Engine Updates

Capa Chess 1.0.1 (UCI)
new engine by Enrico Benedetti
Java source; available as a cross-platform jar installer
- this is a chess GUI supporting XB/UCI protocols + simple chess engine
http://capa.sourceforge.net/

Fairy-Max 5.0b (XB)
multi-PV; Win32; variants
- bugfix release
http://hgm.nubati.net/Fairy-Max.zip (direct link)

Rodent II (UCI)
C source; Win32/64; limit strength; originally based on Sungorus code; supports Polyglot opening book
- "the gain over version 1.7 is really modest, something like 25 Elo"
http://www.pkoziol.cal24.pl/rodent/rodent_download.htm

Satana 2.2.17 (XB)
Win32/64
- "about 1580 Elo"
http://www.linformatica.com/index-scacchi.php

Sayuri 2016.02.11 (UCI)
C++ source (Japanese comments); mp (up to 64 threads); Linux64, Mac, Win
http://github.com/MetalPhaeton/sayuri

Sting SF 6.1 (UCI)
C++ source; Win32/64; requires extra dlls (not included); Stockfish derivative
http://www.mediafire.com/download/adlswm5m8joaaah/sting-sf-61.zip (direct link)

Tucano 6.00 (XB)
C source; Win32/64
- "should be about 35 Elo points stronger than previous version 5.00"
https://sites.google.com/site/tucanochess/home

Chess News

Capa Chess GUI 1.0.1 (XB/UCI)
new chess GUI by Enrico Benedetti
Java source; available as a cross-platform jar installer
- this is a chess GUI supporting XB/UCI protocols + simple chess engine
- no relationship to old Capachess engine (TSCP clone)
http://capa.sourceforge.net/

FACE tournament
- Edition 15, Division 1: first block results
http://computer-chess.org/forum/index.php?mode=thread&id=3096#p3101

Kvetka 3.26.1 Chess GUI (UCI)
designed for game viewing and analysis; several plug-ins available; available in a portable version
- "several bugfixes and updated the default chess engine to Stockfish 7"
http://kvetka.org/en/

Norm Pollock site
PGN, EPD & TXT Utility Suites and Opening Book PGN Databases
- modified all PGN programs concerning input of "UTF-8" encoded files
- modified tagExtract, tagInsert, tagFix
- new TXT program; txtChar
- modified TXT program; txtNoBlank
http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Ordo 1.1.0
calculates relative ratings based on game results
https://github.com/michiguel/Ordo/releases

Penguin 12.1 (UCI)
Penguin is a PGN viewer/reader/editor and GUI with a limited functionality UCI interface
"Penguin can interface with UCI engines and suggest best moves for game positions"
http://www.dashstofsk.net/penguin.html

Chess Programming Blogs

Arasan blog: http://arasanchess.org/blog.shtml
iCE blog: http://macechess.blogspot.de/2016/02/chess-engine-parameter-tuning.html

Updated Wiki Pages

updates by Norbert Raimund Leisner

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

Variants Engine List
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:variants_engine_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

NOTE: I had an argument with Microsoft. They thought they owned my computer, I thought I did. Microsoft won by cheating, they clobbered my sys admin settings. All future updates of Windows-only software will no longer be listed here.

AdBlock 2.50
Google Chrome extension to block ads, thereby preventing malware infections
- not related to AdBlocck Plus
http://www.getadblock.com/

Adblock Plus 1.10.2 for Safari
free, open source browser plugin that blocks most web advertisements
- not related to AdBlocck
http://adblockplus.org/en/

Amanda Network Backup 3.3.9
open source, cross-platform admin tool for network backup
http://www.amanda.org/

Antergos 2016.02.19
Arch-based Linux distro; GNOME, Cinnamon, Razor-qt & Xfce desktops; #26 in popularity
- this is a monthly snapshot of a rolling-release distro
http://www.antergos.com/

antiX 15.1
based on Debian (testing), desktops: Fluxbox, IceWM; #21 in popularity
http://antix.mepis.com/

Calibre 2.51.0
cross-platform open source ebook manager supporting all popular ebook readers
with format conversion, news feeds, and integrated e-book viewer
http://calibre-ebook.com/

Cassandra 3.3
free, popular, open source, distributed NoSQL database; uses wide column store model
http://cassandra.apache.org/download/

Clonezilla Live 2.4.5-23 Stable
open source system image backup/restore (Live) or multicast new system images (SE)
http://clonezilla.org/

DragonFly BSD 4.4.2
a cutting-edge distribution based on FreeBSD 4, enhanced with a high performance
HAMMER journaling filesystem; virtual kernels that are inherently deadlock-free;
desktops: Awesome, Fluxbox, JWM, KDE, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce; #66 in popularity
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ (homepage)
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/ (unique features)
http://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/iso-images/ (iso download)

Filezilla Client 3.15.0.2
open source cross-platform ftp client; recommended
http://filezilla-project.org/
https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1 (downloads)

Ghostery 5.4.11
free browser addon; alerts you about web bugs, ad networks and tracking widgets on every web page you visit;
"See who's tracking your web browsing and block them"
http://www.ghostery.com/download

Go Programming Language 1.6
statically-typed, compiled, simple C-like language with type inference and more
http://golang.org/

Google Chrome 48.0.2564.116
popular cross-platform web browser
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/?

Gosu 1.12.1
a Java-like programming language for the jvm featuring: OO, closures, inference, simplified generics, etc.
http://gosu-lang.org/

GParted 0.25.0-3
open source Gnome Partition Editor - resize, move, copy, check, label your hard drive's partitions
understands most file systems including all for Windows and Linux
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ (project page)

HandBrake 0.10.5
cross-platform, open source multithreaded video transcoder (conversion utility)
http://handbrake.fr/

HHVM 3.12.0
Facebook's open-source replacement/improvement of the PHP programming language
- HHVM programs run much faster than PHP programs
- package includes the Hack programming language, version 3.12.0
https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/releases

ImageMagick 6.9.3-5
cross-platform, open-source program to manipulate images
- create, edit, compose, or convert images files (200+ formats)
- bmp, png, jpg, gif, tiff, svg, etc.
- resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform
- adjust image, apply special effects,
- draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses & Bézier curves
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

LibreOffice 5.1.0
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)

Linux Kernel 4.4.2
- the Linux kernel has been updated
http://www.kernel.org/

MariaDB 10.0.24 Stable
MariaDB 5.5.48 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/10.0.24/ (MariaDB 10.0.24 page)

MongoDB 3.2.3 Stable
free, open source NoSQL database; uses document store model
http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

Pale Moon 26.1.0
open source, efficiency-optimized build of Firefox source code for Windows or Linux
- 32 & 64-bit versions available
http://www.palemoon.org/

PostgreSQL 9.5.1
open source SQL database for high performance and high availability applications
- due to security fixes: "All users should update their PostgreSQL installation at the next opportunity"
- new UPSERT command added
http://www.postgresql.org/ (homepage)
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1644/ (announcement)

ReactOS 0.4.0
independent distro; ReactOS explorer desktop; #62 in popularity
- this distro is not Linux-based
- all files are binary-compatible with Windows
- distro looks and acts like Windows
- distro does *not* contain the new Microsoft spyware aka 'telemetry'
http://www.reactos.org/

SQLite 3.11.0
open source SQL database for programmers; small and fast
- "this is a is a regularly scheduled maintenance release"
http://www.sqlite.org/ (homepage)
http://www.sqlite.org/news.html (update info)
http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_11_0.html (changelog)

Thunderbird 38.6.0
Mozilla's excellent open source email program
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (homepage)

Tor Browser 5.5.2
cross-platform browser that provides some Internet anonymity for the user
- best privacy is achieved using it under Tails operating system
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

Ubuntu 14.04.4
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)

Wine 1.9.4 Development
compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems
- runs on Linux, Mac OSX, BSD, some others
https://www.winehq.org/

XAMPP 7.0.3
cross-platform, open source web-server (Apache), SQL database (MySQL) w/ admin, PHP, ftp server, Tomcat, & more
- this is probably the easiest way to install a working, web-aware PHP into Windows
- it is also easy to add web apps like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, SugarCRM, phpBB, DokuWiki, etc.
- version numbering reflect the PHP version that is supported
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

Meaning of Colors

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

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