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==== automake ====
 
A GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles
 
  Old Version: 1.11.1 -> New Version: 1.11.3
 
Project site: (http://sourceware.org/automake/)
 
 
==== binutils ====
 
A GNU collection of binary utilities
 
  Old Version: 2.21.53.0.1 -> New Version: 2.22.52.0.1
 
Project site: (http://sources.redhat.com/binutils)
 
 
==== gcc ====
 
Fedora 17 includes version 4.7.0 of '''gcc''', '''gcc-c++''', '''gcc-gfortran''' and '''gcc-gnat'''. The update includes  numerous changes to the gcc series of compilers, not only C and C++, but also to Ada and Fortran.  For complete details, refer to the GCC 4.7 Release Series Changes at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/changes.html.
 
Some highlights:
 
* Several obsoleted architectures including IRIX 6.5, MIPS OpenBSD, Solaris, Tru64 UNIX 5.1 and a number of legacy ARM platforms
* Support for OpenMP 3.1 on C, C++ and Fortran
* More support for the C11 and C++11 standards updates
* New debug flexibility for Ada
* A number of performance improvements in Fortran
* Many optimizer enhancements
* New platforms:
** ARM Cortex A7
** AVR XMEGA
** Texas Instruments C6X
** National Semiconductor's CR16
** Tilera TILE-Gx and TILEPro families
* In addition, there are platform-specific improvements in ARM, AVR, IA-32/x86-64, MIPS, PowerPC/PowerPC64, SH and SPARC.
 
==== gdb ====
 
Fedora 17 no includes '''gdb''' 7.4.50.20120120.  To review the many new features please visit http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/ANNOUNCEMENT
 
==== libtool ====
 
The GNU Portable Library Tool
 
  Old Version: 2.4 -> New Version: 2.4.2
 
Project site: (http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/)
 
 
==== byacc ====
 
Berkeley Yacc, a parser generator
 
  Old Version: 1.9.20101229 -> New Version: 1.9.20111219
 
Project site: (http://invisible-island.net/byacc/byacc.html)
 
 
==== ccache ====
 
C/C++ compiler cache
 
  Old Version: 3.1.6 -> New Version: 3.1.7
 
Project site: (http://ccache.samba.org/)
 
 
==== diffstat ====
 
A utility which provides statistics based on the output of diff
 
  Old Version: 1.54 -> New Version: 1.55
 
Project site: (http://invisible-island.net/diffstat)
 
 
==== doxygen ====
 
A documentation system for C/C++
 
  Old Version: 1.7.5 -> New Version: 1.7.6.1
 
Project site: (http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/index.html)
 
 
==== emacs ====
 
GNU Emacs is updated to the latest prerelease from upstream, 24.0.93
 
==== git ====
 
 
'''git''' has been updated to 1.7.9.  Fedora 16 included 1.7.7.
 
There are numerous small feature additions.  The interested reader should review the
[https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt  changes since 1.7.8] and [https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt  changes since 1.7.7] in the upstream release notes.
 
==== intltool ====
 
Utility for internationalizing various kinds of data files
 
  Old Version: 0.41.1 -> New Version: 0.50.0
 
Project site: (http://www.gnome.org)
 
 
==== oprofile ====
 
System wide profiler
 
  Old Version: 0.9.6 -> New Version: 0.9.7
 
Project site: (http://oprofile.sf.net)
 
 
==== oprofile-gui ====
 
GUI for oprofile.
 
  Old Version: 0.9.6 -> New Version: 0.9.7
 
Project site: (http://oprofile.sf.net)
 
 
==== python-ldap ====
 
An object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers
 
  Old Version: 2.3.12 -> New Version: 2.4.6
 
Project site: (http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
==== rcs ====
 
Revision Control System (RCS) file version management tools
 
  Old Version: 5.7 -> New Version: 5.8
 
Project site: (http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/)
 
 
==== subversion ====
 
A Modern Concurrent Version Control System
 
  Old Version: 1.6.17 -> New Version: 1.7.3
 
Project site: (http://subversion.apache.org/)
 
 
==== systemtap ====
 
Instrumentation System
 
  Old Version: 1.6 -> New Version: 1.7
 
Project site: (http://sourceware.org/systemtap/)
 
 
==== valgrind ====
 
Tool for finding memory management bugs in programs
 
  Old Version: 3.6.1 -> New Version: 3.7.0
 
Project site: (http://www.valgrind.org/)
 
 
==== asa ====
 
Convert Fortran carriage control characters
 
  Old Version: 1.2 -> New Version:
 
Project site: (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/devel/lang/fortran/!INDEX.short.html)
 
 
==== bugzilla ====
 
Bug tracking system
 
  Old Version: 4.0.2 -> New Version: 4.0.4
 
Project site: (http://www.bugzilla.org/)
 
 
==== buildbot ====
 
Build/test automation system
 
  Old Version: 0.8.4p1 -> New Version: 0.8.5p1
 
Project site: (http://buildbot.net)
 
 
==== bzr ====
 
Friendly distributed version control system
 
  Old Version: 2.4.0 -> New Version: 2.5
 
Project site: (http://www.bazaar-vcs.org/)
 
 
==== cmake ====
 
Cross-platform make system
 
  Old Version: 2.8.5 -> New Version: 2.8.7
 
Project site: (http://www.cmake.org)
 
 
==== cvs2cl ====
 
Generate ChangeLogs from CVS working copies
 
  Old Version: 2.72 -> New Version: 2.73
 
Project site: (http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/)
 
 
==== darcs ====
 
David's Advanced Revision Control System
 
  Old Version: 2.5.2 -> New Version: 2.7.98.3
 
Project site: (http://www.darcs.net/)
 
 
==== ecl ====
 
Embeddable Common-Lisp
 
  Old Version: 11.1.1 -> New Version: 12.2.1
 
Project site: (http://ecls.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
==== eric ====
 
Python IDE
 
  Old Version: 4.4.14 -> New Version: 4.4.19
 
Project site: (http://eric-ide.python-projects.org)
 
 
==== erlang ====
 
General-purpose programming language and runtime environment
 
  Old Version: R14B -> New Version: R15B
 
Project site: (http://www.erlang.org)
 
 
==== fpc ====
 
Free Pascal Compiler
 
  Old Version: 2.4.2 -> New Version: 2.6.0
 
Project site: (http://www.freepascal.org/)
 
 
==== frysk-gnome ====
 
The GNOME front-end of Frysk
 
  Old Version: 0.4 -> New Version:
 
Project site: (http://sourceware.org/frysk)
 
 
==== gcc-objc ====
 
Objective-C support for GCC
 
  Old Version: 4.6.2 -> New Version: 4.7.0
 
Project site: (http://gcc.gnu.org)
 
 
==== giggle ====
 
A Gtk frontend to git
 
  Old Version: 0.5 -> New Version: 0.7
 
Project site: (http://live.gnome.org/giggle)
 
 
==== gtranslator ====
 
Gettext po file editor for GNOME
 
  Old Version: 2.90.5 -> New Version: 2.90.7
 
Project site: (http://projects.gnome.org/gtranslator/)
 
 
==== highlight ====
 
Universal source code to formatted text converter
 
  Old Version: 3.6 -> New Version: 3.7
 
Project site: (http://www.andre-simon.de/)
 
 
==== ipython ====
 
An enhanced interactive Python shell
 
  Old Version: 0.11 -> New Version: 0.12
 
Project site: (http://ipython.org/)
 
 
==== kuipc ====
 
Cernlib's Kit for a User Interface Package (KUIP) compiler
 
  Old Version: 2006 -> New Version:
 
Project site: (http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/)
 
 
==== lcov ====
 
LTP GCOV extension code coverage tool
 
  Old Version: 1.7 -> New Version: 1.9
 
Project site: (http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php)
 
 
==== livecd-tools ====
 
Tools for building live CDs
 
  Old Version: 16.8 -> New Version: 17.4
 
Project site: (http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/livecd)
 
 
==== lush ====
 
An object-oriented Lisp interpreter and compiler
 
  Old Version: 1.2.1 -> New Version:
 
Project site: (http://lush.sourceforge.net)
 
 
==== mach ====
 
Make a chroot
 
  Old Version: 0.9.5 -> New Version: 1.0.0
 
Project site: (http://thomas.apestaart.org/projects/mach/)
 
 
==== meld ====
 
Visual diff and merge tool
 
  Old Version: 1.5.2 -> New Version: 1.5.3
 
Project site: (http://meld.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
==== mercurial ====
 
Mercurial -- a distributed SCM
 
  Old Version: 1.9.2 -> New Version: 2.1
 
Project site: (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/)
 
 
==== mock ====
 
Builds packages inside chroots
 
  Old Version: 1.1.12 -> New Version: 1.1.21
 
Project site: (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock)
 
 
==== monodevelop ====
 
A full-featured IDE for Mono and Gtk#
 
  Old Version: 2.6 -> New Version: 2.8.5
 
Project site: (http://monodevelop.com/)
 
 
==== nemiver ====
 
A GNOME C/C++ Debugger
 
  Old Version: 0.9.0 -> New Version: 0.9.1
 
Project site: (http://projects.gnome.org/nemiver)
 
 
==== ocaml ====
 
Objective Caml compiler and programming environment
 
  Old Version: 3.12.0 -> New Version: 3.12.1
 
Project site: (http://www.ocaml.org)
 
 
==== patchy ====
 
The patchy utilities
 
  Old Version: 2006 -> New Version:
 
Project site: (http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/)
 
 
==== pl ====
 
SWI-Prolog - Edinburgh compatible Prolog compiler
 
  Old Version: 5.10.2 -> New Version: 5.10.5
 
Project site: (http://www.swi-prolog.org)
 
 
==== pungi ====
 
Distribution compose tool
 
  Old Version: 2.9 -> New Version: 2.10
 
Project site: (https://fedorahosted.org/pungi)
 
 
==== pylint ====
 
Analyzes Python code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality
 
  Old Version: 0.23.0 -> New Version: 0.25.0
 
Project site: (http://www.logilab.org/projects/pylint)
 
 
==== qgit ====
 
GUI browser for git repositories
 
  Old Version: 2.3 -> New Version: 2.4
 
Project site: (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)
 
 
==== quilt ====
 
Scripts for working with series of patches
 
  Old Version: 0.48 -> New Version: 0.51
 
Project site: (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt)
 
 
==== rpmdevtools ====
 
RPM Development Tools
 
  Old Version: 8.1 -> New Version: 8.2
 
Project site: (https://fedorahosted.org/rpmdevtools/)
 
 
==== rpmlint ====
 
Tool for checking common errors in RPM packages
 
  Old Version: 1.3 -> New Version: 1.4
 
Project site: (http://rpmlint.zarb.org/)
 
 
==== sbcl ====
 
Steel Bank Common Lisp
 
  Old Version: 1.0.51 -> New Version: 1.0.54
 
Project site: (http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
==== svn2cl ====
 
Create a ChangeLog from a Subversion log
 
  Old Version: 0.11 -> New Version: 0.13
 
Project site: (http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/svn2cl/)
 
 
==== tclpro ====
 
Development and debugging tools for Tcl applications
 
  Old Version: 1.5.0 -> New Version:
 
Project site: (http://tclpro.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
==== tkcon ====
 
Tcl GUI console
 
  Old Version: 2.5 -> New Version:
 
Project site: (http://tkcon.sourceforge.net/)
 
 
==== trac ====
 
Enhanced wiki and issue tracking system
 
  Old Version: 0.12.2 -> New Version: 0.12.3
 
Project site: (http://trac.edgewall.com/)
 
 
==== uim-gnome ====
 
GNOME Applet for Uim
 
  Old Version: 1.7.1 -> New Version: 1.7.2
 
Project site: (http://code.google.com/p/uim/)
 
 
==== yap ====
 
High-performance Prolog Compiler
 
  Old Version: 6.2.0 -> New Version: 6.2.2
 
Project site: (http://www.ncc.up.pt/~vsc/Yap)
 
 
==== systemtap-client ====
 
 
 
  Old Version:  -> New Version: 1.7
 
Project site: ()
 
 
==== systemtap-runtime ====
 
Instrumentation System Runtime
 
  Old Version: 1.6 -> New Version: 1.7
 
Project site: (http://sourceware.org/systemtap/)
 
 
==== systemtap-server ====
 
Instrumentation System Server
 
  Old Version: 1.6 -> New Version: 1.7
 
Project site: (http://sourceware.org/systemtap/)
 
 
==== netbeans-javaparser ====
 
NetBeans Java Parser
 
  Old Version: 6.9 -> New Version: 7.0.1
 
Project site: (http://java.netbeans.org/javaparser/)
 
 
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