Update Information: January 7, 2014 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Nothing new today
Chess News
Winboard 4.7.3 Chess GUI (WB/UCI)
open source Chess GUI maintained and improved by HG Muller
- bugfix release
http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.7.3/index.html (changelog)
http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=51528 (WinBoard)
http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.7.3.exe (WinBoard direct link)
Winboard 4.8, Beta 1 Chess GUI (WB/UCI)
open source Chess GUI maintained and improved by HG Muller
- this is a *beta* release of the bare exe file (not an installer)
http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.8.beta.zip (direct link)
Chess Programming Blogs
Nothing new today
Wiki Changes
GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- Chess Hero: added a link and a comment, made a correction
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list
Engine GUI List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added Numbit
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:engine_gui_list
Native Engine List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- removed Numbit
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:native_engine_list
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
Clang 3.4
a compiler front end for C, C++, Objective-C and Objective-C++; uses LLVM as its back end
- for C/C++, the code speed is as good, or better, than GCC!
- see: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=llvm34_gcc49_compilers&num=1
http://clang.llvm.org/
Feng Office 2.5
free web-based open source collaboration platform
management of: project tasks, billing, documents, communication, scheduling, electronic information, etc.
- only the 'Community Edition' is free
http://www.fengoffice.com/web/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengoo/files/fengoffice/ (download)
GPartEd Live 0.17.0-4 Stable
open source Gnome Partition Editor - resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)
Jenkins 1.547
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/
LLVM 3.4
compiler back-end for compile-time, link-time, run-time, and "idle-time" optimization of programs written in arbitrary programming languages
http://llvm.org/
phpMyAdmin 4.1.4
web admin to view/change MySQL/MariaDB databases; interactive commandline SQL; import/export, etc.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php
Trillian 5.4.0.15
open source instant messaging program
http://www.trillian.im/
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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