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Version history for Binbot for Linux (SUSE)

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Changes for v2.0 Beta 3 - v2.0

  • New Features and Enhancements
  • General Improved the file selection dialog on Mac.
  • NZB Files Added support for incomplete NZB files.
  • Main Window Added options Open File and Open Folder in NZB tab menu.
  • Main Window Added support for dragging and dropping NZB files to the main window.
  • Server List Added a new column in the server list showing the maximum number of connections.
  • Header Downloads Improved memory management by dropping headers if the amount of available memory falls below a given threshold.
  • UnRAR Improved error messages when unpacking RAR files.
  • Windows Installer Upgraded the online JRE installer to version 1.6.0_06.
  • Mac Installer Added a license agreement to the Mac installer.
  • Bug Fixes
  • Search Tab Sorting search results by age was broken.
  • General Some keyboard shortcuts on Mac were using the Control key instead of the Command key.
  • General Configuration settings could be lost when upgrading to a new version of Binbot.
  • Main Window Viewing article properties was incrementing the article download count for the author.
  • NZB Files NZB file articles were being shown as complete before availability had been fully checked.
  • NZB Files Articles from the same NZB file could end up being downloaded to different folders.
  • Article Properties Loading an article's raw headers could fail if the first server was misconfigured.
  • UnRAR The directory structure of RAR archives was not being preserved when unpacking.
  • Header Downloads The index for cached headers could get deleted too early (tentative fix).



Changes for v2.0 Beta 2 - v2.0 Beta 3

  • New Features and Enhancements
  • Downloads: Show remaining size and download time for articles under the Downloads tab.
  • Downloads: Automatically reorder articles in download queue so packed files are downloaded in the right order (e.g. .rar, .r00, .r01, etc.)
  • Downloads: New option to automatically remove articles from the Downloads tab.
  • Downloads: Download packed files and parity files (par2, sfv) to the same directory.
  • General: New option to change the folder in which Binbot settings are stored.
  • General: Improved dialog for selecting folders on Mac.
  • General: New option to open downloaded files (requires JRE 1.6 or higher on Windows and Linux).
  • General: New option to open the folder containing downloaded files (Mac and Windows only).
  • General: New option to minimize Binbot to the system tray (requires JRE 1.6 or higher, Windows and some flavors of Linux only).
  • General: Remember opened search tabs at start-up.
  • General: Added .7z file extension as compressed file type.
  • General: Associate NZB files with Binbot (Mac only).
  • Main Window: New confirmation dialog when closing Articles or NZB tabs.
  • Unpacked Files: Drag and drop unpacked files form the Unpacked Files tab.
  • Unpacked Files: New option to cancel partially unpacked files.
  • Bug Fixes
  • Main Window: Newly subscribed newsgroups weren't being automatically selected if the first Articles tab wasn't selected.
  • Main Window: Table headers were shifted to the right after opening a file selection dialog (Mac only).
  • Main Window: The Article menu could become unavailable after closing a tab.
  • Main Window: The article properties window did not open if the article was being downloaded.
  • General: French language support was not working on Mac.
  • Header Downloads: Articles could get corrupted if headers were loaded from the same newsgroup in two different tabs in close succession.
  • Unpacked Files: Toolbar buttons weren't always properly updated.
  • Unpacked Files: Right mouse button popup menus weren't working for unpacked files.



Changes for v1.1.2 - v2.0 Beta 1

  • New Features and Enhancements
  • Files Downloads: Added support for downloading multiple parts of the same article simultaneously, and reordering downloads in real-time.
  • General: Added support for NZB files.
  • General: Added support for Usenet web-based search.
  • Articles: Added support for browsing multiple newsgroups simultaneously.



Changes for v1.1.1 - v1.1.2

  • New Features and Enhancements
  • General: Added support for version 2 license keys.
  • Windows Installer: Upgraded the bundled JRE installer from version 1.6u3 to version 1.6u4.
  • Bug Fixes
  • General: Fixed bug that could cause internal database files to get corrupted.
  • Binbot Settings: Fixed bug that prevented the Validate stored headers option to be deselected.
  • General: Allow Binbot to use up to 1 GB of system memory (if available).



Changes for v1.1 Beta 3 - v1.1.1

  • Header Downloads: Added support for configuring the page selection policy (see menu Tools > Settings under the Headers page).
  • General: Added a file unsplit tool (to reassemble files named .001, .002, etc).
  • Article: Filters Added support for filtering articles by download status.
  • Windows Installer: Upgraded the online JRE installer to version 1.6.0_03 (from version 1.6.0_02).



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