Engine Updates

Capivara LK 0.09b02f (UCI)
Win32/64; TSCP derivative; requires MSVC runtime
http://vivaxadrez.wikispaces.com/Capivara

Lozza 1.10 (UCI)
new engine by Colin Jenkins
JavaScript source
- engine requires using jsUCI program (by Edmund Moshammer), available separately
http://op12no2.me/toys/lozza/lozza.js (source code)
http://op12no2.me/posts/1818 (UCI stand-alone instructions)

Phalanx XXIII (WB)
C source; Win32; older versions available for Linux32, Mac64, Android
- Xboard protocol version 2 compatibility, including the periodic updates feature
- new -n commandline option to limit nodes per second
- new -z commandline option to randomize root moves within a given centipawns margin
- easy levels now don't play instantly, but use time
- bugfixes
- "it should be a bit stronger"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phalanx/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phalanx/files/ (downloads)

Chess News

Chess Meister for iOS
new GUI + peaBrain engine by John Roland Penner (pChess)
- no download link given, but probably available at the AppStore
http://home.earthlink.net/~johnrpenner/index-chess.html

Stockfish 2.12.0 for iOS
the mobile version of Stockfish has been updated
- this is a bugfix release
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stockfish-chess/id305558605?mt=8

WinBoard/XBoard Chess GUI 4.8.0a (WB/UCI)
http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xboard.git;a=snapshot;h=refs/heads/master;sf=tgz (direct link for source)
http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.8.0/index.html (new features)
http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.8.0.exe (direct link for Windows exe)

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Wiki Page 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

Auslogics Registry Cleaner 7.4.0.0
free Windows registry optimizer/cleaner
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/registry-cleaner/

Debian 7.7.0
independent Linux distro; supports almost all desktops; #3 in popularity
http://www.debian.org/

Feng Office 2.7.1.4
free web-based open source collaboration platform
management of: project tasks, billing, documents, communication, scheduling, electronic information, etc.
- only the 'Community Edition' is free
http://www.fengoffice.com/web/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengoo/files/fengoffice/ (download)

FileZilla Client 3.9.0.6
open source cross-platform ftp client; recommended
http://filezilla-project.org/
https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1 (downloads)

Nimrod 0.9.6
cross-platform, statically typed, imperative/object-oriented, compiled programming language
with overloaded functions/operators, iterators, exceptions, generics, closures, templates, macros
GC support for multi-core programming
- syntax resembles Python or Ruby
- runtime efficiency of C
- single inheritance only
- can use type inference to deduce types
http://nimrod-code.org/index.html

PeaZip 5.5.0
open source cross-platform file and archive manager; available as portable app also
- create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, ZIP
- extract 150+ archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, etc.
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip/files/5.5.0/ (5.5.0 downloads)

PyPy3 2.4.0(Python)
cross-platform, open source Python implementation; choose JIT (default), no JIT, stackless, or sandboxed;
also available: back ends for .NET and Java (see: 'Features' page);
other languages that run in the JIT: Prolog (incomplete), Smalltalk, JavaScript, Io, Scheme and Gameboy
for Win32, Linux 32/64, Mac64, & ARM
- syntax-compatible with Python 2.7.8 (PyPy) or 3.2.5 (PyPy3)
- "6.53 times faster than CPython (improvement from 6.29 times faster for previous version)
http://pypy.org/ (homepage)

SumatraPDF 3.0
free, open-source minimalistic PDF/mobi/chm/djvu/cbr reader for Windows; it is a portable app
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html

System Explorer 5.9.5
free; detailed info about Windows tasks, processes, modules, startups, IE addons, uninstallers, windows,
services, drivers, connections and opened files; graph/monitor usage of system resources in real-time
http://www.systemexplorer.net/

UltraDefrag 6.0.3
UltraDefrag 7.0.0, Beta 2
open source defrag program for Windows
http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

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