What's new in HelloNzb 1.4.3
Apr 27, 2015
- Added Greek translation to HelloNzb.
- Added a build.xml Ant file to SVN, so you can easily build HelloNzb via Apache Ant on your own now.
New in HelloNzb 1.4.2 (Jan 20, 2015)
- Show correct values in speed graph panel and ETA label when alternative Usenet server is set and used
- More debugging output in log when new files are being created on the local disk
- Increased default server connection timeout from 10 to 30 seconds
- Updated Java networking library
New in HelloNzb 1.4.1.2 (Sep 11, 2014)
- Fixed bug that crashed HelloNzb when an NZB file is loaded that contained a very large file to download
New in HelloNzb 1.4.1 (Jun 10, 2014)
- Show total size of each archive in NZB file queue
- Allow to remove items from the download queue via DEL key
- Minor improvement to new Par2j handler
New in HelloNzb 1.4 (May 15, 2014)
- Added option to set an alternative backup server in the application preferences
- HelloNzb tries to fetch an article from this backup server if it's missing on the primary server
- Added option to use MultiPAR (par2j.exe) on Windows machines
- Fixed bug in logging window (debug messages)
- Fixed bug in the "Open Download Folder" context menu item on Linux systems
- Some speed and performance improvements
New in HelloNzb 1.3.5 (Mar 15, 2014)
- This update includes the following changes and fixes:
- After download and moving files to target folder, only delete source folder if it is empty
- After download, before moving files to target folder, rename existing files there to .original
- New option to move all files to folder after download (not just extracted files)
- Fixed bug that deleted all files if “Download” and “Move After Extraction” folders are the same
- Print exceptions to command line if main() crashes
New in HelloNzb 1.3.4 (Feb 18, 2014)
- If set in preferences, move all files to folder after download (not just RAR extracted ones)
- Always use the file name found in the NZB file (instead of file name found in encoded data)
- If HelloNzb is started a second time, then just show the first, running instance and stop the second
- Nicer tray icon for Linux systems
- Added some missing GUI translations (NL, TR)
- Fixed bug that prevented opening NZB files from command line on Linux
- Fixed minor bugs in handling of internal data structures
New in HelloNzb 1.3.3 (Feb 18, 2014)
- Allow to set start and stop times for automatic timed downloads (incl. new menu)
- Some cosmetic changes
New in HelloNzb 1.3.2 (Feb 18, 2014)
- Inform user when files to download are not located on Usenet server
- Close preferences dialog when user hits the ESC key
New in HelloNzb 1.3.1 (Feb 18, 2014)
- HelloNzb now has a modern, dark user interface
- Only auto-delete .rar and .par2 files if the RAR archive has been extracted successfully
- Fixed bug that deleted a loaded NZB file even if application settings say otherwise
- Fixed bug in the application settings window
New in HelloNzb 1.3 (Feb 18, 2014)
- Sort files in queue and extract RAR archive in parallel while files are being downloaded
- Don't download .par2 files if that parallel unraring has succeeded
- New option that allows to automatically remove all .rar and .par2 files after RAR archive extraction
- Now option that allows to automatically move extracted files to a user-specified destination folder
- Heavyly decreased load on CPU during HelloNzb runtime
- Slightly improved memory usage during HelloNzb runtime
- Don't log error message that occurs when the "stop download" or "exit" button is clicked
- Some minor bugs fixed
- Some old and inactive code removed
New in HelloNzb 1.2.4 (Feb 18, 2014)
- Implemented a new updater that automatically downloads and installs the update, then restarts HelloNzb
- Try to find RAR archive password in NZB file name (if required)
- Added status bar label to display current memory usage
- Search for updates in any case at program startup
- Added option to show debug messages in program log window
- Fixed bug in old update downloader
- Fixed some typos
New in HelloNzb 2.0 Beta (Jun 14, 2013)
- The files named "HelloNzb-Web-*" include a built-in web interface for remote access to HelloNzb. Those files without "Web" in their names are portable, install-free versions of HelloNzb without the web interface.
- Note that the web interface is still work-in-progress, so there are likely missing features or bugs. Please let us know if you have any problems with the HelloNzb web interface.
New in HelloNzb 1.2.3 (Jun 14, 2013)
- Added dummy default values for Server Name and Host Name in "Server Settings" config. page
- Fixed bug so that HelloNzb does not crash any more when no UUID can be generated Fixed minor bug in remaining download file size calculation
- Fixed auto-shutdown bug on Linux (uses "sudo" command now)
- Updated external libraries
New in HelloNzb 1.2.2 (Apr 25, 2013)
- Download HelloNzb application file directly when new version is available (instead of opening browser)
- HelloNzb now restarts download correctly when the NZB file queue order is changed by the user
- Bug fixed in the calculation of remaining segments to download per file
- Program translations have been updated
New in HelloNzb 1.2.1 (Feb 23, 2013)
- Allow user to select whether or not program window should be minimized and closed to system tray
- New option to automatically delete specified file types after successful download
- Automatically start download of new NZB files found in auto-load directory
- Fixed typo in "New Version" popup window
New in HelloNzb 1.2 (Jan 21, 2013)
- Updated all internal Java libraries and dependencies
- Fixed a bug so that HelloNzb now handles the download speed limit correctly
New in HelloNzb 1.1.1 (Dec 27, 2012)
- Fixed bug that prevented to load NZB files with two single quotes ('') in file names
- Some minor GUI update
New in HelloNzb 1.1 (Jul 20, 2012)
- New GUI theme
- Optionally send anonymous usage statistics
- Animated system tray icon while download is active
- Fixed bug that allowed HelloNzb to try writing to disk even if it's full
- Some minor bug fixes
- Minor cosmetic changes to GUI
New in HelloNzb 1.0.6.1 (Apr 6, 2012)
- Fixed bug that prevented HelloNzb from connecting to newshosting.com via SSL some minor bug fixes
- code cleanup
New in HelloNzb 1.0.6 (Mar 5, 2012)
- allow reordering of NZB file queue via drag & drop
- allow automatic loading of NZB files from specified directory
- show remaining days in ETA string if more than 23 hours left
- smoother download speed (BPS) history and graph
- fixed some translation errors
- code cleanup and minor cosmetic changes
New in HelloNzb 1.0.5 (Mar 5, 2012)
- added context-menu options to move NZB to top or bottom of queue
- added button to clear text in logging window
- fixed a bug that prevented from correct session saving and restoring
- code cleanup
New in HelloNzb 1.0.4 (Feb 13, 2012)
- don't overwrite files if already existing in target download folder (but rename)
- assume yenc encoding if no suitable header found in downloaded data
- use full path in archive at RAR extraction (unrar switch 'x' instead of 'e')
- no debug output at PAR2 check (par2 command line switch '-q')
- don't delete NZB file from disk if loading failed (e.g. due to XML parse error)
- ignore some unimportant XML parsing errors in NZB file
New in HelloNzb 0.6.5 (Dec 29, 2010)
- HelloNzb is now available in Turkish language
- import NZB files even when file segments are missing
- new internal logging mechanism for better debugging
- stability issues on some machines fixed
- updated internal libraries
- some mini-bugs fixed
New in HelloNzb 0.6.4.1 (Nov 29, 2010)
- restore program window when left-clicked on system tray icon
- hide std. program icon from task bar when minimized to system tray
- HelloNzb now shows the correct file name in system tray message after download has finished
New in HelloNzb 0.6.4 (Nov 29, 2010)
- added option to show system tray icon in taskbar
- Correctly handle corrupt/invalid segment numbering within NZB files
- new context menu item "remove row and delete local data"
New in HelloNzb 0.6.3 (Oct 26, 2010)
- HelloNzb is now available in Dutch -- thanks to Jochem Jean van de Groep!
- Handle corrupt or invalid segment counter in NZB files
New in HelloNzb 0.6.2 (Oct 5, 2010)
- The program now downloads multiple files at the same time, as long as more connections (threads) are free. This means that if one connection "hangs", the program continues downloading with the remaining connections, even for other files to download. In the meantime HelloNzb tries to reset the stalled connection until it is able to download again.
New in HelloNzb 0.6.1.1 (Oct 5, 2010)
- more useful console output
- more debugging options
- added download speed history graph (upper right corner of window)
- moved "current download speed" label next to the speed history graph
- moved "limit download speed" button to the speed history graph
- code cleanup
New in HelloNzb 0.6.0.1 (Sep 6, 2010)
- increased max. number of concurrent connections to 31
- improved XML parsing / error handling while NZB file is loaded
- fixed bug with server connection test
- code cleanup
New in HelloNzb 0.6.0.0 (Aug 26, 2010)
- new robust and mature networking framework (Netty)
- added support for secure connections via SSL
- better bandwith limitation handling
- new button to limit download speed during active download
- better network error and timeout handling
- code cleanup
- minor bug fixes