Usenet Explorer 6.1

Alex Birj heeft versie 6.1 van Usenet Explorer uitgebracht. Met dit programma kunnen bestanden van Usenet worden gedownload. Usenet Explorer kenmerkt zich onder meer door een laag processor- en geheugengebruik, en uitgebreide mogelijkheden, wat het voor beginnende gebruikers misschien minder geschikt maakt. Sinds versie 6.0 zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen zijn doorgevoerd:

Changes in version 6.1:

• The compact binary type has been adapted for the import groups as an option, offering potentially significant memory savings and much faster group load. In the past it was only used for classic binary newsgroups, while the nzb files were not as common as currently.
• Added the number of character repetition pattern to boolean wildmats without compromising the search code speed. Search service side has been updated as well and can handle the pattern. The change in syntax is so subtle that the previous search patterns should not be normally affected.
• The search protocol had to be upgraded to properly accommodate trial searches on the search server without public IP address.
• Fixed a few very minor issues discovered during the development.
• This release is accompanied with v5.9.4 release, the latter with only minimum changes (see v5.9.4 release notes).

Note: The files are submitted for Defender whitelisting, but in the meantime you can just invoke “Run Anyway” when running it in the first time if prompted. This note will be removed after the whitelisting process is complete.

Changes in version 6.0.3:

• The unrar source code (namely its version proven to be reliable over many years) has been modified to be able to handle several unrars in parallel, so multiple internal unrars are now allowed again to run simultaneously as asynchronous unpack tasks.
• The version mainly concludes the work on the initial implementation of the principal features introduced in v6.0.
• The release has been already whitelisted with MS Defender, so it is easier to run it in the first time.

Changes in version 6.0.2:

• One unrar at a time limit had to be reenabled in the meantime while the unrar source code is being reexamined (there is a dilemma of newer vs older proven unrar code each with its own problems – the latter is not yet there to run multiple unrars in parallel, while the functionality and the speed are the same).
• The unrar password list functionality has been adjusted for asynchronous unpack, as initially accidentally it was left out.

Changes in version 6.0.1:

• This version is compiled with a newer version of the unrar source code which is able to run a number of asynchronous internal unrars simultaneously (see the v6.0 release related note), so a single internal unrar at a time limitation has been removed and several asynchronous internal unrar tasks are now allowed to run in parallel.