Ext2Fsd: 0.41 is released!
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Ext2Fsd is an open source linux ext2/ext3 file system driver for Windows systems (NT/2K/XP/VISTA, X86/AMD64). It could provide natively reading or writing access to your ext2/ext3 volumes under windows.     ================================== Release Notes for Ext2Fsd V0.41 ==================================  Thanks to all the people who are supporting Ext2Fsd, especially:  Benjam_Valero_Espinosa, Beno_Huet, Cameron Villers, Dan Larsen, Eddie Chu, geo, Lewis Skinner, Pedro Lopes, Samuel thornhill   Modifications from V0.40:  Bugs/Problems Fixed:      1,  Some files couldn't be shown in explorer with utf8 codepage     2,  System always pops "device is busy" when removing USB disks  Features implemented:      1, Ext2Fsd: Updated codepage encodings to latest Linux kernel     2, Ext2Mgr: Added Chinese translation which is in high demand                 Enhanced mountpoints management for removable devices  Features to be implemented in future:      1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate     2, Performance improvement, code optimization     3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree)     4, LVM support     5, Pnp and removable (USB) disk support     6, Automatic check & update of new versions      Since 0.38, Ext2fsd is much stable even under heavy i/o loads,     both for reading and writing. Performance and stability are     highly, improved especially stability. A new and strong era of     Ext2Fsd in product shape is coming :)  WARNINGS:       The driver may crash your system and ruin your data unexpectedly,     since there might be software conflicts and I could only test it     on some of the popular platforms. You should use it with care and     use it at your own risk!  Matt  http://www.ext2fsd.com
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Latest PECL Releases:htscanner 0.6.1zip 1.8.3htscanner 0.6.2sam 1.0.0ingres 1.4.1
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Perl script that automatically searches for new episodes of your favorite TV shows and downloads the corresponding NZB files from various free sources on the internet.   This release is mostly just to update the .shows file and the README.  I was sleepy, and I stupidly said that you do not have to have the  element in your shows file.  Turns out I'm just an idiot, and you do.  I have updated the .shows file to include the proper template for most shows, which is %name%.S%season%E%episode%  Sorry about that!  I also started a code optimization run which will hopefully over time make things run faster and more efficiently.  I just picked off the low hanging fruit on this release, because I wanted to get the updated README out before too many people had problems.
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Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes. This release includes a number of enhancements and bug fixes.    WHAT'S NEW with Wine-20041019: (see ChangeLog for details)         - Beginnings of an architecture for Direct3D 9 support.         - Many debugger regressions fixed.         - Improvements to the IDL compiler and the COM headers.         - New MSCMS dll (color management support).         - Lots of bug fixes.  The latest release can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241
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Latest PECL Releases:pecl_http 1.5.5pecl_http 1.6.0b1ibm_db2 1.6.3PDO_IBM 1.2.2imagick 2.0.0RC2expect 0.2.3
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Latest PECL Releases:memcache 3.0.1memcache 2.2.3svn 0.3imagick 2.1.0bbcode 1.0.0
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this NetBeans module add a custom action to filesystem nodes to launch an OS explorer pointing the directory referenced by the node. It can be customized specifying an implementation of net.sf.efhnbm.Launcher or a command.   With NetBeans 6.0 finally out i updated the module making it compatible with the new preferences API.  If you're a good old 5.x user please keep the 0.4.1 version:  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=156239&release_id=477404
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In my last blog post, I mentioned the work on rubinius (then at a 0.7 release and now at 0.8) and JRuby.  I also promised I&#8217;d follow up on them.  Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been going on so far.
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On Pierre's blog today, there's a release announcement about the "long awaited for" version of his Filter extension - version 0.1.0.0.   This release will be included in the upcoming PHP 5.2.0RC3, which is likely to be the last RC. Please report any trouble you find, and post your feedback (here, on the pecl-dev mailing list or in the issue tracker), it will help provide the best possible extension in the 5.2.0 release. A stable filter release should still hit the road this year.   Feature additons for this release include an input_get_args method, support for PHP's pcre expressions, JIT support, and support for custom decimal spacers. Several behaviors were changed as well, including when a value is FALSE or NULL, updates to the integer/float parser, and the default filter now being set to "raw".   You can get the complete listing of updates on the project from the Changelog and check out the project and all of its documentation on it's PECL homepage.
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Travis Swicegood has made a new release of the successor to the PEAR RunTest package for PEAR2 - the new PHPT.    Since this is usable and PEAR2 is still being worked out, I've decided to release this as a standalone package for the time being with the intent of bundling it with Pyrus or including it directly in PEAR2 when PEAR2 is realized.   This provides the majority of the functionality provided by PEAR's pear run-tests command via its own phpt command and it can even provide pear style output.    Examples of its use are included as well as the method to download this latest version (via a PEAR channel, of course) or through the package's web page. Issues found with the software can be posted to the project's Google code page.
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Derick Rethans has posted a new item to his blog about the release of the popular PHP debugging software's latest version XDebug 2.0.1.   This version comes with a few bug fixes but the main thing is greatly improved performance of Xdebug's Code Coverage functionality. To give an idea on what kind of improvement I'm talking, I am including very rough benchmark results.   He describes the benchmarks and gives the results - without code coverage and the pre/post of this new version (2.0.0 versus 2.0.1). The results are very impressive.
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During the construction of my 64-bit box I collected enough spare parts to build another machine, one destined for a 32-bit Linux system. Last week I finally got that machine built and running with a sparkling new version of the Jacklab Audio Distribution (JAD). I've been using JAD in its alpha releases, but the new box is running the first beta version. Various improvements have been made in JAD since my earlier review, including the adoption of a 2.6.19 kernel optimized for superb realtime performance. Since I've profiled the system in an earlier blog entry I decided to briefly review some of the more unusual software included with the distribution or built with the help of its development packages. JAD contains more than 70 applications for audio and video composition and production, most of which are at their most recent release versions, so come join me in a look at some less typical sound &amp; music software running on one of the best of the new breed of multimedia-optimized Linux distributions.
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Storage Expo Iomega punts a hard disk autoloader
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On his blog today, Ilia Alshanetsky has posted an update on one of the last issues before PHP 5.2 is released - the Filter extension - and some of the problems that have surrounded it.    If you have been monitoring PHP's internal mailing list you probably know that over the last few weeks we've been locked in a stalemate in regard to the API revision of the filter extension brought to light by Dan from our documentation team. This is also the reason why despite this being early October PHP 5.2 is still not out.    Fortunately, after mediation with Derick and Pierre the two protagonists of the filter conundrum a compromised was finally reached.    He mentions the commit that was made to include it into the current build, and no complaints have been lodged against it. He also comments that, with this isse out of the way, developers can look for PHP 5.2RC5 out as soon as this Thursday (10.05.06). Ilia also gives a brief tour of the filter extension's functions.
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Pierre-Alain Joye has posted about the latest update to his Zip PECL package today:   This release fixes two small issues, a leak happening on error and a bug in extractTo. Empty directories were not created recursively, for example an entry like "test/emptydir", only the "test" directory was created.   This latest download is here and the homepage for the project is over on this PECL page (as well as details on what the package can do and documentation of all of its features).
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Latest PEAR Releases:Net_Ping 2.4.3Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_XLS 0.1.3Console_CommandLine 0.2.0
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Read and Write ICO,BMP formats in 100% pure Java   Been a long time in the making, but I've finally gotten round to the final release for 0.7  The library appears to be stable, hence my decision to finalize the current release.  Thanks to Olivier Le Tiec for reporting a bug with irregular icons (width != height), together with the necessary bug fix.  Thanks for using image4j!