freshmeat.net announcements (Unix)

Relational 0.9 (Default branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:08:54 GMT

Relational is an interface to load relations from a file, to write relational algebra queries, and to see their result. This software has educational purposes, since it makes it possible to immediately evaluate if a query is correct or not. For developers, it provides a relational algebra Python module which can be used within other projects.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
This release splits into independent packages (GUI and library), simplifies the makefile, removes information to generate Debian/Mac packages from the default source package, and makes "make source_all" generate the old-style tarball containing all the files. The relational script installed with the Debian package now passes arguments to the Python executable. Inserting and deleting from the GUI are now done on the displayed relation, not on the selected one.

Relational 0.8 (Default branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:06:09 GMT

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
This release adds __eq__ to relation objects, makes the new default relation's format csv (as defined in RFC4180), converts a sample's relations to csv, generates optimized files in Deb postinstall (increasing loading speed), gives the relation module SQL-like delete, update, and insert commands, lets the GUI be used to insert and delete tuples, and makes showing fields of selected relations work with themes other than oxygen.

TaDaPro 0.8.4 (Default branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:00:06 GMT

TaDaPro (Tabular Data Processor) is a command-line utility to operate with numerical column tabulated data. It is intended for operations that are cumbersome to do by hand in a spreadsheet and for transformations that have to be applied as a batch process on many files.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes several regression bugs, asks if you want to save modified tables when exiting, and adds a "running" command to compute running properties, a "correlate" command to compute Pearson"s correlation, a "findzero" command to find the point where a curve crosses zero, a "size" macro (instead of "rows" and "columns"), "realfft" and "complexfft" commands to compute FFT, a "history" command to show the command history, and a "repeat" (alias ":") command to execute a given command again.

massXpert mass spectrometry package 1.9.5 (Default branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:56:23 GMT

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.

gdigi 0.1.5 (Default branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:55:58 GMT

gdigi is a tool aimed to provide X-Edit functionality to Linux users. It allows users to control Digitech effect pedal features.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
This release adds knobs allowing the user to set various device options.

BIRD 1.0.13 (Default branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:47:41 GMT

BIRD is a dynamic routing daemon for UNIX-like systems. It should support all routing protocols used in the contemporary Internet, such as BGP, OSPF, RIP, and their IPv6 variants (except for OSPFv3 which is still under development). It also features a very flexible configuration mechanism, and a route filtering language.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release adds a lot of bugfixes to BGP, OSPF, and core, and a new syntax for BGP masks.

vpntool 0.6 (Default branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:46:45 GMT

vpntool is a cross-platform GUI applet for managing VPNC connections, connecting to Cisco virtual private networks. It works on GNOME and Mac desktops and Nokia Internet tablets.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
This release fixes a serious typo preventing vpntool from connecting under anything but MacOS X.

Liferea 1.5.14 (Unstable branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:21:06 GMT

Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is a fast, easy-to-use, and easy-to-install GTK/GNOME desktop news aggregator for online news feeds and Web logs. It supports the important syndication formats (Atom, RSS, and OPML). Liferea supports offline reading.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release migrates the networking code from libcurl to libsoup and fixes a DB problem during startup which was introduced in 1.5.13.

wumwum 0.4 (Default branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:20:02 GMT

wumwum is a window manager manager. The idea behind wumwum is to turn any EWMH-compliant window manager into a tiling manager a la "ion" or "awesome". wumwum works by using wmctrl, and adapts itself dynamically to the active window manager. All functionality from the underlying window manager is kept when under wumwum, making it ideal for beginners.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
This release adds hiding/displaying of all windows, major speed boosts, compatibility with different managers (hiding windows should work everywhere now), and minor bugfixes. Shortcuts can now be configured on the commandline. Windows can now be grouped together. The dependency on xwininfo has been removed. wumwum now guesses your favorite applications. In hardcore mode, window decorations can be hidden. In the overlay, sticky windows are not managed, but can be hidden/displayed at will.

sptrace 1.4.2 (Default branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:15:25 GMT

sptrace is a LKM designed to give administrators more control over the ptrace() call. It limits users' access to the ptrace() call. It can disable ptrace altogether, or if you add a ptrace group to your system, only users in that group will be able to use ptrace().

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
The module has been updated to work with the latest Linux kernel versions and tested with 2.6.26.

libburnia 0.6.4 (libburn/cdrskin branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:14:58 GMT

libburnia is a project comprised of libraries and binaries for reading, mastering, and writing optical discs. It provides libburn, a CD/DVD/BD burn library, libisofs, a manipulation library for ISO 9660 filesystems, and libisoburn, a ISO 9660 multi-session library. On top of them there is cdrskin, a cdrecord emulator, and xorriso, a all-in-one application for ISO 9660 multi-session operations which additionaly provides a limited emulation of mkisofs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
It is now possible to write the crucial start blocks of a filesystem with slow BD-RE Defect Management and to write the bulk of data with full nominal speed. A new operating system adapter allows users to build libburn on systems other than Linux and FreeBSD. There will be no direct operation of CD/DVD/BD drives, but only normal POSIX I/O with files or drives.

DNS Blacklist Packet Filter 0.6-beta3 (Default branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:14:31 GMT

DNS Blacklist Packet Filter is a Linux netfilter client that decides whether to accept or drop packets based on the results of a DNS blacklist query (such as MAPS, SORBS, or SPEWS, to name a few). One use is to filter all incoming SMTP SYN packets for spam filtering.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The last release had a bug in which it would allow all packets through, regardless of the verdict. This release should fix that.

PHP-BottleRocket/SOSDG 0.3 (Default branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:14:11 GMT

PHP-BottleRocket/SOSDG is a simple PHP script that can be used to control X10 home automation devices such as lamps and appliances through a Web browser.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
This release features UTF8 encoding, code cleanups, interface cleanup, and global controls for lamps and devices.

DynaStop 08333.1634-106 (Default branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:13:29 GMT

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.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
This release updates the example configuration files BleedingThreats, WhiteList, DropList, VirusList, and UnsubList.

CPAN shell 1.9304 (Default branch)

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:11:37 GMT

The CPAN shell (and module) automates or at least simplifies the building and installation of Perl modules and extensions. It includes some primitive searching capabilities and knows how to use Net::FTP, LWP, and certain external download clients to fetch distributions from the Internet. Then it automatically tests and installs them and their dependencies.

License: Perl License

Changes:
A new PAUSE key is included.

GWTruts 0.7-Final (Stable branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:25:48 GMT

GWTruts is an easy-to-use framework for using GWT with MVC and dependecy injection. It virtually divides a GWT module into view, controller, and validation sections similar to traditional MVC Web frameworks like Apache Struts. It also provides a dependency injection mechanism similar to Spring, which you can use to customize your controllers and views. It provides a page decorator where you can define mappings between a URL and a group of controllers/views and sections of the HTML files.

Perl Archive Toolkit 0.991 (Default branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:25:26 GMT

PAR is a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool, dubbed as a cross between Java's JAR and Perl2EXE/PerlApp. It can turn your Perl programs into ready-to-run executables, build and use PAR files into @INC to avoid version conflicts, turn CPAN module distributions into PAR distributions, or install/uninstall/sign/verify PAR distributions.

License: Perl License

Changes:
This release will track the locations of all archives that have been extracted.

moz-hocr-edit 0.1 (Default branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:23:01 GMT

hOCR is a file format for representing the output of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs such as OCRopus. OCR programs are not perfect at recognizing text, so human editing is often necessary. moz-hocr-edit provides a line-by-line user interface for people to edit and proofread hOCR documents.

Liferea 1.4.27 (Default branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:07:04 GMT

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes XulRunner-related build problems, updates example feeds, and updates the Slovak translation.

Mudlet Beta 3-1 (Default branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:03:08 GMT

Mudlet is a MUD client. It offers a user-friendly graphical user interface, natively built-in Lua scripting language support, a complex, high performance trigger engine based PCRE-7.6 Perl regular expressions, customizable user buttons, menus and tool bars via CSS stylesheets to trigger commands, dockable user windows, a fast display engine that renders up 1,000 frames per second and scrolls 100.000 lines in under a second, complex command completion, tab completion, complex regex aliases, timers, offset timers, trigger chains that greatly help simplify complex regular expressions, multi-line and multi-condition triggers that allow the user to reduce the need for scripting and simplify complex regex/scripting tasks, a decent user manual, and a very active developer community.

Froggix 0.1 (Default branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:02:04 GMT

Froggix is a clone of the classic '80s arcade game Frogger. The aim of the game is to help four frogs to cross a busy road and a treacherous river to get to their homes. Extra points are awarded for catching flies and completing each level quickly. The game features funky electro-music, great sound effects, and a highscore table.

Lifebox 1.0.3alpha (Default branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:01:52 GMT

Lifebox is a fast, lightweight, social photo and video gallery application that is designed to organize large amounts of media. It differentiates between original and modified photos, as well as albums and rolls, so you can upload your entire photo library to your server and create more selective albums. It extracts data from exif tags and xmp sidecars, making it compatible with the data from programs like Adobe Lightroom, Picassa, and iPhoto. Lifebox is social in that people and objects can be tagged, and they will receive an email when this happens. It supports authentication, so you can control who has access to what photo.

Zombie Nation MUD 0.0.1 (Default branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:01:44 GMT

Zombie Nation MUD (ZNMud) is a Multi-User Dungeon engine. It is based on the Teensey engine for its lower level socket handling. It was designed to play out zombie outbreak ideas but can easily be expanded to host other concepts. It's a massive multi-player text-based game (although it does support MXP). It also supports modern day weapons, etc.

Payment Gateway Library 1.0 (Default branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:01:29 GMT

Payment Gateway Library is a class which implements a payment handling abstraction layer. An abstract base class implements generating payment button forms and logging instant payment notifications. Several subclasses implement specific details for generating payment button forms and handling payment notifications with Authorize.net, Paypal, and 2checkout.

cppcheck 1.30 (Default branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:11:54 GMT

cppcheck is a static C/C++ code analyzer that checks for memory leaks, mismatching allocation-deallocation, buffer overrun, and many more problems. Its goal is to produce no false positives.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
This release fixes a segmentation fault and compile error. It will suppress errors about memory leaks for classes that are automatically deallocated (through "--auto-dealloc"). It adds an option for controlling the exit value (through "--error-exitcode"). It adds the command line option "--version". It has better handling of __asm code blocks. It fixes false positives about unused private functions, false positives about memory leaks, and incorrect line numbers in error messages.

OpenGuides 0.64 (Default branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:10:46 GMT

OpenGuides is a wiki-like package for maintaining a collaborative city guide. It is written in Perl and runs as a CGI program, and uses either the MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite database. It offers features over a "normal" wiki such as metadata management and a "find nearby things" function. The look and feel is highly customizable thanks to use of the Template Toolkit.

License: Perl License

Changes:
JSON support for node details and metadata discovery was added. The default database type was changed to SQLite. This release will set the content charset correctly in RDF. There were other bugfixes and changes.

gentoo 0.15.2 (Default branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:10:00 GMT

gentoo is a file manager written in C. It uses the GTK+ toolkit, and the two-pane concept, somewhat inspired by DOpus. gentoo strives to be very configurable, and also to let you do all configuration from a GUI within the program itself. Using advanced file typing and styling systems, gentoo determines how to display files in its listings, and also how to act on them. The package includes a set of over 120 unique handcrafted icons, for many different types of files.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The file type identification using the external 'file' program has been completely rewritten. It should now be both safer and faster, and handle errors better.

XML-Grammar-Fortune 0.0108 (Default branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:09:41 GMT

XML-Grammar-Fortune is a Perl/RelaxNG/XSLT module that allows one to collect quotes using an XML grammar, with richer metadata, and to produce XHTML and plain text (Unix-like fortune format) from them.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

Changes:
The installation of the extradata elements was fixed.

Geneious 4.5.5 (Default branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:09:26 GMT

Geneious is an integrated bioinformatics tool suite for manipulating, finding, sharing, and exploring biological data such as linear and circular DNA sequences, proteins, phylogenies, chromatograms, 3D structure information, publications, etc. It features sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis, restriction analysis, contig assembly, access to biological databases at NCBI and elsewhere (PubMed, Nucleotide, PopSet, SNP, Structure, PFAM, etc.), BLAST, and more. It includes an API for creating your own plugins.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

Changes:
This release fixes incorrect genomes being downloaded due to NCBI changing their format, and allows updating the location of the NCBI server.

Parabuild 4.0.0 Beta (Early Access branch)

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:08:31 GMT

Parabuild is a software build and release management system. It helps software teams and organizations reduce risks of project failures by providing practically unbreakable scheduled, release builds and Continuous Integration. It supports Perforce, Subversion, CVS, Surround SCM, AccuRev, ClearCase, Serena ChangeMan (PVCS), Borland StarTeam, SourceGear Vault, Visual SourceSafe, and MKS Source Integrity.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

Changes:
This release adds load balancing and failover for a build farm by providing clusters of build agents. It also includes Continuous Integration and build and release management for AccuRev, and many Web user interface enhancements.