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ZABBIX is an enterprise-class distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices, and other IT resources. It supports distributed and Web-based monitoring, auto-discovery, real-time monitoring, SLA assurance, trending, and more.

Release Notes: This release fixes all reported issues in the previous release candidate.

Release Tags: Release Candidate

Tags: Logging, Networking, Monitoring, Systems Administration

Licenses: GPL

GLB is a user-space TCP load balancer similar to Pen. It lacks most of advanced Pen features, as the aim was to make a user-space TCP proxy which is as fast as possible. It can utilize multiple CPU cores. A list of destinations can be configured at runtime. Destination "draining" is supported. It features weight-based connection balancing (which becomes round-robin if weights are equal).

Release Notes: This is a minor bugfix release. It fixes a destination management bug which sometimes made it impossible to remove a destination or change its weight via the socket control interface, and fixes compilation with the --enable-stats configure option.

Release Tags: Stable

Tags: Clustering/Distributed Networks, Networking

Licenses: GPLv2

Areca is a file backup system that supports data compression (zip / zip64 format) and encryption, incremental backups, FTP file transfer, a file history explorer, and many other features. It includes a transaction mechanism, which guarantees the integrity of your backups. Two user interfaces are available: a command-line interface (useful for backup automation) and a graphical user interface (useful for backup administration).

Release Notes: It is now possible to check archives after a merge has been performed (in the same way as it was performed after backups). This version also introduces CBC encryption and some minor improvements

Tags: Archiving, backup, Utilities

Licenses: GPL

crpcut is the Compartmented Robust Posix C++ Unit Test system. crpcut (pronounced "Crap Cut") runs all test cases in their own process and their own working directory, which makes it perfectly normal to test that asserts do trap, and the test suite continues even in the event of an unexpected SIGSEGV. By using the C++11 features long available in GCC, the tests are extremely easy to write.

Release Notes: This release fixes a minor bug with the NO_CORE_FILE test modifier which occurred on Linux when /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern described piping the core dump to a program rather than saving to a file.

Release Tags: minor bugfix

Tags: Software Development, Testing, Stable, Unit test

Licenses: BSD Revised

RSSpect is a Java library for working with RSS 2.0 feeds. It is designed to be easy-to-use and comes with an intuitive, developer-friendly API. All objects in the library are serializable, immutable, and thread-safe. It has been fully tested for accuracy. RSSpect only requires a stax-api implementation to work.

Release Notes: This release fixes issues with extension scope resolution and adds support for object comparison using the equals() method.

Release Tags: Minor feature enhancements

Tags: RSS, RSS 1.0, Feed Library, Java Stax, Syndication tool, news aggregator, web tool, Internet, Web, Dynamic Content, CGI Tools/Libraries

Licenses: GPLv3

Atomsphere is a Java feed library for the Atom 1.0 specification. It is designed to be easy-to-use and comes with an intuitive, developer-friendly API. All objects in the library are serializable, immutable, and thread-safe. It has been fully tested for accuracy. Atomsphere only requires a stax-api implementation to work.

Release Notes: This release fixes issues with extension scope resolution and adds support for object comparison using the equals() method.

Release Tags: Minor feature enhancements

Tags: Internet, Web, Dynamic Content, CGI Tools/Libraries, Atom, Feed Library, Java Stax, Syndication tool, news aggregator, web tool

Licenses: GPL

Recoll is a personal full text desktop search tool based on Xapian. It provides an easy to use, feature-rich, easy administration interface with a Qt-based GUI. Text, HTML, PDF, PostScript, MS Word, OpenOffice, Wordperfect, KWord, Abiword, maildir, and mailbox mail folder formats are supported, along with their compressed versions and quite a few others. Powerful query facilities are provided. Multiple character sets are supported, and internal processing and storage uses Unicode UTF-8. Stemming is performed at query time and the stemming language can be switched after indexing.

Release Notes: This release fixes a few minor bugs in 1.17.0, including thumbnails not showing up for some files and incomplete output from the chm filter.

Tags: Information Management, Text Processing, Indexing

Licenses: GPL

Would a rose by any other name still smell as sweet? Or would it, perhaps, end up sweeter? That, essentially, is the question at the heart of the forking process, which in turn is at the heart of a key situation today. Namely: Now that we have LibreOffice, do we...

Would a rose by any other name still smell as sweet? Or would it, perhaps, end up sweeter? That, essentially, is the question at the heart of the forking process, which in turn is at the heart of a key situation today. Namely: Now that we have LibreOffice, do we still need OpenOffice as well? In the wake of Apache OpenOffice's new update, that's been the question du jour down at the Linux blogosphere's Punchy Penguin Cafe. "LibreOffice has demonstrated that it's the right way to do IT/office suites," offered blogger Robert Pogson.

 

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Gnac is an easy-to-use audio conversion program for the GNOME desktop. It is designed to be powerful but simple. It provides easy audio file conversion between all GStreamer supported audio formats.

Release Notes: This release supports ASX playlists.

Tags: Desktop Environment, GNOME, multimedia, Sound/Audio, Conversion

Licenses: GPL, GPLv3

LogicalDOC is a Web-based document management system that is easy to use and learn. Its architecture leverages best-of-breed Java technology to achieve a powerful and flexible solution. It supports its users with a powerful search engine (Lucene), Web service interface (JAX-WS via CXF) compatible with .NET and PHP, versioning, annotation on documents, a WebDAV interface, importing and exporting from .zip files. Documents can be organized into hierarchical folders, searched using the integrated search engine, or browsed by Tag. The system is extensible thanks to the technologies used (Spring-Hibernate) and its plugin architecture.

Release Notes: Czech, Slovenian, and Korean languages are now supported. Web services were improved and small changes were made in the user interface. Problems where group security policies were not inherited, statistics computation was too slow for large document repositories, and the print option was available even if the user didn't have download permission were fixed.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor bugfixes, Minor improvements

Tags: Internet, Web, Indexing/Search, Information Management, Records Management, Document Repositories, Office/Business, groupware, Document Management System, DMS, Knowledge Management

Licenses: LGPL

Box is a framework to build complex applications with simple repetitive tasks assimilated to a "black box". It is highly inspired by signal processing processes applied to the Web. It will replace any MVC or 3 layer patterns that are unaware of real Web programming needs. It natively includes high parametrization, languages, and templates for each task in the framework.

Release Notes: An error in engineBox with reading descriptors was fixed. parameterBox was modified to use parameter input. The examples have been updated with a Bootstrap-like design and are now more responsive.

Release Tags: Minor bugfixes, Minor Enhancements

Tags: framework, Pattern Definitions, PHP, DomCore

Licenses: GPLv3

Snort is a network intrusion detection and prevention system. It is the most widely deployed technology of its kind in the world. It performs detection using a variety of methods including rules-based detection, anomaly detection, and heuristic analysis of network traffic. Its rules language is open source and available to the public as well.

Release Notes: The GTP preprocessor was updated to better handle GTPv1 data. The DNP3 preprocessor now has stricter packet checking. Checking in the reassembly buffer was improved. PCRE rule option processing was fixed to prevent issues seen with libpcre 8.30 and certain rules. dcerpc2 no longer aborts reassembly if the target-based protocol is undefined.

Release Tags: Minor

Tags: Networking, Monitoring

Licenses: GPL

OpenGrade is software for teachers to keep track of grades. It can put the students' grade reports on a Web server and allow the students password-protected access to them.

Release Notes: This release works around a break in backward compatibility occurring with Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). It will also work on some earlier, but not too old, versions of Ubuntu.

Tags: education

Licenses: GPL

A well known company, Valve, that distributes nonfree computer games with Digital Restrictions Management, recently announced it would distribute these games for GNU/Linux. What good and bad effects can this have?

A well known company, Valve, that distributes nonfree computer games with Digital Restrictions Management, recently announced it would distribute these games for GNU/Linux. What good and bad effects can this have? Read more at Muktware

Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal is to provide a more complete out-of-the-box experience by including browser plugins, media codecs, support for DVD playback, Java and other components. It also adds a custom desktop and menus, several unique configuration tools, and a web-based package installation interface. Linux Mint is compatible with Ubuntu software repositories.

XWiki is a WikiWiki clone written in Java that supports many popular features of other Wikis like the Wiki syntax, version control, attachments, security, and searching, but also many advanced features like templates, database and dynamic development using scripting languages (Velocity, Groovy, Ruby, Python, PHP, and more), an extension system and skinability, J2EE scalability, an XML/RPC remote API, statistics, RSS feeds, PDF exporting, WYSIWYG editing, an Office viewer and importer, and a lot more.

Release Notes: This release brings new 3D graphs made with pure XWiki syntax, safer Groovy scripting, and better hiding of internal application related documents.

Release Tags: 4.1

Tags: Information Management, Document Repositories, Internet, Web, Dynamic Content, Site Management

Licenses: LGPL 2.1

Dash Reports is a versatile and lightweight reporting solution. It allows users and administrators to create a large range of reports driven by SQL databases. It also supports the creation of complex and powerful dashboards, with local caching of results to reduce load on the source database. Various report output formats are supported and the results can be styled using templates. The system allows for scheduled or user-invoked reports, delivered via browser, file, FTP/SFTP, or email.

Release Notes: This is the first release.

Tags: Java, SQL, Reports, Scheduling, Reporting

Licenses: GPLv3

Urd is a Web-based Usenet binary download manager. It stores the newsgroup information in a MySQL database and aggregates the articles into sets of a single download (e.g. one album or movie). The Web interface can be used to search with regular expressions. It uses its own downloading daemon that has support for scheduling downloads and updating databases. URD can also download directly from NZB files and even create NZB files. Further features include custom scripts, multiple languages, a template based Web interface, support for multiple servers, automatic par2 and unrar support, and an intuitive user interface.

Release Notes: Mostly minor improvements and bugfixes. New features include an adult filter, spam reports included for spots as well, auto-downloading from spots, and selecting the download folder from a drop down list.

Release Tags: major stable release

Tags: Internet, Web, Communications, Usenet News, Indexing/Search, nzb

Licenses: GPLv3

Rope is a Python refactoring library. It can be used in other IDEs to provide features like refactoring and coding assistance.

Release Notes: This release mainly contains bugfixes. Please consult the development repo commit messages for more details.

Tags: Software Development, Refactoring, Libraries, Python Modules

Licenses: GPL

LEAF is a secure, feature-rich, customizable embedded Linux network appliance for use in a variety of network topologies. Although it can be used in other ways, it's primarily used as a Internet gateway, router, firewall, and wireless access point.

Release Notes: This is a maintenance release providing package updates and minor bugfixes.

Release Tags: Stable, Maintenance

Tags: Firewalls, Monitoring, Networking

Licenses: GPL, MIT/X