Newsbin Pro 6.56 changelog

• TLS Support (Secure connections, like SSL).
• New Watch feature. Configure Newsbin to pull out items of interest during header downloads.
• New Priority scheme for configuring multiple news servers.
• Supports RAR5 archives
• Ability to open multiple Search tabs. Hit the Search icon in the toolbar to open a new tab.
• Ability to launch post unrar processing scripts.
• Provides the ability to download parts of a post to one drive and have them assembled to another. Useful if you want to minimize I/O bottlenecks by downloading to a fast internal drive then save the assembled files on larger external media like a NAS.
• Optimizations for downloading to SSD drives
• Uses new hashing code. Seems to solve the rare problem where Newsbin and quickpar don't agree on the hash value
• If you have two unique Regular Expressions with a space between them, it'll AND the results.
• Intermediate NB2 files are no longer used.
• New logic to verify all downloaded files even without pars so it won't download dup files ever.
• Startup checking is much faster, like if you exit with large sets in the download list.
• Compacts more posting styles
• The "Small File Filter" is now disabled by default (Show PAR/NFO)
• Unnecessary files in the data folder gets purged on startup now.
• Now supports SMTP authentication for email notifications.
• New toolbar icons, should be prettier.
• Internet Search results now have special icons showing password protected files and potential spam files.
• Improved spam filters allow you to hide password protected and spam files from your search results list.
• Performance enhancements and upgrade to latest version of sqlite for the working databases.
• New icon on toolbar to toggle automatic shutdown mode on/off
• Compaction scheme now pulls in .nfo, .sfv, .srr files into the set.
• Shows a special icon when a .nfo file exists in the set. Look for a small "i" in a circle, like an information icon.
• Read Post Body (ctrl-r) on a set now reads first chunks of one rar, one par, and any .nfo or .sfv files.
• If an NZB file includes password information for the rar file, Newsbin can now extract and use it.
• Improved speed when downloading from servers with the "Typical Retention" setting being used.

Tech Notes:

• When downloading, all the chunks go to a common folder in the data folder.
• When downloading headers, all the updates are sent to a common folder and not "per group".
• Only 2 downloading modes, fully buffered in memory or chunks in the common folder.
• The chunks folder is only used if the memory cache has to be flushed.
• Current in memory chunks get flushed out.
• Concept of Fill Servers has changed. There is no specific "Fill Server" option to set now. Lower priority servers will only get used if all higher priority servers have failures.
• Any error downloading a PAR2 file automaticlaly triggers the next par2