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According to plan the release of version 2.63 the best free 3D-editor – Blender. What’s new:

• BMesh – a new system of mesh, which removes the limitation in 3 or 4 vertices in a polygon and allows you to create N-sided polygons. In particular, it is a tool Dissolve, which allows you to delete the vertices, edges and faces without the formation of holes in the mesh, a new tool Inset; greatly improved tool Knife, which uses the advantage of N-the runs to generate clean cuts. Tools Subdivide and Loop Cut and form a clean topology.
• Render engine Cycles. Added a panoramic camera, the passage of shadows (shadow render pass), Ambient Occlusion, a few other improvements.

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The stable release of a set of libraries EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Library) 1.2, the components of which form the basis of the project Enlightenment 17.

EFL libraries allow you to create visually appealing graphical user interfaces, characterized by compactness, low resource consumption and high performance. These qualities make EFL attractive solution for building interfaces, consumer electronics and mobile devices. For example, a system based on the EFL is used in household appliances Electrolux , phones, Samsung, and also in the products of companies ProFUSION, Free.fr and Calaos. Last but not least the success of EFL among commercial companies provided the license BSD.
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The new, the first in this year’s version of the game Unknown Horizons - 2012.1.

The game is an economic strategy in real time with indirect control, like The Settlers or Caesar. The setting is based on the historical realities of the 17-18 centuries. The player leads a group of migrants: founded a small settlement on the island and seeks to develop it to a thriving city, build buildings, controls the level of taxes and sees to it that the residents were provided with everything necessary, fighting, or trading with neighboring settlements and so on. Unknown Horizons has a rather good graphics and music. It is possible to play on the network.

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Court Commission on International Trade in the U.S. (ITC) pleaded guilty to Microsoft for infringement of four patents, Motorola’s product Microsoft XBox. Applying the ITC from Motorola was a response to Microsoft patent claims to manufacturers of smartphones based on OS Android.

Recall that last year the company Google bought Motorola Mobility Business , with whom he has received patent portfolio contains more than 17,000 patents. Google has repeatedly stated that these patents will be used to protect the ecosystem of Android.
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The new version of the console file manager Midnight Commander 4.8.3. This release is the main development branch is stabilizing, which does not add new features.

The main changes in version 4.8.2:

Bugfixes

• Segfolt background in operations up.
• Ignoring the second directory in the command line arguments.
• Can not copy files to zero length if the option «Preallocate space».
• When the copy operation UNIX-attributes of existing files are not saved if the option is exposed to “Save attributes» («Preserve attributes»).

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Content Management System Zotonic updated to version 0.8.0.

This version – the last major version before the coming changes in the CSS-framework and the administrative interface.

The main changes :

• improvements in the manager module (stability at startup modules are started and stopped in the right order, etc.);
• Home of the system is aligned with the appearance of the main site, requires login to view and control;
• improved stability of compounds with PostgreSQL and improved handling timeouts when querying;
• Added support for RTL-languages ​​(Hebrew, Arabic, etc.) for the module in the admin mod_translation. Added translation admin panel on the Spanish, Irish, Estonian and Polish;
• in mod_development added support for inotify (Linux only). This allows you to compile Erlang’ovskih files, clear the cache and compile / minimization LESS / SCSS / Coffeescript on the fly;
• master branch now uses git-submodules for the main external dependencies.

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The creator of the cult game series «Prince of Persia», Jordan Mekner, reported the discovery of the original code, the first version of the cult game Prince of Persia, released in 1989. The code of all components of the game can now be completely free to download on GitHub.
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Julian Storer has released a new stable version of the free cross-platform library juce , designed for creating graphical user interfaces. JUCE enjoys great popularity among the producers of multimedia software and hardware – Korg, M-Audio, Cycling 74, Muon Software playing music, and so Linux users are faced with JUCE in the form of products such as Pianoteq plug and Loomer.
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After two years of developing a new version of the library to work with the protocol BitTorrent. It is used by such clients as qBittorrent, Deluge, Leechcraft, FatRat and MediaGet.
The most important changes:

• A lot of improvements related to caching, web sidami and DHT.
• Added support μTP, partial seeding (allowing the tracker to distinguish from those leechers who gives only some files) and DHT Scrape.

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Platform Independent Library MathGL designed to build a wide range of graphics (curves, surfaces, level surfaces, etc.). There are opportunities to export to bitmap graphics (PNG, JPEG) or vector (EPS, SVG, TeX, OBJ) formats and drawing in console mode.
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