The Newshosting team announced a new release of their popular newsreader software. Newshosting client v1.5 includes a number of enhancements, updates and bug fixes. The one that immediately caught our eye was the addition of dynamic PAR downloads. The client will download only the PAR files necessary for repair. Saving you time and bandwidth. Sign up for a 14 day free trial to test the client or enjoy one of their specials.
Here’s a full list of the new features and updates in v1.5 of the Newshosting client:
New Features:
- Now has a dynamic PAR2 download, which only downloads as many PAR2 files as required. To facilitate this, PAR2 checking is performed in the background while downloading.
- Improved speed for article decoding on multi-core systems.
- Users will now receive a message when the connection retries fail, including the number of seconds until the next connection attempt.
Improvements:
- Upgraded the bundled UnRAR library to version 5.
- Multi monitor systems now have improved support for more detailed status.
- Improved handling of NNTP connection failures.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed issue where running the Linux 32bit executable on a 64bit Linux system caused wrong disk space calculations in some cases.
- Sorting by file name now works in the NZB dialog.
- Closing the settings dialog will no longer present a warning about unsaved changes although nothing was changed.
- If missing RAR files were missing from a download, it could cause the client to crash during extraction in some cases. This has been fixed.
- Fixed issue where a wrong remaining byte count was displayed in the connection graph in the lower left corner.
- The client no longer giving trouble to start on some Linux distributions with a KDE desktop environment and a few affected themes.
- The global search input in the upper right corner is no longer translucent on some Linux systems.
If you are currently using the Newshosting client the update will happen automatically. Otherwise you can log into the account control panel and download the latest release for Windows, Mac or Linux.
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