Seit dem 1. Juni gibt es eine neue Version vom Total Commander:

June 1, 2005: Total Commander 6.53 is now available for download. This upgrade corrects some problems with the new functions introduced with Total Commander 6.50. We recommend this update to everyone using a 6.5x version!

Es gibt eine neue Version der Passwort-Datenbank KeePass. Ab sofort nennt sie sich Version 1.00:

05/06/04 - 1.00
- Changed window activation routine for the Auto-Type command
- Minor improvement to the checkboxes in the advanced options
- Added short ‘first steps’ KeePass usage tutorial to the CHM
- Extended and updated CHM manual
- The automatic random password generation for new entries is optional now
- Moved ‘workspace cannot be unlocked’ message to the status bar (instead of displaying it in a message box)
- Improved window repositioning code (window position and size is now remembered over different desktop screen resolutions)
- Added option to exclude backup entries in quick searches
- Fixed default Y-splitter position (used when no INI present)
- Fixed a bug which caused the toolbar to be displayed incorrectly after a second database has been opened when being in single-instance mode and having the first db locked
- Fixed a bug which could make KeePass show an empty expired entry list dialog when opening a new database
- Fixed a bug that could crash KeePass when changing the UI language while the single instance option is enabled
- Shift-Home and Shift-End don’t clear secure edit controls any more when being in non-protected mode
- Clearing out the date/time fields completely results in default values instead of invalid dates/times
- You cannot enter invalid dates/times any more
- Renamed the long traying command string to “Tray/Untray”
- Added -ext: command-line parameter; parameters that start with -ext: are not parsed by KeePass and can therefore be used by plugins for example
- Added 6 and 12 months to pre-defined expiry intervals list
- Several minor UI improvements

Last, but not least: Eine neue Version von FileZilla, dem Open Source FTP-Programm für Windows: Jetzt ist die Version 2.2.14 aktuell.

Es gibt eine neue Version von VirtualDub, der Open Source Video-Bearbeitungs-Software.

Build 23486 (1.6.6, experimental): [May 29, 2005]
   [features added]
   * Added an option in Options > Preferences > AVI to force sector alignment
     for large uncompressed frames. This can resolve compatibility problems
     with some uncompressed hardware video playback units.

   [bugs fixed]
   * Capture: Video/audio format and compression and video frame rate now
     autosave on disconnect.
   * Capture: Fixed some cases where the Raw Audio Format dialog didn't
     highlight the currently selected PCM format.
   * Capture: Noise reduction threshold was not restored properly.
   * Capture: Renamed Peak Meter back to Volume Meter and restored V
     accelerator.
   * Frame byte size was being computed improperly for YCbCr AVIs.
   * Fixed broken MJPEG video decoding at bottom-right corner on streams that
     have restart markers.
   * Reworked MJPEG field ordering detection to be consistent with DirectShow
     MJPEG decoder. If this is reversed for your files, enable "swap fields"
     in AVI extended open options.
   * Scene detection was busted for 16-bit RGB (very rare case).
   * Minor status updating features, such as the current position nub moving
     during input preview, were broken after running a job that ended in an
     error.
   * (AMD64 only) Scene detection is now implemented.
   * (AMD64 only) Enabled some video filters that had scalar implementations:
     flipv, fliph, deinterlace, rotate, and HSV.
   * Save Image Sequence dialog didn't show the "add as job" button as checked,
     even if it was saved as such from the last time.
   * Fixed minor bugs in various image converters and improved accuracy of a
     few YCbCr-to-RGB converters.
   * Fixed UYVY/YUY2-to-RGB converters not interpolating chroma properly.
   * Fixed YVU9 chroma planes being swapped on write to disk and enabled YVU9
     for direct input.

   [regressions fixed]
   * App would sometimes exit after stopping frameserver.
   * Frameserver sent garbage data if the video filter chain changed the frame
     size.
   * Fixed a regression in video codec negotiation for MS MPEG-4 V3 variants
     where a different but compatible codec was not properly detected.
   * Doing a paste with no selection caused one frame to be deleted before
     doing the paste.
   * Write open failures were being reported again when the target file
     couldn't be opened a second time in fast I/O mode, which happens
     sometimes with emulators or remote drives. The slower fallback has been
     reinstated.
   * Running out of disk space at the very end of a render operation was
     sometimes reported as an I/O error rather than a write error.
   * Sampling in filter preview could fail if the timeline had been edited.

Ist schon wieder ein paar Tage alt, aber ich bin noch nicht dazu gekommen, hier ein Update zu vermelden: Es gibt eine neue Version von 7-zip. Version 4.20 ist seit langem das erste Nicht-Beta release.

Bei c|net ist ein Artikel erschienen, in dem ein Sicherheits-Mensch von Microsoft sich zum Thema Passwörter und dem Aufschreiben derer auslässt.

“How many have (a) password policy that says under penalty of death you shall not write down your password?” asked Johansson, to which the majority of attendees raised their hands in agreement. “I claim that is absolutely wrong. I claim that password policy should say you should write down your password. I have 68 different passwords. If I am not allowed to write any of them down, guess what I am going to do? I am going to use the same password on every one of them.”

Und ich muß sagen: Recht hat er. Allerdings schreibe ich mir meine Passwörter nicht auf Papier auf, sondern mit dem Programm KeePass. Sehr zu empfehlen.

Es gibt eine neue Version des Passwort-Verwaltungs-Programms KeePass.

Es gibt eine neue Version vom NewzCrawler.

Es gibt eine neue Version von PuTTY.

These features are new in beta 0.58 (released 2005-04-05):

• Wildcards (mput/mget) and recursive file transfer in PSFTP.
• You can now save your session details from the Change Settings dialog box, after you’ve started your session.
• Various improvements to Unicode support, including:
• support for right-to-left and bidirectional text (Arabic, Hebrew etc). Thanks to arabeyes.org for design and most of the implementation.
• support for Arabic text shaping, again thanks to arabeyes.org.
• support for Unicode combining characters.
• Support for the xterm 256-colour control sequences.
• Port forwardings can now be reconfigured in mid-session.
• Support for IPv6. Thanks to unfix.org for having patiently maintained the patch for this until we were finally ready to integrate it.
• More configurability and flexibility in SSH-2 key exchange. In particular, PuTTY can now initiate repeat key exchange during the session, which means that if your server doesn’t initiate it (OpenSSH is known not to bother) you can still have the cryptographic benefits.
• Bug fix: display artefacts caused by characters overflowing their character cell should now all be gone. (This would probably have bothered Windows ClearType users more than anyone else.)
• Bug fix: keepalives are now supported everywhere. (Previously they were supported by Windows GUI PuTTY, but were missing in Plink, PSFTP and the Unix port.)
• Miscellaneous improvements for CJK/IME users; many thanks to Hung-Te Lin for assistance.

Es gibt eine neue Version von 7-Zip.

Changes:

• Speed optimization (5%) for 7z / LZMA
• 7za.exe now supports .Z archives
• -r- switch in command line now is default for all commands
• Some bugs were fixed
• New localization: Uzbek

Wer Codec’s braucht ist beim K-Lite Mega Codec Pack gut aufgehoben - und von dem gibt’s seit heute gestern eine neue Version…