Download NewsLeecher 4.0 Beta 9

The ninth beta release of NewsLeecher 4.0 was released on Friday. 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 9 an important performance improvement can be observed when browsing articles in newsgroups with very many items. The full changelog of this release looks like this:

New features:

• Implemented a ‘Copy Selected Article Subject to Clipboard’ feature. Can be accessed by popup menus, and ‘Ctrl+C’ shortcut.
• Implemented a ‘Copy Selected Article Poster Name to Clipboard’ feature. Can be accessed by popup menus, and ‘Shift+Ctrl+C’ shortcut.
• Implemented functionality to pause to download queue for a user-specified number of minutes. The new feature can be accessed from the Pause button context menu.

Improved features:

• << Major Performance Improvement >> Major performance improvements when browsing articles in large usenet groups and/or when browsing articles on slow computers. These improvements fixes the most significant performance bottleneck remaining in NewsLeecher.
• This release uses less system resources when downloading articles.
• The overall performance in NewsLeecher has been improved due to internal low-level optimizations.
• The “Delete From Cache” feature is now 1000% + faster.
• Various smaller improvements. (Repair’n’Extract is now faster at handling files under some circumstances, etc.)
• Small improvements to the ‘Collections Pattern Detection’ code, used by NewsLeecher when figuring out which articles should be put in which collections.
• The “Group Cleaning” dialog, occasionally shown during close down, can now be turned off if wanted.

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed bug where the NewsLeecher hint windows flickered whenever lines were written to the log window.
• Fixed bug where NewsLeecher sometimes miscalculated the ‘minimum disk space’ settings, and paused the queue unnecessarily.
• Fixed bug where Repair’n’Extract would sometimes delete downloaded articles, even if Repair’n’Extract unpack / move / copy operations has failed.
• The ‘Move Small Articles to Queue Top’ setting was sometimes ignored. Fixed.