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MirrorBrain is a framework to run a content delivery network using mirror servers. It solves a challenge that many popular open source projects face: a flood of download requests, often magnitudes more than a single site could practically handle. A central (and probably the most obvious) part is a "download redirector" that automatically redirects requests from Web browsers or download programs to a mirror server near them. Choosing a suitable mirror for a user's request is the key, and MirrorBrain uses geolocation and global routing data to make a sensible choice and achieve load-balancing for the mirrors at the same time. The algorithm is both sophisticated and easy to control and tune. In addition, MirrorBrain monitors mirrors, scans them for files, generates mirror lists, and more.

Release Notes: The most significant bugfix in this release is for a crash which could (only) occur when fallback mirrors were configured (hardcoded with the MirrorBrainFallback directive in the Apache configuration file). The other fixes are mostly to adjust for newer Python and build environments. The scanner is a little better. URL signing (introduced in 2.14.0) is now considered stable.

Release Tags: Stable, Bugfixes, Feature Enhancements

Tags: download, Mirroring, mirror, metalink

Licenses: Apache 2.0, GPLv2

Conquests is a turn-based 4X Civilization-like 3D strategy game. You can discover new technologies from the stone age to the space age, explore the world, and wage war on your opponents. It supports both Direct3D and OpenGL graphics, and can run in both 2D and 3D modes.

Release Notes: New game rules have been added, including "rebellions" and "Great Projects". Game winning conditions have been added. Improvements have been made to the user interface.

Release Tags: Major

Tags: Games/Entertainment, Game, Strategy, Turn Based Strategy

Licenses: GPL

Gnome Partition Editor is a graphical frontend to libparted. It supports creating, resizing, moving, and copying of partitions.

Release Notes: This release adds support for nilfs2, adds the ability to change UUIDs, adds read-only support for LVM PVs, enables GPT expansion when growing RAID, and includes bugfixes and language translation updates.

Tags: Hardware

Licenses: GPL

PHP iAddressBook is a Web-based address book for a single user. It supports personal or business cards (tons of fields), spotlight-like search, categories, transparent vCard import/export, multi-language support, design templates, and an intuitive interface. It aims at 100% compatibility with the AddressBook in Mac OS X.

Release Notes: This release adds support for PHP 5.3 (removing deprecation messages). It fixes a bug in the birthday reminder when birthdays were not shown correctly around year end. It changes <? tags to <php to improve compatibility.

Tags: Internet, Web, Office/Business, Utilities

Licenses: GPL

AutoLaTeX is a tool for managing small to large sized LaTeX projects. The typical AutoLaTeX input file is simply a series of variable definitions in a Makefile for the project. This Makefile was automatically generated by a provided Perl script. The user can easily perform all required steps to do such tasks as preview the document or produce a PDF file. AutoLaTeX will keep track of files that have changed and how to run the various programs that are needed to produce the output. One of the best features of AutoLaTeX is to provide translation rules to automatically generate the figures which will be included into the PDF.

Release Notes: This release fixes the filename extensions associated with the Astah Community UML editor: ".asta" and ".jude".

Release Tags: Major bugfixes

Tags: Text Processing, Markup, TeX/LaTeX

Licenses: GPL

Seo Panel is a complete control panel for managing search engine optimization of your Web sites. It contains many SEO tools to increase and track the performance of your Web sites. It lets you develop your own plugins for the panel. It includes an automatic directory submission tool, Site Auditor with a sitemap generator, a keyword position checker, a meta tag generator, Google and Alexa rank checkers, a backlink checker, a proxy server feature, multi-language support, the ability to export and print reports, and the ability to import keywords.

Release Notes: This release replaces Yahoo backlinks with alexa backlinks since Yahoo stopped their service. It removes the Yahoo saturation checker. It fixes an issue with the Google position checker of SEO panel version <= 3.0.3. It fixes issues with Site Auditor Tool, e.g. incorrect URLs crawled from pages. Directory submission changes to start submission with free directories first. Security bugfixes, e.g. to prevent SQL injection.

Release Tags: major update

Tags: search engine optimization, SEO, seo tools, site auditor, directory submission tool, keyword position checker, sitemap generator, rank checker

Licenses: GPLv2

AutoLaTeX is a tool for managing small to large sized LaTeX projects. The typical AutoLaTeX input file is simply a series of variable definitions in a Makefile for the project. This Makefile was automatically generated by a provided Perl script. The user can easily perform all required steps to do such tasks as preview the document or produce a PDF file. AutoLaTeX will keep track of files that have changed and how to run the various programs that are needed to produce the output. One of the best features of AutoLaTeX is to provide translation rules to automatically generate the figures which will be included into the PDF.

Release Notes: This release adds the converter from Astah Community UML Editor to PNG.

Release Tags: Major feature enhancements

Tags: Text Processing, Markup, TeX/LaTeX

Licenses: GPL

A WikiWikiWeb is a collaborative hypertext environment, with an emphasis on easy access to and modification of information. MoinMoin is a Python WikiClone that allows you to easily set up your own wiki, only requiring a Web server and a Python installation.

Release Notes: A few security fixes and several bugfixes. Fixes for Python 2.7 compatibility.

Release Tags: moin19

Tags: Communications, Internet, Web, Dynamic Content, Office/Business, Software Development, Documentation, Text Processing, Markup

Licenses: GPL

TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions. TCPDF supports all ISO page formats and custom page formats, custom margins and units of measure, UTF-8 Unicode, RTL languages, HTML, barcodes, TrueTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1, and CID-0 fonts, images, graphic functions, clipping, bookmarks, JavaScript, forms, page compression, digital signatures, and encryption.

Release Notes: This version fixes an SVG-related bug.

Tags: Software Development, Libraries, php classes, Text Processing

Licenses: LGPL

Jodd is general purpose Java utility library. It enriches JDK with many powerful and feature rich utilities. Jodd helps with everyday tasks and makes code more robust and reliable. Special attention is put into creating code that is reusable and as fast as possible while still keeping it compact (under 500 KB). Jodd Wot is a bundle of lightweight application frameworks, under 300 KB. It was designed following the CoC, DRY, and SCS principles.

Release Notes: Lagarto is now more relaxed on invalid tags. This release adds raw HTTP tools and BeanUtil.populate() methods. Type converters and Convert have been refactored and improved. Jerry can provide its builder for optional configuration. LagartoDOMBuilder has been enhanced with many configuration properties. A Lagarto DOM issue when the end of the document is reached and tags are not closed has been fixed. A class FastBuffer for buffering objects has been added.

Tags: Software Development, Libraries, Java Libraries, Application Frameworks

Licenses: BSD Revised

TeamLab is a platform for business collaboration and project management. Its wide array of features includes projects, milestones, tasks, reports, events, blogs, forums, bookmarks, wiki, instant messenger, and more.

Release Notes: CRM and Calendar modules have been added to the open source version. Calendar: several view modes, sharing and co-editing, and notifications. CRM: contact database tracking, sales pipeline control, deals' success probability, and budget and estimated deal due dates. A Windows server solution has been launched. In addition to the open codes, the installation file was uploaded to Sourceforge.net. It automatically configures IIS and creates a database without user interaction.

Release Tags: Calendar, CRM, server solution

Tags: project management tool, SaaS, AMI, Open Source

Licenses: GPLv3, Freeware

Rspamd is an anti-spam system designed to work faster than SpamAssassin by using event model and regular expression optimization. Currently released features: regexp rules for filtering different parts of messages; a number of built-in functions for analyzing messages; fuzzy hashes support; SURBL filters; email and character tables support; a control interface for remote managing and stats gathering; a Perl and Lua plugin system; statistics support (OSB/Winnow); compatibility with SpamAssassin; and a client program for email scanning. With similar rules, rspamd is about ten times faster than SpamAssassin.

Release Notes: This release reworks the system of workers initialization, providing a more comfortable way to init and create new workers. It adds threading support for parallel processing of stat files and regular expressions. It makes many of the rspamd subsystems thread-safe. It reworks the event system; several old and new bugs are fixed.

Release Tags: Stable

Tags: Email, SPAM, Filter

Licenses: BSD Original

BitNami Cloud Tools packages together Amazon Web Services tools with preconfigured Java and Ruby language runtimes to work out of the box. It is a self-contained, easy to use distribution with one goal in mind: to make it simple to get started using AWS services from the command line.

Release Notes: This release updates aws-ec2-api 1.5.2.4, aws-rds to 1.6.001, aws-iam to 1.3.0, aws-ses to 2011-11-14, aws-auto-scaling to 1.0.49.1, aws-cloudformation to 1.0.9, aws-sdk-java to 1.3.2, and aws-sdk-ruby to 1.3.4.

Tags: bitnami, AWS, cloud, Amazon, amazon web services, Java, Ruby, deploy, install, distribution, Sharepoint, azure

Licenses: Apache 2.0

BitNami ezPublish Stack is an easy-to-install distribution of the ezPublish software. It includes pre-configured, ready-to-run versions of Apache, PHP, and MySQL, so users can get a ezPublish installation up and running in minutes after answering a few questions. Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X are currently supported.

Release Notes: This release adds support for German. It updates eZ Publish to 2012.1 (5.5.0), Apache to 2.2.22, PHP to 5.3.10, MySQL to 5.5.16, and phpMyAdmin to 3.4.9. It disables MySQL binary logging, and doesn't allow you to execute the ctlscript.sh script as root when the stack is installed as a non-root user.

Overthere is a Java library to manipulate files and execute processes on remote hosts, i.e. do stuff "over there". It was built for and is used in the XebiaLabs deployment automation product Deployit as a way to perform tasks on remote hosts, e.g. copy configuration files, install EAR files, or restart Web servers. Another way of looking at it is to say that Overthere gives you java.io.File and java.lang.Process as they should have been: as interfaces, created by a factory and extensible through an SPI mechanism.

Release Notes: This release fixes backwards incompatibility: It adds an explicit close() method to the new OverthereConnection interface (it was a class in 1.0.13) that does not throw java.io.IOException.

Tags: Java 6 SE, remote execution, Virtual File System

Licenses: Apache 2.0

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 is a stabilization release that brings many improvements to the Extension Manager, a new macro for displaying documents in a live table, and quite a few bugfixes. It is the last major release of the 3.x development cycle (there will still be bugfix releases on the 3.5.x branch, if needed). The next major release is going to be 4.0.

Release Tags: 3.5

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

Licenses: LGPL 2.1

Tpda3 is a classic desktop database application framework. It supports the Firebird and PostgreSQL RDBMS.

Release Notes: The minimum Perl version is now 5.8.9. Better error messages were provided and a new connection algorithm was implemented. Small documentation fixes were made.

Tags: Database, GUI

Licenses: GPLv3

Yate is a next-generation telephony engine. While currently focused on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and PSTN, its power lies in its ability to be easily extended. It supports SIP, H.323, IAX, MGCP, Jingle, Jabber, E1, T1, analogic, robbed bit, ISDN PRI, BRI, and SS7. YateClient is an Instant Messenger and Voice application for Jabber/Jingle IM, SIP, H.323, and IAX VoIP protocols.

Release Notes: This release added SS7 components including SCCP, TCAP, MAP, and CAMEL. A JavaScript implementation was provided for fast prototyping of telephony applications. Alerts, monitoring, and logging were added. The YateClient interface was upgraded.

Release Tags: Stable, Major

Tags: Communications, Internet Phone, Telephony, voip, Chat

Licenses: GPL

Fork CMS is dedicated to creating a user friendly environment to build, monitor, and update your website. It is designed to be the CMS of choice for beginners and professionals.

Release Notes: It is now possible to use positions inside module templates. The first page displayed after login is now always the dashboard (if allowed). Some configuration files are now optional. The minifier can now handle import statements properly and works with PHP versions older than 5.2.2.

Tags: CMS, Content Management System

Licenses: Other

ImpressCMS is a content management system that allows you to easily build and maintain a dynamic Web site. Originally a fork of XOOPS, ImpressCMS is compatible with many XOOPS modules and themes, but also has many improvements. These include native multilingual support, a completely redesigned admin interface, management of unlimited block positions on the user side, easy cloning of existing blocks with a single click, a redesigned installation wizard with inline help at every step, many security improvements including the introduction of the Trust Path concept, which allows the storing of sensitive data outside the Web root, an automatic version checker, and a customizable privacy policy feature.

Release Notes: The first intermediate release in the 1.3 series includes security fixes, bugfixes, and backported enhancements coming from the development of the next version.

Release Tags: Final

Tags: Internet, Web, Site Management, Dynamic Content

Licenses: GPLv2