Software Update: NZBVortex 2.11.2

The second update of the version 2.11.0 of NZBVortex that was released earlier this month has been released. This program is one of the most widely used usenet clients for OS X. The program has everything you would expect from a modern usenet client. expect, including support for various servers, connections and threads, notifications via Growl, the ability to use rss feeds and an nzb-watch folder, verification and repair of par files and so on. NZBVortex is released as shareware and a license costs 16 euros. Below are all the changes from the 2.11 series.

Changes in version 2.11.2

• Corrupt par2 file might cause nzbvortex to hang during obfuscation check
• Free mode (trial expired) keeps waiting for download

Changes in version 2.11.1

• Nzbvortex 2.11.0 crashes on OS X 10.6 – Snow Leopard

Changes in version 2.11.0

• Improved Mavericks power management support – prevent AppNap, SystemSleep and mark as background process
• When trying to wild-card checking – try wildcard with par2 prefix if it finds 1 or more matching file
• Remove several Thread sleeps in favor of semaphores -less cpu wakeups
• Too much disk/io during parsing of NZB – bad moment for segment missing check
• Lower memory usage while parsing large NZBs
• Move from KVO to simple setProperty overloading for report DataObject changes
• Crash while having RSS feeds without name (empty string)
• Implement PAR2 filedescription packet parser – better quick check for obfuscated downloads
• Add NZBGrabit obfuscation format (x01, x02 or x001, x002 filext)
• Add support for unofficial (X-DNZB-Failure) DirectNZB header – auto get new NZB when NZB fails (DOGnzb)
• Upgrade RAR to version 5.0 (zipped rars example)
• Don’t add intermedia episodes for full year episodes (2013.09.24 resolved to season 2013 episode 924)
• Only two items visible on scrollviews when it’s containing view is becoming visible again
• Improve view switch animation, more smooth and layered
• Auto renaming of “one file result” after download doesn’t work anymore
• RSS: TVshow watchers should process from new to old
• RSS: TVshow watchers should process all feed items, even the downloaded ones
• Data is not written to destination drive if download started with destination drive offline which was later connected
• Don’t pause NZBs with password when password in NZB filename {{password}}
• Check for missing articles inside the NZB – some NZBs are not complete
• Deleting specific RSS TV Show Episode States deleted them all
• UI threading issue during finish search
• Improve HTTP download code – redirects and partial urls
• Edit ended after entering one character when table view column has sorting enabled
• Quitting app causes current downloaded to be marked with error