Engine Updates

Portfish 2012 may 11 (UCI)
C# source; mp; requires .NET or Mono framework
"Portfish is the .Net port of Stockfish, functionally equal to Stockfish 2012 may 1, commit 2f47844c7c"
- assumption: Junior sends promotions according to the side to move (ucase/lcase)
- fact: Stockfish generally handles promotion lcase
- patch: handling position fen input moves always with lcase promotions
https://github.com/bpfliegel/Portfish
https://github.com/downloads/bpfliegel/Portfish/PortfishLatestRelease.zip (direct link)

Supra 11.3 (UCI)
Win32
- increased the reliability of the vertical filter
- increase of the speed of deep memory processes
http://suprachesssystem.com/ (English)
http://www.suprachesssytem.com/ (Portugese)

Chess News
Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Chad's Chess homepage down for 12 days (provider has discontinued free website hosting)
ChessMind homepage down for 8 days ("Server not found")
Dann Corbit homepage down for 319 days
Surprise homepage down for 4 days (server is misconfigured)

Wiki Changes
Nothing new today

Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Warnings:
- do not install unwanted toolbars, etc.
- alpha releases have new features; crashes and bugs are to be expected
- beta releases have new features; they may contain bugs or crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare

Aptana Studio 3.1.2
web software development in an IDE supporting HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP and Python
w/ code assist, built-in debugging, Git intergration, built-in ftp, and more
http://www.aptana.com/

Calibre 0.8.51
cross-platform open source ebook manager for all popular ebook readers with format conversion,
news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer
http://calibre-ebook.com/

Git 1.7.10.2
free, open source distributed version control system
http://git-scm.com/

Glary Utilities 2.45.0.1481
free; cleanup, repair, optimize and enhance your privacy & security, etc.
http://www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html

JSDuck 3.10.1
open source JavaScript documentation generator
- yesterday's announcement was premature; today the executable is available
https://github.com/nene/jsduck

µTorrent 3.1.3 stable (build 27213)
very popular and fast open source BitTorrent client
http://www.utorrent.com/ (homepage)
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=115600 (3.1.3 forum thread)

Wise Registry Cleaner 7.21
free registry cleaner; cleans incorrect or obsolete registry information
http://www.wisecleaner.com/download.html

Notepad++ site has been hacked

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