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Strasheela is a highly expressive constraint-based music composition system. Users declaratively state a music theory and the computer generates music which complies with this theory. A theory is formulated as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) by a set of rules (constraints) applied to a music representation in which some aspects are expressed by variables (unknowns). Music constraint programming is style-independent and is well-suited for highly complex theories (e.g. a fully-fledged theory of harmony). Results can be output into various formats including MIDI, Lilypond, and Csound. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This release brings many small-scale improvements and extensions to Strasheela. Most importantly, the implementation of Schoenberg's Theory of Harmony as CSP has been documented (HTML with sound examples), Strasheela now supports adaptive just intonation, the music representation has been extended by several convenient constructors, and a number of pattern constraints have been added. Also, some bugs have been fixed.

UMLet is a lightweight tool for rapidly drawing UML diagrams, with a sound and pop-up-free user interface. UMLet lets you draw diagram sketches quickly, teach UML with a simple user interface, and export diagrams to SVG, JPG, PDF, and LaTeX-friendly EPS. It features a fast, text-based way of editing UML elements. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
Eclipse integration was improved. Printing was added. Relation handling was improved. Internal code refactoring was done.

Open Tool Kit (Otk) is a portable widget library for making graphical user interfaces for C programs. It emphasizes simplicity for the application programmer without eliminating capability. Based on OpenGL, Otk supports Linux, Unix, and other OSs neutrally and efficiently. It is simple and compact, and it strives for easy compilation and linking to other applications. In seeking to address several issues associated with earlier graphics APIs, Otk explores some interesting methods, such as window-relative layout instead of pixel-based layout. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes:
The tab-key was activated to jump the cursor to the next form-box when the cursor is in a single-row text form-box. The automatic test-capture capability was improved by adding time-tags to the XML file. This now regulates the play-back speed of previously captured tests.

AsDoclet can be used to generate Actionscript and C# files out of Java sources. Such a tool is useful for RIA and client/server applications where value objects are transmitted between server and client as serialized data that should be deserializable on both ends again. That includes remoting technologies like Flash Remoting, RTMP, Blaze DS, Red5, and Hessian. License: The Apache License 2.0 Changes:
The baseclass parameter was renamed to superclass. The ignore tag is considered when adding an override annotation or keyword. Annotation tags are processed on interfaces. A bug in C# boundary template was fixed.

dlib C++ library is a modern general C++ library with a focus on portability and program correctness. It comes with extensive documentation and thorough debugging modes. The library provides a platform abstraction layer for common tasks such as interfacing with network services, handling threads, and creating graphical user interfaces. Additionally, the library implements many useful algorithms such as data compression routines, linked lists, binary search trees, linear algebra and matrix utilities, machine learning algorithms, XML and general text parsing, and many other general utilities. License: Boost Software License Changes:
In addition to a lot of small usability improvements, this release adds an algorithm for performing on-line training of a support vector machine for solving classification problems.

wmlenovo is a small dock application for monitoring battery state, CPU, GPU, and motherboard temperatures, and CPU and fan speed on Lenovo (IBM) laptops. It requires ACPI and thinkpad_acpi. It is based on wmbatteries. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes:
The foreground colors for backlight and main modes were separated.

Vacuum Magic is a fast-paced action game. The point of the game is using your magical vacuum field to collect food and defend against monsters. Food and certain monsters can also be spat out and used as a projectile against other monsters. Vacuum Magic can be played by up to six players, either cooperatively or against each other. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
A very difficult boss battle was added: the bomber. New enemies include the ice rain, the spider, and the bomb. Players can now hold down the fire key to prolong slurp time before spitting. This allows for a more precise aim. The bullet time bonus item was added, which slows down enemies for a while. A new background was added. Several new visual effects were added. Some bugs were fixed.

Httpx takes over the front-line position of binding and listening on the public address and port of your virtual Web hosting server. In this role, it scans incoming requests looking for the HTTP/1.1 Host: request header entity. Once the Host: value is found for a given request, it is routed to a UNIX domain socket in the local file system located through a cached database lookup. Over this UNIX domain socket, an inter-process descriptor pass occurs to a Web server modified slightly to receive TCP socket descriptors passed over a UNIX domain socket instead of binding, listening for, and accepting TCP sockets. This allows vhosts to share an IP address while having private, host-specific, potentially unique httpd contexts. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes:
"Host:" values are now truncated to remove any trailing dots or whitespace before being used in the HostMap lookup. In previous versions, "Host:" values like "www.foo.com." would result in a lookup of "www.foo.com.", requiring rows for both "www.foo.com" and "www.foo.com.". With this version, the value "www.foo.com." will result in a lookup of "www.foo.com", simplifying the HostMap configuration.

qooxdoo is a comprehensive and innovative AJAX application framework. Leveraging object-oriented JavaScript allows developers to build impressive cross-browser applications. No HTML, CSS, or DOM knowledge is needed. It includes a platform-independent development tool chain, a GUI toolkit, and an advanced client-server communication layer. It is under an LGPL/EPL dual license. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes:
Inspector was added, which is a cross-browser debugging tool like Firebug. Many improvements and bugfixes were made. This release was tested for all common browsers, including upcoming versions like IE8. Packaging and loading of qooxdoo applications was optimized. A CSS3 selector engine and a jQuery-like low-level API were added. A preview of the upcoming data binding layer and a preview of the new infrastructure for virtual widgets are included.

ring3k is a user mode kernel capable of running Windows 2000 and XP compatible native applications on a Linux platform. It is a light-weight virtualization of the NT kernel for the Linux x86 platform achieved by reimplementing kernel mode code as a ring 3 process in C++. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes:
This version runs a moderately hacked up version of Wine's winemine.exe. Initial support was added for bitmaps and finer grained tracing.

Wt is a C++ library for developing Web applications with an API that is widget-centric and inspired by existing C++ graphical user interface APIs. To the developer, it offers complete abstraction of any Web-specific implementation details. Under the hood, the library uses the latest techniques (AJAX) to handle user events and update the Web page. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This release is the first preview release for Wt 3.0.0. A type-safe flags template class was added (WFlags). The WResource API was redesigned to support async I/O using continuations and file uploads. Scalable "server push" is now fully supported also in the presence of proxy servers that close connections. A WGoogleMap widget was added. Widget memory usage has been reduced by three-fold, which in turn leads to big performance improvements on low-end (embedded) systems. Floating point I/O in SVG/VML/Canvas rendering has been optimized.

Jailer is a database subsetting tool. It is a tool for data exporting, schema browsing, and rendering. It exports consistent, referentially intact row-sets from relational databases. It removes obsolete data without violating integrity. It is DBMS agnostic (by using JDBC), platform independent, and generates DbUnit datasets, hierarchically structured XML, and topologically sorted SQL-DML. License: The Apache License 2.0 Changes:
A data filtering feature was added for data anonymization and test data aging. A setting for Sybase jConnect 6.0 was added.

Vyatta is a Linux-based routing and security distribution. It is meant to deliver a flexible, affordable alternative to Cisco 1800 through 7200 series routers. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes:
This version greatly expands Vyatta's security feature set, adding SSL-based OpenVPN, intrusion prevention (IPS), and Web URL filtering, among many other improvements. New features include improved VPN security with OpenVPN, improved performance with Web caching and Ethernet bonding, support for network access policies via URL filtering, a new Web-based graphical user interface, enhanced DNS capabilities for SME environments, and improved virtualization performance.

SLiteChat is an in-world text-only local chat/instant messaging client for Second Life. Features include friends list management (accept/reject friending requests), local chat, and instant messages. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes:
User name and password persistence were finally added. Group chat functionality was added. SLC shows the Group IM session in a new IM window. However, the UI features to initiate a group chat are not yet in. A Mac OS X installer package was added. Group chat is no longer broken. The "Save Password" checkbox in the login dialog actually works now.

The Open Toolkit is a strongly-typed and cross-platform OpenGL and OpenAL wrapper for C# and other Mono/.Net languages. It can be used standalone (in the spirit of GLFW or SDL) or integrated in GTK# and WinForms applications. License: MIT/X Consortium License Changes:
This release introduces OpenGL 3.0 support on Unix, adds inline documentation for the OpenGL API, and fixes several outstanding issues in joystick support and the OpenGL wrappers. Input devices with 0 axes and/or buttons are now supported (e.g. tablets or keyboard extensions) and it is now possible to specify the desired OpenGL version (e.g. 2.1 or 3.0) and flags (e.g. forward-compatible or debug). Upgrading from previous releases is strongly recommended for stability.

Endeavour Mark II is a complete file management suite that comes with a file browser, image browser, archiver, recycled objects system, and a set of file and disk management utility programs. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
New features and bugfixes were applied to the Archiver. The RAR encryption bug has been fixed. Listing archives is now asynchronous. Configuration IO function name spaces were fixed in the API.

DBSight is a J2EE search platform for instant scalable full-text search on any relational database, for both beginners and experts. It features a built-in database crawler following user-defined SQL, incremental indexing, configurable result ranking, highlighted search results (like Google), and categorized result counts (like Amazon). Scaffolding supports tag cloud, AJAX search suggest, and a spell checker. It can easily integrate with other languages with XML/JSON/HTML. There is a UI for all operations, so no Java coding is necessary. Deleted or updated records in database can be synchronized. Content outside the database can also be searched. License: Free for non-commercial use Changes:
Multiple-choice partial scaffolding was added. Suggest-as-you-type now works for one character also. Column-specific partial scaffolding was added so that it can be applied several times. Scaffolding now can be applied to subdirectories. Performance for spell checking dictionary generation was greatly improved for large indexes. Performance for deletion detection was greatly improved and efficient. Different versions of the same JDBC drivers can be used. Multiple-choice query was added. Scaffolding for RSS syndication was fixed. A problem in which jQuery.js was included twice was fixed.

Melas is an uncomplicated build and packaging tool. It is used to compile software and create installable package files. Melas can be used to reliably reproduce builds and perform dependency tracking. Cross-compilation is supported through integration with Sbox2. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
An "autoimport" feature was added, which causes a specific specfile to be automatically imported by all child melas processes as well as the current one. This is very useful to provide configuration settings. Adjustments were made to sbox2 pathmaps to support certain packages. Configurable settings were added for purging Python files, Windows exe files, as well as settings for creating -locale-*, -dev, and -doc packages.

Netpbm2Gimp automatically compiles the unmodified source code of a Netpbm graphics program into a GIMP plug-in. The result looks and functions like any other GIMP plug-in, although it takes much less effort to produce than a hand-coded GIMP plug-in. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
Standard output and standard error are now trapped and displayed in dialog boxes when the generated plug-in finishes running.

getID3() is a PHP script that extracts useful information from MP3s and other multimedia file formats. It extracts information like the play time, bitrate, and resolution from the following file formats: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, AVI, Matroska (MKV), MPEG-1 video, Windows Media (ASF, WMA, WMV), RealAudio & RealVideo, Monkey's Audio, FLAC & OggFLAC, VQF, Speex, Musepack (MPC), AAC, AU, VOC, AIFF, OptimFROG, WavPack, LiteWave, LPAC, RKAU, SZIP, Shorten, Quicktime, NSV, MIDI, ZIP, ISO9660, TTA, PhotoCD, BMP, PNG, GIF, and JPEG. It parses information from ID3v1, ID3v2, Ogg Vorbis, Lyrics3 v1 & v2, RIFF (AVI, WAV, CDA, CART, BWF), APE, ReplayGain, PNG, and GIF tags, and can write ID3v1, ID3v2, APE2, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis tags. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
Support was added for DSS and Musepack (MPC) SV8 formats. Support was improved for Matroska (MKV) files.