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Category Archives: SABnzbd

SABnzbd 0.5.0 Final is ready

21-Feb-10

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 [...]

SABnzbd 0.5.0 RC6 is released

07-Feb-10

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 [...]

SABnzbd 0.5.0 RC3 is released

21-Jan-10

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 [...]

SABnzbd 0.5.0 Beta6 has been released

10-Jan-10

SABnzbd 0.5.0 Beta6 is available for download from SourceForge.net.

Solve problems with unwilling servers and “random” server time-outs.
Do not generate warnings for intermittent server problems.
Joinable rar-sets were not always properly joined.
Fixed timing problems when SABnzbd is running behind an Apache server
Don’t report failed default permissions setting when the user has set none

Progress in 0.5.0 Beta

04-Jan-10

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 [...]

SABnzbd 0.5.0 Beta5 has been released

27-Dec-09

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 [...]

SABnzbd 0.5.0 Beta4 has been released

16-Dec-09

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 [...]

Some news about the Betas

14-Dec-09

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.

SABnzbd-0.5.0 Beta1 is released

25-Nov-09

Release 0.5.0 Beta1 is finally out. A truckload of new features and improved usability.

SABnzbd-0.4.12 is released

06-Oct-09

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 [...]