LWN Weekly Edition
Front pageSecurity
Kernel development
Distributions
Development
Linux in the news
Announcements
->One big page
This page
Previous weekFollowing week
| |||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||
DevelopmentProgress on the Linux Desktop Testing ProjectThe Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) is a desktop application testing framework that was originally announced in January, 2005.
GNU/Linux Desktop Testing Project (GNU/LDTP) is aimed at producing [a] high quality test automation framework and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test [the] GNU/Linux Desktop and improve it. It uses the Accessibility libraries to poke through the application's user interface. The framework also has tools to record test-cases based on user-selection on the application.
GNU/LDTP core framework uses Appmap and the recorded test-cases to test an application and gives the status of each test-case as output.
Version 0.8.0 of LDTP was recently announced: "This release features number of important breakthroughs in LDTP as well as in the field of Test Automation." New capabilities of LDTP 0.8.0 include:
System Applications Database Software PostgreSQL Weekly NewsThe February 18, 2007 edition of the PostgreSQL Weekly News is online with the latest PostgreSQL DBMS articles and resources.
wxSQLite3 1.7.2 released (SourceForge)Version 1.7.2 of wxSQLite3 is available. "The new version 1.7.2 of wxSQLite3 - a thin wrapper for the SQLite database for wxWidgets applications - now supports the current version 3.3.12 of SQLite. The wxSQLite3 API is now independent of optional features; it can be checked at runtime for which optional features wxSQLite3 was compiled. Since on Linux support for loadable extensions is not compiled into SQLite by default it has been made optional in wxSQLite3 as well."
Mail Software Apache SpamAssassin 3.1.8 releasedVersion 3.1.8 of Apache SpamAssassin has been released. "This is a maintenance and security release of the 3.1.x branch. It is highly recommended that people upgrade to this version."
Openchange MAILOOK milestoneOpenchange has announced the availability of a Linux MAPI library which will allow Linux users to access an exchange mail server. "The OpenChange team is very proud to announce we have released on our repository a first experimental but working implementation of our MAPI Library under Linux. Libmapi is a client-side MAPI library implementation designed to make MAPI messaging applications development under Linux trivial." (Thanks to Joerg Mayer.)
Printing CUPS 1.2.8 releasedVersion 1.2.8 of the CUPS printing system has been announced. "CUPS 1.2.8 adds a French localization, updates the Japanese and Spanish localizations, and fixes several web interface, printing, and networking bugs."
CUPS Driver Development Kit 1.1.0 announcedVersion 1.1.0 of the CUPS Driver Development Kit has been announced. "The new release adds support for creating globalized and compressed PPDs with configurable line endings, includes a new ppdmerge utility, and fixes some platform and packaging issues. The CUPS Driver Development Kit (DDK) provides a suite of standard drivers, a PPD file compiler, and other utilities that can be used to develop printer drivers for CUPS and other printing environments."
Web Site Development Mod_python 3.3.1 releasedVersion 3.3.1 of Mod_python, a Python language extension to the Apache web server, is out. See the online documentation for change history.
Desktop Applications Audio Applications Aqualung 0.9 beta 7.1 releasedVersion 0.9 beta 7.1 of Aqualung, a cross-platform music player, is available. "This is an update to our recent 0.9beta7 release, containing some important fixes to bugs that were found as a result of the greater user coverage after the release of 0.9beta7."
Mammut 0.57 releasedVersion 0.57 of Mammut, an FFT audio spectrum analysis package, has been released. This version adds new features, Mac and Windows ports and more.
Data Visualization Grace 5.1.21 is availableVersion 5.1.21 of Grace, a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool, has been announced. "This is a maintenance release of the 5.1 series; an upgrade is recommended."
Desktop Environments GNOME 2.18.0 Beta 2 released (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop has announced the release of GNOME 2.18.0 Beta 2. "Love is in the air! The GNOME 2.18.0 Beta 2 release is out to spread even more love in this Valentine's day. This is our second beta release on our road towards GNOME 2.18.0, which will be released in March 2007. So, If you're feeling alone, give some love to GNOME today by breaking it, fixing it, translating it, documenting it, and your [happiness] is g[u]aranteed tomorrow! Who knows? This release marks the start of the String Freeze. No, this doesn't have anything to do with the Finnish winter."
GARNOME 2.17.91 releasedVersion 2.17.91 of GARNOME, the bleeding-edge GNOME distribution, is out. "The "go go gadget garnome" release. We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.17.91 Desktop and Developer Platform. This release includes all of GNOME 2.17.91 (aka 2.18.0 Beta 2), tweaked and updated with love by the GARNOME Team."
GNOME Software AnnouncementsThe following new GNOME software has been announced this week:
KDE Commit-Digest for 18th February 2007 (KDE.News)The February 18, 2007 edition of the KDE Commit-Digest has been announced. The content summary says: "The Dolphin file manager is moved into kdebase. Continued work in Umbrello courtesy of the Student Mentoring program. Graphical element representations start to be introduced in Kalzium. More new country maps in KGeography. KSpaceDuel begins the porting process to a scalable graphics interface, with further SVG intergration work in KMines, KWin4, KNetWalk, KBlackBox and KMahjongg. KolourPaint gains the ability to interface with image scanning hardware. Improved handling of the XPS document format in okular. Lilypond export functionality in KTabEdit. More work in the KDE Fonts Manager. The KNewStuff2 framework reaches new milestones in its reworking for KDE 4."
Quickies: Dev Wiki, Sonnet, Jambi, Scientific Analysis and CSS Compliance (KDE.News)KDE.News presents another Quickies article. "Vote for the name of the new KDE developer and sysadmin wiki. *** Nathan Sanders reveals that KDE 4's Sonnet will turbocharge language processing at Linux.com. *** Trolltech announced the first beta release of Qt Jambi, now available for testing and feedback. *** ChainLink is a new Qt 4 integrated environment for scientific data analysis and visualisation using Matlab/Octave/Scilab compatible syntax. ..."
KDE Software AnnouncementsThe following new KDE software has been announced this week:
Xorg Software AnnouncementsThe following new Xorg software has been announced this week:
Encryption Software PasswordSafe 3.06 released (SourceForge)Version 3.06 of PasswordSafe is out. "Password Safe is a password database utility. Users can keep their passwords securely encrypted on their computers. A single Safe Combination unlocks them all. Version 3.06 is a minor release - some annoying bugs have been fixed, some features have been improved upon."
Games Ember 0.4.2 release candidate 4Release candidate 4 of Ember 0.4.2 has been announced on the WorldForge game site. "This release should be stable and contains no known bugs. If you have problems running it, please send a mail to Erik."
Interoperability Wine 0.9.31 releasedVersion 0.9.31 of Wine has been announced. Changes include: Many Direct3D fixes and performance improvements, Several new comctl32 test cases, IDL compiler improvements, More OLE32 marshalling fixes and lots of bug fixes.
Wine Weekly NewsletterThe February 19, 2007 edition of the Wine Weekly Newsletter is online with coverage of the Wine project. Topics include: News: Wine 0.9.31, CrossOver 6.0, DIB Engine Discussion, Summer of Code 2007, GNOME & Freedesktop Menus, Direct3D Screenshots, Toolbar Regression, RHEL 3 RPM's, and IE Developers Toolbar.
Mail Clients Bongo Project releases initial milestone: 0.1.0Version 0.1.0 of Bongo has been announced. "Bongo is a project to create fun and simple mail & calendaring software. As well as providing a well-featured but extensible set of server software, it also comes with a user-friendly web interface. The Bongo Project is pleased to announce the release of Bongo 0.1, which represents the first milestone on our roadmap. This is a source-only release intended for hackers and users who want to get an early preview of what we're building."
Multimedia Elisa 0.1.4 announcedVersion 0.1.4 of Elisa has been announced, it adds new features and bug fixes. "Elisa is a project to create an open source cross platform media center solution. While our primary development and deployment platform is GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems we also currently support Microsoft Windows and also hope to support MacOSX in the future. Elisa runs on top of the GStreamer multimedia framework and is develop[]ed in Python."
Music Applications CLAM 0.98 releasedVersion 0.98 of CLAM, a C++ framework for doing research and application development in audio and music, is available. "Apart from MacOS build, this release features KDE integration for NetworkEditor and Prototyper (so you can open network files from Konqueror), MFCCs added to Annotators extractor example, and several fixes (thanks James). FLTK module has been dropped and it is not being compiled by default. It will be completely removed on the next release."
Office Applications HylaFAX 4.3.2 releasedVersion 4.3.2 of HylaFAX, a fax modem interface, has been announced. "This release includes significant improvements to email templating, a system that offers server admins an unprecedented level of control over the branding of the email messages HylaFAX sends, and so we encourage you to check it out. As always, our sincerest thanks go to all who participate in the development and testing process."
Miscellaneous Laplock 0.0.4 releasedStable version 0.0.4 of Laplock is available. "Laplock locks your computer or laptop using a media card such as USB memory, SD, MMC, or a Memory Stick. Once you register a unique card, the program starts xlock or xscreensaver when it is removed and stops it once it is plugged in again."
Languages and Tools C GCC 4.1.2 releasedVersion 4.1.2 of GCC, the Gnu Compiler Collection, is out. "This release is a bug-fix release for problems in GCC 4.1.1. GCC 4.1.2 contains changes to correct regressions from previous releases, but no new features."
Caml Caml Weekly NewsThe February 20, 2007 edition of the Caml Weekly News is out with new Caml language articles.
Lisp Lython 1.0 announcedVersion 1.0 of Lython, a Lisp dialect compiler which outputs Python byte-code, has been announced. The description states: "Parses a lisp dialect using spark. Simple macros. Compiles to Python bytecode. Generates pyc, pyo files. Full-featured interactive interpreter. Based on Miles Egan's Lython."
PHP PHP 4.4.5 releasedVersion 4.4.5 of PHP has been released. See the ChangeLog file for a list of bug fixes and other improvements.
Python Jython 2.2 beta 1 announcedThe first beta release of Jython 2.2, a Python implementation on Java, is available. "This release contains all of the major features for a 2.2 release, so it's a significant milestone towards 2.2 proper. It's being released to solicit feedback about any bugs or missing features; if you can, download it and check for issues. "
PyPy 0.99 releasedVersion 0.99 of PyPy, a Python interpreter implementation and an advanced compiler, has been announced. "Welcome to the PyPy 0.99.0 release - a major snapshot and milestone of the last 8 months of work and contributions since PyPy-0.9.0 came out in June 2006!"
Tcl/Tk Tcl-URL!The February 15, 2007 edition of the Tcl-URL! is online with new Tcl/Tk articles and resources.
Tcl-URL!The February 20, 2007 edition of the Tcl-URL! is online with new Tcl/Tk articles and resources.
XML Introducing RDFa (O'Reilly)O'Reilly has published part one of a series on RDFa. "In this first part of a two-part series, Bob DuCharme introduces us to RDFa, a new, XHTML-friendly standard syntax for RDF metadata that allows you to embed RDF metadata into the Web in a novel way."
IDEs Wing IDE 2.1.4 releasedVersion 2.1.4 of Wing IDE, a Python language integrated development environment, has been announced. "This is a bug fix release that among other things fixes handling of UTF-8 byte order marks, improves auto-completion for PyQt 4, reports exceptions correctly in Python < 2.2, fixes some problems with Subversion 1.4, does better adaptive scrolling on OS X, and displays menus correctly in Hebrew locales."
Page editor: Forrest Cook |
|
||||||||||||
![[LDTP]](/images/ns/ldtp-logo-small.png){kind=logo}
The LDTP