De ontwikkelaars achter SABnzbd zijn alweer een jaar bezig met de ontwikkeling van versie 0.5.0 van hun programma. Eind november is daarvan de eerste publieke bètarelease van verschenen en inmiddels zijn we alweer bij bèta 4 aanbeland. Met dit programma kunnen binary- en tekstbestanden van usenet gedownload worden. SABnzbd wordt als opensource-applicatie uitgebracht en is beschikbaar voor Windows, Linux en Max OS X. Het programma biedt de mogelijkheid om nzb-bestanden in te laden, waarna de juiste files van usenet worden gehaald. Door middel van de ingebouwde webinterface is het mogelijk om het programma via een webbrowser aan te sturen. Hieronder zijn de release notes van zowel de eerste als de vierde bètarelease te vinden:
SABnzbd 0.5.0 Beta4 has been released
SABnzbd 0.5.0 Beta4 is available for download from SourceForge.net. Note: The files are called Beta4a due to a technical issue with sf.net.
Fixes:SABnzbd-0.5.0 Beta1 is released
- Fixed poor reliability of reading RSS feeds and subsequent NZB fetches (caused by a too short time-out value).
- Posix: when user has not set a permissions value, use the account’s default permissions (prevents problems with permissions coming from rar files)
- When option “Post-process only verified jobs” is set, do not execute user-script when job fails
- NZB files read in from categorized watched folder did not inherit the category’s priority
- Fixed error reporting about incorrect NZB file
- Improved year recognition in tvsort
- Some recent Ubuntu (-like) systems had problems with ‘localhost’.
- Some skin fixes
Finally! After working on it for nearly a year, we are ready for a public Beta test of the 0.5.0 release.
We had a lot of support from our release test group: thank you.
For more information, see the extended release note on the Wiki.
Highlights:
- Multi-language UI: English, French, Dutch, German and Swedish
- Start-up Wizard to get you going fast
- QuickCheck : on-the-fly par2 check. When a download is correct, the normal par2 check is skipped
- Configuration changes take immediate effect (except skins and some system folders)
- Job priorities, individual job pausing, job renaming
- Flexible server setup (scheduled on/off, optional servers)
- The Plush and Smpl skins have been improved and are a lot faster than before and they have paging
- New “Mobile” skin (replaces iPhone-skin)
- RSS supports more sites and has generally improved
- For Windows distribution: 64-bit par2 and unrar are used on 64-bit Vista/Win7/Server2008
- Support for password protected rar-files
- Expanded TV/Movie sorting
- Improved OSX integration
- HTTPS support for the Web-UI
- Email templates to design your own emails (including multiple recipients)
- Extensive API for utility developers
- History survives a full queue/admin clean and future upgrades
- Windows: optional association of NZB files with SABnzbd (double-click support)

SABnzbd screenshot, klik op de afbeelding voor een grotere versie.