Software update: URD 1.9.0

Version 1.9.0 of URD has been released. URD stands for Usenet Resource Downloader. With this program files from usenet can be downloaded. This is possible by using nzb files, but the program is also capable of analyzing a newsgroup itself and generating a download set for a specific collection of files. URD is being developed for Linux and BSD, and is released under an open source license. The changelog for version 1.9.0 shows the following changes and improvements:

The main changes are:

• Browse pages add more data when scrolling to the end of the page
• Updated the way previews are shown is user interface
• par2 (correcting incomplete downloads) now also works when the archive files have been renamed
• Store Usenet server password encrypted in the database
• Ajaxified the preferences and configuration pages
• Preferences will now be automatically saved after editing

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Other changes are:

• Updated smarty to 3.1.14
• Updated jquery to version 1.10.2
• Made challenge verification (XSS prevention) optional
• Changed the order of downloads and uploads in the overview
• Updated some extsetdata types
• Updated style of message bar, moved it to bottom and bigger with border
• Added rating to spots overview
• Enabled displaying extset information for Spots
• Added next/previous buttons to page skipper
• Installer can now handle the case where the only one user can exist in the database
• Password changes include a check for weak passwords
• Password creation in installer include a check for weak passwords
• Changed style of installer to light
• Changed darkness theme to blueish
• Ajaxified admin/log
• Reroot registration and forgot password pages
• Add option to calendar to chose no download delay
• Fixed bug with subcat selector in spots
• Fixed a bug in importing RSS feeds / groups settings
• Fixed bug deleting the image files of expired spots from the cache
• Fixed bug in editing extended set info
• Fixed bug not sending messages when download failed
• Fixed bug in showing total diskspace instead of available diskspace
• Fixed bug in not setting the adult flag correctly on saving newsgroup settingsg
• Fixed a bug in handling nzb files with a single quote in it
• Fixed an problem displaying special characters in some statistics images
• Fixed bug in adding stats info about downloads from NZB files
• Fixed bug not restoring the proper status on URDD restart for some (paused) tasks
• Cleaned up error handling in web interface
• Added option to remove spots when a configurable limit of spam reports is received
• Correct spot timestamps that are in the future