LottaNZB 0.5
This is the first release with plug-in support. It also comes with a few long-awaited new minor features and bug fixes and is the most future-proof release ever.
Milestone information
- Active:
- No. Drivers cannot target bugs and blueprints to this milestone.
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- Assignees:
- 1 LottaNZB Development Team, 22 Severin H, 1 VuDu
- Blueprints:
- 12 Implemented
- Bugs:
- 12 Fix Released
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Release notes
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Of course, LottaNZB 0.5 still runs on distributions not older than 1.5 years. 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.
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.
Changelog
12 blueprints and 12 bugs targeted
Blueprint | Priority | Assignee | Delivery | |
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Allow the preferences window to be used in front-end mode | Allow the preferences window to be used in front-end mode | 4 High | Severin H | 11 Implemented |
Plug-in support for LottaNZB | Plug-in support for LottaNZB | 3 Medium | Severin H | 11 Implemented |
Restrict the usage of plugins to certain usage modes | Restrict the usage of plugins to certain usage modes | 3 Medium | Severin H | 11 Implemented |
Separate the GUI code from the core application logic | Separate the GUI code from the core application logic | 3 Medium | Severin H | 11 Implemented |
Add an option to (dis|en)able the NZB file removal feature | Add an option to (dis|en)able the NZB file removal feature | 2 Low | Severin H | 11 Implemented |
Instantly apply preferences changes | Instantly apply preferences changes | 2 Low | Severin H | 11 Implemented |
Make it possible to disable/enable the notification area icon | Make it possible to disable/enable the notification area icon | 2 Low | Severin H | 11 Implemented |
Make the system tray menu more powerful adding more features | Make the system tray menu more powerful adding more features | 2 Low | Severin H | 11 Implemented |
Migrate from libglade to gtkbuilder | Migrate from libglade to gtkbuilder | 2 Low | Severin H | 11 Implemented |
Plugin to prevent the computer from going into hibernation | Plugin to prevent the computer from going into hibernation | 2 Low | Severin H | 11 Implemented |
Remember the location of the 'Add file' dialog | Remember the location of the 'Add file' dialog | 2 Low | Severin H | 11 Implemented |
Use XDG location scheme | Use XDG location scheme | 2 Low | Severin H | 11 Implemented |