Upgrades - News Rover Version 15 Is Now Available
Upgrade and renew your subscription to the News Rover search service for another year
Click here to download the News Rover upgrade installation
file.
Click here to purchase an upgrade key.
Click here to get your free key if your subscription is current.
If you purchased News Rover or paid for a subscription renewal within the last year,
click here
to get your free key for version 15. If your subscription is not current,
click here to renew your subscripton and
purchase an upgrade key for version 15.
Note: You can upgrade even if you do not have any version of News Rover currently installed.
Upgrade Procedure:
- Figure out what name you registered News Rover under. If you aren't sure,
you can find out by running News Rover then clicking "Help" on the main menu
followed by "Licensing".
- Order an upgrade key so that you will be ready to enter it when you start
version 15.
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Click
here to order your version 15 upgrade key <==
If you have any problems ordering your upgrade key, send e-mail
to NewsRover@sandh.com
or call 615-327-3670 between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM Central Standard Time.
- Download the version 15 upgrade file (nrsetup.exe).
- Once you receive your version 15 key, install version 15 and start it.
The first screen will prompt you to enter your upgrade key.
- For technical questions, send e-mail to
RoverSupport@sandh.com
Many New Features!!
Version 15 is a major new release. The focus of this version is speed.
Version 15 has the most significant speed increase in the history of the product.
- We have done a major redesign of the process that combines the parts
of multipart messages. The new system is much faster, and it does less
disk I/O. Here are the specific changes:
- Total disk I/O required to download and combine the parts of multipart
messages has been reduced by about 40%. This has removed a major bottleneck in
downloading large, multipart files.
- The combining of parts is now done in a separate execution thread that
runs concurrently with the downloading of additional parts. So most of the
time when the last part arrives, all previous parts have already been combined
and written to the output file. This drastically reduces the wait time for it
to combine parts after the download finishes.
- We have changed the file type used for temporary work files from .msg to .tmp.
This avoids triggering anti-virus scans of temp files by programs such as AVG.
We have tested version 15 by downloading millions of messages through a
50 MB/sec DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem. Running on a fairly fast computer, News Rover
is able to maintain a sustained, average download rate of 6000 kB/sec (48 MB/sec).
There is a slowdown when the disk is doing intensive I/O to decompress an RAR
file, but during normal downloads the speed averages about 6000 kB/sec. The tests
were run using 30 simultaneous connections to a fast Usenet news server.
- We fixed a bug that prevented Autoscan from storing multipart messages
under some circumstances.
- We increased the maximum length of message subject lines from 300 to 600
characters.
- A parameter field has been added to the Configure/Advanced screen to allow
you to set how long Usenet searches will wait before timing out.
- Changed the default style for new installations to Metallic. You can
change the style on the Configure/Styles screen.
- We added a new option to the Control menu to clean out News Rover's
non-critical Registry entries. This removes all of News Rover's Registry
entries other than your registration information and the location of the
program and data folders.
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