LottaNZB

The wait is finally over. Six months after the release of LottaNZB 0.4.1, I’m proud to announce LottaNZB 0.5! Let’s have a look at all the awesome new stuff in this version.

Plug-ins

We want to keep the default user interface as clean as possible, while making it easy for you to activate extra functionality if you need it. In LottaNZB 0.5, we turned both the categorization and Newzbin support into plug-ins. You can also hide the LottaNZB icon from the notification area if you want to.

More GNOME-ish

We want LottaNZB to look and behave exactly like the other GNOME applications you love! LottaNZB 0.5 instantly applies changes to the preferences. There’s no need to press a “Save” button anymore.

What took you so long?

There are some issues that should have been tackled much sooner. It’s now possible to open the preferences window also if LottaNZB is connected to another computer and makes it possible for you to change the bandwidth limit. You can finally enqueue NZB files over the network! Have you ever wondered why NZB files just vanish as soon as you add them to LottaNZB? Now you can choose whether you’d like to keep them or not.

Hail GNOME 3.0

GNOME 3.0 is on the horizon and some technologies are being replaced by new and better ones. This is why we migrated from the deprecated libglade to GTKBuilder. Unfortunately LottaNZB 0.5 only runs on distributions not older than half a year (those that come with GTK 2.16). For example, if you use Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10, please don’t upgrade to LottaNZB 0.5 or go back to LottaNZB 0.4.1 if you’ve already done so.

The configuration has been moved from ~/.lottanzb to ~/.config/lottanzb, making it easier for you to take all your desktop configuration with you, including LottaNZB’s.

Consider your days counted, bugs!

As always, several bugs have been fixed thanks to reports by various LottaNZB users! A special thanks to those brave people who have participated in the successful public beta test.

Thanks go out to all who have contributed to this release in some way, no matter if by contributing code, reporting bugs or translating the application to all kind of languages. We will probably release LottaNZB 0.5.1 few weeks after this release, giving LottaNZB users (you!) the time to update the translations and report bugs we haven’t catched during the public beta.

The LottaNZB 0.5.x series will probably be the last one that’s based on HellaNZB. You might want to read more about what we have in mind for LottaNZB 0.6.

Now go to the download section and get it while it’s hot!

UPDATE: Marcel de Vries reported a bug which causes NZB files not to be associated with LottaNZB during the installation on Ubuntu. I just uploaded new Ubuntu packages (built by Launchpad instead of my computer), which are available at the download page or the LottaNZB PPA. Instead of a single Ubuntu package, we now have a package for each Ubuntu version. Please note that you will be told (erroneously) that the new package is in fact older than the installed one. This is not the case. If you want to use the new Ubuntu package, you will need to remove the installed one first.