Contemplate is a Web templating system that
allows writers, front-end developers, and Web
programmers to focus on what they do best. It’s
available in PHP, ASP, or Perl, and each version uses identical content and template formats so that you can easily move your sites from one platform to another.
Changes: This release has a couple of bugfixes, plus updates for compatibility with recent versions of PHP. Please note: this will be the last release for ASP and Perl. Development will focus on PHP starting with version 1.3.
Tags: Internet, Web, Dynamic Content
Licenses: Apache
The aim of SCEW is to provide an easy interface around the XML Expat parser, as well as a simple interface for creating new XML documents. It provides functions to load and access XML elements without the need to create Expat event handling routines every time you want to load a new XML document. It uses a DOM-like object model for new or parsed XML documents, supports loading concatenated XML documents, can copy and compare full XML documents, elements, or attributes, writes XML documents to multiple outputs, and allows adding new I/O sources easily. It supports UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, and US-ASCII encoding (and UTF-16 in Windows).
Changes: This is a minor release including two bugfixes and improvements for XML tree and element comparisons.
Release Tags: Minor bugfixes
Tags: Software Development, Libraries
Licenses: LGPL
CentOS has updated kdelibs (C5:
arbitrary code execution).
Fedora has updated tomcat6 (F10, F11, F12: multiple vulnerabilities) and bind
(F11, F12:
cache poisoning).
Mandriva has updated php (2009.1, 2009.0,
Corporate 4.0, Enterprise Server 5.0, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0, Multi Network
Firewall 2.0: multiple vulnerabilities), dovecot (authentication bypass), and libtool (privilege escalation).
Red Hat has updated xerces-j2
(denial of service), dstat (arbitrary code
execution), and bind (cache poisoning).
PhonoRipper is an easy to use, all-in-one GUI tool
for creating audio CDs from analog sources like
vinyl records. It uses Cdrdao for CD writing and
Normalize for volume normalization. Features
include a fully buffered WAV file recorder with
mixer and VU meter (supporting both ALSA and OSS
drivers), automatic detection of track borders,
an intuitive drag’n'drop CD writing interface
with CD-text support, CDDB queries of CD text data, and a WYSIWYG CD cover editor.
Changes: The automatic call to “cdrdao scanbus” on program startup can now be disabled and the CD writer device can be configured manually, so PhonoRipper can be effectively used on systems where cdrdao uses a buggy libscg that breaks the scanbus functionality.
Tags: multimedia, Sound/Audio, CD Audio, CD Writing
Licenses: GPL
“I have managed to find some time to cover the recent changes in the development version of KDE 4.4. The number of changes is not impressive but they are interesting enough to write an article.”
cinit is a fast executing, small, and simple init
with support for profiles. It is aware of
dependencies and executes processes in parallel.
Changes: This release adds an install target for bin/. It has consistent naming in bin/ (conf, cmd, and helper). It cleans up up some cinit-conf scripts, the documentation directory, the scripts directory, and source installation.
Tags: Boot, Init, Systems Administration
Licenses: GPL
Span-gles is a Spanish to English translation GUI.
It will translate a phrase (via the Internet) or a single word (using the built-in dictionary). It has the ability to learn new words, and is smart enough to find plural and feminine words.
Changes: This release adds compatibility with the new Google Translate. 1 bug has been fixed.
Tags: language translation, Utilities, learn, education, Spanish, English, translator
Licenses: GPL
The MorphOS team seems to be on a roll. Recently, they added support for the PowerPC G4 Mac mini models from Apple, meaning it suddenly became a lot easier to get your hands on a computer capable of running MorphOS. As expected, the team has now announced that a release with PowerMac G4 support is coming as well.
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is a Perl module which can be used to create native Excel binary files. Formatted text and numbers can be written to multiple worksheets in a workbook. Formulas and functions are also supported. It is 100% Perl and doesn’t require any Windows libraries or a copy of Excel. It will also work on the majority of Unix and Macintosh platforms. Generated files are compatible with Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003, and with OpenOffice and Gnumeric. An older version also supports Excel 5/95.
Changes: This release adds screenshots to the example documentation.
Release Tags: Minor
Tags: Database, Office/Business, Financial, Spreadsheet, Office Suites, Software Development, Libraries
Licenses: Artistic
Gecode is a portable, accessible, and efficient
environment for developing constraint-based
systems and applications. Gecode is radically open
for programming, meaning that it can be easily
interfaced to other systems. It supports the
programming of new propagators (as implementation
of constraints), branching strategies, and search
engines. New variable domains can be programmed at
the same level of efficiency as finite domain and
integer set variables that come predefined with
Gecode.
Changes: This release adds the sequence constraint and has some small additions and fixes.
Tags: Software Development, Libraries
Licenses: MIT/X
