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FlowPlayer 3.0.3 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:26:08 GMT

FlowPlayer is a video player for the Web. The player is easy to configure and embed into your home page, site, or blog. It supports progressive download with HTTP and streaming with Lighttpd, PHP and other scripting solutions, Flash Media Server, Wowza, and Red5. It is extensible with plugins written in Flash ActionScript and JavaScript.

License: GNU General Public License v3

Changes:
This release has a couple of important fixes to the core player and to the control bar plugin. The control bar also has a new API method that allows you to disable the buttons and other control widgets from JavaScript.

Tablatures 1.11 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:33:32 GMT

Tablatures is a guitar tablature editor. Tablatures is compatible with PowerTab, which is a well-known and widely adopted tablature editor for Windows systems. You can easily find thousands of song transcriptions in this format on the Internet.

License: Shareware

Changes:
Floating texts have been added: the user can place a text box anywhere she wants. In the standard notation, consecutive octave offset symbols (e.g. "8va") will be grouped together. The beaming algorithm has been improved.

LibRaw 0.6.6 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:33:19 GMT

LibRaw is a library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras (CRW/CR2, NEF, RAF, DNG, and others). LibRaw is based on the source codes of the dcraw utility, though some of the drawbacks of dcraw have been eliminated. The users of the library are provided with an API to be used when writing their software programs.

License: GNU General Public License v2

Changes:
This release imports dcraw 8.89/1.411, providing small changes in Panasonic FZ50 files processing.

SmartCVS 7.0.5 (Release branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:58:42 GMT

SmartCVS is a full-featured and still easy-to-use CVS client. It contains all needed tools out-of-the- box, so there is no need to install a file compare tool, CVS command line client, or SSH client. It is available in two versions: a free Foundation version and a commercial Professional version. The Professional version contains powerful features like a conflict solver, transaction view, tag browser (including tag/branch structure), and change report (multi-file compare).

check_rbl 1.0.1 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:54:52 GMT

check_rbl is a Nagios plugin to check if an SMTP server is blacklisted.

MyJgui 0.6.5 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:41:16 GMT

MyJgui is a GUI (graphical user interface) for MySQL. It aims to be easy to use for new users as well as experts. You can store multiple connections that can be used simultaneously. Stored passwords are encrypted using symmetric encryption. Underlying databases and tables are displayed in a tree structure with the connections being the first level nodes. MyJgui is capable of easy data manipulation through a grid. It has a unique feature of bookmarking parametrical queries (sqlmarks). The documentation (user guide) is quite comprehensive and kept up-to-date.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
You can hide/show columns in the Content tab of a table. This option is also managed in the Preferences. A new option was added in the quick search dialog to select count(*). In the wizard for table creation, you can now choose the database where the new table should be created. Afterwards, an automatic refresh of the database tree is performed.

WebGUI 7.5.38 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:51:53 GMT

WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time of busy IT staff. WebGUI comes with a full host of features including shopping cart, subscriptions, forums, photo galleries, FAQs, link lists, blogs, SQL reports, a Web services interface, and a very configurable user privilege and profiling system.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A number of internationalization issues, some minor Gallery issues, and several other minor issues were fixed.

ThinkUI SQL Client 1.0.9 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:51:19 GMT

The ThinkUI SQL Client is a graphical program that allows Java developers to browse a database structure, edit data in the tables, issue SQL queries, and generate code (e.g. Java Bean, DAO, SQL queries, JSP files, etc.) based on customizable Velocity templates.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

Changes:
This release adds support for generating Ant scripts for executing SQL CREATE TABLE and SQL INSERT statements. Improved keyboard shortcuts have been added, as well as UNDO/REDO support in all text editors. A custom test data generation feature has been added by integrating with the ThinkUI Data Generator. In addition, this release also includes various GUI related enhancements and several bugfixes.

Bugzilla 3.3.1 (Development branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:17:09 GMT

Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking system, with high-profile installations at mozilla.org, GNOME, Red Hat, and NASA, among others. It features a comprehensive set of fields, attachment management, inter-bug dependencies, email notification of changes, a powerful query interface, reporting, and Web, XML, email, and console interfaces. It can be managed entirely using a Web-based UI. The user UI is customizable using templates.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

Changes:
Users can choose their time zone. The "Bug ID" custom field type was added. Values and visibility of custom fields can now be controlled by other fields. Bug lists show a description of what you searched for at the top of the list. Many other features were added. This is an unstable release; it should only be used in testing environments.

eTcl 1.0.1 (Default branch)

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:52:53 GMT

eTcl is a "batteries-included" thread-enabled Tcl/Tk runtime available as a single standalone executable. It includes several popular extensions (Thread, Sqlite, Zlib, etc.), together with a Tcl wrapper for the Pixane image processing library.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

Changes:
This release updates the Tcl/Tk core to 8.5.6 and sqlite to 3.6.7. An argument parsing issue, which could cause eTcl 1.0.0 to fail when launching eTcl kits (.etk files), has been fixed. Support for arm-linux (EABI) target architectures has been added and made compatible with the Android platform.