Release Notes - SABnzbd 3.6.0 Beta 6

Changes and bugfixes since 3.6.0 Beta 5

Upgrade from Beta 4 to Beta 5 could freeze the queue.
Removed eta-fields from queue API-call.
None values in XML API-output are left empty.
Windows: If job password contained a double quote it
would not be picked up by UnRar and unpack would fail.

Changes and bugfixes since 3.6.0 Beta 4

Improve new Quick-check method.
Remove undocumented xcat API-parameter.
Prevent traceback when status functions timeout.
API calls to add NZB's would not always return nzo_ids.
Correctly default to Glitter - Auto on new installs.
Show warning when there are no valid news servers active.
Prevent crash when there is an unknown language setting.

Changes and bugfixes since 3.6.0 Beta 3

Reverted changes to file assembly.
Implemented new Quick-check method.

Changes and bugfixes since 3.6.0 Beta 2

Removed Indexer Feedback Integration.
Removed included Deobfuscate.py as it is outdated.
In case SIMD is available, multiple files will be assembled
simultaneously. This further improves performance.

Changes and bugfixes since 3.6.0 Beta 1

Updates to sabyenc3 to support more compiler setups.
Optimization to the writing of partially downloaded data.
Added ext_rename_ignore to add custom extensions that should
be ignored during the Deobfuscate step.
Prevent crash in API history call during post-processing.
Ignore .par2 files that could not be parsed.

Changes since 3.5.3

Significantly increased performance by using the yEnc-decoding
library of @animetosho. Usenet articles are now decoded using
specialized CPU instructions (SIMD) on x86 and ARM systems.
Create and restore backup of configuration and database.
Show source of lower download speed (CPU or disk).
Added keyboard shortcuts (Pause, Add, Status, Config).
Results of Deobfuscate step listed in History.
Disable api_warnings to prevent showing Access Denied
information to the external client.
Jobs with Force priority always skip duplicate check.
Removed several status items from the queue API-call.
Linux: Added AppStream metadata, desktop shortcut and MimeInfo.
macOS: Application and included tools fully native on M1 systems.
macOS/Windows: Updated UnRar to 6.10 and 7-Zip to 21.07.
Windows: Updated MultiPar to v1.3.2.3.

Bugfixes since 3.5.3

Extended timeout when measuring system performance.
Interface settings were sometimes reset on page reload.
Par2 sets with duplicate names could skip verification and repair.
Prevent crash if not enough repair blocks are available.

Upgrade notices

The download statistics file totals10.sab is updated in 3.2.x
version. If you downgrade to 3.1.x or lower, detailed download
statistics will be lost.

Known problems and solutions

Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

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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