What's new in NZB Drop 3.21
Sep 29, 2017
- Improved compatibility with MacOS High Sierra.
- Improved handling of misnamed files when par2 checking and unpacking rar archives.
- Several bug fixes.
New in NZB Drop 3.2 (Jun 25, 2016)
- Introducing Rules: fine control over what's tossed, what's kept, and exactly where it's put.
- Updated unrar to the latest version so files archived with RAR v5 can now be unarchived.
- Fixed potential for multiple threads to run redundant par2 checks at the same time.
- Fixed clipping of bookmark button icon in Search view.
- Updated SMTP code to support StartTLS connections on port 587.
- NZB files double-clicked to launch the app are now properly selected and displayed.
New in NZB Drop 3.1 (Aug 26, 2015)
- Added support for specifying passwords for encrypted rar archives.
- Added commands for re-downloading files or entire nzb sets.
- Added vibrancy in nzb table (Yosemite and later).
- Bandwidth menu now uses turle icon to indicate when bandwidth is limited.
- Added Enter Full Screen menu item and key equivalent.
- Hide Download Activity now properly adjusts nzb table scrollview.
- Fixed display of nzb column tooltips.
- Fixed redraw glitch when deleting files or collections.
- Fixed drawing problems for collections with no subject.
- Fixed potential crash checking unresponsive pop server for email messages containing nzb files.
- Fixed inability to delete last remaining digit in port field of server preferences.
- Fixed the ability to specify a custom default nzb search site in search preferences.
- Fixed several memory leaks.
- Fixed potential crash deleting files while downloading.
- Fixed rare crash closing nzb set.
New in NZB Drop 3.01 (Jan 14, 2014)
- Fixed incompatibility with OS X.7 (Lion)
- Fixed auto-quit preference option.
- Fixed glitch deleting unselected NZB sets.
- Fixed several minor UI issues.
New in NZB Drop 3.0 (Jan 6, 2014)
- Completely rewritten in 64-bit Cocoa (version 2 was 32-bit Carbon).
- Updated user interface.
- Reduced cpu usage and disk activity.
- Multiple threads available for post processing.
- Retina display support.
- Full screen support.
- Notification Center support.
- New command to clear finished downloads.
- Mavericks App Nap prevented while downloading.
- NZB sets can now be renamed.
- Option to sleep after downloading is now skipped if user is active.
- Numerous bug fixes and other improvements.
New in NZB Drop 2.4.3 (Mar 6, 2013)
- Fixed issue that could cause persistent crash at startup.
- Fixed bug that could cause data corruption resulting in unnecessary par2 repair.
- Several minor bug fixes.
New in NZB Drop 2.4.2 (Jul 3, 2012)
- Fixes several glitches running under Mac OS 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
New in NZB Drop 2.4.1 (Jun 9, 2012)
- Several bug fixes, including an intermittent crash at startup.
New in NZB Drop 2.4 (May 28, 2012)
- New mailbox monitoring feature allowing nzb files to be emailed to NZB Drop.
- Control NZB Drop remotely via email commands, with optional email replies.
- Fixed rare crash at startup.
- Minor bug fixes, more UI tweaks, and under the hood performance improvements.
New in NZB Drop 2.3 (Nov 8, 2011)
- New command to download files by filetype.
- New command to sort files by filetype.
- View option to display entire subject line instead of filename.
- Fixed crash and improved behavior when out of disk space.
- Fixed the Search page not honoring home page chosen in Preferences.
- Minor bug fixes and UI tweaks.
New in NZB Drop 2.2 (Jul 2, 2011)
- New bookmark support for the search view.
- New bandwidth controller in main window.
- New option to put computer to sleep after downloads are complete.
- New command to sort list of NZBs.
- Added items to the file list contextual menu.
- Several bug fixes and UI tweaks.
New in NZB Drop 2.07 (Mar 4, 2011)
- Fixed excessive cpu usage that could occur when parts are missing from a primary server.
- Fixed non-reporting of certain server errors when additional servers are available to fall back on.
- Eliminated progress bar animation effect since the excessive drawing consumed too many cpu cycles.
- Reduced spike in cpu usage while assembling parts.
- Fixed non-reporting of unRAR errors when unarchiving embedded archives.
- UnRar will no longer automatically delete broken unarchived files.
- Fixed UI glitch that caused scroll bars to disappear in file mode when post processing begins.
New in NZB Drop 2.06 (Jan 24, 2011)
- Par2 check will now use the smallest available recovery file if the main index file is missing.
- Fixed excessive cpu usage while downloading collections via the “Download Selected” command.
- Improved subject analysis for more accurate grouping of files into collections.
- Added preference to prevent computer from sleeping while connections are running.
- Improved RAR functionality to properly handle archives that contain multiple embedded archives.
- Fixed UI glitch where completed file would show incomplete progress bar.
- Fixed UI glitch where collection progress arrows would show while viewing files.
- Fixed potential crash while quitting application.
New in NZB Drop 2.05 (Oct 30, 2010)
- Fixed cause of “an unknown error has occurred: error code 1312908132”.
- Fixed cause of data corruption, resulting in unnecessary par2 repair.
- Fixed crash when closing the Log window.
- Fixed nzb parsing problem that could prevent post processing from running.
- Split file joining now supports .ts split files (i.e 001.ts, 002.ts).
- Added Join command to the post processing menu.
- Fixed problems with post processing if par2 checking is disabled.
- Fixed UI glitches when manually running post processing commands.
- Fixed text wrapping problems in the list of files and collections.
- Downloaded nzb files will now be auto-loaded if they are not part of a larger collection.
New in NZB Drop 2.04 (Sep 21, 2010)
- Fixed potential crash updating 1.4 databases.
- Unprocessed rar archives will no longer be "cleaned up".
- Fixed potential crash reading nzb files with excessively long subjects.
- Fixed display of ISO-Latin-1 entities.
- Fixed split assembly failure if there is a part 0.
- Downloads will now check all nzb sets for newly queued files before quitting.
- Fixed crash from malformed xml headers in nzb file.
- Added option for Clean Up to move files to trash rather than deleting outright.
- Fixed bandwidth limiting schedules.
- The Browser window can now be closed w/o shutting down running connections.
- Fixed cause of crash after long periods of downloading.
- Par2 failures from missing unwanted files are now ignored.
- Fixed incorrect/understating bandwidth in Dock badge.
- Fixed crash on quit after stopping connections.
- Fixed cause of all download threads locking up.
- Fixed crash from corrupt errors database.
New in NZB Drop 2.0 (Jun 14, 2010)
- New unified user interface with browser window.
- Grouping of related files into collections.
- Par2 check and repair, with automatic retrieval of recovery blocks.
- Unrar, unzip, and split-file assembly.
- Inline search using binsearch.info or other usenet search engine.
- Support for up to 100 simultaneous connections per server.
- Option to skip specified filetypes, e.g. nfo, log, txt, md5, cue, sample.
- Option to clean up par2, rar, zip, and split files after successful post processing.
- Numerous bug fixes and other improvements.
New in NZB Drop 1.4 (May 10, 2009)
- Fixed excessive cpu usage when limiting bandwidth.
- Fixed problem downloading files posted in more than 2048 parts.
- Default parts folder renamed to prevent Spotlight indexing.
- Fixed certain cases where nzb files added to the watch folder would be missed.
- Fixed timeout problem with ssl that could result in corrupted parts.
- Reveal in Finder command now selects the file in addition to opening the enclosing folder.
- Fixed potential crash saving nzb files.
- Significantly reduced disk activity when downloading large parts.
- Download Selected command will no longer proceed to next open nzb file.
- Fixed unkown error 27731.
- Fixed reveal/stop/resume buttons not always recognizing clicks.
- Fixed problem parsing nzb files that could result in incomplete files.
New in NZB Drop 1.3 (Jan 17, 2009)
- Significant reduction in cpu usage and disk access.
- Added watch folder for auto-loading nzb files.
- Bandwidth limits can now be scheduled.
- New preference to auto-queue par checksum files (separate from PAR recovery files).
- New command to sort file list.
- “Fills only” server option replaced with server Usage setting: Normal, Fills only, or Manual only.
- Fixed crash displaying Errors window.
- Fixed Parts folder setting in Preferences being ignored.
- Fixed odd row selection behavior.
- Many other minor changes and bug fixes.
New in NZB Drop 1.2 (Sep 10, 2008)
- Option to limit bandwidth usage.
- Time remaining indicator for downloads.
- Parts can now be stored in a separate location from completed files.
- The number of files remaining can now be shown in the dock icon.
- Displaying the Errors window whenever an error occurs is now a preference.
- Added detailed error logging when an improperly formated nzb file can not be opened.
- Fixed problem decoding binhex files on intel machines.
- Fixed several spinning cursor deadlock errors while downloading.
- Many more bug fixes.