Release Notes - SABnzbd 1.2.0

What's new in 1.2.0

New SSL engine:
- SSL connections will always negotiate strongest encryption available
- Strict verification of certificates (optional)
- Set custom SSL-Ciphers to increase performance (lowers encryption strength)
- Detail information in Status window on type of encryption used
- Webserver can use stronger encryption for HTTPS connections
New RAR-file processing with full support for RAR5:
- All passwords are now tried on the first complete RAR-file during download
- RAR-based verification when no par2-files or SFV-files are available
Improvements to Categories processing:
- Matching of start of category inside NZB with user-categories For example 'Movies > HD' will match a 'movies' category
- Categories can now be ordered to customize matching to categories in NZB's
Improvements to RSS feed management:
- Multiple feeds can now share the same set of filters
- Added 'From Show SxxEyy' filter
- Feeds will only re-evaluate after clicking 'Apply Filters' or 'Read Feed'
- Information from newznab, nZEDb and nntmux tags used (age, size and show info)
- Feeds now show the category, age and when the NZB was added to the queue
Detection of par2-files in completely obfuscated NZB's
Verification (par2) and UnRAR can now be aborted from Glitter
Faster startup and restart of SABnzbd
Duplicates can now be marked as Failed (to notify external tools)
Config Search function

Changes:

Python post/pre/notification-scripts now require execute (+x) permissions
Dropped dependency on PyOpenSSL, now only requires cryptography package
Update 7zip to 16.04 and UnRar to 5.40 for Windows/macOS
Update Python to 2.7.13 on Windows and macOS binaries
CherryPy logging only enabled when forced via command line
Not having C yEnc module will trigger warning on startup

Bug fixes

Re-use IP-address for new connections when a server has open connections
Auto-disables CPU-usage optimizations if they result in slowdown
no_penalties now applies to all types of penalties
par2cmdline would fail jobs in folders ending on ".par2"
Fix problem where memory usage wasn't correctly limited, causing MemoryError's
Removing files from active download was not working correctly
Accept & fail for pre-queue script was not working correctly
Recursive unpack failed on Windows with very long paths
Problems loading Notifications page with Scripts Folder set

Translations

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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.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION about release 1.x.x

https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/new-features-and-changes

Known problems and solutions

Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

Upgrading from 0.7.x and older

Finish queue
Stop SABnzbd
Install new version
Start SABnzbd

The organization of the download queue is different from older versions. 1.x.x will not see the existing queue, but you can go to Status->QueueRepair and "Repair" the old queue. Also, your sabnzbd.ini file will be upgraded, making it incompatible with releases older than 0.7.9

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