Download NewsLeecher 2.1 beta 5

A new beta version of NewsLeecher has just been released, namely 2.1 beta 5. The update is done here clicking and takes up about three megabytes of disk space. NewsLeecher is a program for reading newsgroup messages and downloading binaries via Usenet. The developers took a good look at programs like NewsBinPro, NewsPro, BNR, and GrabIt, then took the best points as the basis for NewsLeecher. 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 threads simultaneously. The fifth beta of 2.10 ships with the following changelog:

2.1 Beta 5

• Super Search now, once again, uses 3 different search groups. The groups are “General”, “Audio” and “Pictures”. This group setup seems to work better than the previously tested setups.
• Added several new groups to the Super Search Indexer. Check for the complete list of indexed groups.
• Implemented a much requested NZB feature that allows one to export Super Search results directly to NZB files.
• Made a new ‘Leech Option’. It’s now possible to initiate a ‘Leech to Active’ transfer, which will download the selected article(s) into the folder currently active in the built-in File Manager.
• Big redesign of the Options dialog.
• Redesigned the Group Info dialog & the Article Properties dialog.
• Improvements to the ‘Header Fetch Limit’ features. Can be accessed from the options dialog.
• It is now possible to have keys installed for both NewsLeecher v2.0 Final and for the latest NewsLeecher v2.1 beta at the same time. Note: This feature required that currently installed v2.1 keys were wiped, so you will have to re-install your licensekey when starting up this version of NewsLeecher for the first time.
• When unable to logon to a Usenet server, the bot window now shows the logon failure response given by the server. The response can also be seen in the log window.
• The ‘Keep Read Text Articles’ option has been reworked to include binary articles aswell.
• Minor visual improvements. (Redesigned the Groups Manager menu a bit, visual improved preview view, etc)
• When loading a saved transfer queue from the queue manager, all loaded article settings were reset. This has been fixed.
• Fixed bug where the key registration dialog used in older versions of NewsLeecher still showed up.
• Fixed bug introduced in Beta 3 where the columns in the filemanager didn’t get saved.
• If the toolbars were in ‘locked’ mode, their positions would reset when NewsLeecher was closed down. Fixed!
• It wasn’t possible to hide the ‘Log’ Pagesheet. Fixed!
• Various small bug fixes.