Engine Updates

BagaturChess 1.3 (UCI)
Java source; mp
- SMP version is finally enabled and now works as expected. Your feedback is welcome, especially if you run it on more than 2 physical CPUs.
- fixed new bug which appears in rare cases and cause the engine to exit with error
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bagaturchess/

Chess News

Chess Engines for Android
- removed: PosForAndroid
- added: DeepPosForAndroid
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/eng.html

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Dann Corbit homepage down for 375 days
DeepDuke homepage down for 4 days (SourceForge project page is okay)
GreKo homepage down today (no response in 60 seconds)
Igor Gorelikov Tools homepage down for 4 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

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2012.2195
Free anti-virus, anti-spyware program with excellent protection for Win32/64
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-afh.line-2012

Ext JS 4.1.1 GPL
free version of the open source cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich internet applications
http://www.sencha.com/ (homepage)
http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/ (info)
http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/download/ (download)

FrostWire 5.3.8
open source, cross-platform Java-based BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) client
http://www.frostwire.com/

MinGW (32-bit) Distro 9.2
open source distribution for Windows, by Stephan T Lavavej
- update to Boost 1.50.0
http://nuwen.net/mingw.html

MySQL Community Server 5.5.25a
free (Community Server Edition only!), cross-platform, very popular open source SQL database
- fixes a regression bug in the optimizer
- the Windows msi installer misidentifies this as version 5.5.26
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ (download)
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-25a.html (changelog)

PHP 5.4.5 RC 1
PHP 5.3.15 RC 1
PHP is a very popular open source scripting language; it is mostly used for web applications
- these are *release candidates*
http://php.net/ (homepage)

Pidgin 2.10.5
open source chat program; works with almost all chat networks
http://www.pidgin.im/ (homepage)
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog (changelog)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/files/ (download)

Meaning of Colors

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

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