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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (44) :::

[001] - Amanda 2.5.1b2 (Test)
[002] - bayonne 1.5.26 (Bayonne 2)
[003] - Bist 0.4.2
[004] - BoreWiki 0.975
[005] - Chessmonk 0.1
[006] - ClikMenu 0.9
[007] - Cypher 0.7.1
[008] - ff javascript library 1.1
[009] - fsc2 2.2.5
[010] - geotool 0.9.1
[011] - Grsync 0.5
[012] - Hearts for GNOME 0.1.2
[013] - Internote 2.1
[014] - JDiveLog 2.1
[015] - Jebi 0.2.2
[016] - K3DSurf 0.5.5 (Stable)
[017] - KCAPTCHA 1.2.3
[018] - LILO 22.7.3
[019] - LLVM 1.8
[020] - lookat 1.4.1rc1 (Development)
[021] - MaCollec Collections Manager 0.1.2
[022] - mbank-cli svn20060812R023
[023] - Métamorphose File -n- Folder Renamer 0.4.0
[024] - Miredo 0.9.8
[025] - MySecureShell 0.9
[026] - NDisc6 0.6.7
[027] - nessquik 1.0
[028] - Notalon 0.2.0
[029] - nut 11.6
[030] - OpenVRML 0.16.0
[031] - P4A 1.99.6 (Development)
[032] - pcal and lcal 2.0.0 (lcal)
[033] - PHP Live! 3.2.1
[034] - PostArabic 1.0.1
[035] - PrBoom 2.4.5
[036] - PySTDF 1.0.0
[037] - PyTone 2.3.1
[038] - RPL/2 4.00pre8p (Development)
[039] - ShaniXmlParser 1.4.7
[040] - Shed Skin 0.0.14
[041] - SiSU 0.46.0
[042] - Sun Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.5.0_08
[043] - Sun Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 6 Beta 2 (Development)
[044] - UFRaw 0.9.1

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[001] - Amanda 2.5.1b2 (Test)
  by Paddy Sreenivasan (http://freshmeat.net/users/submitpaddy/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 01:35

System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: Amanda is a popular network backup and archiving software that
protects multiple machines running various versions of Linux, Unix, and
Microsoft Windows operating systems. It supports tapes, disks, optical
media, and changers.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[002] - bayonne 1.5.26 (Bayonne 2)
  by David Sugar (http://freshmeat.net/users/davidsugar/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 22:14

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

About: Bayonne is the telephony server of the GNU project. It offers a
script-driven threaded multi-line state event telephony service on
GNU/Linux, xBSD, and Microsoft Windows for building voice response
systems, and uses telephony plugins for runtime driver configuration. It
also features "TGI" for making Perl applications "telephony aware". It may
be used to build telephony-based system administration, home automation,
automated attendant, v-commerce, and voice messaging systems.

Changes: Related hold and transfer/transfer recall of bridged calls on SIP
extensions are now supported. Some improvement was done in call setup.
Bridge based call detail reporting was introduced alongside segment
reporting. Call connect modes were added for prepaid calling as well as
for normal calling.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[003] - Bist 0.4.2
  by cage_20 (http://freshmeat.net/users/cage_20/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:05

Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry

About: Bist stands for "bidimensional structures" and is a chemical
drawing tool. It is focused on organic chemistry, but it may be useful for
chemists or teachers as well. Bist support many of the formalisms used to
describe molecular structures like single bond, double bond,
stereospecific bond, charges, resonance arrows, lone pairs, and so on. It
can export both PostScript and PNG formats.

Changes: Code has been cleaned and now should compile with newer GNU C++
compiler versions (g++ 4.1) and link with OpenBabel 2.x.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[004] - BoreWiki 0.975
  by Tomi Ollila (http://freshmeat.net/users/domo/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:47

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

About: BoreWiki provides a Web form interface to edit reStructuredText
formatted text and creates static (X)HTML pages out of it. It provides
password-based user authentication, and has directory-based access control
for these users. All edited and saved pages are stored in RCS files if
there is need to access old content.

Changes: The :file: options were disabled on all directives that had them.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - Chessmonk 0.1
  by Daniel Borgmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/dborg/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 14:09

Database

About: Chessmonk is a chess viewer and database tool. Only PGN viewing is
currently implemented, but it does that well. It features a scalable board
with SVG piece graphics, move animation, a game list, and a detailed
display of the notation, including comments and variations. Chessmonk is
intended to be an easy to use alternative to chess suites like ChessBase
or scid.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[006] - ClikMenu 0.9
  by Graeme Fenwick (http://freshmeat.net/users/fenomena/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:44

Software Development :: Libraries

About: ClikMenu is a library of functions for creating drop-down and popup
menus with JavaScript. Support for multi-level (i.e. cascading or
hierarchical) menus is standard, and entries can be URI links,
"onmousedown"-type function calls, plaintext labels, or submenus. ClikMenu
is compatible with Firefox, Internet Explorer 6, and other recent browsers.
There are no server-side requirements.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[007] - Cypher 0.7.1
  by sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/sdmonroe/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:51

Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Text Processing :: General
Text Processing :: Linguistic

About: Cypher generates the .rdf (RDF graph) and .serql (SeRQL query)
representation of a plain language input. With robust definition
languages, its grammar and lexicon can quickly and easily be extended to
process highly complex sentences and phrases of any natural language, and
can cover any vocabulary. Programmers can build next generation semantic
Web applications that harness natural language.

Changes: This version runs under Sun's Java 1.5 edition. The new
NumberTranscoder_LITERAL was added, which allows natural language numbers
to be generated from integer representation; The integer is wrapped in RDF
literals of type xsd:nonNegativeInteger and xsd:NegativeInteger. A new
number pattern grammar example was added to exploit the number transcoder.

License: Other/Proprietary License

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

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[008] - ff javascript library 1.1
  by fforw (http://freshmeat.net/users/fforw/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:01

Software Development :: Libraries

About: The ff javascript library is a minimal library meant to develop
real-life JavaScript-enabled Web sites. It offers a cross-browser API for
all common browsers. on one side and Internet Explorer on the other side.
It is less than 8kb for the compressed JavaScript version and even less
than 4kb for the gzipped version. It features AJAX requests returning
text, HTML, XML, or JSON data; a cross-browser DOM and Event API that
fixes IE compatibility problems; a DOM Builder; and Firebug Firefox
extension support and emulation.

Changes: More and better documentation. Two examples were added.
ff.dom.append was fixed. DOM builder IE compatibility was increased.
Firebug console emulation was enhanced. Some additional ff.dom and
ff.style functions were added.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[009] - fsc2 2.2.5
  by Jens Thoms Törring (http://freshmeat.net/users/jtto/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 14:08

Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry
Scientific/Engineering :: Physics

About: fsc2 is a program for remotely controlling spectrometers.
Experiments are done by interpretation of scripts written in a simple
language, EDL. Devices are handled via modules in order to allow easy
integration of new devices. More than 50 devices are supported, connected
via serial port, GPIB, or LAN, as well as data acquisition cards, etc. The
state of an experiment can be monitored via a built-in Web server.

Changes: Bugs in the device driver for the NI6601 card and in a few
Makefiles were fixed. The documentation was updated.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fsc2/

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[010] - geotool 0.9.1
  by Dirk (http://freshmeat.net/users/noisyb/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 21:08

Internet

About: geotool inserts countries into the output of numerous command line
network tools, and reverses GeoIP.dat into a guarding.p2p.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[011] - Grsync 0.5
  by OPByte (http://freshmeat.net/users/opbyte/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:03

System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Archiving :: Mirroring

About: Grsync is a GUI for rsync, the command line directory
synchronization tool. While it can work with remote hosts, its focus is to
synchronize local directories.

Changes: Transient parents have been correctly set, meaning no more focus
or iconify problems. An optional log file for sessions was added. An
optional "command to execute before" and "command to execute after" were
added for each session. Scrolling of text view has been enhanced. Tooltips
have been enriched with text from "rsync --help". Some optimizations for
dry-run (simulation) mode have been made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[012] - Hearts for GNOME 0.1.2
  by Sander Marechal (http://freshmeat.net/users/sandermarechal/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 13:42

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Games/Entertainment

About: Hearts is an implementation of the classic card game for the GNOME
desktop, featuring configurable rulesets and editable computer opponents
to satisfy widely diverging playing styles. It features various rulesets
with configurable options, multiple computer opponents with differing
styles of play, drag and drop adding of new opponents, and easy creation
and modification of opponents through the Lua scripting language.

Changes: This release fixes a crash in the Luis AI. It also adds Danish,
Basque, Polish, Swedish, and Chinese translations and updates all other
translations.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - Internote 2.1
  by Tim Horton (http://freshmeat.net/users/TheHortonsVT/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 22:27

About: Internote is an implementation of persistent sticky notes for
Firefox. Internote allows you to create notes on a Web page which will
still be there when you return. Notes are very customizable, and come with
many small, useful features. A manager is available, in which you can see
all of your saved notes, edit them, print them, and delete them.

Changes: You can now export Internote's data to text, HTML, or the
standard Netscape bookmark file format. Notes may now be saved to any
location.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

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

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[014] - JDiveLog 2.1
  by pellmont (http://freshmeat.net/users/pellmont/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 14:18

Other/Nonlisted Topic
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

About: JDiveLog is a logbook for scuba diving. It manages all important
dive data, as well as the pictures taken during the dive. Features include
the ability to import UDCF data or data from Suunto computers, profile
generation, and a Web page generator.

Changes: Corrections were made in the French translations. Printing of
dive lists was added. Documentation was added. comm-timeout was fixed in
the suunto dive computer interface on systems without local echo. A bug
which occurred when displaying profiles with multiple gases was fixed.
Performing a partial update of the generated Web page (only changed dives)
was added. Copying of the generated Web page to the server via scp was
added (but the local user must be trusted on remote side). A Finnish
translation was added. Panels in divesite statistics are now resizable.
Other minor bugfixes were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[015] - Jebi 0.2.2
  by Dave Steele (http://freshmeat.net/users/ds215/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:55

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Capture/Recording
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion

About: Jebi allows users to record AM or FM radio, TV, or other audio
content to an MP3 stream and to publish this stream automatically as a
podcast channel via RSS. The result is a Tivo-like capability for radio.
Tuner cards are supported.

Changes: MP3 titles are short names

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - K3DSurf 0.5.5 (Stable)
  by Abderrahman Taha (http://freshmeat.net/users/virtualmeet/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 21:49

Multimedia :: Graphics
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

About: K3DSurf is a program for visualizing and manipulating
multidimensional surfaces by using Mathematical equations. It's also a
"modeler" for POV-Ray in the area of parametric surfaces. It features 3D,
4D, 5D, and 6D HyperObjects visualization, full support for all functions
(like the C language), support for mouse events in the drawing area,
animation and morph effects, Povscript and mesh file generation, and
support for VRML2 and OBJ files. More than 100 examples are provided.

Changes: Support for isosurfaces (ie: f(x,y,z) = 0) was added. Two tools,
"Scale" and "Twist", can be used to apply some deformations to
isosurfaces. The size and complexity of the generated equations depend
heavily on the number of steps from the original shape. The possibility to
show the 3D Axes for both parametric and isosurface representations was
added. Isosurface Mesh files can be exported to PovRay (the only file
format supported at the moment). Background color support was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/k3dsurf/

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[017] - KCAPTCHA 1.2.3
  by Kruglov Sergei (http://freshmeat.net/users/kruglov/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 03:59

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Security

About: KCAPTCHA provides CAPTCHA (a visual human validation tool) with
font distortion. It requires no PHP font libraries (only GD).

Changes: This release adds some changes to increase human readability and
decrease bot readability.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[018] - LILO 22.7.3
  by John Coffman (http://freshmeat.net/users/johncoffman/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 01:26

System :: Boot

About: LILO is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems.
It is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a
hard drive and passing control to it. It is capable of booting beyond
cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if the BIOS supports EDD packet call
extensions to the int 0x13 interface. LILO can also be used to boot many
other operating systems, including DOS, Windows (all versions), OS/2, and
the BSD variants. The LILO distribution includes full source,
documentation and support files.

Changes: A fatal boot selection bug on systems without a PC/AT keyboard
(primarily newer 64-bit systems) when compiled with the NOKEYBOARD option
was fixed along with a known table entry error on major device 253.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[019] - LLVM 1.8
  by Misha Brukman (http://freshmeat.net/users/brukman/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:51

Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Compilers

About: LLVM is a compiler infrastructure designed for compile-time,
link-time, run-time, and "idle-time" optimization of programs from
arbitrary programming languages. It currently supports compilation of C
and C++ programs, using front-ends derived from gcc 3.4 and 4.0.1. There
is a demonstration front end, Stacker, which provides a simple forth-like
language. Work is currently under way to provide a Java class file
front-end, as well as other significant improvements.

Changes: This release adds DWARF debugging support (for C and C++ on
Darwin/PPC), improved inline assembly support, a new nightly tester, and
llvm-config enhancements. It also includes many bugfixes and performance
and compile time improvements, such as improved loop unswitching using
loop-closed SSA form in the loop optimizer and deallocation of machine
code in the JIT compiler.

License: OSI Approved

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

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[020] - lookat 1.4.1rc1 (Development)
  by staf (http://freshmeat.net/users/stafwag/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 22:22

Utilities

About: "lookat" (or "bekijk" in Dutch) is a program to view text files and
manual pages. It is designed to be more user-friendly than more
conventional text viewers such as less.

Changes: This version will compile correctly with the SUNpro C compiler on
Solaris. Auto window resize in view mode has been added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[021] - MaCollec Collections Manager 0.1.2
  by Valéry Febvre (http://freshmeat.net/users/valos/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 13:59

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

About: MaCollec is a Web-based collections manager written in
PHP/Javascript. It's based on the AJAX technology to produce a
nice-looking and pleasant interface. It doesn't require a database. Item
information (including cover pictures) are retrieved from online
libraries.

Changes: MaCollec is now i18n-ready. Currently available languages are
English and French.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[022] - mbank-cli svn20060812R023
  by Jakub Wilk (http://freshmeat.net/users/ubanus/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:21

Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting

About: 'mbank-cli' provides a rudimentary command line interface to the
mBank online banking system.

Changes: The output format of transfer descriptions was changed to a more
consistent one. Support for displaying histories of more than one account
was added. Logging out is now performed correctly.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mbank-cli/

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[023] - Métamorphose File -n- Folder Renamer 0.4.0
  by ianaré sévi (http://freshmeat.net/users/ianare/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 01:30

System :: Systems Administration

About: Métamorphose File -n- Folder Renamer is a mass file renaming
program that combines great flexability with an intuitive interface. It
allows many command line renaming operations in a single utility,
well-suited for those who need to rename large numbers of files and/or
folders on a regular basis. However, the ease of the interface ensures
that a first-time user will not find it too frustrating to use.

Changes: Multi-user support was provided for language setting,
preferences, and undo. A Japanese translation was added. Minor
improvements and fixes were made throughout.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[024] - Miredo 0.9.8
  by Rémi Denis-Courmont (http://freshmeat.net/users/rdenisc/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:18

Internet
System :: Networking

About: Miredo is an implementation of the "Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP
through NATs" proposed Internet standard (RFC 4380). It can serve either as
a Teredo client, a stand-alone Teredo relay, or a Teredo server. It is
meant to provide IPv6 connectivity to hosts behind NAT devices, most of
which do not support IPv6, and not even IPv6-over-IPv4 (including 6to4).

Changes: Multiple security issues with HMAC authentication were fixed.
Remote clients behind symmetric NATs are now supported.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[025] - MySecureShell 0.9
  by Teka2Nerdman (http://freshmeat.net/users/teka2nerdman/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 01:25

About: MySecureShell is a secure FTP server that uses SSH. It is easy to
install and manage.

Changes: CanRemoveDir and CanRemoveFile tags were added. UTF-8 is now
active with the SFTP v3 protocol, which avoids errors under FileZilla. The
current directory is now displayed in sftp-who. A --version parameter was
added. French and English man pages were added. Improvements were made to
remote administration and sftp-kill.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[026] - NDisc6 0.6.7
  by Rémi Denis-Courmont (http://freshmeat.net/users/rdenisc/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:55

Security
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: ndisc6 consists of three command line tools (ndisc6, rdisc6, and
traceroute6) that perform ICMPv6 Neighbor Discovery, ICMPv6 Router
Discovery, and IPv6 tcptraceroute/traceroute respectively. It is primarily
meant for IPv6 networking diagnostics and monitoring.

Changes: rdisc6 and ndisc6 now check the hop limit of received packets as
specified per ICMPv6 Neighbor Discovery RFC.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ndisc6/

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[027] - nessquik 1.0
  by Tim Rupp (http://freshmeat.net/users/caphrim007/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 01:34

Security

About: nessquik is a fast Web-based Nessus scanner that is intended to
replace the Nessus stand alone client. It uses the prototype.js library to
provide a responsive interface even when dealing with all of the available
Nessus plugins.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[028] - Notalon 0.2.0
  by Saketh (http://freshmeat.net/users/braingeyser/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 22:18

Education

About: Notalon is an application designed to make taking Cornell notes
faster. The purpose of Notalon is to remove the burden of format from the
user. It leaves the writing to the writer, and the dirty work to the
application. The target end users are students and others who wish to take
Cornell notes.

Changes: Toolbar ID bugs have been fixed. The modified status on startup
has now been set to false. Failure to load default text on POSIX platforms
has been fixed, as well as the failure to change the title on recent file
selection. Several new features have been added, including a preferences
dialog, a revised About dialog, and a confirmation dialog on heading
deletion. PDF drawn boundaries are optional. The "clear recent files" item
is enabled based on the number of recent files. The toolbar and menus have
been improved, and feature new icons.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[029] - nut 11.6
  by Jim Jozwiak (http://freshmeat.net/users/jozwiak/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 01:05

Scientific/Engineering :: Medical Science Apps.

About: nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your
meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient
Database for Standard Reference, Release 18, which contains 7,146 foods and
136 nutrients. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats,
calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the essential
polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed
as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling
in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Foods can be added
from recipes or food labels, and nutrient intake can be graphed. The
program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.

Changes: This release fixes a string length error that prevented the
program from working properly when compiled on GCC 4.0.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[030] - OpenVRML 0.16.0
  by Braden McDaniel (http://freshmeat.net/users/braden/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 01:29

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

About: OpenVRML is a VRML and X3D browser plug-in and C++ toolkit for
incorporating VRML support into applications. OpenVRML provides VRML97 and
Classic VRML X3D parsers, a runtime, and an OpenGL renderer as C++
libraries. The renderer is fully separate from the runtime library so that
users can also provide their own renderer.

Changes: A user-extensible I/O subsystem based on the standard C++
IOStreams was added. OpenVRML now asynchronously loads network resources
and progressively renders PNG and JPEG images. Support for non-native
EXTERNPROTOs has been added, including asynchronous loading of EXTERNPROTO
implementations. OpenVRML can now construct scene graphs for Classic
VRML-encoded X3D. The Mozilla plug-in now uses the Web browser for
resource fetching, allowing the plug-in to take advantage of the browser's
cache.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[031] - P4A 1.99.6 (Development)
  by Fabrizio Balliano (http://freshmeat.net/users/balliano/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 01:30

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

About: P4A (PHP For Applications) is a RAD and object oriented PHP
framework for building event-driven stateful Web applications. It features
tableless HTML, accesskey support, point and click app generator, auto data
type recognition, UTF-8 support, advanced i18n/l10n support, handheld "zero
code" support, "zero code" printing via advanced CSS2, and PEAR
integration.

Changes: P4A_DB_Navigator now highlights the droppable item when a
draggable is over it. A Traditional Chinese translation was added.
P4A_DB_NAvigator does not show the "home" icon if "movements to root" are
not allowed. isSortable(), addOrder(), setOrder(), getOrder(), hasOrder(),
and dropOrder() were moved from P4A_DB_Source to P4A_Data_Source. A bug
with Ajax autodetection and configuration was fixed. When a row in a
P4A_Data_Source is deleted, it moves to first row instead of the last row.
P4A_Data_Source::newRow() now triggers beforeMoveRow and afterMoveRow
events.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/p4a/

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[032] - pcal and lcal 2.0.0 (lcal)
  by Bill Marr (http://freshmeat.net/users/marr99/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 01:37

About: Pcal prints nice-looking PostScript (or HTML) calendars and has a
wide variety of useful options. Its real power is its ability to create
personalized calendars by marking 'events' (for example, payday) and by
adding EPS images (photos, icons, etc). Lcal generates one page or two
page full-year lunar calendars.

Changes: This release provides a new one-page uncompressed format and
fixes a few bugs, including two in the timezone handling. It now provides
support for compilation under various DOS environments (DOS, DJGPP,
CygWin) and provides better PostScript output for previewer applications.

License: Freely Distributable

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

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[033] - PHP Live! 3.2.1
  by OSI Codes (http://freshmeat.net/users/osicodes/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 01:26

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

About: PHP Live is a live support system for Web sites. Its functions
include unlimited operators, unlimited departments, chat initiation, click
tracking, Web site traffic monitoring, and more.

Changes: This release has a time zone check for PHP versions 5.0 and newer
to limit possible errors. A notice will alert the user if the popup blocker
disables the chat window from opening. When initiating chat using the auto
popup chat window, it will detect if the user has a popup blocker, and
will automatically set to image scroll if detected. status_image.php now
checks for valid GET variables in various areas to limit JavaScript
exploits. There is further checking of css_path variables for validation.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

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

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[034] - PostArabic 1.0.1
  by sdteffen (http://freshmeat.net/users/sdteffen/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:04

Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Software Development :: Internationalization

About: PostArabic adds Arabic shaping functionality to the PostgreSQL
database. The module is written in C and adds the following functions to
PL/SQL: shape_arabic(), unshape_arabic(), and utf8dump().

Changes: This release adds the bidi_reorder() function that provides
better results than str_reorder() for numbers embedded in Arabic text. In
addition, it fixes a build problem on Linux where libarabic.dll was
referenced in arabic.sql instead of arabic.so.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[035] - PrBoom 2.4.5
  by Colin Phipps (http://freshmeat.net/users/cph/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:46

Games/Entertainment :: First Person Shooters
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering

About: Doom was the classic 3D shoot'em'up game from id Software. PrBoom
is a game engine for playing Doom levels, which runs on both Windows and
Linux/Unix systems. It uses the SDL graphics library. PrBoom a very
faithful Doom port, with great effort taken to be compatible with as many
original Doom levels and demos as possible.

Changes: Software and OpenGL renderers are now built into the same
program, and can be selected at runtime. A recently-introduced crash when
saving the game at some big levels was fixed. Other miscellaneous feature
enhancements were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[036] - PySTDF 1.0.0
  by casey (http://freshmeat.net/users/cmars232/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 01:02

Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: PySTDF is a Python module which makes it easy to work with STDF
(Teradyne's Standard Test Data Format). STDF is a commonly-used file
format in semiconductor tests. Automated test equipment (ATE) from such
vendors as Teradyne, Verigy, LTX, Credence, and others supports this
format. PySTDF provides event-based stream parsing of STDF version 4,
indexers that help structure the data into a more useful tabular form, and
the ability to generate missing summary records or new types of derivative
records. The parser architecture is very flexible and can easily be
extended to support STDF version 3 and custom record types.

Changes: distutils was added to make the module fit for general user
consumption and to bring the stdf2atdf script into closer compliance with
the ATDF specification.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[037] - PyTone 2.3.1
  by Jörg Lehmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/joergl/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 22:14

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: PyTone is a music jukebox written in Python with a curses-based
GUI. While providing advanced features like crossfading and multiple
players, special emphasis is put on ease of use, making PyTone an ideal
jukebox system for use at parties.

Changes: Various bugs were fixed, including a race condition which
sometimes prevented PyTone from starting up.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[038] - RPL/2 4.00pre8p (Development)
  by JKB (http://freshmeat.net/users/jkb/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 14:19

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: A major memory leak was fixed in the DETACH intrinsic. A bug that
avoids usage of Motif was fixed in the configure.in script, and makefile.am
files were modified to build RPL/2 with locales other than ISO-8859. db and
sdb were removed due to some bugs. New SQL routines were written (MySQL
only). A major bug was fixed in the evaluation() subroutine. The FACT
intrinsic does not accept real arguments anymore due to the new intrinsic
GAMMA. autoconf/automake scripts were modified to compile F90 sources. All
NR references are avoided. GSL was upgraded to the 1.8 release. -lz was
added in src/Makefile.am to fix a mistake in sparc32.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[039] - ShaniXmlParser 1.4.7
  by Quentin Anciaux (http://freshmeat.net/users/allcolor/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 03:56

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Text Processing :: Markup

About: ShaniXmlParser is an XML/HTML DOM/SAX parser. It can parse not
well formed XML/HTML files. It can parse files with inverted tags and bad
escaped &,<,> and ". It expands all XHTML entities by default. It is well
suited to parse HTML files, and is fast with low memory usage. It is
compliant with the jaxp/w3c DOM1/2/3 interfaces.

Changes: This release corrects the method isValidChild for HTML documents
in the DOM handler. Users should use lastIndexOf('/') instead of
lastIndexOf('/',0) (which is bogus in the getHTMLCss method on the DOM
document).

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[040] - Shed Skin 0.0.14
  by srepmub (http://freshmeat.net/users/srepmub/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 03:58

Software Development :: Compilers

About: Shed Skin is an experimental Python-to-C++ compiler. It accepts
pure but implicitly statically typed Python programs and generates
optimized C++ code. This means that in combination with a C++ compiler, it
allows for translation of pure Python programs into highly efficient
machine language. For a set of 16 non-trivial test programs, measurements
show a typical speedup of 2-40 over Psyco, about 12 on average, and 2-220
over CPython, about 45 on average. Shed Skin also outputs annotated source
code.

Changes: This release adds much-improved string formatting, implementation
of several new imports (e.g., getopt.getopt and cStringIO.StringIO), an
improved file implementation, and many bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[041] - SiSU 0.46.0
  by Ralph Amissah (http://freshmeat.net/users/ralph222/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 03:59

Database
Information Management
Information Management :: Document Repositories

About: SiSU (Structured information, Serialized Units) is a command line
driven document creation and management framework. With minimal markup of
a plaintext file, it produces: plain-text, HTML, XHTML, XML, ODF
(OpenDocument), LaTeX, PDF, and populates an SQL database (PostgreSQL or
SQLite) at an object/paragraph level for "atomic searches". Prepare
documents using your text editor of choice, then use SiSU to generate the
desired output formats. Vim 7 provides syntax highlighting for SiSU
markup. (For earlier versions, a syntax highlighting file is provided).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[042] - Sun Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.5.0_08
  by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:18

Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: The Sun Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) Development Kit
(JDK) contains the essential compiler, tools, runtime libraries, and APIs
for developers writing, deploying, and running applets and applications in
the Java programming language. The J2SE Runtime Environment (JRE) contains
the runtime libraries and tools for running applets and applications.

Changes: This release fixes several bugs.

License: SUN Community Source License

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

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[043] - Sun Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 6 Beta 2 (Development)
  by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 23:32

Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: The Sun Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) Development Kit
(JDK) contains the essential compiler, tools, runtime libraries, and APIs
for developers writing, deploying, and running applets and applications in
the Java programming language. The J2SE Runtime Environment (JRE) contains
the runtime libraries and tools for running applets and applications.

Changes: This beta release features many enhancements in the fields of Web
services, scripting, databases, pluggable annotations, security, as well as
quality, compatibility, and stability.

License: SUN Binary Code License

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

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[044] - UFRaw 0.9.1
  by Udi Fuchs (http://freshmeat.net/users/udifuchs/)
  Sat, Aug 12th 2006 22:20

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion

About: UFRaw is a utility for converting and manipulating raw images from
digital cameras. It can be used as a stand-alone tool or as a Gimp plugin,
and images can be batch processed using the commandline interface. UFRaw
reads most existing raw formats using Dave Coffin's raw conversion utility
DCRaw, and it supports basic color management using Little CMS, allowing
the user to apply color profiles. For Nikon users, UFRaw has the advantage
that it can read the camera's tone curves. Even if you don't own a Nikon,
you can still apply a Nikon curve to your images.

Changes: Sony's *.arw file type is now recognized. Exiv2 warnings are
redirected from the terminal to the log. Building for some build
environments (involving libjpeg errors) was fixed. Minolta's Alpha and
Maxxum models are treated as the Dynax model for WB presets. If none of
these bugs affect you, there is no need to upgrade.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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