LottaNZB

It’s been a long time since the last release of LottaNZB and many things have happened since January 2009. LottaNZB has been uploaded to Debian and Ubuntu, we introduced a fresh new design for this homepage and finally wrote about the major changes planned for LottaNZB 0.6. We also promised to release LottaNZB 0.5 soon, which we’ve been working on mostly in winter and spring. Due to exams and other work and because I’ve already been working on LottaNZB 0.6, LottaNZB 0.5 waited for a long time to be released. During the past days I’ve done some final polishing and can tell you that it’s really close to a release, finally.

I hereby announce a public beta test for the upcoming release of LottaNZB 0.5! All the new features of LottaNZB 0.5 are already there. Among them is the support for plug-ins, the possibility to enqueue files over the network and a couple of UI improvements. Additionally, from a technical point of view, LottaNZB has been made ready for future versions of GNOME by porting it from libglade to GTKBuilder. And of course several bugs have been fixed thanks to reports by various LottaNZB users. The release announcement of the final version will contain some more information about what’s new along with some shiny screenshots.

The reason for this beta test is that we’d like to catch bugs we might have missed as well as give you the opportunity to update the translation of the application!

We only provide the source package as well as the package for Debian/Ubuntu. Packages for Fedora will be created once the final version of LottaNZB 0.5 is released.

• Ubuntu/Debian package
• Source package (new build dependency: intltool)

We really look forward to your feedback in the form of comments and bug reports. Contributions to the translation are also highly appreciated. If no major bugs show up, the final version of LottaNZB 0.5 will be released in a few days.

Thanks for your patience!

UPDATE: I just uploaded a new LottaNZB beta version (0.4.96) which fixes a severe bug reported by Frank Zwart which caused LottaNZB to crash on startup when installed using the Ubuntu/Debian package. Also a minor preferences UI issue has been fixed. The above links now point to the updated files.