FeedDemon 1.0 Beta 6 Release Notes

Additions

• Support for content:encoded
• Channel properties now enables selecting an auto-update frequency based on hours or days instead of minutes
• Hitting Ctrl+Enter in the address bar auto-completes the current entry by wrapping it between "http://" and ".com"
• Added "Last 24 Hours" to newspaper filters

Changes

• Restructured main menu
• Redesigned "Manage Groups"
• The "New" toolbutton above the news items has been replaced with a "New Channel" menu button
• Redesigned "Serif" preview style
• The news item filter has been moved to a separate toolbar which is hidden by default. To display the filter toolbar, select View > Filter Bar or click the new 'filter' toolbutton above the news items.
• Channel and group newspapers now default to using received date to match default news item grouping
• Newspapers can now be displayed in the default browser by clicking the "Show in external browser" toolbutton
• "Delete All News Items" shortcut changed to Shift+Ctrl+Del

Fixes

• Incorrect conversion of non-GMT pubDate values
• Deleting news items when a group row is selected removes all items within that group
• AV After deleting active group through Manage Groups
• Empty links in news items cause preview to navigate to temporary folder
• "Group by" and "filter (None)" combos fail to reflect changes to language selection
• Checkboxes in options fail to resize after changing language selection
• Incorrect parsing of entities in news item titles
• "Received" and "Published" aren't localizable in the newspaper (see const.xml)
• Incorrect handling of URLs containing & in news item links
• Incorrect conversion of single-byte numeric entities
• Updating isn't canceled when you go offline
• News item grid loses focus after returning from maximized browser
• Floating point errors in JavaScript within preview crash FeedDemon
• Mark as read/unread not always enabled after selecting new items
• Dull system tray icon in non-XP Windows
• Incorrect theme color for splitters
• After browser is hidden, it re-appears every time a news item is clicked
• Newspapers sort items by date received even when displaying date published
• When a channel is deleted from a group, sometimes the cached RSS file isn't removed
• Exported OPML files don't convert "&" to "&"
• Creating a channel group from an existing OPML file may fail to set each channel's homepage link
• Items containing no <title> aren't displayed if their <description> contains only HTML
• In "Manage channel groups," if you drag an item from one group to another and then back again without closing the window an erroneous message appears stating that the channel already exists in the selected group.
• When "load new tabs in background" has been enabled and a new browser tab is added, the URL of that browser is shown in the address bar even though it's not the active browser tab.

• There is currently no help available for FeedDemon

• 300MHz PC running Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or 2003
• Internet Explorer 6
• 64MB RAM