Release Notes - SABnzbd 1.2.1

What's new in 1.2.1

• QuickCheck will perform fast rename of obfuscated posts
• RSS Downloaded page now shows icon to indicate source
• HTML tags are filtered from single-line script output
• New self-signed certificates now list local IP in SAN-list
• Handle jobs on Windows with forbidden names (Con., Aux.,..)

Bug fixes in 1.2.1

• Fix crashing Assembler
• 'Only Download Top of Queue' was broken for a long time
• Cloaked files (RAR within RAR) were not detected anymore
• Incorrectly labeled some downloads as Encrypted
• Passwords were not parsed correctly from filenames
• RSS reading could fail on missing attributes
• Multi-feed RSS will not stop if only 1 feed is not functioning
• Duplicate detection set to Fail would not work for RSS feeds
• Incorrectly marking jobs with folders inside as failed
• Categories were not matched properly if a list of tags was set
• PostProcessing-script was not called on Accept&Fail or Dupe detect
• Support for newer par2cmdline(-mt) versions that need -B parameter
• Some newsservers would timeout when connecting
• More robust detection of execute permissions for scripts
• CPU type reporting on Windows and macOS
• Failed to start with some localhost configs
• Removed some more stalling issues
• Retry rename 3x before falling back to copy during "Moving"
• Catch several SSL errors of the webserver
• Disk-space information is now only checked every 10 seconds

Translations

• Many translations updated, thanks to our translators!

About

SABnzbd is an open-source cross-platform binary newsreader.
It simplifies the process of downloading from Usenet dramatically,
thanks to its web-based user interface and advanced
built-in post-processing options that automatically verify, repair,
extract and clean up posts downloaded from Usenet.

(c) Copyright 2007-2017 by "The SABnzbd-team" [email protected]

IMPORTANT INFORMATION about release 1.x.x

https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/new-features-and-changes

Known problems and solutions

• Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

Upgrading from 0.7.x and older

• Finish queue
• Stop SABnzbd
• Install new version
• Start SABnzbd

The organization of the download queue is different from older versions.
1.x.x will not see the existing queue, but you can go to
Status->QueueRepair and "Repair" the old queue.
Also, your sabnzbd.ini file will be upgraded, making it
incompatible with releases older than 0.7.9

Release Notes - SABnzbd 1.2.1RC1

What's new in 1.2.1 RC1

• On Windows paths passed to scripts were in ?\ notation
• New self-signed certificates now list local IP in SAN-list
• Retry rename 3x before falling back to copy during "Moving"
• Fix RSS page problems with missing fields
• Passwords were not parsed correctly from filenames
• Catch several SSL errors of the webserver
• Multi-feed RSS will not stop if only 1 feed is not functioning
• More incorrectly labeled some downloads as Encrypted

What's new in 1.2.1 Beta 1

• QuickCheck will perform fast rename of obfuscated posts
• RSS Downloaded page now shows icon to indicate source
• HTML tags are filtered from single-line script output

Bug fixes in 1.2.1 Beta 1

• Fix crashing Assembler
• Cloaked files (RAR within RAR) were not detected anymore
• 'Only Download Top of Queue' was broken for a long time
• Incorrectly labeled some downloads as Encrypted
• RSS reading could fail on newznab attributes
• Incorrectly marking jobs with folders inside as failed
• Handle jobs on Windows with forbidden names (Con., Aux.,..)
• Categories were not matched properly if a list of tags was set
• PostProcessing-script was not called on Accept&Fail or Dupe detect
• Support for newer par2cmdline(-mt) versions that need -B parameter
• Some newsservers would timeout when connecting
• Duplicate detection set to Fail would not work for RSS feeds
• More robust detection of execute permissions for scripts
• CPU type reporting on Windows and macOS
• Failed to start with some localhost configs
• Removed some more stalling issues

Release Notes - SABnzbd 1.2.1 Beta 1

What's new in 1.2.1 Beta 1

• QuickCheck will perform fast rename of obfuscated posts
• RSS Downloaded page now shows icon to indicate source
• HTML tags are filtered from single-line script output

Bug fixes in 1.2.1 Beta 1

• Fix crashing Assembler
• Cloaked files (RAR within RAR) were not detected anymore
• 'Only Download Top of Queue' was broken for a long time
• Incorrectly labeled some downloads as Encrypted
• RSS reading could fail on newznab attributes
• Incorrectly marking jobs with folders inside as failed
• Handle jobs on Windows with forbidden names (Con., Aux.,..)
• Categories were not matched properly if a list of tags was set
• PostProcessing-script was not called on Accept&Fail or Dupe detect
• Support for newer par2cmdline(-mt) versions that need -B parameter
• Some newsservers would timeout when connecting
• Duplicate detection set to Fail would not work for RSS feeds
• More robust detection of execute permissions for scripts
• CPU type reporting on Windows and macOS
• Failed to start with some localhost configs
• Removed some more stalling issues

About

SABnzbd is an open-source cross-platform binary newsreader.
It simplifies the process of downloading from Usenet dramatically,
thanks to its web-based user interface and advanced
built-in post-processing options that automatically verify, repair,
extract and clean up posts downloaded from Usenet.

(c) Copyright 2007-2017 by "The SABnzbd-team" [email protected]

IMPORTANT INFORMATION about release 1.x.x

https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/new-features-and-changes

Known problems and solutions

• Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

Upgrading from 0.7.x and older

• Finish queue
• Stop SABnzbd
• Install new version
• Start SABnzbd

The organization of the download queue is different from older versions.
1.x.x will not see the existing queue, but you can go to
Status->QueueRepair and "Repair" the old queue.
Also, your sabnzbd.ini file will be upgraded, making it
incompatible with releases older than 0.7.9

Release Notes - SABnzbd 1.2.0

What's new in 1.2.0

• New SSL engine:
  • SSL connections will always negotiate strongest encryption available
  • Strict verification of certificates (optional)
  • Set custom SSL-Ciphers to increase performance (lowers encryption strength)
  • Detail information in Status window on type of encryption used
  • Webserver can use stronger encryption for HTTPS connections
• New RAR-file processing with full support for RAR5:
  • All passwords are now tried on the first complete RAR-file during download
  • RAR-based verification when no par2-files or SFV-files are available
• Improvements to Categories processing:
  • Matching of start of category inside NZB with user-categories
    For example 'Movies > HD' will match a 'movies' category
  • Categories can now be ordered to customize matching to categories in NZB's
• Improvements to RSS feed management:
  • Multiple feeds can now share the same set of filters
  • Added 'From Show SxxEyy' filter
  • Feeds will only re-evaluate after clicking 'Apply Filters' or 'Read Feed'
  • Information from newznab, nZEDb and nntmux tags used (age, size and show info)
  • Feeds now show the category, age and when the NZB was added to the queue
• Detection of par2-files in completely obfuscated NZB's
• Verification (par2) and UnRAR can now be aborted from Glitter
• Faster startup and restart of SABnzbd
• Duplicates can now be marked as Failed (to notify external tools)
• Config Search function

Changes:

• Python post/pre/notification-scripts now require execute (+x) permissions
• Dropped dependency on PyOpenSSL, now only requires cryptography package
• Update 7zip to 16.04 and UnRar to 5.40 for Windows/macOS
• Update Python to 2.7.13 on Windows and macOS binaries
• CherryPy logging only enabled when forced via command line
• Not having C yEnc module will trigger warning on startup

Bug fixes

• Re-use IP-address for new connections when a server has open connections
• Auto-disables CPU-usage optimizations if they result in slowdown
• no_penalties now applies to all types of penalties
• par2cmdline would fail jobs in folders ending on ".par2"
• Fix problem where memory usage wasn't correctly limited, causing MemoryError's
• Removing files from active download was not working correctly
• Accept & fail for pre-queue script was not working correctly
• Recursive unpack failed on Windows with very long paths
• Problems loading Notifications page with Scripts Folder set

Translations

• Many translations updated, thanks to our translators!

About

SABnzbd is an open-source cross-platform binary newsreader.
It simplifies the process of downloading from Usenet dramatically,
thanks to its web-based user interface and advanced
built-in post-processing options that automatically verify, repair,
extract and clean up posts downloaded from Usenet.

(c) Copyright 2007-2017 by "The SABnzbd-team" [email protected]

IMPORTANT INFORMATION about release 1.x.x

https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/new-features-and-changes

Known problems and solutions

• Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

Upgrading from 0.7.x and older

• Finish queue
• Stop SABnzbd
• Install new version
• Start SABnzbd

The organization of the download queue is different from older versions.
1.x.x will not see the existing queue, but you can go to
Status->QueueRepair and "Repair" the old queue.
Also, your sabnzbd.ini file will be upgraded, making it
incompatible with releases older than 0.7.9

Release Notes - SABnzbd 1.2.0RC1

New since Beta 1

• Multiple RSS feeds can now share the same set of filters
• Config Search function
• CherryPy logging only enabled when forced via command line

Fixes since Beta 1

• Fix LogHandler error on startup
• Fix CherryPy error for some pages
• Fix JavaScript hang-ups on RSS pages
• Fix problems loading Notifications page with Scripts Folder set

What's new in 1.2.0

• New SSL engine:
  • SSL connections will always negotiate strongest encryption available
  • Strict verification of certificates (optional)
  • Set custom SSL-Ciphers to increase performance (lowers encryption strength)
  • Detail information in Status window on type of encryption used
  • Webserver can use stronger encryption for HTTPS connections
• New RAR-file processing with full support for RAR5:
  • All passwords are now tried on the first complete RAR-file during download
  • RAR-based verification when no par2-files or SFV-files are available
• Improvements to Categories processing:
  • Matching of start of category inside NZB with user-categories
    For example 'Movies > HD' will match a 'movies' category
  • Categories can now be ordered to customize matching to categories in NZB's
• Improvements to RSS:
  • Multiple feeds can now share the same set of filters
  • Added 'From Show SxxEyy' filter
  • RSS feeds now show the category, age and when the NZB was added to the queue
  • RSS feeds will only re-evaluate after clicking 'Apply Filters' or 'Read Feed'
• Detection of par2-files in completely obfuscated NZB's
• Verification (par2) and UnRAR can now be aborted from Glitter
• Faster startup and restart of SABnzbd
• Duplicates can now be marked as Failed (to notify external tools)
• Config Search function

Changes:

• Python post/pre/notification-scripts now require execute (+x) permissions
• Dropped dependency on PyOpenSSL, now only requires cryptography package
• Update 7zip to 16.04 and UnRar to 5.40 for Windows/macOS
• Update Python to 2.7.13 on Windows and macOS binaries
• CherryPy logging only enabled when forced via command line

Bug fixes

• Re-use IP-address for new connections when a server has open connections
• Auto-disables CPU-usage optimizations if they result in slowdown
• no_penalties now applies to all types of penalties
• par2cmdline would fail jobs in folders ending on ".par2"
• MemoryError (no more memory available) now pauses downloading
• Removing files from active download was not working correctly
• Accept & fail for pre-queue script was not working correctly
• Recursive unpack failed on Windows with very long paths
• Problems loading Notifications page with Scripts Folder set

Translations

• Many translations updated, thanks to our translators!

About

SABnzbd is an open-source cross-platform binary newsreader.
It simplifies the process of downloading from Usenet dramatically,
thanks to its web-based user interface and advanced
built-in post-processing options that automatically verify, repair,
extract and clean up posts downloaded from Usenet.

(c) Copyright 2007-2017 by "The SABnzbd-team" [email protected]

IMPORTANT INFORMATION about release 1.x.x

https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/new-features-and-changes

Known problems and solutions

• Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

Upgrading from 0.7.x and older

• Finish queue
• Stop SABnzbd
• Install new version
• Start SABnzbd

The organization of the download queue is different from older versions.
1.x.x will not see the existing queue, but you can go to
Status->QueueRepair and "Repair" the old queue.
Also, your sabnzbd.ini file will be upgraded, making it
incompatible with releases older than 0.7.9

Release Notes - SABnzbd 1.2.0Beta1

What's new in 1.2.0

• New SSL engine:
  • SSL connections will always negotiate strongest encryption available
  • Strict verification of certificates (optional)
  • Set custom SSL-Ciphers to increase performance (lowers encryption strength)
  • Detail information in Status window on type of encryption used
  • Webserver can use stronger encryption for HTTPS connections
• New RAR-file processing with full support for RAR5:
  • All passwords are now tried on the first complete RAR-file during download
  • RAR-based verification when no par2-files or SFV-files are available
• Improvements to Categories processing:
  • Matching of start of category inside NZB with user-categories
    For example 'Movies > HD' will match a 'movies' category
  • Categories can now be ordered to customize matching to categories in NZB's
• Improvements to RSS:
  • Added 'From Show SxxEyy' filter
  • RSS feeds now show the category, age and when the NZB was added to the queue
  • RSS feeds will only re-evaluate after clicking 'Apply Filters' or 'Read Feed'
• Detection of par2-files in completely obfuscated NZB's
• Verification (par2) and UnRAR can now be aborted from Glitter
• Faster startup and restart of SABnzbd
• Duplicates can now be marked as Failed (to notify external tools)

Changes:

• Python post/pre/notification-scripts now require execute (+x) permissions
• Dropped dependency on PyOpenSSL, now only requires cryptography package
• Update 7zip to 16.04 and UnRar to 5.40 for Windows/macOS
• Update Python to 2.7.13 on Windows and macOS binaries
• Dropped support for macOS 10.9 (Mavericks)

Bug fixes

• Re-use IP-address for new connections when a server has open connections
• Auto-disables CPU-usage optimizations if they result in slowdown
• no_penalties now applies to all types of penalties
• par2cmdline would fail jobs in folders ending on ".par2"
• MemoryError (no more memory available) now pauses downloading
• Removing files from active download was not working correctly
• Accept & fail for pre-queue script was not working correctly
• Recursive unpack failed on Windows with very long paths

Translations

• Many translations updated, thanks to our translators!

Known issues

• The 'Check before download' can causes downloads to stall for some users
• Having Completed Downloads on an network-drive can take very long to rename for some users

Known problems and solutions

• Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

Upgrading from 0.7.x and older

• Finish queue
• Stop SABnzbd
• Install new version
• Start SABnzbd

The organization of the download queue is different from older versions.
1.x.x will not see the existing queue, but you can go to
Status->QueueRepair and "Repair" the old queue.
Also, your sabnzbd.ini file will be upgraded, making it
incompatible with releases older than 0.7.9

What's new in 1.1.1

Bug fixes

• 8th parameter for user-script wasn't passed correctly.
• Fix broken HTTPS port binding
• Only allow binding to IPv6 when ipv6_hosting enabled
• Allow also "vol01-03.par" on top of "vol01+03.par"
• Glitter didn't allow removal of a set job-password
• Unicode failed downloads were seen as orphaned jobs
• QuickCheck would fail unicode files
• Clean-up all par2 of a set
• Fix retry_all API-call
• Make sure we show results when less than 1 page
• Fixed email notifications to smtp2go.com (and possibly others)
• Replaced par2-classic with par2cmdline (will fix some verification hangups)
• Fix problem with Config pages on mobile browsers
• Updated INSTALL.txt
• Button to regenerate a self-signed HTTPS certificate (to update to modern standards)
• Restored download speed for Unix (and some other) systems
• Fixed yEnc crash that occurred on some Windows systems
• Small UI fixes

Release Notes - SABnzbd 1.1.1RC3

What's new in 1.1.1RC3

Bug fixes

• 8th parameter for user-script wasn't passed correctly.
• Fix broken HTTPS port binding
• Only allow binding to IPv6 when ipv6_hosting enabled
• Allow also "vol01-03.par" on top of "vol01+03.par"
• Glitter didn't allow removal of a set job-password
• Unicode failed downloads were seen as orphaned jobs
• QuickCheck would fail unicode files
• Clean-up all par2 of a set
• Fix retry_all API-call
• Make sure we show results when less than 1 page

What's new in 1.1.1RC2

Bug fixes

• Fixed email notifications to smtp2go.com (and possibly others)
• Replaced Windows par2-classic with par2cmdline (will fix some verification hangups)
• Fix problem with Config pages on mobile browsers
• Updated INSTALL.txt

What's new in 1.1.1RC1

Changes:

• Button to regenerate a self-signed HTTPS certificate (to update to modern standards)

Bug fixes

• Fixed a decrease in download speed experienced by some users
• Fixed yEnc crash that occurred on some Windows systems
• Small UI fixes

What's new in 1.1.0

• Login via HTML-form instead of basic authentication
• Glitter now offers Compact and Tabbed layouts (similar to old Classic skin)
• Notification scripts for custom notification services
• Enable upload of multiple NZBs from the UI
• Performance improvements of download process
• Added delayed download feature (for when your Usenet is behind the indexers)
• Repair blocks are added prospectively during download when needed (reducing extra par2 verification runs)
• Prevent action of password managers on Server page
• Faster initial connections to servers with multiple IP-addresses (HappyEyeBalls)
• Support of more Rating headers (for indexers that support it)
• Glitter shows progress notifications for larger operations
• Log files are now anonymized automatically, for easier posting on public websites
• Added censored INI file to log download
• Can now download zipped NZB files from indexer

Changes:

• New SABnzbd logo
• Job password is now a separate field and not included in the job-title anymore
• Move some seldom used options to Special
• Now requires Python 2.7 (2.6 no longer supported)
• If filename occurs twice in NZB, only larger file is added
• Display days when ETA is above 24h
• API information now uses day/hour/min/sec notation when ETA above 24h
• Bump self-signed certificate to sha256 (only for newly created)

Bug fixes

• Fix errors when saving job files to disk
• Prevent "lock" errors in the History database
• Restore support for multi-volume 7zip files
• Restore scanning for passwords after NZB name edit
• Fix portable.cmd
• Fix for stalling download at 99% (when using prospective downloading)
• Fix problem with deleting files in NZB details view
• Prevent old shutdown-page from stopping a new SABnzbd instance
• Prevent watched folder scan crash on invalid file names
• Fix XSS vulnerability on OSX and Unix**

** The XSS vulnerability was discovered by Han Sahin from Securify BV.
Thank you, Han.

Release Notes - SABnzbd 1.1.0RC4

What's new in 1.1.0RC4

• Can now download zipped NZB files from indexer
• Optimizations in the Downloader
• Move some seldom used options to Special
• Prevent watched folder scan crash on invalid file names
• Prevent action of password managers on Server page
• Correct display of amount downloaded
• Faster initial connections to servers with multiple IP-addresses (HappyEyeBalls)
• Display days when ETA is above 24h
• Support of more Rating headers (for indexers that support it)
• Smaller optimizations and bug fixes

Release Notes - SABnzbd 1.1.0RC3

What's new in 1.1.0RC3

• Fix errors when saving job files to disk
• Not all failed items in History had "Retry" buttons
• Enable upload of multiple NZBs from the UI
• Fix another stalling issue
• Restore support for multi-volume 7zip files
• Prevent "lock" errors in the History database
• Lots of small fixes and improvements

What's new in 1.1.0RC2

• Fix XSS vulnerability on OSX and Unix**
• Fix for stalling when using "prospective par2 downloading"
• Include the Python module "six" to prevent issues on some embedded systems
• Fix problem with deleting files in NZB details view
• Fix portable.cmd
• Restore scanning for passwords after NZB name edit
• Prevent old shutdown-page from stopping a new SABnzbd instance

** The XSS vulnerability was discovered by Han Sahin from Securify BV.
Thank you, Han.

Release Notes - SABnzbd 1.1.0RC2

What's new in 1.1.0RC2

• Fix XSS vulnerability on OSX and Unix**
• Fix for stalling when using "prospective par2 downloading"
• Include the Python module "six" to prevent issues on some embedded systems
• Fix problem with deleting files in NZB details view
• Fix portable.cmd
• Restore scanning for passwords after NZB name edit
• Prevent old shutdown-page from stopping a new SABnzbd instance

** The XSS vulnerability was discovered by Han Sahin from Securify BV.
Thank you, Han.

What's new in 1.1.0RC1

• Fix for stalling download at 99% (when using prospective downloading)
• Fix History updates in Glitter
• Add censored INI file to log download
• Requires Python 2.7

OSX users: please download 1.1.0Beta1a and re-install!

What's new in 1.1.0Beta1

• Performance improvements of download process
• Performance improvements of and Glitter/Plush
• Glitter now offers Compact and Tabbed layouts (similar to old Classic skin)
• Glitter shows progress notifications for larger operations
• Login via HTML-form instead of basic authentication
• Added Propagation delay feature
• Repair blocks are added prospectively during download when needed (reducing extra par2 verification runs)
• Added notification scripts for custom notification services
• New SABnzbd logo
• Debug-logs are now anonymized automatically, for easier posting on public websites

Bug fixes:

• Many fixes of Glitter and Config pages
• Bump self-signed certificate to sha256
• If filename occurs twice in NZB, only larger file is added

API changes:

• Job password is now a separate field and not included in the job-title anymore

Bugfixes in 1.0.3

• Fix jobs hanging at 99% or 100%
• Support X-DNZB-PASSWORD header for indexers that use this
• Prevent fatal "too many connections" issue
• Show checksum errors reported by unrar
• Windows: fix coupling of NZB files to SABnzbd, when the name contains non-US-ASCII characters

Bugfixes in 1.0.2

• Fix hangups at 100% when QuickCheck is off and "all-pars" is on
• Fix handling of "too many connections" for some Usenet servers

Release Notes - SABnzbd 1.0.1

What's new in 1.0.1

• Prevent creating orphan items in "incomplete" when deleting downloading jobs.
• Forced item with missing articles caused overflow into paused jobs
• Do QuickCheck even on files that would be removed by the Cleanup-list (problematic for RAR files).
• Fix "Download all par2 files" behaviour
• Treat ambiguous numeric values as number of minutes for custom pause time.
• Accept MIME records that have only LF line endings (error in some third-party utilities)
• Fix PushOver support.
• Fix breaking Glitter bug with large script_log
• Fix issues with deleting jobs via the API
• Fix issue where Sonarr could not read using the History-API
• Increase default cache to 450M
• The pre-queue script can now return an accept value of 2, meaning immediate failure. (Useful for Sonarr.)
• Add start script for portable Windows installations

• Prevent creating orphan items in "incomplete" when deleting downloading jobs.
• Forced item with missing articles caused overflow into paused jobs
• Do QuickCheck even on files that would be removed by the Cleanup-list (problematic for RAR files).
• Fix "Download all par2 files" behavior
• Treat ambiguous numeric values as number of minutes for custom pause time.
• Accept MIME records that have only LF line endings (error in some third-party utilities)
• Fix PushOver support.
• Fix breaking Glitter bug with large script_log
• Fix issues with deleting jobs via the API
• Fix issue where Sonarr could not read using the History-API
• Increase default cache to 450M