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The Newsbin Pro team is at it again. Releasing a new beta version of the newsreader. Newsbin 6.50 Beta 5 rolled out on April 24th and is available for download from their beta page. If you already have a license the new version is free as always. Otherwise the client is well worth $20 or $30 with a year of standard search access. Want to automatically grab content soon after it’s posted? If so check out the new watch feature.

Here’s a full list of features and changes in Newsbin 6.50 vs. 6.42:

New Watch feature. Configure Newsbin to pull out items of interest during header downloads.

Ability to launch post unrar processing scripts.

Provides the ability to download parts of a post to one drive and have them assembled to another. Useful if you want to minimize I/O bottlenecks by downloading to a fast internal drive then save the assembled files on larger external media like a NAS.

Optimizations for downloading to SSD drives

Uses new hashing code. Seems to solve the rare problem where Newsbin and quickpar don’t agree on the hash value

If you have two unique Regular Expressions with a space between them, it’ll AND the results.

Intermediate NB2 files are no longer used.

New logic to verify all downloaded files even without pars so it won’t download dup files ever.

Startup checking is much faster, like if you exit with large sets in the download list.

Compacts more posting styles

The “Small File Filter” is now disabled by default (Show PAR/NFO)

Unnecessary files in the data folder gets purged on startup now.

Now supports SMTP authentication for email notifications.

Newsbin customers can download version 6.50 Beta 5 from their beta page. All full releases and betas are free of charge for users with a software license. New users can download a 10 day free trial to test the client.

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