FeedDemon™ 1.5 Release Notes

What's New in FeedDemon 1.5

• Added: Integration with Bloglines for easy feed synchronization (details...)
• Added: Integration with NewsGator Online Services, which works much like the integration with Bloglines
• Added: Podcasting supporting via FeedDemon FeedStation (details...)
• Added: "Podcasters" channel group. If you don't see this group, you can add it from the "Default Channel Groups" page of the welcome screen (Help > Show Welcome).
• Added: "Advanced" page on channel properties enables assigning per-channel newspaper style
• Added: "Manage Channel Groups" now enables selecting multiple channels.
• Added: FeedDemon now uses IE's popup blocker when running XP SP2
• Added: Favicons are now shown in the channel bar, on browser tabs and in various other areas. This can be disabled on the Appearance tab in options. Note that in order to conserve bandwidth, each channel's favicon isn't downloaded until the feed has been updated, so it may take a few days for some favicons to appear.
• Added: "Expando" and "Two Cube" newspaper styles
• Added: Moreover, MSN, Flickr and del.icio.us added as "Search Channel" engines (special thanks to Oskar van Rijswijk)
• Added: Default channel groups in "Welcome" wizard are now displayed as a tree which enables choosing the channels in each group
• Added: Category column added to the list of feeds displayed when importing an OPML file (displays the category from the OPML)
• Added: "New browser tab" toolbutton added above browser
• Added: "Next channel group" toolbutton added to channel bar
• Added: Significant performance and memory usage improvements when switching between channels containing a large number of items
• Added: Performance improvements to downloading and parsing feeds
• Added: Performance improvements to newspaper generation (most notable with large newspapers)
• Added: Performance improvements with large watches and searches
• Added: Improved auto-discovery of FeedBurner and WordPress feeds
• Added: "Check for new version" hyperlink added to Options
• Added: "Show news item descriptions" added to Appearance page in Options (this is still available from the toolbar above the news item list)
• Added: Option to clear the auto-discovery list when switching channels
• Added: "New Group" button added to "Manage Channel Groups"
• Added: 'Delete news items' added to Options > Confirmations (disabled by default)
• Added: Animation during software activation
• Added: Author now displayed in default newspaper style
• Added: Install now warns when FeedDemon is already running
• Added: "Unread or Flagged" added to newspaper filter
• Added: Modified date added to available columns in the news item list. This will be blank the majority of the time.
• Added: Ctrl+Alt+Home shortcut for "Channel Home"
• Added: Support for RFC329 with "feed"
• Added: Alternate rows in the news item grid use a different background color. The color can be changed on the Appearance tab in options.
• Added: When a feed returns HTTP status code 410 (gone), FeedDemon now prompts to unsubscribe from it
• Added: "Hide unflagged items" added to view menu
• Added: Filter toolbar now contains "Hide unread items" and "Hide unflagged items" buttons
• Added: "Clear stored items" added to local search and web search
• Added: "Category" added to available columns and "Group By" selection in the news item list
• Added: Drag-and-dropping any URL onto the "New Channel" button displays the "New Channel" wizard
• Added: Drag-and-dropping a feed URL onto the channel bar now shows the "New Channel" wizard
• Added: "Export All Groups to OPML File" added to File menu. This will create a single, categorized OPML file containing all of your subscriptions.
• Added: Enclosure icon in newspaper now includes URL in tooltip
• Added: Starting FeedDemon with the command line /ua performs an "Update all groups" as soon as FeedDemon starts
• Added: If Shift key is held down while selecting from favorites menu, the URL is opened in a new tab
• Added: When changing the location of FeedDemon's cache, you are now asked whether to move your existing data to the new folder
• Changed: Auto-discovery in previous versions would detect RSS feeds by scanning <link> and <a> tags, but now only <link> tags are checked
• Changed: Several newspaper styles have been removed from the install and placed on the "Download Styles" page
• Changed: In previous versions, empty values in the news item list showed "(empty)" but now the values are left blank
• Changed: The "Hide unread" and "Copy link address" menu items have been removed from the news item list's context menu
• Changed: The menu item "Synchronize Group with Online Directory" has been renamed "Synchronize Channel Group with OPML File"
• Changed: The "Synchronize Group" wizard now uses a tab control to separate new channels from deleted channels
• Changed: The "New Channel" wizard no longer displays a validation warning with feeds that start with whitespace (first noticed with MSDN feeds)
• Changed: In previous versions, FeedDemon defaulted to marking a news item as read after being viewed for three seconds. This has been changed to one second
• Changed: Auto-update is delayed when computer returns from standy mode to give time for internet connection to be re-enabled
• Changed: "Manage Channel Groups" now uses Alt rather than Ctrl to toggle copy/move
• Changed: Temp files are now stored in the Windows temp folder for the current user (previous versions stored temporary files - such as those used during newspaper creation - in the \Temp subfolder of FeedDemon's cache folder)
• Changed: Restoring from the system tray now requires only a single click on the FeedDemon tray icon.
• Fixed: Duplicate "New Channel" entry in keyboard shorcuts
• Fixed: Duplicate accelerators in several menu items
• Fixed: FeedStation truncates source name when creating folder for downloaded enclosure
• Fixed: Ctrl+A (select all) followed by Ctrl+Q (mark as read) fails when group header is selected first
• Fixed: Maximizing FeedDemon, resizing the browser, then restoring FeedDemon causes browser to be offset to the left
• Fixed: Browser height not always retained when the browser is shown at the bottom
• Fixed: Progress bar remains visible when switching feeds if browser is showing external page
• Fixed: Search panel doesn't scroll into view when starting a new search via a keyboard shortcut
• Fixed: Characters on "Update All Groups" cut off when running with large fonts and using a larger font size for message box text
• Fixed: Text on new channel wizard cut off when using certain fonts
• Fixed: Duplicate error when loading summary
• Fixed: Double-decoding of escaped entities in newspaper
• Fixed: If the browser is hidden, it re-appears the next time FeedDemon is started
• Fixed: Auto-purge may discard newer items depending on the sorting of items in the actual feed
• Fixed: FeedDemon displays multiple warnings if another application incorrectly removes the eSellerate engine
• Fixed: Feeds whose descriptions contain multiple, consecutive CDATA sections are parsed and displayed incorrectly. Note that the fix for this problem may result in temporary duplication of items in feeds that use this technique (such as Boing Boing's feed).
• Fixed: Items in Feedster feeds show empty descriptions. Note that the fix for this problem may result in temporary duplication of items in Feedster feeds.
• Fixed: The RSS and OPML export features now use MSXML to ensure that valid XML is exported. This resolves a number of issues involving exported RSS/OPML.
• Fixed: In rare cases, <style> tags were not removed from feed content
• Fixed: Malformed enclosure URLs cause XML error in newspaper
• Fixed: Channel group dropdown cuts off long group names
• Fixed: <Escape> doesn't close "Manage Groups"
• Fixed: Links preceded by white space inside CDATA sections are browsed incorrectly by the embedded IE
• Fixed: Last update date/time incorrectly shown in hints for news bins and watches
• Fixed: URLs containing quotes aren't correctly escaped in FeedDemon's newspaper, resulting in an XML error
• Fixed: Browser swallows the mouse focus from the news item list, so that clicking news item list has no effect. This bug was seen primarily when browsing pages containing form controls which received the focus through JavaScript. This fix also corrects the problem in which the news item list gets focused simply by moving the mouse over it.
• Fixed: After downloading a feed, FeedDemon writes it to IE's cache. This didn't cause any problems, but was unnecessary.
• Fixed: Relative paths in feeds aren't correctly handled if a relative link is used in the feed's home page link (discovered with Sam Ruby's Atom feed)
• Fixed: Browser doesn't resize correctly when restoring window on a multi-monitor system
• Fixed: When the channel bar is scrolled down, it doesn't scroll back to the top after switching channel groups
• Fixed: Icirc/icirc missing from FeedDemon's entity table
• Fixed: Can't subscribe to empty Atom feeds
• Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't honor the "show external links in default browser" setting when you browse a channel's home page
• Fixed: Focused news item changes after purging older news items following a channel update
• Fixed: Newspaper preview fails if FeedDemon's temp folder has been deleted
• Fixed: Feeds with unescaped content in their descriptions don't show all items
• Fixed: Watches and news bins are listed unsorted on computers with FAT file systems
• Fixed: Entities in author element confuse FeedDemon's XML parser
• Fixed: Access violation reported after returning from screen saver
• Fixed: Access violation after deleting a channel group
• Fixed: Feeds which contain a <style>..</style> block in every item display incorrectly (seen with flickr feeds)
• Fixed: Empty title shown in news item list for items with an ampersand as the last character in their title
• Fixed: Consecutively hitting Ctrl+T to open a new browser tab causes address bar to dropdown
• Fixed: Access violation when running a watch or search on all channels
• Fixed: Hand cursor over channel list doesn't show shadow
• Fixed: XML parser incorrectly handles empty <description/> elements
• Fixed: Uninstall fails to remove several FeedDemon registry items
• Fixed: Uninstall fails to remove FavIcon cache folder
• Fixed: Mousing over an channel's unread count doesn't highlighted the channel
• Fixed: Parser error in newspaper
• Fixed: Double-clicking a news item when the browser is hidden does nothing
• Fixed: Incorrect parsing of descriptions that have text before CDATA
• Fixed: Exception when attempting to display desktop alert when screensaver is active
• Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't start in the correct position when split between monitors on a multimon system
• Fixed: FeedDemon's browser only keeps the last two newspapers in its history
• Fixed: Crash at startup when launched by ActiveWords
• Fixed: Channel bar tooltip displays over other dialogs
• Fixed: Subscribing to a secure feed on a site with an invalid security certificate fails without giving an indication of the problem
• Fixed: Selecting all items then choosing "Toggle news item flag" fails to toggle the first item beneath each group
• Fixed: Access violation after deleting last channel group
• Fixed: Newspaper changes after channel update finds new items

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