Binbot Version 1.0 Release Notes
Contents
Bug Fixes
| Bug# |
Category |
Description |
| 1021 |
File Downloads |
Articles with bodies starting with a space character could cause the download to fail and the connection to be reset.
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| 1022 |
Header Downloads |
Articles with an unsupported encoding in the "Subject" or "From" headers caused header downloads to fail.
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| 1023 |
Header Downloads |
Articles with a missing line count field in the overview data were being skipped.
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New Features and Enhancements
| Category |
Description |
| Main Window |
Added support for drag-and-drop of downloaded files from the Articles tab.
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| Main Window |
Changed initial column sizes to avoid horizontal scroll bars.
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| Uninstaller |
Added confirmation dialog when deleting Binbot configuration data.
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| Main Window |
Made minor changes to the appearance of the Go/Stop/Options icons in the navigation bar.
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| Main Window |
Renamed the article menu "Encoding" to "Character Encoding" to avoid confusion.
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Bug Fixes
| Bug# |
Category |
Description |
| N/A |
Windows |
Fixed start-up failure with JRE 1.6.0 under Windows.
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| N/A |
Windows |
Fixed JRE installation failure in Binbot installer for Windows.
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| N/A |
File Downloads |
Multiple copies of the same file could get downloaded if the same attachment was queued more than once.
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| N/A |
Directory Chooser |
The directory chooser did not work properly on certain systems.
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| N/A |
Windows |
The log file err.log showed errors when running under JRE 1.6.0.
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| N/A |
Main Window |
Pop-up windows were sometimes not properly centered on their parent window.
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| N/A |
Language Settings |
The message to restart Binbot was being shown even when Cancel was clicked.
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| N/A |
General |
Some borders were not being painted properly under certain look and feel settings.
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| 1006 |
Header Download Options |
New headers were being displayed even though Refresh had not been clicked.
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| N/A |
General |
In some cases, the trial period was not being extended by 10 days when a new version was installed.
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| N/A |
Header Downloads |
Multi-part articles with a last part under 2 KB were not being assembled correctly.
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| N/A |
Article Properties |
The file name field in the Download Info tab was not being displayed for single part articles.
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| N/A |
General |
The background on tabbed views was not being painted properly under certain look and feel settings.
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| N/A |
General |
The focus rectangle on selected rows in list views was not being painted properly under certain look and feel settings.
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| N/A |
General |
Fixed typos in French version.
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New Features and Enhancements
| Category |
Description |
| Binbot Settings |
Added look and feel settings to the Appearance tab in the Binbot Settings window.
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| Main Window |
Changed the layout of the Newsgroup combo box to use all available horizontal space, instead of sharing it equally with the Server combo box.
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| General |
Added minor improvements to the way icons are loaded and cached.
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| Linux |
Improved JVM detection in the shell script run_java.sh.
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| Linux |
Added the uninstall script uninstall_binbot.sh.
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| Windows Installer |
Upgraded the online JRE installer to version 1.5.0_11 (instead of version 1.5.0_07 previously).
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Bug Fixes
| Bug# |
Category |
Description |
| N/A |
Linux |
The default web browser was not launching correctly when URLs were clicked under Linux.
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| N/A |
General |
When a new Binbot version was being installed, the trial period was not being extended by 10 days as it was supposed to.
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| N/A |
General |
In some places, the default system colors were being used instead of the default look and feel colors.
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| N/A |
Main Window |
The color of the banner on the Search and Header Download Options windows was inconsistent across look and feel settings.
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| N/A |
Main Window |
The height of the rows in the page list in the Header Download Options window was too small under certain look and feel settings.
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| N/A |
Main Window |
The background of the Newsgroup combo box was not being painted correctly under certain look and feel settings.
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| N/A |
Main Window |
A border was being drawn around the toolbars under certain look and feel settings.
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| N/A |
Main Window |
The Refresh icon in the directory chooser window appeared to be too small under certain look and feel settings.
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| 1018 |
Main Window |
If a server without any subscribed newsgroups was selected at start up, the No Subscribed Newsgroups message was being shown while the Binbot Evaluation Version window was still showing.
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| 1019 |
Main Window |
When adding a server from the View All list of servers, the new server was not being selected when the View All window was closed.
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New Features and Enhancements
| Category |
Description |
| Binbot Settings |
Added settings for confirmation messages to tab General.
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| Binbot Settings |
Moved history settings to their own tab.
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| General |
Added support for log files.
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| File Downloads |
Load article by message-ID if loading by article number failed.
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| Main Window |
Added support for confirmation dialogs for the following actions:
Download, Preview, Download All, Discard, Delete, Cancel, Remove, and Remove All.
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| Main Window |
Reorganized the server and newsgroup menus. Removed the Add Newsgroup option.
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| Server Settings |
Allow News server name or IP address field to be edited on existing servers.
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Bug Fixes
| Bug# |
Category |
Description |
| N/A |
File Downloads |
If an article contains multiple files, display all file names in the File Name column, not just the name of the first file.
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| N/A |
General |
Always offer to subscribe to newsgroups if a server has no newsgroups defined.
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| N/A |
Server Settings |
Fixed minor layout inconsistencies.
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| N/A |
Linux |
Fixed access rights on executable shell file binbot.sh.
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| 1010 |
General |
Bug may occur when deleting a server or newsgroup that is being used.
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| 1016 |
File Downloads |
Multiple copies of same file may be downloaded if the same attachment is queued more than once.
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| 1017 |
General |
Table headers are not displaying correctly under certain look & feel settings.
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Installation Notes
Old versions of Binbot should be uninstalled before installing version 1.0, as the format for storing certain settings has changed.
New Features and Enhancements
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Category
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Description
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Server Screen
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Widened the text field for Nickname.
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Server Screen
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Automatically update the port number when the SSL check box is selected/deselected.
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Main Window
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Automatically select newly defined server.
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Main Window
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Automatically select newly subscribed newsgroup. If multiple newsgroups were added, select the first one.
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Header Download Options
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Added clear filter action.
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Header Downloads
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Improved parsing of Date header to be more tolerant of invalid or incomplete values.
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Bug Fixes
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Bug#
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Category
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Description
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N/A
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General
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Right-aligned table columns not displaying right-aligned title.
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N/A
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File Downloads
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Fixed bug in decoding of nested multipart MIME messages.
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1002
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Main Window
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At startup, Binbot should ask about subscribing to newsgroups if a server was defined but no newsgroups have been subscribed.
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1000
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Header Download Options
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Header page list not cleared when a newsgroup is unsubscribed.
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1005
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Main Window
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Search result label should not be displayed when headers are loaded with the search panel opened.
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1007
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Header Download Options
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Default discard check boxes not initialized properly if there's a long delay in loading the article count for the current newsgroup.
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1012
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Header Download Options
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Empty newsgroups show one article in the list of header pages.
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1014
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License Key Screen
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Confirmation dialog not shown if the license key screen is launched from the menu Tools > Buy License Key.
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1015
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Main Window
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Deleted articles are not always being brought back to life after clearing the history and reloading the headers.
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