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About: PLT Scheme is a programming language suitable for implementation tasks ranging from scripting to application development, including GUIs, Web services, etc. It includes the DrScheme programming environment, a virtual machine with a just-in-time compiler, tools for creating stand-alone executables, the PLT Scheme Web server, extensive libraries, documentation for both beginners and experts, and more. It supports the creation of new programming languages through a rich,expressive syntax system. Example languages include Typed Scheme, ACL2, FrTime, Lazy Scheme, and ProfessorJ (which is a pedagogical dialect of Java). Changes: This is mostly a bugfix release. The documentation has been rewritten to separate servlet and extension APIs. HTTPS is supported on the "plt-web-server" command line with "--ssl". Stateless servlets are supported through a 'stateless interface-version. 'web-server/servlet-env' supports top-level servlets through #:servlet-path. Servlets are served from anywhere in htdocs. A template system based on the Scribble syntax. Many other internal modifications to make extension easier.
About: ERDlauncher is a simple file launcher written in Erlang and using the ERDialog framework for a Web interface. It will list files in a Web browser, and clicking will open files in the browser or handle them according to the browser setup for that MIME type.
About: sux0r is a blogging package, an RSS aggregator, a bookmark repository, and photo publishing platform with a focus on Naive Bayesian categorization and probabilistic content. Changes: Support for Atom 1.0. The ability to recover lost passwords. Microformat hcard support on user profile pages. Template tweaks. An exception for template designers (HTML/CSS/graphics) so they can license their own branding efforts under simple permission terms instead of the AGPL. Optimizations, bugfixes, and third party symbiont upgrades.
About: system-config-printer configures a CUPS server. It uses the CUPS API (bound to Python with pycups) to do this. The communication with the server is performed using IPP. As a result, it is equally able to configure a remote CUPS server as a local one. Changes: Many small bugfixes and updated translations.
About: pycups is a set of Python bindings for the CUPS API. Changes: Threading support has been fixed.
About: wxRemind is a wxPython-based front/back-end for Remind, a powerful calendar and alarm application. The display features a calendar and daily event list suitable for visualizing your schedule at a glance. Dates and associated events can be quickly selected either with the mouse or cursor keys, and dates in the calendar are color coded to reflect the total duration of scheduled events. wxRemind integrates with an external editor of your choice to make editing of reminder files more efficient, provides hotkeys to quickly access the most commonly used options, and allows popup, sound, and/or spoken alarms. Changes: Various minor bugfixes involving color settings and Unicode issues with local weekday abbreviations.
About: xhtml2pdf converts HTML/XHTML/XHML to PDF using the ReportLab Toolkit, the HTML5lib, and pyPdf. It supports HTML 5 and CSS 2.1 (and some of CSS 3). The main benefit of this tool that a user with Web skills like HTML and CSS is able to generate PDF templates very quickly without learning new technologies. Changes: Background colors for inline elements like SPAN. Inline images and left and right aligned images. The option "--system" for a command line tool to dump system version info. The CSS attribute -pdf-line-spacing for fix space between lines. Creation and handling of data URIs with base64 encoding (others to come). A new general file loader that is also able to load remote data and data URIs. PDF Joiner to concatenate many PDF and pisa documents. Page backgrounds can now be images or PDF files.
About: Gmsh is an automatic 3D finite element grid generator with built-in CAD and post-processing facilities. Its design goal is to provide a simple meshing tool for academic problems with parametric input and advanced visualization capabilities. It is built around four modules: geometry, mesh, solver, and post-processing. The specification of any input to these modules is done either interactively using the graphical user interface (based on FLTK and OpenGL) or in ASCII text files using Gmsh's own scripting language. Changes: This release improves the transfinite algorithm, introduces a new uniform mesh refinement scheme, and fixes the high order meshing crashes observed on Windows and Linux.
About: File attempts to classify files depending on their contents and prints a description if a match is found.
About: Campagnol is a distributed IP-based VPN program able to open new connections through NATs or firewalls without any configuration. It uses UDP for the transport layer, and utilizes tunneling and encryption (with DTLS) and the UDP hole punching NAT traversal technique. The established connections are P2P.
About: The DBIx::Perlish module provides the ability to work with databases supported by the DBI module using Perl's own syntax for the four most common operations: SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, and INSERT. By using DBIx::Perlish, you can write most of your database queries using a domain-specific language with Perl syntax. However, the module is not intended to replace all use of SQL in your program. The DBIx::Perlish module quite intentionally neither implements nor cares about database administration tasks like schema design and management. Changes: This release adds support for PgLite databases.
About: ncmpc is a curses client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). ncmpc connects to a MPD running on a machine on the local network, and controls it with an interface inspired by cplay. Changes: This release an artist screen, a lyrics screen, full support for Unicode and wide characters, optimized memory usage, fixes for memory leaks, and LIRC support.
About: SNAKES is the Net Algebra Kit for Editors and Simulators. It is a Python library that provides all that is necessary to define and execute many sorts of Petri nets, in particular those of the PBC and M-nets family. Its main aims are to be a general Petri net library, being able to cope with most Petri nets models, and providing the researcher with a tool to quickly prototype new ideas. Changes: A "setup.py" file has been added for easy installation, as well as an Ubuntu package. Some bugs have been fixed.
About: Spicebird is a collaboration suite that simplifies communication for users by providing integrated access to the various tools of collaboration, like email, calendaring, and instant messaging, in a single application. It provides easy access to various Web services while retaining all the advantages of a desktop application. The application is built on top of Mozilla Thunderbird, Sunbird, and Xmpp4moz. The extensibility of the Mozilla platform makes adding new tools and customization of the suite easy. Changes: This release lets users chat with friends on services like Yahoo, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ, and Jabber, add iGoogle Gadgets to Spicebird, disable the applications that are unused, access Google calendar, and import data from Thunderbird, Outlook, and Outlook Express. It adds experimental support for managing blogs, support for more than 10 languages, and a basic set of add-ons.
About: TestLink is a testcase management and execution tracking system built using PHP, MySQL, and several other open source tools. It is a tool that helps streamline the software development process. It enables quality assurance teams to create and manage their test cases and organize them into test plans. These test plans allow team members to execute test cases and track test results dynamically. Changes: This release adds improved performance, a user documentation update, usability improvements of new features (API and event log), importation of requirements from document formats via DocBook, and bugfixes.
About: TaDaPro (Tabular Data Processor) is a command-line utility to operate with numerical column tabulated data. It is intended for operations that are cumbersome to do by hand in a spreadsheet and for transformations that have to be applied as a batch process on many files. Changes: This release adds command history in ~/.tadapro.history, the error message "Out of range", the flag "inplace" in "celleval" to replace values "on the fly", the option "padrow" in "load" to pad rows with empty columns, and the type specifier "b:" for boolean arguments. It fixes a bug in argument handling, a bug in the command completer, and several regression bugs. Several searches and substitutions have been implemented with regular expressions. The variable "autoload" is used to customize automatic loading of files (when using -e or -c).
About: NoMachine NX is a fast terminal server and desktop virtualization system based on the X11 protocol. NX is an order of magnitude faster than VNC or X11 and can run on bandwidth as narrow as 10 kBit/sec. In addition, NX translates and embeds the MS Windows Terminal Server and VNC protocols into X/NX, enabling users to compress and accelerate remote Windows and VNC sessions. The NX project provides a suite of libraries and X11 proxying agents implementing efficient compression and optimized transport of X11, SMB, IPP, HTTP, and arbitrary protocols like audio and video over the Internet. Changes: The new server, which collects all the fixes sported by the 3.2.0 maintenance releases, adds solutions for problems such as: upgrading of NX Server causes replacement of the DSA custom key, and NX Server may choose a wrong display number when looking for a free display.
About: V6 Thompson Shell Port provides two ports of the original /bin/sh from Sixth Edition (V6) Unix (circa 1975). osh is an enhanced backward-compatible port of the shell, and sh6 is an unenhanced port of the shell. This project also includes the following external shell utilities: glob6, if, goto, and fd2. Changes: This release adds a configure case for DragonFly BSD to prevent a "config.h" compilation warning. It fixes a bug introduced in version 20081026 which causes the shell to incorrectly print empty termination messages for the SIGINT signal in some cases when it should not do so. It also fixes a bug introduced in version 20061230 which causes the shell to incorrectly handle unescaped terminating backslash (\) characters at the end of strings when invoked as "osh -c string".
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: All translations (Dutch, French, Turkish, Spanish, Russian, and Italian) have been updated, and other minor improvements have been made.
About: irrKlang is a high level 2D and 3D cross platform sound engine and audio library that plays WAV, MP3, OGG, MOD, XM, IT, S3M, and other file formats. It can be used by C++ and all .NET languages (C#, Visual Basic.NET, etc.). It has all of the features common to low-level audio libraries as well as lots of useful features like a sophisticated streaming engine, extendable audio reading, single and multi-threading modes, 3D audio emulation for low-end hardware, a plugin system, multiple rolloff models, sound effects, and more. All of these can be accessed via an extremely simple API using an object oriented design. Changes: This release adds support for (external) multichannel sound hardware on MacOS X.
About: Visifire is a set of data visualization components powered by Microsoft Silverlight. It lets you create and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight Charts within minutes. Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, or just simple HTML. Visifire's unique features are visually stunning animated charts, the ability to be embedded into any Web page in minutes, a tiny footprint (140 KB), and enterprise grade features. Changes: This release adds Silverlight and WPF support, blend compatibility, styling, realtime updates, and scrollable charts.
About: dhcpcd is an RFC2131 compliant DHCP client. It is fully featured and yet lightweight: the binary is 46k as reported by size(1) on Linux i386. It has support for duplicate address detection, IPv4LL, carrier detection, and a merged resolv.conf and ntp.conf for which other DHCP clients require third party tools. Changes: This release no longer sends a ClientID by default (which mirrors the in-kernel DHCP client).
About: J! Research is a component for Joomla! 1.5 that allows for management of research-related work such as publications, projects, and theses categorized by research area. Changes: Support was added for CSE and Chicago (author-date system) citation styles. Support was added for cooperations, facilities, and project financiers. User interface enhancements were made. Multiple bugs were fixed.
About: Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. It provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy. Individuals can use it to keep remote Websites from tracking them and their family members. They can also use it to connect to resources such as news sites or instant messaging services that are blocked by their local Internet service providers (ISPs). Changes: This release fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu packages (and maybe other packages). A smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local services was fixed. Defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit relays was improved. Hidden service performance was further improved. A variety of other issues were fixed.
About: Really Slick XScreenSavers is a GLX port of the Really Slick Screensavers collection by Terry Welsh. The screensavers can be installed as standalone programs or as XScreenSaver hacks. Changes: This release brings compatibility with "modular" XScreenSaver configurations (such as that as used by Fedora). The Skyrocket window reshape handler was fixed.
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