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RSSOwl Changelog

What's new in RSSOwl 2.2.1

Jan 3, 2014
  • Added quick access to common actions like archiving or labeling right below the article content. Especially for articles with lots of content this means you no longer have to scroll all the way up to the title to run actions on the news.
  • In addition, some broken keyword feeds have been fixed and new ones added.

New in RSSOwl 2.2.0 (May 3, 2013)

  • Provides an easy way to unsubscribe from Google Reader as Google decided to stop this service end of June.
  • In addition, you can now export a feed as CSV file and among some bugfixes, some new share providers where added.

New in RSSOwl 2.1.6 (Dec 10, 2012)

  • This bugfix release resolves an issue when synchronizing articles with attachments with Google Reader.

New in RSSOwl 2.1.4 (Jul 29, 2012)

  • This bugfix release resolves an issue when synchronizing articles to Google Reader and receiving an error "Bad Request (400)". This could happen when RSSOwl synchronized several hundred articles in one chunk to Google. As such this issue was only showing up for power users. If you have never seen this problem, you can stay on 2.1.2.

New in RSSOwl 2.1.2 (Aug 16, 2011)

  • This release enables the installation of additional languages into RSSOwl (from Tools | Language). Thanks to our team of translators, as of today we can provide translations to German, Spanish and Chinese Traditional.

New in RSSOwl 2.1.1 (Aug 8, 2011)

  • JS enablement (global, per website) on Linux and Mac
  • Popup Fix on Slashdot Feed
  • Avoid Clean-Up on active opened feed
  • Browser fix where target = blank would open in IE
  • Subtitle fix for articles in headlines/newspaper
  • Performance displaying articles
  • improved XULRunner lookup on Linux
  • new browser option to open links from articles in a new tab instead of embedded
  • if the embedded browser is enabled
  • allow to copy link from single attachment
  • the layout can now quickly be changed from the feed toolbar
  • NTLM proxy support through system property

New in RSSOwl 2.1.1 RC (Jul 29, 2011)

  • JavaScript can be turned off globally or for specific websites (Linux, Mac)
  • Layout can now quickly be changed from feed toolbar
  • New option to open links from articles in a new tab instead of embedded
  • New action in attachment menu to copy the link of an attachment
  • Automatic Clean Up is avoided for current active feed
  • Better lookup of XULRunner runtime on Linux
  • Improved performance displaying articles
  • Bugfixes in the embedded browser

New in RSSOwl 2.1 (Jul 15, 2011)

  • Stability, Scalability and Performance:
  • Likely fixed the reason for 90% of all critical profile crashes
  • Support for large profile DB sizes of more than 2 GB: thereby unlimited number of feeds
  • New wizard that helps solve any startup crash situation:
  • automatically repair broken search index
  • automatically restore a backup
  • Improved and more reliable backup strategy
  • Newspaper and Headlines layout scale to hundreds of news with new pagination support
  • Much reduced memory footprint when using feeds with filters
  • Much improved performance when marking read news in folders, bins or saved searches
  • Google Reader Synchronization:
  • RSSOwl now synchronizes the news state, labels and star state between your Google Reader account and RSSOwl
  • Use the import wizard (File | Import | Synchronize with Google Reader) to enable synchronization per feed
  • Use clean up (Tools | Clean Up) to get rid of no longer subscribed feeds
  • Note: A star in google reader maps to the sticky state in RSSOwl
  • Note: Currently there is no automatic synchronization of subscriptions other than using the import wizard (to be clear: articles are synchronized automatically, only the list of feeds is not!)
  • Note: There is no support to use existing imported feeds from Google Reader with the synchronization support, you have to re-import those feeds. You can move all the articles of the old feed to a news-bin to keep them
  • Note: The number of news to synchronize is limited by the clean up settings (Maximum number of news to keep, Age of News in Days)
  • Note: In case of any issue, take a look at the new Synchronization Status from the Tools menu or from the status page of any feed
  • We welcome feedback about this feature to make it production ready in 2.1 final
  • Please refer to our updated FAQ [1] to find out more on how synchronization works in RSSOwl
  • New Layout Features:
  • Redesigned Newspaper Layout:
  • less heavy colors, easy to read
  • browser refresh is avoided for incoming news and an info is shown on top with a link to refreh content
  • New option to mark news as read automatically while reading in newspaper mode (enabled by default)
  • Improved search from embedded browser when typing a term into the address bar
  • much improved grouping in newspaper layout with number of articles and filtered:
  • support to expand/collapse news of the group
  • support to invoke actions on all news of the group from the group name (its a link now)
  • Support for pagination in newspaper and headlines layout:
  • as usual configurable globally or per feed
  • pages will reveal when scrolling down automatically
  • support for varying news background color to distinguish one news from another easily
  • Redesigned news footer:
  • cleaner, easier to find related news
  • new action to try to download an article content and show it (great for news without full content)
  • New List Layout:
  • Only table of news entries, no browser
  • New Headlines Layout:
  • Like newspaper layout, but each news entry is collapsed
  • Shares same new features as newspaper layout
  • Overall UI Changes:
  • Folders now open upon click showing news inside instantly
  • Single tab use for feeds is the new default to reduce clutter of tabs, thereby new actions to "Open" and "Open in New Tab" for feeds
  • More control over toolbar visibility:
  • toggle feed toolbar visibility from the View menu
  • toggle browser toolbar visibility from the View menu
  • Archive feature (integrated everywhere): quickly move selected news entries to the archive news bin to store it
  • It is now possible to configure the layout per feed
  • Support for Instapaper and Readability: you can now control per feed or globally to open the articles link with readability or instapaper for improved reading experience (from the Display tab)
  • cleaned up feed toolbar and search controls
  • Podcast Enhancements:
  • Improved automatic download behavior:
  • if download file already exists, the news date will be used as suffix
  • Content-Disposition header support to produce real file names for the download
  • Support to download a news link if it does not have any attachments
  • Warning is shown when trying to quit RSSOwl while a download is active
  • Better Clean Up:
  • Support for cleaning up orphaned searches and news filters
  • New clean up option to repair the news search index in case RSSOwl detects it has become stale
  • New clean up option to delete feeds no longer subscribed to in Google Reader
  • Minor Changes:
  • Loading of images is now a separate option to loading of movies and other embedded content
  • New button in browser bar to open current link in external browser
  • Added keybinding to open a new browser tab
  • Keybindings can now be assigned to all share actions
  • The setting for reloading a feed on startup automatically can now also be set per feed and folder
  • More warnings shown from all places where searches are used in case a search is not valid
  • New global option in "Reading" for "Feeds" to turn off automatic read marking of duplicate news
  • New filter action to open matching news in the browser
  • Login Dialog now provides an option to not store passed in credentials permanently
  • Notification Popup animation can be turned off
  • Added "Buffer" to the list of share providers
  • Added support for the Yahoo media namespace for attachments
  • Status Property page now also available for bins, searches and folders
  • Reload interval can now be set in seconds
  • Filters that show items in notifier now show directly instead of the normal 5 seconds delay
  • Columns and Sorting related options can now also be controlled from the View menu
  • News Filter and News Grouping related options can now also be controlled from the View menu
  • Can now drop a OPML or XML file for import into any location of the feeds view
  • You can now define the color for links inside the news content display
  • New filter to only "Show Labeled News"
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fix flashing rssowl window on startup before moving to tray (needs reinstall, not update)
  • news did not resort when a property changed that was sorted by (for date, e.g.)
  • opening the notifier manually was not respecting enabled filter settings
  • keybindings where not supported from import/export via OPML
  • Google Reader importer was not properly reacting on Google error codes like captcha challenges
  • Updated SWT for Linux and Mac to version 3.7 to get best compatibility on latest distributions and versions
  • RSSOwl on Linux now bundles XULRunner 1.9 to avoid browser issues on distributions
  • Saved searches would not show results if feeds view was hidden after startup
  • Saved searches did not show updated results when reparenting bookmarks that where part of a search condition
  • Windows: XULRunner 1.8.1.3 is the only supported XULRunner version (disabled support for 1.9.x)

New in RSSOwl 2.1 Beta (Jun 13, 2011)

  • Stability, Scalability and Performance:
  • Likely fixed the reason for 90% of all critical profile crashes
  • Support for large profile DB sizes of more than 2 GB thereby unlimited number of feeds
  • New wizard that helps solve any startup crash situation:
  • automatically repair broken search index
  • automatically restore a backup
  • Improved and more reliable backup strategy
  • Newspaper and Headlines layout scale to hundreds of news with new pagination support Test Me
  • Much reduced memory footprint when using feeds with filters Test Me
  • New Layout Features:
  • Redesigned Newspaper Layout Test Me
  • less heavy colors, easy to read
  • browser refresh is avoided for incoming news and an info is shown on top with a link to refreh content
  • New option to mark news as read automatically while reading in newspaper mode (enabled by default)
  • Improved search from embedded browser when typing a term into the adress bar
  • much improved grouping in newspaper layout with number of articles and filtered, support to expand/collapse news of the group, support to invoke actions on all news of the group from the group name (its a link now)
  • Support for pagination in newspaper and headlines layout, as usual configurable globally or per feed, pages will reveal when scrolling down automatically, support for varying news background color to distinguish one news from another easily
  • Redesigned news footer, cleaner, easier to find related news, new action to try to download an article content and show it (great for news without full content)
  • New List Layout Test Me: Only table of news entries, no browser
  • New Headlines Layout Test Me: Like newspaper layout, but each news entry is collapsed; Shares same new features as newspaper layout
  • Overall UI Changes:
  • Folders now open upon click showing news inside instantly Test Me
  • Single tab use for feeds is the new default to reduce clutter of tabs
  • thereby new actions to "Open" and "Open in New Tab" for feeds
  • More control over toolbar visibility Test Me
  • toggle feed toolbar visibility from the View menu
  • toggle browser toolbar visibility from the View menu
  • Archive feature (integrated everywhere) Test Me
  • quickly move selected news entries to the archive news bin to store it
  • It is now possible to configure the layout per feed Test Me
  • Support for Instapaper and Readability Test Me
  • you can now control per feed or globally to open the articles link with readability or instapaper for improved reading experience (from the Display tab)
  • cleaned up feed toolbar and search controls
  • Podcast Enhancements:
  • Improved automatic download behavior Test Me
  • if download file already exists, the news date will be used as suffix
  • Content-Disposition header support to produce real file names for the download
  • Support to download a news link if it does not have any attachments
  • Warning is shown when trying to quit RSSOwl while a download is active Test Me
  • Better Clean Up:
  • Support for cleaning up orphaned searches and news filters
  • New clean up option to repair the news search index in case RSSOwl detects it has become stale
  • Minor Changes:
  • Loading of images is now a separate option to loading of movies and other embedded content Test Me
  • New button in browser bar to open current link in external browser
  • Added keybinding to open a new browser tab
  • Keybindings can now be assigned to all share actions
  • More warnings shown from all places where searches are used in case a search is not valid
  • New global option in "Reading" for "Feeds" to turn off automatic read marking of duplicate news
  • New filter action to open matching news in the browser
  • Login Dialog now provides an option to not store passed in credentials permanently
  • Notification Popup animation can be turned off
  • Added "Buffer" to the list of share providers
  • Status Property page now also available for bins, searches and folders
  • Filters that show items in notifier now show directly instead of the normal 5 seconds delay
  • Columns and Sorting related options can now also be controlled from the View menu Test Me
  • News Filter and News Grouping related options can now also be controlled from the View menu Test Me
  • Can now drop a OPML or XML file for import into any location of the feeds view
  • You can now define the color for links inside the news content display
  • New filter to only "Show Labeled News" Test Me
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fix flashing rssowl window on startup before moving to tray (needs reinstall, not update) Test Me
  • news did not resort when a property changed that was sorted by (for date, e.g.)
  • keybindings where not supported from import/export via OPML
  • Updated SWT for Linux to version 3.7 to get best compatibility on latest distributions

New in RSSOwl 2.0.6 (Oct 4, 2010)

  • Some bugfixes and a few new features.
  • Most notable, the Google Reader import is functional again.
  • Existing users can easily update using the integrated update manager (Help | Check for Updates).

New in RSSOwl 2.0.5 (Jun 2, 2010)

  • javascript exceptions mechanism not working rssowl 2.0.5
  • User defined keybinding gives problems in RSSOwl browser (SWT 3.4.2)
  • System tray not restore after kill gnome-panel
  • Segfault with Flash
  • SWT issues with client-side windows in GTK 2.18
  • Wrong date used for maintenance updates
  • Use dc:creator over dc:publisher
  • Update to SWT 3.5.2 (Linux, Mac)
  • Update is broken when sharing config folder
  • URIUtils: Managed Links with Double Hash cause issues with IE/Windows Benjamin Pasero Resolved High Major
  • Test and Ship with SWT 3.5.2 (Linux / Mac)
  • Sync and Tag SVN Repository (Branch, Trunk)
  • Support protocols unknown to RSSOwl
  • Sticky Indicator for Folders is not correct all times Benjamin
  • Startup Log should be very early in Activator
  • Spinners are showing empty (Mac)
  • Reindexing of Search Index is slow and memory consuming
  • Progress reporting on startup is bad (Defrag, Reindex) due to heavy work Benjamin Pasero Resolved High Normal Sunday, Apr 4
  • Preview Feed Dialog is not scaling well for large feeds
  • Potential browser popup when reading articles
  • Playing a sound must not block callee Benjamin Pasero
  • Notifier News Action is ordering dependent
  • No icons displayed in first column of the feed view / strange behavior
  • Make shutdown work correctly if startup fails
  • Make it easier to edit a saved search with more than 3 conditions
  • Large offline backup blocks startup and should report progress and cancellation Benjamin Pasero Resolved High Normal Sunday, Apr 11
  • LabelDAO should be a caching DAO
  • Improve progress dialog on startup
  • Improve Reliability
  • Improve Performance, Scalability and Progress Reporting for Long Running Tasks
  • Improve Logging by reducing feed reload spam that is not required and adding more info on startup issues
  • Implement INewsBinDAO.visited() to improve performance of displaying a news bin
  • ICO images miss transparency (e.g. feed icons)
  • 1235 Guide the user when application fails to launch due to DB error
  • Fix UI issues on Mac OS X 10.6
  • Error messages from db4o are lost and should be logged to the RCP log
  • Error during backup is not recoverable Benjamin Pasero
  • Do heavy information computation from property page only when necessary and from background Benjamin Pasero
  • Defragmentation misses IConditionalGet Benjamin Pasero Resolved
  • Defragmentation is very memory hungry Benjamin Pasero
  • Clean-Up on Folder is not scaling well Benjamin Pasero Resolved
  • Clean Up Reminder should not show when Tray Minimized Benjamin Pasero
  • CachingDAO very slow due to Integer.MAX activation Benjamin Pasero Resolved
  • Better treatment of links passed in from external applications like FF (esp. HTTPS)
  • Bad performance when deleting a folder due to extensive counting of news
  • Avoid unneccessary creation of URI from News
  • Avoid loading news when marking read but feed has only read news
  • Avoid N^2 loop when doing search in visible feedview Benjamin Pasero
  • Allow to cancel preview generation in clean up wizard Benjamin Pasero

New in RSSOwl 2.0.5 RC2 (Apr 29, 2010)

  • Improved performance and stability and better integration.

New in RSSOwl 2.0.5 RC1 (Mar 4, 2010)

  • For RSSOwl 2.0.5 Linux and Mac we plan a major update to the framework that is used for the entire user interface of RSSOwl. This framework has aged over the past years and we need to update it to not loose contact with the latest development in the Linux and Mac world.
  • The visible changes are not very obvious, in general RSSOwl should behave as before.

New in RSSOwl 2.0.3 (Jan 23, 2010)

  • RSSOwl 2.0.3 brings some nice new features. The most notable one is the new ability to import feeds from your Google Reader account using the import wizard.

New in RSSOwl 2.0.2 (Dec 29, 2009)

  • 30 bugfixes and enhancements.

New in RSSOwl 2.0 (Oct 25, 2009)

  • Change the displayed Columns and Sorting per feed
  • Modify News from the Embedded Browser
  • Fully Customizable Toolbar
  • Powerful Import and Export of Feeds and Settings
  • Share Feeds and News with others
  • Support for Podcasts
  • Automatic Discovery of Feeds via Keyword or from a Website
  • More Search Options
  • Fully Integrated Application Update

New in RSSOwl 2.0 RC2 (Oct 8, 2009)

  • Change the displayed Columns and Sorting per feed.
  • Modify News from the Embedded Browser.
  • Fully Customizable Toolbar.
  • Powerful Import and Export of Feeds and Settings.
  • Share Feeds and News with others.
  • Support for Podcasts.
  • Automatic Discovery of Feeds via Keyword or from a Website.
  • More Search Options.
  • Fully Integrated Application Update.

New in RSSOwl 2.0 RC1 (Sep 22, 2009)

  • Change the displayed Columns and Sorting per feed.
  • Modify News from the Embedded Browser.
  • Fully Customizable Toolbar.
  • Powerful Import and Export of Feeds and Settings.
  • Share Feeds and News with others.
  • Support for Podcasts.
  • Automatic Discovery of Feeds via Keyword or from a Website.
  • More Search Options.
  • Fully Integrated Application Update.

New in RSSOwl 2.0 M9 RC2 (Feb 19, 2009)

  • News Filter - apply actions on news automatically.
  • New quick way of assigning Labels to News.
  • Support for Phrase Searches.
  • Improved Notifier.
  • Multi Tabbed Browsing.
  • Improved and secured embedded browser.
  • Secure credentials with a master password.
  • A total of 102 bugs fixed.

New in RSSOwl 2.0 M8 (Mar 10, 2008)

  • Copy or Move News into Bins
  • Create Keyword Subscriptions (e.g. del.icio.us)
  • Undo/Redo now available for most operations
  • Display all feeds of a folder at once
  • Improved performance and reduced memory consumption
  • More than 80 Bugs fixed