FeedDemon 2.6.1 RC2 (Build 2.6.1.4)

April 23, 2008

Note: This is pre-release software, which means that you will run into bugs while using it. If you're not comfortable using unfinished software, please wait until the final release before downloading it.

If you encounter a bug or have feedback about the beta, let us know by posting a message in the FeedDemon 2.6.1 Beta Forum, and please include 2.6.1RC2 in the subject line of your message. When reporting a bug, be sure to state:

• The exact steps to reproduce the problem
• The URL of the feed you're seeing the problem with (if applicable)
• The versions of Windows and IE you're using

Before installing, it's recommended that you backup your existing feed data. To do this, open the previous version of FeedDemon, select File > Manage Cache > Backup, then choose your desired backup location.

 Download FeedDemon 2.6.1 RC2

Note: Version 2.6.1 should be intalled directly on top your existing version - there's no need to uninstall the previous version first.

Changes in 2.6.1.4 (RC2)

• Changed: "Next Page" and "Mark Page Read" are now both shown in the status bar
• Fixed: Article scrolled out of view after clicking "[Less]" to collapse it
• Fixed: "Keyword View" fails with uppercase keywords
• Fixed: Relative post links aren't "completed" when the feed link is also relative

Changes in 2.6.1.3 (RC1)

• Added: When "Keyword View" is the current view, the keyword now appears next to the "Subscriptions" item in the tree
• Added: Multiple enclosures per post are now supported
• Changed: Reverted back to "Mark Page Read" in status bar
• Changed: When no feeds match the chosen keyword in "Keyword View," you're now told that no matches were found, and the view isn't changed
• Fixed: Bogus tooltip on status bar
• Fixed: Older items re-appearing as unread when auto-purge (archiving) value is the same as the number of items in the source feed
• Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts dialog permits assigning single-key alphumeric shortcuts
• Fixed: Wrong favicons on browser tabs

Changes in 2.6.1.2 (Beta 3)

• Added: Significant performance improvements when navigating subscription tree
• Changed: Animation in subscription tree replaced with static hourglass/timer due to CPU spikes on many systems
• Fixed: "Add to Clippings Folder" menu doesn't overlay RSS icon on shared clippings folders
• Fixed: Exception when attempting to hide some popular topics
• Fixed: Popular topics doesn't always show all linked articles
• Fixed: FeedStation incorrectly purges newer items from its queue
• Fixed: Browser tabs that were open the last time FeedDemon ran are opened in the default browser when the option to open external links in the default browser is enabled.

Changes in 2.6.1.1 (Beta 2)

• Changed: "Mark Page Read" toolbutton on status bar replaced with "Next Page" (tentative)
• Changed: Popular topics and feed history data now stored in SQLite database instead of XML
• Fixed: Feed preview incorrectly sorts posts from oldest to newest
• Fixed: Popup menus in reports aren't correctly aligned with clicked hyperlink
• Fixed: Blank list items inserted into newspaper when source feed contains line breaks after list items
• Fixed: When viewing headlines only, the "open in new tab" icon is hidden when the title overflows
• Fixed: Missing scrollbars on images wider than the browser
• Fixed: Flickering favicons on browser tabs
• Fixed: The import dialog's "Cancel" and "Back" buttons are missing from the language file

Changes in 2.6.1.0 (Beta 1)

• Added: "Find Feeds" now enables subscribing to multiple feeds at the same time
• Added: Multi-line URLs pasted into the address bar are shortened to a single line (hat tip to IE8)
• Added: Secure URLs are now drawn with a light yellow background in the address bar
• Added: Clippings folders that have an RSS feed now have an RSS icon overlaid on them
• Added: Context menu added when right-clicking a feed in subscription home report
• Added: Subscription wizard now warns when attempting to add a private (intranet) feed to a synchronized folder (125583)
• Added: $ITEM_SUMMARY$ and $ITEM_SUMMARY_PLAIN$ added to "Blog This" tokens
• Added: Numerous optimizations to tabbed browser performance, esp. regarding favicons
• Added: Synchronization optimizations
• Added: "Show in External Browser" added to tabbed browser's context menu
• Changed: The "Next" toolbutton has been renamed "Next Page" (tentative)
• Changed: "Panic Button" no longer displays at startup (now only appears after feeds have updated)
• Changed: "Enable HTTP logging" removed from connection settings
• Changed: Default auto-purge (archiving) value for new feeds changed to 100
• Changed: The "Map This" icon in the newspaper now uses the Geotag icon
• Changed: "Import Feeds" now uses the OPML icon
• Changed: The "OK" button on the "Confirm Deletions" dialog isn't enabled until either "Keep All" or "Keep None" is clicked, or a feed is checkmarked in the list
• Fixed: PgUp/PgDown doesn't scroll browser when inline search has the focus
• Fixed: Subscription tree, subscription report and feed reports don't reflect changes to the current language until FeedDemon restarts (124289)
• Fixed: FeedStation pops up (instead of staying minimized) every time an enclosure is added to its queue from FeedDemon (125217)
• Fixed: FeedStation fails to download podcasts which redirect to URLs that are greater than 256 characters in length (seen with NBC podcasts)
• Fixed: Feeds renamed by user are renamed again when the title of the source feed changes (note that this fix only applies to feeds renamed from this version on) (123755)
• Fixed: Missing 'content-type' meta tag in about-tabs.html
• Fixed: Watches and subscription search fail to match whole words preceeded by a no-break space character (U+00A0)
• Fixed: When the NewsGator password is changed from another location, copies of FeedDemon at other locations can't be updated with the new password (126778)
• Fixed: When viewing full posts, large images may overlap the border of the focused item (128198)
• Fixed: When updating a single feed, the feed's icon doesn't animate
• Fixed: New folders don't inherit root folder's properties (122443)
• Fixed: FeedStation fails to validate the username and password (112477)
• Fixed: Mapped network drives don't appear in the folder selection of the Manage Cache dialog
• Fixed: Line breaks in description display incorrectly in keyboard shortcuts dialog
• Fixed: Can't subscribe to feeds which contain undefined XML entities (seen with Rolling Stone feed)
• Fixed: Empty WordPress "stats" images show up in Popular Topics
• Fixed: Import dialog appears to freeze when expanding OPML folder containing thousands of feeds
• Fixed: Prefetch fails to retrieve single-quoted images
• Fixed: News item list column widths not retained