Version history for Binbot

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Changes for v2.0 Beta 3 - v2.0

• New Features and Enhancements
• General Improved the file selection dialog on Mac.
• NZB Files Added support for incomplete NZB files.
• Main Window Added options Open File and Open Folder in NZB tab menu.
• Main Window Added support for dragging and dropping NZB files to the main window.
• Server List Added a new column in the server list showing the maximum number of connections.
• Header Downloads Improved memory management by dropping headers if the amount of available memory falls below a given threshold.
• UnRAR Improved error messages when unpacking RAR files.
• Windows Installer Upgraded the online JRE installer to version 1.6.0_06.
• Mac Installer Added a license agreement to the Mac installer.
• Bug Fixes
• Search Tab Sorting search results by age was broken.
• General Some keyboard shortcuts on Mac were using the Control key instead of the Command key.
• General Configuration settings could be lost when upgrading to a new version of Binbot.
• Main Window Viewing article properties was incrementing the article download count for the author.
• NZB Files NZB file articles were being shown as complete before availability had been fully checked.
• NZB Files Articles from the same NZB file could end up being downloaded to different folders.
• Article Properties Loading an article's raw headers could fail if the first server was misconfigured.
• UnRAR The directory structure of RAR archives was not being preserved when unpacking.
• Header Downloads The index for cached headers could get deleted too early (tentative fix).

Changes for v2.0 Beta 2 - v2.0 Beta 3

• New Features and Enhancements
• Downloads: Show remaining size and download time for articles under the Downloads tab.
• Downloads: Automatically reorder articles in download queue so packed files are downloaded in the right order (e.g. .rar, .r00, .r01, etc.)
• Downloads: New option to automatically remove articles from the Downloads tab.
• Downloads: Download packed files and parity files (par2, sfv) to the same directory.
• General: New option to change the folder in which Binbot settings are stored.
• General: Improved dialog for selecting folders on Mac.
• General: New option to open downloaded files (requires JRE 1.6 or higher on Windows and Linux).
• General: New option to open the folder containing downloaded files (Mac and Windows only).
• General: New option to minimize Binbot to the system tray (requires JRE 1.6 or higher, Windows and some flavors of Linux only).
• General: Remember opened search tabs at start-up.
• General: Added .7z file extension as compressed file type.
• General: Associate NZB files with Binbot (Mac only).
• Main Window: New confirmation dialog when closing Articles or NZB tabs.
• Unpacked Files: Drag and drop unpacked files form the Unpacked Files tab.
• Unpacked Files: New option to cancel partially unpacked files.
• Bug Fixes
• Main Window: Newly subscribed newsgroups weren't being automatically selected if the first Articles tab wasn't selected.
• Main Window: Table headers were shifted to the right after opening a file selection dialog (Mac only).
• Main Window: The Article menu could become unavailable after closing a tab.
• Main Window: The article properties window did not open if the article was being downloaded.
• General: French language support was not working on Mac.
• Header Downloads: Articles could get corrupted if headers were loaded from the same newsgroup in two different tabs in close succession.
• Unpacked Files: Toolbar buttons weren't always properly updated.
• Unpacked Files: Right mouse button popup menus weren't working for unpacked files.

Changes for v2.0 Beta 1 - v2.0 Beta 2

• New Features and Enhancements
• Added pause button to pause all scheduled downloads.
• Bug Fixes
• Opening a large number of NZB files could cause too many files to be opened in the temporary directory.
• Corrupted RAR files could fail silently, appearing as is the unpacked file was valid.
• Articles in the main window were not being repainted after the current newsgroup's font was updated.

Changes for v1.1.2 - v2.0 Beta 1

• New Features and Enhancements
• Files Downloads: Added support for downloading multiple parts of the same article simultaneously, and reordering downloads in real-time.
• General: Added support for NZB files.
• General: Added support for Usenet web-based search.
• Articles: Added support for browsing multiple newsgroups simultaneously.

Changes for v1.1.1 - v1.1.2

• New Features and Enhancements
• General: Added support for version 2 license keys.
• Windows Installer: Upgraded the bundled JRE installer from version 1.6u3 to version 1.6u4.
• Bug Fixes
• General: Fixed bug that could cause internal database files to get corrupted.
• Binbot Settings: Fixed bug that prevented the Validate stored headers option to be deselected.
• General: Allow Binbot to use up to 1 GB of system memory (if available).

Changes for v1.1 Beta 3 - v1.1.1

• Header Downloads: Added support for configuring the page selection policy (see menu Tools > Settings under the Headers page).
• General: Added a file unsplit tool (to reassemble files named .001, .002, etc).
• Article: Filters Added support for filtering articles by download status.
• Windows Installer: Upgraded the online JRE installer to version 1.6.0_03 (from version 1.6.0_02).

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