Ensisoft releases Newsflash Plus 3.3.1

[ensisoft]

I remember finding it hard to uninstall it , i don't recall finding a uninstaller . Not sure what was the problem back then , maybe it was on my end the problem

yeah unfortunately theres no installer so you just have to delete the installation folder. its in the readme.txt

[ensisoft]

Hi everyone!

Im back and a new version (3.4.0b4) is out, grab it from http://www.ensisoft.com/download.php

This one's got a bunch of cool new features and of course some bug fixes. Quite a bit of stuff has been done under the hood to improve both socket IO and reduce CPU load. (CPU load is still higher than I would like, but Will have to address that more in the future. Quite a bit of the loads from openssl and theres not much I can do abut that for now)

Briefly here's whats new:

- Womble RSS extension for Womble's RSS feed at http://www.newshost.co.za
- throttle (go to settings to setup the desired cap for speed, enable/disable in Downloads tab)
- computer shutdown after all downloads are complete
- batch mode downloading
- optimizations to improve socket IO and reduce CPU load

Bugs fixed:
- uuencode workaround + bug for broken encoders omitting trailing grave accents
- feature test without username/password causing forbidden connections
- nzbs.org RSS interface changes

+ some other minor features and changes

What is "Batch mode"?

Enable batch mode in the Advanced section of your server properties. It will combine NNTP commands as much as possible into bigger batches and thus reduced TCP roundtrips resulting in faster response and improved throughput. If your server is up to the task you should get huge performance boost. Typically with this mode just a SINGLE connection can consume all the bandwidth available at your network!

I would advice anyone trying the batch mode with a single connection at first. Some servers seem to have trouble coming up or sending the data fast fast enough thus resulting in "pumping" in transfer speed. If this bothers you play with the throttle to see what gives you best steady speed.

Enjoy!

-ensi

zot:

I was thinking about the streaming thing or downloading multiple files with several connections. I came to the conclusion that I get least TCP/other scheduling overhead with a single connection. I.e. when the batch mode is working with the server, (on my ADSL) a single connection can take up the whole bandwidth available. I dont really see a reason to use multiple connections per file at this point anymore. Essentially this means that You use a single connection, so you "sequantial" downloading but performance wise you dont need more than that single connection to get max throughput.

[ensisoft]

Hello all,

after a loooong hiatus I'm back. And so is Newsflash Plus. Version 4.0.0 has just been released. (for Windows and Linux as usual)

So whats new? Well.. everything pretty much.

Among other things.
- completely new account management
- completely new newslist and header engine
- completely new downloading engine
- completely new repair/extract mechanism
- no more python! (yay, its gone!)

and a bunch of other changes.

You can download the latest versions from here

http://www.ensisoft.com/download.php

Thank you all!

- ensi

P.s. new users the application has 1 embedded advertisment and thats all. It's not feature restricted. If you like the application you can show your appreciation by donation and then you will receive a key that will remove the advert. Any sum is accepted.

[ensisoft]

For anyone interested the source code is now available at www.github.com/ensisoft/newsflash-plus/

[ensisoft]

Hello all,

New release bumps up to version 4.1.0. More details about the release available here: http://www.ensisoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=215

And binaries available at http://www.ensisoft.com/download.php as usual.

Review of major features.

- Multiple accounts, primaries/fillserver.
- Quota tracking
- Header support
- RSS support for womble/nzbs.org
- Files tracking, tools integration for tools like media players/video players etc.
- Archives tracking with automated par/unrar.
- Built in search, support for Newznab backends.
- Connection/Downloads management, pause/resume, move up/down, SSL, TCP, throttling.
- Support for NZB scanning, downloading/viewing.
- Built in feedback/bug reporting system.
- Support for Linux and Windows
- History / duplicate tracking
- Omdb integration

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- ensi