Engine Updates

Arminius 2015-08-06 (WB/UCI)
FRC; mp (up to 16 threads); Win32/64
http://www.nnuss.de/Hermann/Arminius2015-08-06.zip (direct link)

Chenard 2015.08.04 (WB)
C++ source is public domain; uses custom egtbs; Win32/64, Linux; own GUI
http://cosinekitty.com/chenard/

Sayuri 2015.08.05 (UCI)
C++ source (Japanese comments); mp (up to 64 threads); Linux64, Win64
http://github.com/MetalPhaeton/sayuri/releases

Chess News

Hakkapeliitta DC (UCI)
unofficial, experimental Dann Corbit Win64 build adding an eval cache
https://www.dropbox.com/s/726uq107aia3sd9/Hakkapeliitta-master.7z?dl=0 (direct link)

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- added two new PGN databases
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Wiki Page Changes

Engine Download List
- added more WBEC engine downloads
http://www.computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:download:engine_download_list

updated pages by Norbert Raimund Leisner:

GUI Protocol List
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:gui_protocol_support_list

Mobile Chess List
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:mobile_chess_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

Ares Galaxy 2.3.1
open source BitTorrent and chat client w/ built-in multi-media player
http://aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aresgalaxy/files/aresgalaxy/ (download)

CentOS 6.7
Linux distro based on Red Hat Enterprise; choice of GNOME or KDE desktop; #7 in popularity
http://www.centos.org/

CodeLite 8.2.0
free, open source, cross-platform IDE for C/C++, PHP, JavaScript & Node.js
features: syntax highlighting for many languages, plugins, version control, code completion,
function call tips, more
- called 'lite' because of usage of SQLite database, IDE is *not* lacking features
http://codelite.org/

Firefox 39.0.3
popular, free, open source browser
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

Google Chrome 44.0.2403.130
popular cross-platform web browser
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/?

IrfanView 4.40
free image viewer/scanner/printer/converter for Windows with some paint/editing options & many plugins
http://www.irfanview.com/

Komodo Edit 9.2.0
free cross-platform programmer's editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads

LibreOffice 5.0.0
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)

Linux Kernel 4.1.4
- the Linux kernel has been updated
http://www.kernel.org/

Manjaro 0.8.13.1
Arch-based, rolling-release distro; desktops: Openbox, Cinnamon, KDE, MATE, Xfce; #8 in popularity
http://manjaro.org/

MariaDB 10.0.21 Stable
MariaDB 5.5.45 Stable
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
- gaining popularity from MySQL, a work-alike competitor with fewer features
- 5.x version stays in sync with MySQL 5.x; version 10 is an improved version of it
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-versus-mysql-features (extra features vs MySQL)
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-100 (What is MariaDB 10?)
http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.20/ (MariaDB 10.0.21 page)

Meld 3.14.0
open-source visual file/folder difference and merge program for Win, Linux & Mac
- compare files, directories, and version controlled projects
- two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories
- edit files in-place and on-the-fly
- source code syntax highlighting
- built-in regex text filtering to ignore uninteresting differences
http://meldmerge.org/

.NET Framework 4.6
Microsoft .NET framework has been updated
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42643 (web installer)
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42642 (offline installer)

Notepad++ 6.8.1
open source programmer's editor (Windows only)
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Opera 31
somwhat popular web browser
http://www.opera.com/ (homepage)
http://www.opera.com/browser/download/ (download)

PHP 5.6.12
PHP 5.5.28
PHP 5.4.44
PHP is a very popular and practical general-purpose open source scripting language; it is primarily used for web applications
- bufix and security fixes only for older versions
- latest version is PHP 5.6.12
http://php.net/

Q4OS 1.2.7.3
Linux distro based on Debian (Stable); Trinity desktop; #24 in popularity
http://q4os.org/

Simplicity 15.7
Puppy-based Linux distro; KDE & LXDE desktops; #18 in popularity
- this is a good distro for old, slow machines
http://simplicitylinux.org/

Subversion 1.9.0
open source, cross-platform centralized version control system
http://subversion.apache.org/

TortoiseSVN 1.8.12
Win32/64 Subversion (version control system) client
http://tortoisesvn.net/

Ubuntu 14.04.3
Debian-based Linux distro; Unity desktop; #3 in popularity
- this is an update to the LTS version
- Lubuntu (Ubuntu with LXDE desktop); #15 in popularity
- Xubuntu (Ubuntu with XFCE desktop); #25 in popularity
- Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE desktop); #34 in popularity
- Ubuntu GNOME (Ubuntu with GNOME desktop); #51 in popularity
- Ubuntu Studio (Ubuntu with Xfce desktop and audio/visual/multimedia extras); #57 in popularity
http://ubuntustudio.org/ (Ubuntu Studio)
http://ubuntugnome.org/ (Ubuntu GNOME)
http://www.kubuntu.org/ (Kubuntu)
http://www.xubuntu.org/ (Xubuntu)
http://lubuntu.net/ (Lubuntu)
http://www.ubuntu.com/ (Ubuntu)

WordPress 4.2.4
free, popular, open source website/blog creation using PHP & MySQL w/ many plugins & themes
http://wordpress.org/

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Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only

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