FeedDemon™ 2.0 Release Notes

Changes in FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 3 (Build 2.0.0.15)

Added: "Activation wizard" now appears at startup until FeedDemon has been activated. Note: this feature is still a work-in-progress, so please forgive any typos or other problems with the wording used in the wizard. Also, the ability to purchase FeedDemon through the wizard has been disabled since this is still a beta release.
Added: "Polling frequency" added to synchronization options (53063)
Added: Surfer newspaper can now show just headlines
Added: "Export feeds" enables exporting a specific folder (53003)
Added: Clicking the header above the news item list shows the newspaper for the active feed
Added: "Unread folder view"
Added: The cleanup wizard has been redesigned and now enables choosing a max # of items.
Added: Items removed by the cleanup wizard won't return if they still exist in the feed (provided that each item has a pubDate).
Added: Every 30 days the subscription overview includes a reminder to run the cleanup wizard.
Added: Increased performance throughout

Changed: Right-clicking no longer makes a feed or folder "active"
Changed: The option "Spacebar navigates to next unread item" has been added back
Changed: The option to always browse directly to an item's link has been returned (53313)
Changed: The option to browse directly to an item's link when its description is empty has been returned (53311)
Changed: FeedDemon now automatically increases a feed's auto-purge setting when more items exist in the actual feed than are allowed by the auto-purge setting (28776)
Changed: The auto-discovered feed list is now populated before the images in the page have loaded (53254)
Changed: FeedStation is now always installed in a separate folder (53050)
Changed: The option to show a subscription overview for folders has been dropped

Fixed: Timed desktop alert doesn't combine multiple alerts for the same feed
Fixed: FeedDemon hangs when using Ctrl+Space to find next unread item and only one unread item exists
Fixed: Folders don't re-sort after a folder is renamed (53098)
Fixed: Newspaper doesn't always remove JavaScript that contains HTML in strings
Fixed: Titles containing entities continue to display incorrectly in the news item list (53045)
Fixed: Unicode characters display incorrectly in caption above news item list
Fixed: Incorrect positioning of translator credit on "About" dialog
Fixed: Duplication of first item when an item is deleted from the news item list (53234)
Fixed: FeedStation doesn't use shell dialog font
Fixed: Source element displays incorrectly when title contains HTML (53093)
Fixed: Clicking on a feed in the subscription overview doesn't scroll folder tree to display feed if it's in an expanded folder (53064)
Fixed: FeedDemon fails to reflect changes to items with GUIDs
Fixed: Selecting subscriptions overview via toolbar or keyboard leaves feed selected (53388)
Fixed: FeedDemon ignores "Exclude this feed from all watches" when running a watch on all feeds (53387)

Changes in FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 2

Added: When synched feeds exist in your subscriptions, "Update all feeds" now always calls NewsGator Online first to determine which feeds have new articles. This significantly reduces the time it takes to update all of your feeds (assuming their synched), since only changed feeds are updated
Added: FeedDemon now supports drag-and-drop of multiple feeds to different folders
Added: Next folder (Ctrl+G) and Previous folder (Shift+Ctrl+G) returned
Added: Support for IE7's tabbed browsing shortcuts and context menu items
Added: When a folder newspaper is grouped by feed, individual feeds may now be marked as read (51221)
Added: "Send To" link in Surfer style - includes Email and del.icio.us actions from previous version
Added: Desktop alert can now be configured for timed display so it "bundles" new item alerts and only displays after a certain number of minutes. In other words, if you're subscribed to a lot of feeds, you no longer have to be interrupted by an alert every few minutes :)
Added: "Copy" item added to feed's context menu
Added: "Import the Windows Common Feed List" added to Import wizard (requires IE7 or Vista)
Added: "Auto-detect proxy configuration" added to FeedStation's proxy settings
Added: "Locate downloaded file" added to FeedStation's context menu (31468)
Added: "Feed Properties" now includes a separate tab for notes about the feed
Added: Items may now be deleted from the newspaper view
Added: Significant performance improvements when news item list (middle pane) is kept hidden
Added: Significant performance improvements when displaying filtered newspaper of feeds with a large number of posts

Changed: The "retrieve only unread items in synchronized feeds" option has been dropped
Changed: Clicking [More] after an excerpted item now automatically marks the item as read
Changed: Auto-discovered feeds icon moved from status bar to browser toolbar, and now shows only feeds detected in the current web page
Changed: Synched feeds are now updated based on when NewsGator Online discovers new content (rather than based on their auto-update setting)
Changed: The newspaper no longer automatically reloads when new items are received
Changed: The default 'auto-purge' setting has been changed from 200 to 100
Changed: The "New Keyword Subscription" feature has been integrated into the main "New Subscription" dialog
Changed: The "Find new feeds" feature of the subscription wizard now orders results by the number of subscribers in NewsGator Online
Changed: FeedDemon's search definitions now have the extension FDSRCH2 and use the OpenSearch description format
Changed: "Maximize browser" has been renamed "Show News Items" (52966 - 2.0.0.14)
Changed: Removed animation of system tray icon (2.0.0.14)

Fixed: Numerous sync-related bugs
Fixed: "Open in new window" doesn't honor the "Load new tabs in background" setting (51354)
Fixed: If a feed is marked as read by clicking the last unread item, it's not removed from "Unread feed view" when navigating to the next feed
Fixed: Newspaper style not correctly applied at the folder level (51435)
Fixed: "Up one level" shows the folder newspaper but leaves the feed selected (51437)
Fixed: "Shift" is incorrectly read as "Alt" in keyboard shortcut dialog (51436)
Fixed: "actHelpSupportForums" item in keyboard shortcut dialog
Fixed: Icon shadows in the subscription list are drawn incorrectly on Windows 98
Fixed: FeedStation's maximize window button is disabled (51558)
Fixed: Next/previous news item causes endless loop when news item list not displayed (51506)
Fixed: "Open in new window" leaves empty tab when used with fdaction: URL (51528)
Fixed: Statistics on feed properties clipped when using large fonts (51530)
Fixed: Marking a feed as read from the newspaper doesn't affect the news item list (51577)
Fixed: Wasted space to the right of the search address bar (51567)
Fixed: FeedDemon minimizes to tray instead of closing after cache folder is changed (51612)
Fixed: NewsGator login dialog provides no information on getting free account (51500)
Fixed: Clicking the envelope on an unread item in the news item list doesn't mark item as read when auto-read is enabled(51569)
Fixed: Feed and news item links in "Surfer" style don't play nice (51529)
Fixed: Clicking search results in News Item List does nothing (51921)
Fixed: OPML import handles nested folders incorrectly
Fixed: Can't create keyword subscription when no folder is considered "active"
Fixed: Color changes made on Appearance tab in options aren't reflected in newspaper after hitting Apply button
Fixed: Feeds moved from "My Feeds" in NG Online aren't reflected in FeedDemon (52051)
Fixed: Drag-and-dropping a feed to a new folder expands the destination folder
Fixed: Redraw problems when collapsing folders (51375)
Fixed: Drag-and-drop of multiple items from news item list to news bin only adds first item (52868)
Fixed: Subscription tree doesn't respond to mouse wheel unless it has the focus (51933)
Fixed: Next/previous item do nothing when no feed selected (51398)
Fixed: Disabled IE Add-ons are not disabled in FeedDemon (52302)
Fixed: Folder list doesn't scroll when dragging feeds to new folder (52308)
Fixed: Feed unread count sometimes appears flushed to the right of the subscription tree
Fixed: Extra whitespace in feed is displayed incorrectly in news item list (52563)
Fixed: Web search submitted automatically after search field loses focus (52670)
Fixed: Unsubscribe confirmation dialog doesn't display Unicode characters correctly
Fixed: Updating a feed causes the first grouped item in the news item list to marked as read (51628)
Fixed: When grouping in the news item list is set to "(none)" and "Hide read items" is enabled, switching between feeds automatically marks the first item as read (51039)
Fixed: FeedStation fails to save its queue when Windows shuts down
Fixed: FeedStation's "Resync to media device" menu item operates only on first selected item (52778)
Fixed: Sort indicators missing from FeedStation's queue (51555)
Fixed: Deleting large number of items from the news item list is extremely slow (2.0.0.13)
Fixed: FeedDemon fails to detect when MSXML is incorrectly installed, resulting in numerous errors at startup (2.0.0.13)
Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts to navigate feeds sometimes cause multiple feeds to be selected (52944 - 2.0.0.13)
Fixed: Changes to newspaper filter aren't reflected in filter toolbutton (53001 - 2.0.0.14
Fixed: Can't use Ctrl+C to copy URL of synched feed from feed properties dialog (52999 - 2.0.0.14
Fixed: Startup wizard doesn't display, so there's no way to import from FD1.5 (2.0.0.14)

Changes in FeedDemon 2.0

Added: Subscriptions are now shown in single-level treeview rather than in a dropdown list
Added: "Subscriptions" newspaper view shows overview of all subscriptions. Similar views are available for "Watches" and "News Bins"
Added: News Bin popup menu now includes "Create News Bin" item
Added: Improved searching within subscriptions. Examples:
- Mozilla Firefox = items containing the words Mozilla and Firefox
- Mozilla -Firefox = items containing the word Mozilla but not Firefox
- "Mozilla Firefox" = items containing the exact phrase Mozilla Firefox
Added: "Find Feeds" has been integrated into the subscription wizard
Added: "Unread feed view" and "Flagged feed view"
Added: Grouping by title now available in surfer newspaper

Changed: Significantly simplified UI by re-organizing toolbars, menus and options
Changed: News item list is now hidden by default
Changed: "Validate Feed" now uses the W3C Feed Validation Service
Changed: Performance improvements in newspaper rendering
Changed: Performance improvements when searching in subscriptions
Changed: Feed title is now shortened so that unread count isn't scrolled (49649)

Fixed: Changing a feed's title in the subscription wizard adds it to NewsGator using its original title
Fixed: Can't check checkboxes in import feeds dialog when scrolled horizontally (49791)
Fixed: Newspaper doesn't expand relative URLs in feed image (49800)
Fixed: Problems creating folder names with Unicode characters (32698)

Known Issues

Newspaper styles other than the default "Surfer" style are incomplete
Activation wizard is incomplete

Changes in FeedDemon 1.6 RC2

Added: Find Feeds - online keyword search for new feeds
Added: Timed synchronization now occurs in the background without requiring the UI to be locked by the "Synchronization" dialog. Note, however, that the dialog may appear when synchronization occurs before specific actions (such as deleting a synchronized folder or manually updating feeds) (37848)
Added: The feed reports now include two new Attention reports, which are similar to the "Most/Least Visited" reports except that feed ranking is determined by several criteria other than simply feed clicks.
Added: More information added to "Statistics" page in feed properties dialog
Added: "Export Last Report to OPML" added to Tools | Feed Reports menu
Added: "Prince" newspaper style now has "Add to news bin" icon
Added: Options|Sounds now includes the option to play a sound when the desktop alert is shown (disabled by default)
Added: More informative display of activation problems
Added: Improved OPML export based on tests with the OPML Validator beta
Added: "Manage Subscriptions" now enables selecting multiple folders for deletion (39702)
Added: The first time FeedDemon is run after installation, before loading your subscriptions it makes a backup named Subscriptions.opml.prev 1.6.0.11
Added: Before automatically updating feeds, FeedDemon first connects to NewsGator's server to determine which synched feeds (if any) have changed, so that only ones that have changed are retrieved (note that this is skipped if you aren't subscribed to any synched feeds) 1.6.0.11

Changed: FeedDemon now downloads your NewsGator Online subscriptions at startup before updating, and if any changes are found it asks whether to apply them to FeedDemon. Note that the following changes are detected:
- Deleted feeds
- Renamed feeds
- Moved feeds
- Deleted folders
- Renamed folders
This feature may be disabled by clicking the "Synchronization" button in FeedDemon's options and disabling the "Check for subscription changes at startup" option.
Changed: Converting a synched folder to a private one now always removes the folder from NewsGator Online
Changed: The "Feed Defaults" button has been removed from options now that feed defaults are defined at the folder level
Changed: Properties set at the folder level are now inherited by feeds that are later added to that folder. Note, however, the folder properties defined prior to this release will not be inherited, so you may need to redefine the folder properties. (38473)
Changed: When "Create News Bin" is selected from the "Copy to News Bin" menu item, the selected post (or URL) is automatically added to the new news bin
Changed: Simplified the news item context menu by moving several actions to a "Send To" submenu
Changed: Newspaper styles now use special "fdaction:" protocol for downloading enclosures - this won't impact end users, but it may impact third-party newspaper styles
Changed: Simplified "Manage Subscriptions" by removing statistics tab and no longer showing the state (unread/flagged coloring) of each feed and folder
Changed: After a folder is deleted, the next folder is made active
Changed: UFT8 byte-order-mark no longer added to exported OPML
Changed: "Folder Properties" and "Add Folder" now use a single checkbox to toggle synchronization 1.6.0.11

Fixed: Read/unread state not being synched when marking individual items as read using Ctrl+Q (33842)
Fixed: Authenticated feeds can't be synchronized with NewsGator Online (36611)
Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't ask for your correct login when importing OPML from Bloglines with an incorrect login (39500)
Fixed: Performance problems when displaying very large news items which contain hundreds of HTML tags
Fixed: Disabled feeds aren't grayed out in "Manage Subscriptions" (37303)
Fixed: Folders renamed in NewsGator Online aren't renamed in FeedDemon
Fixed: FeedDemon fails to start when attempting to parse an invalid FDSRCH file
Fixed: Feed reports don't correctly display Unicode characters in feed titles
Fixed: "Manage Subscriptions" is very slow when displaying a folder containing a large number of feeds
Fixed: Empty synched folders don't get updated with feeds added in NewsGator Online (37454)
Fixed: Can't subscribe to feeds containing undefined XML namespaces
Fixed: "Add Subscription" wizard doesn't auto-populate URL when clipboard contains a feed: URL (39698)
Fixed: Feed titles wrap in feed bar hints
Fixed: Problems displaying Windows-1255 feeds
Fixed: Exception when unsubscribing after clicking feed in report (38254)
Fixed: Untranslated text on feed login dialog when first login attempt fails (37778)
Fixed: Sporadic exception when closing if desktop alert is still visible and is fading
Fixed: Ampersands show as accelerators in status bar text
Fixed: Synchronization options dialog doesn't correctly validate changes to login
Fixed: Toolbar doesn't resize correctly if customized to show a single item (39228)
Fixed: Tray icon reset to show no unread items when switching feeds/folders regardless if doing so marked anything as read
Fixed: Folder Properties dialog doesn't revert back to private if unable to convert folder to sync (39299)
Fixed: Display issues with non-UTF8 feeds 1.6.0.9
Fixed: New NewsGator Online feeds not always detected at startup 1.6.0.9
Fixed: Enclosure URLs are URLEncoded in newspaper output 1.6.0.9
Fixed: Clicking "Hide read news items" marks topmost item as read when "Mark news item as read" is set to zero seconds 1.6.0.9
Fixed: Duplicate folders when an existing private folder has the same name as one added through NewsGator Online 1.6.0.10
Fixed: Activation fails when FeedDemon started while offline (41962) 1.6.0.11
Fixed: Converting a folder to private then back to synchronized may cause the "Subscription Changes" to think its feeds have been moved 1.6.0.11
Fixed: Clicking "Open in new tab" newspaper icon opens in external browser when "Open external links in default browser" is enabled (41244) 1.6.0.11
Fixed: If number of flagged posts equals the number set in auto-purge, newer posts aren't displayed (41998) 1.6.0.11
Fixed: Problems adding multiple GMail feeds (42230) 1.6.0.11
Fixed: "Find Feeds" includes empty home page links 1.6.0.11

Changes in FeedDemon 1.6 RC1

Added: Easter egg (happy hunting!)
Added: FeedDemon now remembers the login for secure feeds between sessions, so you're no longer prompted every time you update a secure feed. Note that you can edit stored logins by clicking the "Passwords" button in FeedDemon's options.
Added: Numerous UI tweaks and performance improvements
Added: At startup, FeedDemon now checks for feeds in synched folders that were removed from NewsGator Online, and asks whether to delete or disable them in FeedDemon. This feature may be disabled by clicking the "Synchronization" button in FeedDemon's options and unchecking "Check for subscription changes in synchronized folders at startup."
Added: Quick toolbar customization by clicking the arrow at the far right of each toolbar (this replaces the "undocumented" toolbar customization from earlier versions)
Added: "Reports" added to Tools menu, which provides the following feed-related reports:
- "Most Visited" feeds
- "Least Visited" feeds
- "Dinosaurs" - the feeds that haven't had new posts in the longest time (hat tip to Brent Simmons for the name)
Reports show the top 10 feeds by default, but this can be changed on the Newspaper page in FeedDemon's options. Note that most/least visited information wasn't collected prior to this release, so you'll start with low counts.
Added: "Automatic unsubscribe" added to Advanced page in feed properties - enables automatically unsubscribing from feeds that haven't updated within a certain number of days (useful for comment feeds and other short-term subscriptions)
Added: "Tag Subscriptions" (this was previously available within the "Search Feed" feature)
Added: New "Prince" newspaper style - originally designed for offline speed reading, but also works well online (I use this as my default style now)
Added: New "Photo Strip" newspaper style - great for Flickr feeds (such as this one)
Added: Watches now support negative keywords, enabling the exclusion of items that contain a specific word
Added: "Exclude from watches" added to feed properties
Added: "Rerun watch" added to watch context menu
Added: Separate color for unread items
Added: Toolbutton icons for the following actions:
- Next News Item
- Next Unread News Item
- Previous News Item
- Previous Unread News Item
- Next Feed
- Next Unread Feed
- Previous Feed
- Previous Unread Feed
- Previous Unread Folder
Added: "Remember tabs between sessions" added to browsing options (note: applies only to external URLs - newspapers won't be retained)
Added: Options menu
Added: "Post to del.icio.us" added to news item context menu
Added: Auto-discovery of clicked hyperlinks is skipped when the Ctrl key is pressed
Added: Secure icon shown in bottom left of status bar when browsing HTTPS
Added: "Don't export secure feeds" option added to export dialog
Added: The "Statistics" page in the feed properties dialog now enables showing FeedBurner statistics for FeedBurner feeds (note that the feed's author must have enabled FeedBurner's "Awareness API access" feature for this to work)
Added: "Show Link in External Browser" added to news item context menu (31772)
Added: Desktop alert options now available from system tray icon's context menu (31657)
Added: "Internet Options" added to options menu

Changed: All previous/next actions (previous feed, next feed, etc.) now skip to the next/previous folder (31776)
Changed: "Search Feeds" are now called "Keyword Subscriptions"
Changed: The dialog that appears when you try to subscribe to a feed you're already subscribed to now shows the name of the existing folder (32961)
Changed: When updating all folders, the active folder is now updated first (27542)
Changed: Options | Confirmations now has separate checkboxes for "Unsubscribe from feed" and "Delete watch or news bin"
Changed: FDLANG files downloaded within FeedDemon are no longer automatically applied
Changed: NewsGator icon no longer overlaid on feeds in synched folders

Fixed: Tray icon doesn't reflect when unread count changes (27850)
Fixed: Small (28 byte) memory leak with each browser tab
Fixed: Long browser tab captions not always truncated
Fixed: Plus/minus icons missing from news item list when using "Office 11" UI style (34953)
Fixed: Auto-purge removes the number of items set instead of retaining (34719)
Fixed: Cache folder isn't recreated if renamed or deleted outside of FeedDemon (35822)
Fixed: Sort order isn't retained in the news item grid (33171)
Fixed: When activation fails due to proxy failure, the error dialog doesn't include the ability change FeedDemon's proxy settings (32666)
Fixed: Corrupt news bin or watch prevents FeedDemon from starting normally (35937)
Fixed: Feed images in "Surfer" style overlap text (32700)
Fixed: Unclosed centered elements in news items affect subsequent items in most newspaper styles (32700)
Fixed: User profiles with apostrophe in the name cause FD to fail to render newspapers (36213)
Fixed: Feed containing unescaped adjacent > and < characters cause 100% CPU usage
Fixed: When a filter results in one item in the news item list, selecting it doesn't display it in the newspaper (35674)
Fixed: Keyboard accelerator underlines missing from many menu items (27000)
Fixed: NewsGator smart feeds can't be added to private folders (25568)
Fixed: Unsupported embedded Mozilla displays "fdaction is not a registered protocol" message when clicking newspaper action links
Fixed: Browser address history doesn't include "[Clear this list]" (36395)
Fixed: External FDSRCH files fail to download

Changes in FeedDemon 1.6 Beta 4

Changed: Long titles in browser tabs are now truncated
Changed: Feeds are no longer disabled at startup if FeedDemon detects that they were removed from NewsGator Online. Note, however, that a feed will still be disabled if the server returns HTTP status 410 ("gone") when FeedDemon attempts to update the feed (for synched folders, this should only happen if the feed has been removed from the folder in NewsGator Online)
Fixed: Before updating a single feed, FeedDemon doesn't synchronize changes in that feed with NewsGator Online
Fixed: "Synchronize" dialog appears over other applications (31931)
Fixed: Flagged posts are removed when auto-purging feeds (32002)
Fixed: FeedDemon should sync deleted feeds with NGOS before adding a new subscription (32040)
Fixed: Feeds imported into an existing synchronized folder aren't synchronized
Fixed: News Item list should collapse entries when no description is available (32288)
Fixed: Pressing keyboard shortcut for "Next Unread Folder" while the folder selection is dropped down jumps forward a folder then back (32197)
Fixed: Welcome wizard shows empty subscriptions list when default selection is "I'm new at this, so recommend some feeds"

Changes in FeedDemon 1.6 Beta 3a

Added: Welcome wizard now enables importing initial subscriptions from an OPML file (27622)
Added: "Forgot your password?" link added to welcome wizard (28705)
Added: Import dialog now enables adding from recommended feeds
Changed: Watch keyword entry field now receives focus after clicking "Add" (31615)
Fixed: WinInet's caching of authentication information makes it impossible to change your login without restarting
Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't always synchronize with NewsGator Online before updating all feeds
Fixed: New locations aren't automatically created
Fixed: Error trying to print browser immediately after FeedDemon starts
Fixed: "Hide Read News Items" function in toolbar marks the first unread item as read
Fixed: News item and browser panes don't retain their size (31787)
Fixed: Welcome dialog text wraps on large fonts displays
Fixed: Tray icon menu shows two cancel items
Fixed: Closing the Manage Subscriptions dialog causes newspaper to reload (31893)
Fixed: Links in Baltimore Sun feeds cause FeedDemon's subscribe dialog to appear (31790)

Changes in FeedDemon 1.6 Beta 3

Added: Renaming a synchronized feed now also renames the feed in NewsGator Online
Added: Synchronization button added to options, which enables changing your NewsGator Online login and includes these new options:
- Retrieve only unread items in synchronized folders
- Check for subscription changes in synchronized folders at startup
- Show SOAP error messages (for debugging only)
Added: "Show newspaper when folder changes" added to Newspaper page in options
Added: "Automatically download enclosures" added to folder properties
Added: "Bypass proxy server for local addresses" checkbox added to connection settings
Added: FeedDemon now checks your feed cache for errors when it detects that it wasn't shutdown correctly (30509)
Added: Items in most newspapers now include the titles of their source feed
Added: "Copy to news bin" added to Expando newspaper style
Added: "Next Unread Folder" added to View menu
Added: "Print" added to Browse menu
Added: "Mark all watches or news bins as read" added to Options | Confirmations
Added: "Update folder" item added to tray icon's context menu
Added: The dialog displayed after clicking "NewsGator Login" in FeedDemon's options now includes a list of existing locations
Added: "Enable this feed" added to feed properties, which may be used to turn off updating of a feed or re-enable a feed that was disabled during a previous update
Added: Welcome dialog enables choosing an existing location
Added: When importing feeds from NewsGator Online, feeds that are in the root "My Feeds" folder are imported into a separate "[My Feeds]" folder

Changed: Welcome wizard redesigned to enable importing feeds from NewsGator Online (note that this option won't appear if you already have subscriptions in FeedDemon 1.6)
Changed: The tutorial has been separated from the welcome wizard
Changed: Synchronization now occurs at timed intervals rather than when switching between synchronized folders, which significantly improves performance when changing folders
Changed: In previous versions, enlarging the main window would widen the news item list and leave the browser size the same. This has been reversed so that the browser now resizes.
Changed: Keyboard shortcut for "Close Browser Tab" changed from Ctrl+F4 to Ctrl+W
Changed: HTML is now stripped from item titles in the newspaper
Changed: When importing from NewsGator Online, feeds are always added to the folders defined in your NGO subscriptions
Changed: After converting a synchronized folder to a private one, you're now prompted whether to remove the folder from NewsGator Online

Fixed: Slow performance when descriptions are shown in the news item list
Fixed: Feed, news bin and watch titles don't accept Unicode characters
Fixed: FeedDemon isn't correctly handling Unicode feed titles when importing subscriptions from NewsGator Online (28858)
Fixed: When converting a folder to synchronize, errors adding individual feeds cause the entire operation to fail
Fixed: News item filter doesn't have "[Clear stored items]" (28712)
Fixed: Clicking news bin icon in newspaper fails if feed not already loaded
Fixed: Newspapers that contain more items than the "Max news items per feed" setting cut off newer items instead of older ones (29072)
Fixed: Items added to watches and news bins don't retain their <source>
Fixed: "This feed's news items have been hidden" message is overlapped by toolbar when toolbar wraps to multiple lines
Fixed: "Manage Subscriptions" doesn't allow sorting by anything except title (28145)
Fixed: Importing feeds into another folder switches to that folder
Fixed: System tray icon disappears after returning from hibernation (28176)
Fixed: Install doesn't create associations (27829)(26289)
Fixed: Ampersands in folder names appear as underscores in feed bar (28498)
Fixed: Can't create a synched folder with an ampersand in its title (28500)(29001)
Fixed: Relative links in images are completed before displaying a newspaper (28677)
Fixed: Welcome dialog doesn't enable configuring proxy settings (28288)
Fixed: Popup windows that resize themselves through scripting sometimes leave a blank browser tab
Fixed: Subscribe dialog doesn't translate URLs with "feed:" protocol (28904)
Fixed: Moving a feed between synched folders doesn't copy it to the destination folder in NewsGator Online (28070)
Fixed: Can't add a feed with the same name as an existing feed even after deleting the original feed (28924)
Fixed: No context menu appears when right-clicking watches or news bins headings in feed bar (29011)
Fixed: System Tray icon indicates unread posts when all posts in all feeds are marked as read (27850)
Fixed: Adding a feed to an NG sync folder while in offline mode throws SOAP error (28774)
Fixed: Ctrl+N and F5 shortcuts intercepted by browser when it has the focus
Fixed: Browser not correctly resized after maximizing browser then closing active tab (29461)
Fixed: Context menu shows "Mark as read" after right-clicking an item that has automatically been marked as read (29468)
Fixed: Incorrect links shown for Atom feeds whose entries use a relative xml:base
Fixed: Failure to connect to SSL-enabled feeds (28950)
Fixed: Delay between the time the animation shown when downloading a feed stops and new items appear in that feed
Fixed: Feeds that are deleted in NGO aren't automatically deleted in FeedDemon (29068)
Fixed: Feed bar doesn't repaint (29458)
Fixed: Double-decoding of short descriptions in Surfer style (29662)
Fixed: Feeds whose update frequency is less than 30 minutes are only updated every 30 minutes
Fixed: Feeds are moved to NewsGator's root folder after converting a folder to private

Changes in FeedDemon 1.6 Beta 2

Added: At startup, FeedDemon now checks NewsGator Online for feeds added to your synched folders
Added: Feed statistics added to "Manage Subscriptions," feed properties and folder properties
Added: Initial support for Atom 1.0
Added: "NewsGator Login" button added to options (enables changing your NewsGator username/password/location)
Added: "Sort Order" added to Surfer newspaper style (26147)
Added: Double-clicking a feed or folder in "Manage Subscriptions" shows the properties dialog
Added: "Support Forums" and "NewsGator Online" added to help menu
Changed: "Merge Subscriptions" has been dropped. To import your NewsGator Online subscriptions, select File | Import Feeds
Changed: Previous versions of FeedDemon enabled having multiple feeds with the same title in different folders (groups), but this is no longer permitted. My apologies if you're affected by this change - I know some FeedDemon customers liked this feature - but I'm afraid the change was necessary. I believe most (but not all) FeedDemon users who had the same feed in multiple groups did so due to previous versions being limited to updating only feeds in the active group, so hopefully this change won't have a huge impact now that all feeds in all folders are updated. Note that to support this change, FeedDemon will rename duplicate feeds the first time that beta 2 is run.
Changed: "Group By" changed from textbox to dropdown list
Changed: "Import Feeds" has been simplified so that synchronization is automatically decided based upon where you're importing from. Feeds imported from NewsGator Online will sync with NewsGator Online, and feeds imported from Bloglines will sync with Bloglines. Feeds imported from an OPML will only sync with NewsGator Online if they're added to a synched folder.
Changed: "Import Feeds" now always hides feeds that you're already subscribed to
Fixed: Synchronization uses basic rather than digest authentication (27390)
Fixed: Activation problems resulting from mixed case user names
Fixed: Activation problems resulting from serial numbers missing from our database (generally those who ordered via PayPal, or received a free copy from me)
Fixed: Passing empty serial number to subscription signup page disables serial number textbox
Fixed: "Out of memory" error when importing feeds from previous version (25581)
Fixed: News bins can't be renamed (26146)
Fixed: Clicking a feed that appears in multiple folders may cause FeedDemon to switch folders (26516)(26517)
Fixed: News bin menu in Surfer newspaper fails to add description
Fixed: Long titles overlap in Surfer style (25567)
Fixed: Untranslated text appears on watch dialog when called multiple times in rapid succession
Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't display content:encoded descriptions (26593)
Fixed: Author name not copied to news bin (26600)
Fixed: Ampersands in cache folder result in missing style images (26607)
Fixed: Duplication of items that have whitespace around their titles
Fixed: FeedDemon fails to import watches with & in keywords (26716)
Fixed: Items marked as read in NewsGator Online don't appear read in FeedDemon
Fixed: Firefox stays loaded after being called from FeedDemon, even when closed by the user (26672)
Fixed: Feed image not retained
Fixed: Item category not retained
Fixed: Tabbed browser shows underscores for ampersands in tab caption
Fixed: Folder newspaper doesn't sort feeds by their titles
Fixed: "Import Feeds" gives no indication of success
Fixed: Crash when returning from hibernation (26827)
Fixed: Importing matches on feed title rather then URL (26841)
Fixed: FeedDemon occasionally "forgets" NG credentials and prompts for them again (26863)
Fixed: Filter search box disappears if news item list is too narrow (26842)
Fixed: Import dialog overlaps completion message after importing previous subscriptions (26998)
Fixed: Windows can't shutdown when "minimize to system tray instead of closing" is enabled (27117)
Fixed: Feed bar doesn't redraw after returning from XP login or screensaver (27132)

Changes in FeedDemon 1.6 Beta 1

Added: Significantly improved synchronization with NewsGator Online (surprise!), including synching of read/unread/deleted items. To configure synching on a per-folder basis, select Edit | Folder Properties. You can also merge your FeedDemon and NewsGator Online subscriptions by choosing File | Merge Subscriptions.
Added: "Updating" page added to FeedDemon's options, which enables choosing whether feeds in all folders or just the active folder should be updated in the background
Added: Folders with unread items are shown in bold in the folder dropdown
Added: "Import Feeds" which enables importing OPML from NewsGator, Bloglines or a URL, and includes the ability to create separate folders in FeedDemon from folders in the imported OPML
Added: "Export Feeds" which combines previous OPML/RSS exporting into a single dialog
Added: "Surfer" newspaper style
Added: "Folder Properties" dialog which enables changing settings for all feeds in a specific folder
Added: Redesigned "Expando" newspaper style
Added: "Newspaper" added to Watches and News Bins
Added: "Copy to News Bin" added to favorites menu above the browser, which adds the URL being browsed to the selected news bin
Added: "Browse Related Articles" added to news item list context menu
Added: "Last 48 hours" added to newspaper filters
Added: "Reset feed URL on permanent redirect" checkbox added to connection settings
Added: "Minimize to system tray" added to FeedDemon's options
Added: "Mark all watches as read" and "Mark all news bins as read" added under Edit > Mark As Read
Added: Sound options now includes "Item added to news bin" (default is off)
Added: Support for Atom 0.8, including Atom 0.8 enclosures
Added: Auto-discovery menu now includes title (if it exists)
Added: Watches now have an "auto-purge" setting (the default is 300 items)
Added: Individual watches may be disabled
Added: "User interface style" added to Options | Appearance
Added: Drag-and-drop arrangement of browser tabs

Changed: "Channels" have been renamed "Feeds" and "Channel Groups" have been renamed "Folders" for consistency with other RSS readers
Changed: "New Channel" wizard has been replaced with simpler "Subscribe" wizard
Changed: The "Synchronized Channel Group" feature has been dropped due to the changes in NewsGator synchronization. Note that subscribing through Bloglines is still possible through the "Import Feeds" feature.
Changed: The context menu for the feed bar now shows "Mark folder as read," "Mark all watches as read" or "Mark all news bins as read" depending on context
Changed: Auto-discovery icon in status bar replaced with an RSS button (hat tip to Brent Simmons)
Changed: Changed placement of newspaper filter, style and search toolbar items
Changed: Unsafe (blocked) enclosures may now be downloaded by holding Ctrl while clicking the paper clip icon in the news item list
Changed: Auto-discovery no longer displays feeds that you're subscribed to in inactive folders
Changed: Previous versions displayed a large red "X" for feeds that could not be retrieved (ie: HTTP 404, etc.). This has been changed so that a small red "x" is overlaid on the normal icon.
Changed: When testing newspaper styles with 'NewspaperDebug' enabled, the debug XML output is now formatted for easier reading (note: this may incur a performance hit with newspapers containing a large number of items). Note that the registry key for this setting has been changed to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bradbury\FeedDemon\1.0\EnableNewspaperDebug
Changed: "Default" newspaper style renamed to "Classic"

Fixed: When working offline, clicking a news item that has no description still navigates to the news item's link
Fixed: Exception when switching folders while current folder still updating
Fixed: Double-decoding of specific CDATA descriptions
Fixed: Checkboxes on feed properties dialog cut off before last pixel on some versions of Windows
Fixed: When called multiple times from an external application, FeedDemon's "Add Channel" wizard may not display correctly
Fixed: The following sequence causes the news item list to be hidden: F11, Shift+F11, View > Browser Position > Browser on Right
Fixed: Enclosure URL attributes preceded by line feeds incorrectly parsed (seen with a Virgin Radio podcast feed)
Fixed: Hitting F8 in rapid succession causes "Options" dialog to appear twice, the second time with untranslated text
Fixed: Feeds that have no declared encoding but have a UTF16 BOM won't display
Fixed: Mis-handling of single-quoted attributes when importing OPML
Fixed: Deleted folders sometimes re-appear
Fixed: OPML import skips feeds with encoded angle brackets
Fixed: Favorites menu doesn't reflect changes to the selected language
Fixed: Items deleted from a watch or news bin may re-appear if Windows crashes before FeedDemon is closed
Fixed: Dragging an item over the news bin group in the feed bar doesn't expand it
Fixed: FeedDemon fails to resize the browser when it detects a switch between portrait and landscape mode on a Tablet PC

Changes in FeedStation 1.6

Added: FeedStation now supports authenticated downloads
Added: Support for filename parameter of Content-Disposition header
Added: "ReSync to media device" added to context menu, which enables re-copying a download to your iPod or other media device
Added: Delete key may be used to removed items from the queue (27639)
Added: FeedStation now retains a history of previously downloaded files (note: the number of items retained may be customized on the General page in Options)
Added: FeedStation now displays the date each item was added to the queue (note: items added in the previous release will be set to the current date)
Added: The FeedStation queue can now be sorted by clicking a column header
Added: A red "X" is displayed next to downloaded files that no longer exist
Added: FeedStation now shown in HTTP user agent
Added: FeedStation's error log now includes HTTP status when download fails 1.6.0.11
Added: Video podcasts (m4v/mp4/mov) added to FeedStation's default list of podcast file types
Added: Proxy settings added to FeedStation (38156)

Changed: The default location of the download folder has been changed to My Documents\My FeedStation Podcasts
Changed: The name of the default playlist has been changed to "FeedStation Podcasts"
Changed: FeedStation now adds downloads to the top of the list rather than the bottom
Changed: FeedStation no longer closes iTunes after importing downloaded podcasts

Fixed: FeedStation's scheduled download time doesn't handle 24-hour locales correctly
Fixed: FeedStation fails to rename downloaded enclosure when a redirect is encountered
Fixed: Content-disposition header not supported by FeedStation unless filename is quoted
Fixed: FeedStation sometimes starts queued downloads before the scheduled time
Fixed: FeedStation use the wrong download filename for podcasts hosted by libsyn (26788)
Fixed: FeedStation fails to sync download with mapped media device
Fixed: Incorrect caption on FeedStation's welcome dialog
Fixed: FeedStation beeps whenever a download completes
Fixed: FeedStation fails to add itself to 'App Paths' section of registry (38125)
Fixed: Error when changing FeedStation's download folder to an external/USB drive (42399) 1.6.0.11
Fixed: FeedStation unnecessarily creates download folder

Minimum System Requirements

300MHz PC running Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or 2003
Internet Explorer 6
64MB RAM or OS minimum (whichever is greater)