Newsletter for Friday, November 30th 2007

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::: R E L E A S E   H E A D L I N E S (52) :::

[001] - AFD 1.3.6 
[002] - Algernon: A Subsumption Architecture 1.0.0 
[003] - Apydia 0.0.1 
[004] - BalanceNG 1.906 
[005] - Bash Startup Library 0.1 
[006] - BigDaddy 4.0.0 
[007] - C++ Sockets 2.2.6 
[008] - CDnavigator 0.7.0 
[009] - check_tcptraffic 2.0.0 
[010] - CILib 0.6.10 
[011] - clker.com openoffice addon 0.1b 
[012] - DOMjudge 2.1.3 
[013] - Expect-lite 3.0.4 
[014] - extrema 4.3.1 
[015] - GIMP SCRIPT-FUs for 2.4 4 
[016] - Gimp User Manual 2.4.0 
[017] - GRASS GIS 6.2.3 (Stable)
[018] - holodeck10 1.3.0 
[019] - iodine 0.4.1 
[020] - Java ReStructuredText 0.8.1 
[021] - LibLZF 3.1 
[022] - linphone 2.0.1 
[023] - Mahara 0.9.0beta2 (Development)
[024] - Mars Simulation Project 2.82 (Main)
[025] - Memcached Functions for MySQL 0.1 
[026] - Netscape Communicator 9.0.0.4 
[027] - NmnNewsletter 1.0.6 
[028] - OCILIB 1.2.0 
[029] - Ocsigen 0.99.4 
[030] - pam_krb5_migrate 0.0.8 
[031] - Perfect Match 0.1 
[032] - PHD Help Desk 1.32 
[033] - Photo Organizer 2.34c (Stable)
[034] - PHP Simple Informer 1.5 
[035] - phpESP 2.0.0-rc1 (Stable)
[036] - Project Observer 0.3.1 
[037] - pyAwale 0.3.5 
[038] - pymfvu 0.0.12 
[039] - r2d2 pop3 server 0.0.2 
[040] - RESTClient 1.0 
[041] - RESTORE 4.0b30-2 (VM)
[042] - ROX-Filer 2.7 (Stable)
[043] - RPL/2 4.0.0.prerelease.2 (Development)
[044] - Scala 2.6.1-RC1 (Scala 2)
[045] - seek-h262 4.70 
[046] - SIBsim4 0.16 
[047] - Sylbi 0.02 
[048] - Synbak 1.0.12 
[049] - Talend Open Studio 2.2.3 
[050] - VCD-db 0.990 
[051] - VLC media player 0.8.6d (Stable)
[052] - white_dune 0.29beta777 (Development)


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::: R E L E A S E   D E T A I L S :::

[001] - AFD 1.3.6 
  by Holger Kiehl (http://freshmeat.net/users/hkiehl/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 06:46

Communications
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
System :: Systems Administration

About: AFD is a program to automatically distribute files either locally
or to remote hosts. The files are distributed by using FTP or SMTP, and
can be sent in parallel and with priority. It provides a GUI to monitor
and control the distribution and extensive logging of all activities.

Changes: This release adds a bootup script for afd_mon. splice() support
has been implemented. When sending files, AFD can now keep the connection
open. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/afd/

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[002] - Algernon: A Subsumption Architecture 1.0.0 
  by reiners (http://freshmeat.net/users/reiners/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 15:39

Scientific/Engineering

About: Algernon is a subsumption architecture built on top of Simbad. It
includes a maze-solving program as an illustration of how it can be used.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algernon/

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[003] - Apydia 0.0.1 
  by joshua (http://freshmeat.net/users/ematia/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 05:18

Documentation
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development

About: Apydia is an API reference documentation generator for Python. It's
designed as an instantly serviceable replacement for Pudge's API
documentation generator. However, it won't generate complete Web sites
from reST like Pudge does. Apydia is only about the API. 

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/apydia/

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[004] - BalanceNG 1.906 
  by Thomas Obermair (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomasobermair/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 05:38

Internet
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: BalanceNG is a modern software IP load balancing solution. It is
small, fast, and easy to use and setup. It offers session persistence,
different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random,
Least Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a
customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It supports VRRP to
set up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It supports
SNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with Net-SNMPD. It integrates pcap
packet dumping for debugging purposes and allows the implementation of a
"transparent forensic logging bridge". 

Changes: This release fixes a problem with syslog() messaging on Solaris
(the fix has been applied to the "development" branch as well, resulting
in 2.020). 

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/balanceng/

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[005] - Bash Startup Library 0.1 
  by Russell Harmon (http://freshmeat.net/users/eatnumber1/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 05:12

Terminals

About: Bash Startup Library replaces your .bashrc and .bash_profile and
simplifies the setting up of the environment on any bash-capable system. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bash_startup/

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[006] - BigDaddy 4.0.0 
  by Duleepa Wijayawardhana (http://freshmeat.net/users/duleepa/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 05:10

System :: Diagnostics
System :: Logging
System :: Monitoring

About: BigDaddy is a program for monitoring servers. It is similar to
Nagios, with the added benefit of also monitoring and controlling the
crontab (or any scheduled application) across an entire fleet of servers.
The application comes in the form of a daemon for monitoring and reporting
as well as an easy-to-use Web-based GUI for controlling monitoring, viewing
timelines of incidents, filing incidents and graphing statistics. The
application is extensible with any sort of monitoring module and
notification is based on a five step escalation process. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bigdaddy/

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[007] - C++ Sockets 2.2.6 
  by Grymse (http://freshmeat.net/users/ah7207/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 01:33

Communications
System :: Networking

About: C++ Sockets is a cross-platform C++ wrapper for BSD-style sockets.
It implements the TCP, UDP, ICMP, and SCTP transport layer protocols.
Implemented application layer protocols are HTTP/HTTPS (using OpenSSL),
SMTP (server), and Ajp/1.3 (server). Features include transparent SOCKS4
client support and asynchronous DNS. Included in the library are a number
of HTTP client functions such as GET/PUT/POST, and also Web server
framework components. 

Changes: Work was done on the new HTTP server framework. OnDisconnect
calls were added whenever a connection fails on a read or write operation.


License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/csockets/

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[008] - CDnavigator 0.7.0 
  by Hunter (http://freshmeat.net/users/hhunter/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 01:08

Multimedia
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: CDnavigator is an application that files your CDs and DVDs in a
database. It also deposits information about photos (JPEG), music (MP3),
and films stored in such media. You can also store other metadata such as
notes and ratings. You can search over all items and save the choices.
CDnavigator supports an automatic cache that saves the most frequently
used data on hard disk. Photos can be viewed directly in the application.
It can download new photos from a camera, sort them into albums, and
prepare them for burning on CD. 

Changes: Data CDs and data DVDs can now be burned. Live distributions are
now supported with the addition of a JRE to two new packages. The photo
view was improved by showing photo ratings and with a context menu on a
displayed photo. More configuration can be done. Many other improvements
and bugfixes were made. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdnavigator/

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[009] - check_tcptraffic 2.0.0 
  by Matteo Corti (http://freshmeat.net/users/corti/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 10:56

System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking

About: check_tcptraffic is a simple Nagios plugin to monitor network
traffic on Linux systems. 

Changes: A major rewrite that is compatible with embedded Perl and uses
the Nagios::Plugin CPAN modules.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/check_tcptraffic/

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[010] - CILib 0.6.10 
  by Gary Pampara (http://freshmeat.net/users/gpampara/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 05:15

Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence

About: CILib (Computational Intelligence Library) is a collaborative
research framework for developing Computational Intelligence algorithms in
the fields of swarm intelligence, evolutionary computing, neural networks,
artificial immune systems, and fuzzy logic.

Changes: A new Cloning framework that provides more flexibility was
implemented. Preparation for new functionality was done. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cilib/

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[011] - clker.com openoffice addon 0.1b 
  by Mohamed Ibrahim (http://freshmeat.net/users/mibrahim/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 15:39

Desktop Environment :: Theme Resources
Multimedia :: Graphics
Office/Business

About: clker.com openoffice addon is an add-on extension to OpenOffice.org
that allows the access of clker.com clipart, viewing the collection
selected on the Web site and saved in the user's clipart basket, and
copying clip art directly to the clipboard to paste into text documents,
presentations, or spreadsheets.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/clker.com/

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[012] - DOMjudge 2.1.3 
  by Thijs Kinkhorst (http://freshmeat.net/users/kinkhorst/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 01:39

Other/Nonlisted Topic
Software Development :: Testing

About: DOMjudge is an automated judgement system to run programming
contests. It provides a mechanism to submit problem solutions and
interfaces for teams, the jury, and the general public. It is lightweight,
and depends on standard software to do its task. It has a Web interface for
portability and simplicity. It is scalable, so distributed judging is easy.
There is a modular system for plugging in languages and compilers. It
features rejudging, clarifications, and detailed submission/judging info. 

Changes: The bugs that were uncovered during the past contest season were
fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/domjudge/

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[013] - Expect-lite 3.0.4 
  by Craig Miller (http://freshmeat.net/users/cvmiller/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 11:03

Software Development :: Quality Assurance

About: Expect-lite is a wrapper for expect, created to make expect
programming even easier. The wrapper permits the creation of expect script
command files by using special character(s) at the beginning of each line
to indicate the expect-lite action. Basic expect-lite scripts can be
created by simply cutting and pasting text from a terminal window into a
script, and adding '>' '

Changes: This release fixes bug #1839620 (dynamic variables only support
"$ " prompt). It specifically adds "% " to the list of prompts. The
documentation has been updated regarding prompt detection.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/expect-lite/

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[014] - extrema 4.3.1 
  by Joe Chuma (http://freshmeat.net/users/chuma/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 13:46

Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry

About: Extrema, originally developed in the fields of nuclear and particle
physics, is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool that enables
researchers to quickly distill their large, complex data sets into
meaningful information. Its flexibility, sophistication, and power allow
you to easily develop your own commands and create highly customized
graphs. 

Changes: More polar plot characteristics were added: POLARAXISANGLE,
POLARAXISLINEWIDTH, POLARCLOCKWISE, and POLARCOMPASSLABELS. The
GRAPH\POLAR and GRAPH\RADAR commands were modified. GRAPH\RADAR draws a
polar plot with POLARAXISANGLE set to 90, POLARCLOCKWISE set to 1, and
POLARCOMPASSLABELS set to 1. The help files were updated.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/extrema/

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[015] - GIMP SCRIPT-FUs for 2.4 4 
  by Paul Sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/psherma1/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 05:18

Multimedia :: Graphics

About: GIMP SCRIPT-FUs for 2.4 is a collection of SCRIPT-FUs edited to
work in GIMP-2.4.x. The compiler not the original author of any of them,
but was able to tweak and/or get them working better in GIMP 2.4 and
consolidate them in a sane menu hierarchy. 

Changes: Additions and fixes were made for existing scripts. Several
scripts for grayscale/indexed images are disabled when they would not work
on them properly, thus avoiding errors. The collection now totals 50
filter/script-fu items. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/script_fu24/

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[016] - Gimp User Manual 2.4.0 
  by Roman Joost (http://freshmeat.net/users/romanofski/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 05:16

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors

About: The GIMP User Manual is a user manual for the GIMP. It is written
for the GIMP Help Browser, but can produce help pages for other formats as
well. 

Changes: This release features new translations for German, English,
Russian, Norwegian, Italian, and Spanish. It also features an alternative
stylesheet for the HTML. 

License: GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gimp-help/

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[017] - GRASS GIS 6.2.3 (Stable)
  by markus (http://freshmeat.net/users/markusneteler/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 07:07

Database
Education
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering

About: GRASS (the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a
software raster- and vector-based GIS (Geographic Information System),
image processing system, graphics production system, and spatial modeling
system. It contains many modules for raster data manipulation, vector data
manipulation, rendering images on the monitor or paper, multispectral image
geocoding and processing, point data management and general data
management. It also has tools for interfacing with digitizers, scanners,
and the PostgreSQL, DBF, and ODBC connected databases. In the UNIX
environment GRASS operates through a shell and a menu bar, and can also
work under the X Window System. For MS-Windows a generic display driver is
available.

Changes: This release adds further maturation of the GRASS 6 GUI, vector,
and database code. Some improvements have been backported from the GRASS
6.3 development branch, in which new development continues at a strong
pace of approximately one code commit every hour, including major work on
a new cross-platform wxPython GUI and a native MS Windows port. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/grass/

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[018] - holodeck10 1.3.0 
  by teaglass42 (http://freshmeat.net/users/teaglass42/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 01:20

Printing

About: Holodeck10 is a Java-based application that runs on Linux. The
purpose of the application is to allow the user to lay out images to be
printed. It supports the basic function that includes orientation
selection (LANDSCAPE or PORTRAIT), paper selection (NA_Letter or ISO_A4),
and layout (1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 4x5, 6x8, and Custom). A file chooser is
used with a file filter to select image types of *.jpeg, *.jpg, *.gif,
*.xpm, and *.png. A printerjob is used to send the page to the printer. 

Changes: The ability to add transparency to the rendered image has been
added. A color chooser provides the ability to add a background color to
the rendered image. The rendered image can now be saved as a JPEG or PNG
formatted image. Some performance improvements have been made. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/holodeck10/

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[019] - iodine 0.4.1 
  by Erik Ekman (http://freshmeat.net/users/Yarrick/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 15:51

Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
Security
System :: Networking

About: 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. 

Changes: The server crash on received NULL queries for incorrect domains
was fixed. Any DNS error codes are now printed in the client for easier
troubleshooting. The password is now hidden, and the nameserver will
default to the one in /etc/resolv.conf.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/iodine/

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[020] - Java ReStructuredText 0.8.1 
  by chatellier (http://freshmeat.net/users/chatellier/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 10:57

Software Development :: Documentation
Text Processing

About: Java ReStructuredText is a parser and converter. It can parse
ReStructuredText and generate XHTML, xdoc, and DocBook, or you can use
your own XSL file.

Changes: This release provides restructured text parsing improvements, new
markup detection, and many bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jrst/

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[021] - LibLZF 3.1 
  by Marc A. Lehmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/pcg1/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 07:06

Software Development :: Libraries

About: LibLZF is a very small, self-contained library that can be
incorporated into applications where data compression would be nice but
speed is more important. It can be used to add data compression in a
painless way to any program. Likewise, a small and self-contained perl
interface is available via CPAN (Compress::LZF).

Changes: The license has been changed to a two-clause BSD license with the
option to switch to GPL version 2 or any later version. The compression
speed has been increased considerably, and the user can now chose between
roughly the same speed as fastlz with a better compression ratio, or a
faster speed than fastlz at a slightly worse compression ratio. The lzf
utility has been improved to act much more like other similar utilities
(e.g. gzip). 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/liblzf/

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[022] - linphone 2.0.1 
  by Simon Morlat (http://freshmeat.net/users/simonmorlat/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 07:00

Communications :: Internet Phone
Communications :: Telephony
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Speech

About: Linphone is an audio and video Internet phone with GTK+, console,
and Win32 interfaces. It uses the SIP protocol, and is compatible with
most SIP clients and gateways. It uses various audio and video codecs such
as Speex, GSM, G711, ilbc, Theora, H263-1998, MPEG4, and snow.

Changes: This release fixes a major interoperability issue with the
Asterisk proxy, fixes handling of SIP OPTIONS requests, and allows the
user to specify a custom ALSA pcm device through the "sound/alsadev"
parameter of the configuration file. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/linphone/

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[023] - Mahara 0.9.0beta2 (Development)
  by Mahara (http://freshmeat.net/users/maharateam/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 01:28

Education
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: Mahara is fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog, resume
builder, and social networking system for connecting users and creating
online communities.

Changes: This release fixes many bugs and makes minor improvements in
preparation for the 0.9 stable release. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mahara/

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[024] - Mars Simulation Project 2.82 (Main)
  by Scott Davis (http://freshmeat.net/users/scud1/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 13:48

Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy

About: The Mars Simulation Project is an open source Java project to
create a simulation of a future human settlement on the planet Mars. 

Changes: This release adds parts for repair/maintenance and automatically
loading/saving UI settings.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mars-sim/

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[025] - Memcached Functions for MySQL 0.1 
  by Brian Aker (http://freshmeat.net/users/briantangentorg/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 15:39

Database

About: Memcached Functions for MySQL is a set of MySQL UDFs (user defined
functions) to work with memcached using libmemcached. With these functions
you get, set, append, prepend, and delete objects in memcached. You can
also use memcached as a global sequence generator. With these functions
you can use triggers to control your object caches.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/memcached_functions_for_mysql/

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[026] - Netscape Communicator 9.0.0.4 
  by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 05:37

Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Communications :: Usenet News
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: Netscape Communicator is the all-in-one web browser and
communications suite that makes it easy to send Internet email, read
newsgroups, create web pages, and browse the World Wide Web.

Changes: This release includes the three security fixes made in Mozilla
Firefox 2.0.0.10.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/netscapecommunicator/

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[027] - NmnNewsletter 1.0.6 
  by Ivan Preziosi (http://freshmeat.net/users/ivanPreziosi/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 05:14

Communications :: Email
Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: NmnNewsletter is a Web application designed to provide a simple but
full featured newsletter and messaging manager for Web sites running on PHP
4.x or 5.x and MySQL. It implements lots of useful features including
newsletter saving and editing, previewing and presending to test
addresses, logs, and statistical data concerning newsletters and users
alike. It also has some extra features like HTML to text auto conversion
for sending multi-part messages, auto generation and insertion of an
unsubscribe link, tracking of who reads your messages and when, and more. 

Changes: A Spanish language translation was added. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nmnnewsletter/

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[028] - OCILIB 1.2.0 
  by vicenzo (http://freshmeat.net/users/vicenzo/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 05:09

Database
Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries

About: OCILIB is an open source C library to access Oracle databases. It
encapsulates OCI (Oracle Call Interface), a low-level programming
interface provided by Oracle that is a powerful but complex API. OCILIB is
built on top of OCI, hiding its complexity and providing a simpler, more
readable, and more reusable API. 

Changes: Full API documentation was added. Global Transaction support was
added. Lob support was modified. Error handling was modified. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ocilib/

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[029] - Ocsigen 0.99.4 
  by Vincent Balat (http://freshmeat.net/users/balat/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 05:10

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: Ocsigen is a research project aiming at developing new programming
techniques for the Web. It contains a full featured Web server and a
programming framework that provides a way to create dynamic Web sites. Its
goal is to offer an alternative to Apache/PHP, based on technologies from
research in programming languages. There is also a module, called Eliom,
for generating dynamic Web pages. With Eliom, you program in a concise and
modular way, with a strong type system which helps you to produce valid
XHTML. The server handles sessions, URLs, and page parameters
automatically. 

Changes: Changes were made in the extension mechanism. The extensions are
not tried in the order in which they are loaded any more, but in the order
in which the options are specified for each site in the configuration file.
A new experimental extension was added for access control. A few small
enhancements were made. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ocsigen/

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[030] - pam_krb5_migrate 0.0.8 
  by Jelmer Vernooij (http://freshmeat.net/users/jelmervernooij/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 13:47

Security
System
System :: Systems Administration

About: pam_krb5_migrate is a stackable authentication module that takes a
username and password from an earlier module in the stack and attempts to
transparently add the user to a Kerberos realm using the Kerberos 5 kadmin
service. The module can be used to ease the administrative burdens of
migrating a large installed userbase from pre-existing authentication
methods to a Kerberos-based setup.

Changes: This release fixes compatibility with newer versions of Heimdal.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pam_krb5_migrate/

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[031] - Perfect Match 0.1 
  by zabuch (http://freshmeat.net/users/zabuch/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 07:18

Home Automation
System :: Archiving
System :: Filesystems

About: Perfect Match (pmatch) is a small and fast commandline utility for
finding duplicate files. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pematch/

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[032] - PHD Help Desk 1.32 
  by J. Tuozzo (http://freshmeat.net/users/jtuozzo/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 01:08

Information Management :: Issue Tracking

About: PHD Help Desk is software conceived for the registry and follow-up
of help desks incidents. Registry of incidents allows classification in
two levels (type and subtype), the state of the incident, a description,
ticket assignment and priority, historical registry, and an audit.
Information can be reported in consultation format, to give reports or
export the information for later processing in a database or spreadsheet. 

Changes: Now it's possible attach a file in the users support request web
form. Minors changes were made. In the code for modifying a ticket, an SQL
statement that was incompatible with MySQL 3.23 was fixed. When you had one
ticket opened for modification in one window and then you modified another
ticket in another window, the change would incorrectly modify the first
ticket although it would show information about the second ticket. PHD now
warns you about this situation and prevents the change. All scripts now
correctly start with "<?PHP". 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phd/

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[033] - Photo Organizer 2.34c (Stable)
  by Solomon Peachy (http://freshmeat.net/users/ShaftNet/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 10:58

Information Management :: Records Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search

About: Photo Organizer is a Web-based multi-user photo management tool
that was designed for professional photographers. It offers a searchable
photo database that supports photo version control, a datebook with client
management, photo submission history, EXIF, IPTC, XML, and XMP, user
quotas, and printing labels and color brochures. It uses ImageMagick and
DCRAW to handle over a hundred image formats, and relies on PostgreSQL as
its database backend.

Changes: This release fixes several bugs. Installations on some PostgreSQL
8.0 systems were failing, and the test to limit repository volume sizes was
incorrect, causing volumes to grow without bound.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/photoorganizer/

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[034] - PHP Simple Informer 1.5 
  by Pablo Godel (http://freshmeat.net/users/djmako/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 10:58

Internet
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: PSI (PHP Simple Informer) is a very simple network services
monitoring application written in PHP. It can be run as a command-line
application (PHP compiled as CGI is required) or as a Web PHP file.

Changes: This release fixes a bug that prevented succesful connection to
lighttpd Web servers.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/psi/

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[035] - phpESP 2.0.0-rc1 (Stable)
  by Franky (http://freshmeat.net/users/liedekef/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 05:19

Communications
Database :: Front-Ends
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: phpESP is a set of PHP scripts to let non-technical users create
surveys, administer surveys, gather results, and view statistics, all
managed online after database initialization.

Changes: The posibility to define conditions on a question was added. The
possibility to purge a response from a survey was added (but only
superuser can do this). LDAP auth was corrected, so authenticated users
are no longer recreated in the DB. You can choose between LDAP
authentication for respondents, designers, or both. 

License: BSD License (original)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpesp/

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[036] - Project Observer 0.3.1 
  by Adam Armstrong (http://freshmeat.net/users/aarmstrong/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 07:05

System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: Project Observer is an autodiscovering network management system
focused primarily on Cisco and Linux networks. It is capable of
automatically generating network diagrams. Networks are automatically
discovered based on CDP data collected via SNMP. 

Changes: This release improves the data collection and graph generation
code, slightly improves the Commandline interfaces and error condition
handling, and adds many cosmetic changes and fixes and PHP5 compatibility.


License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/observer/

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[037] - pyAwale 0.3.5 
  by klnavarro (http://freshmeat.net/users/klnavarro/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 16:10

Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games

About: pyAwale is a pure Python implementation of the Ivory Coast rules
for Awale. Awale is a game of great antiquity, and has been played around
the world in various forms for millenia. It is a member of the mancala
family of board games. 

Changes: This release improves the user interface (use return key instead
of a click on the end panel to restart a new party and display count of
seeds when more than 8), and adds a script to replay a party from
traces/logs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyawale/

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[038] - pymfvu 0.0.12 
  by Valek Filippov (http://freshmeat.net/users/frob/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 06:59

Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: pymfvu is a WMF/EMF file viewer. It was started to prepare new
Windows Metafile and Enchanced Metafile filters for sK1 and Uniconvertor.
Most of the Metafile features are covered, but EMF+ isn't implemented yet.


Changes: This release improves IntersectClipRect, adds support for
ExcludeClipRect and OffsetClipRgn, and adds testing files for clipping
functions. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pymfvu/

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[039] - r2d2 pop3 server 0.0.2 
  by swivel (http://freshmeat.net/users/swivel/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 10:59

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: POP3

About: R2d2 is an efficient multi-threaded RFC1939-compliant POP3 server
intended for use with a MySQL-based accounts database and Maildir-based
maildrops.

Changes: TLS support has been added. Both the STLS POP3 extension
capability and POP-SSL on a separate port are supported.

License: Freely Distributable

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/r2d2/

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[040] - RESTClient 1.0 
  by Subhash Chandran (http://freshmeat.net/users/subwiz/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 05:12

Software Development :: Testing

About: RESTClient is a Java platform client application to test RESTful
Web services. 

Changes: Seven HTTP methods are supported. BASIC and DIGEST authentication
are supported. Custom HTTP headers can be sent. 

License: The Apache License 2.0

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/restclient/

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[041] - RESTORE 4.0b30-2 (VM)
  by Garret (http://freshmeat.net/users/Gacott/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 06:48

System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Networking

About: RESTORE is an enterprise network backup and recovery solution for
Windows, Novell, Mac OS X (data fork), Unix, and Linux systems. It is
scalable to a complete backup solution for multiple workstations, servers,
and data centers. It operates over local area networks, wide area networks,
and the Internet. 

Changes: The new VMs, both DC and EE, are now based on Gutsy and are yet
smaller. This release includes the full GUI implementation. Protocols
support custom ports. Many bugs have been fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/restore_backup/

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[042] - ROX-Filer 2.7 (Stable)
  by Thomas Leonard (http://freshmeat.net/users/tal197/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 13:48

Desktop Environment
Desktop Environment :: File Managers

About: ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has
full drag-and-drop support and background file operations, and is highly
configurable. It can also act as a pinboard, allowing you to pin
frequently used files to the desktop background.

Changes: The panel configuration interface has been reworked to allow for
easier adding, removing, and editing of panels. A new log window records
file actions for reference. Support for using GNOME icon themes was
improved. The source code is now managed using GIT. Various bugs were
fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rox-filer/

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[043] - RPL/2 4.0.0.prerelease.2 (Development)
  by JKB (http://freshmeat.net/users/jkb/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 07:12

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Software Development :: Interpreters

About: RPL/2 (Reverse Polish Lisp/2) is a langage derived from the RPL
made by Hewlett-Packard for its HP-28S. It has some extensions
(preprocessor, compilated libraries, new functions), a TeX output, and can
draw graphics.

Changes: This release adds EXGET, OBGET, EXSUB, and OBSUR. Bugs have been
fixed in WAIT, SPLASH, and DETACH. Process management has been rewritten
and fixed. WFPROC, WFDATA, RETURN, HALT, and FLOW have been rewritten.
Socket support (which requires OPEN modifications) has been added
(TCP/UDP/Unix, IPV4/IPV6). External libraries support has been modified
(see rplexternals.h). The symbol names exported in librpl have been
modified. A memory leak and a minor bug have been fixed in
analyse_algebrique(). The license is now CeCILL, a GPL-compliant license. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpl2/

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[044] - Scala 2.6.1-RC1 (Scala 2)
  by Stephane Micheloud (http://freshmeat.net/users/s_micheloud/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 07:00

Software Development :: Compilers

About: Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language designed to
express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe
way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional
languages including mixins, algebraic datatypes with pattern matching,
genericity, and more. It is well integrated with Java and .NET: the Scala
compiler produces standard Java class files or .NET assemblies, and
Java/.NET libraries and frameworks can be used without glue code or
additional declarations.

Changes: This release provides several library improvements and many
bugfixes. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/scala/

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[045] - seek-h262 4.70 
  by Ciprian Niculescu (http://freshmeat.net/users/x1f42/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 15:40

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Video
Software Development :: Libraries

About: seek-h262 is a portable MPEG decoder.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/seek-h262/

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[046] - SIBsim4 0.16 
  by Christian Iseli (http://freshmeat.net/users/c4chris/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 16:12

Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics

About: The SIBsim4 project is based on sim4, which is a program designed
to align an expressed DNA sequence with a genomic sequence, allowing for
introns. SIBsim4 is an extensive rewrite of the sim4 program to improve
execution speed and provide more informative output.

Changes: This release fixes excessive run-time in some cases of partially
repeated sequences. All users are encouraged to update.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sibsim4/

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[047] - Sylbi 0.02 
  by arbingersys (http://freshmeat.net/users/arbingersys/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 16:09



About: Sylbi is a conversation system that is not a forum and not a
blogging  platform, but a combination of the two. It grew from the idea
that a  blog with comments and a forum only differ in their perspective of
 the conversation. Both provide a chronological set of postings,  initiated
by someone, and, (potentially) replied to by others. The  main difference
is the perspective they present: a blog presents the  perspective of the
blog owner(s), while a forum presents the  perspective of the forum and a
topic defined in the forum. Sylbi  allows you to look at conversations
either way.

Changes: This release fixed a bug in conversation recategorization. It
adds tracing via 'carp' that can be enabled/disabled by the user.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sylbi/

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[048] - Synbak 1.0.12 
  by Ugo Viti (http://freshmeat.net/users/ugoviti/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 01:10



About: Synbak is an application designed to unify several backup methods.
It provides a powerful reporting system and a very simple interface for
configuration files. It can make backups using rsync (via crypted ssh,
rsync, SMB, and CIFS protocols), tar (tar, tar.gz, and tar.bz2) archives,
tape (even using multi-loader changer tapes), MySQL databases, Oracle
database, LDAP directories, CDR/CD-RW/DVR/DVD-RW, and more. It can
generate final reports via email, HTML pages, and RSS feeds. Developers
can easily write new backup methods, reports, and translations. 

Changes: The MySQL method was almost completely rewritten with a lot of
useful features. Now you can use the -M switch to make split database
dumps (with each database in a separate dump file). The Italian
translation was corrected. Volume tag (barcode) reporting was added for
tape media changers that support this. A text string was added to exclude
databases from Oracle's backups. The CIFS umount function was fixed.
Cleanups were done in the calendar PHP extension. Updates were made to the
FAQ file. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/synbak/

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[049] - Talend Open Studio 2.2.3 
  by Pierrick LE GALL (http://freshmeat.net/users/z0rglub_pierrick/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 01:42

Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: Talend Open Studio is an ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tool.
Talend Open Studio can perform jobs that range from datawarehouse feeding
to database synchronization, as well as file format transformations. Its
graphical interface is made with Eclipse RCP, and data related scripts are
generated in Perl or Java. The application was designed to be extended with
components written by users. 

Changes: Perl sort was fixed. Other bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/talend/

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[050] - VCD-db 0.990 
  by k0nni (http://freshmeat.net/users/k0nni/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 01:18

Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Video

About: VCD-db is Web-based movie catalog software. It supports  multiple
users to collect, manage, and work with their media  catalog. New movies
can easily be added through several  methods, for example by fetching data
straight from  websites such as imdb.com and dvdempire.com. 

Changes: This release includes a total rewrite of the UI and the
presentation layer using Smarty. A new SOAP/Webservice interface has been
added. Other new features include friendly URLs using mod_rewrite, a file
launcher to start a movie straight from the Web page to play in your
associated player, two new themes, and an SQL export option in the admin
panel. DVD spoken languages are now available as requested. PDF export was
implemented. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vcddb/

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[051] - VLC media player 0.8.6d (Stable)
  by Jean-Baptiste Kempf (http://freshmeat.net/users/kempfjb/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 16:10

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Video :: Display

About: VideoLAN Client (VLC) is a media player, streamer, and encoder for
Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, QNX, and PocketPC. It can play most audio
and video codecs (MPEG 1/2/4, DivX, WMV, Vorbis, AC3, AAC, etc.), has
support for VCD, SVCD, and DVD (with menus), and can read or dump streams
from a network source (HTTP, UDP, DVB, MMS, etc.). It can also act as a
server and send streams through the network, with optional support for
audio and video transcoding. 

Changes: This version is aimed at fixing security vulnerabilities in the
ActiveX plugin and the FLAC library that affect VLC media player 0.8.6c
and lower. Improvements include better video output compatibility on Mac
OS X, and Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vlc/

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[052] - white_dune 0.29beta777 (Development)
  by MUFTI (http://freshmeat.net/users/mufti22/)
  Fri, Nov 30th 2007 07:08

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering

About: white_dune is a graphical VRML97 editor, simple NURBS/Superformula
3D modeller and animation tool. VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language)
is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the Web via browser plugins
("HTML for realtime 3D"). It has support for animation, real-time
interaction, and multimedia (images, movies, and sounds). white_dune can
read, create and display VRML97 files and let the user change the
scenegraph/fields. It also has support for stereoscopic view via
"quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals, and support for 3D input devices like
a joystick, spaceball, or magnetic tracker.

Changes: This release adds selection of RigidBody nodes when clicking to a
child of a RigidBodyCollection node in the 3D preview window. It modifies
the handle draw of ProximitySensor and CattExportSrc to be visible both
with and without depthtest. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/whitedune/



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