Adobe Systems has issued a prerelease version of project Alchemy, a small tool that compiles C and C++ code for programs running on ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2). The idea is to expand the capabilities of Web applications running on Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5.

Chipmaker Intel has reworked its proprietary Linux compilers. The Intel C/C++ compiler version 11.0 now supports the mobile processor Atom. The same version of the Fortran compiler now supports the Fortran 2003 language standard.

The developers of Mono, the free implementation of the .NET framework, have achieved a major milestone with version 2.0.

Version 1.0 of the free Dirac video codec is now available.

Romain Gaucher, a specialist in web security, offers his Scalp tool in version 0.4. The log analyzer searches for attacks on Apache web applications.

Several groupware developers have come together to work on Project OpenMapi, an open source API, based on Microsoft's Mapi.

The free library Fastcgi++ Version 1.0, which enables the programming of web applications in C++ language, is now available.

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers have now released version 4.2.3, which fixes a number of bugs.