It has been rather quiet on the
URD front lately, but that doesn't mean with been sitting on our asses the whole time. Quite on the contrary we got some pretty nifty things coming for you in the 1.0.6 release. First of all we added categories, to ease browsing and better organise downloads. Exchanging the extset info now also can use a newsgroup posting. We got some pretty good speedups (up to 5x as fast!) in the browse page. And thanx to our friend the Tall Man we got some pretty cool new ideas to enhance the menu options such as searching within
URD by selecting something in the browse page, and adding the selected text to the highlight list or block list. Lastly we did a pretty large fix up of the user interface, which is now faster, looks better, is more responsive and is more consistent.
You can expect the release shortly. Hopefully some time next week!
The full changelog thus for is
- Fixed bug in setting rights in view_files rename
- Added option to edit files in the webbrowser
- Fixed some stuff with html tags in text files while viewing
- Added possibility to group newsgroups / rss feeds into categories
- Fixed small bug in status screen with rar failing
- Fixed bug in handling posting failure
- Fixed bug in installer check on subdl
- Fixed bug in editing uploads
- Added option to distribute extset info through newsgroups
- Fixed a bug in editing usenet servers
- Fixed a bug in the installer: setting subl path, yencode path in case they aren't found
- Fixed a bug in the installer: creating account _after_ all checks have been performed
- Fixed a bug in the move up/down in the queue
- Added account lockout option after failed login attempts
- Added optional captcha to registration screen
- added calendar to download scheduler
- Fixed small bug in previewing when not a set editor
- Split rss/newsgroups page to use two tabs --> global and user settings
- Fixed bug causing high CPU when scheduler is off and a task should run
- Fixed a bugs when calling some commands without arguments
- Started making URD more modular
- Tabbed settings, transfers
- Fixed a bug in statistics showing all users when a user is non-admin and only current user when user is admin
- Fixed a bug in showing only known users in statistics
- Reworked statistics page with tabs and ajax code
- Ajaxified browse and rss sets page
- Added ability to send an email upon cancelling a pw encrypted download
- Fixed a few bugs in the preview code
- Speedup the browsepage a bit
- Speed up the viewfiles pages
- Added preliminary support for SQLite database backend
- Added preview max filesize option
- Fixed some issues with completion percentage
- Fixed issue with log file. If it cannot be opened for writing we escape to /dev/null - not pretty but at least we can start then
- Fixed a bug in handling failed authentication to a usenet server
- Fixed a bug in newsgroups and rss feeds while URDD is offline and switching online
- Added option to add search terms and blocked terms from a menu in the browse page
- Added possibility to set the download name by selecting text
- Design updated, orb buttons changed
- Quickmenu changed to a text menu
- Searchbuttons removed because of change to text menu
- Setnames that do not fit on page are now automatically cut off so layout is optimal
- added sorting to buttons
- Usenet server page cleaned up
- Remove par2/rar logfiles after successful download
Cheerio
URD dev team
We are looking still for people to test it and also for people who want write translations to other languages. Be sure to contact us if you're interested.
URD is a web-based application for downloading usenet binaries. It is written entirely in PHP, yet uses some external tools to do some of the dirty CPU intensive work. It stores all the information it needs in a generic database (like MySQL or PostGreSQL). Articles that belong together are aggregated into sets. Downloading files requires only a few mouse clicks, and when the download is finished it can automatically be verified and extracted. Downloading from usenet is as easy as using p2p software!
A strong point of URD is that no external websites are required, as URD generates its own download information. It is possible to create and download an NZB file from specified articles as well.
URD is a backronym of Usenet Resource Downloader. The term URD is derived from Nordic cultures referring to the Well of URD, which is the holy well, the Well Spring, the source of water for the world tree Yggdrasil. The old English term for it is Wyrd. Conceptually the meaning of URD is closest to Fate.
Website: www.urdland.com