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About: The DBIx::Perlish module provides the ability to work with databases supported by the DBI module using Perl's own syntax for the four most common operations: SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, and INSERT. By using DBIx::Perlish, you can write most of your database queries using a domain-specific language with Perl syntax. However, the module is not intended to replace all use of SQL in your program. The DBIx::Perlish module quite intentionally neither implements nor cares about database administration tasks like schema design and management. Changes: Global hash variables are understood in query subs.
About: The Erwin library is a very efficient and robust data structure template library for C and C++. No templates are used; a Perl script generates C files. Vectors (dynamic arrays), lists, and hash tables (maps) of arbitrary key and value types are provided. Several tools are included for auto-generating a C interface around C++ libraries, C++ extensions like slots/properties, symbol (=hashed string) management, sophisticated assertion macros, and documentation extraction. Changes: Integer overflows leading to unexpected orderings were fixed from many comparison functions. CMake support was added. Two more bit operations from Hacker's Delight were added.
About: YAFM (Yet Another Financial Manager) is a simple-to-use tool aimed to help track spending and income. It does not require you to track every penny spent or earned and still provides useful information. Changes: Category types for grouping expenses were added. Income support was added, so now YAFM does not only track expenses. When entering new data, simple calculations are possible (like sum).
About: The KaufKauf Shoppingmanager is a Web-based application that allows you to manage your goods at home. It supports barcode scanners for faster management, and it automatically creates shopping lists that can be printed out or downloaded by cellphone. It also watches "best before" dates and informs you via email or SMS when foods reach that date. The complete application is a system that can be accessed from nearly everywhere and offers you the possibility to find out what you really need next from the supermarket. Changes: The user interface was cleaned up. The SMS and email notification for "best before" dates that are coming closer can be configured out of the application. A useless "Group" button was removed.
About: The WollMux is an OpenOffice.org plugin with enhanced template, form, and autotext functionality. It can construct templates on the fly from multiple files (e.g. letterhead, footer, and body text) and will fill in personal and organizational data from various databases such as LDAP. An extra form GUI presents fields in an easily navigable manner and offers plausibility checks and computed values to ease filling in the form. Chainable printing functions allow various transformations during print and custom dialogs. Changes: Form letters can now use datasources registered in OpenOffice.org.
About: Twitim is an XMPP (Jabber) client for Twitter. It features custom watchlists, sounds, and pop-up notifications. Changes: A command line client was included. The link to the Twitim site shows up on the Twitter site. Minor bugs were fixed.
About: Data profiling is the process of examining the data available in existing data sources (e.g. databases, applications, files, etc.) and collecting statistics and information about this data. Data profiling enables the assessment of the quality level of the data contained in the information system, according to a defined set of metrics and goals. Talend Open Profiler allows business users or data management staff to define a set of indicators for each data element that needs to be analyzed or monitored. It produces sophisticated reports and graphs that let users gauge at a glance the level of quality of the data and the status of the indicators that were defined. Changes: New features include a "Result" tab in the analysis editor with values of indicator measures, data quality monitoring by setting thresholds on indicators, a new kind of analysis (connection analysis), the ability to import Regular Patterns from an Excel file, a new type of Indicator for SQL patterns which allows you to create your own patterns to put in "LIKE" clauses, a shortcut menu "Column analysis" on Table elements, and a details view on the selected objects.
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: The new dbus-based nm plugin fully integrates strongSwan into the VPN connections menu of NetworkManager 0.7. Separate EAP identities are supported in all IKEv2 EAP authentication protocols.
About: Himerge is a GUI for emerge (Gentoo's Portage system) written in Haskell using gtk2hs. The main idea is to simplify browsing the entire portage tree, and allow running the most basic and common options from the emerge command. It also offers several handy tools, like global and local use flags browsers, inspired by UFED (the Gentoo Linux USE flags editor). It also uses eix (a small utility for searching ebuilds with indexing for fast results) as a back-end command to show package information in HTML/CSS format, so you can access a package's Web site for a quick glance. Changes: The versions of packages that are currently installed are now identified with a green gentoo icon in the respective package views. The "USE flag browser" now supports nested directories for the /etc/portage/package.use branch. Now the "New Repo" file chooser dialog text box can also be used to enter and select a new repository.
About: termit is a terminal emulator based on the vte library. It includes tabs, bookmarks, and the ability to switch encodings. Changes: Bugs with loading keybindings were fixed. The Hungarian translation was fixed.
About: Alkitab Bible Study is a desktop bible study software. It supports single/parallel view, commentaries, lexicons, dictionaries, glossaries, daily devotions, etc. It also comes with a powerful search capability. It features rich and user friendly bible software study tools. Changes: This release focuses on bugfixes, with some enhancements.
About: Acidblood is an open source IRC robot written for Unix. Its features include channel and user management. Changes: Two options (MODULE= and IMAGE=) were removed from the configuration files in preperation for multi-server support. A password was added for login for Undernet. A tight loop reconnection bug was fixed.
About: The MyCAT project is a toolset for managing MySQL/Linux servers, and could be helpful for anyone managing a network of *nix servers whether running MySQL Cluster, standard replication, or not running MySQL at all. At present, it contains three programs. rcall eases use and administration of groups (clusters) of *nix servers by creating logical groupings and a single location from which to run commands on all servers while entering it only once. It requires only an SSH connection. rep_mon is a replication monitor that notifies if a server is lagging or has encountered any errors. It handles any replication topology easily. binlog_mon monitors disk space used by MySQL binary logs, purging only when disk space is needed. It checks all slaves to ensure that purged files are not still being read by slaves. It has configurable behavior in the event that a slave still needs the oldest file. Changes: Critical bugs were fixed in both binlog_mon and rep_mon.
About: 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. Changes: This release adds several bugfixes. The broken SIGCHLD handler was finally removed. All programs now dynamically redefine the _cleanup function in subprocess to an empty lambda since subprocess is not thread-safe. Finally, missing verbose options in several programs were added.
About: Tokyo Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. It is the successor of QDBM. Tokyo Cabinet runs very fast. For example, the time required to store 1 million records is 1.5 seconds for a hash database and 2.2 seconds for a B+ tree database. Moreover, the database size is very small. For example, the overhead for a record is 16 bytes for a hash database, and 5 bytes for a B+ tree database. Furthermore, the scalability of Tokyo Cabinet is great. The database size can be up to 8EB. Changes: The concurrency of the hash database was improved. Throughput of writing was increased about sixfold.
About: The Amahi Home Server is a Linux Home Server based on Fedora (and later on Ubuntu). Your machine becomes a "Home Digital Assistant" or HDA after the installation. Each HDA is a Fedora-based server targeted for home and home office environments. It provides an iTunes server, calendaring, a wiki, shared network storage, network backups, a printer server, VPN, and a plug-in architecture built on Ruby on Rails. Changes: This release includes a major new platform codebase, with great improvements across the board. Most notably, user management was introduced. It also includes fixes in styling of the Web pages, better support for later integration with LDAP, and beginning support for automatic submission of debug logs when errors occur.
About: Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. It uses zlib to compress files, inodes, and directories. All blocks are packed to minimize the data overhead, and block sizes of between 4K and 1M are supported. It is intended to be used for archival use, for live CDs, and for embedded systems where low overhead is needed. Changes: This release has performance improvements to the kernel code, Mksquashfs, and Unsquashfs. A progress bar has been added to Unsquashfs, and there are new patches for later Linux kernels. There are also a number of bugfixes.
About: ClamTk is a graphical frontend for Clam Antivirus. It is designed to be a lightweight, easy-to-use, point-and-click virus scanner. Changes: This version adds a Japanese language file and updates the Italian, Chinese, and German language files. It also contains two minor fixes involving the location of virus signatures and window resizing. Also, an updated version of clamtk-kde was released, containing the new language file.
About: SysDirector is a template driven configuration management system that allows administrators to deliver content to machines in a protocol independent fashion. Changes: A native client was added. Cfengine client support was added. Performance enhancements were made. CLI usability improvements were made. Separate environments are now kept in separate Subversion repositories.
About: OdayMail is a simple and powerful disposable email account creator. OdayMail is meant to create limited-lifetime email accounts which can be used to hide a real email address so that the user can avoid spam being sent to the real email address.
About: Pantheios is a C/C++ logging API library. It offers an optimal combination of complete type-safety, very high efficiency, genericity, and extensibility. It is simple to use and extend, highly portable (platform and compiler independent), and it upholds the C tradition of only paying for what you use. Pantheios supports logging of message statements of arbitrary complexity, consisting of heterogenous types. Pantheios supports filtering of log messages based on severity level. Changes: This release includes a new source-only package to reduce the download size for users that use the online documentation. A number of enhancements were made. First, the API function pantheios_getVersion() was added, to allow client code to do runtime tests on the version of Pantheios to which they're linking, along with a unit-test for it. Missing implicit link headers for fe.fail and fe.null were added. fe.fail was modified to reduce unnecessary link dependencies.
About: The milter module for Python provides a python interface to Sendmail's libmilter that exploits all its features. Milters can run on the same machine as sendmail, or another machine. The milter can even run with a different operating system or processor than sendmail. Sendmail talks to the milter via a local or internet socket, and keeps the milter informed of events as it processes a mail connection. At any point, the milter can cut the conversation short by telling sendmail to ACCEPT, REJECT, or DISCARD the message. After receiving a complete message from sendmail, the milter can again REJECT or DISCARD it, but it can also ACCEPT it with changes to the headers or body. Changes: The rcpt for SRS rejections is logged. Parsing of MAIL FROM into email and fullname was improved. No-DSN CBV was implemented. A check is done cfor porn words in MAIL FROM fullname. IPs are now banned for too many bad MAIL FROMs or RCPT TOs. Temperror policy is supported in sendmail access. Gossip TTL was configured. AddrCache, parse_addr, and iniplist were added to the Milter package. parse_header was added to Milter.utils. A sample spfmilter.py milter was added. The pymilter and pymilter-spf packages were split out. Milter apps were moved to /usr/lib/pymilter.
About: Cutter is a unit testing framework for C. It provides an easy test writing API and easy debugging output to continue testing. Changes: This release has two main features. One is the ability to process multiple tests concurrently with or without multi-thread support. Another is data driven testing with multi-thread support.
About: Manent is an algorithmically strong backup and archival program. It features efficient backup to anything that looks like storage. Currently it supports plain filesystems ("directories"), FTP, and SFTP. Planned are Amazon S3, optical disks, and email (SMTP and IMAP). It can work (making progress towards finishing a backup) over a slow and unreliable network. It can offer online access to the contents of the backup. Backed up storage is completely encrypted. Backup is incremental, including changed parts of large files. Moved, renamed, and duplicate files will not require additional storage. Several computers can use the same storage for backup, automatically sharing data. Both very large and very small files are supported efficiently. Manent does not rely on timestamps of the remote system to detect changes. Changes: This release is easier to package. Detection of unexpected containers in the active sequence has been fixed.
About: mkscreens.sh is a small wrapper script around MPlayer and ImageMagick to generate collated thumbnails (a.k.a. "screens") from video streams, similar to the feature found in Media Player Classic. It tries to fit the maximum number of thumbnails of a given pixel width into predefined compound image dimensions. It can handle every seekable video stream that MPlayer can handle (AVI, MPEG, MKV, etc.), including DVD images, in which case it processes the longest title. Changes: This release fixes calculation of the final montage size (grid lines were not properly accounted for).
About: Deliantra is a client for Deliantra game servers. It offers an intuitive user interface for exploring the vast game world, a persistent minimap, powerful macros and keymaps, dialog-based NPC interaction, and easy configuration for the skill, spell, and item system. It is based on Perl, SDL, and OpenGL for high performance on modern systems, and works on both Unix and Windows. Ports to other platforms should be very easy and are underway. Changes: The default resolution was messed up in the last release, and has been fixed. The weight/value autopickup feature has been clarified and fixed. A Mac OS X port is available.
About: Simple Movie Catalog will scan a given directory for movies, query IMDb for info, and generate a catalog in HTML that offers sorting and grouping of found movies by different criteria. Changes: A bug involving DOS (CRLF) config.txt with Cygwin Perl has been fixed.
About: Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator (UADE) plays most Amiga music file formats by simulating Amiga hardware and software. It plays approximately 200 Amiga music file formats. It provides a command line tool for playing, but it also provides music player plugins for XMMS and Audacious. For other music players, there is a FUSE filesystem that transparently converts Amiga songs to WAV files. Changes: Three new replayers were added, uadefs and uade123 were improved, and several bugs were fixed.
About: Manent is an algorithmically strong backup and archival program. It features efficient backup to anything that looks like storage. Currently it supports plain filesystems ("directories"), FTP, and SFTP. Planned are Amazon S3, optical disks, and email (SMTP and IMAP). It can work (making progress towards finishing a backup) over a slow and unreliable network. It can offer online access to the contents of the backup. Backed up storage is completely encrypted. Backup is incremental, including changed parts of large files. Moved, renamed, and duplicate files will not require additional storage. Several computers can use the same storage for backup, automatically sharing data. Both very large and very small files are supported efficiently. Manent does not rely on timestamps of the remote system to detect changes. Changes: Restore has been fixed to work again.
About: LaTeX::Table is a Perl module that provides functionality for an intuitive generation of LaTeX tables. It ships with some predefined, good-looking table styles. This module supports multi-page tables via the xtab LaTeX package. For publication quality tables, it utilizes the booktabs package. It also supports the tabularx package for nicer fixed-width tables. Furthermore, it supports the colortbl package for colored tables optimized for presentations. Changes: This release fixes some bugs in multi-column tables. Data columns can now be formatted like header columns.
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