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DevelopmentPostgreSQL 8.2 Enters BetaA beta release of version 8.2 of the PostgreSQL object-relational database management system has been announced:
Feature freeze for version 8.2 took place on August 1st, 2006. Since that time we have gone through the submitted patch queue and applied all outstanding patches that were deemed ready for release. As of this time, we are now releasing beta releases for all to test.
A much more detailed listing of improvements is shown in the version 8.2 release notes. A new version of the PostgreSQL documentation is also being released with version 8.2. Testing help has been requested, the code is available for download here.
System Applications Database Software PostgreSQL Weekly NewsThe October 22, 2006 edition of the PostgreSQL Weekly News is online with the latest PostgreSQL DBMS news and information.
Interoperability Samba 4.0.0TP3 AvailableRelease 4.0.0 TP3 of Samba has been announced. "Samba 4 is an ambitious development effort of the Samba project, being developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used by Windows 2000 and above. Samba 4 is currently not yet in a state where it is usable in production environments."
Printing Common UNIX Printing System 1.2.5 releasedVersion 1.2.5 of CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, is out. "CUPS 1.2.5 fixes minor printing, networking, and documentation issues and adds support for older versions of DBUS and a translation for Estonian."Also, the CUPS Imaging library license has been changed. "Effective immediately, the CUPS Imaging library (libcupsimage*) is now provided under the same license as the CUPS API library, version 2 of the GNU Library General Public License. This change allows printer manufacturers and driver developers to ship CUPS raster drivers with or without source on all operating systems."
Desktop Applications Audio Applications jack_mixer announcedThe jack_mixer project has been launched. "jack_mixer is GTK (2.x) JACK audio mixer with look similar to it`s hardware counterparts. It has lot of useful features, apart from being able to mix multiple JACK audio streams."
Desktop Environments GNOME 2.17.1 releasedVersion 2.17.1 of GNOME has been announced. "Welcome to the new GNOME development cycle! Please fasten your seat belt: you're going to see a lot of exciting new changes!, new features!, new bugfixes!, new translations!, new documentation!. Lots of modules have great plans for 2.18 and if you're willing to help, there's a lot of areas where you'll be heartily welcomed!"
GARNOME 2.17.1 releasedVersion 2.17.1 of GARNOME, the bleeding-edge GNOME distribution, is out. "This release includes all of GNOME 2.17.1 plus a whole bunch of updates that were released after the GNOME freeze date."
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 PIM Bug Triage on Saturday 28 October 2006 (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced the next bug triage day, October 28, 2006. "At the time of writing the two largest PIM applications, KMail and KOrganizer, have about 3400 open bugs and wishes in Buzilla. For developers it is almost impossible to get an overview. That is why a bug triage day is being organised in order to reduce the amount of bugs in the Bugzilla system."
KDE Commit-Digest (KDE.News)The October 22, 2006 edition of the KDE Commit-Digest has been announced. The content summary says: "the location for aKademy 2007 is Glasgow, Scotland. The KDE backbone of the NEPOMUK research project has been imported into KDE SVN. A GUI editor for database lookup columns has been added in Kexi. More SVG card sets are added to the resurgent KDE games for KDE 4. User interface enhancements in Kst and Kalzium. Multimedia file tag handling improvements in Amarok (.wav) and Strigi (.mp3). Strigi-enhanced versions of the standard find and grep utilities introduced. Three utilities from a suite of ODBC and database tools surface in kdenonbeta."
Electronics Covered 20061020 released (OpenCollector)Version 20061020 of Covered, a Verilog code coverage utility, has been announced. "Added support for memories/multi-dimensional arrays, memory coverage metrics and bitwise combinational logic coverage output. Also contains bug fixes, documentation updates, language enhancements and optimizations."
gEDA/gaf 20061020 releasedRelease 20061020 of gEDA/gaf, a collection of electronic design tools, has been announced. "This is primarily a wrap up release to get various new features and bug fixes out to the community before we checkin some riskier changes. As summarized by an observer: "This one is better than the last .. enjoy!""
KJWaves 1.0.9 releasedVersion 1.0.9 of KJWaves has been announced. "KJWaves was written to be a cross-platform SPICE tool in pure Java. It aids in viewing, modifying, and simulating SPICE CIRCUIT files. Output from SPICE3 (ngspice) can be read and displayed. Resulting graphs may be printed and saved." This release adds improved German language translation and support for larger RAW files.
GUI Packages Security Updates for QtTrolltech has released Qt 3.3.7, Qt 4.1.5 and Qt 4.2.1. "A security flaw was discovered in the way Qt 3.x and 4.x handles pixmap images. This issue can occur only when transforming specially prepared images from untrusted sources. Qt 3.3.7, as well as Qt 4.1.5 and 4.2.1 correct this flaw." (Found on KDE.News)
Imaging Applications Free Image Manipulator 0.2.2 releasedVersion 0.2.2 of Free Image Manipulator has been announced, it adds new drag and drop capabilities as well as some bug fixes. "With FIM you can easily manipulate whole set of images at once. You are able to resize all images from the set to the same size and convert between the most popular file types like png, jpeg, gif. You can also add text with background to them with given opacity level and color or even paste your logo. "
Interoperability pyNeighborhood 0.3 releasedVersion 0.3 of pyNeighborhood is out. "pyNeighborhood is GTK+ 2 rewrite of a well-known GTK+ 1 tool LinNeighborhood(using pyGTK), so it is the GUI frontend for samba tools, such as smbclient, smbmount etc. It's written in Python and uses the GTK+ 2 toolkit with pyGTK implementation." See the change log for details on this version.
Music Applications Simple Sysexxer 0.1.1Version 0.1.1 of Simple Sysexxer has been released, it features bug fixes. "Simple Sysexxer is a tool to exchange sysex data with MIDI devices, e.g. to do backups of the device's memory contents or to send presets loaded from the web."
Web Browsers Firefox 2.0 availableIt's official at last: Firefox 2.0 is available. See this page for summary of the most significant changes; quite a bit has gone into this release.
Firefox 2.0-compatible extensionsIt only takes one Firefox upgrade to demonstrate that extensions can sometimes take a little while to catch up to the browser. For those who are wondering whether specific extensions are ready for Firefox 2.0, Bill's Big List of Firefox 2.0 Compatible Extensions might be useful. It seems there's almost 1000 of them...
Miscellaneous GnuPG 1.9.94 releasedVersion 1.9.94 of GnuPG, an encryption system, has been announced: "as promised here is another release of GnuPG. This is mainly to fix bugs found in 1.9.93. Thanks to all testers."
Languages and Tools Haskell Haskell Weekly NewsThe October 19, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is online. A big week, with a swag of new releases, including the long awaited GHC 6.6.
Haskell Weekly NewsThe October 24, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is online. Developments this week include SMP parallel Pugs/Perl 6 on the new GHC parallel runtime system, and a new release of MissingH.
Perl Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary (O'Reilly)The October 15-21, 2006 edition of the Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary is available. "This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists "The | notation is mentioned in S012:1029, by the way. Obviously you still haven't quite memorized all the synopses. :-)" -- Larry Wall, in 'class interface of roles'".
Python Python 2.4.4 Final is availableVersion 2.4.4 Final of Python is out. "Python 2.4.4 is a bug-fix release. While Python 2.5 is the latest version of Python, we're making this release for people who are still running Python 2.4. This is the final planned release from the Python 2.4 series. Future maintenance releases will be in the 2.5 series, beginning with 2.5.1."
Python 2.3.6 release candidate 1 is outRelease candidate 1 of Python 2.3.6 has been announced. "Python 2.3.6 is a security bug-fix release. While Python 2.5 is the latest version of Python, we're making this release for people who are still running Python 2.3. Unlike the recently released 2.4.4, this release only contains a small handful of security-related bugfixes."
python-dev SummaryThe August 16-31, 2006 edition of the python-dev Summary is online with coverage of the python-dev mailing list.
XML 4Suite XML 1.0 announcedVersion 1.0 of 4Suite XML, a Python-based XML processing library, has been announced. "Thanks to all the testers, there are a number of important fixes and improvements since 1.0rc4, and we strongly recommend upgrade from all previous versions."
Miscellaneous The Linux binutils 2.17.50.0.6 is releasedVersion 2.17.50.0.6 of the Linux binutils has been announced. "This is the beta release of binutils 2.17.50.0.6 for Linux, which is based on binutils 2006 1020 in CVS on sources.redhat.com plus various changes. It is purely for Linux. Starting from the 2.17.50.0.6 release, the default output section LMA (load memory address) has changed for allocatable sections from being equal to VMA (virtual memory address), to keeping the difference between LMA and VMA the same as the previous output section in the same region."
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The major changes in version 8.2 include: