Version history for Binbot
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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 v2.0 Beta 1 - v2.0 Beta 2
- New Features and Enhancements
- Added pause button to pause all scheduled downloads.
- Bug Fixes
- Opening a large number of NZB files could cause too many files to be opened in the temporary directory.
- Corrupted RAR files could fail silently, appearing as is the unpacked file was valid.
- Articles in the main window were not being repainted after the current newsgroup's font was updated.
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).
