Update Information: January 13, 2015 (Updates)
Engine Updates
Jukebox Dev 1 (UCI)
another engine from José M Velasco (Bouquet)
- engine is based on Bouquet, which is based on Ippolit
http://www.mediafire.com/?xo4yngta5xb2wdg (direct link)
Lozza 1.13 (UCI)
JavaScript source; Win64
- silent update, version unchanged
- improved Win64 build of 1.13 engine
http://op12no2.me/toys/lozza/lozza13.zip (1.13 Win64)
Sayuri 2015.01.12 (UCI)
C++ source (Japanese comments); mp (up to 64 cores); Win64, Linux64
- intended for clang compiler using cmake
http://github.com/MetalPhaeton/sayuri/releases (source + builds)
Chess News
Chess for Android 5.0.1 Chess GUI (WB/UCI)
Aart Bik's free GUI + chess engine for Android
- lots of bugfixes
http://aartbik.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html (homepage and download)
Droidfish 1.56 for Android
port of Stockfish to Android platform + chess GUI
- support for Android 5 and 64-bit CPUs
- preserve case of UCI option names in the setoption command
http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/droidfish/index.html
Chess Programming Blogs
MadChess blog: http://www.madchess.net/post/madchess-2-0-beta-build-44
Wiki Page Changes
updates by Norbert Raimund Leisner
Chess Logos List
- Norbert Raimund Leisner Chess Logos: updated count
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_logos_list
GUI Protocol List
- ExaChess: added long comment
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list
Macintosh Engine List
- GNU Chess (JM) [presumably this refers to the GNUchess6 engine]: dropped a link, added a link
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:macintosh_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
Calibre 2.16.0
cross-platform open source ebook manager supporting all popular ebook readers
with format conversion, news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer
http://calibre-ebook.com/
Data Crow 4.0.12
free, open source media manager/cataloger for movies, books, music, software, chess, etc.
http://www.datacrow.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/datacrow/ (project page)
DragonFly BSD 4.0.2
a cutting-edge distribution based on FreeBSD 4, enhanced with a high performance
HAMMER journaling filesystem; virtual kernels that are inherently deadlock-free;
desktops: Awesome, Fluxbox, JWM, KDE, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce; #60 in popularity
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ (homepage)
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/ (unique features)
http://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/iso-images/ (iso download)
Feng Office 3.0.2
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)
FileZilla Client 3.10.0.1
open source cross-platform ftp client; recommended
http://filezilla-project.org/
https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1 (downloads)
Firefox 35.0
popular, free, open source browser
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)
ID3 Renamer 7.2.4
free utility to bulk-rename music files
http://www.id3renamer.com
IKVM.NET 8.0, RC 1
open source Java VM for Mono/.NET; enables Java code/libraries to be called by Mono/.NET languages, or develop Mono/.NET apps in Java
- this is the version compatible with Java 8
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.ikvm.net/ (homepage)
http://weblog.ikvm.net/ (announcement + download)
Notepad++ 6.7.4
open source programmer's text editor (Windows only)
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
Vala 0.26.2 Stable
Vala 0.27.1 Beta
object-oriented system programming language that runs at the speed of C
Vala syntax resembles C# and Genie syntax resembles Python
the common language compiler outputs OO C code using the GObject library
not yet at version 1.0, but some large apps are written in Vala/Genie
http://live.gnome.org/Vala (Vala info)
http://live.gnome.org/Genie (Genie info)
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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