Highlights
Download quota management
For those of you who suffer from ISP imposed limits, SABnzbd can now help you to stay within the limits.
You can set a monthly, weekly or daily quota and SABnzbd will pause when that quota is consumed.
You can also specify the moment when the quota will be reset to 0 again.
Also, whether downloading will resume at that moment or not.
Keep in mind that SABnzbd only measures its own data consumption!
SAB will show the quota usage in the main screen with "Quota left", on the same line as "Remaining" and "Free Space"
See: Config->Switches
Windows Tray menu
SABnzbd will now display an icon in the task bar (system area).
From there you have a few basic functions, making it easier to diagnose and fix some problems.
Multi-platform Growl support
Previous versions only had Growl support for OSX, now also for other platforms.
You can also send Growl messages to other systems.
For more info on Growl, see growl.info.
There's a Growl client for Windows too:
www.growlforwindows.com.
Ubuntu's NotifyOSD protocol is supported for Linux platform that have it.
See: Config->Notifications
Pre-download check (Experimental)
If you are hit by frequent incomplete and non-repairable downloads and worry about wasted time, bandwidth or quota, there's the pre-check.
Before downloading, SABnzbd will check if enough articles are available on the server.
Note that this an experimental feature, with the following issues:
The pre-download check takes some time, but much less than a (failed) download.
SABnzbd calculates the balance between missing articles and available par2 file. However it's not possible to make a 100% accurate prediction
If you turn on this feature (Config->Switches), it will be used for all new jobs that enter the queue. When something in the queue is being pre-checked, the mouse-over will show "Status: Checking". Note that during this phase, the download speed shown by SABnzbd will be low (for example "7 kB/s"), and thus the ETA will be very high. You should ignore the high ETA.
When a pre-download check fails, the job will go to History with a message like "Download would not be successful, only 99.5% available "in red. You can click Retry if you want to download anyway.
See: Config->Switches
Config->Special page
We have a bunch of special settings that were previously only available by editing the sabnzbd.ini file.
There's now a Config->Special page that gives easy access to these settings.
Don't start tweaking this without first reading what a setting does!
See: Config->Special
Limited retries
Until now, SABnzbd had a problem when one of the servers refused to tell whether an article was missing or not.
This could block the queue.
You can now set a maximum number of retries per server, so after trying for some time, SABnzbd will
assume that the article is missing.
See: Config->Switches
New universal Config
By default the three skins Classic, Plush and smpl will have the same look for the Configuration pages.
This the first step to a single skin for SABnzbd, as we no longer want to maintain multiple skins.
If you're not ready for this yet, you can go back to the full skins by switching off Config->Special->uniconfig.
The Config parts of the current skins will not get any new features!
We will retire the current skins at some time in the future.
, i gotta wait for my 300GB +- to finish but a welcomed set of features. Onething is i keep my smpl skin as its my favourite.
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