Download NewsBin Pro 6.30 Build 1747 Beta 4

The fourth beta release of NewsBin Pro version 6.30 has been released. NewsBin Pro is intended to retrieve files, such as photos, movies and programs, from usenet. These files can be downloaded in individual packets from one or more news servers and reassembled at the receiving end. Since version 6.00, the interface uses tabs and there is a cache-to-memory option that, if a machine has enough memory, reduces constant access to the hard drive. The main changes coming with version 6.30 plus the improvements from beta 4 can be found below:

Version 6.30 New Features and Changes Summary since 6.21

• Made retries configurable. Should help for iffy connections. Default is 2. Can modify under Options/Setup.
• New column in Groups tab called “New Records” lists number of new posts since the last load.
• Better progress reporting in Download tab
• Fixes to resolve memory problems on 32 bit systems
• Ctrl-Y to force a download now bypasses spam filters too (Add to Download List – Bypass Filters)

Changes in version 6.30 beta 4 Build 1747:

• New Feature: Notification redone. Email and Growl support. Must have a Growl server installed on a machine reachable by an IP address. Tested on Windows and OSX so far.
• Made changes so that adding a ton of posts to a custom list wouldn’t take as much RAM. Custom list generation should be 10 times faster for large posts counts.
• Fixed issue where canceling the “custom list select” dialog was hanging Newsbin
• When adding to new custom list, the focus wasn’t going to the edit.
• NZB load filter now acts as a filter profile for NZB files loaded to the post list.
• Fixed issue where gridlines weren’t showing in the Search tab on 64 bit versions. Also fixed issue where Internet Search mode wasn’t showing by default.
• Fixed issue when purging to display age, wasn’t showing progress bar progress
• Fixed issue when compacting databases, it was not showing the total space saved.
• Fixed issue with files DB not handling unicode filenames properly. Files on the files list wouldn’t be reloaded into the list if the filename or path were unicode.
• Fixed issue where ctrl-R would not save to proper data folder if the folder has unicode chars in it.
• Setting for “Age” in the filter profile wasn’t saving properly.
• Performance improvement for the groups tab. It was pretty slow getting the counts.
• Fix for group display problem introduced in B3
• Fix for non-ASCII subjects not showing up from search.
• Now reports in the status line when waiting for a retry to occur.
• If the user enters ab expand it to alt.binaries. before sending to search server.
• Implemented additional Bandwidth usage stats over the newsbin remote control interface.
• Added secondary authentication method to remote control interface so only a password is required and not the Newsbin key.
• Fixed remote password bug introduced in B3.
• Now with autopar disabled, the PARS can be directed to download or to go to the wish list.
• When Autopar is disabled the options “ScratchPars” determines where the pars go. By default, they go to the download.
• Changes to help maintain integrity of the autopar2.db3 file.
• If a repair fails, now renames the files back to the original filenames.