After a couple of days of grinding through the code, the "net" tool from the Samba suite is finally ready to speak languages other than English. A bit over 1700 messages are now waiting for translators.

Note to self: Next time I work on i18n, I want combat pay.

After some initial issues, I have just joined my first XP box to Samba4 running on snoopy, my ARM-based system-on-a-chip home server.

So now I have a spiffy Active Directory setup running on a system that makes no noise, barely heats up, and that peaks at 2W power usage. If …

The WOMBAT team is happy to announce the release of 0.4.5

WOMBAT 0.4.5 is mostly a bugfix release. Several backend and usability issues have been resolved.

Features include

• Tag cloud now really is a "cloud", not just a list of tags
• In directory view, clicking on …

The WOMBAT team is happy to announce the release of 0.4.4

WOMBAT 0.4.4 introduces preliminary tag support for the beginning of a new browsing experience.

Features include

• Tags for assets and collections
• Tag cloud replaces "unassigned file view"
• Bug fixes for upgrade issues missed in 0 …

The WOMBAT team is happy to announce the release of 0.4.3

Different to other releases, this is a point release to follow the updated versions of Pylons 0.9.7 and SQLAlchemy 0.5 and contains no other changes.

This version does not support Python 2.4 anymore …

Another year, with a brand-new WOMBAT release.

The biggest feature of the 0.4.2 release is an automated update function that keeps WOMBAT in sync with the media repository.

Other features include automated database cleanup and the return of the searchbox.

As always, check out the WOMBAT live demo …

The WOMBAT team is happy to announce the release of 0.4.1

Based on the UI revamp in release 0.4.0, new UI features in this release include:

• Custom icons that reflect the content of the media, if possible
• New stock icons from the Tango project
• Display total …

The WOMBAT team is happy to announce the release of 0.4.0

New features in this version include:

• Completely revamped look and feel
• Support for users and roles
• Actions that change the server's data

As always, the WOMBAT demo page has the current version for you to test.

The WOMBAT team is happy to announce the release of WOMBAT 0.3.0

New features for this version include:

• Completely redesigned data backend based on SQLAlchemy
• Support for scanning and updating the repository without running an extra script to generate the metadata
• Preliminary support for Assets and Collections, the …

Hi folks,

development around WOMBAT hasn't really slowed down, despite the lack of releases recently. We're currently working hard on bringing the back-end data model into a shape that will allow us to add more features to WOMBAT more easily.

I'm currently busy writing a svn xml parser that will …