Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Yes, I know Beta3 is taking too long.
We are making good progress, lots of small stuff has been fixed. But due to a radical redesign of the post-processing code, the TV season code is no longer reliable. Switch will take care of this, but he has other duties to attend to and cannot work on this code right now. He was planning on is now overhauling the current TV season implementation like discussed in the forum.
People who can use the Subversion sources are welcom to test, keeping in mind the non-functional TV season code.
Overview of what has been done after Beta2:
- A load of Plush corrections.
- Preserve case of received newzbin categories, while still keeping the user-based categories forced to lowercase.
- Scan for category-named sub-folders in the Watched Folder.
- Redesign of the post-processing.
- Improved performance on network drives, due to less copying of files.
- Cleaned up code.
- Ignore “group folders” and “category folders” options when user-defined categories available.
- Increase robustness against incorrect RSS feed records (missing fields).
- Allow recovery from bad RSS filters.
- Make sure that Signal 5 is only ignored for Windows (some problems reported on Linux)
- Pause/resume state on startup is determined from the schedule
- Prevent RSS processor from downloading exactly identical titles.
- NZB backups are made for all sources (and compressed to .gz)
- Newzbin Bookmarks now uses Newzbin’s new API
My guess is that Beta3 will be about a week from now.
Posted in Announcements, Bugs & Fixes, Features & Enhancements
Monday, April 7th, 2008
Dear SABnzbd fans,
After some initial troubles we did manage to publish the Beta2 for SABnzbd-0.4.0.
NOTE: This is a Beta release.
It contains lots of new features, expect some problems in it.
If you want to avoid risks, keep working with release 0.3.4.
Please finish your current queue before upgrading to avoid any potential problems
Please give feedback in the Beta forum and not in the regular Help and Bugs forums.
Major
- Secure NNTP (SSL)
- User-defined categories with custom download directories
- Redesigned RSS automation
- Secondary user interface (inc. iPhone skin)
- KB/s download speed limiting
- New look for the default skin
- Skin color themes
- Redesigned Plush skin
- Episode folder sorting
- Email is now done in Python, not as an extra perl script
Minor
- Option to not download samples files in downloads
- Option to pause downloading during post-processing
- Improved scheduling
- More empty-queue actions
- Extended API
- Script folder containing user scripts to apply to a download
- More readable Queue ETA prediction
- Delete individual history items
- Extra information shown for history items
- Lots of little handy fixes and improvements
Fixed since Beta1
- Defective par2 replaced
- Disabled the Newzbin-Bookmark feature to prevent banning of users.
For linux users who are wanting to use SSL, you will require any version of pyopenssl greater than 0.6. PyOpenSSL Page
The wiki page for future versions has now moved to this location. http://sabnzbd.wikidot.com/ Please update your bookmarks.
Posted in Announcements, Bugs & Fixes, Features & Enhancements, Releases
