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Friday, August 10, 2007

SBCL (steel bank common lisp) Added

(August 10, 2007) Sbcl packages , version 1.0.7, have been added. The Steel Bank Common Lisp system (Solaris 10 only).

Tree Added

(August 8, 2007) Tree packages , version 1.5.1.1, have been added. Tree is a utility to display a tree view of directories.

Monday, August 06, 2007

Dhcp Updated

(August 7, 2007) The dhcp packages have been updated to version 3.1.0. The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol distribution.

Bash Patches Added

(August 4, 2007) The bash shell packages have been updated to version 3.2, patch level 17. A number of users requested that these patches be added to correct some problems with pattern matching when using bash scripts.

Sudo Updated

(August 3, 2007) Sudo, version 1.6.9p3, packages have been added. Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments.

Pine Updated

(August 3, 2007) Pine, version 4.64, has been added. Pine - a Program for Internet News and Email - is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. The pico editor is also included. At the request of various users, openssl support has been included.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Sys_Diag Added

(July 31, 2007) Sys_diag, version 7.04, has been added. Sys_diag is a Solaris utility (ksh script) from Todd Jobson at Sun that can perform several functions, among them, system configuration 'snapshot' and reporting (detailed or high-level) plus workload characterization/profiling via performance data gathering (over some specified duration or time in point 'snapshot'), high-level analysis, and reporting of findings/exceptions (based upon perf thresholds that can be easily changed within the script header). For more details, see the README_sys_diag.txt file and Todd Jobson's Blog Reflections. See the end of the README file above on how to provide feedback to Todd.

Doxygen Updated

(July 28, 2007) Doxygen, version 1.5.3, has been added. Doxygen is a documentation system for C, C++, Java, Objective-C, Python, and others.

New Mirror Site Added

(July 27, 2007) The http://ftp.twaren.net/Sun/sunfreeware.com/ mirror site in Taiwan has been added.

Pbzip2 Updated

(July 27, 2007) The Pbzip2 packages, version 1.0.2, have been added. Pbzip2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 compression program.

Mutt Updated

(July 27, 2007) Mutt, version 1.5.16, packages have been added. The Mutt email client. Support for pop, imap, and ssl is included.

Bind Updated

(July 26, 2007) The bind packages have been updated to version 9.4.1-P1. The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for Unix operating systems. This is a vulnerability patch version.

Tcpdump Updated

(July 26, 2007) Tcpdump, version 3.9.7, packages have been added. Tcpdump is a tool for network monitoring and data acquisition.

Libpcap Updated

(July 26, 2007) Libpcap, version 0.9.7, packages have been added. Libpcap is a system-independent interface for user-level packet capture.

Sudo Updated

(July 22, 2007) Sudo, version 1.6.9, packages have been added. Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments.

Multitail Updated

(July 21, 2007) Multitail, version 5.2.0, packages have been added. Multitail lets you view one or multiple files in a way similar to the tail program, but in multiple windows.

Rdiff-backup Updated

(July 21, 2007) Rdiff-backup, version 1.1.12, packages have been added. Rdiff-backup is used to backup up or mirror files and directories. It provides an alternative to rsync. This is a bug fix release.

Gperf Added

(July 20, 2007) Gperf, version 3.0.3, packages have been added. GNU gperf is a program that generates perfect hash functions for sets of key words.

Syslog-ng Updated

(July 19, 2007) Syslog-ng, version 2.0.4, packages have been added. Syslog-ng is a syslogd replacement, but with new functionality.

Tcpreplay Added

(July 16, 2007) Tcpreplay, version 2.3.5, packages have been added. Tcpreplay is a tool to replay saved tcpdump files at arbitrary speeds.

Curl Updated

(July 11, 2007) Curl, version 7.16.4, packages have been added. Curl is a tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP.

Php 5 Updated

(July 11, 2007) Php, the scripting language, has been updated to version 5.2.3. This is done for Solaris 7-10 and for Apache 2.2.4 only. Support for openssl, curl, gd, ldap, mysql, and postgresql as requested by many users.

Ntp Updated

(July 5, 2007) Ntp, version 4.2.4p3, has been added. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source.

R Updated

(July 5, 2007) R, version 2.5.1, has been added. R is an environment for statistical computing and graphics.

Tar Updated

(July 4, 2007) Tar, version 1.18, packages have been added. This is the GNU version of the tar archive program.

Less Updated

(July 2, 2007) Less, version 406, packages have been added. Less is a paginator file similar to more, but that allows backward as well as forward movement through the file.

Aide Updated

(July 2, 2007) Aide, version 0.13.1, packages have been added. AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a free replacement for Tripwire.

Curl Updated

(June 26, 2007) Curl, version 7.16.3, packages have been added. Curl is a tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP.

Mhash Added

(June 24, 1007) Mhash, version 0.9.9, packages have been added. Mhash is a library which provides a uniform interface to a large number of hash algorithms.

Rtext Added

(June 23, 1007) Rtext, version 0.9.9.1, packages have been added. Rtext is a programmer's text editor written in java. Rtext requires Java 1.4 or higher.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Rtext Added

(June 23, 1007) Rtext, version 0.9.9.1, packages have been added. Rtext is a programmer's text editor written in java. Rtext requires Java 1.4 or higher.

Pcre Updated

(June 23, 1007) Pcre, version 7.2, packages havebeen added. The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5.

Doxygen Updated

(June 21, 2007) Doxygen, version 1.5.2, has been added. Doxygen is a documentation system for C, C++, Java, Objective-C, Python, and others.

Rdiff-backup Updated

(June 20, 2007) Rdiff-backup, version 1.1.11, packages have been added. Rdiff-backup is used to backup up or mirror files and directories. It provides an alternative to rsync.

Dhcp Updated

(June 20, 2007) The dhcp packages have been updated to version 3.1.0rc1. The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol distribution.

Bind Updated

(June 20, 2007) The bind packages have been updated to version 9.4.1. The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for Unix operating systems.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Gdb Updated

(June 15, 2007) The Gdb, version 6.6, packages have been added. The GNU Debugger.

Seccheck Updated

(June 15, 2007) The Seccheck, version 0.7.5, packages have been added. A security checker for Solaris 10.

OpenLDAP Updated

(June 13, 2007) Openldap, version 2.3.35, has been added. OpenLDAP is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Apache Updated

(June 12, 2007) Apache, version 2.2.4, has been added. The Apache server.

Memconf Updated

(June 12, 2007) The Memconf memory module checker has been updated to version 2.2. This is for SPARC systems and some x86 systems (Solaris 10 and higher).

Tar Updated

(June 10, 2007) Tar, version 1.17, has been added. This is the GNU version of tar.

Libgcrypt Updated

(June 6, 2007) Libgcrypt, version 1.2.4, has been added. Libgcrypt is the GNU basic cryptographic library.

Libgpg-error Updated

(June 6, 2007) Libgpg-error, version 1.5, has been added. Libgpg-error is a small library with error codes and descriptions for the GnuPG software.

Monday, June 04, 2007

R Updated

(June 4, 2007) R, version 2.5.0, has been added. R is an environment for statistical computing and graphics.

Samba Updated

(June 3, 2007) Samba, version 3.0.25a, packages have been added. The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients.

MySQL Updated

(May 31, 2007) Mysql, version 5.0.41, packages have been added. MySQL is the popular SQL database server.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Zsh Added

(May 29, 2007) Zsh, version 4.2.6, has been added. The zsh shell.

Top Updated

(May 29, 2007) Top, version 3.6.1, has been added. The top process analysis utility.

Eventlog Added

(May 27, 2007) Eventlog, version 0.2.5, has been added. An API to format and send structured log messages.

Libsigc++ Added

(May 25, 2007) Libsigc++ has been added with version 2.0.17. Libgsigc++ implements a typesafe callback system for standard C++. It will be used in future programs.