Engine Updates

Cyclone 4.4 (UCI)
there is also a 'toy' version for changing parameter variations
- fixes 2 small issues - (book & egbb)
http://www.cyclonechess.com/cyclone.htm

Delphil 2.3 (UCI)
- Fixed a bug in the parallel search
http://delphil.perso.neuf.fr/

Rodin 2.3a (WB)
silent update, version number unchanged
http://rodin.chess.googlepages.com/

Jim Ablett Win builds
- Chesley 271 JA (WB) for Win32/x64
http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Down chess websites
Averno site down for 37 days
BabyChess site down today
Brainless site down for 2 days
Pierre site down for 70 days

Chess News

SCID 4.0
the latest version for Linux and Windows
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid

Polyglot 1.4.42b
Michel Van den Bergh's Linux and Windows builds based on Fonzy Bluemers modification
of Fabien Letouzey's Polyglot with original work and bugfixes
- SaveSettingsOnExit/SaveFile renamed as Persist/PersistFile.
- Many bug fixes in the persistence feature.
- The PG_<myname>.ini file now contains only options that have been changed. So the
resulting ini files are much smaller. This makes this version of PG usable on WB 4.3.15
as now the engine specific ini file will be empty (the user has no way to change options).
PolyGlot now saves its options in a file whose name is given by the option SaveFile
which by default is equal to the engine name, prefixex by PG_ and suffixed by ".ini".
http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algebra/Toga/polyglot-release/

Horizon Programmer's Page
- updated Free C/C++ Compilers section: revamped all MinGW/GCC links
- updated Free Editors and IDEs section: added CodeLite and medit
http://www.horizonchess.com/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Programming

Wiki Changes

FACE Tournament
- more updates and changes
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:tournaments:face

Bonus Notifications (free stuff)

Opera 10.0
yesterday's release candidate is today's new version of the open source standards-compliant browser
http://www.opera.com/

Audacity 1.3.9 Beta
popular open source sound editor/recorder
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/