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| 08/07/2008 09:13 PM |
| Tunguska 0.4 (Default branch) |
Tunguska is a computer emulator and virtual
machine that uses numerical base three (ternary)
number system for its lowest-level operations
instead of the commonly used base two (binary)
number system. Its goal is to provide a useful
experimental platform, on par with early personal
computers.
License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes: Support for including files in the assembler, runtime floppy loading/unloading, and AGDP support for system time. If you are upgrading, please make sure to read memory_image/README for an update on the changes in the memory image assembly procedure. |
| 08/07/2008 09:12 PM |
| Tango 0.99.7 (Default branch) |
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Tango is a D library that provides a runtime for
the D programming language, plus many additional
library features for the D programmer.
License: Academic Free License (AFL) Changes: A new container package, a couple of new modules, and several cleanup changes, including some breaking. Updated for DMD 1.033. |
| 08/07/2008 09:12 PM |
| Amahi Linux Home Server 8.18 (Default branch) |
The Amahi Home Server is a Linux Home Server based
on Fedora (and later on Ubuntu). Your machine
becomes a "Home Digital Assistant" or HDA after
the installation. Each HDA is a Fedora-based
server targeted for home and home office
environments. It provides an iTunes server,
calendaring, a wiki, shared network storage,
network backups, a printer server, VPN, and a
plug-in architecture built on Ruby on Rails.
License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes: A new dynamic DNS system is included that is fully automatic with no need for configuration files. A major new version of the installer brings an easier install process, with more reliable package installation, as well as much more user friendly messages during the process. |
| 08/07/2008 09:08 PM |
| peekabot 0.5.1 (Default branch) |
peekabot is a versatile 3D visualization tool
targeted at robotics researchers and developers.
It's multi-platform, general purpose, easily
extendable, scalable, and does not depend on any
other frameworks to function. It also provides
some functionality for interacting with your
robots using the GUI. You can test your algorithms
in both simulated and real environments. The only
requirement is that the device can use TCP/IP.
License: Boost Software License Changes: This release fixes a serious regression that caused loading of models to fail at random (and quite often). |
| 08/07/2008 09:07 PM |
| CppSpec 0.4 (Default branch) |
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CppSpec is a behavior-driven development (BDD) framework
for C++. It provides a framework for writing specifications of how your software should behave.
License: The Apache License 2.0 Changes: Greatly improved messages for failures. A CUTE logger for usage with the CUTE Eclipse plugin. Specification execution time measurements have been improved. Build fixes for Visual C++. install and CPack targets to enable the make install target and creation of binary distribution packages. Bugfixes. |
| 08/07/2008 06:21 PM |
| SimpleDC++ 0.0.9.2 (Default branch) |
SimpleDC++ is a client for DC++ networks that
supports multi-threaded downloading. |
| 08/07/2008 06:21 PM |
| MQSSave 1.3.1-1 (Default branch) |
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MQSSave is a simple Java program that saves
messages read from an MQSeries queue to a file. |
| 08/07/2008 06:16 PM |
| UMIT 0.9.5 (Default branch) |
UMIT is a network scanning frontend meant to be very useful for advanced users and easy to use for newbies. A network admin can create scan profiles for faster and easier network scanning, and can compare scan results to see any changes easily. A regular
user will also be able to construct powerful scans
with UMIT command creator wizards.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Many bugfixes and usability improvements. This release has a Mac OS X port at MacPorts. There are other minor improvements. |
| 08/07/2008 06:13 PM |
| Ctpp 1.0.40 (Default branch) |
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Ctpp is the C99-compatible C preprocessor of the
Ctalk language, which provides object oriented
extensions for C. It is compatible with GNU cpp and provides extensions like macro expansion in warning and error messages, saving expanded macros to files, and built-in symbol definition for many command line options. You can download the preprocessor separately while Ctalk is between versions for development.
License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes: This release contains several performance improvements. |
| 08/07/2008 06:13 PM |
| BitNami Alfresco Stack 2.9.0b (Default branch) |
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BitNami Alfresco Stack is an easy-to-install
distribution of the KnowledgeTree ECM software. It
includes pre-configured, ready-to-run versions of
Apache Tomcat, Java, MySQL, ImageMagick, and
OpenOffice (optional), so users can get an
Alfresco installation up and running in minutes
after answering a few questions. Linux and Windows
are currently supported.
License: The Apache License 2.0 Changes: Alfresco has been updated to 2.9.0b. |
| 08/07/2008 06:12 PM |
| JumpBox for MoinMoin 1.1.3 (Default branch) |
JumpBox for MoinMoin is a virtual appliance that
makes it possible to get the MoinMoin wiki system
running in under a minute. It has built-in backup
functionality and can be moved across operating
systems and virtualization systems.
License: Free To Use But Restricted Changes: The MoinMoin application has been updated to 1.7.1. Users should be able to restore from MoinMoin JumpBox 1.0 and newer backups. A long standing bug where backup validation failed if the configured backup server was inaccessible has been fixed. A security vulnerability in PHP was fixed. |
| 08/07/2008 06:11 PM |
| UJO Framework 0.80.rc2 (Default branch) |
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.
License: The Apache License 2.0 Changes: Some abstract implementations of the UjoExt interface were slightly improved for better type safe features. There is a new method to set columns to a UjoTableModel class. The methods of the UjoTextable interface were extended about the "context" parameter. The original methods are implemented in a SuperUjo class. The method of the UjoCloneable interface was extended about the "context" parameter. |
| 08/07/2008 06:10 PM |
| Myrinix Debian LiveCD 2008-08 (KDE branch) |
Myrinix Debian LiveCD is a bootable Linux live CD
remastered from SIDUX/FLL. It contains more
multimedia programs such as Kaffiene and Mplayer
and is modular, allowing you to build and include
application modules.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: KDE has been removed from the core module, so users can choose other desktop modules if they wish. |
| 08/07/2008 06:09 PM |
| HTTP Anti Virus Proxy 0.89 (Default branch) |
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HAVP (HTTP Anti Virus Proxy) is a proxy which
scans downloads for viruses with several scanners
(ClamAV, F-Prot, Kaspersky, NOD32, Sophos) at the
same time. The main aims are continuous,
non-blocking downloads and smooth scanning of
dynamic and password protected HTTP traffic. It
can be used with squid or standalone, and it also
supports transparent proxy mode.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A possible retry loop and hang has been fixed. The Via: header is always sent, which fixes some IIS problems (e.g. MSNBC). |
| 08/07/2008 06:09 PM |
| rsyslog 2.0.6 (v2 Stable branch) |
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Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd. Among others, it offers support for on-demand disk buffering, reliable syslog over TCP, SSL, TLS, and RELP, writing to databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and many more), email alerting, fully configurable output formats (including high-precision timestamps), the ability to filter on any part of the syslog message, on-the-wire message compression, and the ability to convert text files to syslog. It is a drop-in replacement for stock syslogd and able to work with the same configuration file syntax.
License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes: IPv6 addresses could not be specified in forwarding actions, because they contain colons and the colon character was already used for some other purpose. IPv6 addresses can now be specified inside of square brackets. This is a recommended update for all v2-stable branch users. |
| 08/07/2008 06:07 PM |
| jIRCii 08.07.08 (Default branch) |
jIRCii is a cross platform Internet Relay Chat client. It is
fully scriptable using a Perl-like language called sleep. The
focus is to provide a console client experience with the
advantages of a solid GUI. It includes DCC/CTCP support, the
ability to connect to SSL servers, and over 65 built-in
commands.
License: Artistic License Changes: This release fixes a memory leak with closed IRC sessions. It has been updated to the latest Sleep 2.1 library. This adds over 50 enhancements and fixes for scripters. Functions to get the width of a string and a window have been added. Windows now open maximized if the active window is maximized. The scripting documentation has been cleaned up. |
| 08/07/2008 06:06 PM |
| auth2db 0.2.5-2 (Default branch) |
auth2db parses auth.log files and inserts details
about logins into a MySQL database. It allows you
to display in the shell or in a Web front-end the
date and time, IP, username, and service (ssh,
smb, login, su, gdm, etc.) for each login.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds SQL injection and XSS control, Realtime Row Limit, and new filters. It has a minor fix in Advance View that increases performance. The updateipsshd function has been fixed to increase performance. The updateipsmbd function, which decreased performance, has been disabled. |
| 08/07/2008 05:18 PM |
| Earnings Tracker 4.0 (Default branch) |
Earnings Tracker is a Web-based accounting tool
for UK contractors. Earnings Tracker lets
contractors record invoice amounts, salaries, and
expenses, and calculates the amount of VAT and
corporation tax payable. The tool also generates
dividend tax vouchers and calculates the
contractor's retention rate.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Dividend tax vouchers may now be generated, and individual columns can be shown or hidden in the main spreadsheet. |
| 08/07/2008 05:17 PM |
| MQSLoad 1.3.1-1 (Default branch) |
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MQSLoad is a simple program which loads messages
read from a file into an MQSeries queue. |
| 08/07/2008 05:13 PM |
| openBmap 1.0 (Default branch) |
openBmap is a map of wireless communicating
objects such as cellular antenna or Wi-Fi or
Bluetooth devices. It provides tools to mutualize
data, and to create and access this map. |
| 08/07/2008 05:12 PM |
| SQL2XML 1.0.0 (Default branch) |
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Sql2xml is a CGI program that lets you request a
database query in XML or INI format through a Web
server. Sql2xml supports requests from multiple
users and for multiple databases. |
| 08/07/2008 04:43 PM |
| Objectreferenceanalyser 2.31 (Default branch) |
Objectrefenceanalyser is a framework that helps
the user understand object/data correlations and
their impact. It analyzes and traverses objects
and their references during the runtime of any
Java application using reflection or by importing
data from a CSV-table. The results can be shared
for remote access, persisted, or explored via
diagrams and graphs in the GUI.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes: This version extends the visual features as well as the functional framework. Several improvements in usability and look-and-feel were implemented. Certain small bugs were fixed. New features include the ability to import CSV data, which allows you to import any kind of table based data. Remote access can now be used to explore analyzer results remotely. |
| 08/07/2008 04:41 PM |
| cdrtools 2.01.01a45 (Development branch) |
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cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs/DVDs with a CDR/CDRW/DVD recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD/DVD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and
ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW,
TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD/DVD writers.
License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) Changes: A workaround was implemented for a GNU make design bug that prevented compilation on some Linux platforms. The minimal write speed of a ultraspeed CD-RW capable drive was reduced from 16x to 10x. Some mkisofs bugs in -stream-file mode were fixed. |
| 08/07/2008 04:40 PM |
| Reverse Snowflake Joins 0.03 (Default branch) |
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Reverse Snowflake Joins is a tool that parses SQL
Select statements and generates a diagram. In
addition to joins, the diagram shows parts of the
underlying SQL directly in the diagram. For
example x=30, GROUP BY (year), SUM(profit), HAVING
MIN(age) > 18.
License: BSD License (revised) Changes: End of line comments were added. For example, " ..x=2 -- comment". Now <>comparison apears correctly in diagrams. Previosuly, only < was shown. |
| 08/07/2008 04:31 PM |
| ispell-da 1.6.16 (Default branch) |
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ispell-da is an ispell dictionary for spell-checking of Danish texts. It is based on "Den store danske ordliste" (The Comprehensive Danish Dictionary).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Some words were added and some misspellings were removed. |
| 08/07/2008 04:30 PM |
| The Comprehensive Danish Dictionary 1.6.16 (Default branch) |
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The Comprehensive Danish Dictionary is a word list for spell checking of Danish texts.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Some words were added and some misspellings were removed. |
| 08/07/2008 04:30 PM |
| aspell-da 1.6.16 (Default branch) |
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aspell-da is an aspell dictionary for spell-checking Danish texts. It is based on "Den store danske ordliste" (The Comprehensive Danish Dictionary).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Some words were added and some misspellings were removed. |
| 08/07/2008 04:29 PM |
| rpmrebuild 2.2.3 (Default branch) |
rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a package that has already been installed. It can be used to easily build modified packages, and works on any Linux distribution that uses RPM.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes a problem with the last Mandriva releases. A new Mandriva security measure on rpmbuild has to be bypassed. |
| 08/07/2008 04:28 PM |
| Itzam 4.0.6 (Default branch) |
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Itzam is an embedded database engine that creates
and manipulates files containing keyed-access
records. Information is referenced by a
user-defined key value, and one or more indexes
(hash, B-tree, or matrix) may be combined with or
separated from data. Itzam is deliberately
portable and designed as a foundation for other
languages (C++, Python, and Java).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A tutorial program was added to demonstrate B-tree and hash index operations. The redundant btree_hash_read function was removed. A minor bug in B-tree cursors was fixed. |
| 08/07/2008 04:26 PM |
| Python bsddb3 4.7.2 (Default branch) |
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Python bsddb3 is a Python module that provides a nearly complete wrapping of the Oracle/Sleepycat C API for the database environment, database, cursor, sequence, and transaction objects, and each of these is exposed as a Python type in the bsddb3.db module. The database objects can use various access methods: btree, hash, recno, and queue. It has complete support for Berkeley DB distributed transactions and complete support for Berkeley DB Replication Manager. The goal is to mirror most of the real BerkeleyDB API.
License: MIT/X Consortium License Changes: This is an interim release while working on a version compatible with future Python 3.0. |
| 08/07/2008 04:25 PM |
| Jaikoz 2.5.1 (Default branch) |
Jaikoz is a powerful tag editor that allows you to organize, edit, and correct thousands of audio tags with ease. Jaikoz has powerful automation features. Jaikoz uses MusicBrainz and MusicIP, online databases of over 5 million songs, which can match your songs automtically based on the actual music as well as the metadata. Jaikoz uses a convenient spreadsheet view to allow you to edit information very quickly and provides many autoformatting tasks which do most of the work for you.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial Changes: The preferred musicbrainz country is now set for releases based on the locale of the computer. When track matches multiple releases identically, the release whose its total number of tracks matches the total number of tracks loaded into Jaikoz with the same release name is picked. A check is done to ensure that outgoing access to port 10001 is open and a warning is given if it isn't. This is required for Retrieve Acoustic Ids to work optimally. |
| 08/07/2008 04:08 PM |
| F*EX 20080804 (Default branch) |
F*EX (Frams' Fast File EXchange) is a Web based service to send very big files from one person to another. The sender uploads the file to the F*EX server and the recipient automatically gets a notification email with a download URL. The files will be automatically deleted after being downloaded or after an expiration date. The F*EX server itself is installed on a UNIX system, while the recipient and sender only need an email program and a Web browser of any kind on any operating system. Sending to multiple recipients needs storage on the server only once. |
| 08/07/2008 04:08 PM |
| UDFclient 0.6.3 (Default branch) |
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UDFclient is a userland implementation of the UDF filesystem as defined by the OSTA group. It is designed to be a study platform and a run-up to a full read and write (NetBSD) kernel level implementation. It provides a user interface not unlike ftp but differs in that it always fetches or writes files recursively. It supports the basic get, mget, put, mput, mv, rm, mkdir, cd, lcd, free, pwd, and lls command set.
License: Artistic License Changes: A byteswapping option was implemented to allow udfclient to read and write PVR hard disks which appear to be byteswapped for some reason. Also, udfdump dumping was improved, making it handle big free space maps and allocation extensions and making cd_disect ATAPI happy again. |
| 08/07/2008 04:05 PM |
| PowerDNS daemon 2.9.21.1 (Stable branch) |
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PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative
nameserver with a host of backends. Besides plain
BIND configuration files, PDNS reads information
from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other
databases. Backends can easily be written in any
language, and a sample Perl backend is provided.
PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a
Web-based DNS maintenance site, and the top level
domain .TK.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This releases fixes an issue relevant to security where PowerDNS did not answer certain questions. Not answering such questions, combined with new spoofing techniques, raised the general vulnerability of the DNS. This addresses CVE-2008-3337. |
| 08/07/2008 03:45 PM |
| Pentabarf 0.3.14 (Default branch) |
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Pentabarf is conference planning software written
in Ruby (using the Rails framework) and PL/pgSQL.
License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes: The pickup and arrived report from Pentabarf 0.2 have been added. Better JavaScript error checking has been added, which checks for mandatory fields before submitting. Bugs in the iCal generation and the atom feed have been fixed. |
| 08/07/2008 07:14 AM |
| RESTClient 2.2a1 (Default branch) |
RESTClient is a Java platform client application
to test RESTful Web services.
License: The Apache License 2.0 Changes: The HTTP library has been changed from Commons HTTP to Apache HTTP Client. A syntax highlighting text editor has been added. SSL certificate support has been added. HTTP version can be specified in requests. There are many UI changes for usability. |
| 08/07/2008 04:51 AM |
| distcc 3.0 (Default branch) |
distcc is a parallel build system that distributes compilation of C/C++/ObjC code across machines on a network. It can be set up in just a few minutes and makes builds up to ten times faster. It does not require machines to share a filesystem or have the same libraries or header files, and installation does not need superuser privileges.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release contains a major new feature: distcc-pump mode. With pump mode, distcc is now able to distribute preprocessing too, not just compilation. As a result, this release can be up to three times faster than earlier versions. It also contains many other new features and bugfixes. |
| 08/07/2008 04:50 AM |
| peppy 0.7.5 (Default branch) |
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peppy ((ap)Proximated (X)Emacs Powered by Python) is a wxPython/Scintilla-based editor written in and extensible through Python. It attempts to provide an XEmacs-like multi-window, multi-tabbed framework with low coupling, so it's easy to add support for new types of files.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds initial support for projects, including ctags support and templates to generate boilerplate text when creating a new file. Many minor bugfixes have been included. Most notably, the filename completion popup now works on Mac OS X. |
| 08/07/2008 04:49 AM |
| boodebr 1.3.0 (Default branch) |
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boodebr is a collection of Python modules from
boodebr.org. boodebr.ion provides JSON and XML
serialization with a common API (internal and
external). boodebr.config provides flexible
configuration file handling (similar to INI files,
but using JSON/XML with full object pickling).
License: MIT/X Consortium License Changes: A new module boodebr.util.locking provides multi-thread/multi-process cooperative locking. boodebr.config has been updated to use locking. boodebr.sql2 was added, with a focus on portable SQL semantics and stability under load. A new module boodebr.util.threadQ provides queues for thread-safe serialization of method calls. |
| 08/07/2008 04:28 AM |
| Benojt 0.7 (Default branch) |
Benojt is a fast and flexible explorer for various types of fractals. It can render escape-time fractals like Mandelbrot/Julia style fractals, Newton fractals, Lyapunov fractals, and two dimensional attractors/strange attractors. Due to its modular design, single components like iterators, renderers, and colorings can be replaced, making it easy to experiment with individual aspects of fractal creation. New iterators can be created at runtime by typing a fractal fomula which is compiled and loaded automatically.
License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes: This release contains new displays for 3D and 4D attractors, new iterators for Pickover Stalks and Buddhabrot fractals, and new templates for Pickover Stalks, Buddhabrot fractals, and 3D/4D attractors. |
| 08/07/2008 12:55 AM |
| Chestnut FTP Search 0.5 (Default branch) |
Chestnut FTP Search is a Web application to search
for files on FTP servers. Users can query files by
part of the file name, the entire file name, a
regular expression, or a shell pattern. To store
file indexes, PostgreSQL or MySQL is used.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Improvements in the server list page: it will highlight servers with errors in last indexing, and show the error message and error time. New configuration parameters to customize main page content and meta tags. The indexer can work as a daemon process, and automatically detect and fix dead server locks at startup. File structure browsing without connecting to the file server is possible. |
| 08/07/2008 12:54 AM |
| Manent 0.10.9 (Default branch) |
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Manent is an algorithmically strong backup and
archival program. It features efficient backup to
anything that looks like storage. Currently it
supports plain filesystems ("directories"), FTP,
and SFTP. Planned are Amazon S3, optical disks,
and email (SMTP and IMAP). It can work (making
progress towards finishing a backup) over a slow
and unreliable network. It can offer online
access to the contents of the backup. Backed up
storage is completely encrypted. Backup is
incremental, including changed parts of large
files. Moved, renamed, and duplicate files will
not require additional storage. Several computers
can use the same storage for backup, automatically
sharing data. Both very large and very small files
are supported efficiently. Manent does not rely on
timestamps of the remote system to detect changes.
License: Free To Use But Restricted Changes: All tests now pass on the Windows platform (the problem involved just the tests, not any bugs in the program itself). |
| 08/07/2008 12:54 AM |
| Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 146 (Default branch) |
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Pantheios is a C/C++ logging API library. It offers an optimal combination of complete type-safety, very high efficiency, genericity, and extensibility. It is simple to use and extend, highly portable (platform and compiler independent), and it upholds the C tradition of only paying for what you use. Pantheios supports logging of message statements of arbitrary complexity, consisting of heterogenous types. Pantheios supports filtering of log messages based on severity level.
License: BSD License (revised) Changes: A new inserter class, pantheios::args, was added along with a unit test for be.fprintf. |
| 08/07/2008 12:53 AM |
| pekwm 0.1.7 (Default branch) |
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The Pek Window Manager (pekwm) is a small and
flexible window manager that aims to be usable. It
supports grouping (a concept first introduced by
pwm), automatic properties, chainable keybindings,
and much more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release contains bugfixes and new features, most notably UTF-8 support, RandR support for multi-screen configurations, and removal of Viewport support. |
| 08/07/2008 12:52 AM |
| Rex 1.0 (Default branch) |
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Rex is a PHP class to help secure your scripts. It
can log activity to a file (IP, date/time, and
text). It checks if the IP of the user is a proxy.
It checks for XSS attacks via GET and POST methods. |
| 08/07/2008 12:52 AM |
| Trac 0.11.1 (Default branch) |
Trac is a minimalistic but highly useful issue tracker and
software project environment based around an integrated Wiki
engine. Features include an interface to Subversion (source
revision control), a bug/issue tracking database, and
convenient report facilities.
License: BSD License (revised) Changes: A new database connection pool. Better MySQL support and smarter handling of the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE variable. |
| 08/07/2008 12:52 AM |
| seek-h262 4.20080805 (Default branch) |
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seek-h262 is a portable MPEG decoder.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: An extra audio stream synchronization method was added. |
| 08/07/2008 12:51 AM |
| iodine 0.4.2 (Default branch) |
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iodine is a piece of software that lets you tunnel
IPv4 data through a DNS server. This can be useful
in situations where Internet access is firewalled,
but DNS queries are allowed. It needs a TUN/TAP
device to operate. The bandwidth is asymmetrical
with limited upstream and up to 1 Mbit/s
downstream.
License: MIT/X Consortium License Changes: Groups are now cleared when dropping privileges. Many small patches have been applied. UDP ports are no longer checked, so users behind NAT should not have any problems. This was also needed because most DNS servers are now fixed to randomize ports. |