NNTPGrab

| NNTPGrab 0.6.91 |

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Released at Tuesday December 7 2010

General changes:

- Made the Qt frontend the default frontend for Win32, Win64 and OSX environments

- Added a new ./configure option: --disable-par2cmdline-check

- Only show the filename without the complete path in the GUI

  while repairing and unpacking files

- Added support for GNUTLS instead of OpenSSL

- Made the various libraries compatible with recent versions of gobject-introspection

- Added support to shut down the system when using KDE

- Reduced some overhead between the glue layer and the frontends

- Allow frontends to indicate whether they want to receive log messages or

  not (disabled by default). This reduces the load in regular environments

Changes in the NNTPGrab Core:

- When the user changes the 'Temp directory' in the configuration all

  downloads didn't get decoded properly until the program was restarted. Fixed

- On some environments the program could give an 'Unable to resolve dependency'

  error on startup of the program. Fixed. Bug #49

- A harmless error message could get shown on startup on Win32/Win64 due

  to an older version of the example plugin being bundled in the

  NNTPGrab 0.6.90 setup. Fixed

- Automatic shutdown didn't work when the download queue contained 'Skipped' tasks. Fixed

- Refuse to accept configuration changes when the download folder, temp

  folder or automatic import folder refer to invalid paths

- A regression got introduced in NNTPGrab 0.6.2 which caused configuration changes

  in the port number of usenet servers to be ignored on Win32/Win64. Fixed

- Fixed an compile error which could occur when using the ./configure argument --disable-ssl

- Single file archives didn't get deleted automatically after an unpack. Fixed

- Added the characters '<' and '>' to the list of forbidden characters in collection names

- A regression was introduced in NNTPGrab 0.6.90 which causes the PAR2 repair

  to fail when using par2cmdline (instead of par2_tbb). Fixed. Bug #52

- Optimized the measuring of the download speed by using atomic operations instead of mutex operations

- Fixed a race condition in the core library which could cause some warnings

- Fixed an issue which could cause the initialisation of the NNTPGrab Core to

  succeed even if there was an error

- Fixed a possible schedular deadlock which could be triggered when

  an error during the decoding has occured

- Don't emit a log message whenever a throttle action occurs

Changes in the JSON-RPC plugin:

- Implemented importing NZB files using a HTTP POST request in

  the embedded webserver. Feature #10

- Added a new JSON-RPC function called 'schedular_foreach_task' which is much

  more scalable than the original 'schedular_get_all_tasks' function. Fixes #53

- From now on an error message will be returned when a JSON-RPC method

  is called which doesn't exist

- Marking files optional/non-optional using the JSON-RPC interface was broken. Fixed

- Increased the recv buffer for requests in the JSON-RPC plugin from 64K to 512K.

  Should reduce the chance that clients get disconnected with a 'Too long request received' error

Changes in the Qt frontend:

- Added support to connect to a NNTPGrab Server

- Implemented the traffic monitor in the Qt frontend

- Made the "Don't show this dialog again" checkbox in the connect screen operational

- Added support for the Online Search

- Implemented the Automatic PAR2 and Unpack tab

- Implemented everything in the Configuration tab

- Completed the implementation of the 'Manage Plugins' window

- Automatically load all 'auto-load' plugins on startup

- Added the --debug command line parameter

- Implemented the tray icon

- Implemented automatic import

- Give the window a nice icon

- Hide the configuration parts for the JSON-RPC and Logger plugins when they aren't loaded

- Automatically save the download queue after a successfull NZB import

- Renamed the toolbar button 'Enable automatic shutdown' to

  'Automatic shutdown' to save some space

- Implemented the 'Automatic Shutdown' feature

- Automatically close the debug window (if it's visible) when the main window is closed

- Implemented showing/hiding columns in the download queue

- Implemented the 'hide inactive connections' configuration option

- Only allow the Qt frontend to be running once at the same time

- If another instance of the Qt frontend is detected, automatically give it focus

- Implemented opening NZB files from the command line

- Enabled showing the estimated time remaining and time to finish

  for all individual files in the download queue

- Show the download queue using a QTreeView instead of a QTreeWidget for bettter performance

- Fixed a bug where the calculation of the estimated time required

  didn't work correctly when having multiple collections

- A crash could occur in the Qt frontend when disabling one of the

  configured servers while a download is still active. Fixed

- Sanitize the collection name before importing files

- When marking a file which is currently being downloaded as 'skipped', the

  file size remaining wouldn't get reset. Fixed

- The 'Enable intelligent PAR2 downloader' configuration option was broken. Fixed

Changes in the GTK frontend:

- Re-added support to kill the NNTPGrab Server from a connected frontend

- Add support for libnotify 0.7

- Hide the configuration parts for the JSON-RPC and Logger plugins when they aren't loaded

- Fixed a deadlock which occured in the GTK GUI when the NNTPGrab Server

  disappears or when a protocol error occured

- When marking a file which is currently being downloaded as 'skipped', the

  file size remaining wouldn't get reset. Fixed

- When the connection to a NNTPGrab Server is lost, the program would

  disappear immediately. Changed this behaviour by showing an error dialog

  and waiting for the user to close it before closing the entire program

- Fixed some Gtk-Critical warnings in the GTK GUI which could occur

  on configuration changes

- Notifications were broken. Fixed

- Fixed a possible segfault while starting the GTK frontend

- When the configuration option 'hide inactive connections' is set in the

  GTK GUI then some invalid data could get shown in the connections

  overview (like messages belonging to another connection). Fixed

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