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I released Easy IP2Country - a new Wordpress plugin that shows an country icon flag next to the comment author name.
the plugin is based on IP2C, and is very simple to install: simply unzip in your plugins directory and activate.

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I released a small library to resolve the country an IP address belongs to.
The library, IP2C - is released under GPL2, and supports PHP, Java and command line.
Performance is great:
250 searches a second for PHP, and 330,000 searches a second for Java (too good to be true, but those are my results). it IS too good to be true. I wrote a benchmark program and it shows about 7000 searches/sec on directly on the file, and about 170,000 searches/sec with memory cache.
The library works on a binary file so you don’t need to mess with a database to use it.

Martijn ten Heuvel contributed Dutch translation to FireStats, thanks!

Arnaud contributed French translation to FireStats, thanks!
This translation adds to the ever growing list that now contains English, Hebrew, Spanish and French.

I created new two discussion groups for FireStats:

General discussions, suggestions, bug reports etc:
firestats-users

Release announcements, security updates etc (very low traffic) :
firestats-announce

FireStats 0.9.8-beta was released.
I didn’t skip 0.9.7, it was released as well, but had some serious problems.
New in 0.9.7 - 0.9.8 :
* Significant security updates, including the option to lock the database configuration.
* Initial Media Wiki support.
* Initial Drupal support
* The ability to choose a language from the settings tab.
* Control over the parameters of popular pages and recent referers.
* Many bugs fixed.

As usual, all the information can be found at the project site.

FireStats 0.9.6-beta was released.

New:
• License change, FireStats is now licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 1.0 Israel License.
• Merged WordPress and StandAlone versions.
• Added a tabbed pane.
• Created a database configuration tab.
• Network operations feedback (Except for IE6 or older due to lack of css-fixed support)
• Initial Gregarius support

I am looking for beta testers for the development version of FireStats.

• Access to a test blog is recommanded (not recommanded to run on a live blog, things might break occasionally)
• Access to an SVN client on the server is recommanded - it simplfies things

To test under Wordpress, enter your plugin directory and run:

svn co http://firefang.net/svn/firestats


To test without Wordpress simply get the files to a directory under your web server and access it via your browser.

If you don’t have shell access to your server you can check-out the files locally and upload them to the server.
Please report bugs here.