With all the hub-bub going on with BitTorrent and LimeWire - the lawsuits, the criminal prosecutions, the multimillion dollar injunctions - it's no wonder that many people are trading in their torrent files for the newsgroups. One of the more popular news readers is NewsLeecher. As its name suggests, NewsLeecher's primary function is binary downloading from the newsgroups. There's no uploading involved like BitTorrent, so users are generally much safer in this environment.

For much of this year, the NewsLeecher team has been busy releasing a slew of beta updates to its release candidate 4.0 client. Today's release is beta 20, and is probably one of the last betas until the official 4.0 release comes out (considering the NewsLeecher development team announced that beta 19 was one of the last). Here are the release notes for this release:

+: The NewsLeecher executable and the NewsLeecher setup archive
is now digitally signed to avoid false positives by anti
virus software, and to prevent security warnings during
install and launch.
+: It's now possible to manually select which setup / data files
NewsLeecher should load at startup, by pressing the F12 key
while launching NewsLeecher.
*: Lots of smaller improvements.
!: Fixed bug where NewsLeecher would sometimes return an error
when downloading very big articles.
!: Fixed small issue, where the groups listview article position
wasn't always reset when entering a new usenet group.
!: Many smaller bugfixes.

Unlike alt.binz, Grabit, SABnzbd+, and Unzbin, NewsLeecher does not have a public version. The price is $19.99 a year for just the client or $29.99 if you want the added functionality of the Super Search feature. Before making a decision, there's always a free trial.


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