Sonar 2.7 released

The Sonar Team is pleased to announce the release of Sonar 2.7. This version focuses on providing further control on technical debt.

Prior to version 2.5, Sonar was really useful to assess application?s technical debt but was not so handy to manage evolution over time. In Sonar 2.5 was added the ability to see metrics evolution and monitor the apparition of new violations over a period of time or since an event. A similar functionality has now been added with version 2.7 for code coverage by unit tests on new / updated source code. It is now possible to follow what percentage of changed code over a period of time is covered by unit tests.

On top of this feature, the release contains more than 40 improvements and bug-fixes. To enjoy the new version, you can download it straight away.

TestLink 1.9.1 Released

New features
- Requirement revisioning
- Requirement history with log messages
- New requirement and test case comparison method
- Expand/Collapse Buttons for trees
- PHPMAILER update (allows SSL or TLS) - googlemail can be used
- Mechanisms implemented to prevent data loss on editing when sessions times out or the user tries to navigate away without saving latest changes

Important Bugfixes (~70 in total)
- better MSSQL support
- Query metrics: start and end date input fields are respected
- minor usability improvements
- event viewer fixed for IE8

Fluxbox 1.3.0 Released

Fluxbox has had its first release since 2008. This release brings me much joy, as a Fluxbox user, it solidifies the point that Fluxbox is still being maintained upstream.

What is fluxbox?
Fluxbox is a windowmanager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. It is very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy, and extremely fast, desktop experience.

Here is a list of fixes / changes from fluxbox.org:

Added support for bidirectional text, #2801836.
Allow to override ‘Focus New Windows’ via .fluxbox/apps
New actions:
ActivateTab
ArrangeWindowsVertical
New ‘MoveN’ and ‘ClickN’ action support for keys file
New focus model ‘StrictMouseFocus’. This will affect focus when closing, moving, lowering windows, changing desktops, etc, whereas the ‘MouseFocus’ model will only change focus when you move the mouse.
New “background: unset” property for use in overlays.
Allowing relative paths for background images in style files.
Allowing matching screen number in ClientPattern.
Removed rootcommand from init, as fbsetbg is run automatically nowadays.
Removed line style resources from init file.

xorg-server 1.8.1 Released

The first stable release of the 1.8 series is now available. Only two
changes over RC2 (Julien’s EXTRA_DIST patch and Adam’s VNC patch), so you
get the full changelog to 1.8.0 to make this email look more interesting.

If you are upgrading from 1.8.0, please beware that the xorg.conf.d
configuration has changed slightly, the server now supports
$datadir/X11/xorg.conf.d and $sysconfdir/X11/xorg.conf.d for configuration
files. While this should not interfere with your local configuration on an
install from the tarball, distributors should take care of this new
behavior.

Android 3.0 SDK released as Xoom starts countdown

On Feb. 22, Google made its full Android 3.0 software development kit (SDK) available to developers, more than three weeks after shipping a rough preview version to give developers a taste of the tablet-oriented "Honeycomb" build. The APIs are final, which means developers can write apps for the platform and publish them to Google's Android Market store.

Unlike previous iterations of Android developed for smartphones, the Honeycomb build is specifically for helping developers write apps for the larger screen size form factor of tablets.

Android 3.0 main screen from preliminary SDK build
(Click to enlarge)

In the blog announcement, Android SDK Tech Lead Xavier Ducrohet said there have been several improvements to the SDK since its initial run-through. These include UI Builder improvements in the ADT Plugin, and a new app palette with categories and rendering previews. Other touted enhancements include more accurate rendering of layouts, selection-sensitive action bars, and zoom improvements.

Honeycomb (logo shown at right), is arguably the most important Android build since the first version launched on T-Mobile's G1 smartphone in 2008. This is because Google intends the platform, which features a 3D graphics rendering engine and new application tools called fragments, to define the market for Android tablets to come.

Flash Player 10.2 heading for Xoom by late March

With a 10.1-inch screen, Motorola's Xoom will launch Feb. 24 as the first Honeycomb tablet. The tablet will cost $800 unsubsidized for a 3G/Wi-Fi version from Verizon Wireless and Best Buy, or $600 with a two-year contract from Verizon.

On Feb. 21, Adobe confirmed that its tablet-optimized Flash Player 10.2 will be available on the Xoom as an OTA update in late March. The announcement clarified a Verizon Wireless ad posted a few hours before that said that Flash 10.2 wouldn't appear on Android tablets until this spring. (Assuming the OTA update comes on or after March 21, Verizon may have been technically correct after all.)

As Wayne Rash notes in a Feb. 22 eWEEK analysis of the Xoom launch, Verizon Wireless is jumping out ahead in the tablet market by not only offering the Xoom (pictured at left), but also the hot selling Apple iPad and Android 2.2-based Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Other Android 3.0 tablets from Toshiba, LG, Asus, and others will follow in the coming months. In fact, a faster 1.2GHz, 4G version of the Galaxy Tab is heading for Verizon later this year.

Meanwhile, eWEEK's Don Reisinger argues in "Motorola Xoom is the perfect iPad competitor: 10 reasons why" that being the first Honeycomb tablet is only one reason why the Xoom is considered the leading contender against the iPad. Other advantages over the iPad are said to include a faster dual-core processor, dual cameras, and in a few months, 4G support.

Availability

The final Android 3.0 SDK is now available for free download. The announcement, with links to downloads may be found at the Android Developers site.

KDE SC 4.4.5 Released

By ben.kevan on Jun 30, 2010 in GNOME & KDE

From the release notes:

KDE Software Compilation 4.4.5 Released: Codename “Ceilidh”

KDE Community Ships Fifth Translation and Service Release of the 4.4 Free
Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes and Translation Updates

June 30th, 2010. Today, KDE has released a new version of the KDE Software
Compilation (KDE SC). This is expected to be the final bugfix and translation
update to KDE SC 4.4. KDE SC 4.4.5 is a recommended update for everyone
running KDE SC 4.4.4 or earlier versions. As the release only contains
bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for
everyone. Users around the world will appreciate that KDE SC 4.4.5 multi-
language support is more complete. KDE SC 4 is already translated into more
than 55 languages, with more to come.

KDE SC 4.4.5 brings a number of improvements:

* Several bugs in encoding and refreshing in Konsole have been fixed
* A couple of crashes in Okular’s PDF viewer have been fixed
* Alarms have received some fixes in KDE PIM

The changelog lists more, if not all improvements since KDE SC 4.4.4. There
are no more scheduled releases in the 4.4 series. The next feature release
will be KDE SC 4.5.0, to be released in August this year.

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PCLinuxOS 2010.1 KDE 4 – Released

The PCLinuxOS Development team announced the release of PCLinuxOS 2010.1 KDE 4 Edition. This is the second release for the PCLinuxOS 2010 Family, which includes many bug fixes, and upgrades of many core components including the kernel, which got a bump to 2.6.32.12-bfs. Also noted in the release notes is information about an upgrad

Also available for PCLinuxOS is the 2.6.33 kernel family, but currently through Software Repositories.

Note: If you already have PCLinuxOS 2010, then you can easily update using the Synaptic Software Manager

Feel free to download the iso.

Release Date: 05-05-10
ISO Size: 692 MB
MD5Sum: d2f8c4068a0d07c3fc4a1dcc252310da

xorg-server 1.8.1 Released

The first stable release of the 1.8 series is now available. Only two
changes over RC2 (Julien’s EXTRA_DIST patch and Adam’s VNC patch), so you
get the full changelog to 1.8.0 to make this email look more interesting.

If you are upgrading from 1.8.0, please beware that the xorg.conf.d
configuration has changed slightly, the server now supports
$datadir/X11/xorg.conf.d and $sysconfdir/X11/xorg.conf.d for configuration
files. While this should not interfere with your local configuration on an
install from the tarball, distributors should take care of this new
behavior.

You can check out the full release announcement, and list of changes in the mailing list announcement.

            

KDE 4.5 Beta 2 Released

From the announcement

KDE Software Compilation 4.5 Beta2 Released: Codename Cake

KDE Community Ships First Beta Release of the
4.5 Free Desktop, Applications and Development Platform

June 9th, 2010. Today, KDE has released the second beta version of what is to
become KDE SC 4.5.0 in August 2010. KDE SC 4.5 Beta2 is targeted at testers
and those that would like to have an early look at what’s coming to their
desktops and netbooks this summer. KDE is now firmly in beta mode, meaning
that the primary focus is on fixing bugs and preparing the stable release of
the software compilation this summer. Over the last two weeks, roughly since
the first beta, 1459 new bugs have been reported, and 1643 bugs have been
closed, so we’re witnessing a lot of stabilization activity right now. More
testing is in place, however, while the restless developers continue to create
a rock-stable 4.5.0.

Read more at: http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.5-beta2.php

            

KDE SC 4.4.5 Released

From the release notes:

KDE Software Compilation 4.4.5 Released: Codename “Ceilidh”

KDE Community Ships Fifth Translation and Service Release of the 4.4 Free
Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes and Translation Updates

June 30th, 2010. Today, KDE has released a new version of the KDE Software
Compilation (KDE SC). This is expected to be the final bugfix and translation
update to KDE SC 4.4. KDE SC 4.4.5 is a recommended update for everyone
running KDE SC 4.4.4 or earlier versions. As the release only contains
bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for
everyone. Users around the world will appreciate that KDE SC 4.4.5 multi-
language support is more complete. KDE SC 4 is already translated into more
than 55 languages, with more to come.

KDE SC 4.4.5 brings a number of improvements: