v6.0-beta

Complete rewrite of how GChan works under the hood

• Port from outdated .NET Framework to latest .NET 8.
• Massive optimisations for both CPU/Memory usage & network calls.
• More configuration for network rate limiting to obey official 4chan documentation recommendations.

This beta release is for early feedback & bugtesting, please try it and provide feedback in either GitHub issues of Discord.

v5.5.0

Update 4chan thread downloading code to further alter element href attributes to work locally with file:// protocol

v5.4.0

• Update User-Agent header to more modern value.
• Allow users to customise User-Agent header in settings.
• Update all NuGet packages.

v5.3.0

What's Changed

• Add setting to save thumbnails with thread html.
• Fix sorting by integer column.
• Use absolute path for sqlite db file, hopefully fixing access denied errors on startup.

Full Changelog: v5.2.0-beta...v5.3.0

GChan 5.2.0-beta

A full rewrite of the download system eliminates race conditions, adds new functionality possibilities, better performance and finer configuration, such as in this release the ability to set the maximum amount of concurrent downloads.
Please provide feedback!

v5.1.0-beta

⚠️ WARNING: This version alters the database schema to improve thread/board scraping efficiency. Backup your trackers before switching to this version.

Changes:

• Sanitise filenames like subjects already were.
• Greatly reduce logging frequency.
• Now record all saved image ids for each thread, greatly reducing race conditions in image downloading.

Full Changelog: 5.0.0-beta...v5.1.0-beta

Thanks go to @orkhanag and @RoyalJackal for their contributions in this release.

v5.0.0-beta

Beta release of the new 5.0.0 features, may be unstable, if you do not wish to be a tester use the 4.0.0 release below.

v4.0.0

New GChan 4.0.0 release.
Features large optimisations to download routine, refactoring of code base and many bugfixes.
This is a breaking release, meaning that your currently scraping threads will not carry over and you should wait for all of those to run their course before updating to this new version.

Please report all issues you find or even just suggestions at https://github.com/Issung/GChan/issues !

GChan 3.3.2

Made a small fix to stop a null error when scraping a board. Thanks for the issue report Dante-7!

GChan 3.3

This new release brings all features from development versions 3.1 to 3.3.
GChan 3.3

• Added option to start GChan in system tray when starting with windows using "-tray" cmd line argument.
• Added new option for selecting thread folder renaming format (Subject - ID /or/ ID - Subject).
• Replaced icons with new ones that shouldn't have pixelation or blur issues.

GChan 3.2

• Fixed bug that would throw an index out of range exception when adding a new url.

GChan 3.1

• Added support for grabbing URLs from the clipboard if the textbox is empty.
• Fixed bug that didn't allow the Save button in the settings to actually close the window.
• Fixed copy all thread URLs to clipboard.
• Fixed issue that caused the HTML downloader for 4Chan to not properly use the updated filename format.

Attached is both a portable download and an installer download for your wishes.

Thanks for using GChan and please remember to report all errors here on GitHub.