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 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
Posted by shypike on October 6th, 2009 at 2:23 am
SABnzbd 0.4.12 maintenance release.
Bugs solved:
- Update unrar for Windows to 3.90 (solves CRC errors when unpacking)
- Don’t show NZB-s no longer present in the RSS feed in the preview (they won’t be matched anyway)
- Default skin: Hitting enter after changing the RSS definition would delete the definition.
- Send Group did not always work properly
Features:
- Add Cheetah 2.2 compatibility (primarily for Linux)
- Add field to API-qstatus XML output.
Posted in Announcements, Bugs & Fixes, Features & Enhancements, Releases
