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DevelopmentMailman 2.1 announced ![[Mailman]](/images/ns/mailman.jpg)
A new version of
Mailman,
a Python-based mailing list management system with a web-based
user interface,
has been announced.
A summary of features for this version of Mailman includes:
If you are interested in trying out Mailman, the online Mailman documentation is a good place to start.
System Applications Audio Projects Ogg Traffic Two new editions of Ogg Traffic are out with a bunch of Ogg Vorbis audio compression software news. Topics in the December 22, 2002 edition include: Converting FLAC to Ogg Vorbis, Transcoding Ogg Vorbis to Ogg Vorbis, Preaching the Gospel of the Fish, and Speex Beta 4 Released. Topics in the December 29, 2002 edition include: FUD-Busting, Recompressing Ogg Vorbis files, and Using oggenc to convert FLAC to Ogg Vorbis.
Database Software MySQL 4.0.7 is released Version 4.0.7 of the MySQL open-source database is available. This release addresses a security issue, users are encouraged to upgrade ASAP.
Education Linux in Education Report Issue #86 of the Linux in Education Report is out. Topics include games for kindergarteners, a proposal for producing audio books, a Sun deal that gives StarOffice 6.0 to Danish students, the GNU/LinuxIndia newsletter, a plea for help maintaining the English version of the DrGenius user's manual, and a bunch of new educational software releases.
Electronics GTKWave 2.0.0pre1-20021220 Version 2.0.0pre1-20021220 of GTKWave, an electronic waveform viewer, has been announced as part of the GEDA snapshot 20021220. New features include an XML trace save/load format, work on analog traces, code cleanup, better analog support, and more.
Mail Software Sendmail 8.12.7 available Version 8.12.7 of Sendmail has been released. "It contains a fix for smrsh, support for Berkeley DB 4.1 (requires at least 4.1.25), fixes to enforce STARTTLS restrictions between sessions/transactions, some config file changes to deal with bogus DNS entries and to enforce tls_client restrictions, as well as a change to the default submit.cf file to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost as the address of the MTA."
Milter news New topics on the Milter mail filtering site include: Spamass-Milter 0.1.3 Released, Passing values from sendmail, How do you adjust internal milter timeouts?, and more.
Peer to Peer Mobile P2P messaging, Part 1 (IBM developerWorks) Michael J. Yuan shows how to work with the Wireless Messaging API on IBM's developerWorks. "SMS-based peer-to-peer mobile messaging could become mobile commerce's killer application. The J2ME Wireless Messaging API (WMA) provides SMS capabilities for mobile Java clients. In this first installment of a two-part series on mobile P2P messaging, Michael J. Yuan discusses the design and usage of the WMA, and presents a sample application to demonstrate key concepts. He'll also discuss some server-side Java SMS solutions."
Printing CUPS 1.1.18 available Version 1.1.18 of the CUPS Print System has been released. Most of the changes involve security issues and bug fixes, see the Release Notes for the full story.
LinuxPrinting.org News News from LinuxPrinting.org includes the release of version 2.9.1 of the Foomatic printer driver database, and instructions on using the Epson Stylus CX3200 and CX5200 for scanning.
Web Site Development Midgard 1.4.4 released Version 1.4.4 of the Midgard open-source web application server has been announced. Changes include lots of bug fixes and a few enhancements. Thanks to Henri Bergius.
Zope Members News The most recent headlines on the Zope Members News include: ZServerSSL Rides Again, silva-0.9_installer_macosx-1.0 released, NeoPortal Content Pak 0.9a2 released - NeoPortal User Manager Tool added, NeoPortal Library 0.9a2 released, Silva 0.9 released, How-to Build Simple ZClass - updated to zope 2.6.x, MailBoxer 2.1.5, RemoteUserFolder public release, Interbase / Firebird Adapters, and Formulator 1.3.1 released.
Miscellaneous New hsflinmodem release Several new versions of the Conexant HSF softmodem driver have been released, see below for details.
Desktop Applications Audio Applications JACK Rack 1.0.1 available Version 1.0.1 of JACK Rack, an audio effects connection system, has been released. This version features minor bug fixes.
Sweep 0.5.13 released Version 0.5.13 of the Sweep audio editor and playback tool has been released. New features include bug fixes and a new fade in/out capability.
ZynAddSubFX 1.0.3 released Version 1.0.3 of the ZynAddSubFX open-source software audio synthesizer has been released. This version features bug fixes, a new VU meter, split keyboard functionality, and more.
GNUsound 0.5 available Version 0.5 of the GNUsound multitrack audio editing package is available for download. Change information is in the source code.
Desktop Environments FootNotes Headlines on the GNOME desktop FootNotes site include: Pan 0.13.3 released, GIMP 1.3.11 released, Ruby-GNOME2-0.2 is now available!, Interview with the Gnomemeeting Team, Red Hat Beta Released!, Release of GnuCash 1.7.6 ''Santa's got a brand new bag'', GTK+ user interface libraries, version 2.2 released, Gnumeric 1.1.14 is now available, GARNOME 0.19.5: ''Intergalactic War'', GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1.5 released, Dropline GNOME 1.3.1 Now Available, and more.
KDE-CVS-Digest for December 20, 2002 The December 20, 2002 edition of the KDE-CVS-Digest is out. "This week we cover updates on the security audit, Kroupware issues, bugfixes and lots of new features in KDevelop, Konqueror, KDEPrint, Kig (a program for exploring geometrical constructions), as well as Proklam updates (see KMouth also) as a further step towards improving accessibility capabilities in KDE."
KDE-CVS-Digest for December 27, 2002 The December 27, 2002 edition of the KDE-CVS-Digest is out. "Subjects discussed include the conclusion of the security audit, KMail merge problems, bugfixes and lots of new features in Kate, Kig, Gwenview, Krdc, kgpg, Konstruct, Kopete, Cervisia, KDevelop, KOffice and Kalzium. And much more."
XFree86 4.2.99.3 Snapshot available Snapshot 4.2.99.3 of XFree86 is available. This release will evolve into version 4.3 after the bug testing cycle is complete.
Games New Pygame entries The latest entries on the PyGame site include Pyddr 0.5.8, which is a dance-dance revolution clone, and Sulk 0.24, a Space Hulk replica.
Your First Micro Java Game David Fox writes about Java game development for mobile phones on O'Reilly. "The Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) of J2ME is a subset of the standard Java you know and love, with a few minor modifications. Writing a basic MIDlet game is simple as apple pie. This article will show you how to start cookin'."
GUI Packages GTK+ user interface libraries 2.2 Version 2.2 of the GTK+ user interface libraries have been released. This release features: Multihead support, support for the fontconfig and Xft2 libraries, new font support in Pango, improved ports, gdk-pixbuf enhancements, and support for new X extensions and standards.
Qt Script for Applications 1.0 beta1 Trolltech has announced the release of version 1.0 beta1 of Qt Script for Applications, which has been released under the GPL. "Qt Script, an easy-to-learn, multiplatform interpreted scripting language. Qt Script is based on the ECMAScript standard (as is JavaScript) . Qt Scripter, a multiplatform IDE which developers can make available to their end-users. Qt Scripter (screenshot) can be used to write and edit code, to visually design forms, and to run and debug scripts."
LibGGI 2.0.2/LibGII 0.8.2 released THE GGI Project has released new versions of LIBGGI, a cross-platform graphics API, and LIBGII, a stand-alone system for handling input devices.
FLTK Developments New software for FLTK, the Fast, Light ToolKit includes: flPhoto 1.0, and VolSuite 2.3.0.
Interoperability Kernel Cousin Wine Issue #149 Kernel Cousin Wine is out. Topics include: Wine-20021219, Implementation of wineboot, Compile Time Comparisons / Tips, Compile Time Comparisons / Tips, COM Conformance Test Suite, and Running Cygwin Apps Under Wine.
Kernel Cousin Wine Issue #150 of Kernel Cousin Wine has been released, check it out for the latest Wine development news.
Office Applications TeXmacs 1.0.1 released Version 1.0.1 of the TeXmacs typesetting system has been released. New features include a redesigned user interface, improved converters, the addition of several structural editing primitives, reorganized style files and packages, an improved documentation system, and more. (Thanks to David Allouche.)
AbiWord Weekly News Issue #121 and Issue #122 of the AbiWord Weekly News are out with lots of AbiWord word processor development news.
AbiWord Weekly News Issues #123 and #124 of the AbiWord Weekly News are out with even more AbiWord word processor development news.
Gnumeric 1.1.14 Version 1.1.14 of the Gnumeric spreadsheet has been released.
Web Browsers mozillaZine The latest mozillaZine topics include: ExtremeTech Preview of Phoenix, Extra Two Weeks Added to 1.3 Beta Cycle, Honey, Hyatt's Coming Round for Christmas Dinner!, New Default Theme for Phoenix, Judge Orders Microsoft to Include Sun Java in Windows, Gecko Runtime Environment Overview, Guide to the New Bugzilla Flags Used by drivers@mozilla.org, and Independent Status Reports.
Languages and Tools Caml Caml Weekly News The December 17-31, 2002 edition of the Caml Weekly News is out with the latest Caml news.
The Caml Light / OCaml Hump This week, the new software on The Caml Hump includes the Sleep Student Parser, Planets for simulating planetary systems, the ocamledefun defunctiorizer, and the CamlGL OpenGL bindings for OCaml.
Java Compiling Java with GCJ (Linux Journal) Per Bothner talks about GCJ on Linux Journal. "One reason relatively few projects use Java has been the real or perceived lack of quality, free implementations of Java. Two free Java implementations, however, have been around since the early days of Java. One is Kaffe (www.kaffe.org), originally written by Tim Wilkinson and still developed by the company he cofounded, Transvirtual. The other is GCJ (the GNU Compiler for the Java language), which I started in 1996 at Cygnus Solutions (and which this article discusses). GCJ has been fully integrated and supported as a GCC language since GCC version 3.0."
From black boxes to enterprises, Part 3: Hands-on JMX integration Sing Li finishes his series on JMX Integration in the third article on IBM developerWorks. "In this third and final article of the JMX series, Sing Li will use an actual Network Management System (NMS) to monitor a Java application instrumented with JMX, revealing the typical techniques used in NMS/JMX integration, as well as some of the common difficulties that may be encountered when deploying JMX."
Java Media Development with QuickTime for Java (O'Reilly) Chris Adamson writes about the use of QuickTime with Java. "Now that Sun's Java Media Framework can't even play MP3s anymore — support was removed in August due to what Sun calls a "licensing issue" — its collection of supported media formats and compression schemes (codecs) has dwindled to near-uselessness. The JMF's powerful plug-in architecture allows developers to expand JMF's capabilities, however, and that's exactly what this article will do, by using the rival media API, Apple's QuickTime for Java."
Lisp CL-SDL 0.2.0 released Version 0.2.0 of CL-SDL, which provides Common Lisp bindings for the Simple DirectMedia Layer and OpenGL multimedia libraries, has been released.
CL-PDF 1.0 released Version 1.0 of CL-PDF, the Common Lisp library for generating Adobe Acrobat documents, has been released.
First public release of CL-PPCRE The first public version of CL-PPCRE, the Portable Perl-compatible Regular Expressions for Common Lisp, has been announced. CL-PPCRE is a regular expression library for Common Lisp that features Perl compatibility, among other things.
Perl Parrot v0.0.9 'Nazgul' released (use Perl) Use Perl mentions the release of version 0.0.9 of the Parrot compiler.
This Week on perl5-porters (use Perl) The December 16-22, 2002 edition of the Perl5-Porters Digest is out. Topics include: version object updates, new warning discussed, a bit of language design, and a Perl birthday present.
This Week on perl5-porters (use Perl) The December 23-29, 2002 edition of the Perl5-Porters Digest is out. Topics include: Implicit localisation of $DIGIT variables, Defining lexical aliases, %INC on Windows, EOL agnosticism, Iterator classes and memory leaks, and more.
PHP PHP 4.3.0 released PHP 4.3.0 is out. Changes in this release include a new command line interface, a new streams API, an improved build system, the inclusion of the GD library, a number of security fixes, and more; see the announcement for details.
PHP News This week, the PHP News features the PHP Look Back, which summarizes PHP development in 2002, an announcement for PHP 4.3.0, and a new release of the PHP Manual CHM Edition.
PHP Weekly Summary Topics on this week's PHP Weekly Summary include: PHP 4.3 RC4, php-cgi vs. php-cli solved, PHP#, fixes for uniqid() and range(), and more.
Python Python 2.3a1 released The first Python 2.3 alpha release is now available. Python 2.3 concentrates mostly on library enhancements, rather than changes in the language itself. Click below for the announcement; you can also head over to this page for a detailed description of what's in this release.
This week's Python-URL Dr. Dobb's Python-URL for December 23 is out with the latest from the Python development community.
Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 30) The weekly Dr. Dobb's Python-URL is available, with news and links for the Python community.
The Daily Python-URL This week's Daily Python-URL article topics include: Python 2.3a1 released, PyZine: Year in Review, Sort in Python, Guide to Python introspection, A Python & XML Companion, The Daily Chump Bot, PyRapi version 0.2 has been released!, and more.
Charming Python: SimPy simplifies complex models (IBM developerWorks) David Mertz introduces SimPy on IBM's developerWorks. "The stochastic behavior of real-world systems is often difficult to understand or predict. Sometimes it is possible rigorously to demonstrate statistical properties of systems, such as average, worst-case, and best-case performance features. But at other times, pitfalls of concrete designs only become evident when you actually run (or simulate) a system. In this article, David takes a look at SimPy, a Python package that allows you to very easily create models of discrete event systems."
Ruby The Ruby Garden New topics on the Ruby Garden include the Ruby track at OSCON 2003, and debugging END{} section.
The Ruby Weekly News Topics on this week's Ruby Weekly News include: Build problems for FOX, FXRuby and FXScintilla?, Ruby on IRC, and RAA.your_project(name).freeze!. New Ruby software includes: RTrans 1.01, RDoc template system modification, RubyCocoa 0.4.0, Ruby-GNOME-0.2, Radical 0.6, Test::Unit 0.1.6, Ruby Document Bundle, and XTemplate.
Tcl/Tk Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! The December 26, 2002 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! is out with the latest Tcl/Tk development news. Read about stdout manipulation, the making of Christmas stars, the Toucan desktop IDE for Palm OS apps, Tcl puzzles, and much more.
Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! The December 31, 2002 Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! is available. Topics include the Tcl Scripting Language Components for Delphi, learning grid semantics, Tcl use at Verizon, disconnecting in-process GUI applications, Tcl under KDE, an introduction to Yorick, Tcl Wiki pages for educational software, and more.
XML From XML-RPC to SOAP: A Migration Guide (O'Reilly) Rich Salz writes about XML-RPC and SOAP on O'Reilly. "As you might expect from the name, XML-RPC is a way of using XML to send classic Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) over the net. XML-RPC's use of XML is very simple. It doesn't use namespaces. It doesn't even use attributes."
What Is RSS? (O'Reilly) Mark Pilgrim writes about RSS in his first article in the "Dive Into XML" series on O'Reilly. "RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way."
Debuggers GDB 5.3 released Version 5.3 of GDB, the Gnu Project Debugger, has been released. New features include: improved GNU/Linux shared library multi-threaded performance, gdbserver support for multi-threaded applications on some targets, and support for C/C++ preprocessor macros. Several new multi-arched targets are now supported, the Fujitsu FRV architecture has been added, and some obsolete configurations have been removed. See the release notes for more details.
Miscellaneous Jext programmer's editor A few new changes have been added to the Jext programmer's editor. The changes are summarized as: "two new plugins (Server Mapping and Jump) and an update of SQL Console which now accepts connections to any JDBC compliant database!"
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