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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 .

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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

 Old Version: 2.6.7 -> New Version: 2.6.8

Project site: (http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl)

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Editor's note
OK, this one is really confusing. The package was 2.6.7 in the original F10 yum database, but the current version is 2.6.8, dated well before the release of F10. The project site however lists the latest version as 2.6.7 and that from 2005. Further, there is bug work in rawhide (472780) that is dated well after F10 that seems to indicate that gcl is not currently in Fedora. I have an email to the person working the bug.


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

Color terminal highlighter for diff files

 Old Version: 1.0.7 -> New Version: 1.0.8a

Project site: (http://colordiff.sourceforge.net/)


doxygen

A documentation system for C/C++.

 Old Version: 1.5.7.1 -> New Version: 1.5.8

Project site: (http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/index.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

Universal source code to formatted text converter

 Old Version: 2.6.13 -> New Version: 2.7

Project site: (http://www.andre-simon.de/)


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

GNU Emacs text editor

 Old Version: 22.2 -> New Version: 22.3

Project site: (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)


eric

Python IDE

 Old Version: 4.2.2a -> New Version: 4.3.0

Project site: (http://www.die-offenbachs.de/eric/index.html)


ipython

An enhanced interactive Python shell

 Old Version: 0.8.4 -> New Version: 0.9.1

Project site: (http://ipython.scipy.org/)


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

Web-based bugtracking system

 Old Version: 1.1.4 -> New Version: 1.1.6

Project site: (http://www.mantisbt.org/)


trac

Enhanced wiki and issue tracking system

 Old Version: 0.10.5 -> New Version: 0.11.3

Project site: (http://trac.edgewall.com/)


trac-mercurial-plugin

Mercurial plugin for Trac

 Old Version: 0.10.0.2 -> New Version: 0.11.0.7

Project site: (http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracMercurial)

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/)