The Typo 5.4.x Willy Ronis series is a major release for Typo. One of the main tasks is to simplify this blogging engine with less useless feature, simpler, better interface, and lighter memory footprint. (Ads) // The improvement made to Typo 5.4.4 are: New and easier setup: just provide an email and a blog title, and...
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As the economy of China grows, the number of wealthy Chinese who can afford overseas holidays and top medical care also grows. Japan is trying to capture part of these markets in one go, pushing for travel tours that combine sightseeing and medical treatment to wealthy Chinese tourists. They are promoting tours that offer...
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The Apache Directory Team announced the release of Apache Directory Studio 1.5.3, a bug fix and enhancement update of its Eclipse based LDAP Browser and Directory client. Here are a few highlights of this new version: fixed a critical bug that makes Studio gone into an endless event loop Apache DS plugin comes with the latest...
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A new safe Standard Backup module for WebsiteBaker up to 2.8.1 is available. WebsiteBaker advised the remove of the backup module due to a Security Vulnerability in WebsiteBaker Core CMS that was announced a week earlier. (Ads) // This is the fixed module for all who need a simple backup module for their clients. The Backup...
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Scorched 3D is a simple turn-based artillery game and also a real-time strategy game in which players can counter each others’ weapons with other creative accessories, shields and tactics. Learn skill in timing, aiming and judgment, move around on the landscape, or even out-smart your opponent economically. The main emphasis for Version 43 is to...
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phpBB Modifications Team announced the release of the (UMIL) Unified MOD Install Library 1.0.2 “Spring Break Edition”. UMIL (Unified MOD Install Library) was built by EXreaction under the supervision of the MOD Team. This utility enables MOD Authors to create simple installation scripts for their MOD that allow the user to install, update, or uninstall...
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DynPG 4.1.1 added some new functions and patched a security leak which affects only servers with register_global enabled and magic_quotes disabled. Frontend changes: W3C conform lightbox links. Italian translation added. Check form validity per form. (Ads) // Backend changes: Enable fileupload during article edit. Set grouparticle during article edit. Optimized Security. DynPG 4.1.1 was released on 01 April 2010. DynPG stands for dynamic...
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eZ Publish is an open source enterprise content management system developed by the Norwegian company eZ Systems. (Ads) // eZ Publish 4.3 is a milestone release. A New Administration Interface improves the user experience of editors and administrators, an expanded commenting system boosts End User Generated Content, and the TeamRoom collaboration solution has joined the...
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TangoCMS 2.5.2 “Kiwi” has been released. This releases fixes 6 small bugs and also a feature addition to Tangobox, which displays a ‘Close’ button in the ‘lightbox’. The TangoCMS Project, which is the collective name for many projects, has been created for the community to construct powerful websites with ease, without having to know the...
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Moodle 1.9.8 and Moodle 1.8.12 have been released. Apart from a range of bug fixes and small improvements, nine security vulnerabilities (2 critical, 5 major and 2 minor) have been discovered and fixed since Moodle 1.9.7. (Ads) // All moodle sites should be upgraded to the newest version as soon as possible. Moodle is a software...
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Wesnoth stable release Battle for Wesnoth 1.8 has been released. New in Wesnoth 1.8: A new campaign, Delfador’s Memoirs, Hundreds of new and revised unit portraits, 5 new music tracks, some user interface (UI) redesign, substantial improvements in the game’s Artificial intelligence (AI), Multiplayer, Sidebar tuned for usability, A new monster unit: the Water...
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The Audacity Team announced the release of Audacity 1.3.12 (Beta), the cross-platform multitrack audio editor, for Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix. There are some important bug fixes and improvements, especially for dragging and synchronization of labels. The Audacity Team continue to recommend the ongoing Beta series for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Mac OS X...
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OpenTTD is an open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a business simulation games, in which the player is in control of a transport company, and can compete against rival companies to make as much profit as possible by transporting passengers and various goods by road, rail, sea or by air....
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The Math Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published a W3C Recommendation of XML Entity Definitions for Characters. Notation and symbols have proved very important for human communication, especially in scientific documents. Mathematics has grown in part because its notation continually changes toward being succinct and...
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that Qatar has received approval to have its internet domains written in Arabic, one of the first countries in the world to receive approval to use non-Latin language scripts in domain names. Once implemented, Internet Domains ending in the Arabic equivalent of “.qatar”( “.قطر”) can...
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Eclipse began as an IBM Canada project. It was developed by Object Technology International (OTI) as a Java-based replacement for the Smalltalk based VisualAge family of IDE products, which itself had been developed by OTI. In November 2001, a consortium was formed to further the development of Eclipse as open source. In January 2004,...
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The Apache Software Foundation Receives Approval for Sale to Oracle Corporation. Oracle agrees to purchase the IP and all assets of The Apache Software Foundation for $1.5 Billion. Today, the Apache Software Foundation announced it has agreed to sell all IP and assets of the foundation to Oracle. The agreement is a $1.5 billion...
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The GNOME Project announced the release of GNOME 2.30, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment and of its developer platform. GNOME 2.30 also marks the last major release in the GNOME 2.x. New features and enhancements of the new release: Nautilus, the GNOME File Manager Empathy Instant Messenger Easy Syncing...
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Banshee 1.6 is a stable release, the culmination of a 14 months of work by 53 developers. New features and enhancements:# Play Queue Auto DJ# Sync Device From Playlist# Grid View# Type-ahead Find in Track, Artist, and Album Lists# Automatic Scoring# New Shuffle By Rating and Score Modes# Audiobooks Library# YouTube# eMusic Importer/Downloader...
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Apache Felix Utils 1.0.0, Bundle Repository 1.6.0, Web Console 3.0.0, Web Console Event Plugin 1.0.2, Web Console Memory Usage Plugin 1.0.0, Web Console UPNP Plugin 1.0.0 have been released. (March 31, 2010) (Ads) // Apache Felix is an open source implementation of the OSGi Release 4 core framework specification and other OSGi-related technologies under the...
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