FeedDemon™ 1.10 RC5a Release Notes

Changes in RC5a

• Added: support for XP themes in the browser (ie: themed buttons)
• Added: Google Groups search added to web search toolbar
• Changed: BlogThis applications are now sorted by name
• Fixed: CRC error after installing

Changes in RC5

• Added: Web search added to browser toolbar
• Added: The "Group By" selection now enables grouping news items by title. Items with the same title, or items with the same title preceeded by RE:, are grouped together. Use this along with the new "Forum" style when browsing feeds generated from newsgroups or online forums.
• Added: Support for IE's form auto-completion inside FeedDemon's browser
• Added: Shift+Ctrl+H shortcut for "hide read news items." Note that you'll need to assign this shortcut yourself if you previously customized FeedDemon's shortcuts.
• Added: Support for XP SP2's local machine zone lockdown
• Added: FeedDemon's popup blocker can now be overridden by holding down <Ctrl>
• Added: Double-clicking a news item now browses to its link. If you have "Open external links in default browser" selected, this will launch the page in your default browser, otherwise it will show in FeedDemon. If <Ctrl> is held down, the opposite will occur.
• Changed: When displaying a link in the external browser, FeedDemon now attempts to open a new browser window (or a new tab if you're using Opera) instead of reusing an existing one. If you're using Firefox, you'll need the Tabbrowser Extensions to enable this to open in a new tab rather than a new window
• Changed: Rearranged browser-related toolbuttons to accomodate new "Web Search"
• Changed: Removed "View address bar" (address bar is now always visible)
• Changed: In previous releases the newspaper filter would be hidden when not applicable, but now it's simply disabled
• Changed: The "Mega" styles from RC4 now sort by date rather than by title
• Fixed: Garbage in status bar and other UI elements on Japanese Windows

What's New in FeedDemon 1.10

• Added: Support for Atom 0.3 feeds
• Added: "Update All Channel Groups" (Shift+Ctrl+F5) added to Tools > Update menu
• 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: Web search added to browser toolbar
• Added: Generic "Date" column to news item list, which contains pubDate if it exists, received date otherwise. This new column is the only date column shown by default - both the "received" and "published" columns are hidden. This also affects the default sorting and grouping (both are now set to the generic date), which may change how you're used to seeing news items sorted.
• Added: The "Group By" selection now enables grouping news items by title. Items with the same title, or items with the same title preceeded by RE:, are grouped together. Use this along with the new "Forum" style when browsing feeds generated from newsgroups or online forums.
• Added: Support for IE's form auto-completion inside FeedDemon's browser
• Added: Shift+Ctrl+H shortcut for "hide read news items." Note that you'll need to assign this shortcut yourself if you previously customized FeedDemon's shortcuts.
• Added: "Match all keywords" option added to watches. When enabled, only news items containing all keywords will be matched.
• Added: After creating a watch channel, you are now asked if you'd like to run the watch on existing news items
• Added: Support for the "feed URI scheme" (feed:// protocol). 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: Double-clicking a news item now browses to its link. If you have "Open external links in default browser" selected, this will launch the page in your default browser, otherwise it will show in FeedDemon. If <Ctrl> is held down, the opposite will occur.
• Added: "Forum" newspaper style
• Added: "Mega" newspaper styles (3)
• Added: "Popbox" newspaper styles (2)
• Added: "Nightfall" newspaper style
• Added: "Manage cache" added to File menu, which enables moving FeedDemon's cache folder
• Added: Support for XP SP2's local machine zone lockdown
• 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: Drag-and-drop reordering of channel bar groups
• Added: Desktop alert can now be dragged
• 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: FeedDemon's popup blocker can now be overridden by holding down <Ctrl>
• Added: Support for BlogJet and BlogWizard as "BlogThis" tools
• Added: Timeout setting added to connection options
• Added: "Import OPML File" added to File menu (this was possible in 1.0, but wasn't explicit)

• Changed: The default newspaper filter is now "Unread News" instead of "Today's News"
• Changed: The default value for automatically marking items as read has changed from five seconds to three seconds
• Changed: The cleanup wizard now remembers your selections
• Changed: Hiding the filter bar now removes the keyword filter
• Changed: The max # of channels per group has been increased from 500 to 999
• Changed: Rearranged browser-related toolbuttons to accomodate new "Web Search"
• Changed: Removed "View address bar" (address bar is now always visible)
• Changed: In previous releases the newspaper filter would be hidden when not applicable, but now it's simply disabled
• 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
• Changed: The collapsed/expanded state of channel bar groups is now retained
• 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: "CDATA error" in newspaper with feeds containing a null (hex 00) character
• Fixed: EOF error when showing newspaper if cache folder contains a single quote or ampersand
• Fixed: News item sort order not retained
• Fixed: Auto-discovery shows incorrect newsfeed URL when browsing pages which contain Google AdSense ads
• Fixed: Local feeds are always re-parsed even when they haven't been modified since the last update
• Fixed: If a channel is deleted, the summary will contain a "ghost" of that channel if FeedDemon is abnormally shutdown
• Fixed: Read items sporadically being marked as unread
• Fixed: Double-clicking a news item when the preview is hidden doesn't re-display the preview
• Fixed: Newspaper filter dropdown doesn't appear after moving cache to a UNC folder
• 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
• Fixed: FeedDemon fails to detect the <title> in OPML files whose titles are contained in CDATA sections
• Fixed: Favorites menu incorrectly draws items containing an ampersand
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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: Channel properties shows overlapped text on large font displays
• Fixed: Deleting a channel group fails with read-only OPML files
• Fixed: Resizing main window causes browser splitter to jump to right side
• Fixed: Garbage in status bar and other UI elements on Japanese Windows
• Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't restore from a minimized window when called by another application

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