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SABnzbd-0.4.5 bugfix release RC1

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

New maintenance release.

Features:

Refine TV Special support in TV Sorting
Support gzipped NZB files in RSS run (enables tvbinz.net)
Allow override of the newzbin category in the RSS scanner
Use ionice (if present) to run external utilities on Linux
Refuse UNC paths in Windows for “incomplete” (due to par2)
Sort servers in Config->Servers
Make sure PAR2 files always have lowercase extension on Linux
Retry on incomplete NZB files in RSS run
Map illegal file characters to look-a-likes instead of underscores
Retry malformed yEnc articles on other server(s)

Bug fixes:

Proper handling of accented characters in NZB names and files
Current (scheduled) speed now shows in the speed box (queue page)
Improve handling of underscores in TV Sorting
Prevent potential crash in Post-Processor crash for TV files
Watched folder scanner crashed when file access is prohibited
Solve hanging-unrar on some Linux systems
Reduce number of warnings for a single missing article
Repaired pp/script derivation from category on main page
Repaired option handling for RSS feeds
Encrypted/obfuscated RAR files were deleted from the Watched folder instead of ignored.

Download from:

SABnzbd-0.4.5RC1

Posted in Announcements, Bugs & Fixes, Features & Enhancements, Releases

New release: SABnzbd 0.4.3

Friday, August 29th, 2008

There’s a new maintenance release: SABnzbd-0.4.3

New:

Watched folder and UI now accept RAR files containing NZB-files.
Add API call to retrieve version
Sort the category list

Fixed:

Watched folder: changed files will now be re-examined
Duplicate RSS jobs were not filtered out
Delete history made safer
Proper script was not set when fetching from newzbin bookmarks
Strip white-space around server host name (preventing copy-paste errors)
Par2 checking would fail if first article of a par2 file is missing
No error report was given when server authentication is missing
On schedule change, evaluate pause/resume state properly
Fixed %s.n bug in the TV Sorting Preview
Fixed %s.n and %s_n bug in TV Sorting output

Fully compatible with release 0.4.x, so you can install the new release over the old one.

Posted in Announcements, Bugs & Fixes, Features & Enhancements, Releases

OSX native app

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Thanks to our new team member rAf, we can now offer a native OSX app in the form of a DMG download.

The forum will support this distribution too.

Posted in Announcements, Features & Enhancements, Releases

SABnzbd-0.4.0 Final is released

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

It took quite a while, but we are finally confident enough to release SABnzbd-0.4.0 Final.

This is a major feature release and these are the highlights.

Secure NNTP (SSL)
RSS is finally useful
Better newzbin support
- Download based on Bookmarks
- Compatible with the new www.newzbin.com
User-defined categories for precise storage and handling
Intelligent handling of seasons of TV shows
The Windows binary distribution now comes with a PAR2 program that supports a multi-core CPU.
Highly improved Plush and Smpl skins
iPhone skin
Optional secondary web-interface on http://host:port/sabnzbd/m
Improved bandwidth control
General improvement of robustness and usability
Extended API for third-party utilities
Vista-compatible
OSX native app

Unfortunately, you cannot reuse the queue and history of an existing 0.3.4 installation. But you can reuse the sabnzbd.ini file!

For downloading, use the big Download button on this page.

Posted in Announcements, Bugs & Fixes, Features & Enhancements, Releases

SABnzbd-0.4.0RC5 released

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Yes, we said there wouldn’t be another RC!

However, we think we finally cracked the SSL problems.
The bad recovery from a broken internet connection is fixed.
And it looks like the speed is up too.
OK, it brushes up Plush too (again).

If this release presents no new problems, the light is green for 0.4.0Final.

The short-list: