The small and efficient NZB client for OSX, optimized for performance and ease of use.
NZBVortex is very fast in comparison to other usenet clients because it will try to minimize the download size and has very fast postprocessing. NZBVortex will not only skip not-required par2 files, but also is able to skip sample files (optional) and has a extreme fast par2 pre-check called "SmartCheck". SmartCheck is able to detect if a par2 check is required at all; if not it will completely skip the lenghty par2 check! This is unique in NZBVortex!
NZBVortex is very feature complete and extremely tuned for optimal download speeds and minimal system usage.
A real set-and-forget download application: add a NZB and NZBVortex will take care of the rest.
Renewed User Interface including File list and Speed Graph.
Up to 50% lower cpu usage for non-ssl connections.
Lots of fixes, features and tuning has been done.
Thanks go out again to: Povilas Griskevicius and mamahuhu for their tests and feedback.
List of the biggest changes:
Version 1.0.0 released - June 20th, 2010
Now with RSS feed support! A lot of work has been done on this release.
Lots of fixes, features and tuning has been done.
Thanks go out again to: Povilas Griskevicius and mamahuhu for their tests and feedback.
List of the biggest changes:
- RSS feed support
- Support for ZIPed NZBs
- Added move to top/bottom of queue
- Queue items are selectable including context menu on list and item
- Clear button on the button right to clear finished
- Around 40 other changes (check full change log)
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Version 0.7.2 released - May 4th, 2010
This is a bugfix and finetune release.
List of changes:
- Do not move completed download when "ask for location" has been enabled
- File open code incorrectly cleans up partial file on restart
- Make new file IO more robust regarding incorrect compiled articles
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Version 0.7.0 released - April 30th, 2010
This version adds support for accented characters in filenames, Cleanup files after download, supports moving the completed files to another location (temp/complete folders) and the option
for you to manually start postprocessing of downloads.
This release has a lot of other fixes and tweaks mainly for low occurance issues.
Thanks go out to Povilas Griskevicius and Mamahuhu for their thorough tests!
Other new features:
- Make post processing optional/delayable
- Ability to move completed downloads to another location
- After completion cleanup: Make configurable which file types to auto cleanup
- Incorrect parsing of yenc message with 'special character' filenames
- Cleanup filenames in NZB's which contain set numbers in the filename " (1/79)"
- One-article files use crc32 field instead of pcrc32
- Make NZB parse routine more robuust to it will not add nzb's twice or download in same folder
- Article state repair after restart was causing downloading of skipped files
- During prefs save: only reset current connections if connection prefs are changed
- Save invalid yenc message to file in "Application support" folder
- Gather anonymous system info during Sparkle update
- Sleep button doesn't work if there are paused download in the listing
- NZB waiting in "saving/downloading" state after "Need additional blocks: .. 1.."
- NZB download folder should not end in .nzb even when cleanup falls back to default
- 'Support' filenames with an forward slash in it
- Extra cleanup expressions
- When reverting state of FileArticle to FileArticleStateWaiting also update File and NZBstate
- Make sure a 0 bytes file will be saved if all articles are bad
- Filename cleanup should accept accented chars
- Increase max number of concurrent connections
- Change button for Download location and NZB watch folder broke on 10.5
- Incorrect display of total and nzb file size on large files
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Version 0.6.0 released - April 11th, 2010
This version introduces a lot of User Interface changed while keeping the interface subtle.
Version 0.6.0 also has a lot of fixes for corner case problems like incorrect formatted NZBs etc.
Some additional handy features are added as well.
Thanks go out to Povilas Griskevicius for his thorough tests!
Other new features:
- Support nzb parsing of filenames encapsulated with two single quotes instead of a double quote
- Stop / pause should also work during postprocessing mode
- Postprocessing should not unrar/unzip to another subfolder when there is just one rar set
- Update all texts and handling of NZBViewController stats
- Fix a crash when processing post processing results (very very rare)
- Download a limited number of NZB at once in Simultaneous transfer mode
- Offer option to move downloaded files to trash when deleting NZB
- Some NZB's have suffix (xx/xx) in the filename, strip that
- Display growl message when adding NZBs from watch dir
- No growl notification when server url is changed to non-available/non-existing address
- Add "Pause All" and "Resume All" to Dock menu.
- US-ASCII encoding not supported in NZB files
- Parsing of NZB should be done on a separate thread not on IO thread
- Sometimes application skips parts or downloads only a small amount
- Button to enable speedlimit
- Alternating rows colors in NZB listing
- Show how many nzbs were added to the queue. Best place - stautus bar.
- Show total amount of data to be downloaded.
- Bunch of UI Ideas for the future
- Implement coloured progress bar for status
- Numbers-only-named nzbs with enabled "Autmatically add NZBs" causes crash
- Implement a CrashReporter for better crash reporting
- Download start Pars first
- Save file should be more resistant to crashes
- Add copyright notices in the about of NZBVortex
- Crash in during save of article, parse article footer
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Version 0.5.5 released - March 25th, 2010
This is a finetuning and bugfix release. One big feature has been added: support for Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard).
NZBVortex will now also check if your free disk space is low and pause all downloads if it is.
Thanks go out to Povilas Griskevicius for his thorough tests!
Other new features:
- Make NZBVortex OSX 10.5 compatible
- Changes Case of some Letters
- Starting NZBVortex on 10.5 crashes during setting of OpenPanel location
- Application crashes when manual adding a nzb and "Ask for download location" is enabled
- Cleanup unrepaired rar files (*.rar.1) after succesful uncompressed
- Make getStartPars check for other sets which don't have a .par or vol00+xx filename
- Make name cleanup work better by stripping all weird chars
- Trouble repairing archive with two par2 sets and one is okay other needs additional blocks
- Support double digit start par2s (0+1, 00+01, 0+03 etc)
- Simultaneous transfer should limit to the 'top' CONNECTIONNUMBER NZBs
- "Disabled preferences require a license"
- Pause downloads when free diskspace gets below 2x write cache size
- Make find index in data faster on OSX 10.5
- Extract RAR sets in separate subfolder so they will not overwrite each other
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Version 0.5.0 released - March 13th, 2010
This is a feature release; the following most noticeable features are added: SmartCheck (experimental; very fast par2 check), optional skip Sample files, Sleep Mac when done, NZB watch folder, better support for some newsservers and many more. Thanks go out to Povilas Griškevičius for his thorough tests!
Other new features:
- Shaved of 300KB of the NZBVortex application size, leaner!
- Added experimental version of SmartCheck, detects if par2 check is skippable
- If unrar fails and SmartCheck skip has been used go back to PAR2 check
- Use Par2SL instead of current Par2 CLI applications.
- Make sure Sample skip doesn't skip all files (gerteunis)
- Shutdown when done option (gerteunis)
- Save files to FILENAME.partial first to notify users which files are "done"
- Add a NZB "watch" folder
- Free edition was skipping par2 files as well, not allowed
- Ability to Ignore 'Samples' from NZB's when the sample files have their own par2
- NZBVortex crashes when opening nzb which is deleted directly after adding
- Make save state faster so it can be used more often
- Some news servers use "unauhthorized" to notify no more connections are allowed
- "Add NZB" button opens dialog causing crash NZBVortex when iLife mini browser is installed and crashing
- "Delete NZB after adding" should delete to Trash
- Remove support for PPC. Compile only for Intel.
- "Service Discontinued" NNTP status should not mark article Failed
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Version 0.4.2 released - February 21th, 2010
A lot of CPU tuning has been done in this release.
No real new features; just a lot of performance and functionality tweaking.
Other new features:
- On start of NZBVortex revert state of nzb back to state which triggers par2 or unrar
- Do not process par1 messages, try to skip download of par1 files if an equivalent par2 is available
- When stopping or finishing NZB the file handles aren't released
- Create a new folder with number of target folder already exists (auto create target folder)
- Prevent adding the same NZB twice or more
- Download speed in dock icon
- Correctly handle corrupt NZB's and log + notify it
- Check work directory before starting post processing
- Filename cleanup should not end up in a ".NZB" filename
- In 0.4.1 all pars are downloaded, not smartly skipped
- Cleanup rar.1 etc as well, par2 repair will store the original to rar.1
- Display error growl message if postprocessing failed
- Growl not displayed while in free mode
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Version 0.4.1 released - February 15th, 2010
This is a bugfix release, fixing an issue which some very specific NZB's could not be opened.
Also some performance enhancements have been made while downloading big NZB files.
Other new features:
- Optimize CPU usage. statefile save cause overall spikes (large NZB's)
- Optimize memory usage when parsing NZB files
- Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) while opening specific NZB file
- OSX security dialog prevents adding multiple NZB's at once
- Add option to delete NZB files upon import/add
- Make registration work better and live
- Drag & Drop NZB to application window
- Application crashes after changing write cache size from default to 100
- Don't show '(licensed)' in application title
- Make 'smart downloading' setting unavailable if no active license is present.
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Version 0.4.0 released - February 12th, 2010
Yet another great release. A lot of new functionality has been added in this release.
Most noticeable changes are:
- Optimizes download size
only downloads required pars, saving up to 10%!
- Par check and verify
- Unrar downloaded files
- Cleanup files after completion
- Added an "Open location" button after download
- A lot of other engine and UI tweaks!
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