README.mkd

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" <team@sabnzbd.org>

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