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Dionysus, the new GNU package for constants and values

2009-11-25T00:20:00Z

Hello everybody,

I have the GREAT pleasure to let you know that the first version of Dionysus has been released. You can find it at the following link:

www.gnu.org/software/dionysus

Dionysus is a local machine search engine for universal constants and parameters of scientific and engineering relevance. If you develop a code and need any kind of well known constant you do not need to hard code them anymore. Just use Dionysus and it will do the job for you.

Dionysus is also useful if you need to know some well known constant but you do not have an Internet connection or you do not want to access to hundreds web pages to a simple value.

Dionysus has been developed as most carefully as possible and the author expects the package to be reliable for the plenty of values already included there.

Anytime you need a value, do not hard code it. Just ask Dionysus and it will give you the right answer. It is high consuming to look for parameters values, especially because those values are usually scattered among papers and websites, some of them being very old and/or impossible to find anymore.

Happy hacking!

JMS

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GNU Autoconf 2.65 released [stable]

2009-11-21T06:57:07Z

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Current GNUpod releases back on ftp.gnu.org

2009-11-20T10:19:43Z

GNUpod is a collection of tools which allow you to use your iPod under
GNU/Linux and other UNIX- like operating systems.

Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupod/

After six years of absence GNUpod is back with a current release on
ftp.gnu.org. The latest release up there was 0.29-rc1 :-/

Now the last two releases 0.99.7 and 0.99.8 are back on the official
ftp server.

I strongly doubt that anybody using GNUpod was still using 0.29-rc1 so
I'll skip the 650 lines worth of CHANGES file and simply point to the
file here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnupod.git/tree/CHANGES?h=releases/0.99.8&id=release-0_99_8

Cheers
-henrik

BTW: I have officially been dubbed co-maintainer of GNUpod. So now you can
officially co-blame me :-)

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FreeIPMI 0.7.15 Released

2009-11-19T09:51:31Z

FreeIPMI 0.7.15 has been released. It can be downloaded at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/download.html

What is IPMI?

The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification
defines a set of interfaces for platform management. It is
implemented by a large number of hardware manufacturers to support
system management on motherboards. The features of IPMI that most
users will be interested in are sensor monitoring (i.e. CPU
temperatures, fan speeds), remote power control, and serial-over-LAN
(SOL).

What is FreeIPMI?

FreeIPMI provides in-band and out-of-band IPMI software based on the
IPMI v1.5/2.0 specification. FreeIPMI provides tools and libraries
for users to access and read IPMI sensor readings, system event log
(SEL) entries, serial-over-LAN (SOL), remote power control functions,
field replaceable unit (FRU) device information, and more. More
information about FreeIPMI can be found at the FreeIPMI webpage at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/index.html

Release 0.7.15 Changes
---------------------
o Add "solstatus" workaround to ipmiconsole.
o Support hex codes to event filter sensor type inputs in pef-config.
o In ipmiconsole, handle corner cases surrounding non-default SOL
ports more cleanly.
o In ipmi-oem, support Fujitsu OEM commands.
o Document workarounds for additional motherboards.

Al

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MyServer 0.9.1 released

2009-11-18T15:00:04Z

I am pleased to announce the 0.9.1 version of the GNU MyServer web
server.

New files are available for download here:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/myserver/0.9.1

and on any mirror sites worldwide. You can find a complete mirrors list
here:

http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

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** Noteworthy changes since the 0.9 release:

A GUI written in python to easily manage the server.

Gnulib usage.

Support for the Gopher protocol.

gettext i18n.

X-Sendfile directive for FastCGI.

Support for crypted passwords in the security files.

MyServer is under heavy development and it may lack features or
don't work as expected. Please redirect any comment, suggestion or
problem you will encounter to the bug-myserver@... mailing list.

Have fun!
Giuseppe Scrivano

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coreutils-8.1 released [stable]

2009-11-18T12:14:11Z

This is to announce coreutils-8.1.
We consider it to be "stable" in spite of a few new features,
a new program and minor changes in behavior.

<http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>

Eric Blake deserves special thanks for making an impressive number of
improvements to the portability and robustness of the tools, both via
new and even better interfaces in Gnulib and changes in Coreutils proper.
Thanks to everyone else who has been contributing, helping to manage
the mailing list and reporting bugs.

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v8.1
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v8.0..v8.1

To summarize the gnulib-related changes, run these commands
From a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.1
git submodule summary v8.0

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* Noteworthy changes in release 8.1 (2009-11-18) [stable]

** Bug fixes

chcon no longer exits immediately just because SELinux is disabled.
Even then, chcon may still be useful.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.0]

chcon, chgrp, chmod, chown and du now diagnose an ostensible directory cycle
and arrange to exit nonzero. Before, they would silently ignore the
offending directory and all "contents."

env -u A=B now fails, rather than silently adding A to the
environment. Likewise, printenv A=B silently ignores the invalid
name. [the bugs date back to the initial implementation]

ls --color now handles files with capabilities correctly. Previously
files with capabilities were often not colored, and also sometimes, files
without capabilites were colored in error. [bug introduced in coreutils-7.0]

md5sum now prints checksums atomically so that concurrent
processes will not intersperse their output.
This also affected sum, sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]

mktemp no longer leaves a temporary file behind if it was unable to
output the name of the file to stdout.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]

nice -n -1 PROGRAM now runs PROGRAM even when its internal setpriority
call fails with errno == EACCES.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]

nice, nohup, and su now refuse to execute the subsidiary program if
they detect write failure in printing an otherwise non-fatal warning
message to stderr.

stat -f recognizes more file system types: afs, cifs, anon-inode FS,
btrfs, cgroupfs, cramfs-wend, debugfs, futexfs, hfs, inotifyfs, minux3,
nilfs, securityfs, selinux, xenfs

tail -f (inotify-enabled) now avoids a race condition.
Before, any data appended in the tiny interval between the initial
read-to-EOF and the inotify watch initialization would be ignored
initially (until more data was appended), or forever, if the file
were first renamed or unlinked or never modified.
[The race was introduced in coreutils-7.5]

tail -F (inotify-enabled) now consistently tails a file that has been
replaced via renaming. That operation provokes either of two sequences
of inotify events. The less common sequence is now handled as well.
[The bug came with the implementation change in coreutils-7.5]

timeout now doesn't exit unless the command it is monitoring does,
for any specified signal. [bug introduced in coreutils-7.0].

** Changes in behavior

chroot, env, nice, and su fail with status 125, rather than 1, on
internal error such as failure to parse command line arguments; this
is for consistency with stdbuf and timeout, and avoids ambiguity
with the invoked command failing with status 1. Likewise, nohup
fails with status 125 instead of 127.

du (due to a change in gnulib's fts) can now traverse NFSv4 automounted
directories in which the stat'd device number of the mount point differs
during a traversal. Before, it would fail, because such a mismatch would
usually represent a serious error or a subversion attempt.

echo and printf now interpret \e as the Escape character (0x1B).

rm -f /read-only-fs/nonexistent now succeeds and prints no diagnostic
on systems with an unlinkat syscall that sets errno to EROFS in that case.
Before, it would fail with a "Read-only file system" diagnostic.
Also, "rm /read-only-fs/nonexistent" now reports "file not found" rather
than the less precise "Read-only file system" error.

** New programs

nproc: Print the number of processing units available to a process.

** New features

env and printenv now accept the option --null (-0), as a means to
avoid ambiguity with newlines embedded in the environment.

md5sum --check now also accepts openssl-style checksums.
So do sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.

mktemp now accepts the option --suffix to provide a known suffix
after the substitution in the template. Additionally, uses such as
"mktemp fileXXXXXX.txt" are able to infer an appropriate --suffix.

touch now accepts the option --no-dereference (-h), as a means to
change symlink timestamps on platforms with enough support.

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GNU SASL 1.4.0

2009-11-17T11:18:22Z

GNU SASL is a modern C library that implement the standard network
security protocol Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL). The
framework itself and a couple of common SASL mechanisms (including
SCRAM-SHA-1) are implemented. GNU SASL can be used by network
applications for IMAP, SMTP, XMPP and similar protocols to provide
authentication services.

Top-level NEWS entries:

* Version 1.4.0 (released 2009-11-17) [stable]

** No changes since 1.3.91 release candidate.
The release numbering scheme has changed compared to the last stable
release. In the future we will use version numbers X.Y.Z with even Y
to indicate stable releases and odd Y to indicate experimental
releases. Z is incremented by one for every release on a particular
branch. For example, the next stable release will either be 1.4.1 or
1.6.0 and the next experimental release will be 1.5.0. The intention
is that the stable branches can be used for security bug fixes if/when
there is a need. Other changes or new features will (typically) not
be back-ported to a stable branch but instead will have to wait for
the next stable branch to be released.

* Version 1.3.91 (released 2009-11-06) [experimental]

** doc: Fix doc/cyclo/ output.

* Version 1.3.90 (released 2009-11-06) [experimental]

** tests/crypto: Also test newly added SHA-1 interfaces.

** tests/scram: Also test GSASL_SCRAM_SALTED_PASSWORD case.
This code path triggered a crash in v1.3.

** i18n: Added Finnish translation.
Thanks to Jorma Karvonen <karvonen.jorma@...>.

Library (lib/) NEWS entries:

* Version 1.4.0 (released 2009-11-17) [stable]

** No changes since 1.3.91 release candidate.

** API and ABI modifications.
No changes since last version.

* Version 1.3.91 (released 2009-11-06) [experimental]

** Fix Visual Studio project files to work with SCRAM.
Suggested by Lothar May <lothar.imap@...> in
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gsasl.general/254>.

** API and ABI modifications.
No changes since last version.

* Version 1.3.90 (released 2009-11-06) [experimental]

** libgsasl: Properly increment libtool version to reflect newly added ABIs.
This was accidentally forgotten in the last release.

** libgsasl: Export gsasl_sha1 and gsasl_hmac_sha1 in linker version script.
This was accidentally forgotten in the last release.

** libgsasl: Fix crash in SCRAM-SHA-1 client when the application provides
** a value for GSASL_SCRAM_SALTED_PASSWORD.

** libgsasl: Fix detection of libgcrypt during builds.
Before libgcrypt was not detected and used by default unless you
supplied --with-libgcrypt.

** i18n: Added Finnish translation.
Thanks to Jorma Karvonen <karvonen.jorma@...>.

** i18n: Updated Vietnamese translation.
Thanks to Clytie Siddall <clytie@...>.

** API and ABI modifications.
No changes since last version.

Improving GNU SASL is costly, but you can help! We are looking for
organizations that find GNU SASL useful and wish to contribute back.
You can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software, purchase
support contracts, or donate money or equipment.

Commercial support contracts for GNU SASL are available, and they help
finance continued maintenance. Simon Josefsson Datakonsult AB, a
Stockholm based privately held company, is currently funding GNU SASL
maintenance. We are always looking for interesting development
projects. See http://josefsson.org/ for more details.

The project's web page is available at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/

All manuals are available from:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/manual/

Specifically, the following formats are available.

The main manual:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/manual/gsasl.html - HTML format
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/manual/gsasl.pdf - PDF format

API Reference manual:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/reference/ - GTK-DOC HTML

Doxygen documentation:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/doxygen/ - HTML format
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/doxygen/gsasl.pdf - PDF format

Instructions for how to build GNU SASL under uClinux are available from
<http://josefsson.org/uclinux/>. If your uClinux toolchain is broken,
it is possible to build GNU SASL without using the ./configure
mechanism, see <http://josefsson.org/uclinux/old/>.

If you need help to use GNU SASL, or want to help others, you are
invited to join our help-gsasl mailing list, see:
<http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsasl>.

Here are the compressed sources of the entire package:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsasl/gsasl-1.4.0.tar.gz (3.7MB)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsasl/gsasl-1.4.0.tar.gz.sig (PGP)

Here are the compressed sources of the LGPL library (included above):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsasl/libgsasl-1.4.0.tar.gz (952KB)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsasl/libgsasl-1.4.0.tar.gz.sig (PGP)

We also provide pre-built Windows binaries:
http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gsasl-1.4.0.zip
http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/mingw32-gsasl_1.4.0-1_all.deb

Here are the build reports for various platforms:
http://autobuild.josefsson.org/gsasl/

Daily builds of the package are available from:
http://daily.josefsson.org/gsasl/

For code coverage and cyclomatic code complexity charts:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/coverage/
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/cyclo/cyclo-gsasl.html

The software is cryptographically signed by the author using an
OpenPGP key identified by the following information:

pub 1280R/B565716F 2002-05-05 [expires: 2010-04-21]
Key fingerprint = 0424 D4EE 81A0 E3D1 19C6 F835 EDA2 1E94 B565 716F
uid Simon Josefsson <simon@...>
uid Simon Josefsson <jas@...>
sub 1280R/4D5D40AE 2002-05-05 [expires: 2010-04-21]

The key is available from:
http://josefsson.org/key.txt
dns:b565716f.josefsson.org?TYPE=CERT

Here are the SHA-1 and SHA-224 checksums:

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Happy hacking,
Simon

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GNU Libtool 2.2.6b released

2009-11-16T07:07:20Z

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Libtool 2.2.6b.

GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a
consistent, portable interface. GNU Libtool ships with GNU libltdl,
which hides the complexity of loading dynamic runtime libraries
(modules) behind a consistent, portable interface.

This release is a bug fix release for version 2.2.6. The following
bugs are fixed:

- Fixed libltdl to no longer attempt to dlopen() the old_library
listed in the .la file. Now will use only the preopen loader to
attempt to load it. This may be a security issue, all users are
advised to upgrade.
- Similarly, don't open module.la from the current directory, this
changes the behavior of libltdl to match the documentation.

libtool-2.2.6b is available now from ftp.gnu.org, along with diffs
against libtool-2.2.6a. Please use a mirror to reduce stress on the
main gnu machine:

http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Here are the compressed sources:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.2.6b.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.2.6b.tar.lzma

Here are the diffs against libtool-2.2.6a:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.2.6a-2.2.6b.diff.gz

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libtool-2.2.6b.tar.gz 5afa73c8ef9ebe64bbb438a0f8779c9036e43c55
libtool-2.2.6b.tar.lzma 18baaac89eed8be7bd2af2d2181598e176029cc6
libtool-2.2.6a-2.2.6b.diff.gz 161b4f775d2e17890a25fd791c2deb3a69dcf293

This release was bootstrapped with automake-1.11 and autoconf-2.64.

You can fetch the unbootstrapped source code with git by using the
following commands:

$ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/libtool.git
$ cd libtool
$ git checkout v2.2.6b

Please report bugs to <bug-libtool@...>, along with the verbose
output of any failed test groups, and the output from `./libtool
--config.' The README file explains how to capture the verbose test
output.

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GNU Cgicc 3.2.9

2009-11-14T10:30:34Z

Hello

I am happy to announce the next release of GNU Cgicc.
This release is numbered 3.2.9 .

Description
===========
GNU cgicc is an ANSI C++ compliant class library that greatly
simplifies the creation of CGI applications for the World Wide Web.
cgicc performs the following functions:

* Parses both GET and POST form data transparently.
* Provides string, integer, floating-point and single- and
multiple-choice retrieval methods for form data.
* Provides methods for saving and restoring CGI environments to aid in
application debugging.
* Provides full on-the-fly HTML/XHTML generation capabilities, with
support for cookies.
* Supports HTTP file upload.
* Compatible with FastCGI.

Changes in 3.2.9: 14 November 2009
==========================

* Corrected Bugs
#26003 : CgiEnvironment getenv
#26065 : save function
#26917 : 3.2.8 tar files has sym links to files that don't exist
#27681 : Make building on FreeBSD easier

Download
========
Gzipped tarballs are available from

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cgicc/
or
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cgicc/

and its mirror sites. SHA1 sums may be found there as well.

The web site of GNU cgicc is at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/cgicc/

Sébastien DIAZ <sebastien.diaz@...>
GNU Cgicc Maintainer

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GNU patch: new 2.6 release

2009-11-13T06:32:52Z

I am pleased to announce my first release of GNU patch,
available by anonymous FTP from:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/

The last release dates back to June 2004 with version 2.5.9. A new Savannah
project has been created with the new code repository and the bug-patch
mailing list archive at:

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch

A lot of changes have accumulated since version 2.5.9. The following user
visible changes have been made:

* A regression test suite has been added ("make check").

* A --merge option has been added which will merge a patch file into
the original files similar to merge(1). See the patch(1) manual page for
documentation.

* Unless a file name has been specified on the command line, look only
for file names in the patch until one has been found. This prevents
patch from tripping over garbage that isn't a patch. When conforming
to POSIX, this behavior is turned off and patch will ask for a
file name when none is found.

* All reject files have file name headers now, which allows them to be used as
regular patches.

* When a patch file modifies the same file more than once, patch makes
sure it backs up the original version of the file rather than any
intermediary versions.

* In the above situation, if there are rejects in more than one of those
patches, they all go into the same reject file.

* When the file to be patched is specified on the command line, all patches
are applied to that file. (Previously, the first patch was applied to the
file specified on the command line, and the names of additional files to
patch were taken from header lines in the patch file.)

* The -r option now works correctly even if there are rejects in more than
one file. Use the - argument to discard rejects.

* Rejected hunks come out in unified diff format if the input patch was of
that format, otherwise in ordinary context diff form. Use the
--reject-format option to enforce either "context" or "unified" format.
Timestamps and the "diff -p" (--show-c-function) output are preserved.
Changed lines in context format reject files are correctly indicated
with '!' markers as the format defines. Added and removed lines are
still marked with '+' and '-', respectively.

* The file permissions of reject files are no longer set to match the files
they modify. Instead, they retain the default permissions. This is
consistent with reject files produced with the -r option.

* The --binary option disables the heuristic for stripping CRs from
line endings in patches. This allows to preserve CRs even in mangled
patches, or in patches generated on non-POSIX systems and without the
--binary option.

* Backup files for non-existing files are now created with default
permissions rather than with mode 0: backup files with mode 0 were
causing problems with applications which do not expect unreadable
files.

* The -B, -Y, and -z options (--prefix, --basename-prefix, --suffix) now
imply the simple version control mode, and can be combined.

* Patch rejects more malformed normal format commands and checks for trailing
garbage. It now recognizes ed commands without addresses.

* Change the default value of PATCH_GET to 0. (Previously, the default was 0
under POSIXLY_CORRECT and negative otherwise; this is causing problems
particularly with Perforce.)

* Handle missing timestamps better.

Please email bugs or suggestions to <bug-patch@...>. (Check the Savannah
project's bug tracker for a list of known issues.)

Thanks,
Andreas

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GNU IceCat 3.5.5 released

2009-11-09T10:53:42Z

I am pleased to announce the new 3.5.5 version of the GNU IceCat web
browser.

GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Mozilla Firefox browser.

This new version includes all the bug fixes present in Firefox 3.5.5
plus some minor changes.

New files are available for download here:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/3.5.5/

and on any mirror sites worldwide. You can find a complete mirrors list
here:

http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

SHA1 and MD5 checksums:

e4b4fad80fe2dc3f36e38079d279fc2b6c53f5ff icecat-3.5.5.tar.bz2
eab588aed2348d370230f6a614de2b0f1d87b00e icecat-3.5.5.tar.xz
4259280271ec1d14e3397e66cd06d48d1453cb67 icecat-3.5.5-x86.tar.bz2
a6c27076f31d0622ffb949d4907994a514e52c97 icecat-3.5.5-x86.tar.xz
50888c5c1871ad24b2b3e47a2020edfc1eb8a31b privacy_ext.xpi

318d330c04402fe7024bebf2febb3fb2 icecat-3.5.5.tar.bz2
0585be522c026d3111187d638e87f156 icecat-3.5.5.tar.xz
0b4219b2b2e2ee67c6809b3f612050f5 icecat-3.5.5-x86.tar.bz2
7e32ed7abdfe16fc3daaebbdbb3f3437 icecat-3.5.5-x86.tar.xz
bbc160d5924ecc476a2a7a6e3f225763 privacy_ext.xpi

Please report any problem you may experience while using IceCat to the
bug-gnuzilla@... mailing list.

Happy hacking!
Giuseppe Scrivano

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GRUB 1.97.1 released

2009-11-09T08:27:53Z

Hi,

GNU GRUB version 1.97.1 has been released.

GRUB, also known as the GRand Unified Bootloader, is a modular, portable
bootloader that supports a number of platforms, including standard BIOS-based
PCs, IEEE-1275 platforms (such as the OLPC and some PowerPC/Sparc64 hardware)
and coreboot, the free (as in freedom) pre-boot initialization framework.

<http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/>

This is a bug-fix release for a number of problems (excerpt from NEWS file
is attached) that weren't detected in time for GRUB 1.97, including a
security fix, misc fixes for GNU/Hurd support, and a number of improvements
in documentation and error messages (specially coreboot-related).

A source tarball for the new release can be found at:

http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.97.1.tar.gz

and its GPG detached signature [*]:

http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.97.1.tar.gz.sig

[*] You can use either of the above signature file to verify that
the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First,
be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
Then, run a command like this:

gpg --verify grub-1.97.1.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys DEA2C38E

and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.61
Ruby 1.8.7

GCC 4.4 is the recommended version for building it, although any version
starting with 4.1.3 is supported in this release.

--
Robert Millan

The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."

New in 1.97.1:

* Security fix in password-checking functionality.

* Fixes for GNU/Hurd support.

* Fix build problem on MacOSX.

* Misc improvements in documentation and error messages.

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GNU AutoGen Version 5.10/AutoOpts Version 33.0

2009-11-08T10:57:03Z

GNU AutoGen/AutoOpts is a two-part project that serves two separate
purposes. The two parts are combined because they are inextricably
intertwined:

AutoGen is a tool designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of
programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. It is
especially valuable in programs that have several blocks of text that
must be kept synchronized.

AutoOpts is both an example of that and a project in its own right.
It is a very powerful configuration file and command line option parser
consisting of a set of AutoGen templates and a run time library that
nearly eliminates the hassle of managing, parsing and documenting
program options.

New in 5.10 - November, 2009

Here are the 'NEWS' entries since the last release

* When an option is configured out (via ifdef or ifndef attributes), it is
not normally displayed in the usage text. Sometimes, users want to know
why the option they supplied is against the law ("illegal"). If the option
has the omitted-usage attribute, the extended usage (via "--help") will
now show the option name and the text:

This option has been disabled

Or, alternately, the text specified with the omitted-usage attribute.

If the option is specified, the error message will be:

PROGRAM: The MUMBLE option has been disabled

followed by the abbreviated usage.

* Option aliasing: Several times it has been necessary to have two different
options mean exactly the same thing. Usually, this is a consequence of
some sort of historical use. However it came about, the need is
there. So, AutoOpts now supports a new option attribute: aliases. This
option will be listed in the usage text but will be handled exactly as
if the aliased-to option were specified. You probably shouldn't use it
unless you have to.

* AutoGen tracing output: You may now prefix a file name with shell style
append redirection to indicate that the output appends to the file
(i.e. >>file).

AutoGen home: http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/
primary ftp: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.10/
.tar.gz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.10/autogen-5.10.tar.gz
library project: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libopts/rel33.0/
bug reports: autogen-users at the lists dot SourceForge net domain
bug archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=7034
maintainer: Bruce Korb - bkorb at the usual GNU domain

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Denemo Release 0.8.10 now available

2009-11-04T11:28:19Z

Denemo version 0.8.10 is now released, see
http://denemo.org/index.php/Get_Denemo for details of how to obtain it.

The new features in this release include:

* Text attached to Denemo music: Keep your TODO list/notes on errata in
the source etc attached to the relevant place in the music.
* New Bookmark System, integrating Rehearsal Marks
* Augment /Diminish the duration of selected notes.
* Whole Measure rests.
* Anacrusis: the length of the upbeat is determined from the music.
* First and second time Measures in repeats.
* Immediate playback via MIDI - educational games can now output notes
on MIDI instruments.
* Custom collections of buttons: any command can be placed, ready to
use, on a button bar.
* Changing preferences via script.
* EditObject command (usually right-click or Tab) now gives direct
access to any Attributes set on note or chord.
* Cut and Paste fixes: multiple measures across adjacent staffs can now
be cut/pasted.
* Better mouse selection of music.
* Many bugs fixed: Import Midi, display after clef changes, crash on
dragging mouse off top of display, crash on cancel new staff in
initial ...

Richard Shann

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glpk 4.40 release information

2009-11-03T05:17:18Z

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GLPK 4.40 -- Release Information
********************************

Release date: Nov 03, 2009

GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is intended for solving large-scale
linear programming (LP), mixed integer linear programming (MIP), and
other related problems. It is a set of routines written in ANSI C and
organized as a callable library.

In this release:

The following new API routines were added:

glp_del_vertices remove vertices from graph
glp_del_arc remove arc from graph
glp_wclique_exact find maximum weight clique with the exact
algorithm developed by Prof. P. Ostergard
glp_read_ccdata read graph in DIMACS clique/coloring
format
glp_write_ccdata write graph in DIMACS clique/coloring
format

For description of these new routines see a new edition of the
reference manual included in the distribution.

The hybrid pseudocost branching heuristic was included in the
MIP solver. It is available on API level (iocp.br_tech should
be set to GLP_BR_PCH) and in the stand-alone solver glpsol
(via the command-line option --pcost). This heuristic may be
useful on solving hard MIP instances.

The branching heuristic by Driebeck and Tomlin (used in the
MIP solver by default) was changed to switch to branching on
most fractional variable if an lower bound of degradation of
the objective is close to zero for all branching candidates.

A bug was fixed in the LP preprocessor (routine npp_empty_col).
Thanks to Stefan Vigerske <stefan@...> for the
bug report.

A bug was fixed and some improvements were made in the FPUMP
heuristic module. Thanks to Xypron <xypron.glpk@...>.

A bug was fixed in the API routine glp_warm_up (dual
feasibility test was incorrect in maximization case). Thanks to
Uday Venkatadri <Uday.Venkatadri@...> for the bug report.

See GLPK web page at <http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html>.

GLPK distribution can be ftp'ed from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glpk/> or
from some mirror ftp sites; see <http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html>.

MD5 check-sum is the following:

73821dae9c52905f012ce1b501f59b66 *glpk-4.40.tar.gz

GLPK is also available as a Debian GNU/Linux package. See its web page
at <http://packages.debian.org/etch/glpk>.
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GnuTLS 2.8.5

2009-11-02T03:55:43Z

We are proud to announce a new stable GnuTLS release: Version 2.8.5.

GnuTLS is a modern C library that implements the standard network
security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS), for use by network
applications. GnuTLS is developed for GNU/Linux, but works on many
Unix-like systems and comes with a binary installer for Windows.

The GnuTLS library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser
General Public License version 2.1 (or later). The "extra" GnuTLS
library (which contains TLS/IA support, LZO compression and Libgcrypt
FIPS-mode handler), the OpenSSL compatibility library, the self tests
and the command line tools are all distributed under the GNU General
Public License version 3.0 (or later). The manual is distributed
under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 (or later).

The project page of the library is available at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/

What's New
==========

** libgnutls: In server side when resuming a session do not overwrite the
** initial session data with the resumed session data.

** libgnutls: Fix PKCS#12 encoding.
The error you would get was "The OID is not supported.". Problem
introduced for the v2.8.x branch in 2.7.6.

** guile: Compatibility with guile 2.x.
By Ludovic Courtes <ludovic.courtes@...>.

** tests: Fix expired cert in chainverify self-test.

** tests: Fix time bomb in chainverify self-test.
Reported by Andreas Metzler <ametzler@...> in
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3925>.

** API and ABI modifications:
No changes since last version.

Getting the Software
====================

GnuTLS may be downloaded from one of the mirror sites or direct from
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/>. The list of mirrors can be found at
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/download.html>.

Here are the BZIP2 compressed sources (6.0MB):

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.8.5.tar.bz2
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.8.5.tar.bz2

Here are OpenPGP detached signatures signed using key 0xB565716F:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.8.5.tar.bz2.sig
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.8.5.tar.bz2.sig

Note, that we don't distribute gzip compressed tarballs.

In order to check that the version of GnuTLS which you are going to
install is an original and unmodified one, you should verify the OpenPGP
signature. You can use the command

gpg --verify gnutls-2.8.5.tar.bz2.sig

This checks whether the signature file matches the source file. You
should see a message indicating that the signature is good and made by
that signing key. Make sure that you have the right key, either by
checking the fingerprint of that key with other sources or by checking
that the key has been signed by a trustworthy other key. The signing
key can be identified with the following information:

pub 1280R/B565716F 2002-05-05 [expires: 2010-04-21]
Key fingerprint = 0424 D4EE 81A0 E3D1 19C6 F835 EDA2 1E94 B565 716F
uid Simon Josefsson <simon@...>
uid Simon Josefsson <jas@...>
sub 1280R/4D5D40AE 2002-05-05 [expires: 2010-04-21]

The key is available from:
http://josefsson.org/key.txt
dns:b565716f.josefsson.org?TYPE=CERT

Alternatively, after successfully verifying the OpenPGP signature of
this announcement, you could verify that the files match the following
checksum values. The values are for SHA-1 and SHA-224 respectively:

5121c52efd4718ad3d8b641d28343b0c6abaa571 gnutls-2.8.5.tar.bz2
9d6f1906e380cc7366e2427493c33b72a137e438cdc9080fba3d84f6 gnutls-2.8.5.tar.bz2

Documentation
=============

The manual is available online at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/documentation.html

In particular the following formats are available:

HTML: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/index.html
PDF: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/gnutls.pdf

For developers there is a GnuTLS API reference manual formatted using
the GTK-DOC tools:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/reference/gnutls-gnutls.html

For developers interested in improving code quality, we publish
Cyclomatic code complexity charts that help you find code that may need
review and improvements:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/cyclo/

Also useful are code coverage charts which indicate parts of the source
code that needs to be tested better by the included self-tests:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/coverage/

Community
=========

If you need help to use GnuTLS, or want to help others, you are invited
to join our help-gnutls mailing list, see:

http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls

If you wish to participate in the development of GnuTLS, you are invited
to join our gnutls-dev mailing list, see:

http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnutls-devel

Windows installer
=================

GnuTLS has been ported to the Windows operating system, and a binary
installer is available. The installer contains DLLs for application
development, manuals, examples, and source code. The installer includes
libgpg-error v1.7, libgcrypt v1.4.4, libtasn1 v2.3, and GnuTLS v2.8.5.

For more information about GnuTLS for Windows:
http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/

The Windows binary installer and PGP signature:
http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.8.5.exe (15MB)
http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.8.5.exe.sig

The checksum values for SHA-1 and SHA-224 are:

5dadd78a630f30d3b4b3a34261068e74cba28d80 gnutls-2.8.5.exe
53af38a54ff2f971d9eecfb44f4ab39cc6dbad371ad6425d312eaccd gnutls-2.8.5.exe

A ZIP archive containing the Windows binaries:
http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.8.5.zip (5.3MB)
http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.8.5.zip.sig

The checksum values for SHA-1 and SHA-224 are:

b41c0ac3088620bf78996d719b335317cb90405a gnutls-2.8.5.zip
73ca7da90ebac569948114735d6899a08431ebbe15be3d619bec05a3 gnutls-2.8.5.zip

A Debian mingw32 package is also available:
http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/mingw32-gnutls_2.8.5-1_all.deb (4.8MB)

The checksum values for SHA-1 and SHA-224 are:

4ecb2e7617d8722d090ec96138ce595647c06a82 mingw32-gnutls_2.8.5-1_all.deb
cbdd418aea622dfaf9876f563ebc1e192ec0ab90bca8748277501e76 mingw32-gnutls_2.8.5-1_all.deb

Internationalization
====================

The GnuTLS library messages have been translated into Czech, Dutch,
French, German, Malay, Polish, Swedish, and Vietnamese. We welcome the
addition of more translations.

Support
=======

Improving GnuTLS is costly, but you can help! We are looking for
organizations that find GnuTLS useful and wish to contribute back. You
can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software, or donate money
or equipment.

Commercial support contracts for GnuTLS are available, and they help
finance continued maintenance. Simon Josefsson Datakonsult AB, a
Stockholm based privately held company, is currently funding GnuTLS
maintenance. We are always looking for interesting development
projects. See http://josefsson.org/ for more details.

The GnuTLS service directory is available at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/commercial.html

Happy Hacking,
Simon

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XBoard/Winboard 4.4.1 released

2009-10-31T10:53:53Z

This release includes several new features and lots of bugfixes.

You can get the source code for XBoard/Winboard at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/

Windows binaries will be available at:

http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewforum.php?f=19

Thanks for all the bug-reports we got, if you find some new bugs, please
report them in the bug tracker at
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/ or by email to bug-xboard
(AT) gnu.org.

Arun Persaud (arun@...)

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gzip-1.3.14 released [beta]

2009-10-30T12:15:28Z

This is to announce a beta release of gzip.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/

Actually I'm convinced that this is production quality software, but there
has been so little feedback, I'm going to err on the side of caution and
call it "beta". Besides, there were a few portability problems with the
last beta release, and this release will serve to ensure that they've
been fixed.

There have been a few bug fixes (nothing major, see NEWS below),
and we've inherited a few portability fixes from gnulib.

Distro maintainers: please send any pending patches to the bug-gzip
mailing list (if possible in git format-patch format, per instructions
in http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/plain/HACKING) and I'll try
to take them off your hands.

Here are the compressed sources:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.14.tar.gz (828KB)
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.14.tar.xz (556KB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.14.tar.gz.sig
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.14.tar.xz.sig

[*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First,
be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
Then, run a command like this:

gpg --verify gzip-1.3.14.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys B9AB9A16

and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.64.69-81c80
Automake 1.11a
Gnulib v0.0-2793-gb3602e8

NEWS

* Noteworthy changes in release 1.3.14 (2009-10-30) [beta]

** Bug fixes

gzip no longer fails when there is exactly one trailing NUL byte
gzip has always accepted trailing NUL bytes. Note the plural.

zdiff would exit with status 2 (indicating an error) rather than 1 to
indicate differences when both inputs were compressed and different.

zdiff would fail to print differences in two compressed inputs

zgrep -f - didn't work

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GNU IceCat 3.5.4 released

2009-10-29T13:41:29Z

I am pleased to announce the new 3.5.4 version of the GNU IceCat web
browser.

GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Mozilla Firefox browser.

This new version includes all the bug fixes present in Firefox 3.5.4
plus some minor changes.

New files are available for download here:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/3.5.4/

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Zile 2.3.13 released

2009-10-29T01:46:52Z

I am happy to announce the release of Zile 2.3.13,
the tiny Emacs clone.

This release fixes bugs in `kill-line`, `scroll-up' and `scroll-down',
squashes some space leaks found by Valgrind, and fixes some build
problems reported by the indefatigable Nelson Beebe.

Zile's web page is at http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/

The signed source can be obtained from ftp.gnu.org and its world-wide
mirrors:

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/zile/zile-2.3.13.tar.gz
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Bazaar 2.0.1 and 2.1.0b1 released

2009-10-28T14:46:25Z

Our first post-2.0 releases of Bazaar have finally become official. Now
that we are at 2.0, we decided to split a stable releases series and a
development series. As such, 2.0.1 has only bugfixes relative to the 2.0
release, while new features and potential compatibility changes are
contained only within 2.1.0b1. All of the changes in 2.0.1 are available
in 2.1.0b1.

Thanks to everyone who has helped polish the 2.0.1 release, and ensure
that our next 2.1 stable release will have lots of interesting changes
to come.

To get your own copy, please visit http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download.
Packages for many popular platforms are available.

The short summaries of changes are:
bzr 2.0.1
#########

:Codename: Stability First
:2.0.1: 2009-10-14

The first of our new ongoing bugfix-only stable releases has arrived. It
includes a collection of 12 bugfixes applied to bzr 2.0.0, but does not
include any of the feature development in the 2.1.0 series.

bzr 2.1.0b1
###########

:Codename: While the cat is away
:2.1.0b1: 2009-10-14

This is the first development release in the new split "stable" and
"development" series. As such, the release is a snapshot of bzr.dev
without creating a release candidate first. This release includes a
fair amount of internal changes, with deprecated code being removed,
and several new feature developments. People looking for a stable code
base with only bugfixes should focus on the 2.0.1 release. All bugfixes
present in 2.0.1 are present in 2.1.0b1.

Highlights include support for ``bzr+ssh://host/~/homedir`` style urls,
finer control over the plugin search path via extended BZR_PLUGIN_PATH
syntax, visible warnings when extension modules fail to load, and
improved error handling during unlocking.

John
=:->

This is the full NEWS entry about all bugs/features fixed and released
relative to 2.0.0:

bzr 2.1.0b1
###########

:Codename: While the cat is away
:2.1.0b1: 2009-10-14

This is the first development release in the new split "stable" and
"development" series. As such, the release is a snapshot of bzr.dev
without creating a release candidate first. This release includes a
fair amount of internal changes, with deprecated code being removed,
and several new feature developments. People looking for a stable code
base with only bugfixes should focus on the 2.0.1 release. All bugfixes
present in 2.0.1 are present in 2.1.0b1.

Highlights include support for ``bzr+ssh://host/~/homedir`` style urls,
finer control over the plugin search path via extended BZR_PLUGIN_PATH
syntax, visible warnings when extension modules fail to load, and improved
error handling during unlocking.

New Features
************

* Bazaar can now send mail through Apple OS X Mail.app.
(Brian de Alwis)

* ``bzr+ssh`` and ``bzr`` paths can now be relative to home directories
specified in the URL. Paths starting with a path segment of ``~`` are
relative to the home directory of the user running the server, and paths
starting with ``~user`` are relative to the home directory of the named
user. For example, for a user "bob" with a home directory of
``/home/bob``, these URLs are all equivalent:

* ``bzr+ssh://bob@host/~/repo``
* ``bzr+ssh://bob@host/~bob/repo``
* ``bzr+ssh://bob@host/home/bob/repo``

If ``bzr serve`` was invoked with a ``--directory`` argument, then no
home directories outside that directory will be accessible via this
method.

This is a feature of ``bzr serve``, so pre-2.1 clients will
automatically benefit from this feature when ``bzr`` on the server is
upgraded. (Andrew Bennetts, #109143)

* Extensions can now be compiled if either Cython or Pyrex is available.
Currently Pyrex is preferred, but that may change in the future.
(Arkanes)

* Give more control on BZR_PLUGIN_PATH by providing a way to refer to or
disable the user, site and core plugin directories.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #412930, #316192, #145612)

Bug Fixes
*********

* Bazaar's native protocol code now correctly handles EINTR, which most
noticeably occurs if you break in to the debugger while connected to a
bzr+ssh server. You can now can continue from the debugger (by typing
'c') and the process continues. However, note that pressing C-\ in the
shell may still kill the SSH process, which is bug 162509, so you must
sent a signal to the bzr process specifically, for example by typing
``kill -QUIT PID`` in another shell. (Martin Pool, #341535)

* ``bzr add`` in a tree that has files with ``\r`` or ``\n`` in the
filename will issue a warning and skip over those files.
(Robert Collins, #3918)

* ``bzr dpush`` now aborts if uncommitted changes (including pending merges)
are present in the working tree. The configuration option ``dpush_strict``
can be used to set the default for this behavior.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #438158)

* ``bzr merge`` and ``bzr remove-tree`` now requires --force if pending
merges are present in the working tree.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #426344)

* Clearer message when Bazaar runs out of memory, instead of a
``MemoryError``
traceback. (Martin Pool, #109115)

* Don't give a warning on Windows when failing to import ``_readdir_pyx``
as it is never built. (John Arbash Meinel, #430645)

* Don't restrict the command name used to run the test suite.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #419950)

* ftp transports were built differently when the kerberos python module was
present leading to obscure failures related to ASCII/BINARY modes.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #443041)

* Network streams now decode adjacent records of the same type into a
single stream, reducing layering churn. (Robert Collins)

* PreviewTree behaves correctly when get_file_mtime is invoked on an
unmodified
file. (Aaron Bentley, #251532)

* Registry objects should not use iteritems() when asked to use items().
(Vincent Ladeuil, #430510)

* Weave based repositories couldn't be cloned when committers were using
domains or user ids embedding '.sig'. Now they can.
(Matthew Fuller, Vincent Ladeuil, #430868)

Improvements
************

* Bazaar gives a warning before exiting, and writes into ``.bzr.log``, if
compiled extensions can't be loaded. This typically indicates a
packaging or installation problem. In this case Bazaar will keep
running using pure-Python versions, but this may be substantially
slower. The warning can be disabled by setting
``ignore_missing_extensions = True`` in ``bazaar.conf``.
See also <https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+faq/703>.
(Martin Pool, #406113, #430529)

* Secondary errors that occur during Branch.unlock and Repository.unlock
no longer obscure the original error. These methods now use a new
decorator, ``only_raises``. This fixes many causes of
``TooManyConcurrentRequests`` and similar errors.
(Andrew Bennetts, #429747)

Documentation
*************

* Describe the new shell-like test feature. (Vincent Ladeuil)

* Help on hooks no longer says 'Not deprecated' for hooks that are
currently supported. (Ian Clatworthy, #422415)

API Changes
***********

* ``bzrlib.user_encoding`` has been removed; use
``bzrlib.osutils.get_user_encoding`` instead. (Martin Pool)

* ``bzrlib.tests`` now uses ``stopTestRun`` for its ``TestResult``
subclasses - the same as python's unittest module. (Robert Collins)

* ``diff._get_trees_to_diff`` has been renamed to
``diff.get_trees_and_branches_to_diff``. It is now a public API, and it
returns the old and new branches. (Gary van der Merwe)

* ``bzrlib.trace.log_error``, ``error`` and ``info`` have been deprecated.
(Martin Pool)

* ``MutableTree.has_changes()`` does not require a tree parameter
anymore. It
now defaults to comparing to the basis tree. It now checks for pending
merges too. ``Merger.check_basis`` has been deprecated and replaced
by the
corresponding has_changes() calls. ``Merge.compare_basis``,
``Merger.file_revisions`` and ``Merger.ensure_revision_trees`` have also
been deprecated.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #440631)

* ``ProgressTask.note`` is deprecated.
(Martin Pool)

Internals
*********

* Added ``-Drelock`` debug flag. It will ``note`` a message every time a
repository or branch object is unlocked then relocked the same way.
(Andrew Bennetts)

* ``BTreeLeafParser.extract_key`` has been tweaked slightly to reduce
mallocs while parsing the index (approx 3=>1 mallocs per key read).
This results in a 10% speedup while reading an index.
(John Arbash Meinel)

* The ``bzrlib.lsprof`` module has a new class ``BzrProfiler`` which makes
profiling in some situations like callbacks and generators easier.
(Robert Collins)

Testing
*******

* Passing ``--lsprof-tests -v`` to bzr selftest will cause lsprof output to
be output for every test. Note that this is very verbose! (Robert Collins)

* Setting ``BZR_TEST_PDB=1`` when running selftest will cause a pdb
post_mortem to be triggered when a test failure occurs. (Robert Collins)

* Shell-like tests can now be written. Code in ``bzrlib/tests/script.py`` ,
documentation in ``developers/testing.txt`` for details.
(Vincent Ladeuil)

* Some tests could end up with the same id, that was dormant for
a long time.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #442980)

* Stop showing the number of tests due to missing features in the test
progress bar. (Martin Pool)

* Test parameterisation now does a shallow copy, not a deep copy of the test
to be parameterised. This is not expected to break external use of test
parameterisation, and is substantially faster. (Robert Collins)

* Tests that try to open a bzr dir on an arbitrary transport will now
fail unless they have explicitly permitted the transport via
``self.permit_url``. The standard test factories such as ``self.get_url``
will permit the urls they provide automatically, so only exceptional
tests should need to do this. (Robert Collins)

* The break-in test no longer cares about clean shutdown of the child,
instead it is happy if the debugger starts up. (Robert Collins)

* The full test suite is expected to pass when the C extensions are not
present. (Vincent Ladeuil, #430749)

bzr 2.0.1
#########

:Codename: Stability First
:2.0.1: 2009-10-14

The first of our new ongoing bugfix-only stable releases has arrived. It
includes a collection of 12 bugfixes applied to bzr 2.0.0, but does not
include any of the feature development in the 2.1.0 series.

Bug Fixes
*********

* ``bzr add`` in a tree that has files with ``\r`` or ``\n`` in the
filename will issue a warning and skip over those files.
(Robert Collins, #3918)

* bzr will attempt to authenticate with SSH servers that support
``keyboard-interactive`` auth but not ``password`` auth when using
Paramiko. (Andrew Bennetts, #433846)

* Fixed fetches from a stacked branch on a smart server that were failing
with some combinations of remote and local formats. This was causing
"unknown object type identifier 60" errors. (Andrew Bennetts, #427736)

* Fixed ``ObjectNotLocked`` errors when doing some log and diff operations
on branches via a smart server. (Andrew Bennetts, #389413)

* Handle things like ``bzr add foo`` and ``bzr rm foo`` when the tree is
at the root of a drive. ``osutils._cicp_canonical_relpath`` always
assumed that ``abspath()`` returned a path that did not have a trailing
``/``, but that is not true when working at the root of the filesystem.
(John Arbash Meinel, Jason Spashett, #322807)

* Hide deprecation warnings for 'final' releases for python2.6.
(John Arbash Meinel, #440062)

* Improve the time for ``bzr log DIR`` for 2a format repositories.
We had been using the same code path as for <2a formats, which required
iterating over all objects in all revisions.
(John Arbash Meinel, #374730)

* Make sure that we unlock the tree if we fail to create a TreeTransform
object when doing a merge, and there is limbo, or pending-deletions
directory. (Gary van der Merwe, #427773)

* Occasional IndexError on renamed files have been fixed. Operations that
set a full inventory in the working tree will now go via the
apply_inventory_delta code path which is simpler and easier to
understand than dirstates set_state_from_inventory method. This may
have a small performance impact on operations built on _write_inventory,
but such operations are already doing full tree scans, so no radical
performance change should be observed. (Robert Collins, #403322)

* Retrieving file text or mtime from a _PreviewTree has good performance
when
there are many changes. (Aaron Bentley)

* The CHK index pages now use an unlimited cache size. With a limited
cache and a large project, the random access of chk pages could cause us
to download the entire cix file many times.
(John Arbash Meinel, #402623)

* When a file kind becomes unversionable after being added, a sensible
error will be shown instead of a traceback. (Robert Collins, #438569)

Documentation
*************

* Improved README. (Ian Clatworthy)

* Improved upgrade documentation for Launchpad branches.
(Barry Warsaw)

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GRUB 1.97 released

2009-10-25T11:40:14Z

Hi,

I'm proud to announce the release of GNU GRUB version 1.97.

GRUB, also known as the GRand Unified Bootloader, is a modular, portable
bootloader that supports a number of platforms, including standard BIOS-based
PCs, IEEE-1275 platforms (such as the OLPC and some PowerPC/Sparc64 hardware)
and coreboot, the free (as in freedom) pre-boot initialization framework.

<http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/>

This release of GRUB is a significant breakthrough compared to GRUB 1.96.
Among a long list of improvements (excerpt from NEWS file is attached),
GRUB 1.97 includes support for booting the kernels of FreeBSD, OpenBSD
and NetBSD, it detects the Ext4 filesystem which is commonly used with
the kernel Linux, and it implements a robust mechanism for booting from
GPT drives, by embedding itself in the BIOS Boot partition.

A source tarball for the new release can be found at:

http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.97.tar.gz

and its GPG detached signature [*]:

http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.97.tar.gz.sig

[*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
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be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
Then, run a command like this:

gpg --verify grub-1.97.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys DEA2C38E

and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.61
Ruby 1.8.7

GCC 4.4 is the recommended version for building it, although any version
starting with 4.1.3 is supported in this release.

I hope you enjoy using GRUB as much as we enjoyed developing it.

--
Robert Millan

The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."

* Add support for loading XNU (MacOS X kernel).

* ACPI override support.

* Integrated gptsync.

* Password protection support.

* Partition manipulation tool.

* Add `keystatus' command.

* Unicode fonts are now used by default.

* Add `hdparm' command.

* Add support for getting the current date and time from CMOS as variables.

* Add `drivemap' command.

* Add support for RAID levels 4,6 and 10.

* update-grub is replaced by grub-mkconfig.

* When booting from PXE, PXE can be used to load files.

* High resolution timer support.

* Image loaders now support IO buffering.

* Add `crc' command.

* Add Cygwin support.

* Add x86_64 EFI support.

* Use LZMA compression instead of LZO.

* Support for saving the environment from and loading the environment
from a file.

* Allow the UUID to be used as device name.

* The `search' command can use UUIDs now.

* Add support for IEEE 1275 on i386.

* Create partmap.lst and use it to automatically load partition map
modules.

* grub-mkconfig supports os-prober to add operating systems to the
boot menu.

* The ATA driver supports devices bigger than 2 TiB.

* Add support for the UDF, AFS and EXT4 filesystems.

* The ISO9660 filesystem supports the Joliet extension

* Add support for loading kernels of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

* Add new command `sleep'.

* Support for direct access to AT keyboards.

* New utility `grub-fstest'.

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GNU Enterprise Forms 0.6.2 available

2009-10-25T08:36:13Z

The GNU Enterprise team proudly announces

GNU Enterprise Forms 0.6.2.

This is an updated stable version and contains only bug
fixes and/or translation updates.

GNU Enterprise Forms (GNUe Forms) is a generator for data aware user
interfaces with support for different platforms and data sources.

For more information about GNU Enterprise in general,
please see http://www.gnuenterprise.org

Changes and new features since the last stable version:

* Fixes necessary for wxPython 2.8
* Some minor fixes
* Packaging updates
* Updated Spanish translation
* Switch to GPL version 3

You can download this version of GNU Enterprise Forms from
http://www.gnuenterprise.org/tools/forms/0.6.2/

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FreeIPMI 0.7.14 Released

2009-10-22T15:42:20Z

FreeIPMI 0.7.14 has been released. It can be downloaded at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/download.html

What is IPMI?

The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification
defines a set of interfaces for platform management. It is
implemented by a large number of hardware manufacturers to support
system management on motherboards. The features of IPMI that most
users will be interested in are sensor monitoring (i.e. CPU
temperatures, fan speeds), remote power control, and serial-over-LAN
(SOL).

What is FreeIPMI?

FreeIPMI provides in-band and out-of-band IPMI software based on the
IPMI v1.5/2.0 specification. FreeIPMI provides tools and libraries
for users to access and read IPMI sensor readings, system event log
(SEL) entries, serial-over-LAN (SOL), remote power control functions,
field replaceable unit (FRU) device information, and more. More
information about FreeIPMI can be found at the FreeIPMI webpage at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/index.html

Release 0.7.14 Changes
---------------------
o Fix consolidated-output corner cases.

Al
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High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Binutils 2.20 available

2009-10-19T00:59:14Z

I am pleased to announce binutils 2.20. You can get it from sourceware.org
and ftp.gnu.org in the usual places, e.g. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/.

e99487e0c4343d6fa68b7c464ff4a962 binutils-2.20.tar.gz
ee2d3e996e9a2d669808713360fa96f8 binutils-2.20.tar.bz2

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the release. The branch remains
open for bug fixes.

More than 26 targets were built and tested. There were a few failing
tests but most of them are baselines issues.

gcc may generate warnings when compiling gas for arm targets. This is harmless
but may stop the compilation unless binutils are configured with
--disable-werror

Tristan.

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ee2d3e996e9a2d669808713360fa96f8 binutils-2.20.tar.bz2

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the release. The branch remains
open for bug fixes.

More than 26 targets were built and tested. There were a few failing
tests but most of them are baselines issues.

gcc may generate warnings when compiling gas for arm targets. This is harmless
but may stop the compilation unless binutils are configured with
- --disable-werror

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GNUe Application Server 0.5.3 available

2009-10-16T11:35:18Z

The GNU Enterprise team proudly announces

GNUe Application Server 0.5.3.

This is an updated stable version and contains only bug
fixes and/or translation updates.

The GNUe Application Server (AppServer) is the core of the n-tier
variant of the GNU Enterprise system. To the front end (be it GNUe
Forms, GNUe Reports or any other tool), it provides user-definable
business objects with arbitary fields and methods. While transforming
access to those fields and methods into database communication
and calling of scripts, it cares about stability, security, speed,
and consistency.

For more information about GNU Enterprise in general,
please see http://www.gnuenterprise.org

Changes and new features since the last stable version:

* Packaging updates
* Some minor fixes
* Added Greek translation
* Updated Spanish translation
* Switch to GPL version 3

You can download this version of GNUe Application Server from
http://www.gnuenterprise.org/tools/appserver/0.5.3/

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GNU PSPP 0.6.2 released

2009-10-11T18:07:21Z

GNU PSPP 0.6.2 is now available. Version 0.6.2 is a bug-fix
release for the PSPP 0.6 branch.

PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data.

Here are the compressed sources:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/pspp-0.6.2.tar.gz (3.3MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/pspp-0.6.2.tar.gz.sig

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:

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[*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First,
be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
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If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys C6648E90

and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.64
Automake 1.10.2
Gnulib v0.0-2677-g8bd1168
Libtool 2.2.6
Gettext 0.17

Changes from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2:

* New translations:

- Dutch, thanks to Harry Thijssen.

- Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Michel Boaventura.

Thanks for translations are also due to the coordinators at
translationproject.org.

* Statistical bug fixes:

- REGRESSION: Report correct standard error of the estimate (bug
#25677).

- T-TEST: Report correct significance of paired sample T-test in
the common case (bug #26936) and corner cases. Thanks to Mike
Griffiths and Matej Cepl for reporting these bugs.

* Build fixes and changes:

- Fix build with GTK+ 2.17.4 and later.

- Make running "make" after running "configure" with different
settings reliably rebuild version.c.

- Cygwin and MinGW build fixes.

- Fixes for building with recent gnulib.

- The Makefile now honors two new variables, PSPP_LDFLAGS and
PSPPIRE_LDFLAGS, that affect linking of the PSPP and PSPPIRE
binaries, respectively. This makes building easier for some
packagers.

- Fixes for "configure --enable-relocatable" (bug #25508).

* Data file bug fixes and changes:

- Fix reading text data files that contain a mix of white space
and commas. Now "a ,b" is treated as two fields containing "a"
and "b"; previously it was treated as three, with an empty field
in the middle.

- Fix writing corrupted .sav files on Windows.

- Fix writing variable labels longer than 252 bytes to save files.
Thanks to Robert Westlund for reporting this bug.

- Fix writing corrupted .por files (bug #26034).

- Fix reading .por files whose initial lines are not padded out
with spaces as expected.

- PSPP will no longer issue warnings about some .sav file records
or values that it does not understand. These warnings were
harmless, but needlessly alarmed some users.

- Fix crash reading empty string fields from PostgreSQL databases.

* Bug fixes that affect PSPP and PSPPIRE:

- Users may now control precision of output statistics. Instead
of hard coding the width and decimals of output numbers, respect
the default format in most instances. Counts are now normally
displayed with the format of the weight variable, if any.

- Fix crash when an INSERT command specifies the name of a file
that does not exist (bug #24569).

- Fix crash when CROSSTABS specifies a long-string variable (bugs
#24557 and #26131).

- Fix crash drawing pie charts with many segments.

- Fix crash when NUMERIC specifies an invalid format.

* PSPPIRE bug fixes and changes:

- On Windows, write the output file to the user's home directory
instead of the current directory, to better match user
expectations.

- Some data editor fixes.

* Documentation:

- Fix typo in BINOMIAL section of user manual (bug #25892).

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http://benpfaff.org

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GNU MDK 1.2.5 released

2009-10-11T13:18:44Z

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GNU MDK 1.2.5 is out. MDK provides an emulator and development
environment for Donald Knuth's MIX computer and its MIXAL language. See
http://www.gnu.org/software/mdk for details.

This is a maintenance release fixing extant bugs and upgrading MDK's
internals to the latest versions of Guile and Glade. You may also
notice, depending on your desktop configuration, an improvement in
gmixvm's startup time.

Here are the compressed sources:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mdk/v1.2.5/mdk-1.2.5.tar.gz (1.1MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mdk/v1.2.5/mdk-1.2.5.tar.gz.sig

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:

7dce75b47695ef90ff3abfaf4e3d77fc mdk-1.2.5.tar.gz
2d314351bc4dc88bce4644c6d22fd1131996fb47 mdk-1.2.5.tar.gz

[*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First,
be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
Then, run a command like this:

gpg --verify mdk-1.2.5.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 5343A3EC

and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.64
Automake 1.11
Flex 2.5.35

As usual, Aleix helped quite a bit: thanks!

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New stable release: GNU Solfege 3.14.9

2009-10-10T01:55:36Z

==================
GNU Solfege 3.14.9
==================
Solfege is free music education software. Use it to train your rhythm,
interval, scale and chord skills. It is free software and runs on
GNU/Linux, MacOS X, MS Windows 2000 and newer, and possibly other
operating systems with the required tools. It should run wherever you can
run Python 2.4, Gtk+ 2.12, PyGtk 2.12.

Web: http://www.solfege.org
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1465
Mirror: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/solfege
Bug tracker: http://bugs.solfege.org

3.14.9 October 10, 2009
* bugfix: install and uninstall when swig is not installed
* don't loose the interval and csound statistics if upgrading from
older releases.

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GNU SASL 1.3

2009-10-08T08:45:54Z

GNU SASL is a modern C library that implement the standard network
security protocol Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL). The
framework itself and a couple of common SASL mechanisms are implemented.
GNU SASL can be used by network applications for IMAP, SMTP, XMPP and
similar protocols to provide authentication services.

Top-level NEWS entries:

** Experimental support for SCRAM-SHA-1 added.
Please test it but don't put it into production use, the RFC have not
been finalized yet. For this reason, the mechanism priority list is
such that SCRAM-SHA-1 will never be selected over any other mechanism
(including PLAIN, CRAM-MD5, and DIGEST-MD5). When it has been tested
further, we'll make SCRAM-SHA-1 the preferred mechanism after GSSAPI.

** gsasl: Fix libintl-related build errors on MinGW.
Tiny patch from "carlo.bramix" <carlo.bramix@...>.

** doc: Typo fixes to manual.
Based on report by Marco Maggi <marco.maggi-ipsu@...> in
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gsasl.general/222>.

** tests: Rewrite basic self test using modern API.

** tests: New self-test 'crypto' to increase code coverage.

Library (lib/) NEWS entries:

** libgsasl: Implement SCRAM-SHA-1.
New properties are GSASL_SCRAM_ITER, GSASL_SCRAM_SALT, and
GSASL_SCRAM_SALTED_PASSWORD.

** libgsasl: Add helper APIs for SHA-1 and HMAC-SHA-1.
New functions are gsasl_sha1 and gsasl_hmac_sha1.

** API and ABI modifications.
GSASL_SCRAM_ITER: ADDED.
GSASL_SCRAM_SALT: ADDED.
GSASL_SCRAM_SALTED_PASSWORD: ADDED.
gsasl_sha1: ADDED.
gsasl_hmac_sha1: ADDED.

Improving GNU SASL is costly, but you can help! We are looking for
organizations that find GNU SASL useful and wish to contribute back.
You can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software, purchase
support contracts, or donate money or equipment.

Commercial support contracts for GNU SASL are available, and they help
finance continued maintenance. Simon Josefsson Datakonsult AB, a
Stockholm based privately held company, is currently funding GNU SASL
maintenance. We are always looking for interesting development
projects. See http://josefsson.org/ for more details.

The project's web page is available at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/

All manuals are available from:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/manual/

Specifically, the following formats are available.

The main manual:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/manual/gsasl.html - HTML format
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/manual/gsasl.pdf - PDF format

API Reference manual:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/reference/ - GTK-DOC HTML

Doxygen documentation:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/doxygen/ - HTML format
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/doxygen/gsasl.pdf - PDF format

Instructions for how to build GNU SASL under uClinux are available from
<http://josefsson.org/uclinux/>. If your uClinux toolchain is broken,
it is possible to build GNU SASL without using the ./configure
mechanism, see <http://josefsson.org/uclinux/old/>.

If you need help to use GNU SASL, or want to help others, you are
invited to join our help-gsasl mailing list, see:
<http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsasl>.

Here are the compressed sources of the entire package:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gsasl/gsasl-1.3.tar.gz (3.6MB)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gsasl/gsasl-1.3.tar.gz.sig (PGP)

Here are the compressed sources of the LGPL library (included above):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gsasl/libgsasl-1.3.tar.gz (948KB)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gsasl/libgsasl-1.3.tar.gz.sig (PGP)

We also provide pre-built Windows binaries:
http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gsasl-1.3.zip
http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/mingw32-gsasl_1.3-1_all.deb

Here are the build reports for various platforms:
http://autobuild.josefsson.org/gsasl/

Daily builds of the package are available from:
http://daily.josefsson.org/gsasl/

For code coverage and cyclomatic code complexity charts:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/coverage/
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/cyclo/cyclo-gsasl.html

The software is cryptographically signed by the author using an
OpenPGP key identified by the following information:

pub 1280R/B565716F 2002-05-05 [expires: 2010-04-21]
Key fingerprint = 0424 D4EE 81A0 E3D1 19C6 F835 EDA2 1E94 B565 716F
uid Simon Josefsson <simon@...>
uid Simon Josefsson <jas@...>
sub 1280R/4D5D40AE 2002-05-05 [expires: 2010-04-21]

The key is available from:
http://josefsson.org/key.txt
dns:b565716f.josefsson.org?TYPE=CERT

Here are the SHA-1 and SHA-224 checksums:

97c91ad6230a134e6bc097527ead015f55be7b31 gsasl-1.3.tar.gz
d3e20d50353d37362cae1aed059a6111b38bd5d8e01ace63cf1f3aac gsasl-1.3.tar.gz

eb4acff1314d8047230c9eb6898ae1326aadc2b3 libgsasl-1.3.tar.gz
929c7436dc99c5cb4ebcb91eca2321bca75e5a3d10a1d5dc2ccc21fb libgsasl-1.3.tar.gz

aabbcab30c781cf807bbe0b2f354a6382260f8e2 gsasl-1.3.zip
77a4a2f53512736c48ac5f68c36a089678ee8792d46d632f9093c7f0 gsasl-1.3.zip

45293adffae8a4591bb9fb241ee2ee42a3788311 mingw32-gsasl_1.3-1_all.deb
3e0321cb334e8a49d63a60c6a2f722a4dbfdd3065d949774c63c7d4a mingw32-gsasl_1.3-1_all.deb

Happy hacking,
Simon

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parted-2.0 released [beta]

2009-10-06T12:49:43Z

GNU Parted is a partition table editor.
<http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/>

While most of the changes since parted-1.9.0 were to make it support disks
with larger-than-512-byte sectors, there have been a few bug fixes, too.
The former changes are big enough that we're calling this a beta release.
However, personally I am more comfortable using this version than 1.9.0
because along with >512-sector-size support came improvements in
robustness, increased test coverage, and almost certainly some bug
fixes that are not itemized in NEWS.

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.0
or run this command from a git-cloned parted directory:
git shortlog v1.9.0..v2.0

To summarize the gnulib-related changes, run these commands
From a git-cloned parted directory:
git checkout v1.9.0
git submodule summary v2.0

Here are the compressed sources:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-2.0.tar.gz (2.7MB)
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-2.0.tar.xz (1.3MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-2.0.tar.gz.sig
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-2.0.tar.xz.sig

[*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First,
be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
Then, run a command like this:

gpg --verify parted-2.0.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys B9AB9A16

and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.64.57-af6c
Automake 1.11a
Gnulib v0.0-2697-g6f6420c

NEWS

* Noteworthy changes in release 2.0 (2009-10-06) [beta]

** Improvements

Parted now supports disks with sector size larger than 512 bytes.
Before this release, Parted could operate only on disks with a sector
size of 512 bytes. However, disk manufacturers are already making disks
with an exposed hardware sector size of 4096 bytes. Prior versions of
Parted cannot even read a partition table on such a device, not to
mention create or manipulate existing partition tables.
Due to internal design and time constraints, the following
less-common partition table types are currently disabled:
amiga, bsd, aix, pc98
"bsd" and "amiga" are mostly done, but had a few minor problems,
so may remain disabled until someone requests that they be revived.

** Bug fixes

big-endian systems can once again read GPT partition tables
[bug introduced in parted-1.9.0]

ped_partition_is_busy no longer calls libparted's exception handler,
since doing so caused trouble with anaconda/pyparted when operating on
dmraid devices.

Partitions in a GPT table are no longer assigned the "microsoft
reserved partition" type. Before this change, each partition would
be listed with a type of "msftres" by default.

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coreutils-8.0 released [beta]

2009-10-06T05:12:38Z

This is to announce coreutils-8.0.
We're calling this a beta release partly because rm has been
rewritten (now it uses gnulib's fts for its hierarchy traversal),
and partly because there have been so many changes in the
gnulib infrastructure involving file-system primitives.

Thanks to everyone who has been helping, especially Eric Blake,
Pádraig Brady and Ondřej Vašík.

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v8.0
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git shortlog v7.6..v8.0

To summarize the gnulib-related changes, run these commands
From a git-cloned coreutils directory:
git checkout v8.0
git submodule summary v7.6

Here are the compressed sources:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.0.tar.gz (9.8MB)
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.0.tar.xz (4.1MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.0.tar.gz.sig
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.0.tar.xz.sig

[*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First,
be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
Then, run a command like this:

gpg --verify coreutils-8.0.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys B9AB9A16

and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.64.57-af6c
Automake 1.11a
Gnulib v0.0-2697-g6f6420c
Bison 2.4.1.146-17a40

NEWS

* Noteworthy changes in release 8.0 (2009-10-06) [beta]

** Bug fixes

cp --preserve=xattr and --archive now preserve extended attributes even
when the source file doesn't have write access.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.1]

touch -t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] now accepts a timestamp string ending in .60,
to accommodate leap seconds.
[the bug dates back to the initial implementation]

ls --color now reverts to the color of a base file type consistently
when the color of a more specific type is disabled.
[bug introduced in coreutils-5.90]

ls -LR exits with status 2, not 0, when it encounters a cycle

ls -is is now consistent with ls -lis in ignoring values returned
from a failed stat/lstat. For example ls -Lis now prints "?", not "0",
for the inode number and allocated size of a dereferenced dangling symlink.

tail --follow --pid now avoids a race condition where data written
just before the process dies might not have been output by tail.
Also, tail no longer delays at all when the specified pid is not live.
[The race was introduced in coreutils-7.5,
and the unnecessary delay was present since textutils-1.22o]

** Portability

On Solaris 9, many commands would mistakenly treat file/ the same as
file. Now, even on such a system, path resolution obeys the POSIX
rules that a trailing slash ensures that the preceeding name is a
directory or a symlink to a directory.

** Changes in behavior

id no longer prints SELinux " context=..." when the POSIXLY_CORRECT
environment variable is set.

readlink -f now ignores a trailing slash when deciding if the
last component (possibly via a dangling symlink) can be created,
since mkdir will succeed in that case.

** New features

ln now accepts the options --logical (-L) and --physical (-P),
added by POSIX 2008. The default behavior is -P on systems like
GNU/Linux where link(2) creates hard links to symlinks, and -L on
BSD systems where link(2) follows symlinks.

stat: without -f, a command-line argument of "-" now means standard input.
With --file-system (-f), an argument of "-" is now rejected.
If you really must operate on a file named "-", specify it as
"./-" or use "--" to separate options from arguments.

** Improvements

rm: rewrite to use gnulib's fts
This makes rm -rf significantly faster (400-500%) in some pathological
cases, and slightly slower (20%) in at least one pathological case.

rm -r deletes deep hierarchies more efficiently. Before, execution time
was quadratic in the depth of the hierarchy, now it is merely linear.
However, this improvement is not as pronounced as might be expected for
very deep trees, because prior to this change, for any relative name
length longer than 8KiB, rm -r would sacrifice official conformance to
avoid the disproportionate quadratic performance penalty. Leading to
another improvement:

rm -r is now slightly more standards-conformant when operating on
write-protected files with relative names longer than 8KiB.

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Bazaar 2.0.0 released

2009-10-05T23:53:24Z

The Bazaar version control system development team is happy to announce
availability of bzr 2.0.0. It is now available for download from
<http://bazaar-vcs.org/>, including binary packages for popular platforms.

This release of Bazaar makes the 2a format introduced in bzr 1.16
the default when new branches or repositories are created. This format
is substantially smaller and faster for most operations. Most of the
work in this release focuses on bug fixes and stabilization, covering
both 2a and previous formats. See the Upgrade Guide for information on
migrating existing projects to 2a.

Bazaar 2.0 will be supported with api and format compatible bugfix-only
2.0.x releases for at least the next six months. In parallel with this we
will make stable monthly beta releases with new features and larger
changes.

Bazaar's key benefits include:

* Flexibility to work either in either a centralized or distributed
fashion.

* Quick branching and excellent automatic merging of changes, including
renames of files and directories.

* Portability across all commonly used OS platforms, with integrated
installers available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

* Compact storage of history.

* Foreign branch interfaces allowing interoperation with Subversion, git
and Mercurial.

* A Python extension interface with over 100 plugins available.

* ... and more, see http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrFeatures

Bazaar is free software (GNU GPL 2+), a part of the GNU project, and
supported by Canonical Ltd.

A list of changes since 1.18.1 is attached, but some highlights are worth
including in the main announcement:

* This release also improves the documentation content and presentation,
including adding PDF and Windows HtmlHelp versions.

* The keywords plugin can now expand keywords on files changed by the
commit.

* Clearer message when Bazaar runs out of memory, instead of a MemoryError
traceback.

* 'bzr branch --switch' can now switch the checkout in the current
directory to the newly created branch.

* 'bzr branch' of 2a repositories over HTTP is much faster. bzr now
batches together small fetches from 2a repositories, rather than
fetching only a few hundred bytes at a time.

* 'bzr shelve' and 'bzr unshelve' now work on windows.

-- Martin, for the bzr team

bzr 2.0.0
#########

:2.0.0: 2009-09-22
:Codename: Instant Karma

This release of Bazaar makes the 2a (previously 'brisbane-core') format
the default when new branches or repositories are created. This format is
substantially smaller and faster for many operations. Most of the work in
this release focuses on bug fixes and stabilization, covering both 2a and
previous formats. (See the Upgrade Guide for information on migrating
existing projects.)

This release also improves the documentation content and presentation,
including adding Windows HtmlHelp manuals.

The Bazaar team decided that 2.0 will be a long-term supported release,
with bugfix-only 2.0.x releases based on it, continuing for at least six
months or until the following stable release.

Changes from 2.0.0rc2 to final
******************************

* Officially branded as 2.0.0 rather than 2.0 to clarify between things
that "want to happen on the 2.0.x stable series" versus things that want
to "land in 2.0.0". (Changes how bzrlib._format_version_tuple() handles
micro = 0.) (John Arbash Meinel)

bzr 2.0.0rc2
############

:2.0.0rc2: 2009-09-10

New Features
************

* Added post_commit hook for mutable trees. This allows the keywords
plugin to expand keywords on files changed by the commit.
(Ian Clatworthy, #408841)

Bug Fixes
*********

* Bazaar's native protocol code now correctly handles EINTR, which most
noticeably occurs if you break in to the debugger while connected to a
bzr+ssh server. You can now can continue from the debugger (by typing
'c') and the process continues. However, note that pressing C-\ in the
shell may still kill the SSH process, which is bug 162509, so you must
sent a signal to the bzr process specifically, for example by typing
``kill -QUIT PID`` in another shell. (Martin Pool, #341535)

* ``bzr check`` in pack-0.92, 1.6 and 1.9 format repositories will no
longer report incorrect errors about ``Missing inventory ('TREE_ROOT', ...)``
(Robert Collins, #416732)

* ``bzr info -v`` on a 2a format still claimed that it was a "Development
format" (John Arbash Meinel, #424392)

* ``bzr log stacked-branch`` shows the full log including
revisions that are in the fallback repository. (Regressed in 2.0rc1).
(John Arbash Meinel, #419241)

* Clearer message when Bazaar runs out of memory, instead of a ``MemoryError``
traceback. (Martin Pool, #109115)

* Conversion to 2a will create a single pack for all the new revisions (as
long as it ran without interruption). This improves both ``bzr upgrade``
and ``bzr pull`` or ``bzr merge`` from local branches in older formats.
The autopack logic that occurs every 100 revisions during local
conversions was not returning that pack's identifier, which resulted in
the partial packs created during the conversion not being consolidated
at the end of the conversion process. (Robert Collins, #423818)

* Fetches from 2a to 2a are now again requested in 'groupcompress' order.
Groups that are seen as 'underutilized' will be repacked on-the-fly.
This means that when the source is fully packed, there is minimal
overhead during the fetch, but if the source is poorly packed the result
is a fairly well packed repository (not as good as 'bzr pack' but
good-enough.) (Robert Collins, John Arbash Meinel, #402652)

* Fix a potential segmentation fault when doing 'log' of a branch that had
ghosts in its mainline. (Evaluating None as a tuple is bad.)
(John Arbash Meinel, #419241)

* Fix a segmentation fault when computing the ``merge_sort`` of a graph
that has a ghost in the mainline ancestry.
(John Arbash Meinel, #419241)

* ``groupcompress`` sort order is now more stable, rather than relying on
``topo_sort`` ordering. The implementation is now
``KnownGraph.gc_sort``. (John Arbash Meinel)

* Local data conversion will generate correct deltas. This is a critical
bugfix vs 2.0rc1, and all 2.0rc1 users should upgrade to 2.0rc2 before
converting repositories. (Robert Collins, #422849)

* Network streams now decode adjacent records of the same type into a
single stream, reducing layering churn. (Robert Collins)

* Prevent some kinds of incomplete data from being committed to a 2a
repository, such as revisions without inventories, a missing chk_bytes
record for an inventory, or a missing text referenced by an inventory.
(Andrew Bennetts, #423506, #406687)

Documentation
*************

* Fix assertion error about "_remember_remote_is_before" when pushing to
older smart servers.
(Andrew Bennetts, #418931)

* Help on hooks no longer says 'Not deprecated' for hooks that are
currently supported. (Ian Clatworthy, #422415)

* PDF and CHM (Windows HtmlHelp) formats are now supported for the
user documentation. The HTML documentation is better broken up into
topics. (Ian Clatworthy)

* The developer and foreign language documents are now separated
out so that searching in the HTML and CHM files produces more
useful results. (Ian Clatworthy)

* The main table of contents now provides links to the new Migration Docs
and Plugins Guide. (Ian Clatworthy)

bzr 2.0.0rc1
############

:Codename: no worries
:2.0.0rc1: 2009-08-26

Compatibility Breaks
********************

* The default format for bzr is now ``2a``. This format brings many
significant performance and size improvements. bzr can pull from
any existing repository into a ``2a`` one, but can only transfer
from ``2a`` into ``rich-root`` repositories. The Upgrade guide
has more information about this change. (Robert Collins)

* On Windows auto-detection of Putty's plink.exe is disabled.
Default SSH client for Windows is paramiko. User still can force
usage of plink if explicitly set environment variable BZR_SSH=plink.
(#414743, Alexander Belchenko)

New Features
************

* ``bzr branch --switch`` can now switch the checkout in the current directory
to the newly created branch. (Lukáš Lalinský)

Bug Fixes
*********

* Fetches were being requested in 'groupcompress' order, but weren't
recombining the groups. Thus they would 'fragment' to get the correct
order, but not 'recombine' to actually benefit from it. Until we get
recombining to work, switching to 'unordered' fetches avoids the
fragmentation. (John Arbash Meinel, #402645)

* Fix a pycurl related test failure on karmic by recognizing an error
raised by newer versions of pycurl.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #306264)

* Fix a test failure on karmic by making a locale test more robust.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #413514)

* Fix IndexError printing CannotBindAddress errors.
(Martin Pool, #286871)

* Fix "Revision ... not present" errors when upgrading stacked branches,
or when doing fetches from a stacked source to a stacked target.
(Andrew Bennetts, #399140)

* ``bzr branch`` of 2a repositories over HTTP is much faster. bzr now
batches together small fetches from 2a repositories, rather than
fetching only a few hundred bytes at a time.
(Andrew Bennetts, #402657)

Improvements
************

* A better description of the platform is shown in crash tracebacks, ``bzr
--version`` and ``bzr selftest``.
(Martin Pool, #409137)

* bzr can now (again) capture crash data through the apport library,
so that a single human-readable file can be attached to bug reports.
This can be disabled by using ``-Dno_apport`` on the command line, or by
putting ``no_apport`` into the ``debug_flags`` section of
``bazaar.conf``.
(Martin Pool, Robert Collins, #389328)

* ``bzr push`` locally on windows will no longer give a locking error with
dirstate based formats. (Robert Collins)

* ``bzr shelve`` and ``bzr unshelve`` now work on windows.
(Robert Collins, #305006)

* Commit of specific files no longer prevents using the the iter_changes
codepath. On 2a repositories, commit of specific files should now be as
fast, or slightly faster, than a full commit. (Robert Collins)

* The internal core code that handles specific file operations like
``bzr st FILENAME`` or ``bzr commit FILENAME`` has been changed to
include the parent directories if they have altered, and when a
directory stops being a directory its children are always included. This
fixes a number of causes for ``InconsistentDelta`` errors, and permits
faster commit of specific paths. (Robert Collins, #347649)

Documentation
*************

* New developer documentation for content filtering.
(Martin Pool)

API Changes
***********

* ``bzrlib.shelf_ui`` has had the ``from_args`` convenience methods of its
classes changed to manage lock lifetime of the trees they open in a way
consistent with reader-exclusive locks. (Robert Collins, #305006)

Internals
*********

Testing
*******

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New stable release: GNU Solfege 3.14.8

2009-10-02T14:24:35Z

==================
GNU Solfege 3.14.8
==================
Solfege is free music education software. Use it to train your rhythm,
interval, scale and chord skills. It is free software and runs on
GNU/Linux, MacOS X, MS Windows 2000 and newer and possibly other
operating systems with the required tools. It should run wherever you can
run Python 2.4, Gtk+ 2.12, PyGtk 2.12.

Web: http://www.solfege.org
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1465
Mirror: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/solfege
Bug tracker: http://bugs.solfege.org

3.14.8 September 29, 2009
* Simplified Chinese translations for by Fan Rui and Ji ZhengYu
* Mark a few more strings and the music theory pages for translation.
* Add harmonics to the csound exercises. Contributed by Tarmo Johannes
* Some build fixes: handle missing swig and lilypond better
* Translation updates.
* Remove more debug print statements that I believe causes "bad
filedescriptor" errors

--
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GNU Solfege - free ear training http://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/

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gzip-1.3.13 released [major]

2009-10-02T01:24:58Z

There have been a few minor bug fixes as well as
many build infrastructure updates.

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gzip.git;a=shortlog;h=v1.3.13
or run this command from a git-cloned gzip directory:
git shortlog v1.3.12..v1.3.13

Here are the compressed sources:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.13.tar.gz (796 KB)
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.13.tar.xz (536 KB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.13.tar.gz.sig
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.13.tar.xz.sig

If the above links are not valid, use the following links instead.
As I write this, I am unable to upload to ftp.gnu.org.

http://meyering.net/gzip/gzip-1.3.13.tar.gz 796 KB
http://meyering.net/gzip/gzip-1.3.13.tar.xz 536 KB
http://meyering.net/gzip/gzip-1.3.13.tar.gz.sig
http://meyering.net/gzip/gzip-1.3.13.tar.xz.sig

Eventually, the following links will become valid.
------------------------------------------------------------

[*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First,
be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
Then, run a command like this:

gpg --verify gzip-1.3.13.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys B9AB9A16

and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.64.55-fb33-dirty
Automake 1.11a
Gnulib v0.0-2657-ge21985a

NEWS

* Noteworthy changes in release 1.3.13 (2009-09-30) [stable]

** Bug fixes

gzip -d no longer fails with "-" as 2nd or subsequent argument

gzip no longer ignores a close-induced write failure, e.g., on NFS

gzip -d no longer segfaults on certain invalid inputs

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