Technology preview 3 of Dr. Message has been released (6/9/2010). This is a native instant messenger application for OS/2, supporting a wide variety of popular messaging protocols, like AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and others. This is a follow-on to Mr. Message, with a completely new implementation of the protocols and the GUI.

URL: http://mamodeo.dyndns.org/MrMessage/

FFMPEGCA version 0.7.1 has been released. This is a GUI front-end for ffmpeg, which will allow for converting audio and video between formats; currently only audio formats are supported.

URL: http://remydodin.levillage.org/ffmpgca.html

http://www.ecomstation.com/where_purchase.phtml?url=get_ga.html

In these days, Thawte is sending email announcements to the users of its free email certificates that this service will be discontinued on November 16, 2009. Another service, Thawte Web of Trust, will be discontinued as well. Thawte Web of Trust is a worldwide network of independent notaries able to verify users personally. All issued certificates will be revoked by this date.

We are proud to announce that the Czech Warpstock 2009 mini-conference will take place on the weekend from September 18 to September 20 at the Raná Airport situated in the North-West of the Czech Republic. This is already the eighth year of Czech Warpstock; we started in Děčín in 2002. All OS/2 and eCS fans are very welcome!

Open Watcom has released the final 1.8 version of its C++ and Fortran compiler. As usual, it can be downloaded from
http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Download
In this version, the C++ compiler has been enhanced, there are new Win32 API headers and libraries, and various other changes.

The OpenWatcom project has released the second RC of version 1.8.

Can be downloaded here:
http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Download

Changes since the last version:
http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/C_Compilers_Release_Changes

The source code is not available yet, it will be available with the final releae.

As usual, the Fortran compiler has been released too.

A new RC version of eComStation 2.0 has been released, as it had been announced before. Again, this version is available only to holders of Software Subscription Services.

URL: http://www.ecomstation.com/ecomstation20.phtml?url=nls/en/content/versio...

Most presentations from the Warpstock Europe 2008 conference are already available for download on the conference web site. The format of all presentations is PDF.
URL: http://www.warpstock.eu/en/agenda/presentations.html
Five presentations are still missing at the moment, let's hope they will be delivered as soon as possible...

Mensys announced today via the eCS Distributors Mailing List that thay will release yet another Release Canditate before the final 2.0 version will be released.