NewsLife Changelog

What's new in NewsLife 2.2.5

Dec 15, 2015
  • Turbocharged the feed downloader. Updating your feeds is now super quick. You can change the number of concurrent downloads in NewsLife's preferences to suit your connection speed.

New in NewsLife 2.2.4 (Dec 14, 2015)

  • Fixes a bug that would prevent the main window from opening on OS X 10.10 and earlier

New in NewsLife 2.2.3 (Dec 7, 2015)

  • Improved text rendering and some graphical tweaks for El Capitan.
  • Article text in the app now displays smaller by default, you can adjust the font size in NewsLife's preferences if you prefer it larger.

New in NewsLife 2.2 (Apr 4, 2015)

  • New look for OS X Yosemite
  • Post articles to Twitter and FaceBook
  • Various bug fixes and updates

New in NewsLife 2.1.2 (Sep 27, 2013)

  • Fixes a compatibility issue with Mac OS X 10.7

New in NewsLife 2.1.1 (Jun 13, 2013)

  • Full retina display support
  • Notification center integration
  • Full screen support
  • Improved web site icon discovery
  • Scroll position now retained when switching between feeds
  • Fixes an issue where the scroll position of an article can jump when a feed is updating
  • Various bug fixes and optimisations

New in NewsLife 2.1.0 (Mar 11, 2013)

  • Now requires a minimum of Mac OS X 10.7 and an Intel Mac.
  • Fixes several visual glitches
  • Added Photo mode to 500px feeds
  • Added two new colour themes
  • NewsLife is now Developer ID signed for GateKeeper

New in NewsLife 2.0.5 (Mar 11, 2011)

  • Updates:
  • Improved Add Feed dialog with feed auto-discovery. You can now just type in any web address and NewsLife will attempt to locate an RSS feed for it automatically. For .com sites you don't even need to type a URL, just the name of the site. You can also specify the folder into which the site is added.
  • Improved Import dialog. It's now easier to import all or specific feeds from an OPML file. NewsLife now also lets you import the folder structure if present.
  • Fixes:
  • NewsLife 2.0.4 and 2.0.5 restore full compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). This support will be maintained at least until Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) ships.

New in NewsLife 2.0.2 (Feb 22, 2011)

  • Enhanced, iOS-inspired user interface
  • Improved Picture Tile mode
  • Multi-touch gesture support for fast, smooth navigation
  • Browse Flickr with Photo Mode
  • Improved News Clippings sidebar
  • SQLite-based article database for faster browsing
  • Hi-res icons
  • 9 selectable color themes

New in NewsLife 1.5 (Dec 6, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Picture Tile display mode, a new way to browse feeds which include images in their article summaries.
  • Author now displayed for articles where available.
  • Filter by author to see all articles by a certain person.
  • Fixes:
  • Various code optimizations and memory leak fixes.
  • Corrects a dialog that was missing localized text.
  • Fixes an issue that would prevent images from displaying for some feeds.

New in NewsLife 1.2.1 (Aug 21, 2008)

  • Growl support has been added.
  • Fixes an issue which prevented certain Feedburner feeds from being added.
  • Fixes a problem some users experienced when trying to export their feed library to OPML.
  • Fixes a bug in the feed expiration mechanism that could lead to a gradual decrease in performance of NewsLife. Start NewsLife while holding down the option (alt) key to perform a clean of the feed library if you are experiencing slow-downs when checking feeds.

New in NewsLife 1.2 (Jun 12, 2008)

  • New features
  • Pressing return will jump to the next unread article.
  • More efficient article storage mechanism introduced.
  • Fixes
  • Fixes a bug with handling Atom 1.0 feeds where links would not open correctly.
  • Fixes source list overly strong drop shadow bug.
  • Source list now updates to reflect article selection.
  • Feed actions can now be applied to all feeds in a folder.
  • OPML text encodings should now be correctly identified.
  • Fixes issue where some podcasts would not download.
  • Fixes issue with occasional broken breadcrumbs.