Download GrabIt 1.5.0 build 881 experimental

After more than a year of lack of updates, the Shemes development team released the first beta version of GrabIt 1.5.0 a few hours ago. released† This release has been given version number 1.5.0 build 881 experimental and is characterized by a number of new features, bug fixes and optimizations. GrabIt is a freeware news client for Windows and can send binary and text files to and from newsgroups. Straightened binaries split into multiple files are automatically merged. Via the download queue, the articles to be downloaded can be sorted by file size and name, among other things. The same queue can also be used to prioritize the files to be downloaded. Posted below are the release notes of GrabIt 1.5.0 build 881 experimental:

Ok, time for the whole world to play with a new GrabIt toy! I’m not finished yet, especially the group processing routines that need a lot of work didn’t change a lot since release 1.4.7. So don’t expect a lot of extra performance in that area. Still I think there are a lot of new features in this current development build that makes it suitable to share with the rest of the world. Especially the GrabIt Search feature will blow your mind! Just try it out and let us know how you like it!

• New cache format to incorporate Message-IDs (Note: Cache files are NOT compatible with previous releases!);
• Tightened the filename filter a bit to solve some illegal file/foldername issues;
• Improved error feedback in Read article form;
• New date format conversion routine can also convert dates with short year notation (eg. 03 for 2003);
• Solved the exception errors that some people reported while closing GrabIt;
• Batch Import button in Batch screen allows the import of NZB files directly into the batch;
• Batch Import button in Batch screen allows the import of BNS (binnews.com) files directly into the batch;
• Auto shutdown feature now waits until all items are decoded / processed before shutting down the system;
• Tweaked the compression of the cache file to optimize for speed instead of size;
• New ‘Download Folder’ button in the batch tab will open your download folder;
• Some general optimizations;
• Changed the main font of the controls in the application to Arial;
• Added the possibility to change the font of the views (Groups, Articles, Batch, All Groups);
• Added “Grab to folder first” and “Grab with prefix first”;
• Added a new option in the batch popup menu to download a batch item from a different server;
• Incomplete items are now saved with .(Incomplete Grab). in the filename. Peter B. Clements added support for this into Quickpar 0.9 so these files will be recognized;
• GrabIt Search makes it possible to search Usenet without downloading headers or using XPAT.