2.1 Changelog
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Changelog
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Stability, Scalability and Performance
- Likely fixed the reason for 90% of all critical profile crashes
- sorry, this took a while, thanks for the reported error logs
- 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
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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
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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 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
- 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
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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
- additional languages can be installed (from the Tools menu)
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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
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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
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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"
- The feed toolbar allows to quickly change the layout used to display news
- Added a new preference to open links from articles in new tabs instead of embedded
- JavaScript can now be turned off and on or per website on Linux and Mac too
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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)
- Much improved and more reliable lookup of XULRunner on Linux
- Automated news clean-up is now avoided if the feed is currently displayed
