Software-update: NewsLeecher 4.00 bèta 2

De ontwikkelaars van NewsLeecher hebben de de tweede bèta van de nieuwe 4.00-reeks online gezet. De nieuwbakken bèta is door te klikken op deze url voor Windows te downloaden. NewsLeecher is een programma om via Usenet berichten van nieuwsgroepen te lezen en binary's te downloaden. De ontwikkelaars hebben goed gekeken naar programma's als NewsBinPro, NewsPro, BNR en GrabIt, en hebben vervolgens de beste punten genomen als basis voor NewsLeecher. Het resultaat is een programma wat onder andere van meerdere servers tegelijkertijd kan downloaden, ondersteuning heeft voor yEnc-codering en tot maximaal 99 threads simultaan af kan handelen.

Nieuw in de 4.00-versiereeks van NewsLeecher is voorzien van onder meer een vernieuwde 'article cache system' en 'collections'. Verder worden rar-binarybestanden in de correcte volgorde gedownload en is de ondersteuning van ssl verbeterd. Ten slotte is de code van NewsLeecher opgeschoond en zijn er kleine, niet noemenswaardige bugs uit de software gehaald. Het volledige changelog van NewsLeecher 4.00 bèta 2 ziet er als volgt uit:

4.00 Beta 2

• Enabled the 'Leech Tweak' option that makes sure that RAR archives are downloaded in correct order. *.RAR articles will be placed in front of *.R00, *.R01, etc. articles in the queue. The tweak option can be found at: Setup -> Download -> Leech Tweaks
• Added functionality to the integrated Explorer, that allows one to prefix selected files and folders with a custom text string. The function can be accessed from: 'Explorer Tab -> Toolbox -> Prefix ...'.
• Changed the way the internet connections maximum download speed is specified.
• The download speed scheduler has been redesigned and moved to the setup dialog, at: 'Setup -> Download -> Speed Scheduler'.
• Added 'msvcr71.dll' to the installer, as the file, which is needed for NewsLeecher SSL connections, were missing on some systems.
• When pressing the SuperSearch 'Stop' button, NewsLeecher would show a dialog stating that you have just pressed the 'Stop' button. That dialog has been removed.
• Lots of internal code clean-up improvements. These improvements should improve both NewsLeecher speed and stability.
• Many smaller improvements, incl. a few visual ones, like the text / hints on the view tabs.
• Fixed bug introduced in NewsLeecher v4 beta 1, where articles were not always leeched to the correct download folders.
• Fixed a bug that caused the first NewsLeecher V4 beta to freeze sometimes while it was leeching.
• Various leech tweaks and filters were ignored when importing transfer queue articles from NZB files.
• Groupname sorting didn't work in the listview. Fixed.
• The system shutdown function didn't always work. This should be fixed now.
• Fixed bug that caused an exception to be thrown, when adding articles from the same collection to the transfer queue independently.
• Lots of smaller fixes. (Pause/Unpause from queue popup didn't work in beta 1, etc.)