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The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator (Fuse) is an emulator of the 1980s home computer and various clones. It emulates the Spectrum 16K, 48K, 128K, +2, +2A, +3, +3e, and SE, the Timex TC2048 and TC2068, the Pentagon, and the Scorpion. Almost all the common Spectrum emulator file formats are supported, including .rzx input recordings, .tzx tape images, and .szx and .z80 snapshots. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
Highlights of this release include much improved upd765 emulation, loading acceleration, automatic saving, and improved Win32 and widget user interfaces.

libpseudo is a generic library that provides simple, thread-safe messaging between threads. It also provides a facility for implementing a run-time tunable, thread-like callback queue for single-threaded applications. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This release fixes a bug with 64-bit support.

Grapple is designed to be a simple network layer, allowing the addition of multiuser features to an application for as little as a dozen lines of code. However, it also allows for more. It features simple client-server networking that keeps all clients aware of all other clients, passworded servers, and data transfer via TCP, UDP, or reliable UDP. Advanced features include network messaging via push, pull, or a combination, multiple methods of querying users, user groups for client bandwidth saving, network load reacting data transmission and retransmission, background pinging to monitor network states, server failover, and a fully functional lobby system. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes:
The large enhancements in this release are the final completion of the much delayed encryption system for TCP sessions and the enhancement of the callback system to enable multiple callback threads to be running simultaneously, allowing more complex systems to be built if desired. Minor improvements are encryption certificate inspection, the ability to encrypt a lobby, and the addition of connection callbacks to the lobby.

TRIXER creates catalogs of transparent file indexes. A transparent file index is an exact mirror of a directory, except that each of its file is void, thus "taking no space", while apparently having the same size of its indexed counterpart so as to describe it fully. This is accomplished by combining sparse files support with fusecompress on-the-fly compression technology. This is useful for many purposes, e.g. creating a catalog of your CD/DVD-ROM library to browse its contents without having to physically access it. The advantage of this software is that a TRIXER catalog is a plain mountable ext2 filesystem, allowing enhanced interoperability with the huge lot of available software to handle the catalog in a number of ways. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
This release has been upgraded to FuseCompress 2.2, thus eliminating a major bug regarding corrupted catalogs, which after some testing seems gone. It adds handling of multiple mountings via a rough database. It fixes a minor bug preventing the creation of a catalog inside the index node itself.

VNCTracker keeps a list of hosts on various Internet accounts. Rather than email or phone each user whenever you need a current IP address for connecting with VNC, you visit the Web page generated by VNCTracker that shows the updated IP address for that host. It will then build .vnc files to easily start VNC sessions served via HTTP. It supports 'Request Reverse VNC Session' to help with proxies and satellite connections. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
Many bug fixes. 'Request VNC' has been added to work with satellite and other one-way connections. This requires the remote PC to check your vnctracker server for a hostname.request file containing the IP to connect to. That initiates the reverse connection. The listening viewer (the requester) needs to have any NAT/gateway/firewall forward TCP 5500 to the listening machine.

SVNKit is a pure Java Subversion (SVN) client library. This means that users of the library (i.e. Java applications) do not have to include svn native binaries or javahl bindings to work with subversion repositories. It is not only a 100% Java replacement for javahl bindings, but also a library that provides a high level of control over subversion repository operations. License: Free for non-commercial use Changes:
Major updates include stability and performance improvements since version 1.2.0, full support for Subversion 1.5.4 features, and HTTP "Negotiate" authentication scheme support.

eTcl is a "batteries-included" thread-enabled Tcl/Tk runtime available as a single standalone executable. It includes several popular extensions (Thread, Sqlite, Zlib, etc.), together with a Tcl wrapper for the Pixane image processing library. License: Free To Use But Restricted Changes:
This release fixes an annoying bug introduced in 1.0-rc30 causing the Odyce symbol resolver to fail on Win32. Extensions kits (tcllib, tklib, and bwidgets) have been restored in the installer. On Mac OS X, a bad issue causing the console to be shown even if running a wrapped application in non-interactive mode has been fixed. The Tcl code compacter in the wrap applet has been enabled and improved, together with several minor bugfixes and extensions updates (e.g. SQLite 3.6.6.2).