Release Notes - SABnzbd 5.0.1

In this fifth major release of SABnzbd, we included:

Smarter (and potentially faster) downloads with NNTP Pipelining and Direct Write.

Reliability gains from a reworked cache and safer processing.

A significant number of bug fixes and platform updates.

Bug fixes in 5.0.1

Queued downloads from older versions did not load after updating.

New features in 5.0.0

Added support for NNTP Pipelining which eliminates idle waiting between requests, significantly improving speeds on high-latency connections. Read more here: https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/advanced/nntp-pipelining New servers will have Articles per request set to 2 by default. Existing servers need to be manually changed to use NNTP Pipelining.

Implemented Direct Write to optimize assembly of downloaded files. Read more here: https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/advanced/direct-write

Post-processing scripts will always be executed, even for failed jobs.…