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Release 0.5.2 RC1 is out

Our release testers uncovered some old bugs at the last minute (and also some minor new ones).
Since 0.5.1Final was already in their hands, we will not release it generally.
It wasn’t overall better than 0.5.1RC2 and we never reuse release numbers.
Instead we now release 0.5.2 RC1 which solves the above mentioned problems.

For release details see the forum message

Download from SourceForge.net

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SABnzbd 0.5.1 RC2 is out

We were still in internal testing phase with 0.5.1 RC2, when a popular Dutch site published the release notes and the URL of our distribution site. Since we recently dropped the password requirement, so the release was available for everyone.
The quality of RC2 is quite good, therefor we decided to release it officially anyway.

Next time we’ll be more careful.

Release note for 0.5.1 RC2.

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SABnzbd 0.5.0 Final is ready

For more information, see the extended release note on the Wiki.

• 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 will survive a full queue/admin clean and future upgrades
• Windows: optional association of NZB files with SABnzbd (double-click support)

Download it from SourceForge.net.

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SABnzbd 0.5.0 RC6 is released

SABnzbd 0.5.0 RC6 is available for download from SourceForge.net.

Changes:

• Add INI-only option “par2_multicore” to enable/disable par2-multicore

Fixes:

• Prevent crash in RSS due to odd characters
• Prevent deadlock in downloader when server is blocked
• Prevent deletion of par files of other sets in multi-set NZBs
• Incorrect job rename in SMPL skin on Windows
• INI-only option “no_penalties” to limit timeout penalties for non-optional servers to 1 minute
• HTTPS certificate paths should default to the admin_dir directive
• The second parameter of the user script should be the original NZB file name even when the job has been renamed.
• Show clear error message when RSS feed preview or force-download fails.
• Don’t warn about RSS reading problems when a scheduled scan is done.
• Ignore empty “username” and “apikey” parameters in nzbmatrix.com URLs and add stored values.
• Suppress authentication warning for API call “get_scripts” and “qstatus”. These are used by some external utilities to determine if username/password is required. Prevents a warning each time SABnzbd or the browser is started.
• Ignore read-only attributes of files in a RAR archive (Windows)
• Remove potential crash on OSX when handling corrupt par2 file
• Enable manual unblocking of permantly blocked servers
• Retry permanently blocked servers after 30 minutes (compensate for shoddy servers)
• INI-only option “folder_length_max” for trimming folder name size (default 128 for Windows, for others 256)
• Give unrar preference over rar when both installed on a Posix system

RC4 and RC5 were only released to our Test group.

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SABnzbd 0.5.0 RC3 is released

The journey to the 0.5.0 Final release is nearing the end. Thanks to the feedback from our more adventurous users, a lot of small and some bigger issues have been solved. There were no public RC1 and RC2, because our test group reported some issues that we wanted to solve first.

SABnzbd 0.5.0 RC3 is available for download from SourceForge.net.

Fixes:

• Fix broken server test in Wizard and Config->Servers
• Fix uneven download speed of very large NZBs
• Increase timeout for fetching NZB files from websites to 60 seconds
• On Connections Page: show original error message sent by server
• Fix problem when the script folder path contains a space
• Fix disabling of RSS feeds when changing settings
• Include special par2 variant for OSX 10.6+ (automatically selected)
• Warn user (once) about presence of old queue file
• Warn Posix  user when a non-supported version of unrar is installed
• Prevent NZB from dropping to bottom of queue when the category is changed
• When forcing disconnect don’t try to send “Quit” to a non-responding server
• Duplicate title checking in RSS is now case-insensitive
• Only warn about presence of old queue when no new queue is present yet
• Avoid potential crash when server closes connection
• Add tbbmalloc.dll to par2 program (prevents problems when you have another version of that file on your system)

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