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LottaNZB aims to simplify and automate the download of files from the Usenet. You can tell LottaNZB what to download using NZB files, which are created by many Usenet search engines.

LottaNZB integrates nicely with GNOME desktops, but is not limited to them and uses the mature SABnzbd software as its foundation.

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LottaNZB 0.6 released

Today marks an important point in the history of LottaNZB: I’m proud to announce the release of LottaNZB 0.6! The work on this new version has started more than 1 year and 8 months ago. Countless hours were spent in order to lift LottaNZB to a new level of usability and improve it substantially from [...]


Progress report for July and August

Besides providing community service and preparing for two exams, I found the time to work hard towards the release of LottaNZB 0.6. This post highlights the most important additions and changes. Messaging Infrastructure The new messaging ... [More] infrastructure makes it possible to display questions, warnings and errors within the main window, such that they can easily [...] [Less]


On the road to LottaNZB 0.6

As promised in the post announcing the availability of daily builds of LottaNZB 0.6, I’d like to present you the most important changes since the last progress report in April. Setting up LottaNZB I guess everyone agrees that LottaNZB should be as easy to set up as possible, especially for novice users. Previous versions of [...]


LottaNZB 0.6 Daily Builds available

In the past months, I wrote two posts about the progress of LottaNZB 0.6, but no code was released for testing. This is because some important features of LottaNZB 0.6 were not yet implemented and also, the overall stability of the application needed to be improved. In June, LottaNZB’s development was as active as never before. [...]


LottaNZB 0.5.4 released

It’s a pleasure for me to announce another (and may be the last) maintenance release in the 0.5 series: LottaNZB 0.5.4! This release features not only a few minor bug fixes, but also a brand-new plug-in and a bunch of new and updated translations. Let’s have a look at the changes in more detail.
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