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Release Digest: GNOME, September 17, 2003

gCAD3D V.0.74

Application

gCAD3D V.0.74

Description

3D-CAD-CAM software

Enhancements

  • trimmed surfaces (plane, cone, torus),
  • hatch

Fixes

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gcad3d


Wallpaper Tray 0.3.4

Application

Wallpaper Tray 0.3.4

Description

Wallpaper Tray is a wallpaper utility that sits in your GNOME
Panel Notification Area. It gives you a random wallpaper from a
list of directories (at login, on a timed basis or on demand), and
allows you to select a new wallpaper at random from its menu. A
search tool is also included to help manage your wallpaper
collection.

Enhancements

Fixes

  • Check for directories being removed

Download

http://earthworm.no-ip.com/wp_tray/

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/wptray


XML Security Library 1.1.2

Application

XML Security Library 1.1.2

Description

Implementation of XML Security specs: XML Digital Signature, XML
Encryption, etc.

Enhancements

  • Dynamical crypto engines loading based on ltdl library
    (including tutorial, API reference and documentation updates).
  • An ability to build multiple xmlsec-crypto libraries in one
    build on Windows.

Fixes

  • Minor problems in test suite.
  • Warnings when building on Sun Solaris.

Download

http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/download.html

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/xmlsec


libgda 1.0.0
libgnomedb 1.0.0

libgda/libgnomedb 1.0.0 have been released.

libgda/libgnomedb are a complete framewok for developing
database-oriented applications, and actually allow access to
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, SQLite, FireBird/Interbase, IBM
DB2, mSQL and MS SQL server, as well as MS Access and xBase files
and ODBC data sources.

libgda/libgnomedb are the base of the database support in the
GNOME Office application suite, providing database access for many
features in both Gnumeric and Abiword.

This release is almost identical to 0.99.0, aka RC1.

libgda 1.0.0

  • Updated API documentation (rodrigo)

libgnomedb 1.0.0

  • Fixed #122108 – generating .server is not flexible (tagoh)

Tarballs are available at
ftp://ftp.gnome-db.org/pub/gnome-db/sources/v1.0.0/

To install this new version, you’ll need:

  • libgda: glib, libxml2, libxslt
  • libgnomedb: libgda and dependencies, libgnome/ui, libglade,
    libbonoboui and, optionally, gtksourceview

You can find more information at the projects’ homepage
(http://www.gnome-db.org), or
you can ask any question/propose anything you want in the GNOME-DB
mailing list, which is available at http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-db-list.

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