Ubuntu 14.04

FFmpeg 2.5.3 released

FFmpeg 2.5.3 “Bohr”– is the leading multimedia framework, cross-platform solution that is used to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play any audio or video files. It includes libavcodec – the leading audio/video codec library. The most important new features are AVFoundation screen-grabbing support, animated WebP decoding support, and Animated PNG support. In addition, many exciting features for video streaming are also implemented, including MPEG-DASH fragmenting muxer, HEVC RTP payload muxer, and UDP Lite support.

Android Studio 1.1 Preview 1 Released

<li> There is a new template for creating watch faces for Android Wear: <div> <a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio11preview1released/watchface-template.png?attredirects=0"><img class=" aligncenter" src="http://tools.android.com/_/rsrc/1421370620201/recent/androidstudio11preview1released/watchface-template.png" alt="" width="376" height="256" border="0" /></a> </div> </li>

Percona Server 5.6.22-71.0 released

<ul> <li> Queries will run faster and more consistently </li> <li> You can consolidate servers on powerful hardware </li> <li> Sharding is delayed or avoided entirely </li> <li> You can save money on hosting fees and power </li> <li> You can spend less time tuning and administering </li> <li> You can achieve higher uptime </li> <li> Troubleshooting does not require guesswork </li> </ul> <p> <a href="http://www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-5.6/" target="_blank">Download Percona Server 5.6.22-71.0</a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></div>

Dropbox 3.0.5 released

Fix an issue preventing Dropbox from starting on Windows XP Fix an issue preventing Dropbox from starting on Fedora 20 Fix a rare issue that could cause crashes when using Camera Uploads on Windows Pause icon on Mac is no longer tiny on Retina displays

Audacious 3.6 Alpha 1 released

A completely new Qt-based user interface, which can be installed alongside the existing GTK+ and Winamp Classic interfaces. The new interface is usable today but not yet as feature-rich as the existing interfaces. In future, it will be the basis of a Mac OS X port of Audacious—stay tuned. We have switched back to using GTK+ version 2.x by default. It has now been over three years since the release of GTK+ 3.

Robocode 1.9.2.4 – Tank combat simulation engine released

<li style="text-align: justify;"> Changes <ul> <li> Upgraded Eclipse Compiler for Java (ECJ) to version 4.4 </li> <li> Upgraded jni4net to version 0.8.7.0 </li> </ul> </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Other <ul> <li> Got rid of various issues (e.g. license headers) with the source files of Robocode in order to create a Debian distribution of Robocode </li> </ul> </li>

SeaMonkey 2.31 Beta 1 released

SeaMonkey 2.31 beta 1recently released, is an open source, free all-in-one internet application suite. It consists of Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools. SeaMonkey is built on the open source Mozilla Gecko engine, the same code which underlies the highly successful siblings Firefox and Thunderbird. Testers are encouraged to get involved in discussing and reporting problems as well as further improving the product.

Android Studio 0.9.0 released

<div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> If you are already running <a title="Android Studio 0.8.12 released" href="http://www.sysads.co.uk/2014/10/android-studio-0-8-12-released/" target="_blank">Android Studio version 0.8.12</a> or later, just restart it, or manually check for updates via Help > Check for Update&#8230; (on OSX, look in the Android Studio menu). This will download and install a small patch rather than download a full IDE image. If you are using an older version, you&#8217;ll need to download a full install from <a href="http://tools.

WPS Office for Linux Alpha16 released

Remove Kingsoft WPS Office for Linux Alpha16[button href=”http://www.sysads.co.uk/2014/08/install-kingsoft-office-linux-ubuntu-14-04/” style=”flat” size=”medium” color=”#1e73be” hovercolor=”#0066bf” icon=”info”]Install missing fonts[/button]

Sysstat 11.0.2 stable released

Sysstat 11.0.2package contains utilities to monitor system performance and usage activity. Sysstat contains various utilities, common to many commercial Unixes, and tools you can schedule via cron to collect and historize performance and activity data. Sysstat supports UP and SMP machines, including machines with hyperthreaded or multi-core processors, supports hotplug CPUs (it detects automagically processors that are disabled or enabled on the fly) and tickless CPUs. Sysstat’s features Can monitor a huge number of different metrics Average statistics values are calculated over the sampling period Most system statistics can be saved in a file for future inspection On the fly detection of new devices (disks, network interfaces, etc.

OpenSceneGraph 3.2.1 released

OpenSceneGraphis open source, real-time graphics middle-ware used by application developers in fields that range from visual simulation (flight, marine, vehicle, space simulator) to virtual and augmented reality, to medical and scientific visualisation, to education and games. OpenSceneGraph is written in Standard C++, taking advantage of the standard template library (STL) for containers. The software uses the scene graph approach to representing 3D worlds as a graph of node that logical and spatially group subgraphs for behaviour and high performance.

Android Studio 0.8.11 Released

<p> Similarly, if you try to import a Gradle project which does not contain a gradle wrapper, it will offer to let you insert one: </p> <div> <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/recent/androidstudio0811released/add-wrapper.png?attredirects=0"><img src="https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/_/rsrc/1411084729614/recent/androidstudio0811released/add-wrapper.png" alt="" border="0" /></a> </div> </li> <li> Lint errors can now display the full issue explanation text in-place in the editor. This is helpful when the short single-line error message does not fully explain what the problem is. <div> <a href="https://sites.

Install KiCad – Electronic Circuit Board Design

kicad – project manager eeschema – schematic editor pcbnew – PCB editor gerbview – GERBER viewer cvpcb – footprint selector for components Libraries: Both eeschema and pcbnew have library managers and editors for their components and footprints You can easily create, edit, delete and exchange library items Documentation files can be associated with components, footprints and key words, allowing a fast search by function Very large libraries are available for schematic components and footprints Most components have corresponding 3D models Install KiCad on Ubuntu 14.

Calibre 2.2 Released with Improved news sources

Calibre 2.2 updates Kindle driver: Add option to not overwrite existing page number (apnx) files on the device when sending books to the device Kindle driver: Add option to allow customization of the page number (apnx) generation algorithm based on values in a custom column Metadata jacket: Allow customizing the jacket template to show the tags in alphabetical order View specific format window: If a conversion finishes in the background making a new format available, update the window E-book viewer: Automatically hide the mouse cursor if the mouse has not been used for a few seconds.

Get valuable insights into your website’s visitors with Piwik

Real time data updates – Watch real time flow of visits to your website. Get a detailed view of your visitors, pages they have visited and goals they have triggered. Track different user interactions – Automatic tracking of file downloads, clicks on external website links, optional tracking of 404 pages Event Tracking – Measure any interaction by users on your websites and apps. Site Search Analytics – Track searches done on your internal search engine.

Install sqlmap on Ubuntu 14.04

Full support for MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, IBM DB2, SQLite, Firebird, Sybase and SAP MaxDB database management systems Full support for six SQL injection techniques: boolean-based blind, time-based blind, error-based, UNION query, stacked queries and out-of-band Support to directly connect to the database without passing via a SQL injection, by providing DBMS credentials, IP address, port and database name Support to enumerate users, password hashes, privileges, roles, databases, tables and columns Automatic recognition of password hash formats and support for cracking them using a dictionary-based attack Support to download and upload any file from the database server underlying file system when the database software is MySQL, PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server and many more

Install TeamViewer 9 in Ubuntu 14.04 64bit

Copy images, screenshots, and formatted text from one computer to another via the clipboard Other improvements and fixes TeamViewer QuickSupport for instant support Open multiple connections in different tabs Wake-on-LAN with TeamViewer Protect your TeamViewer account with two factor authentication Save customized customer modules Process customer cases in the service queue together with your team TeamViewer API for integration into your applications Notifications – Everything at a glance Optimized video Redesign for even easier use [button link=”http://www.

Next Generation of Lightweight DE – LXQt 0.7.0

The inclusion of PCManFM-Qt, the Qt port of LXDE’s desktop and file manager An all-new modular architecture, allowing users and maintainers to easily swap out components of the desktop for third party apps Several improvements to the system settings along with the inclusion of screens management, keyboard settings and file associations Improvements to cursor and appearance settings Improved support for systemd-based setups Ongoing work on Qt 5 compatibility. Most of our components already build on Qt 5!

Install Faenza Icons 1.3.1 in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10

New weather symbolic icons New apps: UbuntuOne Music and Ubuntu Online Accounts New designs for Twitter, Spotify and adressbook Icons for system settings categories on Ubuntu Fix some missing links