The Java 6 for OS/2 requires help to complete its funding. Partial funding is already provided by several companies and individuals, with Mensys BV being the main sponsor, but we still need to cover an amount of 8,000 EUR. If you are interested in sponsoring Java please contact Silvan Scherrer (silvan dot scherrer at aroa dot ch) directly or buy sponsoring units.

VLC media player version 1.1.4 has been ported to OS/2. This is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, MP3, OGG, AAC) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
 
Source: http://www.os2world.com/content/view/20350/2/

A patched version of USBCOM.SYS has been released that adds USB 2.0 support.
 
Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=usbcom

Effective immediately, Mensys B.V. will be distributing a GA version of OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 to all users who own an active Support Agreement for OpenOffice.org or an active Software Subscription Services for eComStation product.

This version has been compiled to run on eComStation and IBM OS/2 as a native application. This release replaces OpenOffice.org version 3.1.1.

Source: http://www.os2world.com/content/view/20296/2/

Mensys BV is pleased to announce the availability of the Flash 10 Plugin wrapper for eComStation Technology Preview 2.
This product is available for download to all registered users of Software Subscription Services for eComStation. For more information, please visit: http://www.ecomstation.com/subscription/

The second Technology Preview of the Flash 10 Plugin wrapper for eComStation is intended to show the progress of this product and to give you an early experience of being able to use websites implementing the latest Flash content.

The Java 6 for eComstaton has produced it alpha release and it is available for download on the netlabs.org SVN . This is a first public release intended for testing purposes only. It can only compile and run console Java applications, AWT and Swing classes are not yet available.

URL: http://svn.netlabs.org/java

OpenVPN version 2.1.3 has been ported to OS/2.
Download: ftp.netlabs.org/pub/unixos2/openvpn.zip

A new build of Odin32 was released (9/5/2010) on netlabs.org FTP.

URL: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/

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