Engine Updates

OBender 4.x.2 (WB)
C source; own GUI
- this is a source-code-only release
http://serg-nifont.narod.ru/src.html

Mephisto's Rebel 5.0, MM4 and MM5 (UCI)
Ed Schröder has 2 'dino' versions
- the download link doesn't work, but maybe Ed will fix it
http://www.top-5000.nl/mephisto.htm

Chess News

AlienBoard GUI 1.1 (WB)
new free GUI for chess, variants, and more
Android GUI for playing chess, variants, checkers, Go, Reversi, and more
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daniel.alienboard

LittleBlitzer 2.73 (UCI)
Windows tournament manager program for UCI chess engines at fast time controls by Nathan Thom
- forced all moves output to lower case to handle engines that output upper case moves and engines that cannot handle them as input
http://kimiensoftware.com/littlethought/littleblitzer.php

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- PGN database: added gm1931.pgn (games between top human players 1931-1980)
- PGN database: added gm1834.pgn (games between top human players 1834-1930)
- EPD database: namechange "posInX.epd" replaces "openInX.epd"
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Armageddon homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Chad's Chess homepage down for 26 days (provider has discontinued free website hosting)
ChessMind homepage down for 22 days ("Server not found")
Dann Corbit homepage down for 333 days
GreKo homepage down for 2 days (a 110mb.com site)

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

Aptana Studio 3.1.3 RC 1
web software development in an IDE supporting HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP and Python
w/ code assist, built-in debugging, Git intergration, built-in ftp, and more
http://www.aptana.com/

Autoruns 11.31
displays programs configured to run during system bootup or login, & the Windows processing order of these programs
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx

Calibre 0.8.53
cross-platform open source ebook manager for all popular ebook readers with format conversion,
news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer
http://calibre-ebook.com/

Eclipse 4.2 RC 2
Eclipse 3.8 RC 2
open source extensible IDE framework supporting plugins for almost all programming languages
w/ syntax highlighting, intellisense, code completion, templates, version control, more
- these are *release candidates*
http://www.eclipse.org/ (homepage)
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.8RC2-201205251400/ (3.8 RC 2)
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.2RC2-201205242100/ (4.2 RC 2)

Git 1.7.10.3
free, open source distributed version control system
http://git-scm.com/

MonetDB Apr2012 SP1
a heavy-duty, full-featured, open-source database that is not well-known
- this is a *service pack* release (bugfix update)
http://www.monetdb.org/Home (homepage)
http://www.monetdb.org/Downloads/ReleaseNotes (release notes)
http://www.monetdb.org/Downloads/ (download)

Meaning of Colors

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

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