Engine Updates

Jim Ablett Win/Linux builds
OliThink 5.3.1 JA (WB)
C source; Win32/64, Linux32/64, Android
- silent update: added support for more Winboard commands, engine unchanged
http://jimablett.net63.net/

Rodent 0.12 (UCI)
C source; Win32/64; based on Sungorus code
- Win32 version only
- some restructuring
- smarter time management (probably the most helpful modification)
- LMR code tweaked and simplified, history restriction enabled
- first draft of weakening code (may be enabled by #defines)
- loose pieces of endgame knowledge
http://www.koziol.home.pl/rodent.htm

Note: Yesterday's Octochess release requires 64bit x86 CPU with POPCNT instruction

Chess News

Arasan Test Suite 14 draft
a very good epd test suite (175 positions)
- this is a *beta* release
http://www.arasanchess.org/arasan14.epd (direct link)

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- new TXT utility: txtTruncate - removes the columns beyond a user-specified max/min column number
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Dann Corbit homepage down for 247 days
Michel Van den Bergh site down for 2 days (not found)

Wiki Changes
Nothing new today

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

Cobian Backup 11.0.0.405
free multithreaded Win32/64 backup; supports ftp upload/download, compression, encryption, backup of locked files
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

Drupal 6.25
open source PHP-based content management platform for easy website creation
- this is an update to an older version
http://drupal.org/home

HWINFO32/HWINFO64 3.93-1530
free system hardware information tool for Windows, system health monitoring, and benchmarks
http://www.hwinfo.com/ (homepage)
http://www.hwinfo.com/download32.html (download 32-bit)
http://www.hwinfo.com/download64.html (download 64-bit)

JSDuck 3.7.0
open source JavaScript documentation generator
https://github.com/nene/jsduck

MariaDB 5.3.5 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
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-versus-mysql-features (extra features)
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-535-release-notes (release notes)
http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.3.5/ (download)

NetBeans IDE 7.1.1
open source cross-platform IDE primarily for Java-based programming languages;
(includes Java, Groovy, Clojure, Scala, C/C++, PHP, JavaFX, JavaScript, etc.)
supports normal syntax highlighting, code completion, namespace completion, etc.
all languages have debuggers, profilers and unit testing plus support for collaborative programming
http://netbeans.org/ (homepage)
http://netbeans.org/community/releases/71/ (new features info)

Meaning of Colors

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

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