FeedDemon Release Notes

Download FeedDemon 2.7 (3.92MB)

Note: If you have a previous 2.x version of FeedDemon installed, just install version 2.7 directly on top of it.
 

Changes in Version 2.7

• Added: Significant performance improvements when navigating subscription tree
• Added: "Find Feeds" now enables subscribing to multiple feeds at the same time
• Added: Multi-line URLs pasted into the address bar are shortened to a single line (hat tip to IE8)
• Added: Secure URLs are now drawn with a light yellow background in the address bar
• Added: Clippings folders that have an RSS feed now have an RSS icon overlaid on them
• Added: Context menu added when right-clicking a feed in subscription home report
• Added: Subscription wizard now warns when attempting to add a private (intranet) feed to a synchronized folder (125583)
• Added: $ITEM_SUMMARY$ and $ITEM_SUMMARY_PLAIN$ added to "Blog This" tokens
• Added: Numerous optimizations to tabbed browser performance, esp. regarding favicons
• Added: Synchronization optimizations
• Added: "Show in External Browser" added to tabbed browser's context menu
• Added: When "Keyword View" is the current view, the keyword now appears next to the "Subscriptions" item in the tree
• Added: Multiple enclosures per post are now supported

• Changed: Popular topics and feed history data now stored in SQLite database instead of XML
• Changed: The "Next" toolbutton has been renamed "Next Page"
• Changed: "Next Page" and "Mark Page Read" are now both shown in the status bar
• Changed: "Panic Button" no longer displays at startup (now only appears after feeds have updated)
• Changed: "Enable HTTP logging" removed from connection settings
• Changed: Default auto-purge (archiving) value for new feeds changed to 100
• Changed: The "Map This" icon in the newspaper now uses the Geotag icon
• Changed: "Import Feeds" now uses the OPML icon
• Changed: The "OK" button on the "Confirm Deletions" dialog isn't enabled until either "Keep All" or "Keep None" is clicked, or a feed is checkmarked in the list
• Changed: When no feeds match the chosen keyword in "Keyword View," you're now told that no matches were found, and the view isn't changed
• Changed: Animation in subscription tree replaced with static hourglass/timer due to CPU spikes on many systems

• Fixed: PgUp/PgDown doesn't scroll browser when inline search has the focus
• Fixed: Subscription tree, subscription report and feed reports don't reflect changes to the current language until FeedDemon restarts (124289)
• Fixed: FeedStation pops up (instead of staying minimized) every time an enclosure is added to its queue from FeedDemon (125217)
• Fixed: FeedStation fails to download podcasts which redirect to URLs that are greater than 256 characters in length (seen with NBC podcasts)
• Fixed: Feeds renamed by user are renamed again when the title of the source feed changes (note that this fix only applies to feeds renamed from this version on) (123755)
• Fixed: Missing 'content-type' meta tag in about-tabs.html
• Fixed: Watches and subscription search fail to match whole words preceeded by a no-break space character (U+00A0)
• Fixed: When the NewsGator password is changed from another location, copies of FeedDemon at other locations can't be updated with the new password (126778)
• Fixed: When viewing full posts, large images may overlap the border of the focused item (128198)
• Fixed: When updating a single feed, the feed's icon doesn't animate
• Fixed: New folders don't inherit root folder's properties (122443)
• Fixed: FeedStation fails to validate the username and password (112477)
• Fixed: Mapped network drives don't appear in the folder selection of the Manage Cache dialog
• Fixed: Line breaks in description display incorrectly in keyboard shortcuts dialog
• Fixed: Can't subscribe to feeds which contain undefined XML entities (seen with Rolling Stone feed)
• Fixed: Empty WordPress "stats" images show up in Popular Topics
• Fixed: Import dialog appears to freeze when expanding OPML folder containing thousands of feeds
• Fixed: Prefetch fails to retrieve single-quoted images
• Fixed: News item list column widths not retained
• Fixed: Connection error dialog appears multiple times when first instance isn't dismissed
• Fixed: Bogus tooltip on status bar
• Fixed: Older items re-appearing as unread when auto-purge (archiving) value is the same as the number of items in the source feed
• Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts dialog permits assigning single-key alphumeric shortcuts
• Fixed: Wrong favicons on browser tabs
• Fixed: "Add to Clippings Folder" menu doesn't overlay RSS icon on shared clippings folders
• Fixed: Exception when attempting to hide some popular topics
• Fixed: Popular topics doesn't always show all linked articles
• Fixed: FeedStation incorrectly purges newer items from its queue
• Fixed: Browser tabs that were open the last time FeedDemon ran are opened in the default browser when the option to open external links in the default browser is enabled.
• Fixed: Feed preview incorrectly sorts posts from oldest to newest
• Fixed: Popup menus in reports aren't correctly aligned with clicked hyperlink
• Fixed: Blank list items inserted into newspaper when source feed contains line breaks after list items
• Fixed: When viewing headlines only, the "open in new tab" icon is hidden when the title overflows
• Fixed: Missing scrollbars on images wider than the browser
• Fixed: Flickering favicons on browser tabs
• Fixed: The import dialog's "Cancel" and "Back" buttons are missing from the language file
• Fixed: Article scrolled out of view after clicking "[Less]" to collapse it (2.6.1.4)
• Fixed: "Keyword View" fails with uppercase keywords (2.6.1.4)
• Fixed: Relative post links aren't "completed" when the feed link is also relative (2.6.1.4)
• Fixed: Exception when subscribing to feed that contains numerous invalid Unicode characters (2.6.1.5)