FGA (Fast Genetic Algorithm) is a simple yetpowerful implementation of a general geneticalgorithm, and provides many types of crossoverand selection procedures. The library is easy toincorporate into other applications. Furtherimprovements include parallelization of thealgorithm in multi-processor environments andgeneral performance optimizations.License:Other/Proprietary License with SourceChanges:The FGA library is now licensed under a custom license instead of the LGPL. It is now possible to define custom selection operators (note that the class constructor wants one more argument).

  Asterisk is a hybrid TDM and packet voice PBX (Private Branch eXchange) and IVR platform with ACD functionality. It acts as middleware between the Internet (IAX, SIP, MGCP, Skinny, H.323), telephony channels (like Zaptel, T1, PRI, E1, FXO, FXS, VoIP, VoFR, ISDN, modems, Internet Phone Jack, etc.), and applications (like voice-mail, conferencing, directories, MP3 players, intercoms, etc.). It has many advanced features such as a codec translation API. The base distribution includes several channel backends, as well as applications. However, the beauty of Asterisk is its ability to be extended using its APIs, dynamic module loader, and AGI scripting interface. End users can even write their own applications that run on the system in C or any scripting language of their choice.License:GNU General Public License (GPL)Changes:This is the final 1.2 release that contains normal bugfixes. The 1.2 branch will only be maintained with security fix releases from now until it is completely deprecated.

  Asterisk is a hybrid TDM and packet voice PBX (Private Branch eXchange) and IVR platform with ACD functionality. It acts as middleware between the Internet (IAX, SIP, MGCP, Skinny, H.323), telephony channels (like Zaptel, T1, PRI, E1, FXO, FXS, VoIP, VoFR, ISDN, modems, Internet Phone Jack, etc.), and applications (like voice-mail, conferencing, directories, MP3 players, intercoms, etc.). It has many advanced features such as a codec translation API. The base distribution includes several channel backends, as well as applications. However, the beauty of Asterisk is its ability to be extended using its APIs, dynamic module loader, and AGI scripting interface. End users can even write their own applications that run on the system in C or any scripting language of their choice.License:GNU General Public License (GPL)Changes:This version contains numerous bugfixes. One of these is for a security issue in chan_sip. The issue is that SIP dialog history was being stored in memory regardless of whether the option for this was turned on or off. This could be abused to cause a system using chan_sip to run out of memory.

  froofyJIT is a C++ 'syntactic sugar' front-end for Paolo Bonzini's GNU lightning library for dynamic native code generation. It uses C++'s powerful language facilities to allow GNU lightninginstructions to be expressed in a more concise way that approximates a 'real' assembly language. It also includes froofyQua, a preliminary implementation of Henry Massalin's "quajects".License:GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)Changes:GNU lightning's frame pointer register has been added to the froofyJIT interface (as froofy::jit::fp) for architectures in which it is defined. Also, froofyQua is no longer compiled and installed on default. Finally, an example speedup patch for TiMidity++ has been added.

  ePiX creates mathematically accurate, publication-quality figures, plots, and animations. The input syntax is easy to learn, and the output is expressly designed for use with LaTeX. Complete documentation and dozens of sample files are included.License:GNU General Public License (GPL)Changes:This release has been rewritten from scratch, mostly preserving the user syntax but offering many new features, including choice of output macros (PSTricks, tikz, and eepic), colors as a manipulable data type, color-shaded surface plotting and better support for multiple surfaces, plot legends, improved coordinate axes and data plotting, affine transformation of picture contents, and page layout.

  ussp-push is a BlueTooth OBEX object pusher forLinux, using the BlueZ BlueTooth stack. It allowssending files to any device listening for OBEXconnections.License:GNU General Public License (GPL)Changes:The SDP OBEX channel resolution code has been fixed.

  system-config-printer configures a CUPS server. Ituses the CUPS API (bound to Python with pycups) todo this. The communication with the server isperformed using IPP. As a result, it is equallyable to configure a remote CUPS server as a local one.License:GNU General Public License (GPL)Changes:A new server settings checkbox has been added for whether to allow printing from the Internet. Translations have been updated. Foomatic recommended driver discovery has been fixed. Make and model matching has been improved. Other small bugs have been fixed.

  Smb4K is a SMB and CIFS (Windows) share browserfor KDE. It uses the Samba software suite toaccess the SMB and CIFS shares of the localnetwork neighborhood. Its purpose is to provide aprogram that's easy to use and has as manyfeatures as possible.License:GNU General Public License (GPL)Changes:The handbook has been updated. Compile errors in the Smb4KMounter class under FreeBSD have been fixed.

  coords is a planetarium program. It's still underconstruction, but it does a good job of showingthe sky with stars and planets at the correctpositions.License:GNU General Public License v2Changes:A memory leak has been plugged.

  jPersist is an extremely powerfulobject-relational database persistence API thatmanages to avoid the need for configuration andannotation; mapping is automatic. It uses JDBC,and can work with any relational database and anytype of connection resource. It uses informationobtained from the database to handle mappingbetween the database and Java objects, so mappingconfiguration is not needed, and annotation is notneeded. In fact, there is no configuration neededat all.License:GNU General Public License (GPL)Changes:This release fixes a bug with copying associations IDs where set may be returned for get.

  itools is a collection of Python libraries whichprovides a wide range of capabilities, includingan abstraction over directory and file resources,a search engine, type marshallers, datatypeschemas, i18n support, URI handlers, a Webprogramming interface, a workflow interface, andsupport for data formats such as (X)HTML, XML,iCalendar, RSS 2.0, and XLIFF. License:GNU General Public License v3Changes:The CMS Tracker now allows you to search issues by multiple values (e.g. high and medium priority tasks). A restful technique has been implemented to handle edit conflicts: the user that edits the object first wins, and the other one will get an error message. There is a new menu in the left column for complex objects (like the Wiki and the Tracker).

  The HTTP extension for PHP aims to provide aconvenient and powerful set of functionality forone of PHP's major applications. It eases handlingof HTTP URLs, dates, redirects, headers, andmessages, provides means for negotiation ofclients' preferred language and charset, as wellas a convenient way to send any arbitrary datawith caching and resuming capabilities. Itprovides powerful request functionality if builtwith CURL support. Parallel requests are availablefor PHP 5 and greater.License:BSD License (revised)Changes:This release fixes a possible crash at module shutdown in the persistent handle API (probably fixing bug #11509). It fixes the test suite for PHP4. It fixes a missing PHP_LIBDIR definition in config.m4 for PHP4. It fixes non-standard shell support in config.m4.

  SRESI is a smart bookmark manager. It currently sports both a command-line and a PHP interface. It works with both the standard hierarchical trees and the new and fashionabletagged bookmarks. It was developed as a way tointerface both representation systems. SRESI canuse Del.icio.us, Mozilla, Opera, and XBEL bookmarks, and handles a few more exports besides. Directories and tags are used equivalently, and the final hierarchies are inferred from actual tag use.License:GNU General Public License (GPL)Changes:The tagged set union did not work consistently when an element was present in both sets. From now on, it always cumulates the tags of both duplicates, as the add function does. A Windows package is available again.

  Instant OGo is a Linux-based groupware serverdistribution. It contains all components requiredto set up a mail and collaboration server fromscratch, including the Linux system software, theCyrus mail server, and the OpenGroupware.orggroupware server.License:Other/Proprietary LicenseChanges:A major new feature of this release is an integrated software utility to retrieve email from remote POP3 or IMAP mail servers to local user mailboxes. To improve email security, extended SMTP SASL options are supported. There are a number of miscellaneous bugfixes and small enhancements. For your convenience the package now includes a trial version of the ZideLook Outlook connector.