Download NewsBin Pro 6.00 build 832 beta 4

DJI Interprises is developing version 6.00 of NewsBin Pro and has now reached its fourth beta release. This program 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. In version 6.0, especially the user interface has been overhauled. Since the first beta release, the following changes have been made:

Version 6.00 Beta 4 Build 832

• Installer now prompts to remove workspace key (which resets GUI). Use this if Newsbin crashes on startup.
• Fixed Poster Lockouts
• Fixed issue where Help/About was hanging Newsbin
• Fixed issue where thumbnails could hang Newsbin
• Enabled TCP timeouts and keepalives to see if that addresses some reports of connections hanging.
• Enabled filters for NZB files loaded into a post list
• Right and left arrow was not functioning when trying to edit text in a field
• Fixed issue with RAR Sample not saving a sample file.

Version 6.00 Beta 3 Build 820

• Enable Filters no longer has a line through it
• Display: New toolbar on Files tab. Buttons to remove from list, launch, delete from disk, and unrar.
• Display: Fixed issue where selecting individual items in the post list (expanded) caused selection size to mess up
• Display: Removed Window Positions dialog from Options screen. It’s now unnecessary.
• Download: When a RAR set failed to unrar but par files say it’s perfect, Newsbin will now give up on it instead of downloading more pars and trying again.
• Display: QPMS was leaving deleted files in the files list after assembly.
• Autopar: If downloading a par, if the par is damaged to the point the parid is missing, trigger another par download
• Autopar: Require that at least 90% of the file blocks be there before hunting for par files
• Autopar: Fixed issue processing rar sets requiring passwords.
• Display: Right click unrar from the download list wasn’t adding files to files list
• Display: Single part files should tickle the repair engine then leave the download list without deleting any other files with the same parid.
• Display: Display a range of unrar and repair errors
• Display: Add a password prompt with dropdown for passworded rars.
• Display: Can now interrupt a manual unrar.
• Display: Selecting multiple sets to unrar in the download list was only unraring one.
• Display: Remove unrar/sample from the autopar status window. It’s already in the download list right click
• Display: Right click unrar from the download list now unrar to the unrar folder.
• Display: If a password is set for tray pop and click the tray icon was giving multiple password windows
• Download: After a repair but, not an unrar, the Autopar stats don’t reflect the new state
• Fixed issue where if you have and NFO or SFV IN the par set and they download before the rars (but the par downloaded) when they were removed from the download list, it removed the RARS too.
• Fixed the issue where after a repair, autopar properties didn’t reflect the repaired files.

Version 6.00 Beta 2 Build 774

• Help link goes to V6 help now
• Fixed issue launching NZBs from IE8
• Added option to detect password protected rar files to Options/AutoPAR. Off by default. Set under Options/AutoPAR
• Removed options from Options/AutoPAR that aren’t needed anymore: Add PAR to top and Add Par to Wish List
• Changed increments in the Min and Max Size filters
• When files are moved from the scratch to the download list, now verifies that the filenames still exists before assuming they’ve been downloaded.
• When a set is incomplete in the download list and then added to from the post list, the organization in the download list was incorrect.
• Fixed “Load Special” and “Reload” (same dialog). Wasn’t allowing you to enter day range for loading.
• Added current block count to the autopar properties window
• When downloading split RAR and PAR sets, now can associate the PARs with the other files in the download list.
• For PAR Only downloads, download the small par and leave the rest paused waiting for more work
• Fixed crash in newsbin when expanding and contracting in the middle of a paint
• Disabling “Automatic unrar” was leaving the files in the download list. It’ll now repair and delete the bad files and remove from the download list when complete
• The word “Decode” was replaced with “UnRAR” in many places
• New download state machine – more files remain in the download list requiring manual intervention when something goes wrong.
• A failure in the initial PAR to download was tossing the rest of the set in the failed list
• Addressed issue where rapid updates resulted in incomplete files from some servers – small overlap added
• Unrar of a partial set from the download list wasn’t working
• Added a refresh button to the autopar properties window (available from right-click menu in the download list)
• When files get added to an existing download list entry, if the PAR exists, now makes sure to unpause them and continue the download.
• When using Internet Search, when a file is listed as “Downloaded”, tag it as old too. Prevents the need to toggle “Hide Old”
• When re-downloading PARs, now deletes the one that’s already on disk instead of renaming
• Assembly incompletes was too aggressive. Now it’ll just assemble missing and failed chunks. This problem caused files to end up in the failed list withno repair after and “Assemble Incompletes”.
• Retry download would erase downloaded file state for a set of files in the failed or wish lists (or a retry in the download list). When retrying, only updates the NZB Parts now.
• Downloaded state was getting lost when going to failed list and back to download list
• Progress bar in par properties was coming up blank
• Background purge to StorageAge is hooked up now.
• Hooked up purge to display age.
• If you start with no filters in the filters.db3, the dialogs for the filters weren’t getting created. (Bug #12)
• Deleting a filter was showing the wrong “OK” message. (Bug #11)
• When you add a new filter, it is now selected and ready for input.
• Added new toolbars for wish list and failed tabs
• Mark old works in I search again.
• Properties in the post list wasn’t displaying missing posts for single files.
• Added validation that files were selected before popping up file folder selecters.
• Changed update when started to a new value so, people with upgrade installs don’t do a header download.
• Removed MD5 for whole file checking in autopar, using intel CRC32 instead. CPU load one one core seems to be 1/3 what it was before.
• Added ability to set the unrar and repair priority. No interface for it, set it in the .nbi file in the [Settings] section set “RepairPriority” to 1 to reduce priority. Remove it or set to 0 for normal priority
• Removed the “B” from the counts shown in the groups list. It’s a number of posts, not bytes.
• Doing a “clear results” only cleared visible results, wasn’t actually doing a clear internally.

NewsBin Pro 6 beta 1 screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.