Release Notes - SABnzbd 3.0.0 Alpha 1

About this new version

We have been working for months to upgrade the SABnzbd code from Python 2 to Python 3.
Although it might not sound like a big change, we had to rewrite almost every part of
the code. This also means that we might have introduced new bugs. We therefore encourage
you to let us know of any errors or strange behavior your might notice!
Unfortunately, this also means that we could not spend much time adding new features.
But we still managed to add a few, like extracting fully obfuscated RAR-sets.

What doesn't work yet?

• Work is still in progress on Windows Service support.

Big changes

• Python 3.5 and above are the only supported versions of Python.
• Fully obfuscated RAR-sets with no verification files are detected and extracted.
• SABYenc, par2 and unrar are now required to start downloading.
• The Windows installer is 64-bit only, for 32-bit use the standalone package.
• Growl-support was removed.
• macOS features such as the menu and notifications now use native code.
• Built-in internet bandwidth test.

Bugfixes since 2.3.9

• Sample removal did not work if only 1 sample file was present.
• Crash on badly formatted RSS-feeds.
• Windows systems could go into standby.
• Some errors thrown by unrar were not caught.

Upgrade notices

• When upgrading from 2.x.x or older the queue will be converted. Job order,
  settings and data will be preserved, but if you decide to go back to 2.x.x
  your queue cannot be downgraded again. But you can restore the jobs by going
  to the Status page and running Queue Repair.

Known problems and solutions

• Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

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 2007-2020 by "The SABnzbd-team" <[email protected]>

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.9

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.8

• Duplicate job detection would not compare job names
• Propagation delay could show even if it was not configured
• Ignore Samples deleted all files of jobs containing the words Sample/Proof
• Warning "Unable to stop the unrar process" was shown too often
• Direct Unpack could hang forever on Unicode downloads
• Test Download could fail if clicked on the icon instead of the button
• Series Duplicate detection did not always work with Direct Unpack enabled
• Adding a job with non-existing category was not set to Default (*) category
• Only delete completed jobs from history when using History Retention option
• Renamed Server Load-balancing to Server IP address selection
• Linux: remove sabnzbd.error.log file at start-up if it grew too large
• Windows: double-click delay increased to avoid accidental pausing
• Windows: update MultiPar to v1.3.0.5
• Windows and macOS: update UnRar to 5.71

Upgrading from 2.2.x and older

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

Upgrade notices

• When upgrading from 2.2.0 or older the queue will be converted. Job order,
  settings and data will be preserved, but all jobs will be unpaused and
  URL's that did not finish fetching before the upgrade will be lost.
• The organization of the download queue is different from 0.7.x releases.
  This version will not see the 0.7.x queue, but you can restore the jobs
  by going to the Status and Interface Settings window and using Queue Repair.

Known problems and solutions

• Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

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 2007-2019 by "The SABnzbd-team" <[email protected]>

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.9 RC 2

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.9 RC 1

• Duplicate job detection would not compare job names
• Propagation delay could show even if it was not configured
• Ignore Samples deleted all files of jobs containing the words Sample/Proof

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.8

• Warning "Unable to stop the unrar process" was shown too often
• Direct Unpack could hang forever on unicode downloads
• Test Download could fail if clicked on icon instead of button
• Series Duplicate detection did not always work with Direct Unpack enabled
• Adding job with non-existing category was not set to Default (*) category
• Only delete completed jobs from history when using History Retention option
• Renamed Server Load-balancing to Server IP address selection
• Linux: remove sabnzbd.error.log file at start-up if it grew too large
• Windows: double-click delay increased to avoid accidental pausing
• Windows: update MultiPar to v1.3.0.5
• Windows and macOS: update UnRar to 5.71

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.9 RC 1

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.8

• Warning "Unable to stop the unrar process" was shown too often
• Direct Unpack could hang forever on unicode downloads
• Test Download could fail if clicked on icon instead of button
• Series Duplicate detection did not always work with Direct Unpack enabled
• Adding job with non-existing category was not set to Default (*) category
• Only delete completed jobs from history when using History Retention option
• Renamed Server Load-balancing to Server IP address selection
• Linux: remove sabnzbd.error.log file at start-up if it grew too large
• Windows: double-click delay increased to avoid accidental pausing
• Windows: update MultiPar to v1.3.0.5
• Windows and macOS: update UnRar to 5.71

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.8

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.7

• Changes to newsserver configuration could be delayed
• Filenames would not be sanitized when using "Make Windows compatible"
• Sorting could fail on root-folders
• 7z-files were not listed as supported NZB archives
• SSL cipher settings were ignored during server test
• Windows: update 7zip to 19.00
• Windows: update MultiPar to v1.3.0.4
• Windows and macOS: update Python to 2.7.16
• Windows and macOS: update UnRar to 5.70

Upgrading from 2.2.x and older

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

Upgrade notices

• When upgrading from 2.2.0 or older the queue will be converted. Job order,
  settings and data will be preserved, but all jobs will be unpaused and
  URL's that did not finish fetching before the upgrade will be lost.
• The organization of the download queue is different from 0.7.x releases.
  This version will not see the 0.7.x queue, but you can restore the jobs
  by going to Status page and using Queue Repair.

Known problems and solutions

• Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

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 2007-2019 by "The SABnzbd-team" <[email protected]>

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.8 RC 1

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.8 Beta 1

• SSL cipher settings were ignored during server test
• Windows: update 7zip to 19.00
• Windows: update MultiPar to v1.3.0.4
• Windows and macOS: update Python to 2.7.16
• Windows and macOS: update UnRar to 5.70

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.7

• Changes to newsserver configuration could be delayed
• Filenames would not be sanitized when using "Make Windows compatible"
• Sorting could fail on root-folders
• 7z-files were not listed as supported NZB archives

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.8 Beta 1

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.7

• Changes to newsserver configuration could be delayed
• Filnames would not be sanitized when using "Make Windows compatible"
• Sorting could fail on root-folders
• 7z-files were not listed as supported NZB archives
• Windows: update 7zip to 18.06

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.7

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.6

• Hopeless jobs will be failed faster, based on the first article of
  each file. If 80% of these first articles is missing, the job is aborted.
• Option "fast_fail" added to disable the new behavior.
• Added option to quickly add a verified test download
• Readout of some RSS feeds could result in a crash
• Direct Unpack could get stuck processing
• Show Details on Servers page could break graph display
• Windows: Update MultiPar to 1.3.0.3

Still looking for help with SABnzbd (Python 3) development!
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/918nxv/

Upgrading from 2.2.x and older

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

Upgrade notices

• When upgrading from 2.2.0 or older the queue will be converted. Job order,
  settings and data will be preserved, but all jobs will be unpaused and
  URL's that did not finish fetching before the upgrade will be lost.
• The organization of the download queue is different from 0.7.x releases.
  This version will not see the 0.7.x queue, but you can restore the jobs
  by going to Status page and using Queue Repair.

Known problems and solutions

• Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

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 2007-2019 by "The SABnzbd-team" <[email protected]>

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.7 RC 1

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.7 Beta 1

• Added option to quickly add a verified test download
• Direct Unpack could get stuck processing
• Show Details on Servers page could break graph display
• Windows: Update MultiPar to 1.3.0.3

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.6

• Hopeless jobs will be failed faster, based on the first article of
  each file. If 80% of these first articles is missing, the job is aborted.
• Option "fast_fail" added to disable the new behavior.
• Readout of some RSS feeds could result in a crash

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.7 Beta 1

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.6

• Hopeless jobs will be failed faster, based on the first article of
  each file. If 80% of these first articles is missing, the job is aborted.
• Option "fast_fail" added to disable the new behavior.
• Readout of some RSS feeds could result in a crash

Still looking for help with SABnzbd (Python 3) development!
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/918nxv/

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.6

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.5

• New option require_modern_tls forces TLSv1.2+ for SSL-connections
• RSS source icon on all tabs of feed overview
• RSS source icon now links to feed details page (if available)
• RSS feed URL's with commas would be wrongly escaped
• Common RSS login problems will show more appropriate error
• Added API-call to modify RSS-filters
• Exceeding disk space could result in endless retry-loop
• History Retry All would not retry failed NZB URL-fetches
• API-call to retry a job could result in unexpected error
• Assume correct SSL/certificate setup if test-host was disabled
• The par2-file creator was logged incorrectly
• Linux: Correct supported file extensions of tray icon
• Windows: Update MultiPar to 1.3.0.2
• Windows and macOS: Update UnRar to 5.61

Still looking for help with SABnzbd (Python 3) development!
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/918nxv/

Upgrading from 2.2.x and older

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

Upgrade notices

• When upgrading from 2.2.0 or older the queue will be converted. Job order,
  settings and data will be preserved, but all jobs will be unpaused and
  URL's that did not finish fetching before the upgrade will be lost.
• The organization of the download queue is different from 0.7.x releases.
  This version will not see the 0.7.x queue, but you can restore the jobs
  by going to Status page and using Queue Repair.

Known problems and solutions

• Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

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 2007-2018 by "The SABnzbd-team" <[email protected]>

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.6 RC 1

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.6 Beta 1

• New option require_modern_tls forces TLSv1.2 for SSL-connections
• Unavailable feeds could crash RSS-readout
• Linux: Correct supported file extensions of tray icon
• Windows: Update MultiPar to 1.3.0.2

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.5

• RSS source icon on all tabs of feed overview
• RSS source icon now links to feed details page (if available)
• RSS feed URL's with commas would be wrongly escaped
• Common RSS login problems will show more appropriate error
• Added API-call to modify RSS-filters
• Exceeding disk space could result in endless retry-loop
• History Retry All would not retry failed NZB URL-fetches
• API-call to Retry a job could result in an error
• Assume correct SSL/certificate setup if test-host was disabled
• Better logging of par2-file creator
• Windows and macOS: Update UnRar to 5.61

Still looking for help with SABnzbd (Python 3) development!
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/918nxv/

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.6 Beta 1

Improvements and bug fixes since 2.3.5

• RSS source icon on all tabs of feed overview
• RSS source icon now links to feed details page (if available)
• RSS feed URL's with commas would be wrongly escaped
• Common RSS login problems will show more appropriate error
• Added API-call to modify RSS-filters
• Exceeding disk space could result in endless retry-loop
• History Retry All would not retry failed NZB URL-fetches
• API-call of Retry could result in an error
• Assume correct SSL/certificate setup if test-host was disabled
• Better logging of par2-file creator
• Windows and macOS: Update UnRar to 5.61

Looking for help with SABnzbd (Python 3) development:
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/918nxv/looking_for_paid_help_with_sabnzbd_development/

Upgrading from 2.2.x and older

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

Upgrade notices

• When upgrading from 2.2.0 or older the queue will be converted. Job order,
  settings and data will be preserved, but all jobs will be unpaused and
  URL's that did not finish fetching before the upgrade will be lost.
• The organization of the download queue is different from 0.7.x releases.
  This version will not see the 0.7.x queue, but you can restore the jobs
  by going to Status page and using Queue Repair.

Known problems and solutions

• Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

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 2007-2018 by "The SABnzbd-team" <[email protected]>

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.5

Bug fixes since 2.3.4

• Reworked Deobfuscate.py script for much faster renaming
• All scripts can now receive input through environment variables
• Unable to set only one Indexer Category per category
• Could falsely report not enough blocks are available for repair
• Failures in un-(7)zip or file-joining would not fail the job
• Direct Unpack could abort unnecessarily
• Rare crash during file assembly
• Server hostname is now used in warnings and logs
• Improved disk performance measurement
• Overall improvements in stability and reliability
• Windows: MultiPar repair of joinable files could fail
• Windows: Tray icon also shows remaining size when paused
• Windows: Wizard would not default to installer language
• Windows: Update MultiPar to 1.3.0.1
• Windows and macOS: Update UnRar to 5.60

Looking for help with SABnzbd development:
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/918nxv/looking_for_paid_help_with_sabnzbd_development/

Upgrading from 2.2.x and older

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

Upgrade notices

• When upgrading from 2.2.0 or older the queue will be converted. Job order,
  settings and data will be preserved, but all jobs will be unpaused and
  URL's that did not finish fetching before the upgrade will be lost.
• The organization of the download queue is different from 0.7.x releases.
  This version will not see the 0.7.x queue, but you can restore the jobs
  by going to Status page and using Queue Repair.

Known problems and solutions

• Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

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 2007-2018 by "The SABnzbd-team" <[email protected]>

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.5 RC 2

Bug fixes since 2.3.5 RC 1

• Overall improvements in stability and reliability

Bug fixes since 2.3.4

• Reworked Deobfuscate.py script for much faster renaming
• All scripts can now receive input through environment variables
• Unable to set only one Indexer Category per category
• Could falsely report not enough blocks are available for repair
• Direct Unpack could abort unnecessarily
• Rare crash during file assembly
• Server hostname is now used in warnings and logs
• Improved disk performance measurement
• Windows: Tray icon also shows remaining size when paused
• Windows: Wizard would not default to installer language
• Windows: Update MultiPar to 1.3.0.1
• Windows and macOS: Update UnRar to 5.60

Looking for help with SABnzbd development:
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/918nxv/

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.5 RC 1

Bug fixes since 2.3.4

• Reworked Deobfuscate.py script for much faster renaming
• All scripts can now receive input through environment variables
• Unable to set only one Indexer Category per category
• Could falsely report not enough blocks are available for repair
• Direct Unpack could abort unnecessarily
• Rare crash during file assembly
• Server hostname is now used in warnings and logs
• Improved disk performance measurement
• Windows: Tray icon also shows remaining size when paused
• Windows: Wizard would not default to installer language
• Windows: Update MultiPar to 1.3.0.1
• Windows and macOS: Update UnRar to 5.60

Looking for help with SABnzbd development:
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/918nxv/

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.4

Changes since 2.3.3

• Device hostname in hostname-verification always lowercased
• Exclude ".local" from hostname-verification
• URLGrabber would not always detect correct filename
• URLGrabber would ignore some successful downloads
• Always send NNTP QUIT after server-test
• Added option "--disable-file-log" to disable file-based logging
• Added CORS-header to API
• Windows: Service compatibility with Windows 10 April update
• Windows: Update Python to 2.7.15
• Windows: Update 7zip to 18.05
• macOS: Restore compatibility with El Capitan (10.11)

Upgrading from 2.2.x and older

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

Upgrade notices

• When upgrading from 2.2.0 or older the queue will be converted. Job order,
  settings and data will be preserved, but all jobs will be unpaused and
  URL's that did not finish fetching before the upgrade will be lost.
• The organization of the download queue is different from 0.7.x releases.
  This version will not see the 0.7.x queue, but you can restore the jobs
  by going to Status page and using Queue Repair.

Known problems and solutions

• Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

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 2007-2018 by "The SABnzbd-team" <[email protected]>

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.4 RC 1

Changes since 2.3.3

• Device hostname in hostname-verification always lowercased
• Hostnames ending in ".local" are always accepted
• URLGrabber would not always detect correct filename
• URLGrabber would ignore some successful downloads
• Always send NNTP QUIT after server-test
• Added option "--disable-file-log" to disable file-based logging
• Added CORS-header to API
• Windows: Service compatibility with Windows 10 April update
• macOS: Restore compatibility with El Capitan (10.11)

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.3

Changes since 2.3.2

• Introduce and enforce "host_whitelist" to reject DNS Rebinding attacks.
  If you access SABnzbd from a non-standard URL, you will need to add
  the hostname. More info: https://sabnzbd.org/hostname-check
• SABYenc updated to 3.3.5 to fix false-positive CRC errors
• SSL-Ciphers can now be set per-server
• Failed URL fetches also trigger post-processing script (if configured)
• Added "max_url_retries" to set maximum retries of URL fetching
• Added "ignore_empty_files" option to not warn on empty files in NZB
• Added "X-Frame-Options" HTTP-header to prevent click-jacking
• Added "httpOnly" HTTP-header to prevent script cookie access
• Extended SAN list of newly generated self-signed certificates
• Indicate that SMPL-skin is no longer supported
• Removed undocumented "callback" option from API calls
• macOS: 64bit version of unrar instead of 32bit
• Windows: Set process priority of external processes (unpack/repair)
• Windows: Default external process priority increased to "Normal"

Bugfixes since 2.3.2

• NZB's can be added via command-line but this was not shown in "--help"
• Only show bad-SSL-warning if it was actually tested
• Language-change via API did not directly change display language
• Cheetah 3 is also accepted as template engine
• Correctly indicate that 99 is the maximum server priority
• Results of unpacked zip/7zip files were not sorted
• Joining of split files was limited to 999 files
• Media files with "password" in filename were detected as encrypted
• Servers that could not be DNS-resolved could block the queue
• Detect '502 Byte limit exceeded' as payment problem
• Server load-balancing setting was ignored when testing server
• Windows: MultiPar checksum errors during repair would result in crash
• Windows: Update 7zip to 18.01

Upgrading from 2.2.x and older

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

Upgrade notices

• When upgrading from 2.2.0 or older the queue will be converted. Job order,
  settings and data will be preserved, but all jobs will be unpaused and
  URL's that did not finish fetching before the upgrade will be lost.
• The organization of the download queue is different from 0.7.x releases.
  This version will not see the 0.7.x queue, but you can restore the jobs
  by going to Status page and using Queue Repair.

Known problems and solutions

• Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

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 2007-2018 by "The SABnzbd-team" <[email protected]>

Release Notes - SABnzbd 2.3.3 RC 2

Changes since 2.3.3 RC 1

• Hostname check improved for IPv6 addresses
• Category not correctly parsed when grabbing NZB from URL
• Unpacked zip/7zip files were not sorted
• Extended SAN list of newly generated self-signed certificates

Changes since 2.3.3 Beta 1

• SABYenc updated to 3.3.4 to fix (more) false-positive CRC errors
• Failed URL fetches also trigger post-processing script (if configured)
• Added option to disable "X-Frame-Options" HTTP-header
• Added option to set maximum URL fetch retries

Changes since 2.3.2

• Introduce and enforce "host_whitelist" to reject DNS Rebinding attacks.
  If you access SABnzbd from a non-standard URL, you will need to add
  the hostname. More info: https://sabnzbd.org/hostname-check
• SABYenc updated to 3.3.3 to fix false-positive CRC errors
• SSL-Ciphers can now be set per-server
• Added "X-Frame-Options" HTTP-header to prevent click-jacking
• Added "httpOnly" HTTP-header to prevent script cookie access
• Added "ignore_empty_files" option to not warn on empty files in NZB
• Indicate that SMPL-skin is no longer supported
• Removed undocumented "callback" option from API calls
• macOS: 64bit version of unrar instead of 32bit
• Windows: Set process priority of external processes (unpack/repair)
• Windows: Default external process priority increased to "Normal"

Bugfixes since 2.3.2

• NZB's can be added via command-line but this was not shown in "--help"
• Language-change via API would not only change language after restart
• Correctly indicate that 99 is maximum server priority
• Only show SSL-warning if it was actually tested
• Media files with "password" in filename were detected as encrypted
• Servers that could not be DNS-resolved could block the queue
• Detect '502 Byte limit exceeded' as payment problem
• Server load-balancing setting was ignored when testing server
• Windows: MultiPar checksum errors during repair would result in crash
• Windows: Update 7zip to 18.01