FeedDemon™ 1.10 RC2

Changes in 1.10 RC2

• Added: "Gray Boxes" newspaper style, which sorts news items by title. IMO, this makes "Group Newspapers" more readable since items aren't grouped by channel.
• Added: Double-clicking a news item browses to its link
• Added: Support for BlogJet as a "BlogThis" tool (requires BlogJet 1.0.0.15 BETA or later)
• Fixed: "CDATA error" in newspaper with feeds containing a null (hex 00) character
• Fixed: Summary element from Atom feeds is ignored when content element not provided
• Fixed: Author element not parsed in Atom feeds
• Fixed: FeedDemon ignores links in Atom feeds which use type="application/xhtml+xml"
• Fixed: Newspaper filter dropdown doesn't appear after moving cache to a UNC folder
• Fixed: Shortcut for "Update all Groups" is lost after closing and restarting FeedDemon
• Fixed: Current news item doesn't appear in browser after clicking splitter to unhide the browser
• Fixed: Search channels extend beyond height of "New Search Channel" dialog
• Fixed: Access violation when clicking newspaper filter selection immediately after typing a URL in the address bar
• Fixed: IntelliPoint 4.x "Scroll one page at a time" (WHEEL_PAGESCROLL) not supported in news item list
• Fixed: Watches fail to treat the | character as a word delimiter when matching whole words only
• Fixed: Channel bar hints show last update date/time as GMT instead of local date/time

Changes in 1.10 RC1

• Added: Shift+Ctrl+F5 added as shortcut for "Update all groups" (note: if you've customized FeedDemon's shortcuts, you'll need to restore the default shortcuts for this to appear.
• Added: Better handling of relative paths in news bin and watch items
• Changed: Hiding the filter bar now removes the keyword filter
• Fixed: FeedDemon fails to detect the <title> in OPML files whose titles are contained in CDATA sections
• Fixed: Favorites menu incorrectly shows items containing an ampersand
• Fixed: Backup of Summary.xml fails
• Fixed: EOF error when showing newspaper if cache folder contains a single quote or ampersand

Changes in 1.10 Beta 3

• Added: "Manage cache" added to File menu, which enables moving FeedDemon's cache folder
• Added: FeedDemon now enables drag-and-drop of URLs onto its main window. If the URL is a newsfeed, then FeedDemon will show the "New Channel" wizard; if it's an OPML file, it will show the "New Group" wizard; otherwise, it will navigate to that URL in the integrated browser.
• Added: "Match all keywords" option added to watches. When enabled, only news items containing all keywords will be matched.
• Changed: The max # of channels per group has been increased from 500 to 999
• Changed: autoUpdate date now stored as GMT instead of local time
• Changed: The desktop alert now fades in faster than it fades out
• Changed: When a channel fails to update due to a connection problem (404, etc.), the error icon is no longer removed after clicking it in the channel bar
• Changed: Pressing Enter while typing keywords into a watch now adds the current entry to the list of keywords
• Fixed: FeedDemon resets the language the first time a new beta is started, but the welcome wizard still shows the previously-selected language
• Fixed: FeedDemon incorrectly handles OPML links which use the feed:// protocol
• Fixed: Hiding browser leaves browser toolbar showing
• Fixed: Feeds with line feeds in their titles can't be added

Changes in 1.10 Beta 2a

• Added: Desktop alert can now be dragged
• Fixed: Back/forward buttons aren't correctly handled with all mouse drivers
• Fixed: Double-clicking system tray icon when alert is showing doesn't bring FeedDemon to the front
• Fixed: Address bar shows incorrect URL after prolonged use with multiple browser tabs
• Fixed: After right-clicking on empty browser tab to show context menu, context menu appears again when left-clicking anywhere else

Changes in 1.10 Beta 2

• Added: Drag-and-drop reordering of channel bar groups
• Added: Search box now remembers last 10 keywords
• Changed: The search box now has a caption
• Changed: The collapsed/expanded state of channel bar groups is now retained
• Fixed: Single key reading with spacebar doesn't work with search results
• Fixed: Items in search results don't show their source channel name in FeedDemon's newspaper
• Fixed: Channel bar context menu doesn't display when clicking a group caption
• Fixed: Title not extracted from entries in Atom feeds
• Fixed: Search box disappears after clicking "Search" button with no search keyword specified
• Fixed: Context menu doesn't appear when right-clicking on search textbox
• Fixed: Group captions in the channel bar always use MS Sans Serif font
• Fixed: Clicking a feed validator link displays the "New Channel" wizard
• Fixed: Refresh toolbutton fails to refresh the browser when viewing an external site

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

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