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TCExam is Web-based assessment software for generating and managing online tests and exams. It simplifies the exam cycle, including generation, execution, evaluation, presentation, and archiving. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This version contains better support for the Arabic language, some new exporting features, and several bugfixes.

Logger is a log queueing and optimization utility. It can completely replace sys/klogd, handle logs larger than 2GB, perform automatic nightly log rotation without affecting services, and transfer logs between machines via TCP connections. Any application that writes a text log can be maintained by Logger. It is light, small, and fast, emphasizes security, and reduces drive usage through memory queueing. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes:
This version has proven extremely stable and handles connection interrupts properly.

Ruby/AWS is a high-level Ruby language interface to the Amazon Associates Web Service API v4. It aims to automate and remove the grunt work of interacting with the Amazon API and, in so doing, make it much easier to use. Ruby/AWS is the successor to Ruby/Amazon. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
A new method, Amazon::AWS::ShoppingCart::Cart#cart_get, has been added, to allow the retrieval of an existing shopping-cart. This is necessary when the original Cart object no longer exists. The version of the Amazon AWS API requested when performing operations is now 2008-06-26. This is the latest at the time of writing.

Igelle Connector is a network management tool for Linux-like operating systems, capable of connecting to different kinds of networks and managing the created connections. Igelle Connector utilizes existing networking tools for various tasks (Bluez, wpa-supplicant, dhcp, etc.). License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:
This is the first release of Igelle Connector, and as such it is still incomplete in features. User friendliness still needs to be improved. Current features include a command line interface, a GTK+ based graphical user interface, wired Ethernet connections, wireless LAN, fixed and automatic IP address (DHCP) support, GSM/3G wireless data connections, and Bluetooth wireless modem support.

toMOTko is a small Zaurus application for learning vocabulary. It's a customizable flashcard program that asks words repetitively to acquire new vocabulary. It is good for learning and memorizing kanji readings/writings and other languages. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
Image support for terms was added. Support was added for tree and subtree manipulations (copy, cut, paste, import, export). The data format was changed to use the file system hierarchy and zip files. Various bugs were fixed.

Cego implements a relational and transactional database system with support for the SQL query language. The current release contains the most common database features for basic table manipulation and data retrieval. Indexes, foreign keys, views, and stored procedures are also implemented. Future releases (2.0 and above) will support a multi-node database concept with log file shipping for an automatic database application failover. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
Locking improvements were made for parallel table access. Dedicated index locks were introduced.

Support Incident Tracker (or SiT!) is a Web-based application for tracking technical support calls or emails. It can manage contacts, sites, technical support contracts, and support incidents in one place. You can send and receive email directly from SiT!, attaching files and recording every communication in the incident log. SiT! is aware of Service Level Agreements, and incidents are flagged if they stray outside of them. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This release builds upon the stable 3.33 platform and adds many new features and improvements to existing features. Among many new features are better searching, triggers, an improved portal, refreshing dashlets, and better language support.

Tunguska is a computer emulator and virtual machine that uses numerical base three (ternary) number system for its lowest-level operations instead of the commonly used base two (binary) number system. Its goal is to provide a useful experimental platform, on par with early personal computers. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes:
This release fixes a few bugs that have been creating problems for people. Most notably, a 1-byte buffer overflow that caused random crashes was fixed. This is a minor bugfix release with no new features over the old 0.0.3.x releases.

Calf is a set of audio effect plugins compatible with audio technologies popular in Linux and other open-source operating systems. Currently, several plugins are available (flanger, reverb, multimode filter, vintage delay, phaser, simple monophonic VA synthesizer, and organ/pad synthesizer). All of these plugins are available in versions compatible with major Linux plugin specifications: LADSPA+LRDF, DSSI, and LV2. A standalone application using GTK+2 and JACK is provided. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes:
Memory management bugs were fixed. Knobs were improved. The preset system was improved. New Monosynth presets were added. Startup time was reduced in Organ and Monosynth.

AgileWiki is meant to create software systems which are fluid, easily configured and can be reorganized on-the-fly to meet ever changing requirements. It includes a COW-based database, the Rolonics programming paradigm, and semantic inferencing. License: Common Public License Changes:
The control package is now complete, including the Javadocs.