Author: dexter
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:50 pm
Due to your many requests, we are announcing in advance that we will have a Free Day of Internet Search coming up on Friday, August 14. It will go from 8:00am on Friday, August 14 through 8:00am on Saturday, August 15.
We are doing this so you can have more time to play with Internet Search and see what it can do. Of course our hope is that you’ll be hooked and just have to sign up for it when the Free Search day is over.
Another announcement will be posted here when the Free Search Day is turned on, as well as in the Message of the Day screen.
Free Search will only work for registered users and only for users of version 5.42 and above.
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Author: dexter
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 10:46 am
Version 5.53 is has some new features and optimizations over the earlier 5.5x releases. A brief summary:
- Implemented header compression support for Giganews. You no longer need the Giganews Accelerator to get this functionality.
- Performance optimizations for loading stored headers and processing single part posts.
- Added progress bars to show progress of certain tasks (configurable).
- Added logic to better handle possible conflicts with anti-virus software.
You can review the entire development process in the release notes which are available for viewing after you run the installer.
The release information and download links are here: 32 Bit | 64 Bit
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Author: dexter
Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 1:37 pm
Someone with username "profilicus" has an automated spambot sending private messages with the subject "Forum administration". Delete this message! It has a link to a Russian website that no doubt will try to install something bad on your computer.
I am in the process of cleaning this up and removing the message from user accounts.
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Author: dexter
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:19 am
High traffic newsgroups are just now reaching a size that cannot be represented in a signed 32 bit number (the number is a little over 2 billion). The latest version of Newsbin (Version 5.52) uses a 64 bit value to store and process article numbers. If you are not running Version 5.52, you may have issues with large newsgroups (namely alt.binaries.boneless) on some servers. So far Astraweb is the only one we know of that has actually hit the limit but, the others are soon to come.
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Author: dexter
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:23 pm
Version 5.52 is a minor incremental release that has some new functionality and also addresses some issues discovered in earlier releases.
- Implemented new options for downloading with NZB Files. Go under Options/NZB Files to set these the first time you run Newsbin.
- The Date column in the Post lists and Search tab can now be displayed as relative days or absolute date. Toggle using ctrl-t or with the new option under Options/Advanced.
- Queuing multiple RAR/PAR sets simultaneously now forces the smallest PAR2 files to download first so AutoPAR will display all the files queued for download immediately.
- Reverted to the bandwidth limiter code used in Version 5.42
You can review the entire development process in the release notes which are available for viewing after you run the installer.
The release information and download links are here: 32 Bit | 64 Bit
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Author: dexter
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:38 pm
We have released version 5.51 to address some issues that were uncovered after more people started using version 5.50.
- Fixed issue where chunks would fail instead of being retried for some types of failures.
- Fixed issue where chunks fail if downloads are paused long enough for a connection to timeout.
- Fixed problem where autoloading NZB’s would not load any JPG files into the download list.
- Fixed problem where Load feature in post list would load the wrong month for any months from 2008.
- Enabled sort and find while loading headers.
You can review the entire development process by viewing the release notes copied to your installation folder when you install this version.
The release information and download links for the 32 and 64 bit versions are here.
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Author: dexter
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:26 am
We have released version 5.50 as the official production release.
- Reduced RAM utilization
- Header processing performance improvements
- AutoPAR performance improvements
- Supports BinHEX via special file download of .hqx files
- Expanded "Download Special" support for headers
- Configurable logging settings
- Improved installer
You can review the entire development process by viewing the release notes copied to your installation folder when you install this version.
The release information and download links for the 32 and 64 bit versions are here.
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Author: dexter
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 1:30 am
We turned on free searches for everyone running version 5.42 or higher today.
Happy Holidays
Dexter and Quade.
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Author: dexter
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 9:31 am
gHacks.net is giving away keys to NewsBin to 5 lucky people today. Feel free to stop by and leave a comment to get yourself in the running or, just put in a good word for us. If you are already a registered user and happen to win, you can give the key to a buddy as a surprise gift.
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Author: dexter
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 12:18 am
Registered users who enjoyed using our Internet Search feature during the free day can continue using it by subscribing to our Internet Search Service. There are two tiers of service available:
Standard Plan: 300 searches per month, $2.50 per month (6 month minimum)
Unlimited Plan: Unlimited searches, $5.00 per month (3 month minimum)
Sign up by logging in to the NewsBin Control Panel.
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