25 January 2012
MetaFTPD is an FTP server/proxy with many features, including "MODE Z" compressed file transfers, file locking, chrooting, data-connection/firewall scripts, XSHA and XMD5 commands, and transparent proxying.
Release Notes: This is the initial release.
Areca is a file backup system that supports data compression (zip / zip64 format) and encryption, incremental backups, FTP file transfer, a file history explorer, and many other features. It includes a transaction mechanism, which guarantees the integrity of your backups. Two user interfaces are available: a command-line interface (useful for backup automation) and a graphical user interface (useful for backup administration).
Release Notes: This release introduces additional optimizations when recovering voluminous archives (in terms of the number of files) and fixes two bugfixes which could occur when merging archives.
For users on Linux and Unix, KDE offers a full suite of user workspace applications which allow interaction with these operating systems in a modern, graphical user interface. This includes Plasma Desktop, KDE's innovative and powerful desktop interface. Other workspace applications are included to aid with system configuration, running programs, or interacting with hardware devices. While the fully integrated KDE Workspaces are only available on Linux and Unix, some of these features are available on other platforms. In addition to the workspace, KDE produces a number of key applications such as the Konqueror Web browser, Dolphin file manager, and Kontact, the comprehensive personal information management suite. The list of applications includes many others, including those for education, multimedia, office productivity, networking, games, and much more. Most applications are available on all platforms supported by the KDE Development. KDE also brings to the forefront many innovations for application developers. An entire infrastructure has been designed and implemented to help programmers create robust and comprehensive applications in the most efficient manner, eliminating the complexity and tediousness of creating highly functional applications.
Release Notes: This release adds many new features, improved stability, and increased performance. Highlights for Plasma Workspaces include window manager optimizations, a redesign of power management, and integration with Activities. The first Qt Quick-based Plasma widgets have entered the default installation of Plasma Desktop, with more to follow in future releases. KDE applications released today include Dolphin file manager with its new display engine, and KDE Telepathy, reaching its first beta milestone. New features for Marble virtual globe keep arriving, including Elevation Profile.
Circuit Diagram enables you to make electronic circuit diagrams and allows them to be exported as images. It is ideal for use in coursework; you no longer have to use image editing programs to paste components together.
Release Notes: This preview version of Circuit Diagram 2.0 includes a completely new component system with XML-based components, the ability to select and move multiple components, and better connections and rendering.
The klish is a framework for implementing Cisco-like command-line interfaces on Unix systems. It is configurable through XML files. "Klish" stands for "Kommand Line Interface SHell". The klish is a fork of clish 0.7.3 developed by Graeme McKerrell. The klish has some new features, but it's as compatible as possible with clish's XML configuration files.
Release Notes: An idle timeout commandline option has been added. Use -t <sec> or --timeout=<sec> to set it. The klish command can be executed using klish -c "<command>". The konfd daemon is case sensitive now. Use the _PROMPT_PREFIX and _PROMPT_SUFFIX variables for system-wide prompt prefix and suffix.
Samba is a software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. It is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients.
Release Notes: This is the latest bugfix release of the Samba 3.6 series.
pssh provides parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools that are useful for controlling large numbers of machines simultaneously. It includes parallel versions of ssh, scp, and rsync, as well as a parallel kill command.
Release Notes: In addition to small fixes, this release adds a few new features, including --inline-stdout and a PSSH_HOST environment variable. It also includes complete man pages, which were previously missing from some of the utilities, and a --version option.
Spring Crypto Utils aims to provide a wrapper around Java's native cryptography API so that configuration of key stores, public and private keys, signers, message digesters, and symmetric and asymmetric cipherers can be easily done via the Spring context configuration.
Release Notes: This release adds support for configuring a keystone using the conventional Java system properties "javax.net.ssl.keyStore" and "javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword".
Pkgtxt2db is a utility for Slackware and Slackware based-operating systems only. It can be use to convert PACKAGES.TXT to various database formats. CSV and JSON are currently supported.
Release Notes: This release adds a pkgdesc (package description) variable to the JSON DB.
Text-Tokenizer is Perl module based on the flex generated lexical analyzer that can be used for parsing of text (configuration) files. With this module, a simple full-featured configuration parser can be written very easily.
Release Notes: This release fixes building on win32 systems.
Orchestra is a complete solution to handle long-running, service oriented processes. It provides out of the box orchestration functionality to handle complex business processes. Its objectives are improvement and control of processes, services interaction, and improving the productivity and agility of the company. It provides a powerful engine to execute processes and a set of graphical tools to design, deploy, administrate, and monitor them. It is based on leading standards of the BPM market: BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) for Process design and WS-BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) for Process execution.
Release Notes: This release delivers the first version of the new Web BPMN designer. It is now possible to design, change, and deploy processes directly from a Web browser using the popular BPMN 2.0 notation. The engine is still 100% standards compliant with the support of WS-BPEL2.0. This version adds the introduction of Human Task features following the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask standards. Finally, the Orchestra Console gives more possibilities to monitor and administrate your processes such as: BPMN and BPEL graphical monitoring, a Reporting module, Simulation possibilities, etc.
BalanceNG is a modern, IPv6 capable software IP load balancing solution. It is small, fast, and easy to use and set up. It offers session persistence, different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random, Least Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It supports VRRP to set up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It supports SNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with Net-SNMPD. It implements a very fast in-memory IP-to-location database, allowing powerful location-based server load-balancing.
Release Notes: A minor bug with warning messages issued by the "check" command has been resolved. An additional warning message is reported to the log if all targets of a server become inoperational. The manual has been updated accordingly.
BitRock InstallBuilder allows you to create easy-to-use multiplatform installers for Linux (x86/PPC/s390/x86_64/Itanium), Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris (x86/Sparc), IRIX, AIX, and HP-UX applications. The generated application installers have a native look-and-feel and no external dependencies, and can be run in GUI, text, and unattended modes. In addition to self-contained installers, the installation tool is also able to generate standalone RPM packages.
Release Notes: This release improves example projects and makes them easily accessible through the builder GUI, adds HTTPS support for Linux, Windows, and OS X for <httpGet> and <httpPost> actions as well as for the autoupdater, improved downloadable components to allow resuming failed downloads, a new <runAsAdmin> tag for the <addScheduledTask> action, improved error handling when none of the configured allowed display modes can be initialized, improved built-in pages to display runtime changes of the <fullName> property, and multiple fixes.
GTK, which stands for the Gimp ToolKit, is a library for creating graphical user interfaces. It is designed to be small and efficient, but still flexible enough to allow the programmer freedom in the interfaces created. GTK provides some unique features over standard widget libraries.
Release Notes: Fixes for GtkScale were backported. The editing-canceled property in GtkCellEditableEventBox was implemented. A Quartz race condition when waking up the CGRunLoop was fixed. Several build fixes and other minor fixes were made.
phpMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. It can create, rename, and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data, and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
Release Notes: Browse-mode improvements (grid editing, remember recent tables, remember last sort order by table, flexible column width, reorder columns, and a more compact navigation bar). AJAXification of many operations. A reorganized server status page with server monitoring. Improved support for stored routines, events, and triggers. OpenGIS support. Zoom-search in table search. Drizzle support. An improved ENUM/SET editor.
Sketsa SVG Editor is a vector drawing application based on SVG. It allows users to create vector graphics that can be scaled and printed at any resolution, without losing detail or clarity. It features various tools for optimizing content creation, and includes a property palette, a DOM editor, a source editor, a resource editor, SVG-specific shape tools, transformation tools, and additional illustration tools. It uses SVG as its native file format.
Release Notes: This is a bugfix release with some enhancements.
The Oracle (formerly Sun) Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE or JSE) allows you to develop and deploy Java applications on desktops and servers as well embedded and real-time environments. The Java 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 Java Runtime Environment (JRE) contains the runtime libraries and tools for running applets and applications.
Release Notes: The footprint of signed JAR files was reduced. Caching of network content for application code running in Web Start mode is now enabled by default. Handling of content with gzip encoding was improved. Several other minor improvements and bugfixes were made. Olson time zone data was updated to version 2011l.
The Oracle (formerly Sun) Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE or JSE) allows you to develop and deploy Java applications on desktops and servers as well embedded and real-time environments. The Java 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 Java Runtime Environment (JRE) contains the runtime libraries and tools for running applets and applications.
Release Notes: New entries were added to the blacklist of vulnerable applications. Several critical security issues were fixed. JIT and loop bugs were fixed. An SSL/TLS regression was fixed. An enhanced Java VisualVM is included in the package. Gervill, a new software synthesizer implementation, was integrated. Olson time zone data was updated to version 2011l.
Elefant is an MVC framework in PHP re-imagined, with a complete but refreshingly simple CMS included. It features simple URL routing with friendly URLs, secure database abstraction and modeling, compiled templates with output filtering on by default, memcache integration, flexible input validation (server-side and in-browser), simple form handling, customizable user authentication, internationalization/localization, CLI support for background tasks, as little scaffolding as possible, reusable apps for common CMS tasks (admin, users, blog, filemanager, search), high quality developer documentation, nearly 100% unit test coverage, gzip output compression, and speed.
Release Notes: Improved caching logic, mobile/tablet detection, I18n support, PostgreSQL in site backups, Wordpress and CSV blog post importers, and several APIs including Users and Forms, which now features an ultra-concise closure-based handling technique. This release improves the Designer app to maximize screen space for editing layouts and stylesheets, improves and adds several new unit tests, and fixes numerous other bugs.
ZXTune is a set of portable cross-platform applications (GUI/CLI) intended to play chiptunes originally created for ZX Spectrum. It features advanced ripping possibilities that let you search for music in big data sets. Supported playback formats include AY, AS0, ASC, GTR, PSG, PSM, PT1, PT2, PT3, ST1, STC, STP, TXT, TurboSound, CHI, DMM, DST, PDT, SQD, and STR. Supported compressed formats include CHARPRES, CC3, CC4, CC4PLUS, DSQ, ESV, GAM, GAMPLUS, HRUM, HRUST1, HRUST2, LZH1, LZH2, LZS, MSP, PACK2, PCD61, PCD62, TLZ, TLZP, TRUSH. Supported archived/container formats include FDI, HOBETA, HRIP, RAW, SCL, TD0, TRD, ZXZIP, ZIP, and RAR.
Release Notes: A slight scan speedup (~10%). Improved TRUSH detection. Fixes for TRDos filename detection. Reworked PT2 detection.
Database Deployment Manager (DDM) is a desktop oriented multi-platform database design tool that allows database administrators and programmers to create database structures (using an object oriented methodology) and deploy them into an existing database. The tool allows creation of diagrams to identify basic relations between the defined structures. You can import tables from various databases, either by fully reversing a database or just picking tables from various databases and injecting them into your solution. You can browse the databases and execute SQL queries on them. There is a unique SELECT query builder that makes the building of queries very easy without having to write a single SQL statement; just using point and click with the mouse.
Release Notes: This version has many bugfixes, support for stored procedures, and data validation for the table instances.
Mobius Forensic Toolkit is a forensic framework written in Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract interface for developing extensions. Cases and item categories are defined using XML files for easy integration with other tools.
Release Notes: This release features 14 new registry reports: autorun, services, IE download folder, IE typed URLs, MRU files opened/saved, MRU files executed, search assistant, printer ports, processors, all devices, enumerated devices, HID devices, network devices, and stream devices. Minor improvements were made.
The GNU Debugger (GDB) is a source-level debugger for C, C++, Java, Modula-2, and several other languages. It runs on GNU/Linux, the BSD's, and almost every major proprietary OS. GDB can debug programs running on the same machine as itself, or it can communicate over a network or serial line with a debugging stub on another machine; thus, it can be used for embedded and kernel debugging.
Release Notes: Ambiguous linespecs are now handled more consistently. Uninteresting functions and files can now be skipped when stepping with the "skip function" and "skip file" commands. Commands for setting and getting the maximum length limit of a remote target hardware watchpoint were added. Python scripting was vastly improved. Many other improvements, bugfixes, and general changes were made.
curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, RTSP, RTMP, and FILE, as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers, passwords, port numbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. There are bindings to libcurl for about 40 languages and environments.
Release Notes: This release fixes two security problems, adds CURLOPT_DNS_SERVERS and CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS, and fixes at least 54 documented bugs.
DeltaQt is a cross-platform library of C++ classes and functions for parsing of DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) files, and is part of the Free DELTA initiative. Support for all major data-related DELTA directives is planned. Typesetting directives are beyond the scope of the project, and support for them is not planned. Support for RTF formatting within comments, notes, descriptions, etc. is planned. All data defined by supported DELTA directives (including comments and annotations) will be parsed into memory. Qt (core) is used extensively.
Release Notes: The addition of the VIDE dataset to packaged DELTA datasets. A minor bugfix reading character notes. Minor optimizations (parsing is ~12% faster than 0.3.0). An updated example application. Note: this was originally going to be version 0.3.1, but the addition of VIDE to the package warrants a minor version increase rather than a revision increase. VIDE is a complex dataset that stresses' the parser (it takes considerably longer to parse than the other included datasets).