Newsbeuter Changelog

What's new in Newsbeuter 2.9

Feb 19, 2015
  • Fix custom keybindings in tag and filter selection dialogs (fixes #78).
  • Fix incorrect reloading of tags after editing the urls file.
  • Catch an exception that might be thrown by the "killfile" function.
  • Don't override feed titles for hidden feeds.
  • Fix dumpconfig.
  • Add support for FeedHQ (feedhq.org).
  • Fix missing variable in log output (fixes #124).
  • Fix type of configuration variables to path where appropriate (fixes #125).
  • Update to Brazilian Portuguese translation (fixes #126).
  • Fix crash when GUID is lost (fixes #127).
  • Fix dependency check (fixes #132).
  • Fix segfault in jump_to_next_unread_item (fixes #133).
  • Change code base to C++11.
  • Don't render inline images (fixes #154).
  • Fixed bug where feeds would appear empty due to variable shadowing issue.

New in Newsbeuter 2.8 (Jun 20, 2014)

  • Add bookmark script for getpocket.com support (Andreas Happe).
  • Fix issues with the build process on OpenBSD (Kyle Isom).
  • Make guid generation smarter (Jochen Sprickerhof).
  • In the feed list, quitting now is the same as clearing the tag in case a tag is selected.
  • Add support for The Old Reader (theoldreader.com).
  • Add support for NewsBlur (Thomas Weißschuh).
  • Fix crash bug in filter expression parsing.
  • Update French translation (Sabrina Dubroca).
  • Fix crash bug with unbalanced tags (Richard Quirk).

New in Newsbeuter 2.7 (Jun 20, 2014)

  • Fix crash bug.
  • Add option to colorize unread messages (Patrick Steinhardt).
  • Add option to swap title and hints bar (Patrick Steinhardt).
  • Add %u and %t support to itemview (Giuliano Schneider).
  • Only force redraw if a form action is active (Patrick Steinhardt).

New in Newsbeuter 2.6 (Jun 20, 2014)

  • Fixed crash in RSS parser (thanks to Isaac Good).
  • Fixed authentication issues with Google Reader (thanks to Fabrice Noilhan).
  • Fixed bug in Google authentication (Daniel Aleksandersen).
  • Style table headers in bold (Daniel Aleksandersen).
  • Add support for q and aside tags (Daniel Aleksandersen).
  • Remove all soft-hyphens (Daniel Aleksandersen).
  • More compact default user-agent on Mac OS X (Daniel Aleksandersen).
  • Add Norwegian bokmål translation (Daniel Aleksandersen).
  • Updated Russian translation (Justin Forest).
  • Updated Polish translation (Michal Siemek).

New in Newsbeuter 2.5 (Jun 20, 2014)

  • Implemented download-full-page configuration option.
  • Added configuration option to use external URL viewer (fixes issue #242).
  • Added ability to store Google Reader password in an external file (fixes issue #239).
  • Added Tiny Tiny RSS support (fixes issue #243).
  • Made HTTP authentication method configurable (fixes issue #247).
  • Implemented "delete-read-articles-on-quit" option.
  • Fixed rendering of nested lists.

New in Newsbeuter 2.4 (Feb 24, 2011)

  • Added support for query feeds in combination with Google Reader support.
  • Added ability to configure proxy authentication method.
  • Added commandline option -q to enable quiet startup (patch by Isaac Good)
  • Re-sort feed list after all feeds have been reloaded.
  • Added keys to jump to the next/previous feed or article regardless of its "unread" status (patches by Jim Pryor)
  • Implemented on-demand loading of feeds to reduce memory usage.
  • Removed Bloglines support as the service shuts down on October 1, 2010.
  • Implemented XDG Base Directory support (patch by Elrond)
  • Google Reader: when in offline mode, record unread status changes and later replay when in online mode.
  • Fixed Google Reader authentication issue with certain passwords (fixes issue #238).
  • Added configuration option "cookie-cache" (fixes issue #234).

New in Newsbeuter 2.0 (Apr 23, 2009)

  • Added more flexible dialog handling
  • Improved position handling in article list (fixes #112; thanks to Isaac Good)
  • Fixed a lot of bugs (#102, #111, #117, #130, #131).
  • Added ability to specify a list of OPML URLs when using OPML as URL source.
  • Added config option "keep-articles-days" to optionally keep articles only for a limited number of days.
  • Added config option "bookmark-interactive" to indicate that the configured bookmarking command is interactive.
  • Don't display authentication information in URLs (fixes #121).
  • Replaced mrss with new RSS/Atom parser.
  • Added ability to search for text from the article view.
  • Added basic support for Yahoo Media RSS.
  • Made article view pager configurable.
  • Improved HTML rendering of links and underlined and bold text.
  • Added ":source" commandline command to (re)load configuration files.
  • Implemented "pipe-to" key to pipe articles to external commands.
  • Implemented backtick evaluation for configuration files.
  • Extended filter language with "between" operator.
  • Added "age" attribute for articles to filter them for relative age (in days).
  • Extended "set" commandline command to toggle boolean variables and reset configuration variables of all types to their default.
  • Added ability to configure local files as feeds.
  • Added a "random-unread" key to go to a random unread article.
  • When opening articles from a search result dialog, make search phrase stand out in article view.
  • Persist commandline and search history.
  • Implemented commandline completion.
  • Improved help dialog so that it now shows unbound functions.
  • Added ability to sort feed list and article list by interactively choosing the sort method.
  • Improved and extended conditional HTTP download handling.