Development
The GNU Bayonne 2 Telephony Application Server
GNU Bayonne is a telecommunications project that is being developed by this group of developers as a Free Software Foundation (FSF) project. Bayonne is derived from the Adjunct Communications Server project (ACS), which was started in 2000.
GNU Bayonne, the telecommunications application server of the GNU project, offers free, scalable, media independent software environment for development and deployment of telephony solutions for use with current and next generation telephone networks.
![[GNU Bayonne]](https://static.lwn.net/images/ns/bayonne2.png)
The
FSF directory listing for Bayonne hints at some of the uses for the
software:
"The project is not fully completed but is moving steadily towards producing a finished project that may be used to build telephony based system administration, home automation, automated attendant, v-commerce, and voice messaging systems.
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Bayonne features include:
- Programmable via the GNU ccScript event-driven scripting language.
- Understands standard DTMF touch-tone telephone signals.
- Can record and play audio files through the telephone interface.
- Includes Text-to-Speech (Voice synthesis) support via Flite.
- Supports the H.323 teleconferencing protocol through OpenH323.
- Supports the SIP protocol.
- Has preliminary VoIP support.
- Interfaces with external languages such as Perl, Python, PHP and Java using TGI calls.
- Can interface with a web server.
- Supports database interfaces.
- The architecture supports plug-in modules.
- Works with PSTN interface cards such as those made by TrueData/Dialogic and others.
GNU Bayonne version 2 was introduced in May of 2005.
This new server offers support both for wired and protocol stack based telephony drivers, including initial support for SIP and H323. Bayonne 2 uses a simplified driver model and exposes core functionality both through an interface library and a model script driven voice application server.
The first 1.0 release candidate for GNU Bayonne 2
was announced this week:
"GNU Bayonne 2 1.0 is composed of a subset of those services and features found in the recently introduced, and very rapidly advancing GNU Bayonne 2 development effort. Features were chosen for introduction in this release candidate that were already stable and effective for production use and supportable under GNU/Linux and other platforms.
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With the 2.0 release, GNU Bayonne has becoming the obvious choice as a platform for a wide variety of open-source telecom applications, congratulations go to the developers for carrying this important project forward.
System Applications
Clusters and Grids
JPPF version 0.6.1_beta2 released (SourceForge)
Version 0.6.1 beta 2 of JPPF, the Java Parallel Processing Framework, has been released. "This release provides bug fixes and documentation improvements."
Database Software
OpenToro 3.0 released (SourceForge)
Version 3.0 of OpenToro has been announced. "OpenToro is a Web Database Publisher, a tool that allows us developing database-driven web applications in an agile and automatic way. Using OpenToro simply means to forget coding countless SQLs and JSPs every time we want to implement a web application with database access."
PostgreSQL 8.1.0 Release Candidate 1
Release Candidate 1 of PostgreSQL 8.1.0 is available for testing. "As with all pre-releases, but especially now that we are in the final stretch, testing is paramount to a successful, and bug free, release. As such, we ask everyone able who is able to do so to, to run RC1 through its paces and report any bugs to us through pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org."
PostgreSQL Weekly News
The October 30, 2005 edition of the PostgreSQL Weekly News is online with the weekly PostgreSQL database article assortment.
Mail Software
Sendmail X.0.0.0.0 released
The initial release of Sendmail X (version X.0.0.0.0) has been announced. See the project documentation for more information.
Telecom
Asterisk 1.2.0-beta2 Released
Version 1.2.0-beta2 of Asterisk, an open-source PBX, is out with numerous new features.IHU 0.5.1 released
Version 0.5.1 of IHU, I Hear U Project, is out. "IHU is a Voice over IP (VoIP) application for Linux (using Qt), that creates an audio stream between two computers easily and with the minimal traffic on the network." Changes include new features and bug fixes, see the change log for details.
VPN Software
SSL-Explorer 0.1.14 released (SourceForge)
Version 0.1.14 of SSL-Explorer, an open-source, browser-based SSL VPN solution, has been released. "Release 0.1.14 introduces a new remote forwarding feature which now brings full SSL tunneling support to SSL-Explorer. A series of improvements were also made to the secure proxy web forwarding feature for a more robust intranet browsing experience. Lastly, a number of minor bug-fixes were included with this release."
Web Site Development
Bricolage 1.8.8 released
Version 1.8.8 of Bricolage has been announced. "Bricolage is a full-featured, enterprise-class content management and publishing system. It offers a browser-based interface for ease-of use, a fully-fledged templating system with complete HTML::Mason, HTML::Template, PHP 5, and Template Toolkit support for flexibility, and many other features. It operates in an Apache/mod_perl environment and uses the PostgreSQL RDBMS for its repository." See the change log for release details.
Campsite 2.3.3 Released
Maintenance release 2.3.3 of Campsite, an open-source multilingual content management system for news web sites, is out with bug fixes and minor feature enhancements.Wicket 1.1 released (SourceForge)
Version 1.1 of Wicket is out with numerous new features. "Wicket is a Java component oriented web application framework that takes simplicity, separation of concerns and ease of use to a whole new level. Wicket web applications consist of HTML markup and Java classes. No strange languages, no strange markup, no configuration files, no specialized, expensive tools: just Java, HTML and you."
Zope 2.8.4 released
Version 2.8.4 of the Zope web development platform has been released. "This version obsoletes Zope 2.8.2 and Zope 2.8.3 which shipped with an older Docutils version as expected. For security reasons you should update to Zope 2.8.4. In addition this release fixes a potential security problem when using Zope with Python 2.4 - although Python 2.4. is neither recommended nor supported."
AJAX: How to Handle Bookmarks and Back Buttons (O'ReillyNet)
Brad Neuberg shows how to add back and forward control to AJAX web applications. "This article presents an open source JavaScript library that finally brings bookmarking and back button support to AJAX applications. By the end of this tutorial, developers will have a solution to an AJAX problem that not even Google Maps or Gmail possesses: robust, usable bookmarking and back and forward behavior that works exactly like the rest of the Web."
Miscellaneous
PowerDNS 2.9.19 released
Version 2.9.19 of PowerDNS, an open-source domain name server, is out. "This is again an important release. In short, better recursor, some DNSSEC support, possibility to run from alternate DNS roots (ORSN, for example), many many bugs fixed and more involvement and support from the PowerDNS community. A recommended upgrade!"
Desktop Applications
Business Applications
phpBMS v0.601 Released (SourceForge)
Version 0.601 of phpBMS, a PHP and MySQL-based billing, scheduling, and client management system, is available. "This is a minor bug fix update that address some issues with associated notes, the quick view screen, and compatibility issues with older versions of PHP".
Desktop Environments
GARNOME 2.13.1
Release 2.13.1 of GARNOME, the bleeding edge GNOME desktop environment, is out. "This release of GARNOME includes all of the GNOME 2.13.1 Desktop and Developer Platform, together with GStreamer 0.9 for added 'oomph'. It does include a fair few performance enhancements over it's stable counterpart, but that's because things are still relatively sane in the unstable branch."
GNOME Software Announcements
The following new GNOME software has been announced this week:- GDM2 2.13.0.0 (new features, bug fixes, and translation work)
- GnomePythonExtras 2.12.1 (stable release)
- gnubiff 2.1.7 (bug fixes)
- GtkPerf testing tool 0.40 (new features)
- libgda 1.2.3 (bug fixes and translation work)
- Rhythmbox 0.9.1 (new features, bug fixes, and translation work)
- Scw 0.1.0 (new library)
Cool but abandoned applications (GnomeDesktop)
GnomeDesktop.org looks at some GNOME applications that need adoption by developers. "I don't know if it can be proven statistically but I seem to come across an ever increasing number of incredibly useful GNOME based applications which have been abandoned by their former developers, even though there is no viable alternative to them. Lately I found that at least three apps which have found to be stable, useful and without alternative in the GNOME environment have been either officially abandoned or are slowly fading into oblivion."
This Month in SVN (KDE.News)
KDE.News has announced the October 29, 2005 edition of This month in SVN. "This Month in SVN for October looks at KOffice development. "While much of the rest of KDE is in feature freeze preparing for the imminent release of KDE 3.5, KOffice developers are starting to work hard for their 1.5 release, scheduled for between KDE 3.5 and KDE 4. This release will be able to be used with KDE 3x and Qt 3x, and will have a great deal of improvements over the current stable version." Topics covered include accessibility improvements, Krita one step closer to world domination and how you can help out."
KDE Software Announcements
The following new KDE software has been announced this week:- cb2Bib 0.5.0 (new features)
- kchmviewer 1.1 (security and bug fixes)
- K3b 0.12.6 (new features and bug fixes)
- K3b 0.12.7 (bug fixes)
- Kid3 0.6 (new features)
- KDbg 2.0.1 (bug fixes and translation work)
- kdesvn 0.6.3 (new features, bug fixes, and translation work)
- KLinkStatus 0.3.0 (new features)
- KMPlayer 0.9.1 (new features and bug fixes)
- knoda 0.8 (new features, bug fixes and documentation work)
- Kst 1.1.1 (bug fixes and other improvements)
- kvpnc 0.8.1 (new features and bug fixes)
- Maxemum TV-Guide 5.10.26 (new features and bug fixes)
- RSIBreak 0.0.3 (new features and bug fixes)
- ShowImg 0.9.4-1/0.9.5-rc1 (bug fixes)
- skim 1.4.3 (bug fixes)
KDE/Qt Extension for Traditional Eastern Languages (KDE.News)
KDE.News covers support for new Eastern languages under KDE. "A research group in the Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have been working on an operating system to support traditional Eastern languages such as Mongolian, Uighur and Tibetan. We have now extended Qt and KDE 3 to support these langages."
Electronics
ASCO 0.3.9 released
Version 0.3.9 of ASCO, a SPICE Circuit Optimizer, has been announced. "This is the first public release of the ASCO tool. You can read more about the features and applications on-line before downloading it. This is still a test release for a wide audience. However, I do not expect you to run into great difficulties in using it. So far it has only been used by me."
Kicad 2005-10-27 released
Release 2005-10-27 of Kicad, an electronics CAD package for KDE, is out. See the change log for details.
Financial Applications
SQL-Ledger 2.6.2 is out
Version 2.6.2 of SQL-Ledger, a web-based accounting system, has been released with several new capabilities.
Games
Ember 0.3.4 released
Version 0.3.4 of Ember has been announced by the WorldForge game project. "Ember is a fully functional 3d client for the WorldForge project. It takes advantage of the latest graphic cards to present a beautiful, fully interactive world. An easy to use GUI allows the player to interact with both the world and other players with ease. This release is built with the latest version of the Eris (1.3.9) library, which brings much improved stability. Various other libraries used internally have also been updated."
ScummVM 0.8.0 released (SourceForge)
Version 0.8.0 of ScummVM, a cross-platform interpreter for point-and-click adventure engines, is out. "Along with a new improved launcher and in-game GUI, and the usual load of bugfixes, this release adds support for the two game titles "Inherit the Earth" and "Gobliiins", several new ports (Playstation Portable, Playstation 2 and EPOC/SymbianOS), and much improved support for Humongous Entertainment children games."
Vultures 1.10.0 released
Version 1.10.0 of Vultures, an isometric 3D interface for Nethack and Slash'EM, has been released. "We've just released 1.10.0, which brings lots of fixes, some enhancements and a ton of monster artwork (we now have unique graphics for about 60% of Nethack's monsters)".
GUI Packages
GORM release 1.0.0
Version 1.0.0 of GORM, the GNUstep user interface designer, is out. "Gorm allows developers to quickly create and edit graphical application interfaces using a whole lot of GUI elements: windows, menus, buttons, labels, sliders, tables, textfields, browsers, images, altert panels and more."
Interoperability
Two editions of Wine Traffic
Issues #296 and #297 of Wine Traffic are online with the latest Wine project articles.
Medical Applications
GNUmed hitting Debian mirrors (LinuxMedNews)
Debian packages of GNUmed 0.1, a medical practice management system, have been announced. The CHANGELOG file has the release information.
Music Applications
amSynth 1.1.0 announced
Version 1.1.0 of amSynth, an audio synthesizer, is out with GTK2 support, bug fixes, and more.Sineshaper 0.4.0 announced
The initial release of Sineshaper (version 0.4.0) has been announced. "The Sineshaper synth has two sine oscillators and two waveshapers. The sound from the two oscillators is mixed and passed through the waveshapers, first through the first waveshaper and then the second. You can control the tuning of both oscillators as well as their relative loudness, and the total amount of shaping and the fraction of that amount that each shaper applies. Both waveshapers use a sine function for shaping the sound, but for the second shaper you can shift the sine function (with maximal shift it becomes a cosine function) to produce a different sound."
Office Suites
OpenOffice.org Newsletter
The October, 2005 edition of the OpenOffice.org Newsletter is online. Read about OpenOffice.org 2.0 and other OpenOffice.org news.
Web Browsers
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5 Release Candidate 1 Test Builds (MozillaZine)
Release Candidate 1 Test Builds of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird have been announced. "These builds are essentially release candidates of the release candidates, intended to be checked out by the Mozilla quality assurance community before the Release Candidate 1 builds are made available to a wider audience. Testers are asked to ensure that webmail and banking sites work as they should, verify that extensions and themes install correctly and check that there are no problems with general browser surfing."
Languages and Tools
Caml
Caml Weekly News
The October 18 - November 1, 2005 edition of the Caml Weekly News is online with the latest Caml language topics.
Haskell
Haskell Weekly News
The November 1, 2005 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is online with the latest Haskell news. Topics covered this week include possible redesign of the Time module, the Data module hierarchy, GHC assembly code, and what happened to HWN last week.
Java
KSE PWSLIB 0-3-1 Released (SourceForge)
Version 0-3-1 of KSE PWSLIB is out. "JPasswords offers a compact but proficient and user-friendly, Java Swing based application to store and manage passwords on encrypted files. KSE PWSLIB is a backend package to read/create/modify Password Safe encrypted database files. - Release 0-3-1 is a maintenance release. Beside some bug corrections it offers improved speed of file loading and record list handling."
Test-Driven Development Using StrutsTestCase (O'ReillyNet)
John Ferguson Smart explores the StrutsTestCase framework on O'Reilly. "StrutsTestCase is a powerful and easy-to-use testing framework for Struts actions. Using Struts and then StrutsTestCase, in combination with traditional JUnit tests, will give you a very high level of test coverage and increase your product reliability accordingly."
This week on harmony-dev
The October 23-31, 2005 edition of This week on harmony-dev covers the latest from the Harmony open-source Java project.
Lisp
SBCL 0.9.6 released
Version 0.9.6 of Steel Bank Common Lisp has been released. "This is mostly a bug fix release, with an optimization to numeric comparison operators and MIPS/Linux support for saving cores with foreign code loaded."
CL-PDF 2.90 released
Version 2.90 of CL-PDF, a Common Lisp library for generating documents in Adobe Acrobat format, is out. "This version supports basic Unicode and TrueType fonts, extraction and manipulation of pages from existing PDF files, adds new examples and a few fixes."
PHP
PHP 4.4.1 Released
Version 4.4.1 of PHP has been released. "This version is a maintenance release, that contains numerous bug fixes, including a number of security fixes related to the overwriting of the GLOBALS array. All users of PHP 4.3 and 4.4 are encouraged to upgrade to this version."
phpBMS v0.6 Released (SourceForge)
Version 0.6 of phpBMS has been announced. "phpBMS is a PHP, MySQL based billing, scheduling, and client management system. Features include PDF generation for printing, mass e-mailing to clients, repeatable task and event handling, and quote/order/invoice tracking. The package has undergone significant changes and enchancements, but can still be installed over the top of most existing 0.51 installations and upgraded without losing data."
Python
Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!
The October 26, 2005 edition of Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! is online with a new collection of Python articles.
Ruby
Ruby Weekly News
The October 30th, 2005 edition of the Ruby Weekly News looks at the latest discussions from the ruby-talk mailing list.
XML
4Suite XML 1.0b2 announced
Version 1.0b2 of 4Suite XML, an open-source platform for XML and RDF processing, has been announced. "The most important development is that 4Suite is being split into three separate packages: 4Suite XML - XML, XPath, XSLT, related technologies and support libraries; 4Suite RDF - RDF processing libraries and stand-alone DBMS; and 4Suite Repository - XML and RDF repository."
What Is Atom (O'Reilly)
Ben Hammersley introduces Atom on O'Reilly. "The Atom Syndication Format is the next generation of XML-based file formats, designed to allow information--the contents of web pages, for example--to be syndicated between applications. Like RSS before it, Atom places the content and metadata of an internet resource into a machine-parsable format, perfect for displaying, filtering, remixing, and archiving."
Bug Trackers
Bugzilla 2.20 Released (MozillaZine)
Bugzilla 2.20 has been announced, and the software has been installed on bugzilla.mozilla.org. "Version 2.20 of Bugzilla, the Mozilla bug tracking software, has been released. The Bugzilla 2.20 new features page has more details about the improvements in this release, which include experimental support for PostgreSQL (previously only MySQL was supported) and a new user interface style."
Debuggers
Winpdb 1.0.5 Released (SourceForge)
Version 1.0.5 of Winpdb is available with bug fixes. "Winpdb is an advanced Python debugger, with support for smart breakpoints, multiple threads, namespace modification, embedded debugging, encrypted communication and speed of up to 20 times that of pdb."
Editors
RText Version 0.9.3.0 Now Available (SourceForge)
Version 0.9.3.0 of RText is out with bug fixes and new features. "RText is a customizable programmer's text editor written in Java. Some of its features include: syntax highlighting, editing multiple documents at once, printing and print preview, find/replace/find in files dialogs, undo/redo, and online help."
Version Control
(H)gct 0.3 announced
Version 0.3 of (H)gct, a source code management tool, is out with several new capabilities.
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