Development

System Applications

Database Software

PostgreSQL 7.2.3 Released

Version 7.2.3 of PostgreSQL has been released. "In order to address a potentially critical bug in the VACUUM code, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group is releasing v7.2.3 of PostgreSQL. This release includes a fix for a serious problem that has affected all 7.2.* releases: if a VACUUM command is run by a non-superuser, it is sometimes possible for the system to prematurely remove old transaction log data (pg_clog files). This can result in data becoming unrecoverable. All 7.2.* installations are urged to update to 7.2.3 as soon as possible."

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Education

Linux in Education Report

Issue #80 of the Linux in Education Report is out. Topics include the Free Software Foundation Europe's educational task force, interviews with Pete St. Onge and Ben Armstrong, a proposal for Software Freedom Season, several conference calls for participation, Linux-based video bulletin board software, and more.

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Printing

CUPS v1.1.16 is Released!

Version 1.1.16 of the CUPS printing system is available. "CUPS 1.1.16 adds support for a new CUPS printer driver for Windows NT/2000/XP that provides accurate page accounting as well as support for the banner, job billing, job priority, and page label options. The new release also contains many small bug fixes and enhancements, including better USB printing support, support for printer names containing any printable character (123print, my-long-printer-name, etc.), and French language localization of the web interface and documentation." See the release notes for all of the details.

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Web Site Development

Apache 1.3.27 Released

This release of Apache is principally a security and bug fix release. The announcement details a possible buffer overflow in ab.c, a XSS vulnerability in error 404 handling, and a SysV shared memory-based scoreboards attack. You can download the new release from any of Apache's mirrors.

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Quixote 0.5.1 released

Version 0.5.1 of the Quixote Python-based web publishing framework is available. See the source code for change information.

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Serving it up fast: Efficient CGI page generation (Builder.com)

Builder.com has an article by Nigel McFarlane about the optimization of cgi-bin programs. "Efficient delivery of dynamic Web pages remains a challenge for Internet developers, especially when moving static HTML pages to CGI. I will review some performance numbers I obtained from testing three CGI strategies during the generation phase of page delivery."

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Zope Members News

The most recent headlines on the Zope Members News include: the Infrae Content Management Sprinathon, RenderPM 0.3 released, TextIndexNG 1.05 beta 2 released, DCOracle2 1.2 Released, and ZWiki 0.11.0 released.

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mnoGoSearch-php-3.2.0.rc1 is available

mnoGoSearch-php-3.2.0.rc1, the php front-end to the mnoGoSearch web site search engine has been released. See the ChangeLog file for release details.

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Miscellaneous

Procps 2.0.10 announced

Version 2.0.10 of Procps is available. "Procps is the package containing various system monitoring tools, like ps, top, vmstat, free, kill, sysctl, uptime and more. After a long period of inactivity procps maintenance is active again and suggestions, bugreports and patches are always welcome on the procps list. The plan is to release a procps 2.1.0 around the time the 2.6.0 kernel comes out, with regular releases until then. Code cleanups and all kinds of enhancements are welcome."

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GStreamer Pipeline Editor

Version 0.2 of the GStreamer Pipeline Editor is available. "A first release of gst-editor, the GStreamer graphical pipeline editor, is now available for public consumption! This tool allows easy, graphical construction, inspection, and operation of media processing pipelines. It can be used as a rapid prototyping tool as well as a method to learn more about GStreamer."

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Desktop Applications

Audio Applications

WaveSurfer 1.4.5 released

Version 1.4.5 of the WaveSurfer sound visualization and manipulation tool is available. Changes include a new sound mixing functionality, three new time display formats, bug fixes, and minor improvements. See the Changes document for the full history.

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Rosegarden-4-0 available

Version 4-0 of Rosegarden, a MIDI and audio sequencer and musical notation editor, is available.

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Desktop Environments

KDE 3.1beta2 Hits the 'Net

KDE.News reports on the release of KDE 3.1beta2. "On top of the large number of improvements over KDE 3.0 which have already been announced, this release offers a number of significant improvements, such as a new Exchange 2000® plugin for KOrganizer and a KVim plugin for KDevelop."

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KDE e.V. on the KDE League

KDE e.V., "the KDE developers' organisational body which controls the KDE League," has put out a statement on the current furor over the KDE League's activities (or lack therof). "The Board of KDE e.V. has at this point and with the current knowledge absolutely no reason to believe that there are any irregularities in the bookkeeping of the KDE League.... The Board of KDE e.V. acknowledges that the KDE League has been mostly dysfunctional the last few months. This is partly due to lack of enthusiasm on the part of the KDE League members, partly due to KDE e.V. having been dysfunctional itself."

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GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1.0

Snapshot 2.1.0 of the GNOME Development Series, dubbed "88MPH" is available. Testers are being recruited.

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GNOME Summary

This week's GNOME Summary looks at more SVG candy; new GNOME Accessibility Themes; GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1 released; and much more.

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FootNotes

Topics on the GNOME desktop FootNotes site include: Sodipodi 0.27, an Owen Taylor and Havoc Pennington Interview, OpenOffice.org Developer Build 643, Glade Beta for GTK+ 2 And GNOME 2, Gnumeric 1.0.10 & 1.1.9, GNOME Accessibility Themes released, and more.

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Games

The Chopping Block

The October, 2002 issue of the World Forge Games Chopping Block is out. topics include project news, lagrangian mechanics, head textures, the Kokatrix 2D World Editor, and more.

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GUI Packages

FLTK 1.1.0 Now Available!

Version 1.1.0 of FLTK, the Fast, Light ToolKit, is available.

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Interoperability

Kernel Cousin Wine

Issue #138 of Kernel Cousin Wine has been published. Topics include a LindowsOS 2.0 Review, DIB Engine, That Darn $!$!, Anti-alias For Smaller Fonts, Remote Procedure Call Patch, and Listview Changes.

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Wine developers release 20021007 is available

Developer Release 20021007 of Wine has been announced. Changes include a massive listview rewrite, a new MS RLE codec, a fixed winemaker, the beginnings of Direct3D 8 support, and lots of bug fixes.

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Office Applications

Open Office developer build 643

Developer build #643 of OpenOffice is available and ready for testing.

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AbiWord Weekly News

Issue #112 of the AbiWord Weekly News is out. Topics include the AbiWord developer's release version 1.1.0, browser width issues, elevators and the reload button, and lots more.

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Kernel Cousin GNUe

Issue #49 of Kernel Cousin GNUe is out with the latest GNU enterprise issues. This week's topics include GNUe in use in production environments, a wxWindows bug in Designer Property Window, Time and Expenses functionality, a GNUe developers meeting in Germany, New Releases of the GNUe Tools, and more.

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KVim Stable Release 6.1.141

KDE.news has an announcement for a new release of KVim, a GUI version of the classic VI editor. "It provides many new features and improvements: a new GUI for Qtopia systems, a new KDE toolbar, full DCOP support, much improved support for internationalisation and encodings, and improved portability."

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Web Browsers

Mozilla status update

The October 2, 2002 Mozilla Status Update is out with the latest Mozilla project news. topics include Mozilla releases, Phoenix 0.3, Spellchecker, OS/2, a dll/so cleanup, footprint reduction ideas, Spam/Junk mail filtering, Typeahead, a Mozilla Book, and Xft/fontconfig support.

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mozillaZine

The latest mozillaZine topics include Thunderbird, a lightweight stand-alone mail client, Phoenix 0.3 Delayed, Mozilla in the Chicago Sun-Times, Tree to Close for 1.2 Beta, Mozilla Featured in Open Source Study, Adding Pop-up Blocking to Netscape and Spell Checking to Mozilla, and more.

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Languages and Tools

Caml

Caml Weekly News

The Caml Weekly News for September 10 through October 8, 2002 is out with lots of Caml news topics.

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The Caml Hump

This week, the new software on The Caml Hump includes one item, htmlc, An HTML files generator.

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Eiffel

ELJ 0.4 Eiffel projects

Release 0.4 of the ELJ Open-source projects and library bindings for Eiffel have been released. Extensive Linux support has been brought to the project with this version.

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Java

Top Ten New Things You Can Do with NIO (O'Reilly)

Ron Hitchens writes about Java's NIO on O'Reilly's OnJava.com. "New I/O? Why do we need a new I/O? What's wrong with the old I/O? There's nothing wrong with the classes in the java.io package; they work just dandy -- for what they do. But it turns out there are quite a lot of things the traditional Java I/O model can't handle. Things like non-blocking modes, file locks, readiness selection, scatter/gather, and so on. These capabilities are widely available on most serious operating systems today (and a few comical ones, as well). They're not just nice to have; they're essential for building high-volume, scalable, robust applications, especially in the enterprise arena."

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Lisp

LISA 2.0a1 released

Version 2.a1 of LISA, the Lisp-based Intelligent Software Agents Lisp platform is available.

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Perl

Perl 5 Porters digest (use Perl)

The latest Perl 5 Porters digest is out. topics include Hash::Util::lock_keys inhibits bless, Just in time subroutine loading, Collections, Overriden built-in misparsing, The void context, make too slow, a Safe.pm security hole, Memory stats interface, and more.

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This week on Perl 6

O'Reilly's This week on Perl 6 for September 30 - October 6, 2002 is out. Topics include a Parrot getting started guide, debugging the Parrot debugger, Patch Master status, a New allocator, Patches, library name collisions, core.ops ate my (miniscule) RAM, a Parrot file list, Interfaces, Subject-Oriented Programming, Matching, Who's Who in Perl6, and more.

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The Perl Foundation Newsletter

The October, 2002 edition of The Perl Foundation Newsletter is out. Topics include YAPC 2003, and an interview with White Camel winner Tim Maher.

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How Hashes Really Work (O'Reilly)

Abhijit Menon-Sen explains hashing in the context of Perl. "It's easy to take hashes for granted in Perl. They are simple, fast, and they usually "just work," so people never need to know or care about how they are implemented. Sometimes, though, it's interesting and rewarding to look at familiar tools in a different light. This article follows the development of a simple hash class in Perl in an attempt to find out how hashes really work."

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PHP

PHP Weekly Summary

Topics on this week's PHP Weekly Summary include Embedded PHP, XSLT directions, More .phps support, Fixing streams, cURL extension, String functions [clean|speed]ups, and Rounding out Apache 2 support.

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Python

Python 2.2.2b1 released

Guido van Rossum has released Python 2.2.2 beta 1. "Python 2.2.2 has a large number of bug fixes in all areas of the interpreter and the library".

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Python-dev Summary

The Python-dev summary for September 30 is now available. It looks at an extended type system proposal, the upcoming Python 2.2.2 release, and several other topics.

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The Daily Python-URL

This week's Daily Python-URL topics include Win32 Extension Snapshot Builds, Python 2.2.2 beta 1, the ICFP programming contest results, an Introduction to random access files with module 'shelve', ZPT basics (part 1), and more.

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Ruby

The Ruby Weekly News

Topics on this week's Ruby Weekly News include JRuby beta 1.6/0.5.2, Blogtari 0.0.2, WNS XFormer version 0.0.0, xmlscan-0.1.0rc1, ZenTest 1.0.1, ZenWeb 1.14.0, Inline::C meeting, thoughts on typelessness, an announce only mailing list, Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know, RubyConf: insurance problems solved, and a discussion about a MetaRWN.

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Scheme

Scheme Weekly News

The October 7, 2002 edition of the Scheme Weekly News is out. Topics include a request for more Scheme articles, TeXmacs 1.0.18, and SISC 1.6.0 beta.

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Tcl/Tk

Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

The October 7, 2002 edition of the Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! is out with all of the latest Tcl news.

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XML

Duplicate and Empty Elements (O'Reilly)

Bob DuCharme shows how to clean up XML data on O'Reilly's XML.com. "Any manipulation of XML documents, whether with XSLT or not, often involves cleaning up the documents. Perhaps some company sends XML data to your company, and while it may be valid XML, it still needs to be beaten into shape a bit before your systems can use it. Dealing with duplicate elements and empty elements are typical tasks of a cleanup process. Through no fault of XSLT, finding them can be a little trickier than you might at first think, but it's not too bad, and XSLT includes several features to make these cleanup tasks go more easily."

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Working with a Metaschema (O'Reilly)

Will Provost talks about metaschemas on O'Reilly's XML.com. "In this article we'll investigate the uses of metaschemas and the techniques for creating them. This will bring us in close contact with the existing WXS metamodel, an interesting study in and of itself. We'll consider several strategies for bending this metamodel to our application's purposes, and we'll see which strategies best suit which requirements. (To tip the hand a bit, the prize will go to the WXS redefine component as a way of redefining parts of the WXS metamodel itself.)"

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