Apache announced the latest stable release of Apache Cassandra 0.6.0. The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Amazon Dynamo’s fully distributed design and Bigtable’s ColumnFamily-based data model. Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, It was released as open source project on Google code in...
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TortoiseSVN is a easy to use Revision control and version control and source control software for Microsoft Windows Operating System. It is a Subversion client implemented as a windows shell extension. (Ads) // TortoiseSVN 1.6 is a superset of all previous TortoiseSVN releases, and is considered the current stable and "best" release. TortoiseSVN 1.6 contains...
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Wormux is a turn-based combat game using cartoon various free software project mascots. Each player controls the team of his choice (penguin, gnu, firefox, wilber,…) and must destroy his adversary using more or less casual weapons such as dynamite, RPG, baseball bats, teleportation, etc). The teams are styled after the mascots of various free...
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The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual working conference for free software graphics application users and developers. The fifth edition takes place 27-30 May 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. Projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, the Open Font Library and many others gather to improve their software...
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The latest stable version of Subversion, Subversion 1.6.11 was released on 16 April 2010. Developer-visible changes... . User-visible changes: fix for repositories... . Subversion is an open source version control system available for IBM's AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD), Linux (Debian Linux, Fedora Linux, Red Hat Linux, SUSE...
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The new FrostWire v4.20.5 was released on 15 April 2010. Since FrostWire v4.20 released on 22 Feb 2010, FrostWire replaced the legacy LimeWire technology to a lightweight version of the Azureus BitTorrent Core to support torrent downloads. The FrostWire 4.20.x series also supports BitTorrent Magnets, meaning user only need to get special URL (no initial...
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CiviCRM 3.1.4 release includes about 100 bug fixes and improvements to existing functionality. All sites currently running v3.1.3 or earlier upgrade are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible. (Ads) // For sites using Moneris Payment Processor, CiviCRM was not able to obtain an appropriate GPL license for the Moneris plugin code, and therefore that...
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This is the first major-version update since Bricolage 1.0 was released in 2001. New features of Bricolage 2.0 The interface: Bricolage 2 boasts a totally-revamped interface (based on the Prototype and script.aculo.us JavaScript frameworks). Bricolage approach to document editing is flexible. Fields (and groups of fields) can be added to documents without leaving current screen. Elements...
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e107 released 0.7.20 as a security update to fix two potential security issues in e107. The exact details of the security was not released by e107.org, but one involves being able to upload a malicious file. It requires an odd set of preferences and a missing file to allow it to happen though, so the...
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Bricolage 1.10.10 is a maintenance release of the latest in the stable 1.10 line of Bricolage. Improvements: Categories and sources are now displayed in alphabetical order when searching for these objects to associate with a document. Bug fixes: Publishing via Bric::SOAP no longer removes documents from workflow, Better handle documents with lots of contributors...
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OpenACS is a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. New features include: Global package parameters. “Embedded Packages” – a new form of package based on the previous “Extended Package” implementation of weak package inheritance. Fixes for ns_proxy handling Significant speedup for large sites site-node refresh (franz penz, victorg) faster cache flushing: new api call: util_memoize_flush_pattern Optional support for selenium remote...
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Team Jaws announces the release of Jaws 0.8.12, changes since 0.8.11 are: Added new method hashing for storing password in database Added two new security features to Jaws session Fixed generation captcha in 64bit operation systems Fixed some issue in Blog gadget feeds Fixed sending message via Chatbox gadget Fixed bug in VisitCounter when using SQLite as database driver Fixed...
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VirtualDub version 1.9.9 is a maintenance release of a stable version. It fixes several bugs, including several in the core filtering engine and a couple are in the AVI and Huffyuv handling code. As usual for a stable release, there are no new features other than a small diagnostic one (log specific errors when...
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Mentat Technologies announces the release of DreamCoder for PostgreSQL 2.4, a powerful Windows GUI solution for PostgreSQL administration and database development. This new version includes more than 10 new features and improvements over the previous version. (Ads) // New features : SSH tunneling enhanced Enhanced connection with some versions of SSH server Enhanced Query builder SQL &...
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Firefox “Lorentz” provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. Plugins such as Flash and Silverlight run in a separate process from the browser. If a plugin crashes it will not crash the browser, and unresponsive plugins...
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New releases includes updates to graphic effects and fonts. Official songs are automatically updated with new features when the network connection is present. Game comes with new installer and new icon. A lot of minor features were added and known bugs were fixed. UltraStar is a clone of SingStar a PlayStation 2 game....
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After more than 4 years C is back at position number 1 in the TIOBE Programming Community Index for April 2010. The scores for C have been pretty constant through the years, varying between the 15% and 20% market share for almost 10 years. So the main reason for C’s number 1 position is...
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MySource Matrix Content Management System (CMS) Version 3.26.3 contains 31 bug fixes, plus enhancements to Remap functionality, customizable Workflow email subject lines, and cache and asset date Trigger functions. All users currently running 3.26.2 should upgrade to this new version. (Ads) // MySource Matrix 3.26.3 was announced on 06 April 2010. MySource Matrix is an...
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Education Labs from Microsoft Education Products Group created a “Office Add-in for Moodle (OAM)” prototypes for Microsoft Office (versions 2003 and 2007). The add-in facility the Uploading of files to Moodle for teachers. Documents can be saved directly to Moodle courses from Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The add-in allows Moodle documents to be...
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Three release options are now available for 32-bit: Bare-bones CD ISO, Bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image (minimum 1G USB stick needed), and a GUI bootable USB disk-key image with a full X environment. The GUI USB image replaces the DVD ISO image in the previous release, to work around issues with DVDs simply being...
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