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January 4, 2009

bashstyle-ng 7.5 (Default branch)

BashStyle-NG is a graphical tool for changing Bash's behavior and look and feel. It can also style Readline, Nano, and Vim.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This release fixes bugs #36 (the 'Use Custom Prompt'-button did not work), #37 (install documentation with correct permissions), #38 (couldn't change readline's editing mode), and #39 (configure was looking for an incorrect input file). Several typos have been fixed in the documentation, and the documentation and images have been updated. Useless code has been removed from configure and Makefile.in. The ability to change Vim's color scheme has been added, and 8 color schemes are included.

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Yii 1.0.1 (Default branch)

Yii is a high-performance, component-based PHP framework for developing large-scale Web applications. Yii comes with a full stack of features needed by Web application development. It is written in a strict OOP style and is easy to learn with its detailed tutorials. Its highly reusable components allows one to rapidly build up a Web application that is efficient as well as robust.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This release includes over twenty minor enhancements and a dozen bugfixes. It implements the feature for supporting scenario-based validation. It adds core message translations in German, Spanish, and Swedish. It has been optimized, and performance further improved. A complete blog demo has been added to help new users learn Yii.

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MeTA1 1.0.PreAlpha28.0 (Default branch)

MeTA1 is a modularized message transfer agent (MTA) consisting of five (or more) persistent processes, four of which are multi-threaded. A queue manager controls SMTP servers and SMTP clients to receive and send email messages, an address resolver provides lookups in various maps (including DNS) for mail routing, and a main control program starts the other processes and watches over their execution. The queue manager organizes the flow of messages through the system and provides measures to avoid overloading the local or remote systems by implementing a central control instance. It is simple to configure using a C-like syntax and is secure and efficient.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source
Changes:
Several patches related to pmilter functionality have been added.

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mpdscribble 0.15 (Default branch)

mpdscribble is a daemon that submits tracks played by the Music Player Daemon to last.fm (formerly known as "audioscrobbler").
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
This release fixes the high CPU usage when MPD is paused, allows a cleartext password in the config file, and logs with the local time rather than UTC. Otherwise, bugs were fixed and the documentation was updated.

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Power*Architect 0.9.13-RC1 (Default branch)

Screenshot The Power*Architect is a data modeling tool with additional features geared specifically for data warehouse and data mart design. It allows the designer to open multiple concurrent source database connections, create and explore profiles of the source data, discover differences between two schemas (even if they're on different database platforms), drag and drop source schemas, tables, and columns into the data modeling playpen, and forward engineer the resultant target database and its associated ETL template.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
This release candidate includes a number of major bugfixes, including improvements in Print Preview and some stability improvements. A few new features were also added, including a new SQL Query Tool and an advanced PL.INI properties editor.

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CSS - Cameron Simpson’s Scripts 2009-01-05 (Default branch)

CSS is a large collection of scripts (over 1000) and their supporting perl modules. There are tools for a wide variety of tasks, many sysadmin and text manipulation related, some mere finger convenience. There are even a few manual entries.

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whohas 0.22 (Default branch)

Screenshot whohas is a command line tool that allows you to query several package collections at once. It currently supports Arch Linux (and AUR), Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE, Slackware (and linuxpackages.net), Source Mage Linux, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Fink, and MacPorts repositories. whohas was designed to help package maintainers find ebuilds, pkgbuilds, and similar package definitions from other distributions to learn from. However, it can also be used by normal users who want to know which distribution provides certain packages, and which version of a given package is in use in each distribution or in each release of a distribution.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release contains many small bugfixes, and now uses pkgsrc.se for the NetBSD module. There is a new man page, which is also available in German.

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