De ontwikkeling van SABnzbd vordert gestaag en inmiddels is de zesde release candidate alweer beschikbaar; de vierde en vijfde release candidate zijn alleen aan een interne testgroep vrijgegeven. Met SABnzbd kunnen binary- en tekstbestanden van usenet gedownload worden. De software 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 geplukt. Door middel van de ingebouwde webinterface is het mogelijk om het programma via een webbrowser aan te sturen. Het changelog van deze release laat de volgende veranderingen zien:
Changes:Fixes:
- Add INI-only option "par2_multicore" to enable/disable par2-multicore
RC4 and RC5 were only released to our Test group.
- Prevent crash in RSS due to odd characters
- Prevent deadlock in downloader when server is blocked
- Prevent deletion of par files of other sets in multi-set NZBs
- Incorrect job rename in SMPL skin on Windows
- INI-only option "no_penalties" to limit timeout penalties for non-optional servers to 1 minute
- HTTPS certificate paths should default to the admin_dir directive
- The second parameter of the user script should be the original NZB file name, even when the job has been renamed.
- Show clear error message when RSS feed preview or force-download fails.
- Don't warn about RSS reading problems when a scheduled scan is done.
- Ignore empty "username" and "apikey" parameters in nzbmatrix.com URLs and add stored values.
- Suppress authentication warning for API call "get_scripts" and "qstatus". These are used by some external utilities to determine if username/password is required. Prevents a warning each time SABnzbd or the browser is started.
- Ignore read-only attributes of files in a RAR archive (Windows)
- Remove potential crash on OSX when handling corrupt par2 file
- Enable manual unblocking of permantly blocked servers
- Retry permanently blocked servers after 30 minutes (compensate for shoddy servers)
- INI-only option "folder_length_max" for trimming folder name size (default 128 for Windows, for others 256)
- Give unrar preference over rar when both installed on a Posix system