I’m pleased to announce the release of XWP v1.0.9. It contains over 30 bugfixes and enhancements from Paul Ratcliffe, myself, and others. Special thanks go to Mensys for sponsoring some of these improvements.

Among the changes:

- Split View is now fully functional. Both panes should update properly
and all of the menus should work.

- You can now (successfully) set the default view for any file or folder
from its ’Open as’ menu using Shift+MB1 on the desired view.

- ACPI shutdown should not leave filesystems dirty any more.

- XFix has been thoroughly revised to make it safer and easier to use.
Handles are no longer deleted immediately and any problems caused
by a pending deletion are flagged so they can be corrected. A new
Auto-Protect feature prevents deletion of any handle the WPS might
require. XFix’s help panels have also been completely revised.

The base package plus NLS support packages for German and Dutch can be
downloaded from:

http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/xwp-1-0-9.exe
http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/xwp-1-0-9-nls-de.exe
http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/xwp-1-0-9-nls-nl.exe
or
http://class='extlink'http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php
http://class='extlink'http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php
http://class='extlink'http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php

If you encounter any bugs in this release or wish to request new features,
please open a ticket in XTracker at:

http://class='extlink'xtracker.xworkplace.org/index.php

Thanks,

Rich Walsh

The GenINI (freeware) package for saving and restoring INI files has
been updated to version 1.40. You can get the new version from
http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.pmoylan.org/software/genini1.40.zip />or from
http://class='extlink'http://www.pmoylan.org/pages/os2/genini.html />or from Hobbes.

This new version fixes an obscure bug that can cause infinite recursion
while dumping a long string that contains both kinds of quotation marks.
Since this is the first bug that has been reported in two years, the
software can be considered to be relatively stable.

-- Peter Moylan http://class='mailtolink'peter@pmoylan.org /> http://class='extlink'http://www.pmoylan.org>

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Hi, once the mirroring finishes, lightning 1.2.1 for Thunderbird 10.x and SeaMonkey 2.7.x should be available here,
http://class='extlink'; http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/releases/1.2.1/contrib/os2/ />
Hopefully automatic updates will work though they haven’t here yet.
This Lightning should have all locales included. I quickly tested German which to my non-German eyes seemed to work.

Dave

Community support for the Mozilla applications is available through the newsgroups ’mozilla.dev.ports.os2’ or ’comp.os.os2.apps’.   Messages posted to other forums may not be seen by the developers.   For additional resources, see the "Links" section below.

Dave Yeo has uploaded Firefox 10.0.2 to the Netlabs FTP Incoming\Mozilla directory.  Firefox is the web browser based on the open source Mozilla project.

According to Dave, FF10.0.2 is almost the same as FF10 with a libpng buffer overflow fix. See the readme.os2 for requirements and installation instructions. This build has an ongoing problem with losing focus which can require switching between other windows before you can enter any text into the URL or web form fields.

Download: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/mozilla/firefox-10.0.2.en-US.os2.zip

Community support for the Mozilla applications is available through the newsgroups ’mozilla.dev.ports.os2’ or ’comp.os.os2.apps’. Messages posted to other forums may not be seen by the developers. For additional resources, see the "Links" section below.

Dave Yeo has uploaded Seamonkey 2.7.2 to the Netlabs FTP Incoming\Mozilla
directory. Seamonkey is the combined web browser/mail program based on the Mozilla open source project.

According to Dave, Seamonkey 2.7.2 has a libpng buffer overflow fix, as well as some LDAP fixes and a fix related to importing MS outlook data. See the readme.os2 for requirements and installation instructions.

Download: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/mozilla/seamonkey-2.7.2.en-US.os2.zip

Community support for the Mozilla applications is available through the
newsgroups ’mozilla.dev.ports.os2’ or ’comp.os.os2.apps’. Messages posted
to other forums may not be seen by the developers. For additional
resources, see the "Links" section below.

Mensys BV is pleased to announce the availability of the Flash Plugin Wrapper for eComStation Beta 1

This product is available for download to all registered users of

Software Subscription Services for eComStation. For more information, please visit: http://www.ecomstation.com/subscription/

With the new release of this Flash wrapper, up-to-date Flash support for eComStation is provided. Currently it includes Flash Player 11.1.102.55.

The first beta the Flash Plugin Wrapper for eComStation is intended to enable you to use websites implementing the latest Flash content.

With the new release of this Flash wrapper, up-to-date Flash support for eComStation is provided. Currently it includes Adobe Flash Player version 11.1.102.55.

Notes

=====

- This code should not be used on production systems. See the readme.txt document for details.

- This release requires eComStation 1.2, 1.2R or eComStation 2.0 GA.

- This release requires an installed version of Odin 0.8.3 or higher, which can be obtained from the same download location as the Flash Plugin Wrapper package.

- Feedback can be provided via http://svn.ecomstation.nl/flash10

Please follow the guidelines in order to properly report a bug.

After downloading please review the readme documentation for known issues and instructions on how to uninstall.

Best regards,

Mensys BV

Links:

• http://www.ecomstation.com/subscription/
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Paul Smedley has updated Sane for OS/2 with USB Support to v1.0.22.
http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php

"SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner, video- and still-cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.)."

Download: http://class='extlink'http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecsports/files/sane-1.0.22-os2-20120131.zip/download

/>Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://class='extlink'http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/>

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There is a new version of ODIN on the Netlabs FTP server.
ODIN is the Open Source project to provide a win32 API for OS/2 and eComStation. Originally to allow OS/2 users to run Windows 32 bit applications. Now used to port windows applications to OS/2 an eComStation. The Odin runtime is a requirement for the newest developed versions of JAVA and Flash 10 for OS/2 and eCS.

For more information and downloads, see:

http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/odin32

Download: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/0.8.3/odin-0.8.3.zip

0.8.3 (2012-02-07)
------------------
- Add bldlevel info to all Odin DLLs and EXEs.
- Fix "Memory allocation failure" error when loading some Win32 EXEs with
PE/PEC.
- user32: Implement GetComboBoxInfo() needed for some apps.
- Fix crashes in CreateIconIndirect()/CreateIconFromResource()/LoadImage()
(seen in e.g. WinRAR).
- wgss: Fix broken GetFullPathName() that could lead to strange behavior.
- Add a bunch of API stubs referenced by the debug version of Flash DLL.
- shell32: Implement SHGetDiskFreeSpace[Ex]().
- user32: Make sure GetQueueStatus?() correctly reports QS_KEY state (this
fixes playback in focused windows in Flash versions above 10.0.45).
- kernel32: Implement SwitchToThread().
- Brush up log files in Odin debug builds (human readable timestamps,
output serialization, etc.).
- user32: Support MIIM_FTYPE/MIIM_STRING flags properly in InsertMenuItem()
and SetMenuItemInfo() (this e.g. fixes context menus in Flash > 10.0.45).
- Show Odin version number in the About Odin dialog.

Please report problems on the wiki at http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/newticket
If you need a logonto the netlabs wiki, then first go to http://class='extlink'http://www.netlabs.org/en/site/member/member.xml

Odin mailing list archive:
http://class='extlink'http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.odin.user

To support future Netlabs development consider making a donation
http://class='extlink'www.mensys.com/shop/Netlabs/

I’ve uploaded Thunderbird 10, http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/mozilla/thunderbird-10.0.en-US.os2.zip.

Took over 10 hours :( so hopefully the upload is good.
MD5 is f93c7f822270c9584346af3ce2b69b62
When first run this version used a lot of memory here, forcing me to kill it the first couple of times due to swapping. I then ran it alone and it briefly allocated 800 MBs of memory then released 600 MBs and proceeded to reindex everything. I have some large folders and reindexing took quite a while (watch it in the Activity Manager under Tools) and after this it has ran fine using the expected 100MB or so of memory. This may have been a profile problem here but I’d advise on first start to not have anything else running and let it reindex. The reindexing may also be caused by SQLITE3 having been updated.
I’ll upload Lightning and Enigmail later.
Dave

Paul Smedley has updated Apache2 to v2.2.22. http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.id.au />http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php

"The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT."

This version has been updated to v2.2.22 source.

Download: http://class='extlink'http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecsports/files/Apache2%20Web%20Server/httpd-2.2.22-os2-20120203.zip/download

/>Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://class='extlink'http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/>

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Paul Smedley has updated MySQL to v5.1.61. http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.id.au
http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php

"MySQL 5.1 Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world’s most popular open source database."

Download: http://class='extlink'http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecsports/files/MySQL_v5.1.x/mysql-5.1.61-os2-20120204.zip/download
Requires: http://class='extlink'http://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.4-csd4.zip
And http://class='extlink'http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecsports/files/GCC%20Runtime%20DLLs/gcc446.zip/download

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store www.mensys.net/os2ports/

Paul Smedley has updated PHP v5.3.x to v5.3.10.

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php

"PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML."

Download: http://class='extlink'http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecsports/files/PHP%20v5.x/php-5.3.10-os2-20120204.zip/download />Requires: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.4-csd4.zip

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://class='extlink'http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/>

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Clipview 3.4 is released

http://class='extlink'http://www.deezee.org/ClipView.html

New features bug fixes etc:

Corrected bug introduced by -F that stopped -f working.
Fixed focus bug with top and bottom boundaries.
Fixed slow shutdown with -a switch
Linux versions of client & server

The Clipview suite of programs consists of:

ClipView v3.4 - Gives multiple text clipboards. Clips may be printed,
edited, saved to a buffer and locked. Optionally the entire set of clips
and their state can be saved across invocations of ClipView.

ClipPrint v1.2 - Prints the current text contents of the clipboard.

PipeClip v2.3 - Used on the command line to pipe output to the clipboard.
eg dir /w | pipeclip

ClipPipe v1.0 - Used on the command line to pipe input from the clipboard.
eg clippipe | someprogram

ClipWait v1.0 - Used in scripts to wait until something gets written to
the clipboard.

Command line Client/Server - Allow clipboards to communicate across machines

CV_Client_OS2 2.2 These are now considered stable.
CV_Server_OS2 2.2

CV_Client_WIN 2.2 These are now considered stable.
CV_Server_WIN 2.2

CV_Client_Linux 2.2 These are considered Beta. (Require xclip)
CV_Server_Linux 2.2

http://class='extlink'http://www.deezee.org/ClipView.html

 Kind regards

Dave Saville