gnoMint is a tool for easily creating and managing certification authorities. It provides fancy visualization of all the pieces of information that pertain to a CA, such as x509 certificates, CSRs, and CRLs. gnoMint is currently capable of managing a CA that emits certificates that are able to authenticate people or machines in VPNs (IPSec or other protocols), secure HTTP communications with SSL/TLS, authenticate and cipher HTTP communications through Web-client certificates, and sign or crypt email messages. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
Multiple CA support. Now, each gnoMint database is able to keep and manage several CAs and their generated certificates (even several self-signed CA certificates). Support for 20-byte serial certificates, according to RFC5280. Support for inherit subject fields from certification authorities, depending on each CA policy. Detailed certificate view. A French translation. A default database, ~/.gnomint/default.gnomint, is opened if no other indication is given. Other bugs have been fixed.

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc.

This driver allows the Linux kernel to use the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) network protocol. Using AoE, a Linux system can use AoE block devices like EtherDrive (R) storage blades. The block devices appear as local device nodes (e.g. /dev/etherd/e0.0). License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
The compatibility system was generalized. Support for the 2.6.26 Linux kernel was added.

CleanHome cleans up a user's home directory by analyzing the hidden configuration files and directories ("dot-files") against a collaboratively maintained database. Its pluggable approach makes it easy to develop various extensions. For example, extensions could provide general information about the investigated file or directory or could process a directory in a very special way. For example, it could clean up the browser cache in .mozilla upon the user's request. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes:
This release adds remote upload and retrieval of SimpleDB entries. This is done via the Google App Engine "chome" project. As a side effect, CleanHome has a Web interface for this database (view and submit). The SVN holds the Google App Engine source as well, as the Perl script file releases will just contain the CleanHome program itself.

FreeVikings reimplements the DOS game Lost Vikings. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
Moving items between directories is now possible both in the traditional way (keyboard; a bit complicated and hard to learn) and using the mouse (simply drag-and-drop). The format of levels has been slightly modified. Some new graphics have been added.

NeoOffice is a project that is developing a native Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org with an Aqua look-and-feel. NeoOffice is under active development and is stable enough for daily use (NeoOffice/C is no longer under development). It provides the foundation upon which the user interface can be redesigned to adhere to the conventions of the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This release fixes several problems related to drawing errors in complex presentations with the recent slideshow speed improvements, including a bug that caused background images to be rendered as black rectangles when exporting to image, a bug where EPS images were not rendered when running slideshows, and an issue where light transparent objects appear dark when running slideshows. The patch also fixes a bug that caused the last character to be clipped when typing in the Calc header dialog and a bug that could allow document-modal dialogs to lose focus.

SMILE (Slideshow Maker In Linux Environment) is a rewrite of Manslide. Its function is to create 3D slideshows.

MojoKid writes "At the Intel Developer Forum, VP and GM of Intel's Software and Solutions group, Renee James, wheeled out a few celebrities of the 3D world, namely Jeffrey Katzenberg of Dreamworks and John Carmack of id Software. According to Katzenberg, film directors Robert Zemeckis, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas are all 'working in 3D now.' Katzenberg specifically showcased the Dreamworks film Kung Fu Panda, which was rendered in 3D, and then spoke of the first 3D, CG animated film they'll be releasing in March '09, titled Monsters vs. Aliens. Then came John Carmack, co-owner and Technical Director of id Software, who ran a demo of their still-in-development, post-apocalyptic game, Rage. Carmack talked briefly about the different ways that the game utilizes threading and multi-core support." A webcast of the full 50+ minute presentation is available at the IDF page. Renee James' presentation is on day two. A full transcript (PDF) is also available.

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Lucas123 writes "After Iran's first attempt to launch a satellite on Sunday fell noticeably short of the Earth's atmosphere (though Iran claimed it made it into orbit), government officials stated they intend to put a man into space within 10 years. The long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into space can also be used for launching weapons. Iran says it has no intention to use the technology for launching nuclear warheads."

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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "US District Judge Jeremy Fogel has ruled that an 'allegation that a copyright owner acted in bad faith by issuing a takedown notice without proper consideration of the fair use doctrine thus is sufficient to state a misrepresentation claim,' which paves the way for a lawsuit against Universal Music over a ridiculous DMCA Takedown notice they filed. One can only hope that this ruling will some day be used against those who file misguided copyright complaints against computer printers. Those lawyers who rely upon buggy infringement detection programs to do their thinking for them — programs which are incapable of making subjective considerations like fair use — might want to think again before rubber stamping computer-generated DMCA Takedown notices."

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deco is a command-line program that, together with the deco-archive package, allows you extract dozens of popular archive file formats. It has a consistent interface ("deco 1.tar.bz2 2.rar 3.zip 4.flac 5.deb") and consistent behavior (never deleting archives after extraction and extracting relative to the current working directory, just verbosely enough, all unless explicitly requested otherwise). It creates an extraction directory if there is more than one file or directory at the archive top level, and it is able to fix strange permissions. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
The default archive extractor wrappers have been moved to a separate package, deco-archive; from now on, the deco package only includes the core program. A bug was fixed that caused a temporary directory not to be deleted when creating symbolic links in it failed. The code has been improved.

FrontAccounting is a Web-based accounting system for ERP chains. It is multiuser, multilingual, and multicurrency. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
A new company logo. GL summaries in Tax Report. The first registered admin (company 0) now becomes 'Global-Admin' for all company admins. Currency selection in the Price Listing Report. Customer Dimension overrides an Item Dimension when creating GL transactions. Better calculation of price diff during PO receive and PO invoice. Elimination of voiding of dangerous items. Replacement of the PDF engine. Full support for Unicode and right-to-left (utf8bidi).

LaTeX::Table is a Perl module that provides functionality for an intuitive generation of LaTeX tables for reports or theses. It ships with some predefined, good-looking table styles, and supports multipage tables via the xtab package. License: Perl License Changes:
Support for the rotating and tabularx LaTeX packages was added. Some minor bugs have been fixed.

pdfposter can be used to create a large poster by building it from multple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together, thus building the poster. The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size. This is much like poster does for Postscript files, but works with PDF instead, since sometimes poster does not like your files converted from PDF. Indeed, pdfposter was inspired by poster. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
This release allows fractions for the width and height of media- and postersize.

ESXX, pronounced Essex, is a Web application server that executes Web applications written in JavaScript (a.k.a. ECMAscript) on the server-side. It's written in Java and has no external dependencies except for J2SE 6.0. Everything else that's required is packaged in one single, executable JAR file, ready to be tested in Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows or any other platform where Java 6 is available. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
Many bugfixes, some new runtime features, and JMX and MXBean (JConsole/VisualVM) and RHEL/CentOS 4.x support.

AgileWiki is meant to create software systems which are fluid, easily configured and can be reorganized on-the-fly to meet ever changing requirements. It includes a COW-based database, the Rolonics programming paradigm, and semantic inferencing. License: Common Public License Changes:
New up and destroy commands. The sleep command now demonstrates an asynchronous response. A thread pool is now used in place of dedicated threads. The command API now includes the path name of the target. All commands have been rewritten for improved thread safety.

deco-archive is a collection of extractor wrappers for the deco file extraction framework. It provides support for dozens of popular archive formats such as tar, rar, and zip. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
This is the initial release as a separate package of the extractor wrappers previously included in deco. 7za is now used to extract 7z and tar.7z/t7z archives, because 7zr seems not to support password-protected archives. FLAC archives are extracted with the --keep-foreign-metadata option.

QuteCom (formerly WengoPhone) is a multi-platform VoIP client. The GUI is Qt-based, and the Video-over-IP engine is based on the eXosip, oSIP, oRTP, ffmpeg, and libgaim projects. The eXosip module is extended by a phApi module, which implements a high-level, easy-to-use call control API. It supports PC-to-PC voice, video, and chat. One can use a standard SIP service provider such as Wengo to be assigned an incoming number, make calls to PSTN/cell phones, get voice mail, and more. In addition to SIP/SIMPLE QuteCom provides IM functionality using libgaim, so it is compatible with all protocols supported by libgaim.

ga-flamoot is a genetic algorithm in Python for evolving programs that write a given string to an allocated dataspace, using a made-up machine language with only 7 instructions and flow reversal.

X-CD-Roast is a program-package dedicated to easy CD creation under most Unix-platforms. It combines command line tools like "cdrecord", "cdda2wav", and "mkisofs" into a nice graphical user interface. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This is a small update release to merge in all patches received in past years and to be compatible again with the current version of cdrtools.