Newsletter for Tuesday, December 18th 2007

::: L I N K S   F O R   T H E   D A Y :::

Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2007/12/18/
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::: R E L E A S E   H E A D L I N E S (40) :::

[001] - Arno's IPTABLES Firewall Script 1.9.0-alpha2 
[002] - Astaro Security Linux 7.101 (Stable 7.X)
[003] - Astres 2.4-1 
[004] - Baudline 1.07 
[005] - Big Medium 2.0 (Stable)
[006] - BlackRoute 0.1 RC3 
[007] - Burp suite 1.1 
[008] - clive 0.4.0 
[009] - Coadunation 1.0.RC6 
[010] - cprops 0.1.8 
[011] - Damn Small Linux 4.2 
[012] - Das Schaefchen 0.3.3 
[013] - DbWrench 1.4.5 
[014] - DrasticTools 0.6.10 
[015] - Gambas 2.0 RC2 (Development)
[016] - Gateway Anti-Virus 2.0 
[017] - GIMP SCRIPT-FUs for 2.4 6 
[018] - konqil.icio.us 2.1 
[019] - LinkChecker 4.8 (Stable)
[020] - Logger 07352.0000 
[021] - massXpert mass spectrometry package 1.6.8 
[022] - MinGW cross compiling environment 1.2 
[023] - mpg123 1.0rc3 (Development)
[024] - Nagios Appender 1.2.1 
[025] - napster-dl 0.2 
[026] - Night Light IRC Proxy 1.3.1b 
[027] - NuttX 0.3.5 
[028] - OCILIB 1.3.1 
[029] - OOoPy 1.0.4299 
[030] - Open Administration for Schools 2.50c 
[031] - Ortro 1.2.0-rc2 
[032] - pcal and lcal 4.11.0 (pcal)
[033] - RESTORE 4.0b41-1 (RESTORE-DC)
[034] - SRR Module 1.4.37 
[035] - The Fish 0.6.6 
[036] - TimeTrex Time and Attendance 2.2.0-rc1 
[037] - vsdump 0.0.41 
[038] - WebCert 1.7.0 
[039] - Wireshark 0.99.7 
[040] - Zsh 4.2.7 


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[001] - Arno's IPTABLES Firewall Script 1.9.0-alpha2 
  by Arno (http://freshmeat.net/users/arnova/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 05:14

System :: Networking
System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: Arno's IPTABLES Firewall Script is a secure stateful firewall for
both single and multi-homed machines. It supports NAT and SNAT, port
forwarding, ADSL ethernet modems with both static and dynamically assigned
IPs, MAC address filtering, stealth port scan detection, DMZ support,
protection against SYN/ICMP flooding, experimental IPv6 support,
multi-interface/aliased-IP support, and extensive user definable logging
with rate limiting to prevent log flooding. It has plugin support to add
extra features (like SSH Brute Force protection and (Racoon) IPSEC
support). It is easy to configure and highly customizable. A filter script
that makes your firewall log more readable is also included.

Changes: ICMPv6 types were fixed. Separate variables were implemented for
the iptables and ip6tables binaries. Instead of selecting the binary
itself, IPv6 support can now be enabled/disabled via the IPV6_SUPPORT
variable. Several bugs in IPv6 support were fixed. The "old"
IPV6_OVER_IPV4 was moved to a plugin. Host blocking is now applied for all
interfaces. ICMP flooding was changed from 20/sec max to 60/sec max.
Support was added for aliased external interfaces. The HOST_ output
logging rules were fixed. There were also miscellaneous bugfixes and
changes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/iptables-firewall/

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[002] - Astaro Security Linux 7.101 (Stable 7.X)
  by astaro (http://freshmeat.net/users/astaro/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 05:13

System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: Astaro Security Linux is an all-in-one network security gateway
that includes a firewall, intrusion protection, virus protection, spam
protection, URL filtering, and a VPN gateway. Features include stateful
packet inspection, deep packet filtering, intrusion detection and
prevention, portscan detection, content filtering, virus detection for
email and Web traffic, profile handling, IPSec, SSL, and PPTP VPN
tunneling, spam blocking, proxies for HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP, DNS, VoIP,
SOCKS, and Ident, logging, and reporting. The WebAdmin, the Install
Wizard, and Up2Date service make it easy to install, manage, and update.

Changes: This is a small bugfix Up2Date that increases performance of the
HTTP proxy in some situations and fixes some minor issues.

License: Free For Home Use

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

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[003] - Astres 2.4-1 
  by IVDS (http://freshmeat.net/users/ivds/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 05:13

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

About: ASTRES is a helpdesk application that allows you to manage customer
tickets (with workflow and level tree views), internal actions between
actors, diffused/received documents, sent/received material, planning,
stats, reporting, and news. It  is used by the French civil aviation.

Changes: The performance of the queries for the search functions were
improved and a bug with compute delayed tickets was fixed. An issue where
the contents of panels at the bottom of the details of a ticket weren't
being displayed and a PHP warning was generated was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[004] - Baudline 1.07 
  by Sigfried Blip (http://freshmeat.net/users/sig/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 10:39

Communications :: Ham Radio
Communications :: Telephony
Multimedia

About: Baudline is a time-frequency browser designed for scientific
visualization of the spectral domain. Signal analysis is performed by
Fourier, correlation, and raster transforms that create colorful
spectrograms with vibrant detail. Conduct test and measurement experiments
with the built in function generator, or play back audio files with a
multitude of effects and filters. The baudline signal analyzer combines
fast digital signal processing, versatile high speed displays, and
continuous capture tools for hunting down and studying elusive signal
characteristics.

Changes: This general maintenance release adds the play deck equalization
feature, a port to the x86_64 architecture, and some minor performance
optimizations for the PPC and SPARC architectures. It fixes a number of
issues with several windows and with the stdin feature.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[005] - Big Medium 2.0 (Stable)
  by Josh Clark (http://freshmeat.net/users/joshclark/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 10:30

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: Big Medium is a content management system aimed squarely at Web
designers who want a CMS that enables extremely flexible designs but
remains easy to set up without programming skills. The software does not
impose cookie-cutter layouts: If you bring basic to intermediate HTML/CSS
know-how, Big Medium can manage just about any design you throw at it.
Once the designer configures the templates, he or she can hand the site
over to content editors; no technical know-how is required to add or edit
pages. Big Medium's friendly, humane interface is easy and non-threatening
for CMS newbies.

Changes: This version shares Big Medium's original spirit of friendly,
humane software, but it's otherwise a whole new app from the ground up. A
few highlights include an elegant new interface, image galleries and
slideshows, automatic image sizing, content version control, site search,
scheduled publication, podcasting, visitor comments, granular editing
privileges, a WYSIWYG CSS editor, copying of content between sites,
unlimited subsection depth, and the ability to share/reuse images and
documents.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

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

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[006] - BlackRoute 0.1 RC3 
  by m0hs|n (http://freshmeat.net/users/inaam/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 05:15

System :: Networking :: Firewalls
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions :: CD-Based

About: black|route is a Slackware-based security and forensics analysis
distribution for x86-compatible architectures. The goal of the project is
to create a GNU/Linux distribution for advance users, texttool
enthusiasts, network and security specialists, and system administrators.

Changes: This release candidate has several bugfixes and other changes
including improved basic server functionality and security.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[007] - Burp suite 1.1 
  by PortSwigger (http://freshmeat.net/users/PortSwigger/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 14:00

Education :: Testing
Security

About: Burp suite allows an attacker to combine manual and automated
techniques to enumerate, analyse, attack, and exploit Web applications.
The various  burp tools work together effectively to share information and
allow findings identified within one tool to form the basis of an attack
using another. Numerous interfaces are implemented between the different
tools, designed to facilitate and speed up the process of attacking a Web
application. All tools share the same robust framework for handling HTTP
requests, authentication, downstream proxies, logging, alerting, and
extensibility. Burp suite is extensible via the IBurpExtender interface.

Changes: The main focus is on new features and usability enhancements.
Users will notice some immediate benefits in the improved analysis and
rendering of HTTP requests and responses wherever they appear. There are
several new tools included in the release, most notably Burp Sequencer, a
tool for analysing session token randomness. There are numerous other
feature enhancements, including support for custom client and server SSL
certificates, and the ability to follow 3xx redirects in attacks.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[008] - clive 0.4.0 
  by legatvs (http://freshmeat.net/users/legatvs/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 10:38

Multimedia :: Video

About: clive is a command line tool for extracting videos from the
YouTube, Google Video, Dailymotion, Guba (free), and Stage6 Web sites.

Changes: This release addresses a few minor bugs and tweaks.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[009] - Coadunation 1.0.RC6 
  by coadunation (http://freshmeat.net/users/coadunation/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 05:18

Software Development

About: Coadunation is a Java based daemon server. It enables developers to
quickly and easily develop daemons, Web applications, and distributed
applications. It also helps to manage distributed services, etc. It
provides SSO (Single Sign On), SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), Web
Services, RMI, containers, message services, and much more. 

Changes: This release includes a new GWT Web administration console, adds
complex type support to the Web services layer, fixes a bug to do with the
local interface transactions, modifies some daemons to expose both a MX
bean interface and a daemon interface, and updated the documentation.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[010] - cprops 0.1.8 
  by iaelion (http://freshmeat.net/users/iaelion/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 14:04

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

About: The cprops (C prototyping tools) library provides a portable,
thread-safe C API including linked list, binary heap, priority queue, hash
table, hash list, trie, AVL, Red-Black, and splay tree implementations, a
thread pool and thread management framework, a TCP and HTTP socket API,
and a database abstraction layer with drivers for Postgres and MySQL.
libcprops compiles and runs on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Win32.

Changes: This release fixes several bugs in cp_multimap - multiple index
collection introduced in the previous release.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[011] - Damn Small Linux 4.2 
  by damnsmalllinux (http://freshmeat.net/users/damnsmalllinux/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 00:29

Desktop Environment

About: Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Live CD Linux
distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional
and easy to use desktop. 

Changes: mtpaint replaced xpaint. A new black/blue theme with a "Fractal
Movements" background was included. A new folder was included for better
support of Visual Styles for JWM .jwmrc-theme and downloadable themes. A
new folder was provided for better support of backgrounds and downloadable
"DSL Classics". A new generic folder.xpm link was provided for easier
theming of folders. Support for JWM keybindings was improved with
jwmrc-keys.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[012] - Das Schaefchen 0.3.3 
  by Guido (http://freshmeat.net/users/guidoreina/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 00:28

Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: Das Schaefchen is a lightweight HTTP server and proxy for Unix
platforms. It supports the minimum requirements of the HTTP/1.1 protocol
and virtual hosts, basic authentication (which can be used to protect
either files or directories), directory listing, byte ranges, and reverse
proxy. It is an event-driven server that runs as a single process with a
single thread using non-blocking I/O. It uses epoll as the event
notification mechanism to multiplex control between active connections. 

Changes: An issue where the server was returning Bad Gateway to the client
if the response from the backend included two Connection or Server header
fields was fixed along with a problem with the Server header field of the
backend server not being sent to the client in proxy connections.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[013] - DbWrench 1.4.5 
  by harnekr (http://freshmeat.net/users/harnekr/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 00:26

Database
Database :: Front-Ends

About: DbWrench is multi-vendor, multi-platform database design  and
synchronization software. Features include a syntax  highlighting SQL
query editor, support for many of today's  most popular databases, a
graphic entity relation diagram  (ERD) designer, and the ability to
forward and reverse  engineer  databases. Its multi-vendor and
multi-platform functionality  makes it ideal for heterogeneous database
environments.

Changes: This release contains several significant improvements to the
user interface and enhancements to the forward and reverse engineer
functionality. On the user interface side, a new icon set is now being
used. The view, procedure, and trigger edit panels have been improved.
Reverse and forward engineering have been enhanced by adding support for
several new SQL Server specific data types. Support was added for foreign
key on update and on delete actions for both MySQL and SQL Server.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[014] - DrasticTools 0.6.10 
  by otb (http://freshmeat.net/users/otb/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 14:40

Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes

About: DrasticTools can be used to visualize table data in a Grid
(DrasticGrid) and on a Google Map (DrasticMap). The grid supports
pagination, sorting, and in-line editing of data. This tool is the
successor of MySQLPHPGrid. 

Changes: DrasticTools was not working on FireFox without Firebug. It did
work on IE and FF with Firebug enabled.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[015] - Gambas 2.0 RC2 (Development)
  by gambas (http://freshmeat.net/users/gambas/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 14:05

Software Development :: Interpreters

About: Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic
interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use
any other toolkit that a module is written for.  

Changes: The development environment toolbar icon size now follows the
font size. You can send key events to other applications. The Observer
class can catch events after they have been processed. GridView cells can
display rich text.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - Gateway Anti-Virus 2.0 
  by Thomas Cort (http://freshmeat.net/users/tcort/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 13:57

Security

About: Gateway Anti-Virus allows applications across the enterprise to
check files for viruses by providing a SOAP-based virus scanning Web
service. Client application attach files to SOAP messages and submit them
to the Gateway Anti-Virus Web service. The Web service uses clamav to scan
the attachments for viruses and it returns the results to the client. 

Changes: Gateway Anti-Virus has been completely re-written in PHP. This
was due to a number of problems experienced when attempting to fix the
underlying C language SOAP library and enhance it by adding SSL/TLS
support. The new code base is much simpler and cleaner than the old C
code. The dependencies and install procedure have changed dramatically
since the last release. See the 'INSTALL' file for setup and dependency
instructions.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[017] - GIMP SCRIPT-FUs for 2.4 6 
  by Paul Sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/psherma1/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 10:29

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: 3 updates (further corrections) and 2 new scripts.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[018] - konqil.icio.us 2.1 
  by Tim Brown (http://freshmeat.net/users/tbrown/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 05:11

Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: konqil.icio.us is a KDE service menu for del.icio.us.

Changes: Updated Italian translations were included. The Konqueror tab is
now closed after an URL has been bookmarked. The HTTP agent string was
modified. The KDE proxy settings are now used if set. If not, the standard
environment variables are used.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/konqil.icio.us/

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[019] - LinkChecker 4.8 (Stable)
  by Bastian Kleineidam (http://freshmeat.net/users/calvin/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 10:35

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management :: Link Checking

About: With LinkChecker, you can check HTML documents for broken links. It
features recursion, robots.txt exclusion protocol support, HTTP proxy
support, i18n support, multithreading, regular expression filtering rules
for links, and user/password checking for authorized pages. Output can be
colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, or a sitemap graph in DOT, GML, or
XML format. Supported link types are HTTP/1.1 and 1.0, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:,
news:, nntp:, Gopher, Telnet, and local files.

Changes: This release correctly handles HTTP/1.1 persistent connections,
ignores commented out CSS links, and fixes open file leaks. The
documentation has been improved by fixing typographic errors, documenting
the --configfile option, and adding a linkcheckerrc(5) manual page.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[020] - Logger 07352.0000 
  by BpMatthias (http://freshmeat.net/users/BpMatthias/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 14:14

System :: Logging
System :: Systems Administration
Utilities

About: Logger is a log queueing and optimization utility. It can handle
logs larger than 2GB and perform automatic nightly log rotation without
affecting services. Any application that writes a log can be maintained be
Logger, including syslogd. It is light, small, and fast, emphasizes
security, and reduces drive usage through memory queueing.

Changes: This version is a full rewrite. It can now send log data over TCP
connections, which is a significant enhancement that really opens the door
to a large number of possibilities. It has the ability to send log data to
multiple destinatons. These destinations can be files and/or TCP
connections. The config file layout has changed. The is required to
support the new features. Also included is a full restructuring of
Logger's memory management abilities.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[021] - massXpert mass spectrometry package 1.6.8 
  by filippo rusconi (http://freshmeat.net/users/FilippoRusconi/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 14:08

Education
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry

About: The massXpert software package is a mass spectrometry environment
for linear (bio-)polymers. It inherits all the innovations of GNU
polyxmass. It allows the detailed definition of new polymer chemistries in
the XpertDef module. These chemistry definitions are then used in the
desktop calculator-like mass calculator (XpertCalc) and in the
sophisticated polymer sequence editor and (bio-)chemical/mass
spectrometric simulations module (XpertEdit). Available simulations
include polymer and monomer chemical modifications, polymer sequence
cleavage, gas-phase fragmentation, m/z ratio calculations, and more.

Changes: The polymer chemistry definition code has been fully rewritten,
and the user interface redesigned. There are bugfixes here and there.
Coding of the framework for intra-molecular cross-link has begun. There is
a new package for Fedora core, and the usual packages for Debian GNU/Linux.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[022] - MinGW cross compiling environment 1.2 
  by Volker Grabsch (http://freshmeat.net/users/vog/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 00:26

Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Software Distribution

About: MinGW cross compiling environment is a script that compiles a MinGW
cross compiler and cross compiles many free libraries such as GD and SDL.
Thus, it provides a nice MinGW cross compiling environment. All necessary
source packages are downloaded automatically. 

Changes: GCC was upgraded from version 3 to 4. This release supports a new
library and some newer versions of the already supported libraries.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[023] - mpg123 1.0rc3 (Development)
  by Thomas Orgis (http://freshmeat.net/users/sobukus/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 05:15

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3

About: Mpg123 is a fast, free and portable MPEG audio player for Unix. It
supports MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers 1, 2, and 3, with CD quality playback
even on relatively slow CPUs.

Changes: JACK output was fixed and some things were cleaned up.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpg123/

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[024] - Nagios Appender 1.2.1 
  by jar lyons (http://freshmeat.net/users/jarbaby/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 10:32

System :: Logging
System :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration

About: NagiosAppender is a pure Java implementation of a Log4j appender
that allows the developer/administrator to send log records to Nagios via
the NCSA server (using the push model). It provides a simple solution for
Nagios administrators whose only alternative is to implement a polling
function against against the output of a standard Log4j appender. The
log4j configuration file provides for user-specific mappings between Log4j
levels and Nagios levels. The configuration file also allows the user to
select whether to set the Nagios 'service' and 'host' programmatically via
Log4j MDC, or via the config file. Later releases support XOR encryption. 

Changes: This release adds support for a configurable startup message. It
adds support for embedding the canonical hostname into message layout. The
sample log4j.properties file has been cleaned up to demonstrate
functionality.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[025] - napster-dl 0.2 
  by John Hass (http://freshmeat.net/users/john8675309/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 14:15



About: Napster-dl is an application that allows downloading of napster
songs from free.napster.com. 

Changes: Napster changed the XML output, which broke track searching. This
release uses the Sun XML DOM parser. Album art has been added.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[026] - Night Light IRC Proxy 1.3.1b 
  by Jonas Kvinge (http://freshmeat.net/users/jonasio/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 10:27

Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat

About: Night Light IRC Proxy is an Internet Relay Chat  Proxy, which works
as a layer between your IRC  client and the IRC server. It features bouncer
 capability and has more features, flexibility,  and configuration options
than other tools. It  also includes an option to use the system  password
list instead of requiring a separate  password database. 

Changes: SSL and IPv6 support. New configuration file formats. New
connection features. CHANCYCLE will channel cycle when there is no OP. Use
NICKSERVNUH/NICKSERVPASS to automatically send IDENTIFY command to NickServ
on networks with NickServ. There is a new autoOP feature.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[027] - NuttX 0.3.5 
  by spudmonkey (http://freshmeat.net/users/spudmonkey/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 14:01

Software Development :: Embedded Systems
System :: Operating System

About: Nuttx is a real-time embedded operating system (RTOS). It has a
small footprint that is usable in micro-controller environments. It is
fully scalable from tiny (8-bit) to moderate embedded (32-bit) systems. It
also aims to be fully compliant to standards, to be fully real time, and to
be totally open. 

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[028] - OCILIB 1.3.1 
  by vicenzo (http://freshmeat.net/users/vicenzo/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 13:54

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: This release fixes SourceForge bug #1853369 (wrong default
transaction mode).

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[029] - OOoPy 1.0.4299 
  by Ralf Schlatterbeck (http://freshmeat.net/users/schlatterbeck/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 13:58

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Office/Business :: Office Suites
Text Editors :: Word Processors

About: OOoPy is a Python library for modifying OpenOffice.org documents.
It provides a set of transformations on the OOo XML format using the
ElementTree XML Library. Transformations included are a mail merge
application and the concatenation of documents with formatting intact. The
framework supports easy creation of new transformations.

Changes: This release works with version 2.X of OpenOffice.org. There are
minor API changes.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[030] - Open Administration for Schools 2.50c 
  by Les Richardson (http://freshmeat.net/users/richl/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 14:40

Education

About: Open Administration for Schools (OAfS) is a Web-based school
administration package. Open Admin does demographics, attendance,
discipline, report cards, and has an online gradebook and parent viewing
function. It is designed for elementary, K-12, and small high schools. It
generates plain HTML and uses LaTeX for PDF generation. It also includes
special education and division-wide central office modules (all schools
run on the same server with different virtual sites; two sites per school,
one for teachers, and one for the office). Parent functions are by separate
parent/school site. 

Changes: Gradebook updates to add score searching (text; score ranges;
average ranges). Additional SQL and config loading updates. Translation
improvements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[031] - Ortro 1.2.0-rc2 
  by Luca Corbo (http://freshmeat.net/users/lucor/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 07:01

System :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration

About: Ortro is a Web-based system for scheduling and application
monitoring. It allows you to run existing scripts on remote hosts in a
secure way using ssh, create simple reports using queries from databases
(in HTML, text, CSV, or XLS) and email them, and send notifications of job
results using email, SMS, Tibco Rvd, Tivoli postemsg, or Jabber. 

Changes: This version comes up with bugfixes and improvements. The File
manager was added, the Jabber plugin now supports SSL, and the TestGen4Web
plugin now is able to report the navigation time test too. A lot of code
cleaning was made, the HTML code is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and the
PHP code is now compliant with the Pear Coding Standards. The FCKeditor
was updated. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[032] - pcal and lcal 4.11.0 (pcal)
  by Bill Marr (http://freshmeat.net/users/marr99/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 14:15



About: Pcal prints nice-looking PostScript (or HTML) calendars (in monthly
or yearly formats) and has a wide variety of useful options. Its real power
is its ability to create personalized calendars by marking 'events' (e.g.
holidays, birthdays, paydays, etc.) and by adding EPS images (photos,
icons, etc.). Lcal generates full-year, colorized lunar calendars in a
one-page or two-page format.

Changes: This release includes fixes for all known bugs, some new
functionality, and some updated sample configuration files.

License: Freely Distributable

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

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[033] - RESTORE 4.0b41-1 (RESTORE-DC)
  by Garret (http://freshmeat.net/users/Gacott/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 06:55

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: Lots of small bugs were fixed. This is the Debian package
release. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[034] - SRR Module 1.4.37 
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 10:33

System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
Utilities

About: The SRR Module (srripc) is a synchronous message-passing module for
the Linux kernel versions 2.2.x, 2.4.x, and 2.6.x. This module provides
synchronous message passing among processes and threads, queued
asynchronous event notification (proxies), timed delivery of proxies and
signals, triggering of proxies between tasks, and user-space interrupt
handling. Synchronous message passing is a fast, flexible, and robust IPC
mechanism, particularly useful for building modular systems. The SRR
Module installs automatically and provides an API that allows for porting
of applications between QNX and Linux.

Changes: This release changes the work handlers to match changes made in
version 2.6.20 of the Linux kernel. Module compilation has been fixed.
Support has been added for messages larger than 3 MBytes. Workarounds have
been added for udev issues. Potential timer IRQ race conditions have been
fixed. Spinlocks have been replaced with mutexes where swapping is
allowed. Relay functions have been added. clock_getres() has been
implemented. Unnecessary OOPS messages have been removed. The Sendmx()
return value has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[035] - The Fish 0.6.6 
  by Miguel Mendez (http://freshmeat.net/users/mmendez/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 06:32

System :: Systems Administration

About: The Fish provides a GTK-based graphical tool to manage and edit
FreeBSD system variables stored in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf.
For testing purposes, or, for users that need to have different
configurations, the program honours two environment variables:
FISH_RC_DEFAULTS and FISH_RC. 

Changes: A small bug in the GTK about dialog was fixed. The Qt build was
fixed. 

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[036] - TimeTrex Time and Attendance 2.2.0-rc1 
  by IpSo (http://freshmeat.net/users/ipso2/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 14:22

Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Scheduling

About: TimeTrex is a complete Web-based payroll and time management suite
that offers employee scheduling, time and attendance (timeclock,
timesheet/timecard), job costing, invoicing, and payroll in a single
package. Employees can use Web browsers or timeclocks to track their time
and attendance, check their own timesheet for missed punches, and respond
to flagged timesheet errors. Payroll administrators can quickly generate
paystubs and process payroll based off timesheet information or export
timesheet data to other applications. 

Changes: This release contains additional overtime policies (consecutive
days worked) and premium policies (hours worked without breaks) to better
support California labor laws. It also contains hour based accrual
policies, improved employee exception handling, email notifications,
advanced schedule reporting, tax forms, and custom company logos.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

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

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[037] - vsdump 0.0.41 
  by Valek Filippov (http://freshmeat.net/users/frob/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 10:37

Documentation
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion

About: vsdump is a set of tools that are useful for reverse engineering
the VSD/VSS file format used by Visio. 

Changes: Format detection was improved for ForeignData streams.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[038] - WebCert 1.7.0 
  by Frank4DD (http://freshmeat.net/users/Frank4DD/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 06:50

Security
Security :: Cryptography

About: WebCert is a Web application to generate and  manage digital
certificates in cases where no "full" CA is needed. It is very handy for
those who need a cert quickly and don't have the hang of the OpenSSL
command line. It is very easy to deploy and to use.

Changes: Generation of S/MIME certificates is fully supported. The new
certexport.cgi convienently converts an existing PEM certificate into
either DER or PKCS12 format. The certsearch.cgi function has been expanded
to filter certificates by their serial number. The [Go Back] button in
genrequest.cgi now correctly refers back to buildrequest.cgi instead of
pointing to certrequest.cgi. The latest CGI were missing in the top level
Makefile. The REQLEN parameter was too small for certificates with a 4096
bit key. A minor display bug in the HTML table of getcert.cgi was fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[039] - Wireshark 0.99.7 
  by Gerald Combs (http://freshmeat.net/users/gerald/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 13:53

System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) is a network protocol analyzer, or
"packet sniffer", that lets you capture and interactively browse the
contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a
commercial-quality packet analyzer for Unix, and the most useful packet
analyzer on any platform.

Changes: Privilege separation has been improved. You can now filter on
OIDs and follow UDP streams. Some speed optimizations have been added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[040] - Zsh 4.2.7 
  by Peter Stephenson (http://freshmeat.net/users/PeterWStephenson/)
  Tue, Dec 18th 2007 10:34

Software Development :: Interpreters
System
Utilities

About: Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) which of the standard
shells most resembles the Korn shell (ksh). It includes enhancements of
many types, notably in the command-line editor, options for customising
its behaviour, filename globbing, features to make C-shell (csh) users
feel more at home and extra features drawn from tcsh.

Changes: This is a stable release containing bugfixes ported from the 4.3
development branch together with some completion function enhancements.
Users of 4.2.6 should upgrade; those using the new multi-byte character
enhancements should wait for the forthcoming 4.3.5.

License: BSD License (revised)

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



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