Changelog History for SABnzbd 0.4.x

Release 0.4.12

Bug fixes

  • 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 <have_warnings> field to API-qstatus XML output.

Release 0.4.11

Bug Fixes

  • Fix missing session keys in the templates
  • Fixed par2 for OSX
  • Added option to disable new security feature (not recommended)
  • Added option to disable multi-core par2 on Windows

Release 0.4.10

Will not be published

Release 0.4.9

Bug Fixes

Release 0.4.8

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed various par2-repair problems for OSX
  • Solved long queue display problem for OSX
  • Fixed news-group and newzbin-category to SABnzbd-category conversion

Release 0.4.7

Features

  • Support end-of-queue standby/shutdown for OSX
  • Unix/OSX: Do not change permissions of existing folders
  • Sort RSS preview with latest item first

Bug Fixes

  • Repaired accented character problems on OSX
  • Reduce character filtering in filenames to absolute minumum
  • Do not remove ';' from foldernames
  • After file-joining, the .1 files are sometimes not removed
  • Scheduled or end-of-queue Hibernate and Standby sometimes crashed.
  • When trimming newzbin titles do not add unique number (defeats duplicate detection)
  • Show correct free space for very large disks on Windows
  • Filter folder names coming from compressed NZB archives

Release 0.4.6

Features

  • "No duplicates" option (Do not download an NZB whose name is already present in the backup folder)
  • Option to choose between transposing or removing illegal file name characters
  • Restore the "auto-disconnect" option
  • Keep Windows awake while downloading/post-processing
  • Updated par2 and unrar for OSX
  • Make ionice optional and allow parameters for it (Linux)
  • Prevent change of download_dir and cache when queues not empty.

Bug Fixes

  • Properly close server connections. (This should prevent servers from complaining about "too many connections" after pauses and empty queues.)
  • Removed warning for correct, but empty RSS feeds
  • Restore support for rar's with .nnn extensions
  • Problem with deleting nameless files from queue
  • Improve prevention of duplicates in RSS feeds
  • Logging problem in OSX
  • Consider semicolon in file names to be illegal and replace/remove it

Release 0.4.5

Features

  • Support RSS feeds from nzbindex.nl
  • 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
  • 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)
  • Refuse UNC paths in Windows for "incomplete" (due to par2)

Bug Fixes

  • Proper handling of accented characters in NZB names and files
  • Category-determined pp/script was not handled properly
  • IE and Opera could not delete first schedule
  • No longer disable RSS schedule flag when changing filters
  • 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.

Release 0.4.4

Bug Fixes

  • RSS feeds not staying enabled through restart
  • Un-openable RAR files crash the dirscanner
  • File-upload did not accept RARred or ZIPped NZB files
  • Clearing the download speed would show an error
  • Missing incomplete folder for a download causes par2 errors
  • Filtering files on extension in the queue can lead to failed jobs
  • Rename similar files in TV sorting
  • Better error reporting required for problems with external programs
  • Status does not always display Downloading when it should

Release 0.4.3 Final

Enhancements

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

Bug Fixes

  • 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

Release 0.4.2 Final

  • OSX Universal binary (x86 and PPC), working on Tiger and Leopard
  • Fix for NZB files containing empty files (e.g. coming from nzbindex.nl)
  • Changed sorting of nzb contents to be more accurate
  • Fix for iPhone-skin on Linux/OSX
  • The "~" character in filenames is kept
  • Some Plush fixes
  • Fix for Linux packages (solves problem of #include paths in Default-skin)

Release 0.4.0 Final

  • Help links in the Default-skin all point to the Wiki start page
  • Correct link in shortcut to Wiki

Release 0.4.0 RC5

  • SSL fix
  • Plush improvements
  • Warning indication on all pages
  • Fixed crash on Linux when "download" or "complete" folders are unmounted volumes.

Release 0.4.0 RC4

  • Allow regular expressions in RSS filters (prefix with "re:")
  • Add user-defined parameter for multi-core par2
  • Allow groups as selectors in user-categories
  • Speedlimit box on Queue page
  • Send group as extra user script parameter
  • Fixed: Retrieve NZB from URL sometimes fails (due to extra quotes)
  • Fixed: When defining first RSS feeds, scheduled scanning only occurs after first restart or Config-Save
  • Fixed: Default category/script/pp did not work in Plush's NZB bar
  • Fixed: Watched Folder scan crashes when network share is missing
  • Fixed: Downloading does not resume when broken Internet connection is restored
  • Improvements for Smpl and Plush skins

We are still looking into these reported problems

  • End-of-queue shutdown/standby/hibernate does not always work
  • A broken Internet connection will still show a constant speed
  • Some people claim that the "Watched folder" sometimes stops working

Release 0.4.0 RC2

Fixes:

  • Handle password-protected archives better (no hangups any more, but a message in history)
  • Servers that were set to 0 connections (to stop them) caused sometimes problems
  • Use http for newzbin if SSL is not available
  • Set permissions for full folder paths
  • Never overwrite existing files in TV Season feature.

Improvements:

  • Windows binary distribution now uses a multi-core PAR2 program.
  • RSS feed user interface simplified.
  • "Standby" is now an end-of-queue option.
  • Improved Plush skin
  • Improved Smpl skin

Changes:

  • Force logging level to maximum for non-Final releases.
  • Remove option "disconnect-on-pause" (always disconnect now)
  • Remove group-based folders
  • Remove newzbin-based folders (use user-defined categories instead)
  • RSS and Bookmark scanrates: interval in minutes

Release 0.4.0 Beta5

Fixes

  • Queue incompatibility between Beta2 and Beta4 was not detected, causing problems.
  • Many TV Season support issues.
  • Many Smpl and Plush skin issues.
  • Unix permissions for job folders now also covers parent folders.
  • Bookmark function sometimes fails to delete completed bookmarks and sometimes repeats downloads
  • Occasional hangup in shutdown (due to UrlGrabber)
  • PP, category and script overrides used on the main page were ignored
  • Prevent storing of full path in the GZ backup of the NZB
  • Category "default" script was not handled properly.

Improvements

  • Allow nzb-zips to contain nfos.
  • Show failure of job in email subject line
  • Sort-by-size button on the queue page
  • Add nzb's using the newzbin URL

Release 0.4.0 Beta4

Improvents

  • Lots of improvements in Plush & Smpl
  • Complete Bookmark feature by implementing the Newzbin Bookmark-API.
  • Determine the pause/resume state and speedlimit from the schedules when starting SABnzbd
  • Scan for category-named folders in the Watched Folder.
  • Improved post-processing, more efficient file moving
  • TV season support improved and extended
  • Increase robustness of Newzbin-queue and URL-queue. Queues now survive Save/Restart and full shutdown/restart.
  • Handle that some systems require [] in numerical IPv6 notation, some don't allow it.
  • Make backup of all processed NZB files, also store compressed GZ file.
  • Set email priority to 5 (=low)

Fixes

  • Do not stop SABnzbd after hibernating the system.
  • More effort to get a usable profile for pre-Vista Windows versions.
  • Prevent RSS processor from downloading exactly identical titles.
  • Preserve case of received newzbin categories, while still keeping the user-based categories forced to lowercase.

General

  • Win32 binary release now uses Python 2.5.2, CherryPy 2.3.0, PyOpenSSL 0.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.8g

Release 0.4.0 Beta2

Major

  • Secure NNTP (SSL Connections)
  • User-defined categories
  • Redesigned RSS automation
  • Secondary user interface (including iPhone skin)
  • KB/s download speed limiting
  • Redesigned Plush skin
  • Automatic Newzbin Bookmark Downloads
  • TV episode folder sorting

Minor

  • Automatically ignore samples in downloads
  • Option to pause downloading during post-processing
  • Improved scheduling
  • More empty-queue options
  • Script folder
  • The default template has a new default look, as well as selectable color schemes
  • SMPL Improvements, plus black color scheme
  • Lots of small tweaks and usability changes
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