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::: L I N K S F O R T H E D A Y ::: Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2005/12/31/ freshmeat.net newsgroup: news://news.freshmeat.net/fm.announce . . --.----.- -.--.-- --.-- ---- --. --.- - .- ---------- -- ::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (25) ::: [001] - AreaEdit 0.4.5 [002] - Botan 1.4.11 (Stable) [003] - cadaver 0.22.3 [004] - Canadian Payroll 2006 (Development) [005] - Contact Form 1.3.3 [006] - delsafe 0.1.0_rc1 [007] - Email Security through Procmail 1.149 [008] - emelFM2 0.1.4 [009] - linuxTheTools 0.7.2 [010] - miau 0.6.0.2 [011] - MultiMail 0.47 [012] - phpBB 2.0.19 (Stable) [013] - Prex 0.4.0 [014] - pssh 1.2.1 [015] - Redet 8.2 [016] - Sdictionary 1.7.5 (Symbian) [017] - SiSU 0.36.3 [018] - sitecopy 0.16.2 [019] - SurrealServices 0.3.7.1 (Stable) [020] - THCcalc 1.2.1 (clisp) [021] - Thousand Parsec Python wxWindows Client 0.1.1 [022] - Thousand Parsec Python Advanced Client Support Library 0.0.1 [023] - Thousand Parsec Python Network Library 0.1.1 [024] - TkCVS 8.0 [025] - XDaliClock 2.21 -. --. -.-.-.- .---. -.-----.- -- -- -. ---------.--- ----.- -. ::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S ::: [001] - AreaEdit 0.4.5 by Yermo (http://freshmeat.net/users/Yermo/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 21:31 Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML About: AreaEdit is a browser-based WYSIWYG HTML Editor component designed to be integrated into PHP Web applications. It is written in a combination of asynchronous Javascript and PHP and supports modern MSIE and Gecko based browsers. Changes: This release finally works around the intermittent MSIE "Operation Aborted" error that were seen in some installs. The documentation and examples have been updated. License: BSD License (original) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/areaedit/ - % - % - % - % - [002] - Botan 1.4.11 (Stable) by Jack Lloyd (http://freshmeat.net/users/randombit/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 21:36 Security :: Cryptography Software Development :: Libraries About: Botan is a library of cryptographic algorithms written in C++. It includes a wide selection of block and stream ciphers, public key algorithms, hash functions, and message authentication codes. It has an easy-to-use filter interface and supports many common industry standards, including X.509v3. Changes: The last release introduced several build errors in various modules (including es_capi and eng_ossl); these have been fixed. The Whirlpool hash function has been modified to match the ISO-standardized version; this is an incompatible change. Placing the same Filter in two Pipe objects now triggers an exception, rather than causing an application crash. The configure.pl script now takes the optional flags --docdir and --libdir, which specify where the documentation and library files should be installed. License: BSD License (revised) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/botan/ - % - % - % - % - [003] - cadaver 0.22.3 by Joe Orton (http://freshmeat.net/users/jorton/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 06:26 Internet :: WWW/HTTP Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management About: cadaver is a command-line WebDAV client. It supports resource upload/download/display, namespace operations (copy/move), collection deletion/creation, property manipulation, and locking operations. Changes: This release adds support for neon 0.25.x and enables internationalization support again. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cadaver/ - % - % - % - % - [004] - Canadian Payroll 2006 (Development) by pevans (http://freshmeat.net/users/pevans/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 21:45 Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting About: CdnPayroll calculates Canadian payroll taxes, CPP, EI, WCB, HP and more. The command line version is cross-platform Python which produces various outputs suitable for either stand-alone or use with another program. It includes a simple GUI for Linux written in Kaptain. Changes: This version was updated to reflect the latest Canadian Payroll formulas for 2006. All modules have been combined into one script. New to this version is its use as a CGI script, including a payform for input. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdnpayroll/ - % - % - % - % - [005] - Contact Form 1.3.3 by deadsea (http://freshmeat.net/users/deadsea/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 21:24 Internet Internet :: WWW/HTTP Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content About: Contact Form is a Perl script that allows users to send you email through a Web interface. It is designed to thwart spammers by not allowing email to be sent to unknown addresses, or revealing the addresses that it knows. In addition to this, it does not contain cross site scripting vulnerabilities or allow arbitrary code to be run on the host. It provides adequate information in the headers it sends to trace spammers, can check the validity of all data before sending emails, and features a customizable interface that allows for arbitrary fields. Changes: Contact Form now has the ability to track the page that referred the user to it. The referrer is recorded in a hidden form variable and sent in the email as a header. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/easycontactform/ - % - % - % - % - [006] - delsafe 0.1.0_rc1 by psds (http://freshmeat.net/users/psdasilva/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 21:43 About: delsafe is a set of utilities to hopefully allow you to recover recently deleted files. Basically, when you delete or in certain cases overwrite a file the original file is moved into a trash can. It does this by overriding the original unlink, rename, open, and fopen library calls using the Linux LD_PRELOAD mechanism. Trash cans are placed on top of each mount point and are accessible by each user directly or through links placed in the user's home directory. This makes deletion very fast because, in fact, it is only a renaming. To each filename in the trash can is appended a time/version stamp. Changes: Several medium bugfixes were made. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/delsafe/ - % - % - % - % - [007] - Email Security through Procmail 1.149 by John Hardin (http://freshmeat.net/users/jhardin/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 21:40 Communications :: Email :: Filters Security System :: Systems Administration About: Email Security through Procmail (the Procmail Sanitizer) provides methods to sanitize email, removing obvious exploit attempts and disabling the channels through which exploits are delivered. Facilities for detecting and blocking Trojan Horse exploits and worms are also provided. Changes: RAR archive scanning and the ability to mangle or poison WMF image files were added. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/emailsecuritythroughprocmail/ - % - % - % - % - [008] - emelFM2 0.1.4 by tom phan (http://freshmeat.net/users/tomphan/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 21:37 Desktop Environment :: File Managers System :: Filesystems About: emelFM2 is the GTK+2 port of emelFM. emelFM2 is a file manager that implements the popular two-pane design. It features a simple GTK+2 interface, a flexible file typing scheme, and a built-in command line for executing commands without opening an xterm. Changes: This version includes a few bugfixes and minor feature enhancements. Renaming on case-insensitive filesystems now works properly. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/emelfm2/ - % - % - % - % - [009] - linuxTheTools 0.7.2 by SysDev (http://freshmeat.net/users/SysDev/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 11:14 System :: Networking :: Firewalls System :: Software Distribution Tools System :: Systems Administration About: linuxTheTools is a collection of 38 portable and uniform SYSOP command-line tools for Linux. They ease the management of your network and provide day-to-day tools to make system administration, scripting, and disk management easier. Changes: Many fixes and updates were made to the now more than 39 utilities. A new utility was added, snapshot, to monitor new processes and allow detection of undesired activity. Several major bug fixes to the distribution archive producing utilities: bakepkg, buildpkg, and postpkg. Enhancements were added to the Console Color Manager utility /bin/emit, and fixes were made to the directory ddiff utility. License: Free To Use But Restricted URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxthetools/ - % - % - % - % - [010] - miau 0.6.0.2 by tsaviran (http://freshmeat.net/users/tsaviran/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 06:27 Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat About: miau is a small, fully featured IRC bouncer/proxy. Features include so-called quicklogging, logging, auto-opping, and dcc-bouncing. Most features can be enabled/disabled with a configure script. Changes: This release fixes qlogtimestamps and a misbehaving configure script. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/miau/ - % - % - % - % - [011] - MultiMail 0.47 by William McBrine (http://freshmeat.net/users/wmcbrine/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 21:34 Communications About: MultiMail is an offline mail packet reader for many systems, using a curses-based interface. It supports the Blue Wave, QWK, OMEN, SOUP, and OPX formats. Changes: Support was added for Microsoft Visual C++, MinGW, and Open Watcom. The OS/2 port is now built with Watcom. The Win32 port is now built with MSVC. Starting and MMAIL directories are now searched for archivers and editors. zip and unzip were bundled with the Win32 port. Support for "GreekQWK" was added. Other minor stuff was done. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/multimail/ - % - % - % - % - [012] - phpBB 2.0.19 (Stable) by emrox (http://freshmeat.net/users/emrox/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 11:05 Communications :: BBS About: phpBB is a UBB-style dissussion board written in PHP backended by a MySQL database. It includes features such as posting/replying/editing messages, private messages, private forums, user and anonymous posting, robust theming, user ranking by posts or by special, admin definable, ranks, and much more. Changes: Session-table fixes were made. Changes were made to support MySQL 5.0. Some fixes were made in the adin files. Truncation of username length was changed. Captcha now works without zlib. XSS issues with Internet Explorer were fixed. The number of maximum login attempts is now configurable. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpbb/ - % - % - % - % - [013] - Prex 0.4.0 by Kohsuke Ohtani (http://freshmeat.net/users/kohtani/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 04:24 Software Development :: Embedded Systems System :: Operating System System :: Operating System Kernels About: Prex is a portable real-time operating system for embedded systems. The small, reliable, and low power kernel is written in the C language based on microkernel design. The file system, Unix process, and networking features are provided by user mode tasks. Changes: This release improves the security function in the kernel. New system calls for "Task Capability" were added to limit individual operation of user mode tasks. Almost all of the system calls were revised to check task permissions. License: BSD License (revised) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/prex/ - % - % - % - % - [014] - pssh 1.2.1 by Brent N. Chun (http://freshmeat.net/users/bnc/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 21:44 Utilities 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 improves the installation process. pssh can now run as an RPM, from an unpacked tarball, or via a local installation using autoconf. License: Freely Distributable URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pssh/ - % - % - % - % - [015] - Redet 8.2 by Bill Poser (http://freshmeat.net/users/billposer/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 21:28 Software Development Software Development :: Code Generators Text Processing About: Redet is a tool for developing and executing regular expressions using any of more than 30 search programs, editors, and programming languages, intended both for developing regular expressions for use elsewhere and as a search tool in its own right. For each program in each locale, a palette showing the available constructs is provided. The properties of each program are determined by runtime tests, which guarantees that they will be correct for the program version and locale. Additional features include persistent history, extensive help, a variety of character entry tools, and the ability to change locale while running. Redet is highly configurable and fully supports Unicode. Changes: Support has been added for Nrgrep. Cosmetic improvements have been made to the program-specific control panels. The popup for entering characters by Unicode codepoint now validates the codepoint and clears the message window at the beginning of each attempt to insert a character. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/redet/ - % - % - % - % - [016] - Sdictionary 1.7.5 (Symbian) by Alexey Semenov (http://freshmeat.net/users/swajj/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 11:11 About: PTkSdict is a dictionary using Sdict dictionary format. Unlike ptkdic or gtkdic, MySQL isn't needed; you can work with dictionary files directly. It uses Unicode, meaning that words and articles all are in UTF-8. There are two index levels, compression, and tools to convert from text files to .dct and vice versa. Changes: A bug with wrong font selection was fixed. A viewer for small text (.txt and gzipped .txt) files was added. The keyboard navigation schema was made different in full-screen and normal modes. Cosmetic changes were made. License: Freely Distributable URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sdictionary/ - % - % - % - % - [017] - SiSU 0.36.3 by Ralph Amissah (http://freshmeat.net/users/ralph222/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 11:07 Database Information Management Information Management :: Document Repositories About: SiSU (Structured information, Serialized Units) is a document creation and management framework. It manages electronic texts and document collections with minimal markup requirements, and provides an "atomic search" and text positioning system. It can produce output as plain-text, HTML, XHTML, XML, ODF (OpenDocument), LaTeX, PDF, or SQL (for PostgreSQL or SQLite). SiSU is a command line tool/batch processor and a markup syntax. Documents are prepared by marking them up for SiSU with your favorite text editor and then generated in the desired output formats. A vim syntax highlighting file for SiSU syntax is provided. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sisu/ - % - % - % - % - [018] - sitecopy 0.16.2 by Joe Orton (http://freshmeat.net/users/jorton/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 06:26 Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management About: sitecopy allows you to easily maintain remote Web sites. The program will upload files to the server which have changed locally, and delete files from the server which have been removed locally, keeping the remote site synchronized. FTP and WebDAV are supported. Changes: This release fixes a bug in the move/rename algorithm, fixes an ordering issue with --fetch mode over DAV, and adds timeout handling for FTP STOR commands. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sitecopy/ - % - % - % - % - [019] - SurrealServices 0.3.7.1 (Stable) by tabris (http://freshmeat.net/users/tabrisnet/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 21:32 Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat Communications :: Conferencing System :: Networking About: SurrealServices is a full replacement NickServ/ChanServ/BotServ/MemoServ/OperServ. Features are loosely based on Anope and ConferenceRoom/Auspice, as well as NeoStats. Some security features are also available such as a TOR (http://tor.eff.org/) detector/banner, and a country detector (checks IP allocation). It is multithreaded to eliminate lag due to the asynchronous nature of MySQL and DNS lookups. Changes: Bugfixes, documentation updates, and minor feature changes were done. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/surrealservices/ - % - % - % - % - [020] - THCcalc 1.2.1 (clisp) by Eric Fenderson (http://freshmeat.net/users/ericf/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 11:10 Database Database :: Front-Ends Information Management About: THCcalc calculates the THC content in a person's blood based on their usage pattern over a specific period of time. It is text based and menu driven. It features date association, data files, projection of future levels, database management, and daily output that can be used to drive a graph or other database. It can also be configured based on how paranoid a person is by lowering the cuttoff rate or even the rate of decay. Changes: More complete date validation functionality was added to the program. License: Public Domain URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/thccalc/ - % - % - % - % - [021] - Thousand Parsec Python wxWindows Client 0.1.1 by Tim Ansell (http://freshmeat.net/users/mithro/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 06:28 Games/Entertainment Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy About: Thousand Parsec is a 4 Xs game (eXplore, eXpand, eXterminate, eXploit). Unlike commercial alternatives, it is designed for long games supporting universes as large as your computer can handle. It allows a high degree of player customization, and features a flexible technology system, where new technologies may be introduced mid-game. Changes: This release fixes the problems which caused the client not to run under Windows and MacOS X. The client will now cache data from the server and only download changes, making connection to remote servers substantially quicker. There are now binaries for Windows. There is also a self-contained source package for Linux, so only one file needs to be downloaded. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tp/ - % - % - % - % - [022] - Thousand Parsec Python Advanced Client Support Library 0.0.1 by Tim Ansell (http://freshmeat.net/users/mithro/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 11:06 Games/Entertainment Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy About: Thousand Parsec is a 4 Xs game (eXplore, eXpand, eXterminate, eXploit). Unlike commercial alternatives, it is designed for long games supporting universes as large as your computer can handle. It allows a high degree of player customization, and features a flexible technology system, where new technologies may be introduced mid-game. Changes: This code was abstracted out of the tpclient-pywx and is now shared between the old wxWidgets based client (tpclient-pywx), the new PyOGRE based client (tpclient-pyogre), and the new AI bot (tpsai-py). Features include downloading the complete universe using a cache mechanisim and a bunch of other similar support functionality. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tp/ - % - % - % - % - [023] - Thousand Parsec Python Network Library 0.1.1 by Tim Ansell (http://freshmeat.net/users/mithro/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 10:59 Games/Entertainment Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy About: Thousand Parsec is a 4 Xs game (eXplore, eXpand, eXterminate, eXploit). Unlike commercial alternatives, it is designed for long games supporting universes as large as your computer can handle. It allows a high degree of player customization, and features a flexible technology system, where new technologies may be introduced mid-game. Changes: Numerous small bugs have been fixed. The __str__ and __repr__ functions have been fixed so that printing an object no longer mangles the console. Support for the newly added 0.0.3 protocol features (such as player support) have also been incorporated. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tp/ - % - % - % - % - [024] - TkCVS 8.0 by ticklefish (http://freshmeat.net/users/dorothyr/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 21:40 Software Development :: Version Control Software Development :: Version Control :: CVS About: TkCVS is a cross-platform, TCL/Tk-based GUI for the CVS configuration management system. It displays the status of the files in the current working directory, and provides buttons and menus to execute CVS commands on the selected files. The Module Browser extends CVS with facilities for a user-friendly listing of modules in the repository. TkDiff is included for browsing and merging your changes. Changes: TkCVS now also supports Subversion. Its tools for status, tagging, branching, merging, and checking in/out work for both systems. TkCVS can draw branch diagrams of the revision history of CVS and Subversion files. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tkcvs/ - % - % - % - % - [025] - XDaliClock 2.21 by jwz (http://freshmeat.net/users/jwz/) Sat, Dec 31st 2005 21:42 Desktop Environment Multimedia :: Graphics About: Dali Clock is a digital clock for Mac OS X, the X Window System, and PalmOS devices. When a digit changes, it "melts" into its new shape with color-cycling. Changes: This is the first release of the port to Mac OS X (10.4.0 or newer required). License: BSD License (original) URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xdaliclock/ -.--.--.------- . --- - --- .--.- - ---.----- --- ----- -..--- _______________________________________________ The freshmeat daily newsletter To unsubscribe, send email to freshmeat-news-request <at> lists.freshmeat.net or visit http://lists.freshmeat.net/mailman/listinfo/freshmeat-news
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