Software update: BNR2 0.14.1 beta

A new beta version of Binary News Reaper, also called BNR2, has been published on the BNR site. Version number is 0.14.1 beta and the download only takes 628KB of the data limit. The program is intended to download files from usenet newsgroups. Some of the many features are the ability to connect to multiple news servers simultaneously, download optimization, automatic search and reconstruction of the different parts of a file and the use of plugins. It can also display messages, but this is only an afterthought and there are better programs for this according to the developer. BNR2 0.14.1 is available for both the Windowsplatform as before Linux and the changelog accompanying this release shows the following changes:

0.14.1 Aug. 9th, 2004 changes:

• Fixed problem with marking articles as read on closing group not working when hierarchy view turned off.
• Fixed problem with messed up filters on Open & Save dialog boxes.
• Fixed problem with Open & Save dialog boxes not returning the selected filename.
• Fixed problem with auto-shutdown only working when BNR is the currently focused application.
• Modified new sort method (-test1 command-line parameter) to compare the actual strings for all columns, not just the subject column, to ensure accurate sorting of all text columns.
• Applied new patch to fix form z-ordering problems.
• [Linux] Modified splash screen to prevent it from becoming a stay on top form in some Windows Managers.

0.14.0 Aug. 7th, 2004 changes:

• Fixed a bug in IPv6 API detection code that prevents BNR2 from taking advantage of third-party IPv6 packages when Microsoft’s version is not present.
• Added chunk size option to server properties (Advanced Tab) for breaking up large header requests into multiple smaller refreshes.
• Many formatting adjustments to forms to better support localized text.
• Added key to abort support to several forms that did not already have allow it.
• Internal Text viewer now allows advancing to prev/next file of same extension just like Internal Image viewer instead of only doing so for .TXT files.
• Added some additional file extensions to the default executable file types list.
• Fixed broken deletion of entries in Optons | Execute | Executable file types list & made it restore focus to Options form after the query.
• Slight modification to queue.xml file specs to make it well-formed.
• Fixed problem with header refresh lower Article ID bounds sometimes being changed to an invalid value higher than upper bounds when the connection handling that item times out.
• Creating Queue.xml & NZB files now encodes special characters that might be present in all string fields (ie ampersands in Message ID’s) rather than only in the strings most likely to need them.
• Patched XML parser to preserve unescaped ampersands and undefined entities instead of removing the & character and matching ; character to help support importing improperly coded NZB files as well as Queue.xml files generated by old versions of BNR2.
• “Mark want filter matches for download even when file is incomplete” option added to Options | Download page.
• Fixed a UUE decoding bug where special text denoting end of an multipart segment was being misinterpreted as part of the encoded data stream resulting in corrupted files.
• Double-clicking on subject line of a file, excluding fileset header rows in the hierarchy view, now attempts to execute the file.
• The auto-shutdown when finished feature now only considers BNR to be idle when there are no dialog boxes currently open, so it doesn’t keep trying to shutdown while user is viewing an options form.
• Fixed problem with the Remember option to mark or not mark all articles as read when closing a group reverting back to Ask due to the Use Parent Settings option being turned on.
• Changed Connection Manager to perform checks much less frequently to try to improve performance with large queues and full HD.
• Added history to search filter on Newsgroups page.
• Setting the “Expired in ___ days” value to any non-zero value will now automatically check the “Filter is Active” option on Kill/Want Filter Properties form.
• Score field on Kill/Want Filter Properties form now allows full range of -128 to 127 instead of only -50 to 50.
• The “Expires in ___ days” field on Kill/Want Filter Properties form now allows up to 999 days before expiration instead of only 100 days.
• Added automatic enabling/disabling of Apply button on several forms.
• Added ability to resize some forms that were previously a fixed size.
• Rearranged some items in main menu & context menus to match.
• Added Reset command to Groups context menu and changed accelerator from Alt-E to Alt-S to eliminate conflict with the Remove menu item.
• Fixed a duplicate accelerator conflict in Column Configuration Windows.
• Patched yDecoding routines to attempt to correctly decode articles when attachment header is mangled by ZoneAlarm.
• [Windows XP & Linux Only] Added theme support.[break] click for a larger version