Software-update: NewsLeecher 4.0 bèta 10

Woensdag is de tiende 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 zogeheten super search, en kan gedownloade bestanden automatisch op integriteit en volledigheid controleren en vervolgens zelfstandig uitpakken. In versie 4.0 bèta 10 is een belangrijke performance-verbetering waar te nemen tijdens het downloaden van bestanden, zeker voor mensen met een dikke pijp naar het internet. Het volledige changelog van deze release ziet er als volgt uit:

New features:

• Added an option to show article parts information in the article listviews. The option can be turned on at: Settings -> Nerdy Tweaks -> Article Parts Visible in Listview Note that the feature can be turned on / off, by using the Shift+P keyboard shortcut.

Improved features:

• << BIGGER IMPROVEMENT >> This release uses a new, and much more efficient, way to handle article downloads. This change should take of most of the temporary queue pauses that some users see, when downloading articles with NewsLeecher on a fast connection. Technically speaking, yEnc encoded articles are now written directly to the download destination folder, instead of being written to a temporary disk location first, whereas uuEncoded articles are now kept in a memory cache until all article parts are downloaded, whereafter the cache is flushed directly to the download destination folder.
• The 'copy subject to clipboard' / 'copy poster name to clipboard' features now copies all selected articles to the clipboard, instead of only the first selected article.
• The algorithm used to create article collections, has been improved a bit, making the colletion names better looking under certain circumstances.
• NewsLeecer now includes *.srr files in article collections.
• Lots of smaller improvements (improved compatibility with MAC/Wine and MAC/Crossover, etc.)

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed bug where fetching headers, while using the new 'turbo compressed headers' feature, would sometimes fail, if only a small number of headers were available for fetching.
• Fixed bug where articles downloaded for reading (Open), were sometimes skipped, if the 'skip if file already exists' feature was enabled.
• Fixed bug where Repair'n'Extract would sometimes fail if the Repair'n'Extract 'Date & Time Prefix Folder' feature was used.
• Fixed bug introduced in a recent beta, where the max limit for article headers fetching was sometimes ignored.
• Fixed issues where Repair'n'Extract would sometimes automatically unpause articles in the transfer queue, even though they were not part of any Repair'n'Extract sets.
• Double-clicking downloaded articles in the listviews, didn't open the download article file, like it's supposed to.
• Many smaller problems fixed (Socks firewall fix, etc.)