NewsLeecher 4.0 Beta 4 / 3.9 Final

Major Features:

1. Completely Free of Spyware & Adware  
   • NewsLeecher does *not* contain any spyware or adware that might send personal details over the Internet. In fact, it has been certified as spyware-, adware- and virus-free by one of the largest software sites on the Internet.
2. Based on Successful Experience  
   • It is no secret that the development of NewsLeecher was initially inspired by some of the existing newsreaders on the market.
     
3. Including the Popular SuperSearch Usenet Search Feature  
   • With the built-in SuperSearch feature, you can search *all* the binary usenet groups at once, for a specific keyword or keystring, in less than a second! The SuperSearch engine is state-of-the-art in it's speed and it's ability to perform true wildcard searches!
4. Full Support for NZB Files
   • NewsLeecher has full support for the NZB file format. It can create and export NZB files directly from articles in the group view or from SuperSearch results. And it can import NZB files manually and automatically in many different ways, for easy downloading.
5. Top Tuned yEnc Support  
   • Besides supporting the "old" encoding formats, such as uuEncode, NewsLeecher also supports the brand new encoding format called yEnc. Actually NewsLeecher has a top tuned yEnc decoding engine that makes sure your downloads are decoded smoothly in the background without consuming too much CPU time.
6. Automatic PAR2 & RAR File Handling
   • No more fumbling around with PAR and RAR set files! Using the integrated "Repair'n'Extract" feature, NewsLeecher can automatically verify and repair broken file sets, and automatically unpack RAR archive sets to a location you choose. "Repair'n'Extract" contains many custom settings for fitting the feature exactly for your liking.
7. Advanced Multiserver Support  
   • NewsLeecher has advanced support for leeching from multiple servers at the same time! An unlimited number of usenet servers can be used to download files at the same time!
8. Multithreaded Server Downloading  
   • Besides being able to download from several servers at the same time, NewsLeecher can also use up to 99(!!) simultaneous download threads per server. This could, for example, be used to download 99 pictures from a server at the same time!
9. Filter System  
   • The filtering feature enables one to find certain posts without going through all received headers. Filter by subject, size, age and more!
10. Automatic Downloading  
    • The built-in automatic multipart posts processing removes the hassle from combining binary post parts one by one. NewsLeecher detects and combine parts by itself!
11. Fastest Group Caching in the World  
    • Fast group caching enables much faster group viewing by only receiving the latest available post headers and caching the old ones! The caching routines in NewsLeecher has been tweaked and optimized to be the fastest in the world!
12. Top Modern User Interface  
    • State of the art user interface with support for XP themes and many options for tweaking the usability and the interface!
13. Advanced Feature Support
    • Besides all the usual download features, NewsLeecher also supports tons of advanced features that makes it easy to use your usenet membership to the fullest. 

Enhancements

• This release uses a new format for setup and configuration files. NewsLeecher will automatically detect earlier formats of the setup and configuration files and upgrade to the new format without any user intervention. But note that older versions of NewsLeecher will not be able to identify the new format, so downgrading will reset most settings. It is therefore recommended that you backup your NewsLeecher installation before installing this release, just in case anything goes wrong.
• Reintroduced a lot of the features which were removed in the first NewsLeecher version 4.0 betas. The reintroduced features include listview font name and size configuration, listview entry height configuration, turning on / off the speedgraph background logo etc..
• Added 'Notify on New Final Release' and 'Notify on New Beta Release' checkboxes to the news-page toolbar.
• The Repair'n'Extract status column now shows the extraction speed for extracting archives in MB/s
• Lots of 'advanced user' tweaks have been added to the setup dialog. The settings can be accessed from 'Setup -> Advanced Nerd Tweaks'. The new tweaks include listview entry color shade settings for sorted columns and collections, the possibility to set the size of the speedbar on the tray icon, etc..
• NewsLeecher uses a new format for the setup and configuration files. Reading from, and writing to, the new format is between 10 and 1000 times faster than with the old format. And as NewsLeecher reads and writes a lot of settings during operations, this change will have a positive impact on the overall performance.
• Totally re-organized the setup dialog, to make it much easier to configure and run NewsLeecher from scratch. All of the non-essential options and settings have been moved to a new setup section called 'Advanced Nerd Tweaks'. NewsLeecher will run fine without playing around with this new section, but the settings and options can be tweaked to optimize and personalize NewsLeecher further if wanted. Due to this new section, the rest of the setup dialog, containing more essential NewsLeecher settings and options, has been greatly simplified.
• Repair'n'Extract will now extract archives ASAP, instead of waiting until all Repair'n'Extract entries have been verified.
• Improved the 'Filters Dialog' by replacing the filters listview control with a memo control. The memo control allows much faster editing of filters, aswell as batch copy/paste operations.
• All 'Group Browsing' settings and filters have been moved to the setup dialog. The 'Group Browsing' setup dialog can be accessed fast by clicking the 'Settings' button on the 'Group Browsing' toolbar.
• Improved the easy-of-use of the download counter, located on the status bar. Lots of minor improvements. (Changed the standard pixel height of listview entries, new graphics in setup dialog, etc.)
• Fixed serious bug introduced in previous betas, where NewsLeecher sometimes totally screw up the download destination folder path when downloads were initiated from NZB files and the 'Download to Groupname Folder' option was used at the same time.
• Fixed bug where the NewsLeecher article header retrieval function would skip certain headers, because their subjects used a format which wasn't recognized by NewsLeecher.
• Fixed bug where NewsLeecher would sometimes pause the transfer queue automatically when the scheduler is active
• Fixed bug introduced in previous betas, where Repair'n'Extract would sometimes delete PAR Split sets.
• Fixed bug where the queue 'Change Download Folder' feature didn't always work properly.
• Fixed bug introduced in previous betas, where the 'Export to NZB' feature would freeze NewsLeecher, if the 'ZIP Compress exported NZB File' option was on.
• Fixed bug where some of the group browser filters would occasionally cause the group browser listview to freeze.
• Fixed bug where the time label on the bandwidth graph sometimes showed an incorrect timespan text while the graph was resized.
• Numerous smaller bugfixes.

Requirements:

• Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Windows Vista.