Software update: NZBget 17.0

Version 17.0 of NZBGet has been released. With this program files from usenet can be downloaded. The program is similar to SABnzbd. Among other things, it can automatically repair files with par files and has a built-in web interface. The open source application is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. The changelog for this release can be found below.

Changes in nzbget version 17.0:

• reworked the full source code base to utilize modern C++ features (#88):
  • with the main motivation to make the code nicer and more fun to work with;
  • to compile NZBGet from source a compiler supporting C++14 is required, see Prerequisites for C++ compiler;
  • most users don’t have to compile on their own and can use official installers offered on download page;
  • for a detailed list of internal changes see milestone Modern C++;
• now offering an official installer for FreeBSD (#124):
  • automatic installation;
  • built-in update via web interface;
  • currently supporting only x86_64 CPU architecture;
• full support for Unicode and extra long file paths (more than 260 characters) on Windows including (#136, #127, #91):
  • download;
  • par-verifcation and -repair;
  • par rename (deobfuscation);
  • unpacking;
  • post processing;
• added download volume quota management (#99):
  • new options MonthlyQuota, QuotaStartDay, DailyQuota;
  • downloading is suspended when the quota is reached and automatically resumed when the next billing period starts (month or day);
  • new fields in RPC method status: MonthSizeLo, MonthSizeHi, MonthSizeMB, DaySizeLo, DaySizeHi, DaySizeMB, QuotaReached. MonthSizes are related to current billing month taking option QuotaStartDay into account;
  • download volume for “this month” shown in web-interface in statistics dialog shows data for current billing month (taking option QuotaStartDay into account);
  • remaining time is shown in orange when the quota is reached;
  • dialog “statistics and status” may show extra row “Download quota: reached”;
• new function Retry failed articles in history (#205):
  • failed downloads can be now tried again but in contrast to command “Download again” only failed articles are downloaded whereas successfully downloaded pieces are reused;
  • new command HistoryRetryFailed or RPC method editqueue;
  • new subcommand F or command line switch -E/–edit for history;
• reworked behavior regarding deleting already downloaded files when deleting downloads from queue (#224):
  • in order to better work together with the new Retry failed articles-feature;
  • removed option DeleteCleanupDisk;
  • in the Delete downloads confirmation dialog now allowing user to decide if the already downloaded files must be deleted or not;
  • option HealthCheck extended with new possible value Park; Health check now offers:
    • Delete – to move download into history and delete already downloaded files;
    • Park – to move download into history and keep already downloaded files;
  • remote command GroupDelete now always delete already downloaded files;
  • new remote command GroupParkDelete keeps already downloaded files;
  • new subcommand DP of console command –edit/-E to delete download from queue and keep already downloaded files;
• added support for SNI in TLS/SSL (#223);
• built-in web-server can now use certificate chain files through option SecureCert, when compiled using OpenSSL (#110);
• better error reporting when using GnuTLS (#120);
• new option ShellOverride allows to configure path to python, bash, etc.; useful on systems with non-standard paths; the need to eliminate shebang for every script; also makes it possible to put scripts on non-exec file systems (#107);
• reduced disk fragmentation in direct write mode on Windows; this improves unpack speed (#195);
• news servers can now be configured as optional; marking server as optional tells NZBGet to ignore this server if a connection to this server cannot be established (#155);
• added several settings to change behavior of web-interface, new section WEB-INTERFACE on settings page (#206);
• showing various status info in browser window title (#197):
  • number of downloads, current speed, remaining time, pause state;
  • new option WindowTitle;
• added support for tvdbid and tvmazeid in rss feeds (#132);
• added button to save nzb-log into a file directly from web-ui (#108);
• queue-scripts can now change destination after download is completed and before unpack (#162);
• queue scripts save messages into nzb-log (#163);
• new queue script event NZB_MARKED; new env var NZBNA_MARKSTATUS is passed to queue scripts (#225);
• showing number of selected items in confirmation box when deleting or performing other actions on multiple items in web-interface (#98);
• allowing character “=“ in dupe-badges (#97);
• par-check doesn’t ignore files from option ExtCleanupDisk anymore; only files listed in option ParIgnoreExt are ignored (#147);
• printing low-level messages from par2 module (as DETAIL) (#161);
• option ScriptDir now accepts multiple directories (#181);
• hidden files and directories are now ignored by the scanner of incoming nzb directory (#141);
• improved error reporting on DNS lookup errors (#146);
• improved POSIX configure script – now using pkg-config for all required libraries (#192);
• improved Windows installer – scripts are now installed into a subdirectory of default “MainDir” (C:\ProgramData\NZBGet\scripts) instead of program’s directory (#145);
• separated disk state files for queue and history for better performance (#207);
• automatically removing orphaned diskstate files from QueueDir (#121);
• improved replacing of invalid characters in file names in certain cases (#209);
• added support for file names with reserved words on Windows (#210);
• improved tray icon (Windows) to look better on a dark background (#66);
• feed scripts are now expected to return exit codes (#203);
• fixed: splitted files were not always joined (#201);
• path to original queued nzb-file is now passed to scripts (#231);
• moved option FeedX.Interval upwards (#230);
• fixed check for reserved characters in file names (Windows) (#227);
• fixed: wrong encoding in file names of downloaded files (#137);
• fixed: queue-scripts not called for failed URLs if the scripts were set in category’s option PostScript (#171);
• fixed: crash when executing command –printconfig (#174);
• fixed: error messages when trying to delete intermediate directory on Windows (#180);
• fixed: web ui didn’t load in Chrome on iOS (#178);
• text corrections in web interface (#236);
• updated option descriptions (#158, #212, #217, #218).