Software update: NewsBin Pro 6.50 build 2689 beta 6

The sixth beta release of NewsBin Pro version 6.50 has been released. With this program files – such as photos, movies and programs – can be retrieved from usenet. New in version 6.50 is, among other things, a Watch function, which allows you to watch for specific content when retrieving the headers. Also, the download can be extracted to a different location than where it is initially saved. This sixth beta contains several bug fixes and helps autopar better deal with archive files that cannot be extracted.

Version 6.50 new features and changes summary since 6.42

• New Watch feature. Configure Newsbin to pull out items of interest during header downloads.
• Ability to launch post unrar processing scripts.
• Provides the ability to download parts of a post to one drive and have them assembled to another. Useful if you want to minimize I/O bottlenecks by downloading to a fast internal drive then save the assembled files on larger external media like a NAS.
• Optimizations for downloading to SSD drives
• Uses new hashing code. Seems to solve the rare problem where Newsbin and quickpar don’t agree on the hash value
• If you have two unique Regular Expressions with a space between them, it’ll AND the results.
• Intermediate NB2 files are no longer used.
• New logic to verify all downloaded files even without pars so it won’t download dup files ever.
• Startup checking is much faster, like if you exit with large sets in the download list.
• Compacts more posting styles
• The “Small File Filter” is now disabled by default (Show PAR/NFO)
• Unnecessary files in the data folder gets purged on startup now.
• Now supports SMTP authentication for email notifications.

Tech Notes:

• When downloading, all the chunks go to a common folder in the data folder.
• When downloading headers, all the updates are sent to a common folder and not “per group”.
• Only 2 downloading modes, fully buffered in memory or chunks in the common folder.
• The chunks folder is only used if the memory cache has to be flushed.
• Current in memory chunks get flushed out.

Version 6.50 Beta 6 Build 2689

• Fixed issue where passwords containing tabs wouldn’t work for passworded rar files.
• Fixed crash issue on XP systems. Hopefully will fix related problems running under wine.
• Fixed download stall issue. Found a threading problem in the chunk cache that may have caused it
• Optimized how AutoPAR works for handling failed repairs.
• Fixed an issue with the remote interface.
• Fixed issue where use of SSLV2 was being applied globally instead of just for specific connections.