or in memory) of compiled templates and component output, message catalog support for i18n, and remote component calls. It can be used with Apache via an Apache module, or it can serve HTTP requests directly. Changes: In addition to many bugfixes, this release includes new services to support cgis (Python and otherwise) and a PSP (Python Server Pages) templating type. The source tarball now includes pre-built documentation.
About: On-line bookmarks manager is a Web interface which allows you to browse, add, and modify private and personal bookmarks. It includes authentication/cookies, categories, advanced search, themes, and more. Changes: Bugs were fixed in the read-only page. A new theme has also been added.
About: libieee1284 is intended to be used by applications that need to communicate with (or at least identify) devices that are attached via a parallel port. Changes: Support for more platforms was added.
About: SPASTIC is an easy-to-use, powerful set of email filters to deal with Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE), a.k.a. spam, using procmail. Some of its features are filtering based on header and/or body contents, predefined sets of filters to get started quickly, a whitelist to bypass filters, options on where to send spam, and an optional script to rotate the spam file periodically. Changes: This release includes one new filter (Content-Type:) and associated filter file (reject-type) as well as vastly updated documentation. The rotate-spam script has also been improved to provide a detailed report of captured spam, and now uses the logrotate naming style for backup spam files.
About: Scriptix is a light-weight scripting language designed solely for embedding and extending applications. It has most common language features, including arrays, classes, exceptions, functions, loops, and threads. Speed, flexibility, and simplicity are top priorities. Changes: Some very small changes were made for compatibility with the latest AweMUD release.
About: AweMUD is a MUD server for use with fantasy-settings. Features include fully dynamic objects and characters, an advanced scripting system, and custom worlds. The engine will eventually have completely interactive rooms (items can be placed under benches, doors can be destroyed), complex magick, and interactive NPCs. Changes: A number of internal changes, along with a lot of cleanup to the user visible features.
About: DML2 is an object oriented document formatting and content storage system. Content inside DML2 objects can be completely separated from structure and presentation. DML2 is primarily meant for static HTML-based development, but it may be used for any purpose. Changes: This release adds support for default constructors, an array index tag, and improved cross-directory support. Linux man page documentation is now available. The source code is now built with Autoconf/Automake.
About: GKrellMBUPS is a plugin for GKrellM which allows the status of a Belkin UPS to be displayed in a number of charts. Belkin's Sentry Bulldog software must be installed and the upsd service running for this plugin to operate. Changes: This release adds periodic connection retries to the client task if the connection to the upsd service is broken, which is useful if you have to kill upsd or when a remotely monitored machine crashes. It also checks Sentry Bulldog's PRO_NET.DAT if a connection attempt fails to ensure that the correct port is being used.
About: QHacc is a personal accounting program based on Qt. It features double- or single-entry bookkeeping and a reconciliation window. It also provides support for memorized and split transactions, graphing, reporting, archiving, and scheduled transactions that can be based on the account balance. Changes: This release has a general journal, real-time updates to graphing and reporting, account subsets, click-throughs on bar graphs show composite transactions, an averages report, multi-account pie graphs, and improved auto-completion on transactions. Spurious save messages, corrupted transactions, and compile errors for gcc 3.X have been fixed. Click-throughs on bar graphs show composite transactions.
About: Emdros is a corpus query system for storing and searching linguistically annotated text. It is very generic, supporting almost any kind of annotation from almost any linguistic theory. All linguistic levels of analysis are supported, including phonology, morphology, the lexical level, syntax, and discourse. The core libraries act as a middleware layer between a client and an underlying SQL database. MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite are supported. Changes: There is a new MQL statement which returns all objects which have at least one monad in a specified monad set. This is major news for people who are using Emdros to display the results of MQL queries. Previously, every monad had to be inspected using the SELECT OBJECTS AT statement, resulting in perhaps hundreds of separate queries. With the new statement, many of these can be reduced to a single query, resulting in possibly major speedups. A new document, "Monad Sets -- Implementation and Mathematical Foundations", has been added.
About: KPortage a graphical frontend for the Gentoo Linux portage system. Changes: This release works with portage versions 2.0.18 and higher, and has faster parsing of packages.mask. It supports obsolete packages and reverse dependencies.
About: Snow Path Formation Simulator is a program that models the process of people forming very distinct, and yet not always altogether logical looking, paths in the snow as they walk across open spaces. The evolving condition of the snow is displayed graphically. This project may eventually mature into a screensaver. Changes: This release includes bugfixes, improved error reporting and documentation, increased portability, small algorithmic changes, and better efficiency. It adds a number of minor features, including automatic display refreshing, forbidden areas, and the ability to save the current map state. It handles a wider variety of color images, and will accept greyscale and black and white files as well.
About: ThumbNails is an automated system for creating and maintaining web sites containing large numbers of digital photographs or other images. It will go through a group of directories filled with pictures, make thumbnail images of each picture, make HTML pages for each directory showing clickable thumbnails for each picture, and make an overall index.html document for the HTML pages it creates. It can use a MySQL database to hold picture titles, captions, and other information. The database information can be edited over the web, and can be displayed along with the pictures. It includes a daemon which periodically checks the pictures directories and database (if used), updating the web site automatically as needed. Changes: A new ability to display the photographer's name, the date of the photo, and any copyright information when ThumbNails is being used with the MySQL database.
About: The DansGuardian Anti-Virus Scanner gives you the ability to virus-scan all content that passes through DansGuardian. It uses the scanning code from the MailScanner project to do the actual virus scanning, so it supports all the virus engines that the MailScanner project supports. The scanning is done as the file is being downloaded, so your current network apps don't have to be modified, etc. They just have to support using a proxy.
About: SqlGui is a graphical database frontend for KDE. Currently MySQL and PostgreSQL are supported. It lists all databases, tables, columns, column types, and their contents. It can create/delete databases or tables and has a small editor for entering SQL queries. Changes: SqlGui now uses kparts. It is possible to open multiple connections to different hosts. A recent-host-list was added in the main window.
About: DivX Calc is a simple DivX calculator for Linux. It uses a simple Qt interface which calculates which bitrate to use while encoding a movie using DivX ;-). Changes: DivX 4 bitrates and Mp3 bitrates were being worked out with 1024 bits. This was wrong, as they both should use the value of 1kilobit=1000bits. The calculator source has been updated and now works out the correct bitrates based on DivX =>4 and MP3, giving more accurate values now.
About: tk500 is a multiplatform programming and cloning utility for the portable Yaesu VR-500 receiver. It can read the memory image from the radio, display the information graphically, and save it to a file. It can import information from an RT Systems .RDF file and export memory channel information to a .CSV (comma-separated values) file. Users are free to change most settings and write the memory image back to the receiver. tk500 exploits undocumented features within the radio. Changes: The latest version of tk500 supports Japanese version radios, as well as USA and Export versions.
About: OBM is a groupware, email, LDAP, Windows PDC, CRM, and project management application. It is mainly used as an Exchange or Notes/Domino groupware and mail server replacement, as an LDAP directory, as a Windows PDC, as a contact and customer database, as a project management tool, or as any combination of these functions. It provides groupware (calendars, contacts, and tasks) connectors for Outlook, Thunderbird/Lightning, and PDAs. It supports internationalization and themes. It is highly scalable, and is used by sites from five to many thousands of users. Changes: This release adds many fixes and enhancements to 0.5.1. The list module is now finished (Exports are now working). Session enhancement has been added (with a move to PHP4 native sessions on the lowlevel and new user info). Debug levels now support separated flags (Id, sql, param). New admin tools, security features, cleanups, and performance and ease-of-use features have been added; for example, it's now easy to install multiple OBM instances on one server.
About: SciParam is a Python package that easily adds additional quality control for entering scientific parameters in wxPython-based user interfaces.
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