Software-update: NewsLeecher 4.0 bèta 9

Vrijdag is de negende bètarelease van NewsLeecher 4.0 verschenen. Met dit programma is het mogelijk om op een eenvoudige manier bestanden uit nieuwsgroepen te downloaden. NewsLeecher heeft ondersteuning voor nzb-bestanden, beschikt over een zogenaamde 'super search', en kan gedownloade bestanden automatisch op integriteit en volledigheid controleren en vervolgens zelfstandig uitpakken. In versie 4.0 bèta 9 is een belangrijke performance verbetering waar te nemen tijdens het browsen van artikelen in nieuwsgroepen met zeer veel items. Het volledige changelog van deze release ziet er als volgt uit:

New features:

• Implemented a 'Copy Selected Article Subject to Clipboard' feature. Can be accessed by popup menus, and 'Ctrl+C' shortcut.
• Implemented a 'Copy Selected Article Poster Name to Clipboard' feature. Can be accessed by popup menus, and 'Shift+Ctrl+C' shortcut.
• Implemented functionality to pause to download queue for a user-specified number of minutes. The new feature can be accessed from the Pause button context menu.

Improved features:

• << Major Performance Improvement >> Major performance improvements when browsing articles in large usenet groups and/or when browsing articles on slow computers. These improvements fixes the most significant performance bottleneck remaining in NewsLeecher.
• This release uses less system resources when downloading articles.
• The overall performance in NewsLeecher has been improved due to internal low-level optimizations.
• The "Delete From Cache" feature is now 1000% + faster.
• Various smaller improvements. (Repair'n'Extract is now faster at handling files under some circumstances, etc.)
• Small improvements to the 'Collections Pattern Detection' code, used by NewsLeecher when figuring out which articles should be put in which collections.
• The "Group Cleaning" dialog, occasionally shown during close down, can now be turned off if wanted.

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed bug where the NewsLeecher hint windows flickered whenever lines were written to the log window.
• Fixed bug where NewsLeecher sometimes miscalculated the 'minimum disk space' settings, and paused the queue unnecessarily.
• Fixed bug where Repair'n'Extract would sometimes delete downloaded articles, even if Repair'n'Extract unpack / move / copy operations has failed.
• The 'Move Small Articles to Queue Top' setting was sometimes ignored. Fixed.