Download Usenet Explorer 4.7

Version 4.7 of Usenet Explorer has been released. With this program files from usenet can be downloaded. Usenet Explorer is characterized by low processor and memory usage, and very extensive options, which may make it less suitable for novice users. Version 3.6 was released only recently, but 4.0 has been worked on in parallel for much longer. In version 4.0, memory usage has been further reduced, the program loads newsgroups faster and more message IDs can be stored. The changelog for version 4.7 looks like this:

Usenet Explorer 4.7

• The former “Clear history” option has been refined, now “Edit menu->Delete history” shows a dialog with options to delete history either selectively or everything at once as before.
• Refined code when new headers are marked read. Added explicit option in “Edit menu->Properties->General, Newsgroups, Mark headers old on mark read”. Prior code wasn’t always consistently marking headers old although it was the intention. The option is checked by default. With the option unchecked read and new attributes are completely separated internally. Added another color in “Edit menu->Fonts and Colors” (shade of green by default, the color can be customized by the user) to show headers which possess both read and new attributes; in the prior code those headers were just shown as read, even as they also correctly appeared with filters set to show new messages.
• Search service number of retries option added in edit menu->properties->search/import. It is two by default, three attempts total – prior to the option there were no retries.
• When the search service configuration update is triggered by a search server the program now has the capability to perform the update bypassing the website.
• Revised code of pseudo random generator which may result in faster loading of large newsgroups.
• The option added in v4.6 to force search service configuration update when search failed on all servers sometimes was mistakenly triggered when in fact search failed only on some servers, apart from the misleading error message the program would also try to update search service configuration unnecessarily .
• Adopted RAR 5 package added in v4.6 seems to work ok, no complaints and no changes have been made.