Engine Updates

Nothing new today

Chess News

XBoard Alpha News
HG Muller is adding new features to Winboard
- new section: 'Fischer castling in any variant'
http://hgm.nubati.net/news.html

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Wiki Changes

GUI Protocol List
update by Norbert Raimund Leisner
- added a .NET section
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

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 2014.4335
free anti-virus, anti-spyware program with excellent protection for Win32/64
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-afh.line-2014

Chakra GNU/Linux 2014.02
independent rolling-release distro (originally forked from Arch); KDE desktop; #45 in popularity
http://chakra-linux.org/

Dropbox 2.6.7
free, cross-platform online backup, file sync, and cloud-based file sharing
- 2 GB of space for free
http://www.dropbox.com/

Firefox 27.0
popular, free, open source browser
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

Lcc for Win32/64
small, simple, fast open source C compiler & development tools; Windows-hosted with cross compiling facilities
free for non-commercial use
- version number is unknown
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/README (changes)
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/ (website + downloads)

Thunderbird 24.3.0
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)

VLC 2.1.3
open source, cross-platform multimedia player (audio/video); recommended
http://www.videolan.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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