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Ziproxy is a forwarding (non-caching) proxy that gzips text and HTML files, and reduces the size of images by converting them to lower quality JPEGs. It is intended to increase the speed for low-speed Internet connections and it's suitable for both home and professional usage. Ziproxy is fully configurable and also features transparent proxy mode, preemptive name resolution, operation in either daemon mode or (x)inetd mode, a detailed access log with compression statistics, basic authentication, and more. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
Support was added for exempting specific URLs from compression. Man pages were added. The routines for basic proxy authentication were rewritten and are now faster. Miscellaneous code reorganizations and cleanups were undertaken.

Pyhoo is a script that converts Yahoo IM logs in .dat files into plain text.

Tcpreplay is a set of Unix tools which allows the editing and replaying of captured network traffic in pcap (tcpdump) format. It can be used to test a variety of passive and inline network devices, including IPS's, UTM's, routers, firewalls, and NIDS. License: BSD License (original) Changes:
This release fixes an issue where the program crashed when --enable-tcpreplay-edit is specified.

EDB (Evan's Debugger) is a QT4 based binary mode debugger with the goal of having usability on par with OllyDbg. It uses a plugin architecture, so adding new features can be done with ease. The current release is for Linux, but future releases will target more platforms. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
Numerous bugs were fixed. The ability to attach from the command line was added. Some new plugins were added. Portability and instruction analysis were improved. The Checkversion plugin can now optionally auto-check on startup. A function analysis plugin was added. Heap analysis was improved for modern libc/ld libraries.

Memory Structures Library (MemSL) is a complete data structures/collection classes library with memory tracing, memory debugging, entry/exit tracing, exception handling, definable memory handlers, built-in thread support, and much more. It supports single, double, and circular linked lists, AVL balanced and threaded binary trees, dynamic hashing tables, stacks, queues and dequeues (using arrays or linked lists), sets (Pascal implementation, with union, difference, intersection, etc.), bags, tables and dictionaries, priority heaps, priority search queue, and more. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
Documentation in PDF format was added.

OpenVRML is a VRML and X3D browser plug-in and C++ toolkit for incorporating VRML support into applications. OpenVRML provides VRML97 and Classic VRML X3D parsers, a runtime, and an OpenGL renderer as C++ libraries. The renderer is fully separate from the runtime library so that users can also provide their own renderer. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes:
A crash in initialization of the XEmbed control was fixed. A bug in the Mozilla plug-in that prevented external resources from loading was also fixed.

Ropeide is a Python refactoring IDE that uses the rope library to provide features like refactoring and code assistance. It uses the Tkinter library. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This release adds support for the codeassist_maxfixes configuration setting, the global_ option in extract refactorings, and the only_current option in inline refactoring.

Poet (Prototype Object Extension for Tcl) is an OOP extension for Tcl/Tk featuring prototype-based inheritance, constraints, and persistence. It includes Poetics (Poet Integrated Construction Set), a set of tools for end-user inspection and modification of a running Poet application. The current Poetics tools are an object browser and a syntax-highlighting code editor. Poet is available wrapped as a starkit that can be used to load Poet into Tcl or standalone to demo and install Poet. License: BSD License (revised) Changes:
This release has been updated for Tcl/Tk 8.5.0, including the assimilation of Ttk widgets. Poet has now been compiled for the Mac (OS X, Tcl 8.5 only) and Poet.kit is now a combined Windows/Mac/Linux kit. Numerous bugs were fixed, including one in the C code, so even 8.4 users should upgrade. Two screen-capture videos are now available on the Web site, one presenting Poet and one presenting Poetics.

Ropemacs uses the rope refactoring library to provide features like Python refactoring and code-assists in emacs. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This release adds features like showing change descriptions in undo/redo, rope-find-file-other-window, a ropemacs-enable-shortcuts variable, and XEmacs support.

Rope is a Python refactoring library. It can be used in other IDEs to provide features like refactoring and coding assistance. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This release adds features like restructuring arguments, checking isinstance in restructurings, better handling of one-liners, and choosing which files to apply a restructuring on.

Daylight Chart shows sunrise and sunset times in an attractive chart for any location in the world. The effect of daylight savings time is also displayed. Charts can be exported to image files. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
A new "slim" mode shows the main user interface in an advanced mode. The location dialog now allows you to change the time zone.

Arachnida is an embeddable Web server. It uses the OpenSSL library and consists of a small framework for networking that allows you to asynchronously accept and handle connections using a "new connection handler" to handle new connections and a "data handler" to handle incoming data. This makes it possible to add support for any TCP/IP based protocol by just adding a handler. A test suite is included. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
This is a bugfix release. The most important visible change is in the Request structure, which now contains a weak_ptr to the connection rather than a reference. Using a reference caused a possible race condition if the client closed the connection before the server had the time to send a response but after it has decided to send one.

WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time of busy IT staff. WebGUI comes with a full host of features including shopping cart, subscriptions, forums, photo galleries, FAQs, link lists, blogs, SQL reports, a Web services interface, and a very configurable user privilege and profiling system. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This release fixes a few minor bugs.

XPTracker is a radical alternative agile planning tool aimed at keeping out of your way and making sure you can see the stuff you care about at a glance.

4D-TRIS is an alteration of the well-known Tetris game. The game field is extended to a 4D field, which has to filled up by the gamer with 4D hyper cubes. The software is written in C with OpenGL and GLUT.