“Tcl/Tk 8.3.3 is the third patch release of the 8.3 version. It focuses mainly on stability and build fixes.” Information and download at the Tcl Developer Xchange.

Get it from a mirror site near you. More information on this latest release can be found in a post at LinuxToday.

Michael Meeks: “Ximian ( in conjunction with several honorary monkeys ) is
happy to announce that yet a new, and excitingly stableBonobo has
just been released. This fixes a slew of minor irritations, and
importantly fully documents the non-deprecated C APIs, and fixes
translation issues. Of course, there is no API breakage.” Read on at LWN.net. Update: The download link in that message has changed — Bonobo may now be obtained from the FTP server at primates.ximian.com.

Whoops: “Japan’s Pioneer Corp. inadvertently sent virus-infected e-mail messages to more than 10,000 customers last month and infected the computers of at least 19 of them, the company reported Tuesday.” Read the full story at IDG.

From a press release at Yahoo Finance: “Microtronix, an embedded hardware and software engineering solutions company, and Altera Corporation (Nasdaq:ALTR – news), a leading programmable logic device (PLD) supplier, today announced the development of a Linux Development Kit for Altera’s Nios(TM) embedded processor core. The new kit gives designers using the Linux operating system access to Altera’s leading programmable logic products, as well as Excalibur(TM) embedded processor system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions.”

“Digimarc Corp. (Nasdaq:DMRC) announced today the introduction of the Digimarc ImageBridge(TM) software development kit (SDK) for Linux. The ImageBridge SDK for Linux expands Digimarc’s offerings for the Linux community and is available immediately. The addition of the ImageBridge SDK for Linux is an important step in the extension of Digimarc technology, one that allows greater numbers of customers to incorporate digital watermarking into their own software applications and creative processes.” Full press release at Wide Open News.

From a press release at Yahoo Finance: “LynuxWorks(TM), Inc., a provider of open source and true real-time embedded solutions for the post-PC era, today announced the availability of a CodeWarrior(TM) Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Edition for LynuxWorks Development Tools for companies using Linux and Solaris host development environments and deploying on LynxOS® and BlueCat(TM) Linux targets.”

Eric S. Raymond: “After 11 months of painstaking work and testing, CML2 1.0.0 is ready for use,
and ready to replace the current kernel-configuration system. You’ll
find it at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/. I’ve made a transition
guide available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/transition.html.” Read the full message at LWN.net.

From OSDN (which, like NewsForge, is owned and operated by VA Linux): “Linus Torvalds and other leading kernel programmers gathered together on March 30th and 31st 2001 for a Kernel Developers Summit to map out the development course for Linux Kernel 2.5. OSDN and USENIX jointly produced this event, and OSDN has provided a publicly available webcast of the key discussions.” The Webcast will begin today at 1:30PM Eastern Daylight Time.

“ActiveState(R), the leader in open
source programming tools, announces the release of Komodo 1.0, the first
Mozilla application by a third party. Komodo is a Perl and Python integrated
development environment for programming using the Mozilla application
framework. A full-featured, multi-language IDE, its timesaving features
include integrated online help and an interactive remote debugger. Komodo also
includes the only one its kind, regular expression toolkit, for one of the
most difficult technologies used in scripting languages.” Read the press release at PR Newswire.