Release notes

From Ted wiki

This list contains all the new features and changes that were added to ted with a new release.

Contents 1 0.971 2 0.97 3 0.96 4 0.95 5 0.92 6 0.91 7 0.90 8 0.80 9 0.75 10 0.65 11 0.60 12 0.56 13 0.55 14 0.51

0.971

07-10-2009

Bug fixes

• For some users ted would not start anymore after upgrading to v0.97
• Missing network icon added
• Adjusted date string: "will air on today" is now "will air today"

0.97

released: 04-10-2009

New features

• Support for HD shows.
• Sort shows on name or air date.
• EZRss feed parser support.
• Proxy support via new network preferences tab.
• Edit multiple shows at once.
• Nicer air dates in main dialog (tomorrow, today, ...).
• Seeders and file sizes are taken from rss feed before contacting tracker. Makes parsing faster and more robust.
• Filter on private trackers option
• Option to update show schedule in edit show dialog.
• yyyy mm dd is added as a valid date.
• Added window that shows information about new ted or show list updates.
• Adjustments to the translator so it is easier to work with
• Changed rss library because of extensive logging
• In/export shows function support
• Added never/always buttons to update pop up dialogs
• Help button on tabs dialogs points to correct help page

Bug fixes

• Tray icon disabled on 64 bits machines so ted starts.
• Fix for lost shows after adding show and restart.
• Show list is downloaded when not present.
• Schedule parser fix when season 0 is present.
• Adjusted default download folders for different OS.
• If download folder not present create it (otherwise warn user).
• Wild clicking in add show dialog caused inconsistent data.
• Rejected torrents because of keywords show up in log.
• When the directory path was too long UI of preferences menu was disarranged.
• Renamed compressed file filter into generic file filter.
• Fixed allowing '=' in the config (directory path).
• Right mouse click in main table doesn't need focus of main table.
• Message that dis/enable tray icon needs reboot.
• Linux tray support.
• Fixed some epguides parsing problems.
• Don't crash when xml file from TVRage can't be downloaded.
• Fixed bug in synchronizer show definitions.
• The characters [ and ] are invalid in torrent name.
• Don't increase episode number when torrent can't be downloaded.
• Don't always update schedule when closing edit show dialog.
• Some connection time outs were hard coded now linked to config.
• Add show dialog has a title.

Removed

• Manual schedulers.
• Double episode support.

0.96

released: 09-10-2008

Bug Fixes

• Parse shows did not work at start of ted on Windows OS
• Open torrent files in torrent client when torrent path contains spaces on MacOS
• Update status bar count down when adjusting time between parse rounds
• Details of shows are no longer overwritten at the start of ted

0.95

released: 04-10-2008

New Features

• Automatic Episode scheduler; determines airdate and episode titles by using information from epguides and TVRage
• Option to set your time zone
• Changed Add Show dialog look and feel, it's now easier to select the episode you want to search for
• Choose your own table colors
• Pop-up dailogs can now auto-close themselves
• More show information (airdate and title) displayed in main dialog.

Changes

• Improved memory management (on mac)
• Improved UI, native search box and help buttons (on mac)
• Check for new version every x parsing rounds instead of only at startup
• Speed up retrieval of the show information
• Added missing log messages

0.92

released: 16-02-2008

Improvements

• New design main table
• Search box in Add show dialog
• Adjusted error messages generated by torrent tracker
• Feeds for shows are now automatically generated
• Checking for new version of shows.xml is faster
• Mored daily show parse formats (e.g. 1st Jan 2008)
• Little Growl enhancements

Bug fixes

• Daily date year combobox bug fixed
• Menus are no longer grayed out under Leopard
• Window resize saved on moment of resize not on exit
• XML writer from date bug fixed
• XML writer break date bug fixed
• URL name translater bug fixed
• Fixed hurray bug

0.91

released: 12-10-2007

New features

• New log that clarifies the parse results per show
• All shows are checked for new episodes at the same time
• Growl support (better message support for Mac)
• On Linux Firefox is added as browser to open weblinks
• UI modifications to make the windows of ted look nicer on all platforms
• Show error messages is disabled on default
• Feeds are now loaded only one time when parsing
• Counter is updated every minute instead of every second (saves CPU)

Bug fixes

• Fixed some memory issues
• On Linux the default folder where ted stores its data is now ".Torrent Episode Downloader" in the users home folder
• Daily show torrent urls are translated
• Export to XML saves to correct location
• Seeder filter now checks for 'more or equal' instead of 'more'
• Update show list settings are correctly used

Translations

• Catalan (new)
• French (update)
• Italian (update)
• Norwegian (update)

0.90

released: 30-07-2007

New Features

• Shows can easier be added.
• UI make over for the edit show, configuration and main window
• Daily shows are supported
• Feeds can easier be added to a show in the edit show dialog
• Do not parse at start option
• Checks to see if a new version is available every 5 parsing round
• Dialog that shows which episodes are available for a show
• Do not log to file option
• Improved new season available check
• Check if entered download location exists
• Option to filter out compressed files (password protected)
• Built in translator
• Configuration is saved in system folders

Fixed Bugs

• Configuration and edit show dialog can no longer be resized
• Timeout setting correctly displayed in configuration dialog
• Log is saved to file for MacOS
• Unknown object '>'report is now proper defined
• Added brackets check to keyword filter
• Fixed log memory leak
• Removed download all option

Translations

• Complete: English, Dutch, Greek, French, German, Italian
• Partial: Danish, Spanish, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish

0.80

released: 21-1-2007

added

• parsing can be stopped
• log is saved in file
• option for exporting shows to valid xml file
• more break schedule options
• name and status column are adjustable
• menu item for downloading latest show information
• menu item for updating show information
• time-out when looking for a new version
• filter torrents on amount of seeders
• new logging system (thanks to Matthias)
• automatically setting filters for each show
• parsing progress for each show
• status visible for each show
• row of currently parsing show is green

changed

• 'Ted' is now 'ted'
• buttons are disabled if they can't be used
• switched to a more 'windows' looking lay-out
• status can't be changed anymore by clicking tv's
• some xml tags are made optional
• fixed displaying wrong day bug
• automatically open torrent files on MacOS
• repaired few glitches preferences dialog
• date is not used or parsing the feeds
• xml file for show definitions
• parser counts back in minutes
• updating feeds bug fixed

0.75

released: 16-07-2006

added

• centralized torrenturl translator (this means that new sites can be added easily and changed sites can be fixed without the need of updating ted)
• centralized feed list (ted will download the latest version of the predifined feedlist at startup)
• autoadjust changed feeds of shows
• seedler.org, newtorrents.info, btchat.com support
• open torrent support on MacOS

changed

• multiple feeds per show
• cleaner user interface (also for MacOS)
• the download all feature now asks if you want to download everything from a feed, or only new items

0.65

release: 26-03-2006

ted is open source! released under gpl 2.0

added

• support for mininova, the pirate bay, mrtwig and tvrss.net feeds
• support for season/episode 103 (= s1 e3)
• ted now saves x, y, width and heigth of the main window
• an argument that can be passed at startup to decide if ted should add a trayicon (-Dtray=1 or -Dtray=0)
• a download all option for a show, this downloads everything from the feed
• a show can be paused or on hold (see the icons in the table)
• episode and break scheduler that automaticaly put the show on hold or pause and checks when ted should start checking for new episodes again
• context menu when you right-click the show table

changed

• config dialog no longer closable with the red cross
• torrentreactor feeds work again
• when ted has no trayicon, he will announce new torrents and errors through popups
• when ted has no trayicon, the closing button will actually exit ted instead of minimize to the not existing tray
• extended keyword filtering. supports !, & and | operators: ((!xvid & hdtv) | (lol & ipod)) | !(xvid & piet & henk)
• the episode dialog has a tab for the schedule and more space for display on mac

0.60

release: 26-01-2006

added

• utorrent, abc and bitcomet clients are now supported by the "try to open in your default bittorrent client" feature
• added setup wizard. When you run ted for the first time, you have to configure the directory where ted saves his torrents
• date check to filter out fakes
• filter on keywords. You can now use certain keywords to ignore or download torrents (keywords are matched against torrent title)
• support for isohunt.com feeds. some feeds of isohunt can have difficulties loading cause they have strange characters in them that are not allowed in RSS
• button that loads the last episode from a feed
• added tooltips to several buttons and textfields

changed

• ted checks now better if he really downloaded a torrent or just plain html of an error page
• better and more detailed error messages
• when ted finds a new season but you don't want ted to download it, he now remembers so you don't have to click no anytime he checks a episode
• the edit/add show dialog now has tabs to make it smaller and cleaner
• fixed filesaving bug in linux. ted now uses \ instead of / to save the torrent

0.56

release: 18-01-2006

added

• support for mybittorrent.com rss feeds (thnx goatjuggler)
• ted now checks which os he's running on to see if he can safely add a trayicon (fix for MacOs) (thnx all people offered to test ted on macOs)

changed

• default value for season and episode when adding a new show are now 1 instead of 0 (thnx crap)
• added feeds to rss-urls.txt (thnx jaks13579, goatjuggler, Swimming_Bird)
• made selection box for predefined shows wider
• logwindow now opens in front of ted, instead of next to ted (if ted was maximized the logwindow would open out of your sight) (thnx goatjuggler)

0.55

release: 17-01-2006

added

• about dialog
• button next to RSS url to open the url (so you can verify feeds)
• menu item to open ted website
• help menu item now opens online documentation
• when ted finds a new version of himself, you can choose if you want to open the download page
• ted asks when he finds a new season if the user wants ted to start looking for episodes in this new season
• added "MB" textlabel next to minimum and maximum sizes for an episode

changed

• default refresh time was 50 seconds, changed to 300 seconds

0.51

• Initial Beta Release
• Only distributed to ted beta testers