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PostgreSQL is "the world's most advanced open source database."

Included in this release:

- Heap Only Tuples
- BGWriter Autotuning
- Asynchronous Commit
- Spread Checkpoints
- Synchronous Scan
- Var-Varlena
- L2 Cache Protection
- Lazy XID

This is an RPG framework written in Java and OpenGL. The author's goal is to create "a detailed, old-fashioned pen'n'paper like & turn based RPG with a decent story/AI and a huge place to play."

"REAPER is a powerful but sensible Windows program that lets you record, edit, render and arrange multi-track waveform audio."

This is mostly a bugfix release.

"TinyMCE is a platform independent webbased Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control, developed in JavaScript/ECMAScript, highly customizable. Works in Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, MSIE and Safari (partially)."

This release fixes all critical …

Only allows scripts to run on a select whitelist of sites. Makes your Firefox experience very secure. Full version history is here: http://noscript.net/changelog

C Compiler bugfix release. For complete changelog see http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/changes.html

"Widget Cleaner is a tool that can sometimes restore the original behavior of Widgets that have failed, or, if you're a Widget developer, easily test the first-run experience of your Widget."

Very cool, especially if you develop your own Widgets.

This is really meta, but that's what I'm doing apparently. From the site:

"This Widget so far simply displays the 10 latest software releases (from dirtyBeta.com)."

-me

If you're like me and:

- only use Firefox
- regularly use many different computers

… then you'll like Foxmarks (especially for syncing the quicksearch bookmarks which can't be saved using something like del.icio.us).

From the website: "Since the second release candidate, we have fixed various issues including JavaScript performance problems, cleaned up menu updates, added several improvements to the update.module, and added a memory requirements check to update.ph…