Engine Updates

Booot 6.0.1 (UCI)
Pascal source (Russian language comments); Win
http://www.sdchess.ru/download_engines.htm (SDChess)

Ethereal 7.70 (UCI)
C source; Win64
- "no longer jump into quiscence search while in check"
https://github.com/AndyGrant/Ethereal (source + download)

Jose Velasco Win64 builds
Gull Syzygy 3.1 JV (UCI)
- Windows-only build of Gull with Syzygy egtb support
- Note: the Basil Falcinelli Gull Syzygy builds ( https://github.com/basil00/Gull/releases ) includes support for both Linux and Win
https://github.com/Velmarin/Chess-Gull-Syzygy (source)
https://github.com/Velmarin/Chess-Gull-Syzygy/releases (downloads)

Hedwig rev25 (UCI)
new engine by Michael Glatzmaier
C++ source; Linux64, Win64
https://github.com/DoubleEspresso/chess (source)
https://rapidu.net/4316000354/Hedwig-rev25-Windows-Linux-.7z (binaries)

SjaakII 1.3.1a (XB/UCI)
C source; limit strength; Linux, Mac, Win
http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-index.html

Chess News

Scid vs. PC 4.16.1 Chess GUI (XB)
open source, cross-platform fork of Scid project enhanced for playing chess
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html (homepage)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/ (downloads)

Syzygy tablebases
source code for Syzygy tbs & access code
- 'minor bug fix'
http://github.com/syzygy1/tb

Chess Programming Blogs

Nothing new today

Updated Wiki Pages

all updates by Norbert Raimund Leisner

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

Macintosh Engine List
http://computer-chess.org/doku.php?id=computer_chess:wiki:lists:macintosh_engine_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)

Advisory:

- 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. I thought I owned my computer, they thought they did. Microsoft won by cheating: they clobbered my sys admin settings. Microsoft won the battle, but lost the war. If I can't trust a company to do an update, how can I trust it at all? All future updates of Windows-only software will no longer be listed here.

Calibre 2.62.0
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 3.0.8 LTS
free, popular, open source, distributed NoSQL database; uses wide column store model
http://cassandra.apache.org/download/

Clonezilla Live 2.4.7-8 Stable
open source system image backup/restore (Live) or multicast new system images (SE)
http://clonezilla.org/

CMake 3.6.0
cross-platform, open-source build system for C/C++
https://cmake.org/

Drupal 8.1.5
popular open source PHP-based content management platform for easy website creation
http://drupal.org/home

Feng Office 3.4.3
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)

Firebird 2.5.6
popular open source, cross-platform SQL database that does not require an administrator
- update to an older release
http://www.firebirdsql.org/

Freeplane 1.5.10
free, cross-platform, open source, free-form note taking w/optional hierarchical ordering, calendar and reminders
- requires Java
http://www.freeplane.org/

Jenkins 2.12
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

MariaDB 10.1.14 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
http://kb.askmonty.org/ (homepage)
http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-versus-mysql-features (extra features)

PCLinuxOS 2016.07
independent, rolling-release Linux distro; KDE, LXDE & MATE desktops; #14 in popularity
- this is an easy Linux distro for people who are only familiar with Windows
http://www.pclinuxos.com/

Samba 4.4.5
standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix
https://www.samba.org/

Tiny Core 7.2
independent distro; Fluxbox, flwm, Hackedbox, IceWM, JWM, & Openbox desktops; #36 in popularity
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/

Wine 1.9.14 Development
a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems
such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD
https://www.winehq.org/ (homepage)
https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.9 (announcement)

Zenwalk 8.0
Slackware-based Linux distro; GNOME, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce desktops; #47 in popularity
http://www.zenwalk.org/

Meaning of Colors

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

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