SABnzbd 5.1.0RC1

5.1.0RC1Pre-release

SABnzbd 5.1.0RC1

Added 6
  • Refreshed the interface
  • New RSS Age rule to filter jobs based on their age
  • Added support for filename and path pattern matching to the Cleanup List
  • Allow job setting changes directly from Extra queue columns
  • Added support for unpacking .tar files during post-processing
  • Added SAB_FILES environment variable to Post-processing scripts, listing all files that resulted from the job
Changed 9
  • When retrying a job, only the actually missing articles are tried again for jobs downloaded in 5.1.0 or newer
  • RSS items are now stored in the database instead of on disk
  • Downloaded RSS items are cleared from the RSS database after 3 days
  • Unwanted extensions will also be removed after unpacking
  • Improved anonymization of the logs when using Show Logging
  • New Servers will default to 16 connections instead of 8
Fixed 3
  • Prevent incorrect warnings about non-writeable directories
  • Files unrelated to job could get removed by the Cleanup List logic
  • Prevent path traversal in orphaned job APIs
Removed 2
  • Removed redundant INSTALL.txt file
  • Dropped support for Python 3.9

Release Notes - SABnzbd 5.1.0 Release Candidate 1

This is the first release candidate of version 5.1. Like many other projects out there, we were able to use the shiny new AI tools to add quite a lot of long-requested features!

New features in 5.1.0
  • Refreshed the interface.
  • When Retrying a job, only the actually missing articles are tried again. This only works for jobs downloaded in 5.1.0 (or newer).
  • RSS items are now stored in the database instead of on disk.
  • New RSS Age rule to filter jobs based on their age.
  • Downloaded RSS items are cleared from the RSS database after 3 days.
  • Added support for filename and path pattern matching to the Cleanup List.
  • Unwanted extensions will also be removed after unpacking.
  • Allow job setting changes directly from Extra queue columns.
  • Added support for unpacking .tar files during post-processing.
  • Improved anonymization of the logs when using Show Logging.
  • Added SAB_FILES environment variable to Post-processing scripts, listing all files that resulted from the job.
  • New Servers will default to 16 connections instead of 8.
  • Use media duration as part of Ignore Samples detection.
  • Improved support for screen readers.
  • Parsing of header-encrypted RARs will use significantly fewer resources.
  • Removed redundant INSTALL.txt file.
  • Dropped support for Python 3.9.
  • Windows and macOS: Updated Python to 3.14.6, Unrar to 7.23 and 7zip to 26.02.
Bug fixes in 5.1.0
  • Prevent incorrect warnings about non-writeable directories.
  • Files unrelated to job could get removed by the Cleanup List logic.
  • Prevent path traversal in orphaned job APIs.
  • Disk Full errors from unrar were not handled gracefully during unpacking.
  • Memory leak could occur during article decoding.
  • Windows: Uninstall would not remove Settings or Windows Service.
  • Windows: Warn for OS-limit if more than 1024 connections are configured.
  • macOS: AppleDouble files could result in failures in Moving stage.
  • macOS: Restarting the application resulted in Terminal window.
Upgrade notices
  • You can directly upgrade from version 3.0.0 and newer.
  • Upgrading from older versions will require performing a Queue repair.
Known problems and solutions
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About

SABnzbd is an open-source cross-platform binary newsreader. It simplifies the process of downloading from Usenet dramatically, thanks to its web-based user interface and advanced built-in post-processing options that automatically verify, repair, extract and clean up posts downloaded from Usenet.

(c) Copyright 2007-2026 by The SABnzbd-Team (sabnzbd.org)

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