Release Notes - SABnzbd 4.0.3
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## Bugfixes and changes since 4.0.2
- Direct Unpack could get stuck.
- Sorters could not be modified.
- Season Sorting did not respect desired capitalization.
- Crashes could occur in the `Downloader` on timeouts.
- Prevent extra job directory in case of folder-only Sorting.
- UUencoded articles could fail to decode.
- Windows: Windows Service would fail to start on legacy release.
- macOS: Failed to launch on macOS Sonoma Beta.

## Breaking change in 4.0.1
- The `Parameters` setting of a `Notification Script` is now passed as
  environment variable `SAB_NOTIFICATION_PARAMETERS` instead of as a
  command-line parameter. This prevents the possibility of remote code
  execution on systems exposed to the internet without a username/password.
  If you use `nzb-notify` you need to update it to the latest version.

## Bugfixes and changes since 4.0.1
- Disabling a server during download did not stop it from downloading.
- Show last line of post-processing script output even if it failed.
- Prevent crash during Deobfuscate on non-unique paths.
- Files that could not be parsed were removed from the `Watched Folder`.
- Warn if the file system does not support unicode or long filenames.
- Warn if `Scripts Folder` is inside the application directory.
- Prevent output buffering of Python post-processing scripts.
- The `PKG-INFO` file was removed from the `src` release.
- Correctly decode partially malformed UUencoded posts.
- macOS: Tray icon could not be disabled.

## Changes since 3.7.2
- In this major update we optimized a core part of the SSL handling.
  This results in large performance increase when downloading from news
  servers with SSL enabled. In addition, the general connection handling
  was improved, resulting in performance improvements for all news servers.
  Special thanks to: mnightingale, puzzledsab and animetosho!
- There are multiple settings that can tweak performance, see:
  https://github.com/sabnzbd/sabnzbd/discussions/2474
- When adding a new news server, SSL is enabled by default.
- File assembly performance significantly improved by relying on the
  CRC32 instead of the MD5 to perform QuickCheck of files.
- Slow down more gracefully when the cache fills up.
- Replaced separate Series/Movie/Date Sorting with general Sorter.
- HTTPS files are included in the `Backup`.
- Improved `Watched Folder` scanning and processing.
- Ignore resource fork files created by macOS.
- `Deobfuscate final filenames` is enabled for new installations.
- Dropped support for Python 3.7.

## Bugfixes since 3.7.2
- Restore applying `History Retention` setting at startup.
- Windows: Not all invalid characters were removed from filenames.
- Windows: Firewall rules were not removed by uninstaller.

## Upgrade notices
- The download statistics file `totals10.sab` is updated in 3.2.x
  version. If you downgrade to 3.1.x or lower, detailed download
  statistics will be lost.

## Known problems and solutions
- Read the file "ISSUES.txt"

## 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 2007-2023 by "The SABnzbd-team" \<team@sabnzbd.org\>
