De mensen van Panic hebben in de vorm van 1.8 een nieuwe versie van Unison uitgebracht. De update kan te klikken door op deze link gedownload worden. Unison is een usenet client voor Mac OS X, met mogelijkheden zoals het uploaden en downloaden van berichten en binary's. Daarnaast kan de client bestanden downloaden aan de hand van nzb-files en door middel van par-sets de geleechte files controleren. In Unison 1.8 wordt onder meer de Nederlandse taal ondersteund, is de betrouwbaarheid van onder andere de preview- en parsefunctie verbeterd en zijn er crashbugs uit de code gehaald. Het volledige changelog kan hieronder gelezen worden:
Unison 1.8[break]
- Improved speed of SSL uploads
- Added Dutch localization
- Clicking the dock icon with windows minimized no longer creates a new Groups window
- NZB downloads now wait until downloading begins to create folders
- Fixed an issue with previewing images in Image view
- Improved reliability of previewing images and music after deleting caches folder
- Posting now (more) properly honors the "followup-to" header, as per RFC
- Improves reliability of parsing the file extensions out of subject lines
- Fixed situations where "Clear" may remove active downloads, too
- "Mark Thread Read" now clears selection if messages are hidden
- If you select both a thread and a single non-thread post, "Mark Thread As Read" no longer marks all non-thread posts as read
- Improves download display of base64 posts made with other newsreader applications
- Now attempts SSL first during server setup
- Automatic PAR set naming is now smarter, to avoid generic "Recovery Set" name
- Top level is now properly refreshed in All Groups view after checking for new groups or reloading groups list
- Number of newsgroups is now properly refreshed when you change servers
- Added commas (or periods for our friends overseas) to numbers in message list status text
- File size on yEnc posts is no longer underestimated
- Improved memory usage, such as when using a large number of headers
- Fixed potential crashes, such as during file grouping and when using 10.2.8