Development

The Net-SNMP project

The Net-SNMP project (formerly called ucd-snmp) consists of a set of tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), an internet protocol for managing network-connected devices.

The major components of Net-SNMP include:

• An extensible SNMP agent (snmpd) that accepts incoming SNMP connections.
• An SNMP library for developing SNMP-based applications.
• Tools for setting and retrieving information from other SNMP agents.
• Tools for generating and handling SNMP traps.
• An SNMP-based netstat command.
• A Tk/Perl based Management Information Base (MIB) browser.

The Net-SNMP documentation covers the various facets of the project in greater detail.

Version 5.0.9 of Net-SNMP has been announced. "This does contain a security fix so all users are encouraged to update their software immediately." Also included in this release are: kerberos support fixes, documentation improvements, better augmentation table support, improved 64 bit handling, and miscellaneous bug fixes.

Net-SNMP should be a useful addition to the list of available networking tools.

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GNOME 2.4 released

It's finally official: GNOME 2.4 has been released. The extensive release notes talk about what's in this release; there's a lot of good stuff there. Congratulations are due to the entire GNOME development community.

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Planet CCRMA Changes

The latest changes from the Planet CCRMA audio packaging project include new versions of Qjackctl, Lilypond, Guile, Texinfo, and Gmorgan.

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MySQL 4.0.15 released

MySQL 4.0.15 - a bugfix release - is now available. This release includes a long list of fixes; see the announcement (click below) for the details.

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PostgreSQL Weekly News

The September 4, 2003 edition of the PostgreSQL Weekly News is out. Read about the PostgreSQL beta 2 release, thread safety issues, and more.

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GNU Scientific Library 1.4 released

Version 1.4 of the GNU Scientific Library has been released. "The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of routines for numerical computing in C. This release is backwards compatible with previous 1.x releases. GSL now includes support for cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) contributed by Jason H. Stover."

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liblrdf 0.3.2 released

Version 0.3.2 of liblrdf, a library for working with the Resource Description Framework (RDF), is available. "Doesn't add any features, but builds with raptor 1.0.0 and removes a dependency on the LADSPA SDK."

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milter-sender/0.36 (beta)

Version 0.36 beta of milter-sender, a spam filtering package for sendmail, is available. This version features bug fixes relating to the parsing of sendmail.cf.

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SSHVnc 0.1.2 released (SourceForge)

Version 0.1.2 of SSHVnc, a Virtual Network Console that uses ssh for secure communications, is available. "This release of our secure VNC application marks a change in our software distribution policy. The installation is now catered for using the ZeroG installer, providing distributions for Linux and Windows with and without the Java 1.4.2 VM. This release also sees the inclusion of a number of useful configuration options. These include the execution of commands on connect/disconnect allowing the user to start/stop their VNC server remotely, and predefined settings for low/high bandwidth connections."

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WAP11GUI version 0.12 released (SourceForge)

Version 0.12 of WAP11GUI has been released. "WAP11GUI is an SNMP management application for the Linksys WAP11 wireless access point. It provides a Unix/Linux user with a graphical, QT based interface with which to configure and manage a WAP11 AP over a LAN. The biggest news (if you could call it that) in this release is that a memory leak that went unnoticed for 2 years has been fixed."

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CUPS 1.1.20rc1 available

Version 1.1.20rc1 of CUPS, the Common Unix Print System, has been released. The release notes list all that is new, many bug fixes are included.

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LPRng 3.8.22 released

Version 3.8.22 of the LPRng printer spool system is available. Change information is in the source code.

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LinuxPrinting.org news

The latest printer database changes on LinuxPrinting.org include the following: "September 7, 2003: Added Epson Stylus C83, C84, Olympus P-300E, P-300NE, P-300U, P-400, and Canon CP-100; the driver "ljet4" is not recommended any more for PCL-5e printers in the database, instead we recommend "hpijs" now due to better printout quality. The recommendations of "gimp-print" are replaced by "gimp-print-ijs" as the more modern interface of GIMP-Print. For the HP LaserJet 1200 the recommended driver is "pxlmono" now due to the bad graphics performance in the PostScript mode."

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Working with the Echo Web framework, Part 1 (IBM developerWorks)

IBM's developerWorks has an article by Tod Liebeck on Echo, a development framework. "This two-part series provides an introduction to the Echo framework, an open source, Java technology-based platform for building Web applications that look and act like rich clients. Part 1 introduces the framework and discusses what it does and how it is best used, providing an introductory walkthrough of its features."

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Gallery v1.4 Release Candidate 3 available (SourceForge)

Version 1.4 RC3 of Gallery, a PHP-based web site photo album management package, is available. "Version 1.4 premieres some major new features: Gallery is now multilingual, and can be displayed in 18 different languages, with more on the way! In addition, we've completely overhauled the documentation and made it more accessible and more informative. Other changes include ownership of individual album items, not just of albums, and a slew of minor improvements and bugfixes."

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mnoGoSearch-php version 3.2.1

Version 3.2.1 of mnoGoSearch, a web site search engine, is available. New features and bug fixes are listed in the Change Log.

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Mod_python 3.1.0a alpha available

Version 3.1.0a Alpha of Mod_python has been announced. The download page says: "This is an ALPHA release, therefore it is likely to contain bugs and is not of production quality. Additionally, some functionality may change until first beta release. We strongly recommend that you try out your application in a test environment with this release and report any incompatibilities or problems you may encounter."

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Zope 3 Newsletter, Issue 10

Issue 10 of the Zope 3 Newsletter is out, take a look to see what's happening with the next generation of the Zope web platform.

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Babeldoc 1.1.9 released (SourceForge)

Babeldoc 1.1.9 has been released. "Babeldoc is integration tool that can plumb together data flows. It is completely configurable and scriptable. It is heavily XML biased but not exclusively so. This is going to be the last development release - the next set of releases are going to be Release candidates to version 1.2. This now has the J2EE module added. Please test."

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Access USB devices from Java applications (IBM developerWorks)

Qingye Jiang explains how to talk to USB devices from Java on IBM's developerWorks. "The Java platform has traditionally prided itself on its platform independence. While that independence has many benefits, it makes the process of writing Java applications that interact with hardware quite tricky. In this article, research scientist Qingye Jiang examines two projects that are making the process easier by providing APIs through which Java applications can make use of USB devices. While both projects are still in embryo form, both show promise and are already serving as the foundations of some real-world applications."

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ALSA Patch Bay 0.5.2 available

Version 0.5.2 of ALSA Patch Bay has been released. This version fixes a minor build problem.

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Gnome-Python, PyGTK and PyORBit hit 2.0 (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org has a multiple announcement for new versions of PyGTK, Gnome-Python, and PyOrbit.

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Writing GnomeVFS modules (IBM developerWorks)

Mikael Hallendal and Richard Hult show how to extend GNOME with virtual file systems on IBM's developerWorks. "This article describes how to use GnomeVFS -- a C library for accessing various file systems -- to extend GNOME and develop your own extensions to the virtual file system. The article is centered around an imaginary example file system that lets you access an in-memory directory tree."

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KDE-CVS-Digest for September 5, 2003

The September 5, 2003 KDE-CVS-Digest has been published. Here's the content summary: "In this week's CVS-Digest: Umbrello now has a document model code generator. Changes in menus and tab configuration in Konqueror. Optimizations in KConfig, KMail and Konqueror. Drag and drop fixes in KOrganizer. Bug fixes in KOffice and Kopete."

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KDE Traffic #63

KDE Traffic #63 is available. The summary on KDE.News says: "KDE Traffic #63 was released this week with news about cookie problems, discussion about Cut and Copy entries in the context menu of Konqueror, usability of the Kicker window list, the proposed move of kpdf from kdenonbeta to kdegraphics and more."

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KDE Traffic #64 is Out

The KDE.News summary of issue #64 of KDE Traffic says: "KDE Traffic #64 has been released, with lots of news articles about KDatePicker, iCalendar, OpenOffice integration in KDE, the software patent fracas, a neat little devices applet for Kicker, a private extension for DCOP, and of course, a nice treat at the end."

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XCircuit 3.1.21 released

Version 3.1.21 of XCircuit, an electronic schematic drawing program, is available. Change information is in the source code.

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gEDA News

The latest releases from the gEDA project include new versions the Icarus verilog compiler and gaf (gschem and friends).

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PyGame Tutorial Updated

A new version of Shandy Brown's PyGame Tutorial is available. Take a look if you are interested in working with PyGame.

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flPhoto 1.1rc3 available

Version 1.1rc3 of flPhoto, an image management and display program, is out. See the Release Notes for change information.

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GIMP 1.3.20 Released (GnomeDesktop)

Development version 1.3.20 of the Gimp has been announced. "This release features a lot of bug-fixes as well a number of improvements over 1.3.19. Definitely worth an update, especially if you want to participate on the bug week."

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GIMP Bug Week (GnomeDesktop)

The GIMP Bug Week for version pre-2.0 has been announced. "As some of you might already know, next week is the pre-2.0 GIMP Bug Week. The first pre-releases of 2.0 will start coming out the door around the end of this month, and we need to get some concentrated testing done before then, as well as classifying known bugs into those which will be fixed before 2.0 final and those which will be fixed later."

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QGIS version 0.0.12 (SourceForge)

Version 0.0.12 of QGIS, a Geographic Information System built for Linux and Unix, has been announced. "The biggest change is the ability to select features in shapefiles and zoom to the selected set. Features can be selected by dragging the mouse or from the attribute table (thanks to Marco)."

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FLTK 1.1.4 released

Version 1.1.4 of FLTK, the Fast Light ToolKit, is available. Change info is in the source code.

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GTK+ 2.2.4 Released (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org has an announcement for GTK+ 2.2.4. "This is a bug fix release and is source and binary compatible with previous releases in the 2.0 and 2.2 series. This is an emergency release to fix a critical GtkTreeView problem which broke context menus in several applications."

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PyGTK 2.0.0 released

Version 2.0.0 of PyGTK, a Python language binding for GTK, has been announced.

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Samba-3.0.0 RC3 available for download

The Samba Team has announced Samba-3.0.0 RC3, hopefully the final RC before the real 3.0.0 release, which should take place early next week. "Unless there is a severe bug in the Samba source that would affect a large number of the community, the source/ directory in RC3 will stay the same for 3.0.0."

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Wine Traffic

Issue #186 of Wine Traffic has been published. "This is the 186th release of the weekly Wine Weekly News publication. Its main goal is to run amok. It also serves to inform you of what's going on around Wine."

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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 Released (MozillaZine)

Version 0.2 of the Mozilla Thunderbird email and news client has been released. "Based on Mozilla 1.5 Beta, Thunderbird 0.2 features a redesigned Options dialogue, spell checker improvements, enhancements to the default theme and better performance and stability."

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New stable Pan releases (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org reports on release 0.14.2 of Pan, a newsreader for GNOME. "Pan 0.14.2 fixes a configuration corruption bug in 0.14.1, which was released a few days ago."

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GanttProject 1.9.8 released (SourceForge)

Version 1.9.8 of Ganttproject has been released. "After two release candidate, ganttproject 1.9.8 has been released. Ganttproject is a pure Java application thats lets you plan project using Gantt charts. It uses a file format based on XML and can export into HTML Web pages or PNG images."

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Gnumeric 1.1.90 RC1 available

Release Candidate 1 of the Gnumeric 1.1.90 spreadsheet is available. "This is primarily a spit and polish release. It fixes the missing documentation files from the 1.1.20 release. There are a few extensions to the charting engine, and a much improved image selector for objects. The main substantive change relates to the handling of empty cells passed as arguments to optional parameters."

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GNOME DTP software: Passepartout 0.2 (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org looks at version 0.2 of Passepartout, a Desktop Publishing package that is in the early stages of development.

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OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC4 is out

Version 1.1 RC4 of OpenOffice.org 1.1 is available. Also, the OpenOffice.org SDK for 1.1 RC4 has been released.

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OpenOffice.org Newsletter

The September, 2003 edition of the OpenOffice.org newsletter is available with the latest OpenOffice office suite news. This issue takes aim at Microsoft Office.

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Epiphany 1.0 Released (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine reports that Epiphany 1.0 has been released. Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the Gecko rendering engine.

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Mozilla 1.4.1 Release Candidates (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine reports on the availability of the Mozilla 1.4.1 release candidate builds. "Mozilla 1.4.1 is an updated version of Mozilla 1.4 with around 100 additional bugfixes."

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Arabic Localization Project and Translation Effort (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine reports on the progress of the Arabic translation of Mozilla. "Nadim Shaikli writes: "With the recent improved Arabic support in Mozilla, a flurry of activity has taken place to better acknowledge the browser's enhancements. A complete localization effort is taking shape with a large percentage of the work already completed. Mozilla's homepage has also been fully translated to Arabic."

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Independent Status Reports (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine mentions the availability of a new set of Mozilla Independent Status Reports. "The latest set of status reports includes updates from Firebird Help, BannerBlind, Next Image, StumbleUpon, Uzilla, MozWho, MultiZilla and Mozex."

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Project Orb Documentation Project Reaches Version 0.2 (MozillaZine)

According to MozillaZine, version 0.2 of the Project Orb Mozilla documentation project, is available. "Since release 0.1 additional useful end user preference customizations are included, as well as several screenshots. The project is continuing to evolve in scope. Plans are in the works for a French language version of the project, as well as more information about Camino and Firebird."

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AbiWord Weekly News

Issue #160 of the AbiWord Weekly News has been published, take a look for the latest AbiWord word processor news.

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Gsharp 0.2 released

Version 0.2 of Gsharp, an interactive, extensible editor for musical scores written in Lisp, is available.

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Peacock 1.9.1 released! (GnomeDesktop)

Version 1.9.1 of Peacock, an HTML editor for the GNOME Desktop, is available. "Admirers of fair creatures and HTML Editor named after them, a new version of Peacock - An HTML Editor for Gnome, v1.9.1 has been released. Sporting a new Gnome 2 look and more importantly WYSIWYG (yes! WYSIWYG) HTML Editing capabilities using the GtkHTML bonobo control (you might have bumped into it while composing a email in evo)."

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Caml Weekly News

The August 26 - September 2, 2003 edition of the Caml Weekly News is out with the latest Caml language development news.

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Caml Weekly News

The September 2-9, 2003 edition of the Caml Weekly News is out with even more Caml news.

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Comparing Java Data Binding Tools (O'Reilly)

Mette Hedin compares several open-source and proprietary Java data binding tools. "Many W3C XML Schema (WXS) data binding tools for Java are now emerging. These tools generate Java code from instances of WXS in order to represent the structures defined therein. The autogenerated code has the ability to convert from XML format to Java objects and vice versa. This gives the user a compile-time Java API customized for the specific schema used, which saves a lot of time and effort compared to utilizing generic interfaces such as DOM and JDOM. In addition it also enables Java developers with little or no XML knowledge to both consume and produce valid XML documents."

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GNU CLISP 2.31 released

Version 2.31 of GNU CLISP, a Common Lisp implementation, is available.

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This Week on perl5-porters (use Perl)

The September 1-7, 2003 edition of This Week on perl5-porters has been published. "September begins, holidays are over. Lots of little new things occured this week. Read about lexical pragmas, syntax warnings and good style, advancement of the maintainance branches, bugs, fixes, tests and upgrades."

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PHP Weekly Summary for September 8, 2003

The PHP Weekly Summary for September 8, 2003 is out. Topics include: iconv compiler issues, studlyCaps, ming extension, Broken locale functionality, Servlet SAPI (continued).

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phpMyAdmin 2.5.3 is released (SourceForge)

An announcement for version 2.5.3 of phpMyAdmin is on SourceForge. "After three release candidates, we are pleased to release this brand new version. phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the http://www. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields."

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InlineEgg Library for Python

Version 1.0 of the InlineEgg library for Python is available. "InlineEgg is a collection of python classes (a "library"), that will help you write small assembly programs, either to use as eggs/shellcode for your exploits or for anything else you may need small assembly programs for. But! without writing assembly, just using python." Hopefully, those exploits will be non-malevolent.

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MojoView 1.0 available

Version 1.0 of MojoView, a Python package that assists in building PyGTK2 database applications, is available.

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Python beginner's mistakes

Hans Nowak has published a document entitled Python beginner's mistakes. "Beginner's mistakes are not Python's fault, nor the beginner's. They're merely a result of misunderstanding the language. However, there is a difference between misunderstanding (often subtle) language features, vs misunderstanding the language as a whole, and what can (and cannot) be done with it. The pitfalls article focused on the former; this article deals with the latter."

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Python anti-pitfalls

Richard Jones has published a document called Python anti-pitfalls. "The following are a quick (random, off the top of various heads) list of things that I think are anti-pitfalls in Python. That is, because the language has these features, it is harder to make programming mistakes."

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PyXR 0.9.3.0 released

Version 0.9.3.0 of PyXR, a Python-language HTML pretty-printing package, is available. Changes include better line linking and improved config file error message reporting.

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

The September 8, 2003 edition of Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! is out with another round of links to Python language articles.

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Unix Squeak 3.6-beta11 available

Version 3.6-beta11 of Unix Squeak, a Smalltalk implementation, has been released, take a look to see the long list of changes.

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Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

The September 1, 2003 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! has been published.

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Enhance Ant with XSL transformations (IBM developerWorks)

Jim Creasman writes about Ant on IBM's developerWorks. "n the mid-1990s, most of the source code was C or C++. make was the tool of choice for scripting and managing code compilation. Sprinkle in a dash of batch files or shell scripts to add automation and you had a build process. Times change. Enter Java technology, XML, XSLT, extreme programming with continuous build, and a host of other new technologies and ideas. By the late '90s the playing field was looking a lot different. Perhaps the single biggest addition to the set of build tools was Ant."

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