NewsLeecher 4.0 Beta 4

[jalaffa]

NewsLeecher is a tool made for fetching and managing articles from the Usenet. It downloads Usenet articles in a snap, and uses its inline engine to assemble and decode all the downloads. The powerful featureset and state-of-the-art user interface makes it an application "you simply can't live without" if you are a serious Usenet user.

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[Ultravires]

eset ss is picking it up as a virus however, i also tried d/ling the beta from there offical site and it picked it up as a virus as well, so must be a false positive.

[irefay]

4.0 Beta 4 - Released 26 May 2009

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#: This release uses a new format for setup and configuration

files. NewsLeecher will automatically detect earlier formats

of the setup and configuration files and upgrade to the new

format without any user intervention. But note that older

versions of NewsLeecher will not be able to identify the new

format, so downgrading will reset most settings. It is

therefore recommended that you backup your NewsLeecher

installation before installing this release, just in case

anything goes wrong.

+: Reintroduced a lot of the features which were removed in the

first NewsLeecher version 4.0 betas. The reintroduced features

include listview font name and size configuration, listview

entry height configuration, turning on / off the speedgraph

background logo etc..

+: Added 'Notify on New Final Release' and 'Notify on New Beta

Release' checkboxes to the news-page toolbar.

+: The Repair'n'Extract status column now shows the extraction

speed for extracting archives in MB/s

+: Lots of 'advanced user' tweaks have been added to the

setup dialog. The settings can be accessed from 'Setup ->

Advanced Nerd Tweaks'. The new tweaks include listview entry

color shade settings for sorted columns and collections, the

possibility to set the size of the speedbar on the tray icon,

etc..

*: NewsLeecher uses a new format for the setup and configuration

files. Reading from, and writing to, the new format is between

10 and 1000 times faster than with the old format. And as

NewsLeecher reads and writes a lot of settings during

operations, this change will have a positive impact on the

overall performance.

*: Totally re-organized the setup dialog, to make it much easier

to configure and run NewsLeecher from scratch. All of the non-

essential options and settings have been moved to a new setup

section called 'Advanced Nerd Tweaks'. NewsLeecher will run

fine without playing around with this new section, but the

settings and options can be tweaked to optimize and personalize

NewsLeecher further if wanted.

Due to this new section, the rest of the setup dialog,

containing more essential NewsLeecher settings and options, has

been greatly simplified.

*: Repair'n'Extract will now extract archives ASAP, instead of

waiting until all Repair'n'Extract entries have been verified.

*: Improved the 'Filters Dialog' by replacing the filters listview

control with a memo control. The memo control allows much

faster editing of filters, aswell as batch copy/paste

operations.

*: All 'Group Browsing' settings and filters have been moved to

the setup dialog. The 'Group Browsing' setup dialog can be

accessed fast by clicking the 'Settings' button on the 'Group

Browsing' toolbar.

*: Improved the easy-of-use of the download counter, located on

the status bar.

*: Lots of minor improvements. (Changed the standard pixel height

of listview entries, new graphics in setup dialog, etc.)

!: Fixed serious bug introduced in previous betas, where

NewsLeecher sometimes totally screw up the download destination

folder path when downloads were initiated from NZB files and

the 'Download to Groupname Folder' option was used at the same

time.

!: Fixed bug where the NewsLeecher article header retrieval

function would skip certain headers, because their subjects

used a format which wasn't recognized by NewsLeecher.

!: Fixed bug where NewsLeecher would sometimes pause the transfer

queue automatically when the scheduler is active:

http://www.newsleecher.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18728

!: Fixed bug introduced in previous betas, where Repair'n'Extract

would sometimes delete PAR Split sets.

!: Fixed bug where the queue 'Change Download Folder' feature

didn't always work properly.

!: Fixed bug introduced in previous betas, where the 'Export to

NZB' feature would freeze NewsLeecher, if the 'ZIP Compress

exported NZB File' option was on.

!: Fixed bug where some of the group browser filters would

occasionally cause the group browser listview to freeze:

http://www.newsleecher.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=89118#89118

!: Fixed bug where the time label on the bandwidth graph sometimes

showed an incorrect timespan text while the graph was resized.

!: Numerous smaller bugfixes.

[iaTa]

Wow big changelog. Thanks.