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DevelopmentLinux-HA reaches the 2.0 milestoneThe High-Availability Linux Project (Heartbeat) is aimed at the management of Linux clusters:
The basic goal of the High Availability Linux project is to:
Provide a high-availability (clustering) solution for Linux which promotes reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) through a community development effort.
The Linux-HA project is a widely used and important component in many interesting High-Availability solutions. We estimate that we currently have around ten thousand installations up in mission-critical uses in the real world since it became production-ready in 1999. Interest in this project continues to grow.
Version 2.0.0 of Linux-HA was announced this week. "This release extends the capabilities of Linux-HA far beyond anything available in the past, and provides basic capabilities comparable to any commercial HA package. This release provides support for monitoring of resources (services) and support for larger clusters - we have tested up to 16-node clusters. In Release 2, simple clusters are simple to create, and more complex clusters can take advantage of our rule-based resource placement methods to ensure that the cluster does exactly what is desired when failures occur." New features in the 2.0.0 release include:
Congratulations go to the Linux-HA developers for making this big step forward. The code is available for download in source and RPM formats here.
System Applications Audio Projects JACK 0.100.0 announcedVersion 0.100.0 of JACK, the JACK Audio Connection Kit, is available. "In brief, more functions for getting latency statistics, better thread handling, and a more verbose way of connecting to the jackd server."
Database Software JabRef 1.8 released (SourceForge)Version 1.8 of JabRef, a graphical application for managing bibliographical databases, has been announced. "JabRef runs on all platforms and requires Java 1.4 or newer. The new stable release of JabRef provides lots of improvements, new features and bugfixes since version 1.7.1."
Interoperability Samba 3.0.20rc1 Available for DownloadVersion 3.0.20rc1 of Samba has been announced, it features bug fixes. "This is a release candidate of the 3.0.20 code base and is provided for testing purposes only. While close to the final stable release, this snapshot is *not* intended for production servers."
Networking Tools iptables 1.3.3 releasedVersion 1.3.3 of the iptables network packet filtering system is out. "The final 1.3.3 version contains accumulated bugfixes to the last 1.3.2 version. It also adds support for the upcoming (kernel 2.6.14) NFQUEUE target."
Nagios Plugins 1.4.1 released (SourceForge)Version 1.4.1 of Nagios Plugins, a network host and service monitoring application, is available with bug fixes. "Nagios monitors hosts and services on your network. Actual host and service checks are performed by separate plugins which return the host or service status to Nagios."
Xprobe2 v0.3 releasedVersion 0.3 of Xprobe2, a remote active operating system fingerprinting tool, is out with bug fixes and other improvements.
Web Site Development CentraView CBM v 2.0.6 released (SourceForge)Version 2.0.6 of CentraView CBM is available. "CentraView is a browser-based Enterprise Java (J2EE) Contact Management, Groupware, Collaboration, CRM, SFA, Project Management software. Run locally or as a hosted service. Built on Apache Tomcat, JBoss, MySQL, Linux (Fedora, RedHat and others) & Windows. Most of the work for this release was done to make the install easier and to get it to work with modern versions of the supporting software."
Campsite 2.3 releasedVersion 2.3 of Campsite, a multilingual web publishing tool for news sites, is available. "'Campsite 2.3 is the most advanced open-source system for news publishing on the web,' said CAMP Managing Director Sava Tatiæ. 'Our development team has worked for the last three months to implement feature requests from the international community of Campsite users, and 2.3 really addresses those requests.'"
Zope 3.1.0c1 releasedVersion 3.1.0c1 of the Zope web content management system is available. "It is in our opinion that Zope 3.1 is more than ready for production use, which is why we decided to drop the 'X' for experimental from the name. We will also continue to work on making the transition between Zope 2 and Zope 3 as smooth as possible."
Web Services Messaging with Apache Axis2: Concepts and Techniques (O'ReillyNet)Srinath Perera and Ajith Ranabahu discuss web services messaging on O'Reilly. "The messaging strategies needed for web services vary, and Apache Axis2 has addressed this problem by creating basic building blocks from which many messaging schemes can be built. Srinath Perera and Ajith Ranabahu show how it works."
Analyzing the Web (O'Reilly)John E. Simpson discusses web site analysis on O'Reilly's XML.com. "Sites are measured along a host of dimensions: hits, visits and return visits, page views, referrers, visit duration and depth, authenticated users, etc. Most professional Web-hosting providers include with their hosting plans a logging feature which captures all these details and saves them for later analysis."
Miscellaneous ttyrpld 2.03 released (SourceForge)Version 2.03 of ttyrpld, a multi-os kernel-level tty logger, is out. "Version 2.03 updates locale translations and adds patches for Linux 2.6.13-rcX, OpenBSD 3.7, FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0-beta1."
WURFL 2.0 is out (SourceForge)Version 2.0 of WURFL is available. "WURFL 2.0 is eventually ready for download. The WURFL file contains information regarding wireless devices' configurations, capabilities and features. The main scope of this file is to collect as many information as we can about all the existing wireless devices that access WAP pages. It took MONTHS to be ready, but now it's here, ready for download. There are seriously TOO many updates to list here, download the XML and see it for yourself."
Desktop Applications Business Applications OpenWFE 1.5.4 released (SourceForge)Version 1.5.4 of OpenWFE, a java workflow engine and Business Process Management suite, has been released. "OpenWFE 1.5.4 brings many improvements : a new and enhanced library for storing flows and workitems in a database, new boolean functions, an improved embeddable set of POJOs (engine + worklist), a system for submitting forms per email, a way of storing java beans into workitems, a simplified 'if' syntax and lots of bug fixes."
Desktop Environments GNOME 2.12 Beta 1 Development Release (GnomeDesktop)The first pre-release of GNOME 2.12 Beta 1 has been announced. "This release is a feature frozen snapshot primarily intended for wide public scrutiny before the final GNOME 2.12 release in September. GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status."
A GNOME 2.12 previewA screenshot-heavy GNOME 2.12 preview has been posted. This GNOME release, due on September 7, appears to have a great many improvements, but not much in the way of revolutionary new features.
GARNOME 2.11.90 releasedVersion 2.11.90 of GARNOME, the GNOME testing release, is out. "This release incorporates all of the GNOME 2.11.90 (aka. Beta 1) Desktop and Developer Platform, including glib/gtk+ 2.7.x and cairo. This release has also had a little more polish to ensure that the build system builds and links against things in your GARNOME directory, and not your system one, hopefully cutting down on errors relating to pesky '.la files' that some distributions insist on shipping in their -devel packages."
GNOME Software AnnouncementsThe following new GNOME software has been announced this week:
KDE 3.4.2 releasedKDE 3.4.2 is out. This is a maintenance release, but it also includes improved translations. There is a live CD ("Klax") available for those who want to try it out without actually installing it on their systems.
KDE Commit Digest for July 29, 2005 (KDE.News)The July 29, 2005 edition of the KDE Commit-Digest has been announced, here's the content summary: "DigiKam adds an image editor plugin to remove Hot Pixels' on photographs. Krita adds an OpenEXR import filter and adds support for working with high dynamic range images such as 32-bit floating point RGBA colourspace. KSpread gets a new function manager and repository (a Google SoC project). Allow setting the wallpaper via DnD, even when icons on desktop are disabled. Media kioslave implements the autostart of application after mount. KMail now has Online/Offline status. amaroK adds podcast support within the playlist browser."
KDE Software AnnouncementsThe following new KDE software has been announced this week:
Financial Applications KMyMoney 0.7.5 released (SourceForge)Version 0.7.5 of KMyMoney, a personal Finance Manager for KDE, has been released. "The development team has released KMyMoney 0.7.5, an updated version of the current development branch. Please expect updated installation packages for various distributions soon."
GUI Packages FOX Toolkit 1.4.17 (stable) releasedStable version 1.4.17 of the FOX Toolkit, a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit, is out with bug fixes. "FOX is a C++ based Toolkit for developing Graphical User Interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and growing, collection of Controls, and provides state of the art facilities such as drag and drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3D graphical manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and user-convenience features such as status line help, and tooltips."
Music Applications E-Radium V0.61d announcedVersion 0.61d of E-Radium, a midi music editor that runs under the E-Uae Amiga emulator, is out with miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
Office Applications Arsenal 1.5 released (SourceForge)Version 1.5 of Arsenal has been announced. "Arsenal 1.5 client and server version 1.5 with new User Interface was released July 24 2005. This release is cross-platform but the SIP phone feature is only supported on the Windows XP version. Arsenal is a Real-Time Collaboration (RTC) and conferencing project. Written 100% in Java".
Office Suites OpenOffice.org NewsletterThe July, 2005 edition of the OpenOffice.org Newsletter is online with the latest OpenOffice.org news.
Video Applications DIVA: A New Home Video Editor (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop looks at Diva, a video editor. "One of the weaknesses of the Unix application-base is a good, stable and easy to use *home* video editor. Many applications have tried to fill up the void, like Kino and Cinelerra, but with mediocre results for the kind of functionality and ease of use a normal household would expect. This is where DIVA comes in."
Web Browsers Greasemonkey 0.5 beta availableGreasemonkey 0.5 beta is now available. The announcement says "install at your own risk," but, seeing as this version fixes an unpleasant security problem (discussed in last week's LWN Security Page), not installing it could be an even bigger risk. This version includes a new features and a defense against sites which attempt to block Greasemonkey outright.
Mozilla 1.7.11 Released (MozillaZine)Version 1.7.11 of Mozilla has been announced. "The Mozilla Foundation has released Mozilla 1.7.11, a minor update to the Mozilla Application Suite. This latest version fixes two regressions introduced in Mozilla 1.7.10. Both issues affected the Mail & Newsgroups component, with one causing the thread pane (list of messages) to not always be updated when a new folder is selected (bug 300749) and the other sometimes preventing the cursor keys from working in the message composition window (bug 301917)."
Yahoo! Toolbar 1.0 for Mozilla Firefox Released (MozillaZine)Version 1.0 of the Yahoo! Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox has been announced. "Yahoo! Toolbar Product Manager Jon Granrose writes in with news that version 1.0 of the Yahoo! Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox is now available: "We just released the first non-beta Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox. All the usual good stuff such as portable bookmarks, plus a resizable search box, right-mouse-click and open in tab for toolbar buttons, and support for trunk builds, among other things.""
Miscellaneous Gourmet 0.8.5.8 released (SourceForge)Version 0.8.5.8 of Gourmet Recipe Manager has been released. "Version 0.8.5.8 brings a number of major bugfixes. 0.8.5.8 also adds some more keyboard shortcuts."
Languages and Tools Caml Caml Weekly NewsThe Caml Weekly News for July 26 through August 2, 2005 is online. Topics include: OCaml NAE release cf-0.7 and iom-0.2, Games, Netclient 0.91, OCamlDuce, OCaml meets lego bricks, and CodeWiki.net Announcement.
Haskell Haskell Weekly News - debut issueThe August 2, 2005 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is online with the latest Haskell language articles. "HWN is an experiment inspired by Debian Weekly News and Linux Weekly News. Each Tuesday, new editions will be posted (as text) to the Haskell mailing list and (as HTML) to The Haskell Sequence."
Java Annotations vs. configuration filesDennis Sosnoski explores annotations and configuration files on IBM developerWorks. "Annotations let you specify metadata as part of your source code. With this feature, you can embed tool instructions in your code rather than creating separate configuration files that you then need to maintain in parallel to the source code. But, as Java consultant Dennis Sosnoski explains, configuration files still have their uses, especially for aspect-like functions that cut across the source code structure of an application."
Lisp SBCL 0.9.3 releasedVersion 0.9.3 of Steel Bank Common Lisp is available. "This version adds experimental support for bivalent streams, support for the koi8-r external format, and fixes a number of bugs."
SLIME and UnCommon Web tutorial videosNew tutorial videos for SLIME (Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs) and Uncommon Web are available. "Marco Baringer has prepared tutorial videos on the SLIME development environment for Lisp and the UnCommon Web continuation-based framework. The former shows how to use SLIME, from installation and setup to some advanced features. The latter demonstrates using UnCommon Web and SLIME to create a simple web application."
Perl This Week in Perl 6 (O'Reilly)The July 20-26, 2005 edition of This Week in Perl 6 is out with the latest Perl 6 development news.
Porting Test::Builder to Perl 6 (O'Reilly)chromatic discusses the migration of a project from Perl 5 to Perl 6 on O'Reilly. "Perl 6 development now proceeds in two directions. The first is from the bottom up, with the creation and evolution of Parrot and underlying code, including the Parrot Grammar Engine. The goal there is to build the structure Perl 6 will need. The second direction is from the top down, with the Pugs project implementing Perl 6 initially separate from Parrot, though recent additions allow an embedded Parrot to run the parsed code and to emit valid Parrot PIR code."
PHP SimpleTest 1.0.1 alpha released (SourceForge)Version 1.0.1 alpha of SimpleTest, a PHP unit testing suite, is available. "It's been a while since the last update. This is mainly a maintanence release, but does add some additional features to the web tester. In particular, HTML labels can be used to identify clickable elements and file uploads are now supported."
Python Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!The July 29, 2005 edition of Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! is online with the latest new Python articles.
python-dev summaryThe July 1-15, 2005 edition of the python-dev summary covers the traffic on the python-dev mailing list.
Tcl/Tk Jacl and Tcl Blend 1.3.2 releasedVersion 1.3.2 of Jacl and Tcl Blend, the Tcl/Java integration software, is available. "The 1.3.2 version is a "production" ready release, it is considered stable enough to be used on an everyday basis. The code in this release is already being used by customers in production environments on a daily basis."
Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!The August 3, 2005 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! is online with the latest Tcl/Tk news and resources.
Profilers Valgrind 2.4.1 is availableVersion 2.4.1 of Valgrind, a suite of simulation based debugging and profiling tools, is available. "2.4.1 is a maintenance release that contains various bug fixes which have accumulated since 2.4.0 was released about four months ago. 2.4.1 still only supports x86-linux. For amd64-linux support, please wait for 3.0, which will ship shortly."
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