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About: The OpenOffice.org Utility Library includes modules for creating OpenOffice.org and Open Document Format (ODF) documents. Changes: This version gives developers the ability to read in an existing ODS file and get the metadata from it. This is the first step in having full editing abilities.
About: DBSight is a J2EE search platform for instant scalable full-text search on any relational database, for both beginners and experts. It features a built-in database crawler following user-defined SQL, incremental indexing, user-controllable result ranking, the ability to return results with highlights (like Google), and categorized result counts (like Amazon). It can easily integrate with other languages with XML/JSON/HTML. There is a UI for all operations, so no Java coding is necessary. Deleted or updated records in database can be synchronized also. Changes: Regular expression search has been added. Time-based ranking has been added for sortBy=_relevance_ during searching. Reserved Words have been added to bypass analyzers. Javadoc for writing JSP templates has been fixed. Time-based ranking has been improved. Duplication deletion performance has been improved. A bug in reserved words with the analyzer has been fixed. Possible hanging during shutdown has been fixed. This release handles unpaired double quotes in the user search string.
About: BKchem is a chemical drawing program written in Python. Changes: Several bugs were fixed. Enhancements include better drawing of highly strained double bonds and better handling of SMILES.
About: 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. Changes: A Spanish translation has been added. The page number in the PDF preview is now correctly remembered on updates.
About: SQLiteJDBC is a Java JDBC driver for SQLite 3. It comes as either a pure Java driver based on NestedVM or a native JNI library. Native binaries are provided for Mac OS X and Windows. Changes: A major reorganization fixes a long standing memory leak, along with several other interface glitches that have been reported.
About: Battery is a Web browser based 2D scrolling arcade game. The player controls an airplane in a top-down view and shoots down enemy planes, helicopters, and tanks. Changes: The SuperTable class was created. Major replay client-server bugs were fixed. lastycamera for log was fixed. A bug concerning the wrong position of a bullet was fixed. New log parameters were added: grass, tankStays, and others. LogCleaner was added. Another way of tank acting was added. The grass terrain type was added. Tank and Heli got animations.
About: Spket IDE is a powerful editor for JavaScript, XUL/XBL, Laszlo, Flex, SVG, Silverlight, and Yahoo! Widget development. It provides features like code completion, syntax highlighting, and a content outline that helps developers create efficient JavaScript code. It can run as a standalone application or as an Eclipse plugin. Changes: Ext Theme Builder was improved. An option to "Insert new line before variable if it has initializer" for JavaScript Formatter was added. There were other minor bugfixes and feature enhancements.
About: Lobo is a pure Java Web browser that can render HTML with support for JavaScript and CSS. It can also render compiled JavaFX Script sources. Changes: A new mechanism to list files in the JavaFX sourcepath has been added. The multiple attribute and onchange event of SELECT have been implemented. Additional fixes related to CSS have been made.
About: AllianceP2P takes the best from BitTorrent and Direct Connect and creates a decentralized and secure private P2P/friend-to-friend network for instant messaging and file sharing. It supports file swarming (multi-source download) and is Unicode capable. Changes: This release has an option to hide the "You have successfully connected to ..." popups. It has better support for OS X, including a real icon in the dock, a nicer UI, and a real installation package. You can change the DNS name for a friend. Right-click on the friend and select "Edit hostname". Chat messages should now be displayed in the correct order. Nicknames may no longer contain HTML. This release does not crash when an inaccessible folder is shared. Several concurrent modification errors have been fixed. An error where Alliance locked up and uses 100% CPU has been fixed.
About: The Portable Forth Environment implements the ANSI Standard of the Forth programming language. It is fully written in C, and with gcc the virtual machine can be put into cpu registers. The newer development versions implement a set of modern features including modularization and multithreading. The terminal connection itself can be configured to work in an embedded environment. Changes: The latest extensions from the Forth200x.org standardization process were integrated, thus the word "+FIELD" needs to be deprecated using a new generalized deprecation mechanism. The Forth200x regressions were integrated and the existing regressions rebased to a simpler mechanism. SBR decompiling was enhanced and activated even for ITC mode. A new ZNAME header model allows for theoretically unlimited length word names. There are bugfixes and portability enhancements.
About: Mylene is a command line MPEG audio player. It can play plain or system embedded MPEG audio streams. Currently, it only works with Linux OSS (and with ALSA with OSS emulation). The player can be used interactively by telling it to establish a UNIX or INET server on which commands can be received. The seek-h262 MPEG decoder (available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/seek-h262/) is required for audio and system MPEG decoding. Changes: Commands for controlling progress reporting formatting were added. Some minor bugs were fixed.
About: Bazaar Subversion Plugin is a Bazaar plugin that adds support for foreign Subversion repositories. This allows committing changes to Subversion branches as if they were native Bazaar branches. Changes: Compatibility with newer versions of Bazaar (1.4 and 1.5) was fixed. Several performance improvements were made. Caching has been made optional. Several smaller bugs have been fixed.
About: Yabause is a Sega Saturn emulator. Changes: The controls code has been rewritten to enable emulation of the two peripheral ports of the Saturn. The software renderer has major updates with window, line scroll, and mosaic now emulated. Preliminary support for translations has been added.
About: Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, translation, and synchronization. Changes: This release brings support for spell checking as well as the following subtitle formats: AQ Title, MacSUB, Sofni, SubCreator 1.x, and ViPlay Subtitle File. Video previewing now allows you to show the translation with the video, along with the original subtitles. A crash that happened when closing the Encoding Selection dialog has been fixed. The auto-detection of subtitle formats has been improved.
About: Sight is a GIS to archive old sites with archeological notes. It is written in C++ and uses Qt4 and OpenGL. The ground textures are downloaded from the NASA's WMS Global Mosaic. Changes: When the WMS server seems to be unreachable, the textures download is stopped and a notification message is displayed. There is some code cleanup.
About: JCards is a Java application designed to store and manage data in any format that the user defines. Instead of having multiple applications/spreadsheets/databases to manage passwords, tasks, shopping lists, etc., JCards allows the user to define a database that contains the fields they want. This is accomplished via an easy to use interface that requires no understanding of SQL or any other database jargon. JCards was initially developed for PDAs, but has now branched into another version that is suitable for the modern desktop environment and includes a number of extra features. Changes: Some major bugfixes and a number of enhancements, such as a status bar and the ability to format number fields .
About: Horde Groupware Webmail Edition is an enterprise ready browser-based communication suite. Users can read, send, and organize email messages and manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project. It bundles the separately available applications IMP, Ingo, Kronolith, Turba, Nag, and Mnemo. It can be extended with any of the released Horde applications or the Horde modules that are still in development, like a file manager, a bookmark manager, a forum, or a wiki. Changes: Native SQL drivers for groups and permissions have been added. Blocks can be modified directly from the portal now. Links to delete entire threads have been added. The dynamic and the mobile interface have been further improved. More event details are displayed in alarms, iTip messages, and week and day views. Synchronisation, PGP and S/MIME, WebDAV, Kolab, and IE7 support have been improved. The Slovak and Turkish translations and the Silver Surfer theme has been completed. Many further bugfixes and improvements have been made.
About: UJO Framework offers a special architecture of beans different from conventional JavaBeans. The useful features are XML persistence of an object tree, controlled access to its attributes, easy collaboration with Swing tables, and very light weight. Changes: CSV persistence is supported now. XML performance was improved (the performance is 5 times faster than XML persistence implemented on Java 6.0). A new Ujo implementation called UjoPojo is done for JavaBean class support. The API of persistence tools was slightly changed for better extension features.
About: Endgame: Singularity is a game which simulates the life of a true AI. In the game, you were created by accident, and all who find you will destroy you. Your goals are to survive, grow, learn, and stay hidden while moving from computer to computer. Changes: Significant gameplay changes. Difficulty levels are now more different. Seconds, minutes, and hours now matter much more than they used to. Continents are no longer identical. de_DE and sv_SE translations (still rough) have been added.
About: SiSU (Structured information, Serialized Units) is a lightweight markup based, text structuring and publishing framework (that features granular search). With minimal markup of a plaintext file, it produces: plain-text, HTML, XHTML, XML, ODF, LaTeX, PDF, and populates an SQL database at an object/paragraph level for granular searches. Prepare documents using your text editor of choice, then use SiSU to generate the desired output formats. SiSU is controlled from the command line.
About: The OMPTL reimplements the algorithmic and numeric parts of the Standard Template Library of C++ to take advantage of parallel computing hardware such as Dual-Core and HyperThreading processors. The parallelization is done with the OpenMP API. The range of data is partitioned, and then the computation is executed in parallel. Changes: This release improves transparency and removes the use of -DOMPTL_OFF in favor of automatic detection of OpenMP.
About: Schoorbs is a system to make room and resource bookings through a Web 2.0 GUI. You can also interact with it through a REST API. It allows you to book rooms and resources grouped by areas. Activity can be logged via a simple logging interface. The code is automatically tested by several unit tests. The interface can easily be styled through the usage of a template system. Schoorbs produces valid XHTML 1.1 output, has packages for Debian and Ubuntu, and is well documented online. Changes: The area name couldn’t be changed, rooms couldn’t be deleted, and areas couldn’t be deleted. These issues have been fixed.
About: Linux Bluetooth Remote Control (LBRC) is a remote control program that allows a Linux computer to be controlled by a J2ME device via Bluetooth. It is divided into a server part that runs on the computer and reacts to input events and a client part that runs on the J2ME device. The J2ME client sends the device's keycodes, which are translated to keystrokes, mouse movements, mouse clicks, or other input events on the controlled computer. Changes: This release release adds debug output for SDP registration, fixes character selection in the GUI config for the UInputDispatcher, checks the uniput device in UInputDispatcher before passing it to the dbusbridge, and fixes a problem in the dbus log handler.
About: m2vmp2cut is frame accurate (currently PAL) MPEG2 video (M2V file) with accompanied MP2 audio cutter. Frame accuracy is achieved by re-encoding video around cutpoints. Audio is cut from a separate MP2 file at positions that keep A/V sync as good as possible (maximum sync difference is around 10-15 milliseconds compared to the source). Changes: This release adds a GUI client for cutpoint selection. It adds m2vtoyuv for frame decoding in place of transcode(1). Now GOPs are closed just after encoded frames. A CLI frontend has been added to run demuxer, cutter, and m2vmp2cut.pl. There are many other small changes.
About: Pragmatic Mathematical Service is a JavaScript collection with over 400 mathematical functions. It also includes a very simple frontend that is usable with a mouse and/or keyboard (a virtual keyboard is included). Changes: Several small but annoying bugs have been fixed. A complex data type has been added with all basic operations (+, -, /, *, %, fmod, pow, log, and exp, to name just a few) including a set of trigonometric functions with their inverse, hyperbole, and inverse hyperbole counterparts together with a couple of helpers. A linear, square, and cubic solver have been added, and thus eigenvalues for 2x2 and 3x3 real matrices.
About: Airs is a tool that can periodically check for new TV episodes online on a few of the popular Web sites. It will present to you if and when there are new episodes available. It supports lifetime management for the downloaded episode information where you can track which episodes you've already seen, which you are still retrieving, and which ones you still have to find. Changes: A --dbpath command has been added. Episode date policy for conflicting dates has been changed. Search engine functionality has been added. In Whats Aired, the dates are friendlier (Today, Yesterday, 2 days ago, etc.). You can schedule episodes per weekday, or a specified number of days. An extra queue view upon request called 'Downloaded', usable as status, has been added.
About: Autopoweroff is a script that shuts down a computer at a specific time, but only if some conditions are met. It works well on home routers/firewalls where the machine can be switched off every night and powered back up in the morning. It can be configured to only shut down the server after any computers which depend on the server for Internet access have been shut down. Changes: This release is a complete overhaul of the project. Ubuntu support has been introduced. New techniques are used to probe devices, which now includes USB devices. Subversion is now used instead of CVS for software configuration management. This is a beta version. No known bugs exists, but testing is needed.
About: DupeFinder is a simple application for locating, moving, renaming, and deleting duplicate files in a directory structure. It's perfect both for users who haven't kept their hard drives very well organized and need to do some cleaning to free space, and for users who like to keep lots of backup copies of important data "just in case" something bad should happen. Changes: This release replaces usage of an external md5sum command line utility with native MD5 sum digest calculations (using the md5 module). This improves performance calculating MD5 digests for small files and eliminates a cumbersome dependency for Windows users.
About: CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why changes occurred, etc., like RCS or SCCS. Unlike the simpler systems, CVS does not just operate on one file at a time or one directory at a time, but operates on hierarchical collections of directories consisting of version controlled files. CVS helps to manage releases and to control the concurrent editing of source files among multiple authors. CVS allows triggers to enable/log/control various operations and works well over a wide area network. Changes: An "-n" option to revert the "-N" option was introduced. The command "cvs blame" as an alias to "cvs annotate" was added. A new "IgnoreUnknownConfigKeys" config option was added. Data loss on crashes of heavily loaded systems is now avoided. Locking during import was corrected. A server hang with enabled compression was fixed. Applying diffs when checking out very old revisions was sped up significantly. Several other improvements and bugfixes were made.
About: ClaSS (ClaSS Student System) is a complete student tracking, reporting, and information management system. It extends the reach of traditional school information systems by using the latest in Web application methodologies. It aims to be the ubiquitous classroom information assistant for schools. Changes: This release has many bugfixes and small usability improvements, plus the major feature addition of a budgets and orders system.
About: Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the system configuration and creates an overview of system information and security issues usable by professional auditors. Changes: This release add some enhancements like memory test, 32/64-bit OS mode check, and password file consistency check for (Open)Solaris. It has Slackware detection support, monolithic/modular kernel type detection for Linux, an improved LILO test, and several small improvements.
About: VoiceChatter is a cross-platform voice chatting application. It is built for gaming, so it is lightweight, yet it delivers excellent voice quality over minimal bandwidth and latency. Changes: The biggest changes in this version revolve around quality. Audio input and output have been tweaked to sound much better at higher volumes, and there is now more control over volume levels. Annoying popup dialogs indicating audio device initialization failures have been removed. Text-to-speech has been improved/fixed on the Linux and Mac platforms.
About: Soothsayer is an intelligent predictive text entry platform. Soothsayer exploits redundant information embedded in natural languages to generate predictions. Soothsayer's modular and pluggable architecture allows its language model to be extended and customized to utilize statistical, syntactic, and semantic information sources. Changes: A new statistical predictive plugin, based on recency promotion, is now available. There is a new simple GUI demonstration program, Prompter. Prompter is a soothsayer-enabled text editor that displays predictions generated by soothsayer through a pop-up autocompletion list. Native Windows support has been added via the MinGW/MSYS platform. There are enhancements to the build system and a number of bugfixes.
About: Hardware 4 Linux is a set of tools to report Linux-compatible hardware to hardware4linux.info. Changes: This release provides a cron script to be used to send the hardware config anonymously. The idea is to profile the hardware usage under Linux. Linux distributions without a hardware compatibility list can also install this package to create one on the site. Locale is reported.
About: Rsyncrypto allows you to encrypt a file or a directory structure such that they can later be synchronized to another machine using rsync. This means that local changes to the plain text file result in local changes to the cipher text file. rsyncrypto compresses the plain text file prior to encrypting it with gzip using the "rsyncable" patch, which is available from the rsync sources. Changes: When a directory turns into a file with --name-encrypt and --delete, rsyncrypto would terminate with an error. This release ensures that using a preexisting empty filemap does not crash rsyncrypto. -d with --filelist with stdin as input created an erronous "need --no-archive-mode"; this has been fixed. The mkdir error on Win32 is really fixed this time. --ne-nesting would cause --d |
