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The following packages are new or updated for Fedora 11:
 
 
 
=== Applicance Tools ===
 
''' ace '''
 
The '''ace''' suite of appliance tools has been upgraded to version 0.0.6, including '''ace''', '''ace-apache''', '''ace-banners''', '''ace-basic-site''', '''ace-mysql''', '''ace-php''', ''' ace-postgres ''', and ''' ace-ssh '''
 
=== Languages ===
 
''' clisp '''
 
'''clisp''' (Common Lisp) has been updated to 2.47.  There are a number of changes, please review the project's site (http://clisp.cons.org).
 
 
''' gcc '''
 
The gcc compiler suite has been updated to 4.4.0 including '''gcc''', ''' gcc-c++ ''', ''' gcc-gfortran''', ''' gcc-gnat ''', and ''' gcc-objc '''.
 
{{Admon/warning| Some of the changes involve syntax changes which have the potential to break existing code. | Please review the NEWS files at http://gcc.gnu.org carefully before upgrading.}}
 
 
''' gcl '''
 
GNU Common Lisp is updated to 2.68pre.  This long awaited release fixes a great many bugs.
 
Project site: (http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl)
 
 
''' gforth '''
 
Fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth language
 
Fedora 11 includes version 0.7.0 of gforth.
 
There are a large number of changes to gforth in this release.  The developer is strongly encouraged to view the project site before proceeding.
 
Project site: (http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/gforth.html)
 
 
''' ghc '''
 
Glasgow Haskell Compilation system
 
  Old Version: 6.8.3 -> New Version: 6.10.1
 
Project site: (http://haskell.org/ghc/)
 
 
''' gprolog '''
 
GNU Prolog has been updated to version 1.3.1.  The changes since 1.3.0 are largely of a bug fix nature.  The programmer may wish to review the NEWS file at http://www.gprolog.org/NEWS.
 
 
''' iasl '''
 
The Intel Advanced Configuration and Power Interface compiler has been upgraded to version 20090123.  This is the first update since 2006 and a number of functions have changed names.  The developer should review http://www.acpica.org/download/changes.txt before proceeding.
 
 
''' mingw32-gcc '''
 
Fedora 11 now includes the MinGW compiler.  This is a major new feature allowing developers to build application for Windows and Linux from the same source code.
 
 
''' nasm '''
 
A portable x86 assembler which uses Intel-like syntax
 
  Old Version: 2.03.01 -> New Version: 2.05.01
 
Project site: (http://nasm.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
''' ocaml '''
 
Objective Caml compiler and programming environment
 
  Old Version: 3.10.2 -> New Version: 3.11.0
 
Project site: (http://www.ocaml.org)
 
 
''' pl '''
 
SWI-Prolog - Edinburgh compatible Prolog compiler
 
  Old Version: 5.6.60 -> New Version: 5.7.6
 
Project site: (http://www.swi-prolog.org)
 
 
''' sbcl '''
 
Steel Bank Common Lisp
 
  Old Version: 1.0.21 -> New Version: 1.0.25
 
Project site: (http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
''' ucblogo '''
 
An interpreter for the Logo programming language
 
  Old Version: 5.5 -> New Version: 6.0
 
Project site: (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh)
 
 
''' yasm '''
 
Complete rewrite of the NASM assembler
 
  Old Version: 0.7.1 -> New Version: 0.7.2
 
Project site: (http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/)
 
=== Debug tools ===
 
''' alleyoop '''
 
Graphical front-end to the Valgrind memory checker for x86
 
  Old Version: 0.9.3 -> New Version: 0.9.4
 
Project site: (http://alleyoop.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
''' gdb '''
 
A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Java and other languages
 
  Old Version: 6.8 -> New Version: 6.8.50.20090210
 
Project site: (http://gnu.org/software/gdb/)
 
 
''' memtest86+ '''
 
Stand-alone memory tester for x86 and x86-64 computers
 
  Old Version: 2.01 -> New Version: 2.10
 
Project site: (http://www.memtest.org)
 
 
''' nemiver '''
 
A GNOME C/C++ Debugger
 
  Old Version: 0.6.3 -> New Version: 0.6.4
 
Project site: (http://home.gna.org/nemiver/)
 
 
''' pmd '''
 
Scans Java source code and looks for potential problems
 
  Old Version: 3.6 -> New Version: 4.2.5
 
Project site: (http://pmd.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
''' pylint '''
 
Analyzes Python code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality
 
  Old Version: 0.14.0 -> New Version: 0.16.0
 
Project site: (http://www.logilab.org/projects/pylint)
 
 
''' valgrind '''
 
Tool for finding memory management bugs in programs
 
  Old Version: 3.3.0 -> New Version: 3.4.0
 
Project site: (http://www.valgrind.org/)
 
=== Documentation Tools ===
 
''' colordiff '''
 
'''colordiff''' has been updated to 1.08a.  Changes (from the project website) include:
Support for numeric colours added, for 256-colour terminals (thanks to Gautam Iyer). Diff-types can now be specified explicitly, for use when diff-type detection doesn't work or isn't possible. Return diff's exit code, patch from Tim Connors. Allow extraneous diff text to be coloured separately.
 
 
''' doxygen '''
 
'''doxygen''' 1.5.8 includes a completely rewritten doxywizard, enhanced extension mapping, support for Vietnamese and better support for Turkish.  In addition there are numerous bug fixes as outlined in http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/changelog.html.
 
 
''' haddock '''
 
There are a large number of improvements to the Haddock documentation tool between version 2.4.1, the version in Fedora 11, and 2.0.0, the Fedora 10 version.  See the project site for details: http://www.haskell.org/haddock/.
 
 
''' highlight '''
 
Version 2.7 of '''highlight''' includes (from http://www.andre-simon.de/):
 
* improved XML- and VHDL highlighting
* added support for Clojure
* added wrapping arrows in LaTeX output
 
 
''' texinfo '''
 
Version 4.13 of '''texinfo''' includes a reference card, better support for HTML, and support for multibyte character sets.  For full details, see the project site: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/
 
=== IDEs, Editors ===
 
''' emacs '''
 
Release 22.3 of '''emacs''' is primarily concerned with cleaning out old/obsolete features.  See the NEWS file (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/NEWS.22.3) for full details.
 
 
''' eric '''
 
Fedora 11 includes version 4.3.0 of the '''eric''' Python IDE. See http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/eric-news.html for full details.
 
 
''' ipython '''
 
'''ipython''' 0.9.1 is included, an update from 0.8.4.  This is a major release.  See http://ipython.scipy.org/announcements/ann-ipython-0.9.txt for the full story.
 
 
''' monodevelop '''
 
A full-featured IDE for Mono and Gtk#
 
  Old Version: 1.9 -> New Version: 1.9.2
 
Project site: (http://monodevelop.com/)
 
 
''' plt-scheme '''
 
Graphical environment for developing programs using Scheme
 
  Old Version: 4.1 -> New Version: 4.1.2
 
Project site: (http://www.drscheme.org)
 
=== Issue and Bug Tracking ===
 
''' mantis '''
 
'''mantis''' has been upgraded to 1.1.6.  "This release fixes once and for all the caching troubles from previous stable releases, some access permissions bugs, and a few various other issues. This release also improves the existing source control integration by allowing remote checkins."  For a complete list of all other changes see http://www.mantisbt.org/.
 
 
''' trac '''
 
0.11.3 of '''trac''' contains a number of new features, including a new template engine for generating content, new configurable workflow, and finer grained control of permissions.
 
 
''' trac-mercurial-plugin '''
 
'''trac-mercurial-plugin''' 0.11.0.7 works with the '''trac''' 0.11 release, and provides added features including quickjump to a tag or branch, blame support, and custom property renderers.
 
=== Lexical and parsing tools ===
 
''' alex '''
 
'''alex has been upgraded to version 2.3.1.
 
Project site: (http://haskell.org/alex/)
 
 
''' bison '''
 
Fedora 11 includes version 2.4.1 of '''bison'''.  This is a minor upgrade.
 
 
''' happy '''
 
The LALR(1) Parser Generator for Haskell
 
  Old Version: 1.17 -> New Version: 1.18.2
 
Project site: (http://haskell.org/happy/)
 
 
''' netbeans-javaparser '''
 
NetBeans Java Parser
 
  Old Version: 6.1 -> New Version: 6.5
 
Project site: (http://java.netbeans.org/javaparser/)
 
=== Make and build tools ===
 
''' automake '''
 
A GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles
 
  Old Version: 1.10.1 -> New Version: 1.10.2
 
Project site: (http://sources.redhat.com/automake)
 
 
''' cmake '''
 
'''cmake''' has been upgraded to version 2.6.3.  This update includes many bug fixes.  For a complete list visit http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.6/CMakeChangeLog-2.6.3.
 
 
''' cpanspec '''
 
Fedora 11 includes version 1.78 of cpanspec.  In addition to a number of bug fixes, there are some additional command line options.
 
 
''' koji '''
 
Build system tools
 
  Old Version: 1.2.6 -> New Version: 1.3.1
 
Project site: (http://fedorahosted.org/koji)
 
 
''' koji-hub '''
 
Koji XMLRPC interface
 
  Old Version: 1.2.6 -> New Version: 1.3.1
 
Project site: (http://fedorahosted.org/koji)
 
 
''' koji-web '''
 
Koji Web UI
 
  Old Version: 1.2.6 -> New Version: 1.3.1
 
Project site: (http://fedorahosted.org/koji)
 
 
''' meld '''
 
Visual diff and merge tool
 
  Old Version: 1.2 -> New Version: 1.2.1
 
Project site: (http://meld.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
''' patchutils '''
 
A collection of programs for manipulating patch files
 
  Old Version: 0.3.0 -> New Version: 0.3.1
 
Project site: (http://cyberelk.net/tim/patchutils/)
 
 
''' plague '''
 
Distributed build system for RPMs
 
  Old Version: 0.4.5.6 -> New Version: 0.4.5.7
 
Project site: (http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Plague)
 
 
''' pungi '''
 
Distribution compose tool
 
  Old Version: 2.0.8 -> New Version: 2.0.10
 
Project site: (https://fedorahosted.org/pungi)
 
 
''' rpmdevtools '''
 
RPM Development Tools
 
  Old Version: 6.7 -> New Version: 7.0
 
Project site: (https://fedorahosted.org/rpmdevtools/)
 
=== Revision Control Tools ===
 
''' bzr '''
 
'''bzr''' has been upgraded to 1.12 which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes over the 1.7 version in Fedora 10.  The '''bzr''' user is encouraged to visit the project's webpage at http://www.bazaar-vcs.org/ to review these improvements.
 
 
''' cvs2cl '''
 
Generate ChangeLogs from CVS working copies
 
  Old Version: 2.71 -> New Version: 2.72
 
Project site: (http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/)
 
(May have to drop this from the RNs, seems like there is precious little information available)
 
 
''' cvs2svn '''
 
'''cvs2svn''' has been updated to 2.2.0.  In addition to bugfixes, there are a large number of new features.  Visit http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/source/browse/cvs2svn/tags/2.2.0/CHANGES for the details.
 
 
''' darcs '''
 
Version 2.2.0 of '''darcs''' includes a number of new features in addition to a numbe of bugfixes.  See the changelog at http://allmydata.org/trac/darcs-2/browser/NEWS.
 
 
''' giggle '''
 
A Gtk frontend to git
 
  Old Version: 0.4 -> New Version: 0.4.90
 
Project site: (http://developer.imendio.com/projects/giggle/)
 
 
''' git '''
 
There are a large number of bugfixes and enhancements to git between 1.6.0.3, the version that shipped with Fedora 10, and 1.6.1.3, the Fedora 11 version.  Many of these involve subtle changes in the behavior of some commands.  git documents these changes in a 'RelNotes' file for each version.  Review the 6 relevant RelNotes files to understand all the changes.
 
 
''' mercurial '''
 
A fast, lightweight distributed source control management system
 
  Old Version: 1.0.2 -> New Version: 1.1.2
 
Project site: (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/)
 
 
''' monotone '''
 
A free, distributed version control system
 
  Old Version: 0.41 -> New Version: 0.42
 
Project site: (http://monotone.ca/)
 
 
''' netbeans-svnclientadapter '''
 
Subversion Client Adapter
 
  Old Version: 6.1 -> New Version: 6.5
 
Project site: (http://subversion.netbeans.org/teepee/svnclientadapter.html)
 
 
''' subcommander '''
 
Graphical UI for subversion
 
  Old Version: 1.9.93 -> New Version: 1.9.94
 
Project site: (http://subcommander.tigris.org)
 
 
''' subversion '''
 
Modern Version Control System designed to replace CVS
 
  Old Version: 1.5.4 -> New Version: 1.5.5
 
Project site: (http://subversion.tigris.org/)
 
 
''' svn2cl '''
 
Create a ChangeLog from a Subversion log
 
  Old Version: 0.10 -> New Version: 0.11
 
Project site: (http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/svn2cl/)
 
 
''' tkcvs '''
 
TkCVS and TkDiff
 
  Old Version: 8.1 -> New Version: 8.2
 
Project site: (http://www.twobarleycorns.net/tkcvs.html)
 
=== Other Development Tools ===
 
''' amqp '''
 
The AMQP specification
 
  Old Version: 1.0.705289 -> New Version: 1.0.738618
 
Project site: (http://www.amqp.org)
 
 
''' binutils '''
 
'''binutils''' has been updated to 2.19.51.0.2.  This is a minor update, see
http://sources.redhat.com/binutils
 
 
''' cproto '''
 
In addition to a few bugfixes, the following changes have been made:
 
* modify cpp command to redirect stderr to /dev/null if -q option is given, for consistency with the non-cpp mode
* add configure --disable-leaks option.
* use configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to make mkstemp() prototyped on Linux.
* remove isascii() usage.
 
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cproto/
 
 
''' elfutils '''
 
elfutils has been updated to 0.140 (from 0.137).  In addition to a number of bug fixes, it adds Intel SSE4 disassembler support and automatic decompression of ELF files.  For the full story, see the NEWS file at http://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/browser/NEWS.
 
 
''' libtool '''
 
Fedora 11 includes '''libtool''' 2.2.6, which is a complete rewrite of the version 1.5 in Fedora 10.  The upstream project has released a number of interim versions which were not reflected in Fedora.  For a complete history, see
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/news.html.
 
 
''' livecd-tools '''
 
Tools for building live CD's
 
  Old Version: 020 -> New Version: 021
 
Project site: (http://git.fedoraproject.org/?p=hosted/livecd)
 
 
''' mcrypt '''
 
Replacement for crypt()
 
  Old Version: 2.6.7 -> New Version: 2.6.8
 
Project site: (http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
''' mock '''
 
Builds packages inside chroots
 
  Old Version: 0.9.13 -> New Version: 0.9.14
 
Project site: (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock)
 
 
''' netbeans-apisupport1 '''
 
Common NetBeans Platform Development Related Libraries for NetBeans
 
  Old Version: 6.1 -> New Version: 6.5
 
Project site: (http://www.netbeans.org)
 
 
''' plague-client '''
 
Package queueing client for the Plague build system
 
  Old Version: 0.4.5.6 -> New Version: 0.4.5.7
 
Project site: (http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Plague)
 
 
''' revisor '''
 
Fedora "Spin" Graphical User Interface
 
  Old Version: 2.1.2 -> New Version: 2.1.3
 
Project site: (http://fedorahosted.org/revisor)
 
 
''' scons '''
 
An Open Source software construction tool
 
  Old Version: 1.0.0 -> New Version: 1.2.0
 
Project site: (http://www.scons.org)
 
 
''' srecord '''
 
Manipulate EPROM load files
 
  Old Version: 1.39 -> New Version: 1.46
 
Project site: (http://srecord.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
''' swig '''
 
'''swig''' is a package which connects C/C++/Objective C to some high-level programming languages.  Fedora 11 includes version 1.3.38 with a number of changes:
 
* Enhancement to directors to wrap all protected members
 
* Optimisation feature for objects returned by value
 
* A few bugs fixes in the PHP, Java, Ruby, R, C#, Python, Lua and Perl modules
 
* Other minor generic bug fixes (0 comments)
 
Project site: (http://swig.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
''' systemtap '''
 
Instrumentation System
 
  Old Version: 0.8 -> New Version: 0.9
 
Project site: (http://sourceware.org/systemtap/)
 
 
''' systemtap-client '''
 
Instrumentation System Client
 
  Old Version: 0.8 -> New Version: 0.9
 
Project site: (http://sourceware.org/systemtap/)
 
 
''' systemtap-runtime '''
 
Instrumentation System Runtime
 
  Old Version: 0.8 -> New Version: 0.9
 
Project site: (http://sourceware.org/systemtap/)
 
 
''' systemtap-server '''
 
Instrumentation System Server
 
  Old Version: 0.8 -> New Version: 0.9
 
Project site: (http://sourceware.org/systemtap/)
 
 
''' translate-toolkit '''
 
A collection of tools to assist software localization
 
  Old Version: 1.1.1 -> New Version: 1.3.0
 
Project site: (http://translate.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
''' xfce4-dev-tools '''
 
Xfce developer tools
 
  Old Version: 4.4.0.1 -> New Version: 4.5.99.1
 
Project site: (http://xfce.org/~benny/projects/xfce4-dev-tools/)
 
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