Update Information: August 11, 2016 (Updates)

by Ron , Thursday, August 11, 2016, 23:04

Engine Updates

Arasan 19.1 (XB/UCI)
C++ source; own GUI, mp; multiPV; Linux, Mac, Win; can use Nalimov, Gaviota or Syzyzgy egtbs
http://www.arasanchess.org/

ChessPuter rev 7 (UCI)
new engine by Miles Bright
C++ source; Linux, Win
https://github.com/smilesbright/ChessPuter/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-PM8aD2-9I4RDBNWFJpejhqOTg/view?pref=2&pli=1 (direct link)

Hannibal 1.7 (UCI)
mp (up to 512 cores); multi-PV; Win; supports Polyglot books
- "it should be much stronger than 1.5"
http://sites.google.com/site/edapostol/hannibal

HoiChess 0.19 (XB)
C++ source; mp; Linux, Win; variant play
http://www.hoicher.de/hoichess/download/

LittleWing 0.1.0 (XB)
Rust source; Win; requires extra library (inluded with download)
- source-code-only release
https://github.com/vinc/littlewing/releases

Satana 2.4.19.b (XB)
tournament mode; Linux, Mac, Win
http://www.g-sei.org/satana/ (G-Sei)
http://www.linformatica.com/index-scacchi.php (homepage)

TuxedoCat 0.0.1 (XB)
new engine by Nathan McCrina
C++ source; Linux, Win
https://github.com/nfmccrina/tuxedocat (source)
https://github.com/nfmccrina/tuxedocat/releases (download)

Chess News

Chess Game Analyzer 39.6 Beta
chess tool by Ferdinand Mosca
- analyzes all games in a pgn file
- any UCI engine that supports multipv mode and depth, multipv, score cp/mate and time values output in its analysis line can be used by this tool
http://www.mediafire.com/download/oogx47zikabvkb8/chess-GameAnalyzer_v39.6.beta.zip (direct link)

Jerry Chess GUI 3.0.4 (UCI)
cross-platform Chess GUI for UCI, writtern in Python
https://github.com/asdfjkl/jerry (source)
https://github.com/asdfjkl/jerry/releases (download)

Montreux
chess game viewer; requires jvm
http://www.jbfsoftware.com/res/montreux/mr437.zip (direct link)

Sevilla
chess tournament manager
- supports Swiss (rating/Dutch, Buchholtz/SB, Dubov, Lim), Keizer (ranking, TPR and “Sevilla percentage”), Round robin (Berger and Rutsch), and Amsterdam
http://www.jbfsoftware.com/res/sevilla/SevillaSetup1632.exe (direct link)

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Updated Wiki Pages

all updates by Norbert Raimund Leisner

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Links
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Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)

Advisory:

- 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

NOTE: I had an argument with Microsoft. I thought I owned my computer, they thought they did. Microsoft won by cheating: they clobbered my sys admin settings. Microsoft won the battle, but lost the war. If I can't trust a company to do an update, how can I trust it at all? All future updates of Windows-only software will no longer be listed here.

Atom 1.9.8
https://github.com/atom/atom/releases
open source web-based programming editor/IDE runs as a desktop app
- lots of plugins and extensions, and language bindings
https://atom.io/

Austrumi 3.4.5
Linux distro based on Slackware; FVWM desktop; #68 in popularity
- OS & all applications run in RAM, making it fast
http://cyti.latgola.lv/ruuni/

Eclipse 4.7M1
open source extensible IDE framework supporting plugins for almost all programming languages
w/ syntax highlighting, intellisense, code completion, templates, version control, more
http://www.eclipse.org/ (homepage)

FileZilla Server 0.9.58
open source, cross-platform ftp server
- most people do not require the server, just the client
http://filezilla-project.org/

ImageMagick 7.0.2-7
cross-platform, open-source program to manipulate images
- create, edit, compose, or convert images files (200+ formats)
- bmp, png, jpg, gif, tiff, svg, etc.
- resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform
- adjust image, apply special effects,
- draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses & Bézier curves
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

Jenkins 2.17
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

MariaDB 5.5.51 Stable
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
- gaining popularity from MySQL, a work-alike competitor with fewer features
- 5.x version stays in sync with MySQL 5.x; version 10 is an improved version of it
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-versus-mysql-features (extra features vs MySQL)
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-100 (What is MariaDB 10?)

PostgreSQL 9.5.4
open source SQL database for high performance and high availability applications
- due to security fixes: "All users should update their PostgreSQL installation at the next opportunity"
- security update, bug fixes & improvements
http://www.postgresql.org/ (homepage)
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1669/ (announcement)

PyPy
cross-platform, open source Python implementation; choose JIT (default), no JIT, stackless, or sandboxed;
also available: back ends for .NET and Java (see: 'Features' page);
other languages that run in the JIT: Prolog (incomplete), Smalltalk, JavaScript, Io, Scheme and Gameboy
for Win32, Linux 32/64, Mac64, & ARM
- new NumPyPy library added
- caveat: "this version is still a work-in-progress: many things do not work and those that do may not be any faster than NumPy on CPython"
- syntax-compatible with Python 2.7.10 (PyPy) or 3.2.5 (PyPy3)
- "7.56 times faster than Python 2.7.2 (previous version was 7.57 times faster); see:
http://speed.pypy.org/ (speed benchmarks)
http://pypy.org/ (homepage)

SQLite 3.14.0
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- "this is a regularly schedule maintenance release"
- lots of changes/improvements, see changelog
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)
http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_14_0.html (changelog)

Ubuntu 14.04.5
Debian-based Linux distro; Unity desktop; #3 in popularity
- this is an update to the LTS version
- Lubuntu (Ubuntu with LXDE desktop); #19 in popularity
- Xubuntu (Ubuntu with XFCE desktop); #26 in popularity
- Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE desktop); #34 in popularity
- Ubuntu GNOME (Ubuntu with GNOME desktop); #45 in popularity
- Ubuntu Studio (Ubuntu with Xfce desktop and audio/visual/multimedia extras); #51 in popularity
http://ubuntustudio.org/ (Ubuntu Studio)
http://ubuntugnome.org/ (Ubuntu GNOME)
http://www.kubuntu.org/ (Kubuntu)
http://www.xubuntu.org/ (Xubuntu)
http://lubuntu.net/ (Lubuntu)
http://www.ubuntu.com/ (Ubuntu)

Univention 4.1-3
Linux distro based on Debian (Stable); KDE desktop; #77 in popularity
- this is an enterprise server distribution
https://www.univention.com/

Vivaldi 1.3.551
newer cross-platform web browser with advanced features built atop Chromium source code
https://vivaldi.com/

Vuze 5.7.3.0
open source Java-based BitTorrent client formerly known as Azureus
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php

Wine 1.9.16 Development
a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems
such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD
https://www.winehq.org/ (homepage)
https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.9.16 (announcement)

Meaning of Colors

Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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