Development

Samba 3.0.0 Beta 3

The Beta 3 release of the open-source, Microsoft-compatible file and printer server software Samba, has been announced.

The What's New document for this release has a quick summary of the changes: "There have been significant additions to winbindd's functionality in this release as well as changes to Samba's SID<->UNIX id mapping features."

A more detailed list of changes includes:

• Active Directory support with LDAP/Kerberos authentication.
• Unicode support and support for multi-byte character sets.
• A rewritten, more configurable authentication system.
• A new filename mangling system.
• A new "net" command that is similar to the Windows equivalent.
• NT style status32 code negotiation for better error handling.
• Improved Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing capabilities.
• Support for loadable RPC modules.
• A faster dual-daemon winbindd process.
• Support for migrating from Windows NT 4 domains to Samba domains.
• Support for negotiating trust relations with NT 4 domain controllers.
• Preliminary support for a distributed Winbind architecture.
• Major documentation updates.

Despite the difficulties involved in reverse-engineering black-box software, the Samba development team continues to make major steps forward.

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System Applications

Audio Projects

Two new releases of JACK

Two new releases of JACK, the Jack Audio Connection Kit, are out this week. Version 0.74.0 features include new documentation, a new --dither=none option, and code rearrangement. Version 0.74.1 fixes one compile bug.

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Database Software

MySQL 4.0.14 has been released

Version 4.0.14 of the MySQL database has been released. "This is a maintenance release for the current production version."

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PostgreSQL Weekly News

The PostgreSQL Weekly News for July 16, 2003 is out. This issue looks at the 2003 Linux Journal Editors Choice Award (PostgreSQL won best database); also news on the feature freeze and the upcoming 7.4 beta.

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Mail Software

QmailAdmin 1.0.24 released (SourceForge)

Version 1.0.24 of QmailAdmin, a web interface for managing qmail virtual domains, has been announced. "This release includes more cleanup as we get closer to a stable release. Functional changes: works with non-idx version of ezmlm again, updated Japanese translation."

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Networking Tools

wlandscape 1.0 build 0461 released (SourceForge)

A new build of wlandscape is available. "Wlandscape is a tool for collecting and visualizing access point data of public wireless networks in order to share it with anyone. The collected data is shown in really good maps and of course all for free."

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Printing

LinuxPrinting.org news

The latest news on the LinuxPrinting.org site includes the integration of manufacturer-supplied PostScript PPD files into the printer database, and support for Samsung's "gdi" driver.

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Security

Secure Cooking with C and C++ (O'ReillyNet)

O'Reilly has published an excerpt from the book Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++. "In this first in a three-part series of sample recipes from Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++, the authors offer nine basic rules for proper data validation, which they recommend all system administrators follow. From their first rule: "Assume all input is guilty until proven otherwise" to their last: "The better you understand the data, the better you can filter it,""

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Web Site Development

Issue Handler 0.9.0 released (ZopeMembers)

Version 0.9.0 of Issue Handler has been released. "The Issue Handler is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues." Changes include UI improvements, new quick and multiple edit buttons, and bug fixes.

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phpWebSite 0.9.3 released (SourceForge)

A new release of phpWebSite, a web site content management system, has been announced. "phpWebSite version 0.9.3 addresses stability problems from 0.9.2. There have also been many updates to resolve usability issues. Included with this release is a docbook user manual for end-users and a skeleton module for developers."

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TextIndexNG 2.0 final released (ZopeMembers)

Zope Members News covers the release of TextIndexNG 2.0 final, a fulltext index for the Zope web development platform. New features include relevence ranking for search results, speed improvements, search for suffix support, auto-expansion support, and more.

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Zope 2.6.2 Beta 4 Released (ZopeMembers)

Version 2.6.2 Beta 4 of the Zope web development platform has been announced. "Zope 2.6.2b4 represents a development step in the next Zope release formed with a large number of community contributions." Python 2.1.3 is now required for this version.

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Zope 2.7.0 Beta 1 Released (ZopeMembers)

Zope Members News reports on the release of Zope 2.7.0 Beta 1. "Zope 2.7.0 represents a concentration on software configuration and installation improvement over older versions. It requires Python 2.2.3."

Zope Newbies has converted to this version of Zope. "What has me grinning tonight is the support for Python 2.3. It means Zope for once works with the latest’n’greatest version of Python. And it means a big performance boost – Python 2.3 on my box is 25% faster than Python 2.2.3. That translates into a much snappier Zope."

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Standards

New LSB beta runtime test suite

A new LSB beta runtime test suite candidate is available. Changes include li18nux2k.l1 updates, removal of unnecessary FHS /dev/ tests, prototype fixes for IA64 realloc, and locale installation modifications.

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Miscellaneous

decr-f 0.2.4 released

Version 0.2.4 of decr-f, a package information utility, is available. "decr-f means 'Description file'. It is designated to provide information about a specific package. The mirror of the decr-f files allows you simply to search for a specific program/lib/software/doc."

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Desktop Applications

Audio Applications

amSynth 1.0 rc3 released

Version 1.0 rc3 of amSynth, the Analogue Modelling SYNTHesizer, is available. Changes include a revised GUI, new on-the-fly controls, bank loading and saving, bug fixes, and more.

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BEAST/BSE v0.5.4 released

Version 0.5.4 of BEAST/BSE, a music composition, synthesis, and sampling library and GUI, is available. "This new development series of BEAST comes with a lot of the internals redone, many new GUI features and a sound generation back-end separated from all GUI activities."

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gmorgan 0.05 released

Version 0.05 of gmorgan, a rhythm station with auto-accompaniment, has been released. Changes include bug fixes, more chords and patterns, a clear pattern function, and more.

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MusE 0.6.1 released

Version 0.6.1 of MusE, a MIDI sequencer/editor, has been released. "This release fixes some bugs and has some small usability enhancements. In addition there are new translations for spain and russian."

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PyTone 2.0.0 released

Version 2.0.0 of PyTone, an mp3 music jukebox application, has been released. "Besides a huge code reorganisation, many new features are included: A new config file format, list of songs and albums, show most recently played songs, first steps towards a network fnctionality, currently played song is highlighted in playlist (thanks to Iñigo Serna), support ossaudiodev contained in Python 2.3, support for transparent background (needs a patched Python curses module)."

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Desktop Environments

GNOME Summary

The July 7-18, 2003 edition of the GNOME summary is out. "In an effort to prove that the GNOME summary comes around more often than Christmas here is a new one. This week we cover topics such as the new look of gnome.org, a status report from the Welsh translation team, SMIL source released, a Dashboard update and more."

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100% Arabic support in GNOME (GnomeDesktop)

An Arabic translation of GNOME 2.2 has been announced. "After Months and Months of Hard work, me Arafat Medini the Arabic gnome maintainer and the Arabeyes team (which I am part of) are proud to present to you a fully Arabic supported GNOME 2.2 desktop."

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KDE-CVS-Digest

The July 18, 2003 KDE-CVS-Digest is out. The summary says: "Lots of new features: Kig python scripting support, Kpilot Palm generic db viewer, an action menu in Konqueror to print files, Dvd burning in K3b, RDP support completed in Krdc and an httpmail protocol ioslave. Plus many ARts bugfixes, Kdevelop and Quanta fixes and improvements."

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KDE Traffic #59

The July 22, 2003 issue of KDE Traffic has been published. Topics include: Music Manager Konqueror Plugin, Re:For All Non Profit Organizations, and Marc Priorities Winner.

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Kolab 1.0 released

Version 1.0 of Kolab has been announced. "The goal of the Kolab Project is to maintain and enhance a Free Software groupware solution called Kolab. It builds on software and concepts developed during the Kroupware Project, in particular the Kolab Server and KDE Kroupware Client." Thanks to Marc Mutz.

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XFce4 RC2 released

Release candidate 2 of the XFce4 desktop environment has been announced. "We expect that this will be the final Release Candidate. We hope to release 4.0 on 27th July 2003 if all goes well."

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Financial Applications

GNUe Traffic

Issue #90 of GNUe Traffic is out with the latest GNU Enterprise development news.

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Games

World Forge Game developments

Several new games are under development at World Forge. The following releases are now available: Panthera 0.0.1, Sear 0.4.6, Gaudi 0.1.5, and Sage 0.1.0.

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GUI Packages

GPL'ed Qt on DirectFB!

The first release of the Qt library for DirectFB is available. DirectFB "is a thin library that provides hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and multiple display layers on top of the Linux Framebuffer Device. It is a complete hardware abstraction layer with software fallbacks for every graphics operation that is not supported by the underlying hardware."

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SPTK 2.0 beta 1 is available

Version 2.0 beta 1 of SPTK, the Simply Powerful ToolKit, is available. "This is the first beta version. It means that I consider the library generally working. I have two applications ported into SPTK2, and so far they work more or less stable. At this point, the new feature development is frozen and project goes into testing stage."

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Interoperability

Wine Traffic

Issue #179 of Wine Traffic is out. The following topics are included: Interview with Jukka Heinonen, MacOS X Success, Running Commandline Apps, Winegcc and Shared Libraries, API Tracking, Internet Explorer Trivia, and CAB Update.

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Office Applications

AbiWord Weekly News

The July 20, 2003 edition of the AbiWord Weekly News is out. The summary says: "OTS 0.3.0 released, lots of Mac OS X chatter, Win32 gets a Menu Make over and the HackDown for 2.0 gets a revamp, bug-wise. QNX users might want to take the time to wake up and give a few things a try. Meantime, if you have someone who hasn't tried anything other than the 1.x series or earlier, you can give them an update yourself!"

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Bluefish 0.10 Released (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org covers the release of version 0.10 of Bluefish, an HTML editor. "Changes in 0.10 include many bugfixes and speedups, many user interface improvements, more translations, and a very nice function reference interface. Currently included function reference files are for PHP and HTML. After version 0.11, version 1.0 will come out."

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GNUe Traffic #90

The July 19, 2003 edition of GNUe Traffic is online. Topics include: Pre-query on a data source, Possible release of Forms/Common without Designer, SKUs and GNUe Small Business, on-startup and other triggers in Forms, Query returning no results creates a new blank record, Merging arias code into GNUe Small Business CVS, and popy and psycopg as alternative python drivers for PostgreSQL.

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Mozilla Sunbird Standalone Calendar Project Launches (MozillaZine)

A standalone version of the Mozilla Calendar, known as Mozilla Sunbird, has been announced.

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Velocity v0.1 Beta is finally out (GnomeDesktop)

Version 0.1 beta of Velocity, a GNOME 2 file manager, has been announced. "Notable changes include many major bugfixes, speed fixes, UI improvements, semi-working desktop background image, a new "Open With -> Other..." dialog, a "Send to" system, a burn:/// support plugin, moved Desktop to ~/Desktop, moved Trash to ~/.Trash, and more..."

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Web Browsers

Epiphany 0.8.0 Released (MozillaZine)

Version 0.8.0 of Epiphany, a Gecko-based browser, has been announced. "Version 0.8.0 is the first release of Epiphany known to work with Mozilla 1.4."

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Galeon 1.3.6 Released (GnomeDesktop)

Version 1.3.6 of the lightweight Galeon web browser has been released. "Shiny new galeon release, largely provoked by the release of mozilla 1.4 final, although strangely enough, 1.3.5 is source compatible with 1.4; the first time that's ever happened since before mozilla 1.0."

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Mozilla 1.5 Alpha Released (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine covers the release of Mozilla 1.5 Alpha. "New in 1.5a are a number of Composer enhancements, tab browser clean up, and the usual crash and performance fixes."

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Independent Status Reports (MozillaZine)

The Mozilla Independent Status Reports for July 21, 2003 are out. "The latest set of status reports includes updates from JS Console, GooglebarL10N, HON, mozdev, MozWho, wmlbrowser, StumbleUpon and TagZilla."

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Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine points to the July 14, 2003 mozilla.org staff meeting minutes. "Issued discussed include Mozilla 1.5 Alpha, Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 and the Mozilla Foundation."

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Miscellaneous

Gaim 0.65 is out (GnomeDesktop)

Version 0.65 of Gaim, an instant messaging client, has been announced. This release includes a few new features, improved translations, and bug fixes.

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Gaim 0.66 Released (GnomeDesktop)

Version 0.66 of Gaim has been released. "Gaim 0.66 has been released, fixing bugs from the previous release."

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LilyPond 1.7.26 released

Version 1.7.26 of LilyPond, the GNU project music typesetter, is out. "This release should be considered as a first 1.8 release candidate. Relative to 1.7.25, it contains a few small fixes and an update of the manual."

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Desktop Framework/Daemon (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org covers Philip Van Hoof's proposal for the creation of a network transparent daemon and plugin framework. The aim of the system is the integration of desktop information services. "The proposition suggests a secure XML-based framework providing the ability to module writers to create data-shifting operations that can bring application integration to the level where independently developed applications utilising this framework are able to communicate in an integrated manner without any hassle to the user."

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Languages and Tools

Caml

Caml Weekly News

The July 15-22, 2003 edition of the Caml Weekly News is out with the latest Caml language development news.

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Java

PMD updates

PMD is a Java source-code analyzer package. "It finds unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth." A new version of the pmd-jbuilder component is available.

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Java theory and practice: Concurrent collections classes (IBM developerWorks)

Brian Goetz covers Concurrent collections classes in Java on IBM's developerWorks. "In addition to many other useful concurrency building blocks, Doug Lea's util.concurrent package contains high-performance, thread-safe implementations for workhorse collection types List and Map. This month, Brian Goetz shows you how many concurrent programs will benefit from simply replacing Hashtable or synchronizedMap with ConcurrentHashMap."

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Lisp

CL-WHO 0.1.0 released

CL-WHO 0.1.0 is available. "CL-WHO is a Lisp markup language that makes it possible to convert S-expressions intermingled with code into (X)HTML, XML or other representations. CL-WHO is written in portable Common Lisp and is distributed with a BSD-style license."

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Perl

State of the Onion 7 (use Perl)

UsePerl reports that Larry Wall's State of the Onion 7 talk from OSCON 2003 is now online. "Since this is a State of the Union speech, or State of the Onion, in the particular case of Perl, I'm supposed to tell you what Perl's current state is. But I already told you that the current state of Perl is just fine. Or at least as fine as it ever was. Maybe a little better."

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This Week on perl5-porters (use Perl)

The July 14-20, 2003 edition of This Week on perl5-porters is out. "One week after the second release candidate of perl 5.8.1, and as expected, problems were found, and bugs fixed. Meanwhile, development continues. Read all details in this week's summary."

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This week on Perl 6 (O'Reilly)

The July 20, 2003 edition of This week on Perl 6 is out. Topics include: The State of the Onion, A Small Perl Task for the Interested, env.pmc, Dan on threading, Event handling, IMCC sub names are not labels, More on targeting GCC, Parrot_sprintf not recognizing 7 in precision, Problems with new object ops, The big core.ops split, Copyrights, and more.

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Overloading (O'Reilly)

Dave Cross introduces operator overloading in Perl on O'Reilly's Perl.com.

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PHP

PHP Weekly Summary for July 21, 2003

The PHP Weekly Summary for July 21, 2003 is out. Topics include: HPUX threading, XSLT on Solaris, File upload status inclusion, LinuxTag photos, CFP extended, SNMP documentation cleanups.

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Python

Python 2.3 release candidate 1

The first release candidate for the long-awaited Python 2.3 release is now available. If you have an interest in Python 2.3, now is the time to test out your applications and make sure everything works. For a description of the changes in this release, see A.M. Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.3 document.

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

The July 21, 2003 edition of Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! is out with a week's worth of Python language news and links.

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Tcl/Tk

Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

The July 21, 2003 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! is out with another roundup of Tcl/Tk news and information.

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XML

Start Here to learn about XML

IBM's developerWorks has published an introductory article on XML. "The developerWorks XML zone contains literally hundreds of articles, tutorials, and tips to help a developer make the most of XML-related applications, but for users trying to find their way in a new topic, all of that information can be overwhelming. This page provides an overview for readers who would like to learn about XML but don't know where to start. It places all of the basics of XML technology into their proper context and ties together relevant developerWorks articles, tutorials and tips, IBM learning services education, webcasts, workshops, and IBM products for further investigation."

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IDEs

The PyDev Python Developent Platform

A new Eclipse-based Python development platform called PyDev has been launched. "Pydev is a project to create a complete python development environment for eclipse: syntax highlighting, outline view, code navigation, debugger integration. I am doing it because Eclipse is so fun, and there are no Python IDEs I am happy with."

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