What's new in Usenet Explorer 5.9.2
Apr 27, 2024
- This release fixes a minor issue when the status bar would stop updating after the system is powered for 50 days which was identified in the search server code, but also applicable to the client.
New in Usenet Explorer 5.9.1 (Apr 19, 2024)
- While preparing the next larger release a memory leak was found in the unrar code, it is fixed even as it appears it wasn't noticeable and needed hundreds of unrars in one session to probably show the unrar out of memory error in the unpack pane when trying to unrar more entries.
- Updated downloadable wildmat filter capabilities.
- Because of corrupted resource file couple of menu entries didn't work, the resource file was fully restored before compiling this release.
New in Usenet Explorer 5.9 (Mar 14, 2024)
- Polished search code for sets concluding v5.8.3+ updates, the version should run statistically clean, the same as the previous version released 2 months ago.
New in Usenet Explorer 5.8.7 (Jan 10, 2024)
- Observed and fixed an issue when the number of articles in a newsgroup could turn negative which being unsigned positive showed a large number, the issue was self rectifying, so it was a kind of transient and probably existed only in the case when there were duplicate parts crossposted.
- Fully fixed a rare old race condition during the process of getting search service results while getting headers or loading a newsgroup at the same time, it was there since when sets were added to the search result view, but mostly it wasn't so noticeable as there was damage control, but not the root cause solved as in this release.
New in Usenet Explorer 5.8.6 (Jan 1, 2024)
- Detected and fixed an old memory allocation issue which was unlikely, but could happen e.g. in parts view.
- Double clicking in the search view on a compact set will trigger download with the immediate priority instead of doing nothing (as there is nothing to expand).
- Secure connection to download the next version instead of http.
- Refined downloadable kill filter code.
New in Usenet Explorer 5.8.5 (Dec 19, 2023)
- Improved downloadable kill filter capabilities.
- Fixed not discarding unneeded set names in certain situations.
New in Usenet Explorer 5.8.3 (Nov 29, 2023)
- Fixed maximum posted file size limit, so now it is possible to post files larger than 4GB.
- The search protocol had to be upgraded to fix the 3 bytes (16.7M) number of sets limit per server instance.
New in Usenet Explorer 5.8.2 (Apr 7, 2022)
- Greatly improved unpacking of nzb files when imported as collections (default), including queuing and cleanup of heavily obfuscated posts (also see the latest forum posts, but the update goes beyond that).
New in Usenet Explorer 2.5.2 (Aug 31, 2009)
- Auto collections implemented for search service results. like in newsgroup view they can be shown/hidden with the the "show auto collections" toolbar button. if you prefer to see collections by default - set "edit menu->properties->newsgroups, the topmost default entry, collections" to "auto&custom". the collection related settings in edit menu->properties->general are effective for the search service view as well.
- Added the option to define SSL protocol used during SSL session in properties->general.