The developers behind Sick Beard released two new builds of their program in quick succession. Sick Beard can keep an eye on when new episodes of your favorite TV series are available and if there are better quality episodes to be found. In addition, it can bring some uniformity in the naming, and it is possible to download episodes from usenet and to a lesser extent via BitTorrent. The program is controlled from a web browser and can therefore be used on any operating system. Development is at an early stage and the program is still offered as alpha. The changelog since build 485 looks like this:
Changelog for build 487
- Don’t show built-in NN providers that don’t need auth in the built-in providers list
Changelog for build 486
- Revert “Merge branch ‘zog-new_comingep’ or git://github.com/thezoggy/Sick-Beard”
- This reverts commit 2e809d82fac9260a3b879806477be52a2fb3ee41, reversing changes made to 619603e2d3ee82bba4d10240f0564299c67114bf.
- Catch socket errors during URL retrieval
- Remove NZB.su as a default provider
- Provide a more useful error when people have invalid season folder formats
- Merge branch ‘zog-new_comingep’ or git://github.com/thezoggy/Sick-Beard
- Merge pull request #138 from ghuntley/preq-solaris-11
- Add Solaris 11 init script
- Merge pull request #143 from nightspirit81/master
- Wrong line ending on first line of SickBeard.py
- Merge pull request #141 from jerub/master
- Add sickbeard.db.dbFilename() method
- Merge pull request #136 from abuse/master
- Newzbin retention setting support
- Close the file handle after we check the torrent’s mime type
- Fix a crash when using other languages for TVDB
- Wrong line ending fixed. Couldn’t run on Linux by itself before
- Added the new built-in SB provider, disabled by default for now.
- Make RSS lookup caching more efficient
- Make a function for the location of sickbeard.db
- This will ensure that the mistake that was in mainDB.py a few times where PROG_DIR and DATA_DIR were exchanged will not happen, if everyone uses the new function to find out the location of the db.
- Upgraded qtip2 nightly build 2011-04-14 -> 2011-04-25. This included fixes for IE8 desktop and mobile users.
- Removed more unused code, fixed typo, and eliminated extra #.
- Removed unused code.
- Moved ‘upgrade-notification’ related CSS from the config to default.css since this should be grouped with the other incl_top related css. Tweaked it slightly to reflect a recent font size change which resulted in a cosmetic problem. *Note to self* Do not use %’s for font-size in the future.
- Upgraded qtip2 plugin from 03-09-2011 to 04-14-2011 nightly build, which resolves iOS bugs mainly.
- Updated jquery reference to correct version. Fixed some misc validation things on episodeStatus page.
- After some live testing I’m reverting the showing tooltip on mouseenter.
- Tweaked the coming ep tooltip so that it shows on hover as well now. Hopefully will please everyone. Toggle’s tooltip state on click as well.
- Since qtip2 is on git and doesn’t have any builds yet I’m going to use the date as the ‘version’.
- Tweaked how the total episode/show count is made. Adjusts for if paused shows are shown or not. Also added some extra logic for the ‘show’ view since it doesn’t show duplicate shows (missed episodes)
- Upgraded jquery 1.5.1 -> 1.5.2. Changelog:
- Applied updated refresh code to the other pages that used it.
- Removed old css and html for the outdated config timezone page.
- Completed tools.tooltip to qtip2 conversion. Added an unofficial tvdb image for coming ep pages.
- Converted plotInfo js to qtip. Need to clean up things before it can be pushed out. But so far it looks pretty nice.
- Added tips plugin to qtip2.
- Twaked coming ep metadata view some more. Got it showing the ep information now.
- Modified coming ep to now show the ep info in a tooltip popup on click. Still missing actions (force update/search/display show link)
- Added AJAX plugin into qtip2, modified qtip css to allow for wider tooltips.
- Trying out qtip2 tooltips for coming ep page.
- Cleaned up some code, removed counters in lieu of redoing the back-end logic to make it easier on the front-end since there is a lot of hackery.
- Changing coming ep non-list view layout with a fluid and streamlined format.
- Removed unused sorting images. Added images for expand/collapse container.
| Version number | build 487 alpha |
| Release status | Alpha |
| Operating systems | script language |
| Website | sickbeard |
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| File size |
9.31MB |
| License type | GPL |