FeedDemon 2.1 Release Notes

Changes in FeedDemon 2.1 Beta 2a

• Added: Pagination is now supported in FeedDemon's newspapers. The number of items to display per page may be changed on the "Reading" tab in options.
• Added: Ctrl+M shortcut for "Mark page read" and Shift+Ctrl+M shortcut for "Mark all pages as read"
• Added: When summaries (excerpts) are displayed in the Surfer or Blue Vista newspaper styles, a thumbnail is shown next to the post if it contains an image
• Added: "Search Subscriptions" dialog (Tools|Search Subscriptions, or Shift+Ctrl+F)
• Added: Subscription search results are now shown using a different style
• Added: Significant performance boost to searching subscriptions
• Added: Newspapers now highlight keywords in watches and subscription search results (this can be disabled from the Reading page in options)
• Added: "Blue Vista" style has been redesigned to enable quickly toggle between the summary and full content of a post
• Added: Ctrl+A now selects all items in FeedStation's queue
• Added: Enclosures are now shown with "Open" and "Download" links in newspapers
• Added: Smarter detection of clicked feed links
• Added: Options|Appearance now enables changing the newspaper font
• Added: "Sort in reverse" toolbutton (2.1.0.3)
• Added: "Next unread folder" added to View menu (2.1.0.3)
• Added: Confirmation before marking all pages read (2.1.0.3)
• Added: "Configure BlogThis Tools" added to Tools menu (2.1.0.3)
• Changed: Newspaper filter and style moved from newspapers to browser toolbar
• Changed: The icon at the top left in Surfer style now marks all pages in the newspaper as read (previously marked the entire feed or folder as read)
• Changed: The "Send To" menu now includes "Default Blog Publishing Tool" at the top level instead of buried in a submenu (74101)
• Changed: "Use larger font in newspaper" moved from Reading to Appearance tab in options
• Changed: "Browser position" moved from View menu to Browse menu
• Changed: The display of excerpts (summaries) in the newspaper is now smarter
• Changed: "Mark page read on change" now defaults to being disabled (2.1.0.3)
• Fixed: Searching from the "Subscriptions Home" page fails with Chinese characters
• Fixed: "Delete Post" missing from Surfer style
• Fixed: Cryptic error message when attempting to switch to an outdated newspaper style
• Fixed: "Invalid fdaction hyperlink" error when clicking cleanup wizard link
• Fixed: When excerpts are displayed, <li> elements run together
• Fixed: Inadequate stripping of style elements from feed content
• Fixed: MRSS thumbnails not supported in Soapbox feeds
• Fixed: Incorrect sizing of MRSS thumbnails when thumbnail height/width not included in feed
• Fixed: Favicon retrieval shouldn't display login dialog when HTTP 401/407 encountered
• Fixed: "Control has no parent window" exception after resizing main window and clicking dropdown
• Fixed: Export dialog doesn't include root folder (74801)
• Fixed: Subscription search skips feeds excluded from watches
• Fixed: Search results disappear when changing view style (2.1.0.3)
• Fixed: Tray icon not reset after marking newspaper as read (2.1.0.3)
• Fixed: Clicking filter dropdown above news item list changes filter, even if none selected (75319) (2.1.0.3)
• Fixed: Keyword highlighting not applied for exact matches (75318) (2.1.0.3)
• Fixed: News item list doesn't sort RE: replies with their "parent" post when sorting by title (75317) (2.1.0.3)
• Fixed: Style and filter toolbuttons hidden if toolbar customized in previous version (75315) (2.1.0.3)
• Fixed: When a feed or folder has a specific style assigned to it, choosing a different style from the style selection has no impact (75313) (2.1.0.3)
• Fixed: No change in newspaper when an item is selected in the news item list and both "Open External Links in Default Browser" and "Go directly to an item's link" are enabled. (2.1.0.3)

Changes in FeedDemon 2.1 Beta 1

• Added: Popular topics - select "Popular Topics" from the Browse menu or click the "Popular Topics" toolbutton on the toolbar above FeedDemon's browser
• Added: In order to tighten security, FeedDemon's newspapers now completely disable script (details).
• Added: "Blue Vista" newspaper style
• Added: YouTube Video Search added to keyword searches in subscription wizard
• Added: Integration with Windows Live Writer
• Added: "HTTP Logging" added to connection settings (72955)
• Added: "Increase newspaper font size" added to Reading tab in options (44691)
• Added: Performance improvements in synchronization process
• Added: Connection test now checks NewsGator login if it exists
• Added: "Manage Folders" added to synchronization options (73975)
• Changed: "Synchronization Options" moved from main options dialog to Tools menu
• Changed: The setting to go directly to an item's link when the description is empty (Options | Browsing) is now disabled by default
• Changed: Newspapers now use a shorter date/time format
• Changed: Gradients were removed from newspapers due to IE7 disabling ClearType when gradient filters are used
• Changed: Selecting "open post in new tab" now marks the post as read
• Changed: Right-clicks on "fdaction" links are now intercepted before IE's context menu appears
• Changed: DTDs are now removed from feeds before parsing
• Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't alert to subscription changes at startup unless at least one synched feed has new content
• Fixed: FeedDemon fails to prompt for proxy login when HTTP 407 encountered (72671)
• Fixed: If you pause FeedStation and then delete the last remaining download, when FeedStation is closed it still warns that downloads are active (72601)
• Fixed: When automatic unsubscribe is enabled for a feed during the subscription process, the feed is immediately removed it's empty
• Fixed: FeedDemon reports subscription changes when subfolder has same name as FeedDemon folder (72981)
• Fixed: If a feed is marked read right after items in it were marked as unread, those items will come back as unread during the next update
• Fixed: Feedstation fails to download podcasts from poweruser.tv (72050)
• Fixed: FeedStation remains in system tray when user attempts to start a new instance
• Fixed: FeedStation sorts by the full URL rather than just the filename after the "File" column is clicked (72670)
• Fixed: FeedStation fails to rename redirected podcasts (72231)
• Fixed: Recently read items returning as unread after marking feed(s) read
• Fixed: "Search subscriptions" doesn't support Chinese characters (60694)
• Fixed: Bogus location with the same name as computer created after activation (73408)
• Fixed: Incorrect information on "Edit Blog Publishing Tool" dialog (73952)
• Fixed: FeedDemon displays OPML import dialog after browsing to a page with a Grazr panel
• Fixed: Feed's TTL not supported after adding feed (73844)
• Fixed: Corrupt cached feed prevents correct unread count (73368)
• Fixed: Subscription wizard doesn't re-use login supplied to preview (73488)