Development

libsndfile 1.0.0

Erik de Castro Lopo has announced version 1.0.0 of his libsndfile C language audio file conversion library, libsndfile is an offshoot of the wavplay utility. The libsndfile library can be compiled under Linux, many different Unixes, and Windows.

The following audio file formats are supported:

• Microsoft WAV
• SGI/Apple AIFF/AIFC
• Sun/DEC/NeXT AU/SND
• Header-less RAW
• Paris Audio File PAF
• Commodore Amiga IFF/SVX
• Sphere Nist SF
• IRCAM SF
• Creative VOC
• Soundforge W64

See the capabilities table for the full matrix. Ogg support is planned, but MP3 is not, due to licensing issues.

Features of libsndfile include on-the-fly soundfile conversion, optional floating point normalization support, support for opening files in read/write mode with support for file header modification.

The latest version features API modifications, and efficiency improvements for supporting multitrack disk recorder applications. The API changes may be viewed here.

libsndfile has been released under the LGPL license.

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System Applications

Audio Projects

ALSA 0.9.0 rc 3 released

Version 0.9.0 release candidate #3 of the ALSA sound driver, libraries, and utilities package have been released. Click below for the official announcement.

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Database Software

MySQL 3.23.52 Released

MySQL 3.23.52 has been released. This is a bugfix release for the stable tree.

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Electronics

gEDA News

The latest gEDA project news includes a new snapshot of the Icarus Verilog compiler and a complete update of the online symbol library.

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Mail Software

Bogofilter 0.2 released

Eric Raymond has released version 0.2 of bogofilter, a new spam filtering package. "Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including the Judy fast-associative-array technique), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail."

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Medical Software

Open Paradigms Announces TORCH (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has an announcement for TORCH (Trusted Open source Records for Care & Health), an open-source medical practice management package. "TORCH is a forked development based on the GPL licensed FreePM code and as such maintains backwards compatibility to version 1.0b6 of FreePM. However, TORCH has been developed extensively beyond the capabilities of FreePM."

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Printing

AFPL Ghostscript 7.22 developer release

Version 7.22 (developer release) of AFPL Ghostscript has been announced. "This release contains a number of pdfwrite fixes, particularly for incremental fonts. The Device work was not ready for merge at the time of the release, so we expect it in the next."

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Foomatic adds support for more Epson printers

LinuxPrinting.org mentions that the Foomatic printer driver now has support for a number of new Epson inkjet printers.

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Web Site Development

Zope Members' News

This week's entries on the Zope Members' News include the release of Easy Publisher 1.7, Silva 0.8.3, a new ZDataQueryKit, and a report from Bug Day 8/02.

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Desktop Applications

Audio Applications

WaveSurfer 1.4.3 released

Version 1.4.3 of the WaveSurfer sound visualization and manipulation tool is available. "The new version of WaveSurfer uses Snack v2.2, which incorporates code from the ESPS speech analysis library. ESPS was recently licensed to the Centre for Speech Technology by Microsoft and AT&T, with the aim to make it available to speech researchers again." See the changes file for more information.

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Legasynth 0.4.1 is out!

Version 0.4.1 of the Legasynth legacy audio synthesizer emulator package has been released. This version adds TB303 drum machine emulation, fixes for the SID filters, "controllers per machine", and bug fixes.

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Desktop Environments

KDE 3.0.3 released

KDE 3.0.3 has been released. This is mainly a bugfix release, but it also includes a fix for the security problem in Konqueror, wherein it could be fooled into accepting invalid certificates (see this week's Security Page).

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Kernel Cousin KDE #43

Issue #43 of Kernel Cousin KDE is out with the latest KDE development threads.

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GNOME 2.0.1 Desktop and Developer Platform Released!

The GNOME 2.0.1 Desktop and Developer Platform has been released. Over 1000 bugs have been fixed, and performance has been improved.

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The latest GNOME Summary

The GNOME Summary for August 16 is out; it looks at the 2.0.1 release, GNOME's fifth birthday, gnome-print, and many other topics.

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Games

Pygame Patch Release 1.5.2 available

Patch Release 1.5.2 of the Pygame game module set for Python has been released. "The main reason for the change is our continuing struggle to find a 'free' default font. There are also some minor bugfixes included." See the ChangeLog for the details.

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Graphics

the GIMP 1.3.8 released

Version 1.3.8 of the GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, has been announced. "This is an unstable release in the development branch. Here's where the development takes place on the road to the next stable release dubbed GIMP 1.4. This release is targetted at developers and curious users. Don't use it for your daily work. If you are looking for the stable version, get GIMP version 1.2.x. Please install GTK+ before configuring the GIMP for compilation. This GIMP requires GTK+ version 2.0.0 or later."

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Office Applications

AbiWord Weekly News #105

Issue #105 of the AbiWord Weekly News is out with the latest AbiWord development news.

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Release of stable GnuCash version 1.6.7 (Gnotices)

Stable version 1.6.7 of GnuCash has been released. Bug fixes and additional translations have been added.

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Kernel Cousin GNUe #42

Issue #42 of the Kernel Cousin GNUe is out with the latest GNU Enterprise development news.

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LyX 1.2.1 is released

Version 1.2.1 of the LyX GUI interface for the TeX typesetting language has been released. This is a maintenance/bug fix release.

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Web Browsers

Mozilla 1.0.1 and 1.1 Release Candidates (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine has an announcement for the new Mozilla 1.0.1 and 1.1 release candidates. "We think that these builds will prove themselves in more widespread testing and will not require significant changes to become the 1.0.1 final builds later this month. The 1.0.1 release candidate builds also give our localization and theme contributors a couple weeks head start in getting their work ready in time for the 1.0.1 final release."

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Languages and Tools

Caml

Caml Weekly News

The Caml Weekly News for August 13 - 20, 2002 is out. Topics include camlp4 One Day Compilers, the XEmacs ocaml mode, Unison status, and PXP 1.1.91.

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Objective Caml 3.06 released

Version 3.06 of Objective Caml has been released. This is a bug-fix release.

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The Caml Hump

This week, the Caml Hump looks at CIL, an infrastructure for C Program Analysis and Transformation.

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Eiffel

ELJ 0.3 released

Version 0.3 of ELJ, the open source projects and library bindings for Eiffel, has been released.

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Java

Get started with Castor JDO (IBM developerWorks)

Bruce Snyder shows how to do object-relational data binding with the Castor JDO (Java Data Objects) on IBM's developerWorks. "A growing number of enterprise projects today call for a reliable method of binding Java objects to relational data -- and doing so across a multitude of relational databases. Unfortunately (as many of us have learned the hard way) in-house solutions are painful to build and even harder to maintain and grow over the long term. In this article, Bruce Snyder introduces you to the basics of working with Castor JDO, an open source data-binding framework that just happens to be based on 100 percent pure Java technology."

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JSTL 1.0: Standardizing JSP, Part 1 (O'Reilly)

Hans Bergsten introduces JSTL 1.0 on O'Reilly. "June 11, 2002 started a new phase for JSP developers. That's when the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) 1.0 specification was released. The Apache Taglibs project followed up with a reference implementation a few days later. JSTL answers developers' demand for a set of standardized JSP custom actions to handle the tasks needed in almost all JSP pages, including conditional processing, internationalization, database access, and XML processing."

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XML Basics for Java Developers, Part 5 (O'Reilly)

Jonathan Knudsen and Pat Niemeyer have released the fifth and final part in their series on XML Basics for Java Developers. "In this final in a series of XML basics for Java developers book excerpts from Learning Java, 2nd Edition, get an introduction to XSL/XSLT and Web services."

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GCJ updates

The GCJ home page mentions that Andrew Haley has updated the gcc tree-based inliner to work for GCJ.

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Lisp

OpenMCL 0.13 released

Version 0.13 of OpenMCL Common Lisp has been released. New features include better shared library access, more examples, faster bignum multiplication, and more.

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Perl

This Week on Perl 6 (O'Reilly)

This Week on Perl 6 for August 18, 2002 covers Scratchpad.pmc, Perl 6 regexes, GC issues, a quotematch speedup, Keyed access to PerlArray/PerlHash, a PASM problem, set Boolean, The first pirate parrot, External Data Interfaces, and more.

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This Week on perl5-porters (use Perl)

The August 11-18, 2002 edition of the Perl 5 Porters summary covers a wide range of Perl topics.

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Functional Perl 6 Compiler for Parrot Arrives (use Perl)

Use Perl has an announcement for a new, functional Perl 6 compiler for parrot. Perl 6 compiler for parrot. "This implements pretty much all of the language specified in Apocalypses 1 through 4, and we're working on Perl 6 regexes."

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PHP

PHP Weekly Summary

The August 19, 2002 edition of the PHP Weekly Summary covers the following topics: "Windows Manual released, PHP 4.2.3 revisited, PHP on AIX, Sorting arrays, Thread safety in PHP, ext/java RMI, DOM-XML updates, debug_backtrace() for PHP 4.X, Streams support, Commenting code."

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PHP References (O'Reilly)

John Coggeshall illustrates PHP objects on O'Reilly. "In my last article, I wrapped up my discussion of using objects in PHP. This week I'll be changing gears a little bit and discussing one of the more elusive aspects of PHP -- references. For those of you with a C programming background (although they are fundamentally different), references serve the same purpose as a C-style pointer. For those of you without programming experience in C, don't worry! I'll be covering everything you'll need to know today."

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the Pear Weekly News

The latest Pear Weekly News is out with: "A very interesting read this week on the pear development list, with 4 New Releases, 1 New package proposed, and discussions on PHPDoc Tags, OpenOffice Docbook converters, Permission Management and an upgraded Net_Whois package."

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Python

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 19)

This week's Python-URL covers the death of Kristen Nygaard; The Dijkstra quote spawns a debate on the Zen koan "There should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it."; and much more.

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the Daily Python-URL

This week, the Daily Python-URL covers Easy Publisher 1.7, Python cPickle, Python Bibliotheca, Objects and classes in Python, the Persistence-SIG, UDDI4Py, Parsing with the Spark module, a review of the book 'Practical Python', and more.

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Ruby

The Ruby Garden

This week, The Ruby Garden covers a new version of GMP bindings to Ruby, TCLink for Ruby, the Ruby Conference 2002 CFP, and a Ruby workshop at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Frankfurt.

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The Ruby Weekly News

The Ruby Weekly News for August 19, 2002 looks at ZenWeb 2.11.0, FXRuby-1.0.12, the ONI Object Network Interface, Net/Proto, the Narf cgi library alpha release, and other Ruby language threads.

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Scheme

Scheme Weekly News

The August 19, 2002 edition of the Scheme Weekly News looks at scm-pdf 0.2, Schematics PLT SRFI, Quack 0.5 for Emacs, the SRFI-Discuss mailing list, and the upcoming International Lisp Conference 2002.

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Tcl/Tk

Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Aug 19)

Here is the latest Tcl-URL. Inside: Richard Suchenwirth and Rolf Ade show how easy it is to create "a little XML browser" in a few lines of Tcl; tips for writing Tcl scripts that will be run out of inetd; and much more.

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XML

Exploring XML Encryption, Part 2 (IBM developerWorks)

Bilal Siddiqui continues his series about implementing an XML Encryption engine on IBM's developerWorks with part two. "In this second installment, Bilal Siddiqui examines the usage model of XML Encryption with the help of a use case scenario. He presents a simple demo application, explaining how it uses the XML Encryption implementation. He then continues with his last implementation of XML Encryption and makes use of JCA/JCE classes to support cryptography. Finally, he briefly discusses the applications of XML Encryption in SOAP-based Web services."

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The Absent Yet Present Link (O'Reilly)

Kendall Grant Clark writes about some issues with the W3C draft specifications for XHTML 2.0 on O'Reilly. "As is often the case, however, reaction to a new W3C specification, even a very early draft, exposed a venerable, enduring fault line in the XML world, namely, the split between XML users and XML core developers. In this case, we'll let the former be represented by the weblogging community, the latter by the XML-DEV list. Of course, this division is mostly a fiction, a little heuristic I'm using to make a larger point, but it's not entirely divorced from reality."

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Miscellaneous

Mastering Linux debugging techniques (IBM developerWorks)

Here's a developerWorks article that explains Linux debugging tools and techniques in various scenarios. "When your program contains a bug, it is likely that somewhere in the code, a condition that you believe to be true is actually false. Finding your bug is a process of confirming what you believe is true until you find something that is false." (Thanks to Debra Suzuki)

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