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AcchaNi 0.4 (Default branch)
AcchaNi is a program that assists with learning
Japanese. It is cross-platform, requires no
special Japanese fonts or encoding, has built-in
hiragana input, and supports iterative learning modes.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
This release uses the Leitner system for interval-spaced repetition, ensuring that difficult kanji are repeated often, while kanji you have mastered are only shown rarely. Some basic information about how many kanji have been learned is also displayed.
 Reverse Snowflake Joins 0.12.5 (Default branch)
Reverse Snowflake Joins is a tool that parses SQL
Select statements and generates a diagram. In
addition to joins, the diagram shows parts of the
underlying SQL directly in the diagram. For
example x=30, GROUP BY (year), SUM(profit), HAVING
MIN(age) > 18.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
It is no longer necessary to maintain a list of SQL-specific functions. Now functions on top of aggregates are processed, e.g. "nvl(sum(x), 0) ".
 Kuklomenos 0.2.3 (Default branch)
Kuklomenos is an abstract shoot-em-up game with a
strategic twist. It enjoys minimalistic graphics
and intense, challenging gameplay.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
Significant display optimizations were implemented. A simple "in-game help" system was added. Some nasty bugs were fixed.
 Otk 0.75 (Default branch)
Otk is a portable widget library for making
graphical user interfaces for C programs. It
emphasizes simplicity for the application
programmer without eliminating capability. Based
on OpenGL, Otk supports Linux, Unix, and other OSs
neutrally and efficiently. It is simple and
compact, and it strives for easy compilation and
linking to other applications. In seeking to
address several issues associated with earlier
graphics APIs, Otk explores some interesting
methods, such as window-relative layout instead of
pixel-based layout.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Functions for creating icon buttons were added. Mouse feedback was improved on pull-down menu lists. The appearance of tabbed-panels was also improved.
 namingmuse 1.0.0 (Default branch)
namingmuse is a library and application that
accesses freedb.org and MusicBrainz (PUID), and
renames and tags music albums with information
from the site (such as year, genre, album name,
title, and artist). It supports disc ID generation
from the music file types supported by TagLib, as
well as full text search of the freedb.org Web
site using an HTML parser. It is encoding-aware,
and can tag Ogg Vorbis and FLAC with UTF-8 Xiph
Comments, MP3 with ID3v2 in Latin1 or UTF-8, and
MusePack with UTF-8 APE tags.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
MusicBrainz2 support with PUIDs was added. Support for mpc and FLAC was fixed. An ncurses popup for binding files to metainformation manually was added. Partial album file renames now rollback automatically on error. An option for ignoring directories in recursive mode was added. The documentation was updated, and a tiny test suite was added for robustness. Many bugs were fixed.
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