Newsbin Professional Beta

• New Sample mode allows you to view the beginning of a video before the entire rar set completes downloading. Available from the Download tab or the Files tab, both in the toolbar and in the right-click menu.
• Growl support for notifying on certain events.
• Made retries configurable. Should help for iffy connections. Default is 2. Can modify under Options/Setup.
• New column in Groups tab called "New Records" lists number of new posts since the last load.
• Better progress reporting in Download tab
• Fixes to resolve memory problems on 32 bit systems
• Ctrl-Y to force a download now bypasses spam filters too (Add to Download List - Bypass Filters)
• New authentication scheme for Remote Control Interface so you don't have to enter your Newsbin key anymore (which is a pain on an iPhone).
• Expanded Unicode (UTF-8) support for folder names and throughout program.
• Added ability to have Newsbin either shutdown your PC, make it go to sleep, or hibernate when the download list empties.
  

Version 6.30 Release Candidate 1 Build 1825, February 17, 2012

• Rebuild to use Internet installer and include language translations.

Version 6.30 Beta 6 Build 1824, February 13, 2012

• Fixed crash issue on XP machines
• Fixed issue with Download to New Folder option
• Fixed issue loading NZB files on XP machines
• Fixed issue with the registration process when high ASCII characters were in the name
• Fixed issue using group for folder name when downloading from Internet Search results
• Added UTF8 support in the NBI configuration file.
• Changed groups tab to support unicode characters in parent groups.
• Supplying new PAR repair DLL that handles folders with non-English characters.
• Fixed installer issue where it was prompting for new server login info even if user specified it wasn't required.
• Implemented the sending of new records and last update information for group through the NBRemote Interface
• New feature to shut down your PC when the download list empties. Supports sleep and hibernate too.

Version 6.30 Beta 5 Build 1795, February 9, 2012

• New "Sample" mode has been implemented. Access from the right-click menu of either the downloads list
  or the files list. Grabs existing rar files downloaded so far (or files in a master splitter set) and launches your player.
• Made changes to how post lists work to try to address the hang and crash issues reported.
• Fixed "Delete all Posts by Poster". It wasn't working for all "From" fields. Now converts to UTF-8 before processing. Includes improvements to make it faster and more effective.
  
• When picking an unrar path, AutoPAR now updates the example path as well.
  
• AutoPAR now parses the PAR files to allow some file tracking even when AutoPAR is disabled.
  
• Fixed issue processing ID3 tag "TYER" (old tag for Year, replaced by TDRC in ID3 v2.4).
  
• Change to catch filenames encoded in UTF-8 and weird ASCII/Unicode mix.
  
• All poster processing done on UTF8 data instead of UTF-16. Only use UTF-16 when rendering to display.
• Fixed weird problem processing MIME encoded posts.
• Now using memory DB for AutoPAR. Autopar2.db3 is only used to store stray files between runs. Addresses issue of it getting corrupted from time to time.
  
• Change to mixed ascii/unicode convertor to go straight to UTF-8 instead of UTF-16 then UTF-8. Also will not attempt a conversion if there aren't enough high ascii characters. Some of the non-English language groups work better now.
• Switched logfile to a BufferedFileIO to keep it from working the disk too hard during download.
• Assemble Incompletes catches undownloaded files if one of the primary files is incomplete
• New icons for the options window and server window. Can activate and de-activate the servers from the icons
• Fixed issue where active Filter Profile wasn't showing when double-clicking a group.
• Fixed issue with group list download because alt.binaries.boneless on Giganews went over 4.7 billion posts.

Version 6.30 Beta 4 Build 1747, January 26, 2012

• New Feature: Notification re-done. Email and Growl support. Must have a Growl server installed on a machine reachable by an IP address. Tested on Windows and OSX so far.
• Made changes so that adding a ton of posts to a custom list wouldn't take as much RAM. Custom list generation should be 10 times faster for large posts counts.
• Fixed issue where canceling the "custom list select" dialog was hanging Newsbin
• When adding to new custom list, the focus wasn't going to the edit.
• NZB load filter now acts as a filter profile for NZB files loaded to the post list.
• Fixed issue where gridlines weren't showing in the Search tab on 64 bit versions. Also fixed issue where Internet Search mode wasn't showing by default.
• Fixed issue when purging to display age, wasn't showing progress bar progress
  
• Fixed issue when compacting databases, it was not showing the total space saved.
  
• Fixed issue with files DB not handling unicode filenames properly. Files on the files list wouldn't be reloaded into the list if the filename or path were unicode.
• Fixed issue where ctrl-R would not save to proper data folder if the folder has unicode chars in it.
  
• Setting for "Age" in the filter profile wasn't saving properly.
  
• Performance improvement for the groups tab. It was pretty slow getting the counts.
  
• Fix for group display problem introduced in B3
  
• Fix for non-ASCII subjects not showing up from search.
  
• Now reports in the status line when waiting for a retry to occur.
• If the user enters a.b.<group name> expand it to alt.binaries.<group name> before sending to search server.
• Implemented additional Bandwidth usage stats over the newsbin remote control interface.
  
• Added secondary authentication method to remote control interface so only a password is required and not the Newsbin key.
  
• Fixed remote password bug introduced in B3.
• Now with autopar disabled, the PARS can be directed to download or to go to the wish list.
• When Autopar is disabled the options "ScratchPars" determines where the pars go. By default, they go to the download.
• Changes to help maintain integrity of the autopar2.db3 file.
• If a repair fails, now renames the files back to the original filenames.

Version 6.30 Beta 3 Build 1718, January 13, 2012

• Now includes a new repair DLL which handles UTF8-encoding of filenames so, asian languages can work.
  
• File paths are now encoded as UTF-8 in the NBI file.
• Asian UNICODE languages are now properly encoded UTF8 when posting.
• Fixed issue where QuickPar was finding more repair blocks than AutoPAR
• Fixed right click "show filenames" and "hide old"
• Fixed Subject add mode for MP3's
• Made changes so sorting works better while loading groups.
• Fixed issue where ctrl-R wasn't performing UTF-8 to wide conversion so Ctrl-R wasn't showing foreign chars in the download list display
• Made changes to prevent duplicate "create display list" when dropping the search dropdown
• Now shows progress during a large "find"
• If autopar is disabled, it now works like 5.59 - PAR files get sent to the Wish list and RAR files get queued for download.
• You can now see estimated download time for currently selected items in the download list.
  
• Added an option in the NBI file to let the user enable or disable using timestamps of files within RAR files.
  [AUTOPAR]
  KeepFilestamp=1
• Add a file count while posting.
• Fixed Speed limit and Pause limit timers.
• Fixed issue where header downloads weren't keeping win7 from going to sleep

Version 6.30 Beta 2 Build 1695, December 30, 2011

• Fixed issue downloading UUEncoded posts
• Re-worked unrar filenaming to rename the file before it copies.
• Fixed issue in AutoPAR when assigning a new password, it wasn't getting used right away.
• If all chunks fail in PAR files for a RAR set, Newsbin will now automatically assemble everything else.
• Fixed issue applying filters to local search
• Fixed AutoRename (broken in Beta 1)
• Fixed crash issue if you try to do a reload on an NZB file.
• Fixed issue where low level unrar errors were not getting logged in the Logging tab.

Version 6.30 Beta 1, December 22, 2011

• Removed file mapping to resolve memory issues with 32 bit systems
• Improved failure reporting in the progress bar in the Download list.
• Spam filtering now checks additional rar files for exe's and not just the first.
• Re-sized elements of the Status Bar to fit in 1024x768 as the lowest supported resolution
• Fixed a timing problem where good files could get deleted from disk under heavy load
• Fixed issue handling duplicate files in RAR archives
• Spam filters can now be bypassed using ctrl-y (Add to Download List - Bypass Filters)
• Groups list now shows new file sets since last load in the "New Records" column.
• Now allows sorting and expanding files while a load or long search is happening.
• Fixed issue where performing a local search remotely defaulted to using the "From" field.
• Fixed logging issue when remote end disconnects from Newsbin.
• Load Older and Load Newer functions were not updating the display.
• Fixed sorting issue when using AutoPAR properties.
• Fixed issue where ID3 path wasn't getting used if Unrar to different folder was selected in AutoPAR.

Issues:

• Drag and Drop to order the Groups list in the Groups tab is not hooked up, nor can you column sort the groups.
• There have been reports that Newsbin isn't saving the correct renamed files to descript.ion file.
  Newsbin renames the file on disk and then lands the file. Without re-writing the descript.ion, there's no way to fix this.
• Decreasing number of server connections requires a restart.
• Works on Windows XP and newer.
• Crosspost filters in the Add Groups dialog are not hooked up.
• SMTP Authentication for email notification is not hooked up.
• Version 6 Notes on using this version are being compiled in the Help Wiki

  Our Beta Support Forum has current discussions about this beta release.

  If you have an issue not addressed in the forums, please contact Newsbin Technical Support