What is SABnzbd?
SABnzbd is a free/open-source cross-platform binary newsreader written in Python.
It simplifies the process of downloading from Usenet dramatically, thanks to its friendly web-based user interface and advanced built-in post-processing options that automatically verify, repair, extract and clean up posts downloaded from Usenet. SABnzbd also has a fully customizable user interface, and offers a complete API for third-party applications to hook into.
Posted by shypike on January 4th, 2010 at 6:46 am
We finally managed to find out why some people complain about intermittent and sometimes frequent timeouts on their server connections.
It turns out that on some systems for some Usenet providers, DNS resolving takes very long.
On Linux systems it seems worse than on Windows.
It’s probably a combination of the OS and the network library we use.
The download section is designed under the assumption that DNS resolving takes a few seconds. If it starts taking between 10 and 30 seconds, already established connections will time out.
This is especially true for unresolvable addresses (like those of free IPV6 servers that are often off-line).
Anyway, discovery is 50% of the solution. It will take a few days to work out (and test) a proper work-around for this. As soon as it’s ready there will be a new Beta.
After this is solved we’re very close to a final release of 0.5.0.
Posted in Bugs & Fixes
Posted by shypike on December 27th, 2009 at 9:41 am
SABnzbd 0.5.0 Beta5 is available for download from SourceForge.net.
- Removed potential deadlock from Downloader
- Allow backup servers to be used when all primaries blocked or inactive
- Scheduled PAUSE_ALL failed to stop downloading
- Will now continue unpacking other rar-sets when one rar-set fails to unpack (but only when option “Post-process Verified jobs” is off)
- QuickCheck messed up the par files of multi-set NZBs
- When the par2 tool joined multi-part files of a multi-NZB, it mixed up files from other sets
- Work-around for a bug in par2-tbb (making if fail to join some multi-part jobs).
- When scaling down the number of connections of a server, will now retry with the full amount 10 minutes later.
Posted in Announcements, Bugs & Fixes, Features & Enhancements, Releases
Posted by shypike on December 16th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
SABnzbd 0.5.0 Beta4 is available for download from SourceForge.net. Note: The files are called Beta4a due to a technical issue with sf.net.
Fixes:
- Fixed poor reliability of reading RSS feeds and subsequent NZB fetches (caused by a too short time-out value).
- Posix: when user has not set a permissions value, use the account’s default permissions (prevents problems with permissions coming from rar files)
- When option “Post-process only verified jobs” is set, do not execute user-script when job fails
- NZB files read in from categorized watched folder did not inherit the category’s priority
- Fixed error reporting about incorrect NZB file
- Improved year recognition in tvsort
- Some recent Ubuntu (-like) systems had problems with ‘localhost’.
- Some skin fixes
Posted in Announcements, Bugs & Fixes, Features & Enhancements, Releases
Posted by shypike on December 14th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
We have neglected this blog a bit.
We’re currently at Beta3, but in a couple of days Beta4 will be released.
This version will solve a few long-standing problems with the reliability of RSS feeds and NZB fetches.
Posted in Bugs & Fixes
Posted by shypike on November 25th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Finally!
After working on it for nearly a year, we are ready for a public Beta test of the 0.5.0 release.
We had a lot of support from our release test group: thank you.
For more information, see the extended release note on the Wiki.
Download from SourceForge.net.
Highlights
- Multi-language UI: English, French, Dutch, German and Swedish
- Start-up Wizard to get you going fast
- QuickCheck : on-the-fly par2 check. When a download is correct, the normal par2 check is skipped
- Configuration changes take immediate effect (except skins and some system folders)
- Job priorities, individual job pausing, job renaming
- Flexible server setup (scheduled on/off, optional servers)
- The Plush and Smpl skins have been improved and are a lot faster than before and they have paging
- New “Mobile” skin (replaces iPhone-skin)
- RSS supports more sites and has generally improved
- For Windows distribution: 64-bit par2 and unrar are used on 64-bit Vista/Win7/Server2008
- Support for password protected rar-files
- Expanded TV/Movie sorting
- Improved OSX integration
- HTTPS support for the Web-UI
- Email templates to design your own emails (including multiple recipients)
- Extensive API for utility developers
- History survives a full queue/admin clean and future upgrades
- Windows: optional association of NZB files with SABnzbd (double-click support)
Posted in Announcements, Features & Enhancements, Releases
