What is SABnzbd?
SABnzbd is a free/open-source cross-platform binary newsreader written in Python.
It simplifies the process of downloading from Usenet dramatically, thanks to its friendly web-based user interface and advanced built-in post-processing options that automatically verify, repair, extract and clean up posts downloaded from Usenet. SABnzbd also has a fully customizable user interface, and offers a complete API for third-party applications to hook into.
Posted by shypike on August 29th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
There’s a new maintenance release: SABnzbd-0.4.3
New:
- Watched folder and UI now accept RAR files containing NZB-files.
- Add API call to retrieve version
- Sort the category list
Fixed:
- Watched folder: changed files will now be re-examined
- Duplicate RSS jobs were not filtered out
- Delete history made safer
- Proper script was not set when fetching from newzbin bookmarks
- Strip white-space around server host name (preventing copy-paste errors)
- Par2 checking would fail if first article of a par2 file is missing
- No error report was given when server authentication is missing
- On schedule change, evaluate pause/resume state properly
- Fixed %s.n bug in the TV Sorting Preview
- Fixed %s.n and %s_n bug in TV Sorting output
Fully compatible with release 0.4.x, so you can install the new release over the old one.
Posted in Announcements, Bugs & Fixes, Features & Enhancements, Releases
Posted by inpheaux on August 28th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Slyck News (home of the original Guide to Usenet) posted a “modern” newsreader showdown yesterday, between GrabIt, Alt.Binz and SABnzbd+. Regarding SABnzbd+, they had this to say:
“[...] SABnzbd has reinvented the newsgroup reader. With a web interface, an open source nature, and active community involvement, SABnzbd is the ironclad warship of the newgroup readers, as it has immediately rendered all others obsolete.“
Thanks for the glowing review, guys!
In return, we encourage our users to Digg their article here.
Posted in Metaposts, Press
Posted by switch on July 13th, 2008 at 7:27 am
A bug-fix release 0.4.2 is available. This addresses an issue in 0.4.1 where some nzb files would not import into the queue.
Contains fixes from 0.4.1:
- Fix for NZB files containing empty files (e.g. coming from nzbindex.nl)
- Changed sorting of nzb contents to be more accurate
- Fix for iPhone-skin on Linux/OSX
- The “~” character in filenames is kept
- Some Plush fixes
- Fix for Linux packages (solves problem of #include paths in Default-skin)
0.4.2:
- Fixed a problem in 0.4.1 where .nzb files would not appear in the queue after being added.
Fully compatible with release 0.4.0/0.4.1, so you can install the new release over the old one.
UPDATE: The universal OSX binary has now been added to the download page.
Download from : www.sabnzbd.org/download
Posted in Bugs & Fixes, Releases
Posted by shypike on July 7th, 2008 at 3:29 am
Thanks to our new team member rAf, we can now offer a native OSX app in the form of a DMG download.
The forum will support this distribution too.
Posted in Announcements, Features & Enhancements, Releases
Posted by shypike on July 5th, 2008 at 9:34 am
It took quite a while, but we are finally confident enough to release SABnzbd-0.4.0 Final.
This is a major feature release and these are the highlights.
- Secure NNTP (SSL)
- RSS is finally useful
- Better newzbin support
- Download based on Bookmarks
- Compatible with the new www.newzbin.com
- User-defined categories for precise storage and handling
- Intelligent handling of seasons of TV shows
- The Windows binary distribution now comes with a PAR2 program that supports a multi-core CPU.
- Highly improved Plush and Smpl skins
- iPhone skin
- Optional secondary web-interface on http://host:port/sabnzbd/m
- Improved bandwidth control
- General improvement of robustness and usability
- Extended API for third-party utilities
- Vista-compatible
- OSX native app
Unfortunately, you cannot reuse the queue and history of an existing 0.3.4 installation. But you can reuse the sabnzbd.ini file!
For downloading, use the big Download button on this page.
Posted in Announcements, Bugs & Fixes, Features & Enhancements, Releases
