LottaNZB

It’s a pleasure for me to announce the release of LottaNZB 0.5.2!

While one’s been working mostly on the upcoming LottaNZB 0.6, we spent some time fixing a few remaining bugs and giving translators the time to update the translations. We’ve never had more complete translations of LottaNZB! Thanks to all who have contributed to it. Also, an objective was to prepare the LottaNZB 0.5 series for the upload to Debian and Ubuntu.

An important change is that the proprietary unrar application used to extract completed archives isn’t automatically installed anymore together with LottaNZB. For those who are interested, we made this change to prevent the LottaNZB package from being moved to the “contrib” repository in Debian and “multiverse” repository in Ubuntu. However, installing unrar is as easy as clicking on a link and LottaNZB 0.5.2 will display a useful hint if the application cannot be found.

This version of LottaNZB also works around a bug in HellaNZB that causes post-processing of certain downloads to stop. Marcel did a great job locating the bug in the HellaNZB’s code and providing a true fix that has already been uploaded to Debian.

In Ubuntu 9.10, all application toolbars are now more compact, which saves space on the screen. We made sure that LottaNZB will also look great on Ubuntu 9.10. Here is what it looks like:

You can get LottaNZB 0.5.2 in the download section. Packages for Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 as well as Fedora 11 and 12 are ready for you to install. Unfortunately, as some Fedora users might already have noticed, HellaNZB isn’t part of the official Fedora 12 repository. That’s why you’ll need to download and install the package we provide in our download section.

As always, we’re grateful for bug reports, translations as well as ideas for new features!