QmailLDAP/Controls stores control information for Qmail in an LDAP database instead of files. It requires the Qmail-LDAP patch. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
Many issues in control.c and build issues have been fixed.

YML (Why a Markup Language?!) is an easy language to compile into XML. YSLT is an easy language for code generation, automating your software development tasks. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes:
This release adds a feature for generating debug info comments, so the programmer can determine which line in the script generated a line in the output.

echinus is a lightweight window manager for X based on dwm's source code. It manages windows in tiled, maximized, and floating layouts. It is extremely small, rather fast, and supports Xft. It features nice titlebars, multiple desktops, theming support, a simple configuration file, the ability to switch desktops with the mouse wheel, X bitmaps for title buttons, and true transparency support (through xcompmgr). There is no need to recompile or restart X to change its configuration. License: MIT/X Consortium License Changes:
Many bugfixes: iconification, compositing, layering, and xxkb. New features: view left/right tag, mwfact and nmaster setup, focus policy setup, and more.

bemDB is a PostgreSQL database designed to store benefit and enrollment information for members of group health insurance plans. Its main feature is the ability to output HIPAA-compliant 834 Benefit Enrollment and Maintenance EDI transaction sets with all required segments and situational segments for which there is data. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This release changes copyright notices to Phat Geeks, Inc. The tables structures have been changed so that they all have a single field primary key. A syntax error in the function prepare_member834 has been corrected. Parse and front end code have been removed; these functions are no longer within the scope of this project. The TODO list has been updated.

flactagger is a script for tagging FLAC files. It can extract information from file names if they're named according to etree.org's naming standards. It can also extract information from info files like song titles, location, and date. Tags can also be edited in an editor. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
This release fixes a few bugs related to the -e option.

M.A.M.E. Catalog / Launcher II (also referred to as QMC2) is the successor of one of the first XMAME GUI frontends available, QMamecat (derived from MAMECAT, which was text-only). QMC2 has been rebuilt from scratch as a Qt 4 project. Parts of the design and code were inspired by its predecessor. The new design was made as flexible as possible to minimize dependencies from frontend- and CLI-related MAME changes, which was a major deficiency of QMamecat. QMC2 uses a template-based MAME configuration scheme, which can easily be enhanced with additional command line options (defined in an XML template file). License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes:
The joystick test and calibration widgets are now enclosed in scrollable areas to allow for better handling of high amounts of axes and buttons - PS3/Sixasis users will profit most (though there are still some open issues with Sixasis controllers). There are minor speed improvements for loading of XML and gamelist caches by reading data block-wise. The XML cache data has been trimmed, saving memory and disk space. The number of (real/virtual) CPUs is displayed on the system information page. The frontend and emulator log browsers can now be limited to the amount of lines they keep in memory.

Strasheela is a highly expressive constraint-based music composition system. Users declaratively state a music theory and the computer generates music which complies with this theory. A theory is formulated as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) by a set of rules (constraints) applied to a music representation in which some aspects are expressed by variables (unknowns). Music constraint programming is style-independent and is well-suited for highly complex theories (e.g. a fully-fledged theory of harmony). Results can be output into various formats including MIDI, Lilypond, and Csound. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This release supports new techniques for constraining the musical form, and demonstrates them in examples. Also, the definition of complex distribution strategies (variable orderings in the search) is simplified by special constructor functions. Several further examples have been added, and many other extensions and bugfixes have been made.

The Corosync Cluster Engine provides a cluster plug-in engine for third party cluster service developers. Designers develop service engines for use with Corosync that can take advantage of its features including messaging, membership, IPC, a configuration object database, a handle database, automatic replication, and more. License: BSD License (revised) Changes:
The openALs tree and Corosync tree are fully split. openALs, cman, and pacemaker build on Corosync. The internal plugin API is nearing freeze.

Nemo is a new way of managing files, or rather, not managing files. Currently, it's a cross between a calendar and a file browser with labels. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes:
Some crash fixes and 3 new translations.

OpenAIS is an open source implementation of the SA Forum (www.saforum.org) Application Interface Specification. The project currently implements APIs to improve availability by reducing MTTR. APIs available are cluster membership, application failover, checkpointing, eventing, distributed locking, messaging, closed process groups, and extended virtual synchrony passthrough. It is possible to write redundant applications that tolerate hardware, operating system, and application faults. Cluster software developers can write plugins to use the infrastructure provided by OpenAIS. License: BSD License (revised) Changes:
This is the first release designed to build with the corosync cluster engine framework.

Restlet is a REST framework for Java. It supports all REST concepts (Resource, Representation, Connector, Component, etc.) and is suitable for both client and server Web applications. It supports major Web standards like HTTP, SMTP, XML, JSON, WADL, and Atom. Many extensions are also available to integrate with Servlet, Spring, Jetty, Grizzly, Simple, JAXB, JAX-RS, JiBX, Velocity, or FreeMarker. A GWT version is also available. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes:
This release fixes chunked encoding issues in Grizzly and internal connectors. Grizzly was updated to version 1.8.4. The performance of internal HTTP connectors was vastly improved. Significant improvements and stabilization have been made for the WADL extension. Major refactoring of logging to have more consistency and better organization for logger names. Completed support for partial GETs and partial PUTs in the FILE client connector. Completed support for representation digests (MD5 and more).

Rush Hour 'Traffic Jam' Puzzle Solver is a program that reads a board from a text file and produces a nice PostScript file that shows the shortest solution. License: Freely Distributable Changes:
The compilation process was fixed to work with newer Unix variants and with 64-bit machines. A new error message was added to complain about duplicate cars.

StorYBook is a scene-based program for creative writers, novelists, and authors that helps to keep the overview over the strands while writing a book, a novel, or a story. It assists you in structuring your book. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
A time stamp has been added to export file names. ODT export (OpenDocument Text, Open Office) has been added. Bug #2049282: "Text is cut off on export" has been fixed. The H2 Database Engine has been updated to version 1.0.77 (2008-08-16). The program was translated to Dutch.

OpenXava is a framework to develop JavaEE/J2EE applications rapidly and easily. It allows you to define applications only with POJOs, JPA, and Java 5 annotations. It is feature rich and flexible. It generates JSR-168 portlet applications (Liferay, WebSphere Portal, Jetspeed, etc.). License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes:
Full support for Liferay 5.0 and 5.1, including visual style integration. Labels, messages, and reference documentation have been translated to French and Chinese. HttpUnit has been replaced by HtmlUnit for implementing ModuleTestBase. Qualified properties are allowed for 'condition' and 'orderBy' of @DescriptionsList even it they are not in 'descriptionProperties'. There is a new'format' property for JasperReportBaseAction. It can be 'pdf' or 'excel'. There are many new minor features and fixes.

bbJewel creates a PDF of a cover for the listed MP3 files for the purpose of printing a jewel case insert. It parses each file and extract the title, artist, and length of the recording. It also scans the files for included cover images. You can provide the CD title and the cover image to use on the command line.

the mg2bot is an IRC bot that was originally written to do unique channel maintenance but which now sports a homebrew plugin system, increased channel awareness, and a bot networking capability. License: Perl License Changes:
This release fixes a scheduled event bug that caused the bot to freeze up in certain situations. It adds a wowitem plugin for looking up World of Warcraft items on wowhead. It adds random_quote, areacode, and emeter general bot plugins. It has a major overhaul of the calc plugin, which allows for the use of math functions like abs(), sqrt(), etc.

Twitter Clients For Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop

In this article I will show how to install and use two clients for the popular microblogging platform Twitter on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. The first one is Twitux, the second Twitter client is gtwitter. Both clients have similar features, so it is up to you which one you want to install.

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Manent is an algorithmically strong backup and archival program. It features efficient backup to anything that looks like storage. Currently it supports plain filesystems ("directories"), FTP, and SFTP. Planned are Amazon S3, optical disks, and email (SMTP and IMAP). It can work (making progress towards finishing a backup) over a slow and unreliable network. It can offer online access to the contents of the backup. Backed up storage is completely encrypted. Backup is incremental, including changed parts of large files. Moved, renamed, and duplicate files will not require additional storage. Several computers can use the same storage for backup, automatically sharing data. Both very large and very small files are supported efficiently. Manent does not rely on timestamps of the remote system to detect changes. License: Free To Use But Restricted Changes:
Some crashes of the Unicode code under Windows were fixed. On Windows, Manent now automatically switches the code page to 65001 (UTF8), so Unicode names show correctly.

Armangil's podcatcher is a podcast client for the command line. It provides several download strategies (new shows only, back-catalog allowed, etc), offers cache management, supports BitTorrent, and generates playlists for media player applications. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
A bug that failed to filter out some illegal characters in directory names when using the --restrictednames option was fixed. The --restrictednames option is now enabled by default. The sponsor message that appears in verbose mode was updated.

WeOCR is a platform for Web-enabled OCR (Optical Character Reader/Recognition) systems. It enables people to use character recognition over networks. A WeOCR server receives document images from users, recognizes text in the images, and returns recognition results to the users. WeOCR does not have its own character recognition engine. Instead, it is intended to accommodate various existing character recognition engines. License: MIT/X Consortium License Changes:
A simple input buffer (queue) has been added so that the server can handle more requests at once.