Download NewsLeecher 4.0 Beta 10

The tenth beta release of NewsLeecher 4.0 was released on Wednesday. With this program it is possible to download files from newsgroups in a simple way. NewsLeecher has support for nzb files, has a so-called super search, and can automatically check downloaded files for integrity and completeness and then extract them independently. In version 4.0 beta 10, an important performance improvement can be observed when downloading files, especially for people with a thick pipe to the internet. The full changelog of this release looks like this:

New features:

• Added an option to show article parts information in the article listviews. The option can be turned on at: Settings -> Nerdy Tweaks -> Article Parts Visible in Listview Note that the feature can be turned on / off, by using the Shift+P keyboard shortcut.

Improved features:

• << BIGGER IMPROVEMENT >> This release uses a new, and much more efficient, way to handle article downloads. This change should take of most of the temporary queue pauses that some users see, when downloading articles with NewsLeecher on a fast connection. Technically speaking, yEnc encoded articles are now written directly to the download destination folder, instead of being written to a temporary disk location first, whereas uuEncoded articles are now kept in a memory cache until all article parts are downloaded, whereafter the cache is flushed directly to the download destination folder.
• The ‘copy subject to clipboard’ / ‘copy poster name to clipboard’ features now copies all selected articles to the clipboard, instead of only the first selected article.
• The algorithm used to create article collections, has been improved a bit, making the collection names better looking under certain circumstances.
• NewsLeecer now includes *.srr files in article collections.
• Lots of smaller improvements (improved compatibility with MAC/Wine and MAC/Crossover, etc.)

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed bug where fetching headers, while using the new ‘turbo compressed headers’ feature, would sometimes fail, if only a small number of headers were available for fetching.
• Fixed bug where articles downloaded for reading (Open), were sometimes skipped, if the ‘skip if file already exists’ feature was enabled.
• Fixed bug where Repair’n’Extract would sometimes fail if the Repair’n’Extract ‘Date & Time Prefix Folder’ feature was used.
• Fixed bug introduced in a recent beta, where the max limit for article headers fetching was sometimes ignored.
• Fixed issues where Repair’n’Extract would sometimes automatically unpause articles in the transfer queue, even though they were not part of any Repair’n’Extract sets.
• Double-clicking downloaded articles in the listviews, didn’t open the download article file, like it’s supposed to.
• Many smaller problems fixed (Socks firewall fix, etc.)