An experimental build of Firefox version 3.5 rc2 has been released (6/22/2009). It includes support for HTML 5 audio and video support. As with previous 3.x builds, there are some known issues (particularly with printing), see the readme file. Firefox is a stand-alone browser, based on Mozilla code. See my Warpzilla tips page for more information.

The OS/2 port of Qt4 is making progress; you can see the roadmap and milestones for the project. If you would like to contribute to this port, you can buy sponsoring units from Mensys; 100% of the money goes to netlabs.org. Applications that have switched to Qt4 (and would thus become possible to build for OS/2) include VirtualBox, SMPlayer, Psi, Scribus, and LyX. Thanks to Silvan Scherrer for the info.

Registration for Warpstock Europe is now available, and will close on October 30th. There are a variety of registration options, covering all-inclusive packages to single day admission. The tenth annual conference will be held in Stralsund, Germany, near the island of Rügen, and is scheduled for November 12th through 15th. A wiki has been set up where you can enter suggestions or requests for presentation topics. Anyone interested in making presentations or conducting workshops should submit the information to the Session Manager as soon as possible. You can support Warpstock Europe and spread the word by placing an official event logo or banner on your web site. Planned social events include viewing the sailing ship "Gorch Fock," a visit to the "Ozeaneum," and a city tour with the night guard. From VOICE News.

eComStation.Ru has a forum discussing what would make for a Perfect eComStation, and a place to list wishes for new apps. Thanks to Eugene Gorbunoff for the info.

netlabs.org has published their eighty-ninth biweekly newsletter to update everyone on their latest developments. Recent updates include ACPI, FM/2, NewView, QT4, Samba, UniAud, and more. You can sponsor netlabs.org, which helps fund development on various projects.

Firefox version 3.0.11 has been released (6/12/2009). As with previous 3.0.x. builds, there are some known issues (particularly with printing), see the readme file. Firefox is a stand-alone browser, based on Mozilla code. See my Warpzilla tips page for more information.

Paul Smedley has released (6/9/2009) UniAud version 1.9.16; in this release, the driver code has been updated to ALSA 1.0.20. The 1.9 series features better support for HDA than earlier versions of UniAud, and will eventually become UniAud version 2.0.

eComstation.ru is collecting information about digital cameras that work with OS/2. Thanks to Eugene Gorbunoff for the info.

As reported previously, Mensys has received permission from Adobe to distribute the Windows version of the Flash plugin with eCS. A developer is working to get Flash 10 working, and a beta is expected to be available in the near future for Software Subscription customers. Odin is being updated, using code from the WINE project, to handle the Win32 code needed by newer Flash versions. Hopefully, all of the updates to Odin are contributed back to the public source code repository, in accordance with WINE's LGPL license. From VOICE News.

Agena version 0.24.0 has been ported (6/28/2009) to OS/2. This is an interpreted language suited for sophisticated procedural programming, with syntax like simplified Algol 68, with elements taken from Lua and SQL.

Paul Smedley has ported (6/26/2009) Subversion 1.6.3 to OS/2. Also available (9/2/2008) is another port of Subversion version 1.5.2. Subversion is software for version control, intended to replace CVS. From OS2.org.

lzip version 1.7 has been ported (6/26/2009) to OS/2. This is a lossless file compressor that is almost as fast as gzip, and compresses better than bzip2.

Paul Smedley has released (6/23/2009) an OS/2 build of PHP 5.2.10; modules supported include bz2, curl, dbase, exif, filepro, gd, gettext, mbstring, mysql, mysqli, openssl, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, and sqlite. It features a module for Apache 2.2, as well as CGI and CLI versions. For more info on PHP, see the PHP web site. From OS2.org.

aget version 0.4.1 has been ported (6/23/2009) to OS/2. This is a multi-threaded HTTP download accelerator.

Moneydance 2008r4 build 640 has been released (6/22/2009). It is a personal finance manager written completely in Java. It includes transaction auto-completion, graphing, reporting, a reconciliation tool, running cleared vs uncleared balances, transaction sorting, double-entry, multiple currencies, multiple accounts and much more.

MagicDraw UML 16.5 SP2 has been released (6/22/2009). This is a Java based UML modelling tool.

PM CTorrent Manager version 0.04 has been released (6/21/2009). This is a graphical interface to the "Enhanced CTorrent" BitTorrent client.

OS2MT has been updated (6/20/2009) to version 0.78 beta. This is a maintenance tool that enables you to download and install various applications with a couple clicks of the mouse. There is also a mailing list for it on Yahoo Groups.

SETI@Home is a distributed computing project similar to the encryption cracking efforts run by distributed.net. The SETI@Home concept is to distribute radio telescope data gathered by the SETI project (SETI = Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) to thousands of computers over the Internet so that the data can be analyzed for signals that might be of intelligent origin. The client software runs in the background when your computer is idle. An OS/2 client of "boinc" version 6.6.29 is now (6/19/2009) available. If you run it, join the OS/2 team.