A new Gimp, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, has been released.

New Features:

• Refreshed Look and Menus
• Scalable Brushes
• New Selection and Align Tools
• Color Management and Soft-proofing
• and a lot more !

Download it now.

A new version OpenOffice 2.3 is officially released.

• New chart wizard, with support for 3D Charts
• Revamped Toolbars
• Export documents as Wiki pages on OpenOffice 2.3 Writer
• Enhanced Autosum on OpenOffice 2.3 Calc
• Report Builder on OpenOffice 2.3 Base

Release Notes

Pwytter is a free Twitter client.

It's running on Windows, Mas OS X and Linux.

The 0.7 release now supports UTF-8 characters (asian languages, ...).

The user interface is available in English and in French.

• Download Pwytter

Infra Recorder 0.42, the free CD/DVD burning solution for Windows has been released.

In this release:

• bugs corrections
• Windows Vista support
• 32-bit and 64-bit builds

Try this quality sofware, first developped during the Winlibre's participation in Google Summer of Code 2006.

Here are the two new releases for Inkscape and Blender :

• Inkscape 0.45, release notes
• Blender 2.43, release notes

What's New in Firefox 2

• Visual Refresh: Firefox 2's theme and user interface have been updated to improve usability without altering the familiarity of the browsing experience.
• Built-in phishing protection: Phishing Protection warns users when they encounter suspected Web forgeries, and offers to return the user to their home page. Phishing Protection is turned on by default, and works by checking sites against either a local or online list of known phishing sites. This list is automatically downloaded and regularly updated when the Phishing Protection feature is enabled.
• Enhanced search capabilities: Search term suggestions will now appear as users type in the integrated search box when using the Google, Yahoo! or Answers.com search engines. A new search engine manager makes it easier to add, remove and re-order search engines, and users will be alerted when Firefox encounters a website that offers new search engines that the user may wish to install.
• Improved tabbed browsing: By default, Firefox will open links in new tabs instead of new windows, and each tab will now have a close tab button. Power users who open more tabs than can fit in a single window will see arrows on the left and right side of the tab strip that let them scroll back and forth between their tabs. The History menu will keep a list of recently closed tabs, and a shortcut lets users quickly re-open an accidentally closed tab.
• Resuming your browsing session: The Session Restore feature restores windows, tabs, text typed in forms, and in-progress downloads from the last user session. It will be activated automatically when installing an application update or extension, and users will be asked if they want to resume their previous session after a system crash.
• Previewing and subscribing to Web feeds: Users can decide how to handle Web feeds (like this one), either subscribing to them via a Web service or in a standalone RSS reader, or adding them as Live Bookmarks. My Yahoo!, Bloglines and Google Reader come pre-loaded as Web service options, but users can add any Web service that handles RSS feeds.
• Inline spell checking: A new built-in spell checker enables users to quickly check the spelling of text entered into Web forms (like this one) without having to use a separate application.
• Live Titles: When a website offers a microsummary (a regularly updated summary of the most important information on a Web page), users can create a bookmark with a "Live Title". Compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, they provide more useful information about pages than static page titles, and are regularly updated with the latest information. There are several websites that can be bookmarked with Live Titles, and even more add-ons to generate Live Titles for other popular websites.
• Improved Add-ons manager: The new Add-ons manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes, combining them both in a single tool.
• JavaScript 1.7: JavaScript 1.7 is a language update introducing several new features such as generators, iterators, array comprehensions, let expressions, and destructuring assignments. It also includes all the features of JavaScript 1.6.
• Extended search plugin format: The Firefox search engine format now supports search engine plugins written in Sherlock and OpenSearch formats and allows search engines to provide search term suggestions.
• Updates to the extension system: The extension system has been updated to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions.
• Client-side session and persistent storage: New support for storing structured data on the client side, to enable better handling of online transactions and improved performance when dealing with large amounts of data, such as documents and mailboxes. This is based on the WHATWG specification for client-side session and persistent storage.
• SVG text: Support for the svg:textpath specification enables SVG text to follow a curve or shape.
• New Windows installer: Based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, the new Windows installer resolves many long-standing issues.

Source: Mozilla Firefox 2 Release Notes

A group of OpenOffice.org enthusiasts have released OpenOffice.org Premium, a new bundle that includes the OpenOffice 2.0.3 suite and a grab-bag of extras, such as 2800 cliparts, document templates, samples, documentation and fonts.

• Web Site on SourceForge

Security updates for Firefox and Thunderbird have been released.

This a test release no a production release !!

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include

• Built in Phishing Protection
• Search suggestions now appear with search history in the search box for Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com
• Changes to tabbed browsing behavior
• Ability to re-open accidentally closed tabs
• Better support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds
• Inline spell checking in text boxes
• Search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines
• New microsummaries feature for bookmarks
• Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash
• New combined and improved Add-Ons manager for extensions and themes
• New Windows installer based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
• Support for JavaScript 1.7
• Support for client-side session and persistent storage
• Extended search plugin format
• Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
• Support for SVG text using svg:textPath

Download

• Mozilla Firefox 2 beta 1 - Beta Downloads

Thunderbird 1.5 has been released.

Features

• Full-Featured Email: Simple to use, powerful, and customizable, Thunderbird is a full-featured email application. Thunderbird supports IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting. Easily import your existing email accounts and messages. Built-in RSS capabilities, powerful quick search, spell check as you type, global inbox, deleting attachments and advanced message filtering round out Thunderbird's modern feature set.
• Junk Mail Filters: Each email you receive passes through Thunderbird's leading-edge junk mail filters. Each time you mark messages as spam, Thunderbird improves its filtering so you can spend more time reading the mail that matters. Thunderbird will also use your mail provider's spam filters to keep junk mail out of your inbox.
• Anti-Phishing Protection: Thunderbird protects you from increasingly common email scams—also known as “phishing”—which try to fool you into handing over your passwords and other personal information. Thunderbird will tell you when it thinks a message might be a scam.
• Advanced Security: Thunderbird provides enterprise and government grade security features including S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, support for certificates and security devices. Attachments are never run without your express permission, protecting you from many worms and viruses.
• Automatic Updates: The new Software Update feature makes it easy to get the latest security and feature updates to Thunderbird. Thunderbird automatically downloads these small updates in the background and prompts you when they are ready to be installed.
• Customize Thunderbird: Select new button controls for your toolbars, install extensions to add new features, or change the look of your browser with themes—the way Thunderbird looks and works is under your control.

Download

• http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

Blender 2.40 has been released !

New features

List from blender3d.org :: Blender 2.40

• Character Animation
• Dependency Graph
• Rigging
• Inverse Kinematics (With support from Googles Summer of Code – Blender's IK system was fully reworked. Not only did it become much faster, but it now supports Rotation Limits and Degrees of Freedom, Tree-IK, and IK Target Rotation.)
• Skin Weighting
• Armature Display
• Stride Support
• Shape Keys
• Drivers
• Animation Curve Interpolation
• Actions and NLA
• Particles and Physics simulation
• Fluid Simulation (The second of the Google Summer of Code projects that made it in our release is the exciting Fluid Simulator, allowing to animate a physical correct flow of any fluid type.)
• Particle Guides and distribution
• Hair strand rendering
• Rigid Body
• Modifier Stack
• Subdivide and Loop tools
• Boolean Operations (This Google Summer of Code project delivered us a full new and much better library for intersecting Mesh models. Main target was to generate new models with the least amount of new faces, with regular and pleasant subdivisions.)
• Mesh Ripping
• UV & Image Editing
• Unicode 3D Fonts
• Radial Blend Texture
• Sampling and Filtering
• Python Scripting (New or rewritten modules were added: Mesh, Armature, Key, and Mathutils.)
• Improvements in the UI include: New Lamp drawing types, new Object-center drawing, New Camera view drawing and Passepartout view, Easier window merging, new Toolbox layout, improved Text button, and so on... check the article linked above for a full overview!

A new OpenWengo release is available for Linux and Windows. Soon available on Mac OSX and Pocket PC.

It features chat, telephony and video !

The current version offers a much better quality - both sound and video - than Skype...

OpenWengo is build upon standard protocols (SIP).

Download it now!

Link: OpenWengo

Firefox 1.5 is now available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Links

• Download Firefox 1.5 Now !
• Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Notes
• Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Released - MozillaZine Talkback

Updates to Firefox and Thunderbird are now available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

• Download Firefox 1.0.7 Now !
• Download Thunderbird 1.0.7 Now !

The second beta of OpenOffice.org 2.0 was released.

OpenOffice.org 2.0 sports a redesigned interface and better interoperability with other file formats, including Microsoft Office. A new database module has been added, as has support for the OASIS OpenDocument XML file format.