Engine Updates

Absolute Zero 2.4.7.2 (UCI)
C# source; own GUI; Win
http://github.com/zongzhengli/Absolute-Zero

Booot 6.0.2 (UCI)
Pascal source (Russian language comments); Win
http://www.sdchess.ru/download_engines.htm (SDChess)

Dorpsgek Ambrosia2 (XB)
new engine by Matthew Brades
C source; Win
https://github.com/ZirconiumX/Dorpsgek/ (source)
https://github.com/ZirconiumX/Dorpsgek/releases (binaries)

Embla 0.9.3 (UCI)
mp (INT_MAX cores); supports Syzygy ebtbs; Linux, Mac, Win
http://www.vanheusden.com/Embla/

GreKo 2015 ML (XB/UCI)
C++ source; multiPV: limit strength; Win
- "I have added elements of machine learning to GreKo"
http://greko.su/index_en.html
http://greko.su/greko-2015-ml.zip (direct link)

Paladin 0.1 (UCI)
C++ source; Win
https://github.com/ankan-ban/chess_cpu (source)
https://github.com/ankan-ban/chess_cpu/tree/master/binaries (builds)

Sayuri 2016.07.13 (UCI)
C++ source (Japanese comments); mp (up to 64 threads); Linux, Mac, Win
https://github.com/MetalPhaeton/sayuri/releases

Texel 1.06 (UCI)
C++ source; mp; multiPV; supports Syzygy egtbs; Linux, Win
- Android build is also available
http://web.comhem.se/petero2home/javachess/index.html

Chess News

Tarrasch Chess GUI 3 Beta (UCI)
C++ source; open source Chess GUI by Bill Forster
- not cross-platform: Windows only
http://www.triplehappy.com/ (homepage)
https://github.com/billforsternz/tarrasch-chess-gui (code repository)
https://github.com/billforsternz/tarrasch-chess-gui/releases/ (download)

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

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

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

4MLinux 19.0
independent Linux distro; JWM desktop; #59 in popularity
http://4mlinux.com/

CDT 9.0.1
open source, fully-featured C/C++ IDE plugin for Eclipse
http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/

Drupal 8.1.6
popular open source PHP-based content management platform for easy website creation
http://drupal.org/home

Freeplane 1.5.11
free, cross-platform, open source, free-form note taking w/optional hierarchical ordering, calendar and reminders
- requires Java
http://www.freeplane.org/

Geany 1.28
open source cross-platform programmer's editor & lightweight IDE
supports more than 50 programming languages
http://www.geany.org/ (homepage)
http://wiki.geany.org/ (wiki)

Gimp 2.8.18
free, cross-platform open-source Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
- retouch photos, create drawings & renderings, etc.
http://www.gimp.org/

Git 2.9.2
cross-platform, distributed version control system that is free and open source
http://git-scm.com/

GNUplot 5.0.4
open source, cross platform, command-line driven, 2D/3D graphing/plotting
http://www.gnuplot.info/ (homepage)

ImageMagick 7.0.2-4
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

Jenkins 2.13
cross-platform, open source, continuous integration server for developers
- automates the building/testing process
http://jenkins-ci.org/

MongoDB 3.2.8 Stable
free, open source NoSQL database; uses document store model
http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

Linux Kernel 4.6.4
- the Linux kernel has been updated
http://www.kernel.org/

LLVM 3.8.1
compiler back-end for compile-time, link-time, run-time, and "idle-time" optimization of programs
written in arbitrary programming languages
http://llvm.org/

SystemRescueCD 4.8.0
bootable image for CD or USB stick to rescue data from HD; mount and read data from any disk;
- features disk partitioning, LVM management, data copying, remote backup, more
http://www.sysresccd.org/

VirtualBox 5.1.0
open source, general-purpose, full virtualizer for x86 and AMD64/Intel64 hardware
runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris as host
install one or more guest operating systems onto the same computer
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes (list of guest operating systems)
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog (changelog)
http://www.virtualbox.org/ (homepage)

Meaning of Colors

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

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