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DevelopmentThe release of KDE 3.5.6 The K Desktop Environment team has announced the release of version 3.5.6 of KDE:
The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.6, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE now supports 65 languages, making it available to more people than most non-free software and can be easily extended to support others by communities who wish to contribute to the open source project.
This release includes a number of bugfixes for KHTML, Kate, the kicker, ksysguard and lots of other applications. Significant features include additional support for compiz as a window manager with kicker, session management browser tabs for Akregator, templating for KMail messages, and new summary menus for Kontact making it easier to work with your appointments and to-do's.
The majority of changes documented in the KDE 3.5.6 Change Log are bug fixes, feature additions that address other problems and general code cleanup. Some of the new features introduced in this release include:
If you want to try KDE out, it has been integrated into this list of Linux distributions, the more adventurous may want to look at the KDE 3.5.6 Info Page for download and build instructions. New KDE users should delve into the Getting Answers to Your Questions document for background information.
System Applications Database Software Firebird 2.0.1 Release Candidate 1 is available Version 2.0.1 RC 1 of the Firebird DBMS is available. "The Firebird team has placed Windows and Linux kits of a Firebird 2.0.1 release candidate in the pre-release area. Feedback to the Firebird-devel or Firebird-test forums, please."
SQLite version 3.3.12 released Version 3.3.12 of the SQLite DBMS has been announced. "The first published build of the previous version used the wrong set of source files. Consequently, many people downloaded a build that was labeled as "3.3.11" but was really 3.3.10. Version 3.3.12 is released to clear up the ambiguity. A couple more bugs have also been fixed and PRAGMA integrity_check has been enhanced."
Filesystem Utilities dbtoy 0.8 released Stable version 0.8 of dbtoy has been announced. "DBToy is a FUSE-based filesystem for GNU/Linux that lets you browse the contents of a relational database through a set of directories and XML files. Additional formats can be obtained through XSL stylesheets."
oyepa 2.0 released Stable version 2.0 of oyepa has been announced. "oyepa implements a "fake but working" tagging file system. Users can organize and retrieve documents based on the tags attached to them. No changes to the operating system or applications are [n]ecessary."
Interoperability Samba 4 technology preview release 4 The fourth technology preview release of Samba 4 is available for testing. "Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is 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. While we welcome your interest in Samba 4, we don't want you to run your network with it quite yet."
Mail Software Bogofilter 1.1.5 released Stable version 1.1.5 of Bogofilter, a spam filter, is out. "This release fixes a problem in the block-on-subnets option and fixes a Makefile problem for MAC-OSX."
Security Sussen 0.34 released Version 0.34 of Sussen, a configuration and vulnerability scanner, is out with bug fixes and other improvements.
Web Site Development Drake CMS v0.2.8 Alpha (SourceForge) Version 0.2.8 alpha of Drake CMS has been announced. "Drake CMS is a dynamic web authoring and content managment system; it can be installed in a few minutes, almost all databases are supported plus an embedded flat file database. Its top features are security, speed, easy management and high customization. Some features and bugfixing for this new version 0.2.8 release".
Midgard 1.8.2 released Version 1.8.2 of the Midgard content management system is out. "Midgard 1.8.2 release includes major bugfixes and replication framework en[]hancements: Improved replication API, Major sitegroup and multilang fixes, Major stability fixes for PHP5 bindings".
Desktop Applications Audio Applications Ardour progress Progress continues on the Ardour digital audio workstation project, as told in the development diary. "Work is proceeding on getting Ardour 2.0 ready to enter the “RC” (release candidate) phase. Today, I managed to fix two significant issues". The Ardour fund raising effort is also moving forward, it has reached 78% of its February 28 goal of $8000.
eSpeak 1.19 released Version 1.19 of eSpeak is out. "eSpeak produces good quality English speech. It uses a different synthesis method from other open source TTS engines, and sounds quite different. It's perhaps not as natural or "smooth", but I find the articulation clearer and easier to listen to for long periods. It can run as a command line program to speak text from a file or from stdin. A shared library version is also available."
Gnome Simple Stateful Music Player 0.1 released Version 0.1 of Gnome Simple Stateful Music Player has been announced. "Gnome Simple Stateful Music Player is a small, simple music player that keeps out of your way whenever possible. It remembers what you were playing when you exited, and continues in the same place the next time you start. It doesn't build a database of your audio tracks: instead it works with your files and directories directly."
BitTorrent Applications Azureus 2.5.0.4 released (SourceForge) Version 2.5.0.4 of Azureus 2.5.0.4 is available. "Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform Java BitTorrent client. This release contains new features, improvements and fixes, such as reduced memory footprint and faster startup times. This is primarily a bugfix release."
CAD Kicad 2007-01-15 released Version 2007-01-15 of Kicad, an electronic printed circuit board CAD system, is out with bug fixes.
Data Visualization RRDtool 1.2.18 released Version 1.2.18 of RRDtool, a logging and graphing utility for time-series data, is available. "Use it to write your custom monitoring shell scripts or create whole applications using its Perl, Python or PHP bindings." The source code and change information is available from the download area.
Desktop Environments GNOME 2.16.3 released Version 2.16.3 of the GNOME desktop environment is out. "This is the final release in a series of point releases for the 2.16 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 continues on the GNOME 2.17/2.18 road, we didn't forget about making a new release that is rock solid. And simply better than the previous one."
GNOME 2.17.90 Development Release (GnomeDesktop) GnomeDesktop has announced the release of GNOME 2.17.90. "This release marks the start of the UI Freeze. If you break the freeze your picture will be added to the HIG under the heading "Banned for Life" and will have to live with the stigma of causing the "worst freeze ever"."
GARNOME 2.17.90 released Version 2.17.90 of GARNOME, the bleeding-edge GNOME distribution, is out. "We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.17.90 Desktop and Developer Platform. This release includes all of GNOME 2.17.90 (aka 2.18.0 Beta 1), tweaked and updated with love by the GARNOME Team."
GNOME Software Announcements The following new GNOME software has been announced this week:
The Road to KDE 4: Kalzium and KmPlot (KDE.News) KDE.News looks at upcoming versions of the Kalzium and KmPlot utilities. "And finally, the most visible change to Kalzium is the inclusion of the Kalzium 3D work, which turns the program into a 3D molecule viewer. Initially, it was developed by the Kalzium developers for use in this application only, but some collaboration has since happened and it will now be using libavogadro a library jointly developed by the Kalzium and Avogadro developers."
KDE Software Announcements The following new KDE software has been announced this week:
KDE Commit-Digest (KDE.News) The January 28, 2007 edition of the KDE Commit-Digest has been announced. The content summary says: "KGoldRunner begins the transition to a scalable graphics interface. okular gains support for DjVu metadata, and investigates the use of threaded text extraction in order to prevent interface freezes. Continued improvement in the font KControl configuration module. More 3d and contemporary effects in the kwin_composite branch. Multiple, discriminatory language spellchecking develops in Sonnet. Improved support for BMP and ZIP files in Strigi. Import of user documentation for Mailody. Optimisations in the Dolphin filemanager. An important stage in the replacement of kdesktop elements with krunner is completed. KTorrent makes exploratory moves towards a KDE 4 port. KSirc, an IRC client, is removed from KDE SVN."
Xorg Software Announcements The following new Xorg software has been announced this week:
Electronics Icarus Verilog 20070123 released Development snapshot 20070123 of Icarus Verilog, an electronic simulation language compiler, has been announced, See the release notes for change information.
Games Eris 1.3.12 released Version 1.3.12 of Eris has been announced. "Eris is the WorldForge client-side session layer, used by many existing clients. This is a development release, as the API may change prior to the final release of Eris 1.4.0. However, any changes should be minor and easy to incorporate into clients - testing is recommended and appreciated."Also, the WorldForge site mentions the availability of packaged versions of Ember, Sear and Cyphesis.
MaNGOS 0.6 released (SourceForge) Version 0.6 of MaNGOS is available. "MaNGOS is an object-oriented Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game Server (MMORPGS). It's an educational project, to help developers get familar with large scale C++ and C# development projects. Version 0.6 introduces a lot of improvements, and feature completions since MaNGOS 0.5 has been released."
Graphics K-3D 0.6.7.0 released (SourceForge) Version 0.6.7.0 of K-3D has been announced. "K-3D is the free (as in freedom) 3d modeling, animation, and rendering system. K-3D 0.6 is the third major release of K-3D. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to K-3D 0.6 for its completely rewritten user interface, many new features, and significantly improved stability over 0.4."
GUI Packages wxPython 2.8.1.1 released Version 2.8.1.1 of wxPython, a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language, has been announced. "This release adds a few minor enhancements and a number of bug fixes designed to further stabalize the 2.8.x release series."
Interoperability Wine 0.9.30 released Version 0.9.30 of Wine has been announced. "Wine 0.9.30 was released today, with the following main changes: Many improvements to Direct3D shaders and state management. Support for inter-process memory allocations. OLE32 marshalling fixes. Lots of bug fixes."
Multimedia Christine 0.0.3 released Stable version 0.0.3 of Christine has been announced. "Christine lets you play your audio and video files in the same application. In a very very easy way. As christine is inte[n]ded to be small, and cute we currently had no support for internet radio station, but we will in the future."
Music Applications Goggles Music Manager 0.6.2 announced Version 0.6.2 of Goggles Music Manager is out with lots of new features. "Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes MP3, MP4, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and Musepack files based on genre, artist, album, and song. There is no need to create playlists of any kind. Just select one or more artists and albums to start playing your music."
Office Suites OpenOffice.org Newsletter The January, 2007 edition of the OpenOffice.org Newsletter is out with the latest OO.o office suite articles and events.
Video Applications PiTiVi 0.10.2 released Version 0.10.2 of PiTiVi, a video editor, is available. "The goal of this series is to allow users to test new versions often, give their feedback, and remove bugs more often."
Languages and Tools C GCC 4.1.2 RC1 Version 4.1.2 RC1 of GCC, the Gnu Compiler Collection, is out. "As with all prereleases, the issue of most concern to me is packaging. Therefore, please test the actual pre-release tarballs, rather than sources from SVN. Beyond packaging problems, I'm most concerned about regression from previous 4.1.x releases, since the primary purpose of 4.1.2 is to provide an upgrade path from previous 4.1.x releases, incorporating the bug fixes since 4.1.1."
Caml Caml Weekly News The January 30, 2007 edition of the Caml Weekly News is out with new Caml language articles.
Haskell Haskell Weekly News The January 31, 2007 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is online. A great number of new libraries and projects are announced.
XML Qexo 1.9.1 has been released Version 1.9.1 of Qexo, the GNU Kawa implementation of XQuery, is available with a build fix. See the news file for more information.
IDEs KDevelop 3.4 announced (KDE.News) KDE.News has announced the release of KDevelop version 3.4, the KDE development environment. "The first major release in over a year closes more than 500 bugs. There is an impressive list of additional features including improved Qt 4 support, new debugging abilities, more attractive default user interface layout and improvements for C++, Ruby and PHP support. Packages are available for Kubuntu and openSUSE with unofficial builds for several others on the download page."
Sun and NetBeans community announce NetBeans 5.5 IDE Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the release of version 5.5 of the NetBeans 5.5 IDE for the Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese and Traditional Chinese languages. "In addition, the NetBeans Translation Project has received numerous other language contributions including: Albanian, Azerbaijani, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Swedish. A number of these language translations are the result of interest from Java User Groups around the world."
Profilers Valgrind 3.2.2 is available Version 3.2.2 of Valgrind, a suite of simulation-based debugging and profiling tools, is out. "3.2.2 fixes a bunch of bugs in 3.2.1, adds support for glibc-2.5 based systems (openSUSE 10.2, Fedora Core 6), further reduces memcheck's false error rate on all targets, improves support for icc-9.X compiled code, and brings modest performance improvements in some areas."
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