Engine Updates

NOTE: Deep Saros no longer has its own individual listing; it
is now lumped in with the rest of the Ippolit derivatives

Chess News

ChessGUI 0.219 (WB/UCI)
chess GUI / tournament manager by Matthias Gemuh; there is a separate download for a portable version
http://www.chessgui.com/
http://w2410tmq9.homepage.t-online.de/

Norm Pollock site
PGN & EPD Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- Updated: GrandS - pgn database
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

BabyChess homepage down for 4 days (404: page not found)
Bearded homepage down for 62 days
Frenzee homepage down for 237 days (purposely down until new engine release)
Sorgenkind homepage down for 103 days
Typhoon homepage down for 29 days (no response in 60 seconds)
Usurper homepage down for 102 days (no response in 60 seconds)
EdlChess homepage back up

Wiki Changes

Chess Engine List
- Deep Saros individual entry removed
- Deep Saros added to the (long) list of Ippolit derivatives
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:chess_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

CodeLite 2.10.0.4778
excellent open source cross-platform IDE for all C/C++ compilers; recommended
Features: syntax highlighting for many languages, plugins, version control, code completion, function call tips, more
http://codelite.org/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/codelite/files/ (download)

eMule Plus 1.2e
open source file-sharing
- 'Plus' version has improved GUI
http://www.emule-project.net/

Groovy 1.8 RC 4
open source jvm dynamic scripting language; it appears to be a superset of the Java language
- Groovy 1.8: this is a *release candidate*
http://groovy.codehaus.org/ (homepage)
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10242&version=17245 (1.8 RC 4 release notes)

OpenOffice 3.4 Beta 1
open source word processing, database, spreadsheet, chart, math formula editor, etc
it seems that Oracle wants to develop this program into a commercial product with enhanced features
although the development community is under advisement from Oracle to quit, it has ignored this advice
the development community has protected itself by forking the project as LibreOffice
- this is a *beta* release
http://download.openoffice.org/ (homepage)
http://download.openoffice.org/all_beta.html (beta page)

Secunia PSI 2.0
free; detects vulnerable and out-dated programs and plug-ins which expose your PC to attacks
- this is a silent update, the version number is unchanged
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/

SQLite 3.7.6.1
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- a quick bugfix update for yesterday's release
- fixes a single bug in 3.7.6 that can cause a segfault
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)

Meaning of Colors

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

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