FeedDemon 1.0 Beta 5 Release Notes
August 27, 2003
Additions, Changes and Fixes Since Beta 4
Additions
- "Headlines" newspaper style, which shows only news item headlines (ie: no descriptions) when a channel or group newspaper is displayed
- News grid now informs when all news items are hidden (either by a filter or by selecting "Hide read news items")
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Added "single key reading skips to next unread item" to options. This replaces the default Ctrl+Space shortcut for navigating to the
next unread item.
- When a a news item with an
<enclosure> is selected, a link to the enclosure's URL is shown in the preview
Changes
- Simplified Options dialog by moving several items to separate dialogs. This change may require you to re-enter your proxy information.
- Shortcut for closing active browser tab changed to Ctrl+F4, added Ctrl+Alt+W shortcut to close inactive tabs
- Info balloon now fades in and out on Windows 2000 and XP
Fixes
- FeedDemon fails to download AOL Journal feeds due to multiple redirects
- Margin beside (or beneath) preview pane
- Unnecessary updating when using space bar to navigate news items
- Last option when creating listing reads "optChanSrc_Group"
- "Manage Channel Groups" doesn't immediately detect whether <shift> is down
- Welcome wizard doesn't warn when overwriting existing groups with the default ones
- News item dates in preview don't reflect date/time format for current locale
- Deleting or renaming a watch or news bin doesn't delete the automatic backup file (.BAK)
- Incorrect navigation after clicking back button on New Channel dialog when adding a channel from an existing group
- Crash when using Ctrl+Space to navigate collapsed groups
- Access violation when closing FeedDemon if info balloon was previously closed with a click
- Clicking the active channel in the channel bar doesn't reload channel newspaper if the grouo newspaper was just shown
Known Issues
- There is currently no help available for FeedDemon
Minimum System Requirements
- 300MHz PC running Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or 2003
- Internet Explorer 6
- 64MB RAM