Engine Updates

Arasan 14.2b (WB/UCI)
C++ source; own GUI, mp; Win32/64, Linux, Mac, Android; uses Gaviota ebtbs
- bugfix for sporadic hang behavior when using own GUI
- engine not changed
http://www.arasanchess.org/

Chess News

Nothing new today

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Akiba homepage down for 16 days
ChestUCI homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 362 days
Polish engine list homepage down for 16 days
Sting SF homepage down today
Toledo Nanochess homepage down today (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

AM-DeadLink 4.5
free; detects dead and duplicate links in your browser bookmarks; supports all major browsers
http://aignes.com/deadlink.htm

Aptana Studio 3.2 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
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.aptana.com/

Calibre 0.8.57
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/

Flash Player 11.3.300.262
free cross-platform flash video player
http://www.adobe.com/

LibreOffice 3.6.0 Testing
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
- this is a *testing* (beta) release
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)

MariaDB 5.5.25 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-5525-release-notes (release notes)

Password Safe 3.29
open source password database utility; a single key unlocks all passwords
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/ (project)
http://pwsafe.org/ (homepage)

µTorrent 3.2 RC 5 (27480)
very popular and fast open source BitTorrent client
- this is a *release candidate*
http://www.utorrent.com/ (homepage)
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=115806 (3.2 forum thread)

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Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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