Engine Updates

Capivara LK0.09xXXx (UCI)
Win32/64; TSCP derivative; requires MSVC runtime
- some recent beta versions that appear to be very strong
http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discussion-board/download/file.php?id=31959 (direct link)

Rodent 1.4 (UCI)
C source; Win32/64, Linux64; limit strength; originally based on Sungorus code; supports Polyglot opening book
- available builds are for Windows only
- opening book also updated
- important bugfix of weak pawn eval
- hidden passers eval
- deleting buggy pruning of pawn captures
- tuned late move pruning
- internal iterative deepening at cut nodes
- a couple of minor optimizations (i.e. reuse null move eval in razoring)
http://www.pkoziol.cal24.pl/rodent/rodent.htm

DeepSaros eXp rev.6 announced, but not released

Chess News

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- new PGN/EPD database: 40H-OpLns - Opening Lines Database
- removed database: engineTest
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Wiki Page Changes

updates by Norbert Raimund Leisner

Engine GUI List
- added Lua4chess
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:engine_gui_list

Links
- added Livius
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:links

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

Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.206
free cross-platform flash video player
- fixes some important security vulnerabilities
- Flash is the most common avenue of infection when computers become compromised
- beware of installing unwanted 3rd party software
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Debian 7.5.0
independent Linux distro; supports almost all desktops; #3 in popularity
http://www.debian.org/

Django 1.6.4
Django 1.5.7
high-level, rapid development, Python-based web framework
- security fixes
https://www.djangoproject.com/

Firefox 29.0
popular, free, open source browser
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

Jenkins 1.562
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

LibreOffice 4.1.6
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
- OpenOffice (Apache), LibreOffice (Document Foundation), and Lotus Symphony (IBM) are essentially the same
- this is a new update for an older version (current version is 4.2.3)
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)

NetBeans IDE 8.0, Patch 1
open source cross-platform IDE used primarily for Java-based programming languages
(supports C/C++, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Java, Groovy, etc.)
supports syntax highlighting, code completion, object browsing, refactoring + more
all languages have debuggers, profilers and unit testing plus support for collaborative programming
http://netbeans.org/
https://netbeans.org/community/news/show/1615.html (release announcement)

OpenOffice 4.1.0
open source word processing, database, spreadsheet, chart, math formula editor, etc
OpenOffice (Apache), LibreOffice (Document Foundation), and Lotus Symphony (IBM) are essentially the same
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1+Release+Notes (release notes)
http://www.openoffice.org/

PDFCreator 1.7.3
free Windows tool to create PDF files from nearly any application
http://www.pdfforge.org/

Speccy 1.26
free Windows system information tool
http://www.piriform.com/speccy (Speccy homepage)
http://www.piriform.com/blog/2014/4/29/speccy-v126 (announcement)

qBittorrent 3.1.9.2
open source cross-platform Bittorrent client
http://www.qbittorrent.org/

Tails 1.0
Debian-based Linux32 distro; GNOME desktop; #38 in popularity
distro has the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user
https://tails.boum.org/

Thunderbird 24.5.0
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)

Zenwalk 7.4
Slackware-based Linux distro; GNOME, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce desktops; #52 in popularity
http://www.zenwalk.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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