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Version 3.0.b1 of the grabber is now available, it is a beta version and is definately not complete, I have released it more as a demo for people wishing to develop grabbers than as a functional grabber for end users. In this version the GUI is not finished (started), to start the grabbing simply press "Button1"

Version 3.0.b2 is now available:

Changes:
-reduced memory leaks
-fixed program dates
-added bleb grabber
-fixed passing of pages with nulls in back to grabber
-GUI for grabbing
-lua variable inspector
-Automatic updates

Version 3.0.b3 is now available:

Changes:
-fixed sleep timer
-added language element processing to Bleb grabber
-added config screen
-added download retries
-added max cache age
-temp is emptied on exit
-log is saved on exit
-program sorting
-added command line parameters (same as v2 ones)

Version 3.0.b4 is now available:

Changes:
-grabber program passes added
-post processing added
-added script to limit abc1 listings to 6am-6pm
-added program details processing script
-reduced log messages (can be re-enabled by setting debug to 1 in the ini file)
-fixed error in program times at end of month

Version 3.0.b5 is now available:

Changes:
-console grabber
-linux version
-fixed GMT/BST timezone
-fixed channels being lost when channel post processor failed
-fixed cacheing of failed downloads
-changes/additions to xgui_lib

Version 3.0.b6 is now available:

Changes:
-fixes to xgui_lib
-added freeview channel limiter script
-rearranged processor & grabber list windows
-fixed cache directory not being created
-published timezone.lua functions
-fixed incorrect dates at start of december
-option to change grabber/processor execution order
-exit codes added (same as v2.20)
-log/xml emailing enabled
-maxdays implemented
-cache is cleaned after each grab

v3 is now "finished" and has been released, changes from beta 6:
-more fixes to timezones.lua
-Israel grabber
-channel time pass type