De eerste bètaversie van SABnzbd versie 1.2.1 is uitgekomen. Met SABnzbd kunnen bestanden van usenet worden gedownload. Dit opensourceprogramma is beschikbaar voor Windows, Linux en OS X, en biedt de mogelijkheid om nzb-bestanden te laden, waarna de juiste files van usenet worden geplukt. Met de ingebouwde webinterface is het mogelijk om het programma via een webbrowser te bedienen. In versie 1.2.1 zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
What's new in 1.2.1 Beta 1Bug fixes in 1.2.1 Beta 1
- QuickCheck will perform fast rename of obfuscated posts
- RSS Downloaded page now shows icon to indicate source
- HTML tags are filtered from single-line script output
- Fix crashing Assembler
- Cloaked files (RAR within RAR) were not detected anymore
- 'Only Download Top of Queue' was broken for a long time
- Incorrectly labeled some downloads as Encrypted
- RSS reading could fail on newznab attributes
- Incorrectly marking jobs with folders inside as failed
- Handle jobs on Windows with forbidden names (Con., Aux.,..)
- Categories were not matched properly if a list of tags was set
- PostProcessing-script was not called on Accept&Fail or Dupe detect
- Support for newer par2cmdline(-mt) versions that need -B parameter
- Some newsservers would timeout when connecting
- Duplicate detection set to Fail would not work for RSS feeds
- More robust detection of execute permissions for scripts
- CPU type reporting on Windows and macOS
- Failed to start with some localhost configs
- Removed some more stalling issues