Release Notes - SABnzbd 5.1.0 Release Candidate 1

This is the first release candidate of version 5.1.
Like many other projects out there, we were able to use the
shiny new AI tools to add quite a lot of long-requested features!

New features in 5.1.0

Refreshed the interface.
When Retrying a job, only the actually missing articles are tried again.
This only works for jobs downloaded in 5.1.0 (or newer).
RSS items are now stored in the database instead of on disk.
New RSS Age rule to filter jobs based on their age.
Downloaded RSS items are cleared from the RSS database after 3 days.
Added support for filename and path pattern matching to the Cleanup List.
Unwanted extensions will also be removed after unpacking.
Allow job setting changes directly from Extra queue columns.
Added support for unpacking .tar files during post-processing.
Improved anonymization of the logs when using Show Logging.
Added SAB_FILES environment variable to Post-processing scripts,
listing all files that resulted from the job.
New Servers will default to 16 connections instead of 8.
Use media duration as part of Ignore Samples detection.
Improved support for screen readers.
Parsing of header-encrypted RARs will use significantly fewer resources.
Removed redundant INSTALL.txt file.
Dropped support for Python 3.9.
Windows and macOS: Updated Python to 3.14.6, Unrar to 7.23 and 7zip to 26.02.

Bug fixes in 5.1.0

Prevent incorrect warnings about non-writeable directories.
Files unrelated to job could get removed by the Cleanup List logic.
Prevent path traversal in orphaned job APIs.
Disk Full errors from unrar were not handled gracefully during unpacking.
Memory leak could occur during article decoding.
Windows: Uninstall would not remove Settings or Windows Service.
Windows: Warn for OS-limit if more than 1024 connections are configured.
macOS: AppleDouble files could result in failures in Moving stage.
macOS: Restarting the application resulted in Terminal window.

Upgrade notices

You can directly upgrade from version 3.0.0 and newer.
Upgrading from older versions will require performing a Queue repair.

Known problems and solutions

Read ISSUES.txt or https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/introduction/known-issues

Code Signing Policy

Windows code signing is provided by SignPath.io using a SignPath Foundation certificate.

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.

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