Tools
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 .
gcl
GNU Common Lisp
Old Version: 2.6.7 -> New Version: 2.6.8
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
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
Haddock documentation tool for annotated Haskell source code
Old Version: 2.0.0.0 -> New Version: 2.4.1
Project site: (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
CVS to Subversion Repository Converter
Old Version: 2.1.1 -> New Version: 2.2.0
Project site: (http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/)
darcs
David's advanced revision control system
Old Version: 2.0.2 -> New Version: 2.2.1
Project site: (http://www.darcs.net/)
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/)