Debian: The Debian project is pleased to announce the first update of its stable distribution Debian 7 (codename wheezy).

The Spread Toolkit provides tools for developing reliable and robust distributed applications ranging from collaboration tools to fault-tolerant database servers to replicated Web servers. It consists of a daemon which provides multicast messaging, reliability, ordering, and membership services, and a library which applications link with. Spread provides a simple API for writing group applications and is designed to provide high performance for local and wide area networking applications.

Release Notes: This release focuses on performance and some bugfixes. It improves the speed of memberships and scalability of the C library locking. It defaults to using Unix domain sockets on the same host connections for improved throughput and allows membership and flow control parameters to be configured at run time.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor bugfixes

Tags: Clustering/Distributed Networks, Networking, Software Development, Internet

Licenses: BSD Original

JStock is stock market software for 26 countries. It provides a stock watchlist, an intraday stock price snapshot, a stock indicator editor, a stock indicator scanner, and portfolio management. Free SMS/email alerts are supported.

Release Notes: This release supports JStock Android full integration and adds eight bugfixes.

Tags: Financial, Investment, Java

Licenses: GPLv2

SeedDMS is a powerful, easy to use document management system forked from and fully compatible with LetoDMS. Many years of development has made it a mature and enterprise-ready plattform for sharing and storing documents.

Release Notes: Translation updates, a new bootstrap version, and many bugfixes.

Tags: document, management, system, Workflow

Licenses: GNU General Public License (GPL)

 The VAR Guy: It's been a big week for solid-state device (SSD) storage and the channel.

eZ Publish is a content management system and development framework. As a content management system (CMS), its most notable feature is its revolutionary, fully customizable, and extendable content model. This is also what makes it suitable as a platform for general Web development. Its stand-alone libraries can be used for cross-platform, database independent PHP projects. eZ Publish is also well suited for news publishing, e-commerce (B2B and B2C), portals, and corporate Web sites, intranets, and extranets. eZ Publish is dual licenced between GPL and the eZ Publish professional licence.

Release Notes: This release adds 19 bugfixes for registered issues, 39 pull request merges, and three enhancements.

Tags: Internet, Web, Dynamic Content, Site Management, Other/Nonlisted Topic, CGI Tools/Libraries

Licenses: GPL

 FOSSforce: I don't really care what they find about me, but I just don't think they have the right to do that

PyQt is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit.

Release Notes: This major release supports Qt v5.

Tags: Software Development, Widget Sets

Licenses: GPL

TeXstudio is a fully featured LaTeX editor. It is designed to make writing LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible. It features an integrated PDF viewer with (almost) word-level synchronization, live inline preview, advanced syntax highlighting, and live checking of references, citations, LaTeX commands, spelling, and grammar.

Release Notes: This release improves various different aspects of TeXstudio. For example, all icons were converted to SVG and support Mac retina displays, the align columns command can be used to align other environments than tables, the dictionary for spell checking can be set on file level with magic comments, folded lines are stored in the session config, the cursor movement can be set to visual for rtl-languages and lrm-characters can be automatically inserted, the template management is more customizable, pweave files are syntax highlighted, scrolling is animated, and more.

Release Tags: Major

Tags: Editor, LaTeX

Licenses: GPL

DBeaver is a universal database manager and SQL Client. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, MSSQL, Sybase, Mimer, HSQLDB, SQLite, Derby, and any database that has a JDBC driver. It is a GUI program that allows you to view the structure of a database, execute SQL queries and scripts, browse and export table data, handle BLOB/CLOB values, modify database meta objects, etc. It has a native UI (provided by the Eclipse SWT library), great performance, and relatively low memory consumption.

Release Notes: The connection properties UI has been completely rewritten and improved. A DB2 for z/OS driver has been added. The binary (LOB) editor has been improved, and Hex and Base64 formats added. There are many backend and UI fixes.

Release Tags: Major

Tags: Database, SQL, Frontend, MySQL, Oracle, postgresql, DB2, ERD, SQLite, Informix, MSSQL, WMI

Licenses: GPL

i18nspector is a tool for checking translation templates (POT), message catalogues (PO), and compiled message catalogues (MO) files for common problems. These files are used by the GNU gettext translation functions and tools in many different development environments.

Release Notes: This release improves detection of field duplicates and stray lines in the header field.

Licenses: MIT/X

Ametys is a powerful Web CMS used by many institutions of higher education and government, but also industries and SMEs. It is known for its ergonomic design which promotes ease of use, its social Web functionality, and the ability to manage a large number of users. It makes content publishing accessible for the non-programmer and provides an easy editorial interface very similar to Microsoft Office applications.

Release Notes: The multisite features have been significantly enhanced. This release includes common resources, content sharing features, user accounts, a new plugin for YouTube Playlists, new content rendering, and more.

Tags: CMS, Web, Content Management, Site Management

Licenses: Apache 2.0

Aspose.Email for Java is a Java component for reading and writing Microsoft Outlook MSG files without using Outlook. It can create and update MSG files, and retrieve properties such as subject, body, recipients, attachments, sender information, MAPI properties. It can be used with Web or desktop applications.

Release Notes: Microsoft Outlook offers the ability to create contact distribution lists in a PST. This feature was lagging in the Aspose.Email API until this month’s release; creating and reading distribution lists in PST is now supported. Users can access contact distribution lists from the contacts folder with a check on the message class, which should be IPM.DistList. This release also includes a number of bugfixes related to message conversion to various formats, retrieving and converting messages from a PST file, and encoding issues with different email messages.

Release Tags: Create Contact Distribution Lists, access email distribution lists, read distribution lists in PST, create distribution lists in PST, Better MSG TO EML Conversion, email to MHTML Conversion, retrieve contacts from a PST file

Tags: Outlook Message files

Licenses: Proprietary

SIP is a tool to generate C++ interface code for Python. It is similar to SWIG, but uses a different interface format. It was used to build PyQt and PyKDE, and has support for the Qt signal/slot mechanism.

Release Notes: This is a minor functional release and is required by PyQt v5.

Tags: Software Development, Code Generators

Licenses: Python

QScintilla is a port of the Scintilla C++ editor class to the Qt GUI toolkit.

Release Notes: This minor release adds support for PyQt v5.

Tags: Text Editors, Software Development, Widget Sets, Libraries, Python Modules

Licenses: GPL

 The Power Base: We talk with SpaceX developer Ryan Lester about the past, present, and future, of his GPLv3 licensed music service Peer.fm.

Soffid IAM offers a complete and integrated solution for controlling access to enterprise applications. It provides you with everything you need to obtain accurate information about who uses your systems, manage the whole user provisioning lifecycle, and bring users an enhanced experience by removing the need to enter credentials every time they access your business applications. It provides a single point of audit and control for assessing data security regulatory compliance.

Release Notes: Shared accounts improvements. Allows enterprises to manage their high privileged accounts. Self service portal improvements. Managed systems accounting audit. Audit log improvements. Support for Oracle as a database backend, as well as MS SQL Server and MySQL. Now a user can have more than one personal account per managed system. Performance improvements to the synchronization server. Many bugfixes.

Release Tags: v1.2, shared accounts, privilege accounts, Audit, support

Tags: identity management, Security, Access, Tool, Enterprise, Single Sign-On

Licenses: GPLv3

The Arcavias TYPO3 extension enables shop owners to seamlessly integrate the Arcavias e-commerce system into the TYPO3 content management system. This combines the best of both worlds, the thousands of extensions available for TYPO3 and the speed and flexibility of Arcavias.

Release Notes: Using the TYPO3 frontend layouts for the quick search and order update pages requested per AJAX/tfrom other servers didn't worked as expected in some environments. Therefore, the former typeNum-based system is used again in combination with an improved RealURL configuration.

Release Tags: Minor, bugfix, TYPO3

Tags: TYPO3, e-commerce, shop, High Performance

Licenses: GPL

Bareos (Backup Archiving REcovery Open Sourced) is a fork of the backup project from bacula.org. It has been in development since late 2010, and has many new features.

Release Notes: This is a bugfix release after the first stable release. It fixes some bugs and adds some small new features.

Release Tags: second stable release

Tags: Archiving, backup

Licenses: AGPLv3

XOWA is a desktop application that can read and edit English Wikipedia offline. It displays articles in an HTML browser, and can download images on demand. It can also be used for Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiquote, and the non-English counterparts.

Release Notes: This release adds sqlite database storage (commandline only). It includes a redesigned import page, as well as other minor changes.

Release Tags: Minor

Tags: Wikipedia, Wiki-like, java applications

Licenses: AGPLv3