Download URD 1.8.0

Version 1.8.0 of URD has been released. URD stands for Usenet Resource Downloader. With this program files from usenet can be downloaded. This can be done by using nzb files, but the program is also capable of analyzing a newsgroup itself and generating a download set for a specific collection of files. URD is being developed for Linux and BSD, and is released under an open source license. The changelog for version 1.8.0 shows the following changes and improvements:

The complete list of changes to URD 1.8:

• Added initial usenet configuration to installer
• Added support for PDO_mysql and PDO_pgsql database interface
• highlighted actions menu in light/darkness stylesheet (like other css)
• Enabled inline images for spots to be shown
• Added php implementation of yydecode to replace the binary (alpha release)
• Improved user interface a bit
• Enabling authentication in usenet overview now uses a popup to ask for credentials
• Added #, // and ; as comments to urdd interface
• Fixed bug in parsing set sizes from RSS feeds
• Added spots statistics per spot subcategory
• Fixed a bug in creating NZB files from spots
• Show text files and images in a popup