Giganews Accelerator Updates

I wrote about the Giganews Accelerator when it first came out which was just a bit more than two months ago and have been using it since then to speed up header downloads with my own Giganews account. The Giganews accelerator speeds up header downloads by the factor eight on my connection which is really great.

I always had to wait the longest time to wait until the headers of popular groups were downloaded which took an awfully long time. A great thing is that the Giganews Accelerator is also supporting SSL connections. Giganews released a total of eight new versions of the program since the initial release which is an astounding number if you ask me.

The most important changes have been fixes that prevent crashes and handle disconnections better. It happened to me that my connection to the Giganews server died although my Internet connection was alive and both programs were open. This is happening less and less due to these updates to the Giganews Accelerator.

Here is the complete list of fixes for the program:

v1.0.99.1 - June 13, 2007
- quick version bump so upgrade links will work properly

v1.0.98.1 - June 13, 2007
- new installer package should fix problems on some non-English versions
of Windows
- another posting bugfix
- handle socket disconnections better; this should fix many unnecessary
exceptions that happen when connections disconnect
- allow the program to run even if the user’s registry is write-protected

v1.0.97.1 - May 29, 2007
- properly disconnect sessions when reading compressed headers and
connection drops
- fix many different posting bugs
- include better information with crash reports

v1.0.95.1 - May 25, 2007
- new compression handling engine
- new rate-limiting engine
- removed reliance on external C runtime libraries
- fix bug with very large (>2GB) overview downloads with spinners

v1.0.94.1 - May 17, 2007
- redirect errors with compression handling to bug report e-mails
- rework underlying menu code for future expansion
- remove some control characters from log messages
- enforce upgrade to at least v1.0.93.1

v1.0.93.1 - May 16, 2007
- fix intermittent failures with compressed headers
- fix connection crash when accelerator cannot make a connection
- fix application crash with some menu items when system does not
have a default web browser enabled
- include additional version info in crash reports

v1.0.92.1 - May 15, 2007
- fix unhandled exception when server connection is unavailable

v1.0.91.1 - May 14, 2007
- enable more verbose crash e-mails for unexpected application crashes
- update compression code
- label which speed is actual and which speed is accelerated
- prevent application startup crashes on some systems

v1.0.87.1 - May 8, 2007
- initial release

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