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DevelopmentZope CMF Version 2.0.0Stable version 2.0.0 of CMF, the Zope Content Management Framework, was announced this week. Zope is an open source web application server, see the What Is Zope document for details.![[Zope]](/images/ns/zopecom.png)
Recently, the Zope project has been going through
a major rewrite, transitioning from Zope2 to
Zope3 with the help of
Five,
a Zope 2 to 3 transition product.
CMF is one of the major components of Zope.
The CMF (Content Management Framework) adds numerous tools and services to Zope to allow community or organization based content management, complete with a workflow system and a powerful customization framework. The CMF Workflow system uses Zope's built in security architecture. One thing this allows is for the "edit permission" to be taken away from an author who has submitted a document for review and publishing. This ensures that what the reviewer sees cannot change during or after review without the author intentionally taking back the document.
CMF 2.0.0 brings a lot of changes, including:
CMF 2.1 will add missing pieces to the Zope 3 integration effort, feature new local skin customization capabilities, convert all of the views to the Zope 3 style, complete the transition to Zope 3 container events and more. In short, this is a major move toward the Zope 3 technology. For further reading, see the CMF documentation resources. CMF 2.0.0 is available for download here.
System Applications Database Software PostgreSQL Weekly NewsThe April 16, 2006 edition of the PostgreSQL Weekly News is online with the latest PostgreSQL database articles and resources.
Interoperability Samba: mod_ntlm_winbind Updated for Apache2The Samba news mentions changes to mod_ntlm_winbind. "Ronan Waide has done some work updating mod_ntlm_winbind for Apache2. mod_ntlm_winbind is an Apache module that provides NTLM and Basic authentication via winbind. Support for both plaintext and NTLM auth in the same module as also been added."
Mail Software Mailman 2.1.8 is outVersion 2.1.8 of Mailman, a mailing list management application, has been announced. "In this release, we have fixed a cross-site scripting security bug in the previous release (CVE-2006-1712), integrated a new version of email library (email-2.5.7), and added bounce processing supports for number of sites and MUAs. It is highly recommended that all sites using 2.1.7 and before should update to this release."
Security Sussen 0.18 announcedVersion 0.18 of Sussen, a tool that checks for vulnerabilities and configuration issues on computer systems, is out with new capabilities, cleaned up code and improved documentation.
Desktop Applications Audio Applications New release of AMB pluginsThe second release of the Ambisonics plugins, a set of audio plugins for the Ardour sound editor, have been announced. Changes include an 8-speaker cube decoder, and some code cleanups.
Snd-ls 0.9.6.2 announcedVersion 0.9.6.2 of Snd-ls, a distribution of the SND sound editor, is available. "The biggest thing about this release of Snd-ls is probably that the rt-player is enabled by default. The rt-player is an alternative player engine for SND that plays soundfiles using the rt-extension and reads data from disk through a buffer. The result is less clicks, and more channels can be played safely at once."
Desktop Environments GNOME 2.14.1 Released (GnomeDesktop)Gnomedesktop.org has announced the release of GNOME 2.14.1. "This is the first release in a series of point releases for the 2.14 branch. Come and see all the bug fixing, all the new translations and all the updated documentations brought to you by the wonderful team of GNOME contributors! While development has started on the Gnome 2.15/2.16 road, we didn't forget about making a new release that is rock solid. And simply better than the previous one."
GARNOME 2.14.1 announcedVersion 2.14.1 of GARNOME, the bleeding edge GNOME distribution, is out. "This release incorporates the GNOME 2.14.1 Desktop and Developer Platform, fine-tuned and updated with love by the GARNOME Team. It includes updates and fixes after the official GNOME freeze, together with a host of third-party GNOME packages, Bindings and the Mono(tm) Platform -- this is the second release of the current stable GNOME branch, ironing out yet-more bugs, hopefully adding yet-more stability and ships with the latest and greatest stable releases."
GNOME Software AnnouncementsThe following new GNOME software has been announced this week:
KDE Software AnnouncementsThe following new KDE software has been announced this week:
KDE Commit-Digest for 16th April 2006 (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced the April 16, 2006 edition of the KDE Commit-Digest. "In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Furious activity in Digikam, KmPlot and amaroK, compile and linking fixes for applications in trunk with CMake and multi-platform porting fixes. Furthermore, KSmileTris was removed from the kdegames module in trunk."
Xfce 4.4 beta 1 (4.3.90.1) releasedVersion 4.4 beta 1 of Xfce, a lightweight desktop environment, is out "Xfce 4.4 features new tools such as the much anticipated "Thunar" file manager as well as several huge improvements of its core components. Please help us making Xfce 4.4 the best Xfce release ever, download it, try it, help us fixing it!"
Electronics Covered 0.4.2 releasedVersion 0.4.2 of Covered, a Verilog code coverage utility, has been announced with the following changes: "Bug fix release and added support for multi-line definitions."
PCB 20060414 releasedDevelopment snapshot 20060414 of PCB is available. "PCB is an interactive printed circuit board editor for the X11 window system. PCB includes a rats nest feature, design rule checking, and can provide industry standard RS-274-X (Gerber), NC drill, and centroid data (X-Y data) output for use in the board fabrication and assembly process. PCB offers high end features such as an autorouter and trace optimizer which can tremendously reduce layout time. "
Financial Applications Release of GnuCash 1.9.5 (unstable) (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop.org covers the latest release of GnuCash, a financial management application. "The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.5 aka "The final countdown begins", the sixth of several unstable 1.9.x releases of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.0.0. This release contains many bugfixes since the fifth release but is still only intended for developers and adventurous testers who want to help tracking down bugs."
SQL-Ledger 2.6.9 releasedVersion 2.6.9 of SQL-Ledger, a web-based accounting system, has been announced. Changes include new code for multiple latex runs, pagebreak code improvements and bug fixes.
Games New Keep Module (WorldForge)The WorldForge virtual world project has an announcement for a new Keep module. "I guess you guys already found the keep model. I was going to post on Monday but today will work. This model builds on everthing that I have done. Same textures, dimension, same doors etc."
TuxFighter 0.49 announcedAsteroids meets XBill with the release of TuxFighter 0.49 on the PyGame site. "Your goal is to waste valuable lifetime (or even paid worktime) while steering and spinning a pinguin-shaped alter ego throug a universe full of nasty enemys. The enemys try to collide into you but YOU CAN FIGHT BACK ! Shoot rockets at your enemys but be careful, you have always just twice the number of rockets as the number of enemys on the screen. So aim careful, because some rockets may bounce back from the edge of the screen. Gain extra points or even applause by killing enemys be a rocket reflecting from walls."
Imaging Applications GIMP 2.2.11 Released (GnomeDesktop)Version 2.2.11 of the GIMP has been announced. "This is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.2 series."
Interoperability Wine 0.9.12 releasedVersion 0.9.12 of Wine has been announced. Changes include: "New Winelib Internet Explorer application (all 5 lines of it), Several improvements to the font support, More work on the IDL compiler, Faster drawing of the cards in Solitaire (very important feature), A number of fixes for issues found by the Coverity code cheker and Lots of bug fixes."
Medical Applications Hui Releases Major Upgrade to Hui OpenVistA (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews covers the release of Hui OpenVista Version 4.0. "The most notable enhancement to Hui OpenVista 4.0 is a more streamlined installation process. Version 4.0 provides a preconfigured baseline system that simplifies the steps needed to convert the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) version of VistA to Hui OpenVista. This enables users to quickly download the baseline as a starting point for configuring the system to their specific requirements..."
Mirror Med Highlights FOSS in Action (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews looks at the MirrorMed project. "The MirrorMed project shows how Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in medicine can create a successful electronic medical record/electronic health record(EMR/EHR) by using code from several projects: OpenEMR, FreeMed, Uversa's ClearHealth and the FreeB medical billing project. Together, these projects have threaded the needle and become the few that survive the real world in Health IT."
Music Applications Slag 0.1 pre 1 announcedRelease 0.1 pre 1 (the first public version) of Slag, a pattern-based audio sequencer that can be used as a simple drum box, is available. "Slag is a pattern-based audio sequencer that can currently be used as a simple drum box. It features real-time editing, optional JACK support with individual ports for tracks, volume settings for pads and tracks, a virtually unlimited number of tracks and patterns, the ability to link song parts together, and real-time audio file output. It's licensed under the GNU GPL."
News Readers Pan! It's Alive! (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop.org covers the latest release of Pan. "The Pan newsreader project is active again making new releases. The 0.9x releases are a series of unstable betas of a C++ rewrite of Pan that adds multiserver and nzb support, reduces memory use by over two thirds, can cut the time to download new headers by over two thirds, and slashes the time it takes to load headers from disk by almost 90%."
Office Applications Beagle Newsletter - April 2006 (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop.org has announced the April, 2006 edition of the Beagle Newsletter. "With the release of GNOME 2.14, three new additions to the desktop environment have come with the ability to search your Beagle index. First, Nautilus now allows users to create new searches within the file browser and save searches based on that query. If enabled, Nautilus will use Beagle for this searching. Second, a new panel applet has been included for quick searching. The panel applet, Deskbar, allows you to query Google, Yahoo! and a number of other websites in real time. If the Beagle plug-in is enabled, your files can be quickly searched using this handy tool. Finally, Yelp, the GNOME help tool can utilize Beagle for quick searching of the systems help documentation."
Office Suites OpenOffice.org build 2.0.2.7Build 2.0.2.7 of the OpenOffice.org office suite has been announced, it features a bug fix and a build improvement.
Web Browsers Security and Stability Updates for Firefox Released (MozillaZine)MozillaZine reports that Firefox 1.5.0.2 and Firefox 1.0.8 have been released. These updates contain several security fixes.
Word Processors AbiWord 2.4.4 released (GnomeDesktop)Version 2.4.4 of the AbiWord word processor has been announced. "The changes from v2.4.2 to v2.4.4 include, amongst others: Substantially updated the OpenDocument import and export filters, Lots of tweaks to the Windows interface, Various fixes to our Right-to-Left text handling routines".
Miscellaneous Release of Xj3D VRML/X3D browser for LinuxVersion 1.0 of Xj3D has been announced. "Xj3D is an open source X3D browser, developer library and test environment for the X3D virtual reality and augmented reality standard. A principal goal of Xj3D is conformance to the X3D spec while still maintaining high performance using OpenGL hardware acceleration. The milestone 1.0 release is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris. It implements CADGeometry, DIS, GeoSpatial, H-Anim, as well as extensions for Rigid Body Physics, Particle Systems, Clipping planes, Picking Utilities, Abstract Device IO."
Languages and Tools Caml Caml Weekly NewsThe April 11-18, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is out with new Caml language articles.
Java KDE Look and Feel for Java Preview (KDE.News)KDE.News has an announcement for the KDE Look and Feel for Java effort. "Sekou Diakite has released an alpha version of a KDE Look and Feel for Java. This is an interesting step forward in Linux/Unix desktop integration since Java applications can now use the KDE/Qt libraries for drawing Java widgets and even directly use existing KDE widgets such as the file or color choosers. See the webpage for further details of this accomplishment including future plans and, of course, screenshots."
Python Urwid 0.9.3 announcedVersion 0.9.3 of Urwid, a console UI library for Python, is out. "This release adds support for gpm and mouse dragging to the raw_display module, improves mouse release reporting and fixes a few text layout bugs. If you are interested in Urwid's mouse support please try the input test example program and let me know if it works properly in your environment."
Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!The April 17, 2006 edition of Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! is online with a new collection of Python article links.
Ruby The Gemcutter's Workshop: Canada on Rails (Linux Journal)Linux Journal covers the latest Ruby developments with a new edition of The Gemcutter's Workshop. "Recapping another busy couple of weeks in Ruby land as well as the first international Ruby conference. The past two weeks have been another busy bi-week in terms of Ruby releases and community activity. I'd like to start out with a couple of big release announcements and a mailing list posting and then move on to two big events."
Tcl/Tk Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!The April 18, 2006 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! is online with new Tcl/Tk articles and resources.
XML Query Census Data with RDF (O'Reilly)Joshua Tauberer uses RDF to work with census data in part two of an O'Reilly article series. "The U.S. government is a treasure trove of structured information. In my last article I talked about legislative information, but there's much more--gigabytes upon gigabytes more. The 2000 Census compiled tons of population statistics. Let's get some of it into the Semantic Web. So I'll grab one small 14MB slice of data out of the census records and turn it into RDF."
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