Engine Updates

Abulafia 0.63 (UCI)
Haskell source
- available as Haskell source code only (no builds)
https://github.com/nionita/Abulafia

Capivara opening book
- new opening book
http://vivaxadrez.wikispaces.com/capivara

DiscoCheck 4.3 (UCI)
C source; Win64, Linux64
- "Based on my estimations, it should be around 2800"
https://github.com/lucasart/chess (code repository)
http://open-chess.org/download/file.php?id=538&sid=2dca673b6fcbef3e4d3811911e9b4f78 (direct link)

Kitteneitor 0.22.0 (WB)
C source
- available as C source code only
https://github.com/emdio/kitteneitor/

Trappy Beowulf github repository has been deleted

Ziggurat 0.21 (UCI)
Win64; requires a SSE4 CPU (fast popcount type) to run
- announced, but download link not working yet
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze16nq0r/index.html

Chess News

ChessZone Magazine
free monthly chess magazine of annotated GM games
- #06, 2013 (June issue)
http://www.chesszone.org/magazine/magazine.html

Chess Engines for Android in Chessbase format
Aart Bik's collection of engines that run on commercial Chessbase Android Chess GUI
- version 1.0.4 of engines package is available
http://www.aartbik.com/MISC/android.html

Gperft 1.02
- silent update, version number unchanged
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bxoogxwkbncxd68/gperft.zip (direct link)

Down/Problem Chess Websites

Bestia homepage down for 7 days (a 110mb.com site)
Darky homepage down today (not found)
Fianchetto homepage down for 7 days (502: bad gateway)
Lyapko Utilities homepage down for 7 days (a 110mb.com site)
Wing homepage down for 72 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

Adblock Plus 2.3 for Firefox
Adblock Plus 1.5 for Chrome
Adblock Plus 1.5 for Opera
free, open source browser plugin that blocks most web advertisements
http://adblockplus.org/en/

Codelite 5.2.0
excellent open source cross-platform IDE for all C/C++ compilers
features: syntax highlighting for many languages, plugins, version control, code completion,
function call tips, more
http://codelite.org/

Django 1.6, Beta 1
high-level, rapid development Python-based web framework
- this is a *beta* release
https://www.djangoproject.com/

MariaDB 10.0.3 Alpha
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
- I don't usually list alpha/beta databases, but this one is interesting due to the inclusion of multi-source replication
- "do not use alpha releases on production systems"
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-100 (What is MariaDB 10.0?)
https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.3/ (MariaDB 10.0.3 page)

Gedit 3.9.3
cross-platform open source text editor for programmers w/ syntax highlighting, remote editing, etc.
- Windows binary not updated, available as source code only
http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/index.html

SystemRescueCd 3.7.1
bootable image for CD or USB stick to rescue data from HD; mount and read data from any disk;
features disk partitioning, LVM management, data copying, remote backup, more
http://www.sysresccd.org/

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Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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