NNTPGrab

| NNTPGrab 0.6.92 |

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Released at XXX July XX 2011

General changes:

- Implemented a new option: Send GROUP command before downloading

  Some buggy usenet servers seem to require such a feature (such as Ziggo)

- Updated the Online Search code to be much more efficient then before. From now on

  information about files which are in a collection will only be retrieved on demand

- Improved the testsuite by porting all testcases to the GTester framework and

  adding various new testcases

- Various bugfixes and optimalisations in the download queue logic

- Always print debugging messages when we're using Win32/Win64 or Mac OS X. On all other platforms, check

  whether the environment variable NNTPGRAB_DEBUG is set before enabling debugging messages in the console

Changes in the NNTPGrab Core:

- Downloading using SSL wasn't working anymore when using GNUTLS 2.8.0 or higher due to API changes. Bug #64

- Added a small optimalization to the nntpconnection_read_msg function by

  dropping some duplicate code

- The download queue could get stuck in the suspended state when all login attempts failed. Fixed

- As of GLib 2.27.1, the behaviour of g_get_user_data_dir() was changed to return

  a different value. Provide an upgrade path for Win32/Win64 users so that their

  configuration won't get lost due to this change. Bug #66

- When making changes to the download queue, write back those changes to a tempory file

  first before replacing the original file. This prevents the possibility of the download

  queue becoming corrupt when the disk is full

- Added support for multiple connection backends

- Added a new connection backend called 'gio' which is based on GLib-GIO and

  can optionally use glib-networking for SSL/TLS support

- Optimzed the retrieval of tasks from the download queue by caching the last known task per server.

  This eliminates the need to navigate through the entire download queue for every time that a new

  task is requested by the download thread

Changes in the Glue layer:

- Processing signals while being connected to a NNTPGrab Server was broken as of GLib 2.27.4. Fixed

Changes in the Online Search:

- Fixed an issue in the Online Search where files with a size between 2GB and 4GB weren't displayed correctly

Changes in the Qt frontend:

- When moving files/collections in the download queue to the top or up which are

  already at the top a 'beginMoveRows failed' message could get shown. Fixed

  The same also applies to files/collections which are already at the bottom

- Allow the Qt frontend to build when Qt 4.5.0 or older is installed

- Added support for 'shadow builds' in the Qt frontend

- Use a bundled copy of the QtLockedFile and QtSingleApplication classes which will

  be used by the Qt frontend when no system-wide installed version can be found

- Prevent the user being spammed with 'buffer too small' messages. Patch by swsnyder

- Improved selecting files to be used during a NZB import. Bug #62. Patch by slayeriq

- Save and restory geometry of the program window. Feature #65. Patch by tg1311

- Show the correct timestamp for collections in the download queue

- Convert all strings coming from the NNTPGrab Core to the QString native

  character encoding (which isn't UTF-8 on Windows). This fixes an issue

  where names of collections and files could get malformed if they contain

  non-UTF8 characters. Bug #72

- Fixed a possible assertion error on Win32/Win64. Bug #75

- The configuration settings of the Qt frontend were saved in the wrong location on Win32/Win64. Fixed

- Fixed an issue where the window could disappear on Win32/Win64 when the tray icon is disabled

Changes in the GTK frontend:

- Added support for GTK 3.x

- Showing the debug window in standalone mode was broken. Fixed

- If auto-import gets triggered when the GTK frontend is running, a harmless error

  could get shown indicating that the import failed (even though it succeeded). Fixed

Changes in the JSON-RPC plugin:

- When importing files with special characters, some invalid JSON-RPC messages

  could get sent to external frontends. Fixed

- Add a Content-Length header to HTTP requests. Patch by chrashoverraid. Bug #74

- When connecting to a NNTPGrab Server using the 32bit Windows

  frontend, the server could crash. Fixed. Bug #70

- Don't crash when in invalid jsonrpc request is being parsed. Bug #79

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