FOSS Developement

WildFox is both its own project in addition to reimagining what Mozilla's Firefox Web browser stood for, years ago: a light-weight, versatile, and efficient Web browser. It's also cross-platform and compatible with Chrome & Firefox plug-ins and addons.

Release Notes: This release adds history support and auto-complete in the address bar. It adds history tabs. It fixes downloads. The move to Qt 5.1 for the Windows binaries adds stability.

Release Tags: Alpha

Tags: Browsers, Qt5

Licenses: BSD Original

TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions. TCPDF supports all ISO page formats and custom page formats, custom margins and units of measure, UTF-8 Unicode, RTL languages, HTML, barcodes, TrueTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1, and CID-0 fonts, images, graphic functions, clipping, bookmarks, JavaScript, forms, page compression, digital signatures, and encryption.

Release Notes: The barcode examples were changed to automatically search for the barcode class path (in case the examples directory is not installed under the TCPDF root).

Tags: Software Development, Libraries, php classes, Text Processing

Licenses: LGPL

Awlsim is a Step 7 AWL/STL/PLC simulator. It achieves good performance of several tens of thousands of AWL instructions per second. S7-3xx and S7-4xx CPUs (with 2 and 4 accus) are supported.

Release Notes: Support for running awlsim on Python 2 and PyPy interpreters was added. Various REAL arithmetics fixes were applied. Performance improvements were made.

Tags: awl, STL, sps, PLC, Step7, siemens

Licenses: GPL

FeResPost is a library that allows the rapid development of small programs for the post-processing of Nastran or Samcef finite element results. The library allows easy manipulation of finite element models, groups, and results. Efficient post-processing is possible because the time-consuming operations are written in C/C++. The library is distributed as a COM component, a .NET assembly, as well as a Ruby compiled extension.

Release Notes: Correction of a bug in the reading of Nastran PBEAM properties from a BDF file.

Tags: Scientific/Engineering

Licenses: GPL

Doxygen is a cross-platform, JavaDoc-like documentation system for C++, C, Objective-C, C#, Java, IDL, Python, PHP, VHDL, and Fortran. Doxygen can be used to generate an on-line class browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LaTeX or RTF) from a set of source files. Doxygen can also be configured to extract the code-structure from undocumented source files. This includes dependency graphs, class diagrams and hyperlinked source code. This type of information can be very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions.

Release Notes: This release adds support for improved cross-referencing, syntax highlighting, and call graphs by using LLVM/clang to parse the source code. It adds support for DocBook output and for parsing UNO IDL files (used by Libre Office). It includes a number of smaller changes and improvements as well as a large number of bugfixes.

Tags: Software Development, Documentation

Licenses: GPL

OpenXcom is a new engine for the old game UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-Com: UFO Defense in the USA), a popular strategy videogame made by Mythos/Microprose in which you take control of the X-Com organization to fight off the alien menace invading Earth.

Release Notes: The game is now fully playable, which means everything should work as intended. Many bugfixes and additions. This goes along with a new Web site and a few added translations.

Tags: remake, Engine, Game, Game Engine

Licenses: GPLv3

Dragon produces a consequent, object-oriented, integrated scanner and parser solution and scales for very large grammar definitions. It provides LR(1) and LALR grammar analysis methods and combines the lexical and syntactical analysis and the corresponding code generation. Either C++ or Java code can be generated. The resulting parser code is readable and clean, and can easily be integrated into any C++ or Java application.

Release Notes: Autooconf cleanup, a change to lfcbase, and an upgrade to the GPLv3.

Tags: Software Development, Code Generators

Licenses: GPL

Cego implements a relational and transactional database system with support for the SQL query language. The current release contains the most common database features for basic table manipulation and data retrieval. Indexes, foreign keys, views, and stored procedures are also implemented. Future releases (2.0 and above) will support a multi-node database concept with log file shipping for an automatic database application failover.

Release Notes: To solve another naming conflict with Fedora, the include path was renamed from lfc to lfcbase (requires lfcbase-1.5.4 and lfcxml-1.1.3 ). The license was upgraded to the GPLv3.

Tags: Database, Front-Ends, Database Engines/Servers

Licenses: GPL

pyBit uses AMQP to create a distributed, cross-platform buildd toolkit to build packages using a collection of buildds, direct from various VCS clients. It is intended to support rapidly evolving software collections, and can support multiple VCS frontends and multiple build backends. Cross building is expected to be supported for some backends. The initial backend uses dpkg for Debian. pyBit includes support for cancelling selected builds and using multiple buildd clients per architecture, per platform, and per suite.

Release Notes: This is the first stable release. Improvements to the existing version control handlers, new support for rebuilding packages directly from apt, and improved daemon support in the client.

Release Tags: Stable, major release

Tags: amqp, Toolkit, Debian, buildd, Python, Message Queues, SVN, git integration

Licenses: GPLv2

HotShots is an application for capturing screens and saving them in a variety of image formats as well as adding annotations and graphical data (arrows, lines, text, etc.).

Release Notes: The ability to force a background color for clipboard/Web copy. The ability to launch an Internet browser when uploading is done. A Polish translation. Some cosmetic changes. An image uploading service (tof.canardpc.com/). External Qxt library on Linux. A fix for an untimely exit when HotShots is minimized. A change to the default style on Linux. Corrects a problem with transparency for clipboard/Web copy. Corrects invalid bounding rectangle when items are outside the background image.

Tags: Screen Capture, annotation, Utilites, Documentation

Licenses: GPLv2

tex-upmethodology provides a complete set of LaTeX styles that permit you to write documents according to a UP-based methodology. Its major features are document history, task management, design and specification documentation, and helping tools. tex-upmethodology is officially supported by CTAN.

Release Notes: The file extension 'pstex_t' has been replaced by 'pdftex_t'.

Release Tags: Minor bugfixes

Tags: Text Processing, Markup, TeX/LaTeX, Software Development, Documentation

Licenses: LGPL

wger Workout Manager is a Web application that can manage your workouts, group them into schedules (A>B>C), and print them as PDFs. It helps you keep a log of the weights lifted in the different exercises as well as your own body weight and can also create and manage your diet plans.

Release Notes: This release adds a scheduling option for workouts (schedules are collections of workouts that are done in succession). All parts of the site are open to all users; no need to register anymore (this is done via custom middleware). Regular users can submit exercises and ingredients to be included in the general list after being approved by an administrator. More 'human' units have been added to ingredients, like '1 cup' or '1 slice'. A nutritional values calculator has been added to the ingredient detail page. Several bugfixes. Usability improvements. Speed improvements by optimizing some SQL queries.

Tags: WebApp, fitness, workout, diet

Licenses: AGPLv3+

Data Crow is a movie, video, book, image, software, and music cataloger/media manager. Data Crow uses MusicBrainz, Amazon, IMDb, and many other Web services to retrieve the information for you. It is highly customizable, easy to use, and feature rich. It helps you to keep track of your loans, allows you to create reports, enables you to create your own modules (using wizards) and, most importantly, enables you to easily manage all your collections.

Release Notes: This release mainly focuses on the help file, which has been greatly improved. During the writing of the help file, the discovered issues have been fixed. Small improvements to the GUI have been made to improve the experience in using Data Crow. This is the first release in a long time having completely up-to-date help.

Release Tags: Major

Tags: Home Automation, multimedia

Licenses: GPL

Meson is a research experiment to determine optimal syntax and structure for a next-generation build system.

Release Notes: This release adds small updates and improvements. The major new features are native support for Qt5 application development and experimental support for Visual Studio compilers (though not yet for the IDE).

Tags: build system

Licenses: Apache 2.0

DBeauty is a relationship-oriented database browser. It provides insight into both the data and the interrelation of the rows, and allows you to navigate bidirectionally through the database by following foreign-key-based or user-defined relationships.

Release Notes: This release adds support for high-resolution mouse wheels.

Tags: SQL, browser, Frontend, Database

Licenses: Apache 2.0

Jailer is a database subsetting and browsing tool. It is a tool for data exporting, schema browsing, and rendering. It exports consistent, referentially intact row-sets from relational databases. It removes obsolete data without violating integrity. It is DBMS agnostic (by using JDBC), platform independent, and generates DbUnit datasets, hierarchically structured XML, and topologically sorted SQL-DML.

Release Notes: This release adds support for high-resolution mouse wheels and for Informix nonlogging raw tables.

Tags: Database, Front-Ends, Software Development, Testing, Utilities, Archiving, Test Data, Database Subsetting

Licenses: Apache 2.0

THIS (This HTML Is Simple) is a content management system with blog capabilities. It features HTML templates, anonymous and registered users, themes, and clean, optimized PHP code with an emphasis on code/data separation.

Release Notes: This version is now compatible with PHP 5.2.0 and will work on Microsoft Windows. Also included is a more robust version of functions for MySQL (both mysql and mysqli extensions supported), and a couple of bugfixes.

Tags: CMS, content, Web, management

Licenses: free software

HIDSharp is a multiplatform .NET library for USB HID devices. It is COM-enabled to allow use in VB6 and MS Office.

Release Notes: This release adds the DevicePath property to HidDevice. This is useful for differentiating devices with the same VID, PID, etc.

Tags: Software Development, Libraries, USB, HID

Licenses: ISC

SQLObject is an object-relational mapper, i.e., a library that will wrap your database tables in Python classes and your rows in Python instances. It currently supports MySQL through the 'MySQLdb' package, PostgreSQL through the 'psycopg' package, SQLite, Firebird, MaxDB (SAP DB), MS SQL, and Sybase. It should support Python versions back to 2.4.

Release Notes: PostgresConnection was optimized. SQLObject now uses INSERT...RETURNING id to get the autoincremented ID in one query instead of two (INSERT + SELECT id) (PostgreSQL 8.2 required). SQLObject now generates NCHAR/NVARCHAR and N''-quoted strings for MS SQL.

Release Tags: Major feature enhancements

Tags: Database, Software Development, Libraries, Python Modules

Licenses: LGPL

baresip is a bare-bones SIP user agent. It supports SIP, SDP, RTP/RTCP, and STUN/TURN/ICE, and IPv4 and IPv6, and is RFC-compliant and has portable C89 and C99 source code. A modular plugin architecture provides stdio, cons, and evdev user interfaces, celt, g711, g722, gsm, ilbc, l16, and speex audio codecs, alsa, coreaudio, gst, portaudio, oss, winwav, and mda audio drivers, speex_pp, speex_aec, speex_resamp, and sndfile audio filters, the avcodec video codec, avformat, quicktime, qtcapture, v4l, and v4l2 video sources, sdl, opengl, and x11 video display drivers, and srtp media encoding.

Release Notes: New g726 audio codec, MWI (message waiting indication), and snapshot (for saving a video stream as PNG images) modules were added. An internal audio resampler was added. There were many improvements and bugfixes.

Tags: SIP, voip, STUN, turn, ICE, RTP, RTCP, SRTP, H263, h264, Speex, CELT, G722, OPUS

Licenses: BSD Revised