4.5.5-ls249

CI Report:

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LinuxServer Changes:

Full Changelog: 4.5.5-ls248...4.5.5-ls249

Remote Changes:

Release Notes - SABnzbd 4.5.5

Bug fixes and changes in 4.5.5

• macOS: Failed to start on versions of macOS older than 11.
  Python 3.14 dropped support for macOS 10.13 and 10.14.
  Because of that macOS 10.15 is required to run 4.5.5.

Bug fixes and changes in 4.5.4

New Features

• History details now includes option to mark job as Completed.
• Quota notifications available for all notification services.
  • Sends alerts at 75%, 90%, and 100% quota usage.
• Multi-Operations now supports Move to Top/Bottom.
• New outgoing_nntp_ip option to bind outgoing NNTP connections to specific IP address.

Improvements

• Setup wizard now requires successful Server Test before proceeding.
• Anime episode notation S04 - 10 now supported for Sorting and Duplicate Detection.
• Multi-Operations: Play/Resume button unselects on second click for better usability.
• Unrar now handles renaming of invalid characters on Windows filesystem.
• Switched from vendored sabnzbd.rarfile module to rarfile>=4.2.
• Warning displayed when removing all Orphaned jobs (clears Temporary Download folder).

Bug Fixes

• Active connections counter in Status window now updates correctly.
• Job setting changes during URL-grabbing no longer ignored.
• Incomplete .par2 file parsing no longer leaves files behind.
• Local IPv4 address now detectable when using Socks5 proxy.
• Server configuration changes no longer show Failure message during page reload.

Platform-Specific

• Linux: Make Windows compatible automatically enabled when needed.
• Windows: Executables are now signed using SignPath Foundation certificate.
• Windows: Can now start SABnzbd directly from installer.
• Windows and macOS: Binaries now use Python 3.14.

Bug fixes and changes in 4.5.3

• Remember if Permanently delete was previously checked.
• All available IP-addresses will be included when selecting the fastest.
• Pre-queue script rejected NZBs were sometimes reported as URL Fetching failed.
• RSS Next scan time was not adjusted after manual Read All Feeds Now.
• Prevent renaming of .cbr files during verification.
• If --disable-file-log was enabled, Show Logging would crash.
• API: Added time_added, timestamp of when the job was added to the queue.
• API: History output could contain duplicate items.
• Snap: Updated packages and changed build process for reliability.
• macOS: Repair would fail on macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
• Windows: Unable to start on Windows 8.
• Windows: Updated Unrar to 7.13, which resolves CVE-2025-8088.

Bug fixes and changes in 4.5.2

• Added Tab and Shift+Tab navigation to move between rename fields in queue.
• Invalid cookies of other services could result in errors.
• Internet Bandwidth test could be stuck in infinite loop.
• RSS readout did not ignore torrent alternatives.
• Prowl and Pushover settings did not load correctly.
• Renamed osx to macos internally.
• API: Removed B post-fix from quota and left_quota fields in queue.
• Windows: Support more languages in the installer.
• Windows and macOS: Updated par2cmdline-turbo to 1.3.0 and Unrar to 7.12.

Bug fixes and changes in 4.5.1

• Correct platform detection on Linux.
• The From SxxEyy RSS filters did not always work.
• Windows and macOS: Update Unrar to 7.11.

New features in 4.5.0

• Improved failure detection by downloading additional par2 files right away.
• Added more diagnostic information about the system.
• Use XFF headers for login validation if verify_xff_header is enabled.
• Added Turkish translation (by @cardpuncher).
• Added unrar_parameters option to supply custom Unrar parameters.
• Windows: Removed MultiPar support.
• Windows and macOS: Updated Python to 3.13.2, 7zip to 24.09,
  Unrar to 7.10 and par2cmdline-turbo to 1.2.0.

Bug fixes since 4.4.0

• Handle filenames that exceed maximum filesystem lengths.
• Directly decompress gzip responses when retrieving NZB's.

Upgrade notices

• Direct upgrade supported from version 3.0.0 and newer.
• Older versions require performing a Queue repair after upgrading.

Known problems and solutions

• Read ISSUES.txt or https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/introduction/known-issues

Code Signing Policy

Windows code signing is provided by SignPath.io using a SignPath Foundation certificate.

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 2007-2025 by The SABnzbd-Team (sabnzbd.org)

unstable-5.0.0RC3-ls343

CI Report:

https://ci-tests.linuxserver.io/linuxserver/sabnzbd/unstable-5.0.0RC3-ls343/index.html

LinuxServer Changes:

Full Changelog: unstable-5.0.0RC3-ls342...unstable-5.0.0RC3-ls343

Remote Changes:

Release Notes - SABnzbd 5.0.0 Release Candidate 3

This is the third (and hopefully final) release candidate of version 5.0.
Please note the breaking changes described below!

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.
• 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.
  Make sure to check the status of the job in your scripts!
• Removed Special setting empty_postproc as it is no longer needed.
• Complete redesign of article cache.
• Improved disk speed measurement in Status window.
• Reduce delays between jobs during post-processing.
• Improve handling of disks getting full.
• Diskspace check will now included Category-specific folders.
• If a download only has .nzb files inside, the new downloads
  will include the name of the original download.
• No longer show tracebacks in the browser, only in the logs.
• Dropped support for Python 3.8.
• Windows: Added Windows ARM (portable) release.
• Windows and macOS: Added HTML version of the Release Notes.
• Windows and macOS: Update Python to 3.14.4, Unrar to 7.20,
  par2cmdline-turbo to 1.4 and 7zip to 26.00.

Bug fixes in 5.0.0

• Check before download could get stuck or fail to reject.
• Several stability changes for the core download process.
• If only par2 files were missing, jobs could get incorrectly aborted.
• No error was shown in case NZB upload failed.
• Correct mobile layout if Full Width is enabled.
• Handle passwords that exceed Unrar's password limit.
• Aborted Direct Unpack could result in no files being unpacked.
• Encrypted RAR detection could sometimes fail.
• Unwanted Extension check was unreliable on passworded downloads.
• No longer exclusively lock all directory operations.
• Improved handling of non-NFC unicode filenames.
• Sorting of files inside jobs was inconsistent.
• Linux: No longer break test-data in release package.
• Windows: Tray icon disappears after Explorer restart.
• macOS: Slow to start on some network setups.

Changes to default settings for new installations in 5.0.0

• Default Minimum Free Space for Temporary Download Folder set to 500M.
• Enabled verify_xff_header setting by default.

Upgrade notices

• You can directly upgrade from version 3.0.0 and newer.
• Upgrading from older versions will require performing a Queue repair.
• Downgrading from version 4.2.0 or newer to 3.7.2 or older will require
  performing a Queue repair due to changes in the internal data format.

Known problems and solutions

• Read ISSUES.txt or https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/introduction/known-issues

Code Signing Policy

Windows code signing is provided by SignPath.io using a SignPath Foundation certificate.

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)

nightly-395f8dc4-ls134

CI Report:

https://ci-tests.linuxserver.io/linuxserver/sabnzbd/nightly-395f8dc4-ls134/index.html

LinuxServer Changes:

Full Changelog: nightly-01179414-ls133...nightly-395f8dc4-ls134

Remote Changes:

Only build snaps for tags and relevant file changes

unstable-5.0.0RC3-ls342

CI Report:

https://ci-tests.linuxserver.io/linuxserver/sabnzbd/unstable-5.0.0RC3-ls342/index.html

LinuxServer Changes:

Full Changelog: unstable-5.0.0RC2-ls341...unstable-5.0.0RC3-ls342

Remote Changes:

Release Notes - SABnzbd 5.0.0 Release Candidate 3

This is the third (and hopefully final) release candidate of version 5.0.
Please note the breaking changes described below!

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.
• 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.
  Make sure to check the status of the job in your scripts!
• Removed Special setting empty_postproc as it is no longer needed.
• Complete redesign of article cache.
• Improved disk speed measurement in Status window.
• Reduce delays between jobs during post-processing.
• Improve handling of disks getting full.
• Diskspace check will now included Category-specific folders.
• If a download only has .nzb files inside, the new downloads
  will include the name of the original download.
• No longer show tracebacks in the browser, only in the logs.
• Dropped support for Python 3.8.
• Windows: Added Windows ARM (portable) release.
• Windows and macOS: Added HTML version of the Release Notes.
• Windows and macOS: Update Python to 3.14.4, Unrar to 7.20,
  par2cmdline-turbo to 1.4 and 7zip to 26.00.

Bug fixes in 5.0.0

• Check before download could get stuck or fail to reject.
• Several stability changes for the core download process.
• If only par2 files were missing, jobs could get incorrectly aborted.
• No error was shown in case NZB upload failed.
• Correct mobile layout if Full Width is enabled.
• Handle passwords that exceed Unrar's password limit.
• Aborted Direct Unpack could result in no files being unpacked.
• Encrypted RAR detection could sometimes fail.
• Unwanted Extension check was unreliable on passworded downloads.
• No longer exclusively lock all directory operations.
• Improved handling of non-NFC unicode filenames.
• Sorting of files inside jobs was inconsistent.
• Linux: No longer break test-data in release package.
• Windows: Tray icon disappears after Explorer restart.
• macOS: Slow to start on some network setups.

Changes to default settings for new installations in 5.0.0

• Default Minimum Free Space for Temporary Download Folder set to 500M.
• Enabled verify_xff_header setting by default.

Upgrade notices

• You can directly upgrade from version 3.0.0 and newer.
• Upgrading from older versions will require performing a Queue repair.
• Downgrading from version 4.2.0 or newer to 3.7.2 or older will require
  performing a Queue repair due to changes in the internal data format.

Known problems and solutions

• Read ISSUES.txt or https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/introduction/known-issues

Code Signing Policy

Windows code signing is provided by SignPath.io using a SignPath Foundation certificate.

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)

nightly-6ff8aa7c-ls133

CI Report:

https://ci-tests.linuxserver.io/linuxserver/sabnzbd/nightly-6ff8aa7c-ls133/index.html

LinuxServer Changes:

No changes

Remote Changes:

Update text files for 5.0.0RC3

nightly-395f8dc4-ls133

CI Report:

https://ci-tests.linuxserver.io/linuxserver/sabnzbd/nightly-395f8dc4-ls133/index.html

LinuxServer Changes:

No changes

Remote Changes:

Only build snaps for tags and relevant file changes

nightly-375cc495-ls133

CI Report:

https://ci-tests.linuxserver.io/linuxserver/sabnzbd/nightly-375cc495-ls133/index.html

LinuxServer Changes:

No changes

Remote Changes:

Put releasing a new version behind manual approval

nightly-01179414-ls133

CI Report:

https://ci-tests.linuxserver.io/linuxserver/sabnzbd/nightly-01179414-ls133/index.html

LinuxServer Changes:

Full Changelog: nightly-004e4e68-ls132...nightly-01179414-ls133

Remote Changes:

Update all dependencies (#3376)

Co-authored-by: renovate[bot] <29139614+renovate[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

nightly-004e4e68-ls132

CI Report:

https://ci-tests.linuxserver.io/linuxserver/sabnzbd/nightly-004e4e68-ls132/index.html

LinuxServer Changes:

Full Changelog: nightly-a72bb62a-ls131...nightly-004e4e68-ls132

Remote Changes:

Strip newlines from translated skin template strings

Ensures that translations do not break HTML or JavaScript rendering by removing newlines and carriage returns before the strings are cached and returned.

Closes #3375

unstable-5.0.0RC2-ls341

CI Report:

https://ci-tests.linuxserver.io/linuxserver/sabnzbd/unstable-5.0.0RC2-ls341/index.html

LinuxServer Changes:

Full Changelog: unstable-5.0.0RC1-ls340...unstable-5.0.0RC2-ls341

Remote Changes:

Release Notes - SABnzbd 5.0.0 Release Candidate 2

This is the second release candidate of version 5.0.
Please note the breaking changes described below!

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.
• 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.
  Make sure to check the status of the job in your scripts!
• Removed Special setting empty_postproc as it is no longer needed.
• Complete redesign of article cache.
• Improved disk speed measurement in Status window.
• Reduce delays between jobs during post-processing.
• Improve handling of disks getting full.
• Diskspace check will now included Category-specific folders.
• If a download only has .nzb files inside, the new downloads
  will include the name of the original download.
• No longer show tracebacks in the browser, only in the logs.
• Dropped support for Python 3.8.
• Windows: Added Windows ARM (portable) release.
• Windows and macOS: Added HTML version of the Release Notes.
• Windows and macOS: Update Python to 3.14.3, Unrar to 7.20,
  par2cmdline-turbo to 1.4 and 7zip to 26.00.

Bug fixes in 5.0.0

• Check before download could get stuck or fail to reject.
• Several stability changes for the core download process.
• If only par2 files were missing, jobs could get incorrectly aborted.
• No error was shown in case NZB upload failed.
• Correct mobile layout if Full Width is enabled.
• Handle passwords that exceed Unrar's password limit.
• Aborted Direct Unpack could result in no files being unpacked.
• Encrypted RAR detection could sometimes fail.
• Unwanted Extension check was unreliable on passworded downloads.
• No longer exclusively lock all directory operations.
• Improved handling of non-NFC unicode filenames.
• Sorting of files inside jobs was inconsistent.
• Linux: No longer break test-data in release package.
• Windows: Tray icon disappears after Explorer restart.
• macOS: Slow to start on some network setups.

Changes to default settings for new installations in 5.0.0

• Default Minimum Free Space for Temporary Download Folder set to 500M.
• Enabled verify_xff_header setting by default.

Upgrade notices

• You can directly upgrade from version 3.0.0 and newer.
• Upgrading from older versions will require performing a Queue repair.
• Downgrading from version 4.2.0 or newer to 3.7.2 or older will require
  performing a Queue repair due to changes in the internal data format.

Known problems and solutions

• Read ISSUES.txt or https://sabnzbd.org/wiki/introduction/known-issues

Code Signing Policy

Windows code signing is provided by SignPath.io using a SignPath Foundation certificate.

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)