Development

The release of GNU Privacy Guard version 2.0.0

GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is an open-source encryption utility that was started in 1997 as a replacement for the commercial application PGP. GnuPG runs on a wide variety of operating system platforms.

Stable version 2.0.0 of GnuPG has been announced, it represents an architectural design fork for the project.

New features in GnuPG version 2 include:

• A gpg-agent daemon for maintaining private keys and a passphrase cache.
• A new implementation of the S/MIME protocol via the gpgsm command line tool.
• The scdaemon daemon for accessing smart cards.
• The gpg-connect-agent tool, which allows scripts to access gpg-agent and scdaemon services.
• The gpgconf tool for maintaining configuration files.
• Support for the Dirmngr server, which manages certificate revocation lists and more.
• Secure Shell Agent protocol support and built-in ssh-agent capabilities.
• The addition of smart card support to the Secure Shell.
• Improved documentation.

The GnuPG project has succeeded in filling an important space in the open-source tool collection. The release of version 2 shows that the project is moving forward with the addition of a lot of new functionality.

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System Applications

Database Software

Firebird 2.0 released

Version 2.0 of the Firebird relational DBMS has been announced. "This new version offers many new enhancements: support for 64 bit Linux (64 bit support for other platforms to follow shortly), table sizes above 30Gb, enhanced Unicode support, improved optimizer, improved security, execution of dynamic SQL inside stored procedures, greater index key length, and a new incremental backup facility."

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PostgreSQL 8.2 beta 3 is ready for testing

Version 8.2 beta 3 of the PostgreSQL DBMS has been announced. "This beta includes a substantial fix to a WAL issue, so users are urged to test Beta3 using PITR and to try power-failure tests."

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Interoperability

Samba 3.0.23d released

Version 3.0.23d of Samba has been announced, it adds stability fixes for winbindd and portability fixes for the FreeBSD and Solaris platforms. "This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the version that production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes."

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Libraries

Cairo 1.2.6 released

Version 1.2.6 of Cairo, a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices, is available. The change log states: "This is the third bug fix release in the 1.2 series, coming less than two months after the 1.2.4 release made on August 18. The 1.2.4 release turned out to be a pretty solid one, except for a crasher bug when forwarding an X connection where the client and the server have varying byte orders, eg. from a PPC to an i686. Other than that, various other small bugs have been fixed."

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Mail Software

SIEVE Language for Mail Filtering Quick Guide

Alina Popescu has released a quick guide on SIEVE, a mail filtering language. "SIEVE is a language created and used for mail filtering that broadens the filtering options generally provided by mail servers or Antispam/Antivirus applications. They work basically by comparing different keys using different comparators and comparison methods, against headers of a mail message. Based on the result of the comparison, you can apply different actions to the corresponding mail message, i.e. reject, discard, redirect, etc."

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Networking Tools

Bigboos 1.3 released

Version 1.3 of Bigboos is out. "BigBoos is one of the fully open source network monitoring System from YinuxPRO (SuYash LinuxPROjects).It uses standard unix ping command to check the status of hosts as well as the snmp if the ping returns 100% loss."

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Web Site Development

mnoGoSearch 3.2.40 released

Version 3.2.40 of mnoGoSearch, a web site search engine, is out with numerous bug fixes. See the changelog for more information.

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Desktop Applications

Audio Applications

Ardour 2.0 beta 8 released

Version 2.0 beta 8 of Ardour, a multi-track audio workstation package, is out: "Another solid week of bug fixing leads us to 2.0 beta 8." See the release announcement for more details.

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Snd-ls V0.9.7.12 and jack_capture V0.3.9 released

Version 0.9.7.7 of the sound editor Snd-ls, and version 0.3.9 of the JACK recording application jack_capture, have been announced.

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Desktop Environments

GNOME 2.17.2 released

Version 2.17.2 of the GNOME desktop environment is available. "This is our second development release on our road towards GNOME 2.18.0, which will be released in March 2007. New features are coming in at a nice rate, and that's great. A lot of bug fixes too. And some crashers are appearing here and there: that's the fun of unstable releases!"

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GARNOME 2.17.2 released

Version 2.17.2 of GARNOME, the bleeding edge GNOME distribution, is out. "This release includes all of GNOME 2.17.2 plus a whole bunch of updates that were released after the GNOME freeze date. This is the second release in the unstable cycle, with more features, more fixes and yet more madness added."

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GNOME Software Announcements

The following new GNOME software has been announced this week:

• gnoMint 0.1.3 (new features and bug fixes)
• Gossip 0.19 (bug fixes and translation work)
• Gwget 0.98.2 (new features, bug fixes and translation work)
• Labyrinth 0.3 (new features, bug fixes and translation work)
• monotone 0.31 (new features, bug fixes and translation work)
• nemiver 0.1.0 (initial release)
• system-monitor 2.17.2.1 (new features and bug fixes)
• xdm 1.1.1 (bug fixes)

You can find more new GNOME software releases at gnomefiles.org.

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D-Bus 1.0 'Blue Bird' Released (KDE.News)

KDE.News takes a look at D-Bus version 1.0. "D-Bus 1.0 ("Blue Bird"), the Freedesktop.org inter-process messaging system has just been released. A collaborative effort between industry and open source developers, D-Bus was created to allow arbitrary applications to easily communicate with each other and exchange data. An additional system daemon allows for communication with system services. D-Bus is known to work on all Unix platforms and has also been ported to Mac OS X, while a Windows port is in progress. This makes D-Bus the ideal messaging system for KDE 4."

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KDE Software Announcements

The following new KDE software has been announced this week:

• KBib 0.5.3 (new features and bug fixes)

You can find more new KDE software releases at kde-apps.org.

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KDE Commit-Digest (KDE.News)

The November 12, 2006 edition of the KDE Commit-Digest has been announced. The content summary says: "KViewShell is renamed Ligature. Okular gets support for Text and Line annotations. KSame and Konquest start their conversion to SVG graphics. Marble gets enhanced support for presenting and displaying geographical data interactively, and showing national flags. Mailody, the alternative email client, continues to develop at a rapid pace. Telepathy support in Kopete starts to emerge from experiment towards a usable implementation. Kile gets scripting support, with improvements to scripting across KOffice. KPresenter receives export to text document (OpenDocument) functionality. Improvements in the Magnatune music store facility in Amarok."

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Xfce 4.4 Release Candidate 2 (4.3.99.2) released

Release Candidate 2 of Xfce 4.4, a light weight desktop environment, is out. "The second and hopefully last release candidate of the Xfce 4.4 desktop is now available for download. This release focuses primarily on bug fixes and optimizations. Please refer to the changelog for a list of fixes and changes. Please help us making Xfce 4.4 the best Xfce release ever, download it, try it, help us fixing it!"

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Electronics

Covered 0.4.8 released

Stable version 0.4.8 of Covered, a Verilog code coverage analysis tool, is out "This is a bug fix release only."

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gSpiceUI 0.8.90 announced

Version 0.8.90 of gSpiceUI, a GUI for two electronic circuit simulation engines, has been announced. It adds several new features and fixes some bugs.

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OpenTech CDROM 1.6.1 released

Version 1.6.1 of the OpenTech CDROM project is available. "OpenTech 1.6.1. is ready with 10 CDs full of new designs, tools and even some books and tutorials in topics like, wireless, VLSI, VHDL, and basic electronics." The CDROM set costs 77 Euros.

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Games

Welcome Castlegard (WorldForge)

The WorldForge virtual world project has added a new castle. "Kai finally got around to place jayr’s fantastic castle on the mason map. Now people can start exploring the castle, and we can get started adding some gameplay. Castle defence anyone?"

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GUI Packages

wxWidgets 2.8.0 RC 1 released

Version 2.8.0 RC 1 of wxWidgets, a cross-platform GUI toolkit, is out, the announcement states: "A few minor bugs have been fixed since 2.7.2; we will release 2.8.0 in a couple of weeks, and as ever, testing of this release candidate will be appreciated. "

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wxPython 2.7.2.0 is out

Version 2.7.2.0 of wxPython, a blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python programming language, has been announced. "This is expected to be the last stepping stone in the path to the next stable release series, 2.8.x. We're driving full speed ahead in order to get 2.8.0 included with OSX 10.5, and so far we are very close to being on schedule. This release has some house-keeping style changes, as well as some user-contributed patches and also the usual crop of bug fixes."

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xorg-server 1.1.99.902 announced

Version 1.1.99.902 of xorg-server is out with a long list of bug fixes and new features.

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Interoperability

Wine 0.9.25 released

Version 0.9.25 of Wine has been announced. Changes include: Many more fixes for installer support, many MSHTML improvements, support for NTLMv2, RPC over TCP improvements and lots of bug fixes.

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Mail Clients

Claws Mail 2.6.0 released

Claws Mail, the mail client formerly known as Sylpheed-claws, has released version 2.6.0. There's a number of new features, as well as the new name, which, according to the web site, is "...mainly due to different goals and the fact that syncing both codebases doesn't happen anymore." So it seems that the separation from Sylpheed is complete.

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Medical Applications

Release of OpenClinica 2.0 (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has an announcement for OpenClinica 2.0, an open-source clinical research software platform. "OpenClinica is an open source web-based software platform that enables sponsors and investigators to manage clinical research data in multi-site studies. It facilitates protocol configuration, design of case report forms, electronic data capture, and study/data management. OpenClinica supports HIPAA and 21 CFR Part 11 guidelines and is designed as a strictly standards-based, extensible, and modular platform."

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Office Suites

New OpenOffice.org charting features

Some new OpenOffice.org charting capabilities have been announced, new features include: a new chart wizard, flexible source ranges, easier settings for 3D charts, enhanced logarithmic scales, pie segment offset for 3D charts, enhanced automatic scaling, improved automatic axis label layout, improved selection handling, regression curves are available for 2D line charts, 2D bar and column charts and 2D area charts, and several new sub chart types.

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Video Applications

Announcing KungFu 0.1.0

KungFu 0.1.0 has been announced. "KungFu is a GStreamer-based DVD ripper written in Python. It transcodes DVD tiles to Theora/Vorbis. It is more or less complete, but still lacks audio track language selection, subtitle support, and meta data writing. The GUI is done with GTK."

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Web Browsers

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 released (MozillaZine)

Version 1.5.0.8 of both the Mozilla Firefox browser and Mozilla Thunderbird email client have been announced. "Security and Stability updates for Mozilla products based on the Gecko 1.8 branch have been released. Firefox 1.5.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until April 2007. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 2."

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SeaMonkey 1.0.6 and SeaMonkey 1.1 Beta Released (MozillaZine)

Two new versions of Seamonkey have been announced. "Seamonkey 1.0.6, a security and stability update for the all-in-one Internet Suite has been released. The Seamonkey 1.0.6 Release Notes have more information. SeaMonkey 1.1 Beta, a version aimed at developers and testers has also been released. New features include tab previews, spell check, an e-mail tagging system, an improved Linux startup script, better new mail notifications and an updated Chatzilla IRC client."

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Languages and Tools

Caml

Caml Weekly News

The November 14, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is out with new Caml language articles.

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Haskell

Haskell Weekly News

The November 14, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is online. This week we see the announcement of a Haskell to Javascript compiler project, and the overhaul of GHC's typeclass machinery is complete.

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Perl

Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary (O'Reilly)

The November 5-11, 2006 edition of the Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary is out with coverage of the latest Perl 6 discussions.

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Python

Python FAQ heading toward 1.0 release

A call for review has gone out for the semi-official Python FAQ, questions and answers are being reviewed in preparation for the upcoming 1.0 release.

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

The November 13, 2006 edition of Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! is online with a new collection of Python article links.

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Tcl/Tk

Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

The November 14, 2006 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! is online with new Tcl/Tk articles and resources.

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XML

Cracks in the Foundation (XML.com)

Micah Dubinko reports on some controversy surrounding XML namespaces. "The last week in October wasn't the smoothest for the W3C HTML Working Group. First, a notable blog entry criticized their handling of XML namespaces, leading to a formal objection. On top of that, Tim Berners-Lee blogged that new and separate HTML and forms Working Groups would be chartered to "incrementally" update HTML, in contrast with the groups' present approach. More on that later. As has always been the case, XML Annoyances aims to stimulate discussion on XML topics by challenging entrenched views. This article digs beneath the surface issues and encourages others to do the same."

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