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About: GoblinX is a bootable live CD distribution based on Slackware Linux. The primary goal for GoblinX is to create a more pleasant and functional desktop, standardizing all icons and themes to make it easy for novice users to learn about available applications. Changes: All packages were upgraded. The kernel (2.6.21.3), AuFS, Linux live, and Squashfs were upgraded. Magic Center was rebuilt to add new features. The GoblinX harddisk installer was rebuilt to make it simple. More graphical interfaces were added. A few errors and bugs were corrected. Some scripts were corrected and upgraded. More options were added to the Isolinux menu. More services were added to boot. Ivman was added.
About: DynaStop is a utility to examine IPv4 based addresses for Exim and procmail for the purpose of filtering based upon patterns defined by the administrator. This can be a pivotal factor in email filtering and server load management, since dynamic IP addresses are typically used for dial-up, DHCP, and DSL accounts. All of which have a designated mail exchange server through which all outbound mail flows as defined with many, if not most, large Internet service providers. Changes: The example configuration files were updated.
About: Roadsend Compiler for PHP produces optimized stand alone applications, libraries, and Web applications from standard PHP source code. The compiler produces native machine code, not PHP byte code, so no interpreter is required. It is a new implementation of the PHP language and runtime environment compatible with Zend PHP. It does not share any code with the original PHP implementation. Changes: Many optimizations to the runtime and Web backends were made. The sockets extension was implemented (TCP only). Several bugs in the runtime and build system were fixed.
About: MOSIX is a management system targeted for high performance computing on Linux clusters and multi-cluster organizational grids. In MOSIX, there is no need to modify or link applications with any library, copy files or login to remote nodes, or even assign processes to different nodes. It is all done automatically, similar to a single computer with multiple processors; just fork and forget. Changes: Partitions can be clustered to sub-clusters.
About: strongSwan is a complete IPsec and IKEv1 implementation for Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. It also fully supports the new IKEv2 protocol with Linux 2.6 kernels. It interoperates in both IKEv1 and IKEv2 mode with most other IPsec-based VPN products. The focus of the strongSwan project is on strong authentication mechanisms using X.509 public key certificates and optional secure storage of private keys on smartcards through a standardized PKCS#11 interface. A unique feature is the use of X.509 attribute certificates to implement advanced access control schemes based on group memberships. Changes: IKEv2 rekeying in NAT situations did not inherit the NAT conditions to the rekeyed IKE_SA so that the UDP encapsulation was lost with the next CHILD_SA rekeying. Wrong type definition of the next_payload variable in id_payload.c caused an INVALID_SYNTAX error on PowerPC platforms. The IKEv2 EAP-SIM server and client test modules were implemented, which use triplets stored in a file. For details on the configuration, see the scenario "ikev2/rw-eap-sim-rsa".
About: libmemcached is a C client library for interfacing to a memcached server. It has been designed to be light on memory usage, thread safe and to provide full access to server side methods. It also implements several command line tools: memcat, memflush, memrm, memstat, and memslap (for load generation). The library has been designed to allow for different hashing methods on keys, partitioning by keys, and to use consistent hashing for distribution. Changes: Work was done on the UDP protocol. get_by_key and set_by_key tests were added for the C++ API. limit_maxbytes was fixed to be 64-bit in stats. Servers are now sorted, meaning that servers are now ordered so that clients with the same lists will have same distribution. MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_SORT_HOSTS was added to enable this support. The MEMCACHED_BAD_KEY_PROVIDED error was added for auto, set, and get operations. MEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_VERIFY_KEY was added to enable this feature. More error messages are produced by the command line tools. Bugs in the memcached_cas() operator were fixed.
About: Spket IDE is a powerful editor for JavaScript, XUL/XBL, Laszlo, SVG, Silverlight, and Yahoo! Widget development. It provides features like code completion, syntax highlighting, and a content outline that helps developers create efficient JavaScript code. It can run as a standalone application or as an Eclipse plugin. Changes: Code completion now supports the MooTools APIs. The JavaScript editor now handles multiline strings correctly. A feature called "Show Parameter hints" was added. Now you can format all JavaScript files at once in "Project Explorer" view. There are other minor bugfixes and feature enhancements.
About: Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL) provides a diskless or systemless environment for client machines. It works on Debian, Mandriva, Red Hat, Fedora, and SuSE. Unlike LTSP, it uses distributed hardware resources and makes it possible for clients to fully access local hardware. It also includes Clonezilla, a partitioning and disk cloning utility similar to Symantec Ghost. Changes: Newer upstream versions of syslinux (3.61) and memtest86+ (2.00) are used. The program now is ready for Debian Lenny and Ubuntu 8.04 alpha. A new package partclone was added in DRBL so that it can image HFS+ and reiser4 partitions experimentally. Some other functions of Clonezilla were added.
About: AgileWiki is meant to create software systems which are fluid, easily configured and can be reorganized on-the-fly to meet ever changing requirements. It includes a COW-based database, the Rolonics programming paradigm, and semantic inferencing. Changes: A sample application, check register, is now included. Logic can now be added to Rolons in the form of DEnts. Transactions can now return results. "import static" is now used to unclutter the javadocs. The eval method's argument order is now consistent.
About: HTML Forms generation and validation is a PHP class that generates HTML forms supporting many built-in validation types on server and client sides. It prevents security attacks by discarding spoofed values, has multiple submit protection, outputs HTML for fields displayed as fully accessible or in read-only mode, and has field value filtering and reformatting. It can be extended with custom control plug-ins. AJAX based form submission, upload monitor progress bar, auto-complete text input, automatic layout renderer, calendar date, CAPTCHA, Google Maps world location selection, linked select, and animation effects plug-ins are available. Changes: The calendar date custom input plug-in was enhanced to allow hiding the day input, assuming default value for the day. Dates may be set to the value "now" as an alias of the current date. The main class was fixed to format error messages correctly when several inputs are invalid and the class is set to show all error messages at once.
About: PhoNetInfo retrieves detailed phone and network information. It runs on Symbian S60 3rd edition mobile phones. Information about the following topics can be retrieved: phone manufacturer and model, firmware version, battery level, WLAN and bluetooth MAC, bluetooth device class, IMSI, IMEI, subscriber ID, charger status, running tasks, active profile settings, network mode, network signal strength and cell ID, network name and ID, network country code and registration status, CPU speed, CPU type and architecture, size of RAM and ROM, and more. Changes: Memory card CID register information was implemented. This information includes WLAN name, IP address, net mask, broadcast address, default gateway, primary and secondary name server, MTU and speed information. New phone models were added to the CPU ABI type, CPU speed, and CPU architecture programming routines to correctly distinguish between ARM11 and ARM4 CPUs. The "Reboot device" option was added. A Nokia N80 SysUtil API bug was fixed.
About: Ctalk provides object oriented programming features, like classes, methods, operator overloading, and inheritance to otherwise standard C programs. You can use only a few objects and classes in a program, or you can write programs entirely in Ctalk. The package provides a translator from Ctalk source code into C for compilation and a library that provides run-time support for class objects. The preprocessor, ctpp, is also available separately, and the package includes sample programs and documentation. Changes: This release adds the ability to define class and instance variables using the variable class' constructors. Improvements in expression analysis and several bugfixes were made.
About: Wcalc is a very capable calculator. It has standard functions (sin, asin, and sinh for example), many pre-defined constants (pi, e, c, etc.), support for using variables, a command history, hex/octal/binary input and output, unit conversions, bit-shifting, embedded comments, and an expandable expression entry field. It evaluates expressions using the standard order of operations. Changes: Several display glitches with auto-resizing for large numbers have been fixed, as has the simple-calc mode. Engineering notation and non-number input (such as @NaN@ and @Inf@) have been made more reliable, as have some multi-step operations. The licensing has also been updated to be GPLv2+ compatible.
About: XMLTV is a set of programs to obtain and process TV (tvguide) listings and manage your TV viewing. It stores the listings in an XML-based format and most of the programs are filters which read and/or write XML. It includes tools to obtain, sort, grep, print, and munge listings, and two end-user programs to plan a week's TV viewing. Changes: tv_grab_eu_epgdata (commerical) and tv_grab_es_migulatv were added. tv_grab_nl, tv_grab_nc, and tv_grab_no were removed. XMLTV.pm, IMDB.pm, tv_grab_br_net, tv_grab_eu_epgdata, tv_grab_es_laguiatv, tv_grab_fi, tv_grab_fr, tv_grab_it, tv_grab_na_dtv, tv_grab_re, and tv_grab_uk_rt were updated.
About: Squirrel is a light-weight programming language (around 6000 lines of code) that features higher-order functions, classes/inheritance, delegation, tail recursion, generators, cooperative threads, exception handling, reference counting and garbage collection on demand. It has a C-like syntax. Changes: The _newslot metamethod in classes was added. enums and constants were added. sq_pushconsttable and sq_setconsttable were added to the API. Function default parameters were added. Octal literals were added. The debug hook was fixed, so "calls" and "returns" are properly notified in the same number. A coroutine bug was fixed.
About: nd is a program for listening on a network socket and executing a command for each incoming connection. The incoming connection becomes the stdin and stdout for the executed command. Changes: Many features were implemented. IPv6 support is missing.
About: gpsd is a daemon that listens to a GPS or Loran receiver and translates the positional data into a simplified format that can be more easily used by other programs, like chart plotters. The package comes with a sample client that plots the location of the currently visible GPS satellites (if available) and a speedometer. It can also use DGPS/ip. Changes: The C++ bindings, Garmin USB support, and multiple instances of ntp pps thread starting were fixed. Handling of odd PPS signals was improved. The eye candy in the PHP visualizers was fixed.
About: Strangle is a Python package for parsing Domain Name System (DNS) messages. It is a Python interface to the ISC BIND message parsing routines. It is a fork of the unmaintained Constrict library by the same author. Changes: Imported from the old Constrict svn into bzr, with updates.
About: �Up!� is a small Cocoa application that can resize and sharpen photos and upload them to a blog software via the MetaWebLog API. Changes: This release adds a live preview and template support, as well as more image processing controls. There are many usability fixes and bugfixes.
About: awb combines simple but powerful AsciiDoc markup with templates, blog and image gallery generation, and sitemap.xml generation to allow you to easily maintain and update a Web site.
About: PHP Mini SQL Admin is a light, standalone script for accessing MySQL databases. It is intended for Web developers and requires knowledge of SQL commands. Changes: Now all contents of database fields are HTML-escaped to prevent Javascript (and other XSS tricks) from running. NULL values in SQL dump were replaced by ''. Support for "desc TABLE" queries has been added. A repair function in "show tables" has been added. In the export file, final comments have been added (so it's easy to see if the export was completed fully, which is useful for slow servers or large databases when the PHP script may timeout before the end of the export).
About: BeeDiff is a graphical file comparator. It compares two text files and highlights differences in colors.
About: Furia-chan is an open source/libre software license violation detector (a "Google" for binary programs). If given as input a binary program p, its output is a list of the top n closest programs to p. It works even if p is control-flow obfuscated. It can also find embedded (stolen) components within p in a database of FLOSS programs. Changes: This is the initial release. It currently supports Java byte-code only.
About: 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. Changes: This release adds i18n support with initial message catalogs in Russian, Spanish, German, Chinese, and Japanese (additional translations will be added using the launchpad.net collaboration features).
About: DBAHelper is a collection of scripts to ease the daily maintenance work of Oracle database administrators. Examples are moving objects between tablespaces, analyzing schemata, and rebuilding invalid indices. Also included is a little framework to simplify the use of RMAN (this framework depends on the use of Oracle 10g with the Recovery Area enabled and properly sized, so all backups go there). Changes: The RMAN Framework has a complete interactive mode (including menus). create_standby now also handles SPFile and updates the primary instance (i.e. completely processes all required steps). There is a new command "switchover" to do a switchover between the primary and standby database.
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