Engine Updates

Carballo 1.6 (UCI)
Java source; cross-platform; own GUI; supports Polyglot books
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sjce/files/chess_engines_nb-src/ (SJCE)
https://github.com/albertoruibal/carballo/ (homepage)

Dorky 4.5 (XB)
Win; mp; supports Nalimov egtbs
- "+100 Elo stronger than previous version"
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtrsbtPfzHhhgctQNDg1jsJZbpPGLw (direct link)

Embla 0.9.4 (UCI)
mp (INT_MAX cores); supports Syzygy ebtbs; Linux, Mac, Win
https://www.vanheusden.com/Embla/files/Embla-0.9.4-win64.zip (direct link)
http://www.vanheusden.com/Embla/

LazyGull alpha-0.1 BF (UCI)
this is an unofficial Gull fork by Basil Falcinelli adding Syzygy support & other changes
https://github.com/basil00/Gull/releases

Jumbo 0.1.10 (XB)
Win; successor to Surprise & KnockOut
- Win32 only
http://www.schuelebln.de/chess/jumbo/

Nemorino 1.02 (XB/UCI)
new enigne by Christian Günther
mp; multiPV; supports FRC; supports Syzygy egtbs; Win64
https://bitbucket.org/christian_g_nther/nemorino/overview

ProDeo 2.2 (XB/UCI)
ProDeo 2.2 SMP (XB/UCI)
smp (2 cores max); Windows only
- "Tests indicate a gain of 21 Elo points"
- in this case 'SMP' stands for Speculative Move Principle, but requires 2 cores
http://rebel13.nl/prodeo/prodeo%202.2.html

Shield 1.3.1 (UCI)
Win64
- bug fixes only
https://sites.google.com/site/shieldchessengine/

Soberango 0.08.3 (XB)
Win
http://www.luisbtenis.com.ar/Soberango/Soberango.html

Wasp 1.25 (UCI)
Win; successor to Zarkov
http://www.amateurschach.de/main/_wasp.htm

Chess News

Cute Chess 0.9.4 Chess GUI (XB/UCI)
Chess GUI for playing chess tournaments
https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess/releases/

HIARCS Chess Explorer Opening Book
- book is updated
http://www.hiarcs.com/

Jerry Chess GUI 3.0.5 (UCI)
cross-platform Chess GUI for UCI, writtern in Python
https://github.com/asdfjkl/jerry (source)
https://github.com/asdfjkl/jerry/releases (download)

Noomen.ctg
- Jeroen Noomen's book Noomen.ctg has been updated
http://blogchess2016.blogspot.nl/2016/10/october-2nd-update-of-opening-book.html

TSCP Community builds
- "Ferdinand Mosca made a version of TSCP that plays the crazyhouse variant of chess and has other speed and search improvements"
http://www.tckerrigan.com/Chess/TSCP/Community/

Chess Programming Blogs

Arasan blog: http://arasanchess.org/blog.shtml
Tarrasch Chess GUI: https://triplehappy.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-windows-developer/

Updated Wiki Pages

updates by Norbert Raimund Leisner:

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

7-Zip 16.03
open source, cross-platform file archiver with good compression; supports several compression methods
- this is an important security bugfix release
http://www.7-zip.org

Alpine 3.4.4
independent Linux distro; XFCE desktop; #47 in popularity
http://www.alpinelinux.org/

Antergos 2016.09.25
Arch-based Linux distro; Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE, MATE, Openbox, Xfce desktops; #17 in popularity
- this is a monthly snapshot of a rolling-release distro
http://www.antergos.com/

Blender 2.78
free, open source, cross-platform 2D/3D video creation suite
model - shade - animate - render - composite - interactive 3D
http://www.blender.org/

Boost C++ Libraries 1.62.0
collection of reusable and well-tested C++ libraries
- covers linear algebra, pseudorandom number generation, multithreading, image processing, regular expressions, unit testing & more
http://www.boost.org/

Calibre 2.69.0
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 3.9
free, popular, open source, distributed NoSQL database; uses wide column store model
http://cassandra.apache.org/download/

CDT 9.1.0
open source, fully-featured C/C++ IDE plugin for Eclipse
http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/

D Programming Language 2.071.2
popular cross-platform, open-source, static, C-like systems programming language
- intended as a safer, practical, improved form of C++
- classes, overloading, closures, functional, templates, associative arrays, productive, etc.
http://dlang.org/

Eclipse 4.6.1
open source extensible IDE framework supporting plugins for almost all programming languages
w/ syntax highlighting, intellisense, code completion, templates, version control, more
http://www.eclipse.org/ (homepage)

FileZilla Client 3.22.0
open source cross-platform ftp client; recommended
http://filezilla-project.org/ (homepage)
https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1 (downloads)

Firebird 3.0.1
popular open source, cross-platform SQL database that does not require an administrator
- bug fixes & improvements
http://www.firebirdsql.org/

Firefox 49.0.1
popular, free, open source browser
http://www.mozilla.com/ (homepage)

Freeplane 1.5.17
free, cross-platform, open source, free-form note taking w/optional hierarchical ordering, calendar and reminders
- requires Java runtime
http://www.freeplane.org/

Google Chrome 53.0.2785.143
Google Chromium 53.0.2785.143
popular cross-platform web browser
- Chromium is fully open-source, Chrome has propietary extensions to enhance Google profits
https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium (Chromium)
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/? (Chrome)

HHVM 3.15.1
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 3.15.0
https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/releases

ImageMagick 7.0.3-2
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

Krita 3.0.1.1
open source painting tool
- designed for illustrators, concept artists, the VFX industry, and matte & texture artists
http://www.krita.org/

LibreCAD 2.1.3
open source, cross-platform 2D CAD app
http://www.librecad.org/

LibreOffice 5.2.2
cross platform open source fork of OpenOffice project; word processing, chart, spreadsheet, database, etc.
http://www.documentfoundation.org/ (homepage)

Linux Kernel 4.7.6
- the Linux kernel has been updated
http://www.kernel.org/

MariaDB 10.1.18 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)

Meld 3.16.3
open-source visual file/folder difference and merge program for Linux, Mac & Win
- 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/

MongoDB 3.3.15 Stable
free, open source NoSQL database; uses document store model
http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

Nim Programming Language 0.15.0
cross-platform, statically typed, imperative/object-oriented, natively compiled programming language
with overloaded functions/operators, iterators, exceptions, generics, closures, templates, macros
GC support for multi-core programming
- language was formerly known as Nimrod
- syntax resembles Python or Ruby
- runtime efficiency of C
- single inheritance only
- can use type inference to deduce types
http://nim-lang.org/news/2016_09_30_version_0_15_0_released.html (release notes)
http://nim-lang.org/index.html

Pale Moon 26.5.0
open source, efficiency-optimized build of Firefox source code for Windows or Linux
- 32 & 64-bit versions available
http://www.palemoon.org/

PostgreSQL 9.6.0
open source SQL database for high performance and high availability applications
- new feature: Parallel Query
- synchronouse replication has added option
- more features, optimizations & bug fixes
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1703/ (release notes)
http://www.postgresql.org/ (homepage)

Redis 3.2.4 Stable
free, popular, open source database; uses key-value store model
- new distributed implementation (clustering) w/ data sharding & fault tolerance
- experimental support for Windows64
- full support for Linux
http://redis.io/download

SQLiteBrowser 3.9.1
lightweight frontend for managing SQLite databases
- provides controls and wizards for database creation & compaction, defining or modifying tables or indexes, importing & exporting
- grid view allows edit, add & delete rows, execute SQL statements, inspect the log, or search records
http://sqlitebrowser.org/

SystemRescueCd 4.8.2
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/

wattOS 10 "Microwatt"
Ubuntu(LTS)-based Linux distro; i3, LXDE, Openbox desktops; #46 in popularity
http://www.planetwatt.com/

Wine 1.9.20 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/

Meaning of Colors

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

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