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Release Date: 2nd August 2015

This release resolves a number of bugs and provides greater application stability.

Release Date: 2nd July 2015

This release resolves a number of bugs and provides greater application stability.

release date: April 9th, 2015

This release introduces the following new features:

1. Advanced filtering of newsgroup articles.
2. Improved speed of article header downloads.
3. Grouping of related articles (experimental). Where there are multiple articles (for example Fedora 21 may have 50 rar files and 8 par files) they will be grouped into a single item within the newsgroup article list, which can be expanded to show all sub items.

In addition there are a number of minor bug fixes.... read more

12th November 2014

A new version of Quban has been released today adding configurable server download limits and assorted bug fixes.

release date: September 16th, 2014

This release resolves a number of bugs:

Closing the Group Progress window caused the application to crash sometimes.
Made the socket connect process more robust.
Fixed some memory leaks.

release date: December 22nd, 2013

This release adds the ability to generate a diagnostics report to aid in problem resolution. It also resolves the following bugs:

Some configuration options were lost and could not be updated.
Newsgroup text files can be displayed using the View option again.
Quicker shutdown if the download queue is paused.
Fixed some memory leaks and made code more robust.

release date: December 22nd, 2013

This release changes the way that servers are validated and initial server connections are managed. It also resolves the following bugs:

• When there are multiple background jobs the most recently updated was not always displayed at the top of the job list.
• There are now default values that can be set (in preferences) for the values to be used to filter the list of available groups (hiding groups with fewer articles than the limit you set).
• Expire jobs didn't always update their status.
• Background jobs sometimes crashed if still running at application shutdown.

This is a small release to address a couple of issues and add new functionality.

Included in the release are:

1. The locking of newsgroups whilst background jobs run has been largely eliminated.
2. When looking at available newsgroups to subscribe to you can now filter the list to hide groups with fewer articles than the limit you set.
3. If the subscribed groups tab (rather than the servers tab) is open at shutdown this will open at next startup.
4. Getting lists of newsgroups for all servers now runs in parallel on all servers.
5. Other minor changes to 'look and feel'.

Quban 0.6.2 is in development at the moment.

The main addition will be the ability to group articles with similar names together and display on one line in a newsgroup's header list. This single entry can then be expanded to reveal the articles that have been grouped together. All artcles can be downloaded or deleted from the grouped article or articles can be manipulated individually.

This will be an option for each newsgroup, it can be switched off for some or all groups.... read more

Quban 0.2.0 has been launched today.

It's a Qt usenet binary newgrabber for Linux, that was forked from Klibido 0.2.5.

More details within the wiki ... homepage will not be updated until tomorrow :o(