Download NewsLeecher 1.0 beta 25

Beta 25 of the NewsLeecher program was released today. The developers take the best points from programs like NewsBin and GrabIt as the basis for this Usenet client. The result is a program that, among other things, can download from multiple servers at the same time, has support for yEnc encoding and can handle up to 99 theads simultaneously. This release has the following changes:

• Added new ‘Smart Select’ feature to the active group / server search windows. The feature will select all articles with subject lines partially matching the subject line of the first selected article. (Shortcut is Alt+S)
• Implemented full support for Regular Expression searching when using the active group text search filters. To enable the RegExp searching, go to Options / Advanced and check the ‘Use regular expression searches’ checkbox.
• Implemented support for NewsLeecher to execute up to 4 configurable command-lines. The command-lines may contain NewsLeecher specific variables and can quickly be launched by using the Alt+F9 – Alt+F12 hotkeys. Usage instructions and examples:
• Implemented a Poster kill-filter function that makes it possible to ignore incoming article headers posted by posters with specific names and/or email addresses. The filter can be setup from the options dialog under ‘Filter’ settings.
• The ‘Perform action when download queue is empty’ feature now ignores ‘paused’ entries in the queue.
• Articles from servers with wrong message-ids are now treated as ‘missing’ articles. This will prevent article corruption in cases where there are 2 or more download servers available.
• Many small improvements in this release.
• NewsLeecher didn’t calculate the percentage of garbage in the group caches correctly. This has been fixed.
• Fixed bug where articles would sometimes hang in the queue if they were downloaded from groups that didn’t exist on low priority servers.
• Sometimes it wasn’t possible to stop/start server searches. This should work now. (Didn’t get fixed in beta 24)
• Fixed bug (ID:900j209d) (again) – ‘Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window’ bug.
• Fixed bug (ID:kljlkja). Rarely showed up when receiving group headers.
• Many small/medium bug fixes.