Download SABnzbd 2.0.0 alpha 1

The very first test version of SABnzbd 2.0 has been released. With SABnzbd files can be downloaded from usenet. This open source program is available for Windows, Linux and OS X, and offers the possibility to load nzb files, after which the correct files are picked from usenet. With the built-in web interface it is possible to operate the program via a web browser. The main improvement in version 2.0 is SABYenc, a module that can quickly decode Usenet articles and that should provide a faster download speed.

New in 2.0.0: SABYenc
To improve SABnzbd’s performance on systems where CPU power is limiting download speed, we developed a new module called SABYenc to accelerate the decoding of usenet articles. Depending on the hardware, download speed can greatly increase.

The Windows and macOS releases automatically include this module, for other platforms you can read more here. If you experience issues, please report them on our Forums! The module is not mandatory, the _yenc module will continue to work and its performance will be similar.

What’s new in 2.0.0

• Post-processing scripts now get additional job information via SAB_* environment variables – See: #785
• Certificate Validation set to Strict for newly added newsservers
• Schedule items can now be enabled and disabled
• Remove Secondary Web Interface option
• HTTP redirects in interface are now relative URLs
• Moved some lesser used settings to Config->Specials
• Cache usage is now updated continuously in the Status Window
• On macOS SABnzbd was set to have low IO-priority, this is now set to normal

Bug fixes in 2.0.0

• Warn in case encoding is not set to UTF-8
• Retry ADMIN data saving 3x before giving error

Upgrade notices

• Windows: When starting the Post-Processing script, the path to the job folder is no longer in short-path notation but includes the full path. To support long paths (>255), you might need to alter them to long-path notation (\?).
• Schedule items are converted when upgrading to 2.xx and will break when reverted back to pre-2.xx releases.
• The organization of the download queue is different from pre-1.xx releases. So 2.xx will not see the existing queue, but you can go to Status->QueueRepair and “Repair” the old queue.