Engine Updates

Shutranj ??? (UCI)
new source-code-only engine by Okash Khawaja
C# source
- no builds yet
- version number is unspecified in the source code
- discovered by Silvian (Ruxy)
http://github.com/bytefire/Shutranj/

Chess News

Nothing new today

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

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 3.4.2
web software development in an IDE supporting HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP and Python
w/ code assist, built-in debugging, Git integration, built-in ftp, and more
- yesterday's updated version number was a mistake made by the Aptana people
http://www.aptana.com/

Auslogics Disk Defrag 4.4.2.0
free, extremely fast and effective Windows disk defragmentation & optimization program; recommended
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag

Auslogics Registry Cleaner 3.4.2.0
free Windows registry optimizer/cleaner; recommended
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/registry-cleaner/

Foxit Reader 6.1.2.1224
free Windows pdf viewer; faster render than Adobe, less bloat
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

ICQ 8.2.6893
audio/video/text chat w/ connectivity to Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc for desktop & mobile
http://www.icq.com/en

MariaDB 10.0.7 Beta
open source fork of MySQL; completely compatible w/MySQL; w/extra db engines & extra features
"MariaDB is a binary drop-in replacement for MySQL"
MariaDB restores several significant features that Oracle has dropped from MySQL
- I don't usually list beta databases, but this one is interesting due to the inclusion of multi-source replication
- "do not use beta releases on production systems"
- use mainstream 5.x version for production MySQL-compatible databases
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-100 (What is MariaDB 10.0?)
http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.7/ (MariaDB 10.0.7 page)

Process Hacker 2.33
open source; examine & manipulate running Windows processes & services
http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/

TThrottle 7.30
free Windows laptop utility to keep CPU/GPU temperature down by throtttling performance
http://www.efmer.eu/boinc/

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Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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