Changelog History for SABnzbd 0.3.x

Release 0.3.4

fixed: New option "safe postproc" did not work
fixed: Errors/warning screen sometimes causes HTML problems

Release 0.3.3

fixed: Improve robustness newzbin report fetching
fixed: File was skipped if first article was missing
fixed: Previous release added ".nzb" to each directory in "complete".
fixed: Handle unresolvable hostnames
fixed: Handle ambiguous 'localhost' on IPV6-enabled systems better
fixed: Restored compatibility with Python 2.4
added: OSX NotificationsCenter support
added: Unix-only: permissions can be set in Config->Directories
added: Embedded CherryPy module (to prevent version conflicts)

Release 0.3.2

added: Option to do post-processing only on correct jobs
added: Show warning on main page when PAR2 program is missing
fixed: Remove delay when resuming download
fixed: Show last 20 warnings/errors instead of 10
fixed: Correct Vista icon
fixed: Don't crash anymore on bad NZB files
fixed: When hostname in unresolvable, use 0.0.0.0 instead
fixed: Prevent multiple warnings if dirscan-dir is missing
fixed: Incorrect backup od zipped/gz nzb files

Release 0.3.1

update: Plush
update: Smpl
fixed: Directory creation error when download-dir already exists, making PAR2 crash
fixed: When run-as-win32-service, stop termination by logoffs
fixed: Fix recent incompatibility with newzbin's RSS feeds
fixed: Directory scanner (blackhole) now:
- Skips ZIP files that don't contain only NZB-files
- Handles .nzb.gz files
- Handles .nzb files that are really nzb.gz files (due to browser mis-configuration)
fixed: Newzbin category option does not show "sub-cat" anymore (v3.newzbin.com does not have it)
fixed: Auto-shutdown now waits for jobs re-entering the queue for additional par2 files
fixed: Do not remove RSS definitions when using —clean option.
fixed: Vista/Leopard compatible icon
fixed: Startup tweak to compensate for NAS-hosted Python problem.
added: Show last 10 warnings/errors on the Connections page
fixed: Solved the visible "black" window problem
- Sometimes SABnzbd's a black console window remained visible
- Now there are two versions of SABnzbd:
SABnzbd.exe = always invisible
SABnzbd-console.exe = always visible
fixed: —version problem
fixed: Changed some warnings to info level
fixed: Added license info on embedded third party modules.
fixed: Limit size of newzbin report titles
fixed: Logging size now accepts KMGTP notation

Release 0.3.0

fixed: Win32bin version did not always hide its window
added: Daemon mode (-d) for Windows, prevents profile access
and prevents browser launch
added: —console for troubleshooting (waits when exiting on error) (win32)
fixed: When using article-cache, sometimes articles where dropped
resulting in corrupt downloads. This has been fixed.
fixed: One some Vista systems, the user profile cannot be accessed.
The program recovers now from this and tells the user how to fix it.
fixed: Crash when NZB file contains incorrect date fields.
fixed: SPML did not run properly on Linux
fixed: Fixes in Plush & smpl
fixed: Workaround for problems with some Unicode chars in userprofile

Release 0.3.0rc5

added: option to keep console in Win32-exe
fixed: Updates for Plush and SMPL gui
fixed: Permission settings for Linux/OSX improved
fixed: Relative INI path handled correctly now
fixed: Default port for Windows is 8080 again
added: SABnzbd.exe has a Windows icon now
fixed: NZB upload from windows to Unix sometimes keeps backslashes
fixed: Could not set empty host in config->general
added: Switch to disconnect from servers on empty queue and pause

Release 0.3.0rc4

added: smpl templates by swi-tch
fixed: lots of Plush improvements
fixed: Missing "fetching msgid" in queue (SplitFileName)
fixed: Support of non US-ACII user profile paths.
fixed: Improve error messages in the config screens.
fixed: Catch situation where Linux cannot find a browser
fixed: SABnzbd can now be started from any directory
fixed: Remove leading trailing spaces from dirname derived from nzb file (will crash post-proc)
fixed: Firewall problem detector added
fixed: Correct disk free space for Linux (thanks to mdamen)
changed: Remove Nova 3 and 4
changed: Improved host address detection (prevent problems with Vista/FW/Firefox)
Use 0.0.0.0 as the dual-hosted trigger,
All other forms use single.
Make localhost default again.
Empty host will be host-ip.
Prevent problems with Vista+Firefox
fixed: Limit server timeout to 240

Release 0.3.0rc3

fixed: Auto-shutdown will now wait for post-processing to complete
fixed: Improvements in the Plush templates
changed: "--nobrowser" replaced by "--browser 0|1" and stored in the INI file as "auto_browser"
changed: When an INI file is found in the SABnzbd program directory, use that file and not the one in LocalData
changed: Data directories will be relative to the location of the INI file
fixed: Remove spurious error message in log when browser is launched on Linux
fixed: 0.0.0.0 is not handled correctly, repair.
changed: 0.0.0.0 will be default. 'localhost' will be converted to 127.0.0.1
fixed: Program only starts when the current directory is the directory where SABnzbd.py/exe is.
It should be able to start from any directory.
fixed: Parsing of server:host notation made IPV6 compatible
changed: Panic message in browser for all fatal errors (if enabled)
fixed: Repair handling of multiple ports on single Usenet server in Config—>Servers.
fixed: Improvments and fixes in Plush

Release 0.3.0rc2 (The SABnzbd-team)

added: Introducing Plush (by pairofdimes and blis102)
added: Allow K/M/G/T/P as units in cache_limit and download_limit
added: Online check for new release (at start-up and once a week) (option)
added: Drop-down box for choosing the web-gui
restructured the templates, they reside in <sabdir>/interfaces
fixed: Default 'dirscan_dir' is now empty (inactive)
changed: 'complete_dir' and 'download_dir' are now both in $HOME/downloads
added: Friendly fatal error reports through the web browser
fixed: Restored compatibility with yahoo-rss-feeds
fixed: Fixed memory problem for highspeed-download/slow-disk combination
added: newzbin queue (for 5/min limitation)
added: Help links to wiki pages on Sourceforge.net
added: RSS-feed for History
fixed: Restored compatibility with TV-NZB RSS-feeds.
added: Linux/OSX only.
Replace "umask" with "permissions". SABnbzd now sets file permissions
first to private (u=rwx, g=, o=).
When the download is completed and before user post-processing,
SAB chmod-s all files with the specified pattern (e.g. "o=rx, g=rx").
Files that have no "u=x" will get no "g=x" or "o=x" bits!
added: Timeout parameter per server (seconds, minimum=30, default=120)
added: Email notifications (end of job and disk-full)
Supports secured email (TLS) for use with gmail.com
added: Set minimum diskspace (in MB) for the download directory
When diskspace is below threshhold, SABnzbd will pause.
You must free diskspace and then resume SABnzbd manually.
added: Auto-launch of browser (starting the web-gui)
added: Better handling of INI file
You can start without an INI and get usable defaults
Default storage in localdata/appdata/sabnzbd for Windows
Default storage in ~/.sabnzbd for Linux/OSX
Auto creation of directories
added: Commandline switches
-Regulate logging level (default is errors/warning only)
-Override of web interface selection
-Override of server:port
updated: Nova-0.3.2 and Nova-0.4.5 templates and added Plush
added: Lots of other small stuff

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