NNTPGrab Changelog

What's new in NNTPGrab 0.6.90

• Added a new feature: Only download PAR2 files when needed. People upgrading from older versions of NNTPGrab may need to enable this feature in the configuration first. Feature #1
• Files can be marked optional/non-optional in the GUI by right-clicking on them and selecting the appropriate option
• Improved the performance of download queue manipulations by replacing the SQLite-based download queue with a custom file format. Download queues created with older versions of NNTPGrab won't get converted so make sure to complete your download queue before upgrading to this version. Feature #3
• Added a preview of a new NNTPGrab frontend written in Qt. This will replace the original GTK frontend on Win32/Win64 and Mac OS X environments as it provides a more native look and feel for those platforms. Thanks go out to chrashoverraid and tg1311 for helping out with this frontend! Feature #2
• The integrated search engine is operational again
• Added 'Select all' / 'Select none' buttons to the integrated search engine
• Show all possible connections in the connections overview instead of only the active ones (a configuration option has been added to restore the old behaviour)
• Dropped the GtkHTML dependency by rewriting the update check in the GTK GUI. Feature #19
• Added support for GTK 3 (and prefer it over GTK 2 when both are available)
• Added GObject-Introspection support which makes it easier to control NNTPGrab using different programming languages (like Javascript and Python). See http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection for more details
• Improved developer documentation by using gtk-doc. This can be found at http://www.nntpgrab.nl/embedded/nntpgrab/docs/index.html
• Dropped (optional) libgnome dependency
• Improved the handling of startup failures
• Added two new environment variables which can be used to influence some default settings: NNTPGRAB_CONFIG_DIR and NNTPGRAB_DEFAULT_DL_DIR. These environment variables are needed for environments like the Fonera. Feature #4
• Allow features to be disable in the ./configure script. Feature #30
• Dropped the libxml2 dependency from the NNTPGrab Core to avoid bloat for embedded environments. Feature #30
• Before decoding files, make sure that the filename is in the UTF-8 charset. If this isn't the case try to convert the filename from Windows-1252 to UTF-8 first. Fixes #34
• Ensure that the output of par2cmdline is UTF-8 before processing it. Should fix 'unknown state for PAR2 message' notification which could occur on files which are in the Windows-1252 character encoding
• Read data from SSL connections in 16KB blocks. Should stabilize the connection a bit
• In some situations connections could hang at 99%. Fixed
• When disk space is low, the message 'nntpconnection.c:995 Unable to write article data to file: Success' could get shown. Fixed
• Fixed various memory leaks in the NNTPGrab Core which occured while importing files
• Fixed a possible race condition when using libproxy for the first time
• Added a workaround for a Win32-specific bug in par2cmdline which could cause the PAR2 repair progress bar to keep moving infinitely
• When par2cmdline exited unexpectedly, the progressbar in the GUI could keep going on. Fixed
• Don't automatically remove the PAR2 files when par2cmdline was aborted unexpectedly
• The program could crash on Linux environments when the user closes the program while a PAR2 repair is still active. Fixed
• The unrar program could hang infinitely when an error occured while unpacking. Fixed
• Only show messages in the terminal when the command line argument --debug is used or the environment variable NNTPGRAB_DEBUG is set