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There's a new version of SABnzbd+ out - version 0.5.3. SABnzbd+ has been a reliable source of new updates and development, alongside Unzbin and the Mac client NZB Vortex. At one point, the holy trinity of news readers was Grabit, alt.bin, and SAB, however alt.binz hasn't released a free public version in quite some time. This has allowed alt.binz to fall into obsolescence, as the free public version cannot handle WinRAR 3.0 archives.
But SABnzbd+ can, as well as Unzbin. It can also handle split files (.001, .002, .003) too, which are becoming more important in the newsgroup ecosystem. Compressing archives used to be important back in the day, but with fast Internet speeds and already compressed file formats, the need to RAR an archive is becoming increasingly dubious.
So what is the latest and greatest from the SAB? It seems like they're not putting too much stock into Newzbin's future, and have expanded NZB Matrix's compatibility with the client. There's a slew of other features released as well, which you can read more about here.
Features
- Support of nzbmatrix categories
- Support of X-DNZB headers for all indexing sites (allows categories for nzbs.org)
- Support 101 season/episode notation
- Use all text after the season/episode element as episode name (don't require '-')
- Support of categories in RSS feeds
(only for compatible feeds, like nzbmatrix.com and nzbs.org)
- Accept ".nzb.gz" files coming from an URL fetch.
- Make sysload support for Linux more universal
Solved problems
- Accumulate all groups from an NZB (for category matching)
- After reducing connections SABnzbd should retry full amount 10 min later
This event was sometimes missed
- Recursive unpack of archives should be done in nested folders instead of base folder
- Sort strings with an absolute path were not handled properly
- Restore compatibility with Python 2.4
- Several fixes to improve robustness of NZB retrieval from indexers
- Solved crash in NZB retrieval from indexers when explicit PP value was set
- Remove leading spaces in user script output display
- Solve problems with passing filenames with '&' as parameter in user scripts
- Allow leading empty lines in email templates
- Prevent oversized logfile when logging fails
- Fixed error in saving some email options
- RSS feeds are now listed in alphabetic order
- Remove double header in email (some email servers choke on that)
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Date: 2010-06-28 |