Engine Updates

Onno 1-1-1 (UCI)
"Updates can now be found at the download page"
downloads require username/password (registered users only)
http://www.onnochess.com/download.html

Protector 1.2.7 (UCI)
another revision to the source code today (rev. 53)
- changed Readme.txt file from:
" In short it's kinda Bitboard-based TogaII with many small improvements."
to:
"Protector was written from scratch as a bitboard-based program in ANSI-C. It
incorporates many ideas from Crafty, Fruit and Toga -- but in many aspects it
is different from any of these programs (for this reason it will not be
possible to copy code from Protector to Toga, for example)."
http://sourceforge.net/projects/protector/ (project site)

Cyclone
'toy' version renamed to 'xTreme', but new link points to older version
http://www.cyclonechess.com/cyclone.htm

Down chess websites
Averno site down for 38 days
BabyChess site down for 2 days
Pierre site down for 71 days
Spin Chess (unreleased) site down today
Brainless site back up after being down for 2 days

Chess News

Horizon Programmer's Page
added new 'Free Web Hosting for Open Source Programmers' section
- added SourceForge
- added LaunchPad
- added Google Code
- added BitBucket
- added BerliOS
- added CodePlex
- added Novell Hosting
- added Tigris
updated 'Free Open Source SQL databases' section:
- removed EnterpriseDB (not free anymore)
- added HSQLDB (Java database)
updated 'Utilities and Tools for Chess:'
- added Michel Van den Bergh's version of Polyglot
http://www.horizonchess.com/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Programming

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
- added BabyChess
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

Mac Engine List
- added Protector
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:macintosh_engine_list

Linux Engine List
- added Protector
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:linux_engine_list

Bonus Notifications (free stuff)

OpenOffice 3.1.1
popular open source word processor
- lots of improvements and bugfixes
http://www.openoffice.org/