FeedDemon™ 1.10 BETA 1

Changes in 1.10 Beta 1

• Added: Search box added to channel bar, which enables searching downloaded news items in the current group or all groups. Right clicking on the search results displays a context menu which includes options to convert the search results to a watch or a news bin.
• Added: After creating a watch channel, you are now asked if you'd like to run the watch on existing news items
• Added: "Update All Groups" added to Tools > Update menu
• Added: Basic support for Atom 0.3 feeds
• Added: Support for the "feed URI scheme" (feed:// protocol)
• Added: At startup, FeedDemon prompts to make it the default aggregator if it's not the registered application for the feed protocol. This prompt may be disabled on the General tab in Options.
• Added: "Show validation errors in new channels" added to General page in Options. When this is enabled (which it is by default), FeedDemon will check new channels for well-formedness and display an error dialog if any problems are found. This dialog includes a link to the Feed Validator, so authors can check their feeds for additional problems. Note that this dialog doesn't prevent subscribing to a feed - it simply warns that the feed contains errors which might affect how FeedDemon displays it.
• Added: Timeout setting added to connection options
• Added: Portuguese translation
• Added: "Import OPML File" added to File menu (this was possible in 1.0, but wasn't explicit)



• Changed: The system tray "info balloon" has been replaced with an Outlook-style desktop alert
• Changed: Trial version now allows 20 days rather than 30 uses
• Changed: OPML files that are missing type="rss" are still imported, so long as each outline node uses the xmlUrl attribute.



• Fixed: Cleanup wizard fails to remove news items
• Fixed: pipe characters in channel names cause channel bar tooltip to be truncated
• Fixed: When current month is January, the "Last month" filter fails to show news items published in December. Likewise, the "Last week" filter fails to show items published the last week of December when it's currently the first week in January.
• Fixed: Max HTTP connections setting (Tools > Options > Connection) doesn't register keyboard input
• Fixed: Synchronize with OPML doesn't show or use htmlUrl, causing channel <link> to be left empty
• Fixed: Synchronize with OPML always considers newsfeed URLs containing & as new
• Fixed: When using XP's classic theme, or when running on a version of Windows prior to XP, the channel bar and the news item list use different scrollbar styles
• Fixed: When creating a new channel group, the OPML URL is always set to the same URL as the last time the dialog was shown, regardless of whether a URL is in the clipboard
• Fixed: Auto-discovery shows incorrect newsfeed URL when browsing pages which contain Google AdSense ads
• Fixed: Channel properties shows overlapped text on large font displays
• Fixed: Internally, FeedDemon sets isPermaLink to false when it's missing from a guid tag, but the RSS 2.0 spec states that it should default to true.
• Fixed: Deleting a channel group fails with read-only OPML files
• Fixed: Resizing main window causes browser splitter to jump to right side
• Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't restore from a minimized window when called by another application
• Fixed: News item sort order not retained

Known Issues