Begin deze week is bèta 7 van NewsLeecher versie 5.0 beschikbaar gekomen. Met dit programma is het mogelijk om op een eenvoudige manier bestanden uit nieuwsgroepen te downloaden. Het programma ondersteunt nzb-bestanden, beschikt over een SuperSearch, en kan gedownloade bestanden automatisch op integriteit en volledigheid controleren en vervolgens zelfstandig uitpakken. Nieuw in versie 5.0 is onder andere dat er tabs zijn toegevoegd aan de SuperSearch. Verder is er nu een SuperSearch Watchdog en is men druk bezig de gebruikersinterface beter te maken. Het changelog voor bèta 7 laat de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen zien:
New features:Improved features:
- Larger Feature Addition - R&E Destination Manager
A new feature named "Repair & Extract Destination Manager" has been implemented. This feaure makes it possible to tell Repair & Extract where to extract specific downloaded articles, based on customizable keywords matched against the articles subjects. The feature replaces the current settings used to specify where R&E should extract archives, but we've tried to make it backward compatible, so your R&E extract settings remain intact, until you decide to change them through the newly implemented manager.- Larger Feature Addition - SuperSearch It
A new feature named SuperSearch It, has been implemented for all tab views in NewsLeecher. The feature makes it very fast and easy to use SuperSearch for searching specific groups, article subjects and poster names. The feature also makes it very fast to browse entire groups through SuperSearch, without having to fetch headers for the specific group. Feature can be accessed by the 'Flash Icon' buttons, or the F4 keyboard shortcut.- Implemented an option to completely hide the 'Posting View', when no articles are queued to be posted. The option can be turned on / off from by clicking the button, right-most on the transfer queues toolbar.
- We have begun to convert various code parts used in NewsLeecher, in preparation to port the application to Mac OS X. Note that these are *very* *very* early conversion tasks. A fully funtional NewsLeecher OS X port still lies quite a while into the future.
- Visual interface consistency improvements have been implemented.
- Smaller improvements here and there.
