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FeedDemon Pro Changelog

What's new in FeedDemon Pro 4.5.0.0

Jun 20, 2013
  • Google Reader synchronization has been removed due to the demise of Google Reader
  • FeedDemon is now free and no longer contains ads

New in FeedDemon Pro 4.1.0.0 (May 17, 2012)

  • Removed: Sharing features that relied on Google Reader
  • Added: "Most Visited" and "Recently Closed" added to new tab page
  • Added: "Photo Strip" newspaper style (Pro version only)
  • Added: Improved relevancy of recommended articles
  • Added: Ctr+0 shortcut to return the embedded browser to normal (100%) zoom
  • Changed: Improved initial startup time
  • Changed: Hiding all buttons on a toolbar now hides the toolbar itself
  • Changed: FeedDemon now asks whether to assign feeds to a content filter after creating it
  • Fixed: Sporadic crashes showing context menus after upgrading to IE9
  • Fixed: Potential nuisance flaw in feed preview which could allow external feed to display popups (hat tip to JPCERT/CC for reporting this flaw)
  • Fixed: "My Stream" doesn't update when FeedDemon isn't the active application and the stream is not undocked
  • Fixed: Dragging a feed into another folder doesn't re-sort the destination folder
  • Fixed: Longer URLs in the address bar appear beneath feed and share icons
  • Fixed: Spurious "new items received" message when viewing all unread items
  • Fixed: Auto-downloading of enclosures enabled in v3 causes Lite v4 to open enclosures in browser
  • Fixed: Flicker caused by images of people you follow when unread/starred counts are updated on subscription home page
  • Fixed: Tray icon still indicates unread articles if update is cancelled and all articles have been read
  • Fixed: Updating a single folder may fail if a previous folder update was cancelled
  • Fixed: Links in the stream browser are opened in an external browser if they use target="_blank"
  • Fixed: Watches fail to group articles by their source feed when grouping by feed in Surfer style
  • Fixed: Incorrect display of Twitter search feeds in "My Stream"
  • Fixed: Incorrect date grouping in news item list
  • Fixed: Unicode characters may cause "Find New Feeds" to fail in certain locales
  • Fixed: Leading spaces in article links cause them to fail when opened in external IE7/IE8
  • Fixed: "Send to Twitter" no longer works
  • Fixed: "Send to Delicious" no longer works
  • Fixed: FeedDemon fails to login to Google Apps accounts that use same email address as "normal" Google account
  • Fixed: YouTube and Vimeo HTML5 videos fail to appear in FeedDemon's newspaper
  • Fixed: Feed preview launches external browser for embedded videos in feeds
  • Fixed: Buttons obscured in feed selection dialog when using font size other than default
  • Removed: "Enable transitions" removed from the Appearance tab in Options (due to compatibility issues with IE9)

New in FeedDemon Pro 4.0.0.27 Pre-Release (Sep 8, 2011)

  • Added: "Most Visited" and "Recently Closed" added to new tab page
  • Added: "Photo Strip" newspaper style (Pro version only)
  • Added: Improved relevancy of recommended articles
  • Changed: Improved initial startup time
  • Changed: Hiding all buttons on a toolbar now hides the toolbar itself
  • Changed: FeedDemon now asks whether to assign feeds to a content filter after creating it
  • Fixed: "My Stream" doesn't update when FeedDemon isn't the active application and the stream is not undocked
  • Fixed: Dragging a feed into another folder doesn't re-sort the destination folder
  • Fixed: Longer URLs in the address bar appear beneath feed and share icons
  • Fixed: Spurious "new items received" message when viewing all unread items
  • Fixed: Auto-downloading of enclosures enabled in v3 causes Lite v4 to open enclosures in browser
  • Fixed: Flicker caused by images of people you follow when unread/starred counts are updated on subscription home page
  • Fixed: Tray icon still indicates unread articles if update is cancelled and all articles have been read
  • Fixed: Updating a single folder may fail if a previous folder update was cancelled
  • Fixed: Links in the stream browser are opened in an external browser if they use target="_blank"
  • Fixed: Watches fail to group articles by their source feed when grouping by feed in Surfer style
  • Fixed: Incorrect display of Twitter search feeds in "My Stream"
  • Fixed: Incorrect date grouping in news item list
  • Fixed: Unicode characters may cause "Find New Feeds" to fail in certain locales
  • Fixed: Leading spaces in article links cause them to fail when opened in external IE7/IE8
  • Fixed: "Send to Twitter" no longer works
  • Fixed: FeedDemon fails to login to Google Apps accounts that use same email address as "normal" Google account
  • Fixed: YouTube and Vimeo HTML5 videos fail to appear in FeedDemon's newspaper
  • Removed: "Enable transitions" removed from the Appearance tab in Options (due to compatibility issues with IE9)

New in FeedDemon Pro 4.0.0.22 (Sep 8, 2011)

  • Added: When FeedStation detects that a download failed due to a busy server, it now waits a few minutes instead of retrying immediately
  • Added: "T" newspaper shortcut added to translate article (required changing existing "New Tab" shortcut from "T" to "N")
  • Changed: Enclosure links are now shown in the Lite version
  • Changed: "Share this Page" removed from status bar and moved to address bar icon when external page is showing
  • Changed: "Toggle Read" in the news item list context menu replaced with "Mark Read" (Ctrl+Q)
  • Fixed: FeedDemon shows in the taskbar on Windows 7 regardless of the "show in system tray" setting
  • Fixed: "My Stream" incorrectly aligned immediately after purchasing serial number

New in FeedDemon Pro 4.0.0.11 Pre-Release (Nov 19, 2010)

  • Added: Newspaper styles can be assigned to individual watches
  • Changed: "Share this Page" replaced with "Share" icon in status bar (for sharing external pages)
  • Changed: "News items" are now called "articles"
  • Changed: "Read it Later" sharing now shares immediately
  • Changed: "Mark Read" and "Mark Unread" have been combined into single "Toggle Read" action
  • Changed: Long titles are now wrapped in Surfer headline view
  • Fixed: Author missing from "Speed Reader" style
  • Fixed: Can't open item in same window in "Speed Reader" style
  • Fixed: Wrong item selected in newspaper when browser is zoomed
  • Fixed: Disabled feeds marked read in Google Reader
  • Fixed: Subscription report displays after sync even when it shouldn't be shown

New in FeedDemon Pro 4.0.0.9 Pre-Release (Nov 10, 2010)

  • Added: Significant synchronization optimizations that should result in far less traffic between FeedDemon and Google Reader for many customers
  • Added: New "Speed Reader" newspaper style
  • Added: "Show thumbnail images for summaries" added to Reading tab in Options
  • Fixed: Inaccurate mouse wheel scrolling with some panel configurations
  • Fixed: News item list still shows unread items after marking all feeds read
  • Fixed: News item list incorrectly displays Unicode category, source and author, and also fails to display Unicode group headers correctly
  • Fixed: Newspaper shortcuts for previous/next page may cause browser to lose focus
  • Fixed: Wrong items shown for today/yesterday
  • Fixed: Unread count mismatch between FeedDemon and Google Reader
  • Fixed: Synched feeds marked read at startup
  • Fixed: Subscription report shows thumbnails and friend images even when "Optimize for slow connections" is enabled
  • Fixed: Reappearing login dialog for Twitter feeds

New in FeedDemon Pro 4.0.0.7 Pre-Release (Nov 4, 2010)

  • Added: Improved handling of errors updating Twitter status feeds (including intermittent 401 errors caused by Twitter being overloaded)
  • Changed: When grouping by starred in the news item list, starred items are now shown first
  • Changed: When the login for an authenticated feed is invalid, the login dialog now only displays if FeedDemon isn't minimized and a full-screen application (such as a game) isn't active
  • Changed: "Unshare" requests are now synched immediately
  • Changed: FeedDemon now checks for items unshared from another location
  • Changed: Newspaper styles now use the extension FDXSL4 and language files use the extension FDLANG4
  • Fixed: Clipped text in excerpts when using a non-default Windows font size
  • Fixed: Tag menu doesn't show the most-used tags
  • Fixed: False GZip errors retrieving feeds
  • Fixed: Image at start of item's text may clip the first few words
  • Fixed: Mouse wheel does't scroll the stream when docked
  • Fixed: Watches aren't regularly purged of older items
  • Fixed: Watches containing many future-dated items may fail to show new items
  • Fixed: Overly-aggressive de-duping following install may remove unread or starred items
  • Fixed: FeedDemon fails to warn that Google Reader doesn't support authenticated feeds when you attempt to add an authenticated Twitter feed to a synched folder
  • Fixed: Authenticated Twitter feeds display login dialog when Twitter is over-capacity
  • Fixed: "Shared by People I Follow" profile images are re-downloaded every time they're displayed

New in FeedDemon Pro 4.0.0.5 Pre-Release (Oct 28, 2010)

  • Added: "Read it Later" added to share menu
  • Added: Even more sync performance and efficiency improvements
  • Added: FeedDemon now adjusts the update frequency of Twitter feeds when rate limiting is detected
  • Added: Extra error information added to event log report for Twitter errors
  • Changed: Counts removed from Today/Yesterday in subscription tree
  • Changed: Stream feeds are now updated every two minutes instead of every minute
  • Fixed: Mouse wheel fails to scroll stream when undocked stream isn't focused
  • Fixed: Feeds added to Google Reader outside this copy of FeedDemon don't show all unread items
  • Fixed: "Unshare" missing from sharing menu
  • Fixed: File > Minimize to Tray doesn't show FeedDemon in system tray on Windows 7
  • Fixed: Duplication of items with GUIDs if pubDate/title changed
  • Fixed: Event Log report fails if any event contains malformed HTML/XML
  • Fixed: Disabled feeds still appear in the stream
  • Fixed: Synched feeds in stream don't update as frequently as non-synched feeds in stream
  • Fixed: "Popular in my Subscriptions" contains older posts from people you follow

New in FeedDemon Pro 4.0.0.1 Pre-Release (Oct 28, 2010)

  • Added: Redesigned newspapers and reports
  • Added: The "Share" newspaper icon now has a dropdown menu which replaces the annotate, email and "send to" icons
  • Added: The subscription tree now enables viewing all items published today and yesterday
  • Added: Search box added to newspaper, which enables searching only the posts displayed in the newspaper
  • Added: Search results can now be opened in a new browser tab
  • Added: OAuth support for Twitter feeds (here's why)
  • Added: Watches can now be limited to specific folders
  • Added: Significantly faster renaming of synched folders and tags
  • Added: Different background color to distinguish between multiple watch keywords
  • Added: Faster display of folder newspapers
  • Added: HTTP error report now enables updating all feeds with errors
  • Added: Added Facebook to list of search providers
  • Added: The address bar no longer shows http:// in URLs unless it has the focus
  • Added: Holding Shift+Delete in FeedStation deletes the selected files instead of sending them to the recycle bin
  • Added: "More" link added to newspaper, which provides access to the newspaper actions that previously required using the "Icons" button in FeedDemon's options (which has now been removed)
  • Added: Watches that are limited to specific folders now have a small folder icon overlaid on them
  • Added: "Unshare" icon added to shared items newspaper
  • Added: "Source" column added to FeedStation
  • Added: Performance enhancements to newspaper display
  • Added: "Z" newspaper shortcut key which toggles the content size (Surfer style only)
  • Added: "Add Feed" dialog now lets you know right away whether the feed title already exists
  • Added: Revised Expando newspaper style
  • Added: Newspaper style selection added to status bar
  • Added: Significant performance boost when viewing many items in a newspaper, especially with Expando style
  • Added: Ctrl= and Ctrl- now zoom the browser
  • Added: Recently-published items appear in the newspaper dated "5 minutes ago," "1 hour ago," etc.
  • Added: "Reopen Closed Tab" (Shift+Ctrl+T) added to browser menu
  • Added: Surfer newspaper style now enables turning off grouping
  • Added: My Stream - shows all starred posts, and all unread posts from the last 24 hours, in selected feeds. Designed to work best with frequently-updating status feeds (Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, etc.)
  • Added: Twitter feeds are automatically converted from RSS to Atom (since unlike the RSS version, the Atom version contains profile images). This may result in some initial duplication in Twitter feeds.
  • Added: Further tweaks to reports and newspaper styles (esp. Surfer)
  • Added: "My Stream" can now be undocked. The undocked stream will remain active and stay on top of other windows, even when FeedDemon is minimized.
  • Added: Watches can now be added to your stream
  • Added: Shift+Ctrl+F11 shortcut to show/hide the stream
  • Added: Performance and design tweaks to Subscriptions Home report
  • Added: "Share this Page" added to Browse menu and tabbed browser context menu
  • Added: Significantly improved synchronization efficiency
  • Added: Performance improvements throughout (thanks to SQLite 3.7)
  • Added: Windows 7 taskbar icon now shows overlay when new items are received and when working offline
  • Changed: Starred items no longer count towards the max number of items kept in a feed (ex: if the feed is set to keep 100 items but five of them are starred, then 105 items will be kept)
  • Changed: "Find New Feeds" now uses Google Reader's feed finder
  • Changed: Search-related features have been moved to the Tools menu
  • Changed: Newspaper styles now use the extension FDXSL3 and language files use the extension FDLANG3
  • Changed: Replaced toolbar icons in FeedStation
  • Changed: "Export Event Log" has been replaced with a new "Event Log Report" (View > Reports > FeedDemon Event Log). Note that you should rarely need to use this feature - it's really only there to help track down problems.
  • Changed: "Text Size" menu replaced with "Zoom" menu
  • Changed: Dropped the odd/even row coloring in Surfer style
  • Changed: Share, Tag, and More icons in newspaper changed to simple caption-less dropdown menus
  • Changed: FeedDemon now defaults to never showing in the system tray on Windows 7
  • Fixed: Feed properties dialog permits a blank feed URL
  • Fixed: Scientific American podcasts are incorrectly downloaded with a CFM extension
  • Fixed: Grouping by category in the news item list doesn't work
  • Fixed: CPU spikes when updating a single feed in HTTP error report
  • Fixed: Prefetch-related error messages in the status bar disappear too quickly to be read
  • Fixed: Tags still appear in FeedDemon after deleting all tags in Google Reader
  • Fixed: FeedStation doesn't show HTTP status code for failed downloads
  • Fixed: FeedStation's error log shows bogus "error synching" messages
  • Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't recognize the URLs of FDLANGs if they contain a query string
  • Fixed: Subscription report doesn't remove publisher's inline styles from hyperlinks
  • Fixed: Duplicates appear when re-running a watch that contains multiple keywords
  • Fixed: Re-running a watch adds more items than should be kept for that watch
  • Fixed: "Shared by People I Follow" shows duplicates of posts that already exist in your subscriptions
  • Fixed: FeedDemon fails to runs in IE8 Standards Mode
  • Fixed: Navigating items using newspaper shortcuts is inaccurate
  • Fixed: Enter key doesn't expand focused newspaper item
  • Fixed: "Time Cards" style missing background on 64-bit Windows 7
  • Fixed: Potential buffer overflow when a very long string is entered in the subscription wizard (hat tip to Luis Santana for reporting this)
  • Fixed: Not enough contrast between odd rows and focused row in Surfer newspaper
  • Fixed: Long headlines in Surfer newspaper are truncated
  • Fixed: Unnecessary repainting/flicker of subscriptions after hitting "Next Unread" when viewing all unread items
  • Fixed: Importing OPML into synched folders fails if any of the imported feeds have invalid URLs
  • Fixed: Clicking a menu item is treated as a click in the newspaper when the menu appears over the newspaper
  • Fixed: Time Cards style shows only a thumbnail for some comic strip feeds
  • Fixed: Incorrect encoding of Twitter logins prevents updating Twitter feeds
  • Fixed: Jack Brewster says I didn't warn you that installing pre-release software may impregnate your cat
  • Fixed: HTML in feed title causes problems in newspaper
  • Fixed: First item isn't automatically focused in newspaper
  • Fixed: IE8 document compatibility registry key is set every time FeedDemon starts
  • Fixed: "More" menu in newspaper doesn't enable adding to (deprecated) clippings
  • Fixed: Unsharing an item in "Shared by Me" doesn't remove it from the newspaper
  • Fixed: Crash when loading a feed or folder that uses an older newspaper style
  • Fixed: Missing header icon in surfer which marks group as read
  • Fixed: Large images may overlap description in newspaper
  • Fixed: Incorrect odd/even row coloring in Surfer style
  • Fixed: Unicode URLs still fail to open in external browser
  • Fixed: Can't select mapped drive from Manage Cache > Backup
  • Fixed: FeedDemon's sanitizer strips CSS height/width values even if they're within a reasonable range
  • Fixed: Subscription Home isn't fully viewable when the screen resolution is 1024x768
  • Fixed: Subtle flicker in subscription tree when marking individual items read
  • Fixed: Shared items context menu doesn't enable marking all shared items read
  • Fixed: Older items tagged in Google Reader don't always appear in FeedDemon
  • Fixed: Ugly "new items" tray icon
  • Fixed: Subtle bug using J/K to navigate the newspaper which causes headline to be out of view
  • Fixed: News item list incorrectly groups items published at midnight
  • Fixed: Items marked as "keep unread" in Google Reader don't appear as unread in FeedDemon
  • Fixed: PRE sections in item descriptions may overflow
  • Fixed: Subscriptions home page shows truncated text when "increase newspaper font size" is enabled
  • Fixed: goo.gl and bit.ly information links treated as short URLs
  • Fixed: Images in reddit.com feeds disappear when item expanded
  • Fixed: Numeric values in feed/folder properties don't allow cut/copy/paste shortcuts
  • Fixed: Newspaper grouping always shows in English
  • Fixed: Tabbed browser re-opens URLs in the wrong order
  • Fixed: Unsubscribe confirmation dialog doesn't display Unicode characters
  • Fixed: MediaRSS thumbnails not extracted from Blogger Atom feeds
  • Fixed: Invalid nesting of tags in Expando style
  • Fixed: "New items received" message doesn't appear when viewing all unread items
  • Fixed: FeedStation spikes the CPU when updating progress bar during a download
  • Fixed: FeedDemon permits using commas in folder names even though they're not supported by Google Reader
  • Fixed: FeedDemon fails to ask to go online at startup if it was exited while working offline and "remember my login" is disabled in sync options
  • Fixed: Installer uses invalid certificate
  • Fixed: Missing "open in new tab" icon when showing headlines
  • Fixed: Items shared by you show up in "Shared by people I follow" even if nobody else shared them

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.5.0.17 Pre-Release (Oct 13, 2010)

  • Fixed: Overlap of popular items in subscriptions report
  • Fixed: Invalid nesting of tags in Expando style
  • Fixed: Ctrl+Click doesn't work on hyperlinks in the newspaper
  • Fixed: "New items received" message doesn't appear when viewing all unread items
  • Fixed: "Your stream is empty" message isn't removed from stream when new items are added
  • Fixed: Future-dated posts don't appear in stream
  • Fixed: Missing status bar text when hovering over a URL in the stream

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.5.0.15 Pre-Release (Oct 8, 2010)

  • Added: My Stream - shows all starred posts, and all unread posts from the last 24 hours, in selected feeds. Designed to work best with frequently-updating status feeds (Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, etc.)
  • Added: Twitter feeds are automatically converted from RSS to Atom (since unlike the RSS version, the Atom version contains profile images). This may result in some initial duplication in Twitter feeds.
  • Added: Further tweaks to reports and newspaper styles (esp. Surfer)
  • Fixed: Duplication in non-synched feeds that don't use publication dates (3.5.0.15)
  • Fixed: Newspaper grouping always shows in English
  • Fixed: Tabbed browser re-opens URLs in the wrong order
  • Fixed: Unsubscribe confirmation dialog doesn't display Unicode characters
  • Fixed: MediaRSS thumbnails not extracted from Blogger Atom feeds

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.5.0.13 Pre-Release (Oct 3, 2010)

  • Added: Redesigned newspapers and reports
  • Added: The "Share" newspaper icon now has a dropdown menu which replaces the annotate, email and "send to" icons
  • Added: The subscription tree now enables viewing all items published today and yesterday
  • Added: Search box added to newspaper, which enables searching only the posts displayed in the newspaper
  • Added: Search results can now be opened in a new browser tab
  • Added: OAuth support for Twitter feeds (here's why)
  • Added: Watches can now be limited to specific folders
  • Added: Significantly faster renaming of synched folders and tags
  • Added: Different background color to distinguish between multiple watch keywords
  • Added: Faster display of folder newspapers
  • Added: HTTP error report now enables updating all feeds with errors
  • Added: Added Facebook to list of search providers
  • Added: The address bar no longer shows http:// in URLs unless it has the focus
  • Added: Holding Shift+Delete in FeedStation deletes the selected files instead of sending them to the recycle bin
  • Added: "Reopen Closed Tab" (Shift+Ctrl+T) added to browser menu (3.5.0.13)
  • Added: Surfer newspaper style now enables turning off grouping (3.5.0.13)
  • Added: Numerous tweaks to Surfer and Expando newspaper styles (3.5.0.13)
  • Changed: Starred items no longer count towards the max number of items kept in a feed (ex: if the feed is set to keep 100 items but five of them are starred, then 105 items will be kept)
  • Changed: "Find New Feeds" now uses Google Reader's feed finder
  • Changed: Search-related features have been moved to the Tools menu
  • Changed: Newspaper styles now use the extension FDXSL3 and language files use the extension FDLANG3
  • Changed: Expanding an unread item in Surfer style now marks it as read (3.5.0.13)
  • Changed: Dropped the odd/even row coloring in Surfer style (3.5.0.13)
  • Fixed: Feed properties dialog permits a blank feed URL
  • Fixed: Scientific American podcasts are incorrectly downloaded with a CFM extension
  • Fixed: Grouping by category in the news item list doesn't work
  • Fixed: CPU spikes when updating a single feed in HTTP error report
  • Fixed: Prefetch-related error messages in the status bar disappear too quickly to be read
  • Fixed: Tags still appear in FeedDemon after deleting all tags in Google Reader
  • Fixed: FeedStation doesn't show HTTP status code for failed downloads
  • Fixed: FeedStation's error log shows bogus "error synching" messages
  • Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't recognize the URLs of FDLANGs if they contain a query string
  • Fixed: Subscription report doesn't remove publisher's inline styles from hyperlinks
  • Fixed: Duplicates appear when re-running a watch that contains multiple keywords
  • Fixed: Re-running a watch adds more items than should be kept for that watch
  • Fixed: "Shared by People I Follow" shows duplicates of posts that already exist in your subscriptions
  • Fixed: "More" menu doesn't reflect changes to the language file until FeedDemon is restarted (3.5.0.13)
  • Fixed: Unread titles in Expando style don't reflect unread color selection (3.5.0.13)
  • Fixed: Titles cut off when RTL encoding selected (3.5.0.13)
  • Fixed: PRE sections in item descriptions may overflow (3.5.0.13)
  • Fixed: Subscriptions home page shows truncated text when "increase newspaper font size" is enabled (3.5.0.13)
  • Fixed: goo.gl and bit.ly information links treated as short URLs (3.5.0.13)
  • Fixed: Images in reddit.com feeds disappear when item expanded (3.5.0.13)
  • Fixed: Numeric values in feed/folder properties don't allow cut/copy/paste shortcuts (3.5.0.13)
  • Fixed: Future-dated items may display as "N minutes ago" or "N hours ago" (3.5.0.13)
  • Fixed: Duplicate posts in non-synched feeds (3.5.0.13)

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.5.0.11 Pre-Release (Sep 28, 2010)

  • Fixed: Twitter OAuth fails due to faulty DST calculation (3.5.0.11)
  • Fixed: "Sort in reverse" doesn't work (3.5.0.11)

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.5.0.9 Pre-Release (Sep 27, 2010)

  • Added: Newspaper style selection added to status bar
  • Added: Significant performance boost when viewing many items in a newspaper, especially with Expando style
  • Added: Ctrl= and Ctrl- now zoom the browser
  • Added: Recently-published items appear in the newspaper dated "5 minutes ago," "1 hour ago," etc.
  • Added: Numerous tweaks made to Expando newspaper style
  • Changed: Clicking a headline/excerpt in Surfer style no longer marks it as read, and no longer collapses the previously focused post
  • Changed: "Text Size" menu replace with "Zoom" menu
  • Fixed: Ugly "new items" tray icon
  • Fixed: Subtle bug using J/K to navigate the newspaper which causes headline to be out of view
  • Fixed: News item list incorrectly groups items published at midnight
  • Fixed: Items marked as "keep unread" in Google Reader don't appear as unread in FeedDemon

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.5.0.7 Pre-Release (Sep 22, 2010)

  • Fixed: Incorrect odd/even row coloring in Surfer style
  • Fixed: Unicode URLs still fail to open in external browser
  • Fixed: Can't select mapped drive from Manage Cache > Backup
  • Fixed: FeedDemon's sanitizer strips CSS height/width values even if they're within a reasonable range
  • Fixed: Subscription Home isn't fully viewable when the screen resolution is 1024x768
  • Fixed: Subtle flicker in subscription tree when marking individual items read
  • Fixed: Shared items context menu doesn't enable marking all shared items read
  • Fixed: Older items tagged in Google Reader don't always appear in FeedDemon

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.5.0.5 Pre-Release (Sep 20, 2010)

  • Changed: Mark unread has returned
  • Fixed: "More" menu in newspaper doesn't enable adding to (deprecated) clippings
  • Fixed: Unsharing an item in "Shared by Me" doesn't remove it from the newspaper
  • Fixed: Crash when loading a feed or folder that uses an older newspaper style
  • Fixed: Missing header icon in surfer which marks group as read
  • Fixed: Large images may overlap description in newspaper

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.5.0.3 Pre-Release (Sep 19, 2010)

  • Changed: Mark read icon returned to Surfer newspaper
  • Changed: "More" menu enables deleting items from watches
  • Changed: Surfer newspaper now enforces a min/max width
  • Fixed: Feed properties dialog permits a blank feed URL
  • Fixed: Scientific American podcasts are incorrectly downloaded with a CFM extension
  • Fixed: Grouping by category in the news item list doesn't work
  • Fixed: CPU spikes when updating a single feed in HTTP error report
  • Fixed: Prefetch-related error messages in the status bar disappear too quickly to be read
  • Fixed: Older items tagged in Google Reader don't always appear in FeedDemon
  • Fixed: Tags still appear in FeedDemon after deleting all tags in Google Reader
  • Fixed: FeedStation doesn't show HTTP status code for failed downloads
  • Fixed: FeedStation's error log shows bogus "error synching" messages
  • Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't recognize the URLs of FDLANGs if they contain a query string
  • Fixed: Subscription report doesn't remove publisher's inline styles from hyperlinks
  • Fixed: Duplicates appear when re-running a watch that contains multiple keywords
  • Fixed: Re-running a watch adds more items than should be kept for that watch
  • Fixed: "Shared by People I Follow" shows duplicates of posts that already exist in your subscriptions
  • Fixed: HTML in feed title causes problems in newspaper
  • Fixed: First item isn't automatically focused in newspaper
  • Fixed: IE8 document compatibility registry key is set every time FeedDemon starts

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.5.0.1 Pre-Release (Sep 18, 2010)

  • Added: Redesigned newspapers and reports
  • Added: The "Share" newspaper icon now has a dropdown menu which replaces the annotate, email and "send to" icons
  • Added: The subscription tree now enables viewing all items published today and yesterday
  • Added: Search box added to newspaper, which enables searching only the posts displayed in the newspaper
  • Added: Search results can now be opened in a new browser tab
  • Added: OAuth support for Twitter feeds (here's why)
  • Added: Watches can now be limited to specific folders
  • Added: Significantly faster renaming of synched folders and tags
  • Added: Different background color to distinguish between multiple watch keywords
  • Added: Faster display of folder newspapers
  • Added: HTTP error report now enables updating all feeds with errors
  • Added: Added Facebook to list of search providers
  • Added: The address bar no longer shows http:// in URLs unless it has the focus
  • Added: Holding Shift+Delete in FeedStation deletes the selected files instead of sending them to the recycle bin
  • Added: "More" link added to newspaper, which provides access to the newspaper actions that previously required using the "Icons" button in FeedDemon's options (which has now been removed)
  • Added: Watches that are limited to specific folders now have a small folder icon overlaid on them
  • Added: "Unshare" icon added to shared items newspaper
  • Added: "Source" column added to FeedStation
  • Added: Performance enhancements to newspaper display
  • Changed: Starred items no longer count towards the max number of items kept in a feed (ex: if the feed is set to keep 100 items but five of them are starred, then 105 items will be kept)
  • Changed: "Find New Feeds" now uses Google Reader's feed finder
  • Changed: Search-related features have been moved to the Tools menu
  • Changed: Newspaper styles now use the extension .FDXSL3 and language files use the extension .FDLANG3
  • Changed: The icon which enables customizing newspaper icons has been removed (but the same feature is still available via the "Reading" tab in Options)
  • Changed: Replaced toolbar icons in FeedStation
  • Fixed: Feed properties dialog permits a blank feed URL
  • Fixed: Scientific American podcasts are incorrectly downloaded with a CFM extension
  • Fixed: Grouping by category in the news item list doesn't work
  • Fixed: CPU spikes when updating a single feed in HTTP error report
  • Fixed: Prefetch-related error messages in the status bar disappear too quickly to be read
  • Fixed: Older items tagged in Google Reader don't always appear in FeedDemon
  • Fixed: Tags still appear in FeedDemon after deleting all tags in Google Reader
  • Fixed: FeedStation doesn't show HTTP status code for failed downloads
  • Fixed: FeedStation's error log shows bogus "error synching" messages
  • Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't recognize the URLs of FDLANGs if they contain a query string
  • Fixed: Subscription report doesn't remove publisher's inline styles from hyperlinks
  • Fixed: Duplicates appear when re-running a watch that contains multiple keywords
  • Fixed: Re-running a watch adds more items than should be kept for that watch
  • Fixed: "Shared by People I Follow" shows duplicates of posts that already exist in your subscriptions
  • Fixed: FeedDemon fails to runs in IE8 Standards Mode
  • Fixed: Navigating items using newspaper shortcuts is inaccurate
  • Fixed: Enter key doesn't expand focused newspaper item
  • Fixed: "Time Cards" style missing background on 64-bit Windows 7
  • Fixed: Potential buffer overflow when a very long string is entered in the subscription wizard (hat tip to Luis Santana for reporting this)
  • Fixed: Not enough contrast between odd rows and focused row in Surfer newspaper
  • Fixed: Long headlines in Surfer newspaper are truncated
  • Fixed: Unnecessary repainting/flicker of subscriptions after hitting "Next Unread" when viewing all unread items
  • Fixed: Importing OPML into synched folders fails if any of the imported feeds have invalid URLs
  • Fixed: Clicking a menu item is treated as a click in the newspaper when the menu appears over the newspaper
  • Fixed: Time Cards style shows only a thumbnail for some comic strip feeds
  • Fixed: Incorrect encoding of Twitter logins prevents updating Twitter feeds
  • Fixed: Jack Brewster says I didn't warn you that installing pre-release software may impregnate your cat

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.5.0.0 Pre-Release (Sep 10, 2010)

  • Added: Redesigned newspapers and reports
  • Added: The "Share" newspaper icon now has a dropdown menu which replaces the annotate, email and "send to" icons
  • Added: The subscription tree now enables viewing all items published today and yesterday
  • Added: Search box added to newspaper, which enables searching only the posts displayed in the newspaper
  • Added: Search results can now be opened in a new browser tab
  • Added: OAuth support for Twitter feeds (here's why)
  • Added: Watches can now be limited to specific folders
  • Added: Significantly faster renaming of synched folders and tags
  • Added: Different background color to distinguish between multiple watch keywords
  • Added: Faster display of folder newspapers
  • Added: HTTP error report now enables updating all feeds with errors
  • Added: Added Facebook to list of search providers
  • Added: The address bar no longer shows http:// in URLs unless it has the focus
  • Added: Holding Shift+Delete in FeedStation deletes the selected files instead of sending them to the recycle bin
  • Changed: Starred items no longer count towards the max number of items kept in a feed (ex: if the feed is set to keep 100 items but five of them are starred, then 105 items will be kept)
  • Changed: "Find New Feeds" now uses Google Reader's feed finder
  • Changed: Search-related features have been moved to the Tools menu
  • Changed: Newspaper styles now use the extension .FDXSL3 and language files use the extension .FDLANG3
  • Removed: The icon which enables customizing newspaper icons has been removed (but the same feature is still available via the "Reading" tab in Options)
  • Fixed: Feed properties dialog permits a blank feed URL
  • Fixed: Scientific American podcasts are incorrectly downloaded with a CFM extension
  • Fixed: Grouping by category in the news item list doesn't work
  • Fixed: CPU spikes when updating a single feed in HTTP error report
  • Fixed: Prefetch-related error messages in the status bar disappear too quickly to be read
  • Fixed: Older items tagged in Google Reader don't always appear in FeedDemon
  • Fixed: Tags still appear in FeedDemon after deleting all tags in Google Reader
  • Fixed: FeedStation doesn't show HTTP status code for failed downloads
  • Fixed: FeedStation's error log shows bogus "error synching" messages
  • Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't recognize the URLs of FDLANGs if they contain a query string
  • Fixed: Subscription report doesn't remove publisher's inline styles from hyperlinks
  • Fixed: Duplicates appear when re-running a watch that contains multiple keywords
  • Fixed: Re-running a watch adds more items than should be kept for that watch
  • Fixed: "Shared by People I Follow" shows duplicates of posts that already exist in your subscriptions

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.1.0.30 (Jun 11, 2010)

  • Added: After you subscribe to a feed, FeedDemon now request the most recent 100 articles in that feed (regardless of date)
  • Added: t.co and twt.tl added to short URL preview
  • Changed: When using Options > Passwords to edit the login for a feed, FeedDemon now detects when you have multiple feeds in the same domain with the same login as the feed being edited, and if so prompts whether to change all their logins to match
  • Changed: Content filter feed selection dialog can now be resized
  • Changed: Per-feed prefetch options have been removed
  • Changed: "Like" icon changed to "Thumbs Up" icon
  • Changed: Search keyword is now automatically selected in "Search Subscriptions" dialog
  • Fixed: SharePoint feeds fail to update due to bad ETags
  • Fixed: Watches ignore items in "People I Follow"
  • Fixed: Print and Print Preview dialogs fall behind main window when printing a FeedDemon newspaper
  • Fixed: Feed, folder and item titles that begin with a number aren't sorted numerically when sorting by title

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.1.0.20 (Mar 2, 2010)

  • Added: Significant performance improvement to "Subscriptions Home" report
  • Added: "Send To" now supports passing the current selection via a {selected-text} token
  • Changed: FeedStation added back to Tools menu
  • Changed: "Export Event Log" no longer prompts for options
  • Changed: Google Reader authentication rewritten due to changes in Google's authentication API
  • Changed: "Popular in My Subscriptions" now skips nofollow links
  • Changed: Redesigned popular topics
  • Changed: Slight redesign of subscription report (including removal of backup notice)
  • Fixed: Send To Delicious fails unless you're already logged into Delicious
  • Fixed: Titles of shared items don't reflect language change until restart
  • Fixed: Dinosaur report doesn't include feeds that have never updated
  • Fixed: Newspaper export doesn't honor grouping choice
  • Fixed: Subscription search doesn't correctly handle Unicode
  • Fixed: Feeds marked read in Google Reader remain visible at startup when using unread feed/folder view
  • Fixed: Startup wizard displays after every install when sync wasn't enabled in previous version
  • Fixed: Error during custom install if previous installation folder is no longer available
  • Fixed: "Unfollow" fails due to changes in the Google Reader API

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.1.0.12 (Feb 3, 2010)

  • Added: "Like" icon added to recommended articles
  • Added: Facebook and Instapaper added to "Send To" menu
  • Added: This month/last month added to subscription search
  • Fixed: Performance loss when marking multiple items read
  • Fixed: Future-dated posts appear in "Popular in My Subscriptions"
  • Fixed: Feed list temporarily shows incorrect unread count after purging if the number of items to keep is less than the number of new items received

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.1.0.9 (Jan 27, 2010)

  • Added: Significant performance improvement when news item list is showing
  • Changed: When the newspaper is grouped by title, items are now sorted by title rather than by date (reverted to pre-3.1 behavior)
  • Fixed: "Send To" appears twice in newspaper shortcuts dialog
  • Fixed: "Translate" icon always translates into English, regardless of language setting in Google Reader
  • Fixed: Duplication of items in recently added non-synched feeds

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.1.0.8 (Jan 25, 2010)

  • Added: "Shared by people I follow" displays articles shared by the people you follow in Google Reader
  • Added: Content filters (Tools > Manage Content Filters) can be applied to individual feeds to automatically mark incoming items as read
  • Added: New "Translate item" newspaper icon translates the item into your language. Items in synched feeds are translated inline, whereas items in non-synched feeds browse to Google Translate for the translation
  • Added: Further synchronization optimizations, including significantly faster synching of shared items
  • Added: Feed preview now uses a fixed header and enables toggling between full posts, summaries and headlines
  • Added: "Choose newspaper icons" added to newspaper - enables quickly choosing which icons to show under each item
  • Added: "Like" icon added to newspaper for synched feeds (what is this?). Note that this doesn't appear by default - you must enable it using the new "choose newspaper icons" gear icon.
  • Added: "Remember my login" added to synchronization options (disable to require FeedDemon to ask for your login every time it starts)
  • Added: Short url preview now supports goo.gl, youtu.be, fb.me, flic.kr, ow.ly and clicky.me
  • Added: Print and print preview from the embedded browser now handle the active newspaper by expanding collapsed descriptions, hiding FeedDemon icons, etc.
  • Added: "Send To" menu now includes Twitter
  • Added: HTTP error report now enables re-checking a feed's status
  • Changed: Search results now always use the default "Surfer" newspaper style
  • Changed: Options-related items moved to submenu of Tools menu, import/export-related items moved to submenu of File menu
  • Changed: When the newspaper is grouped by title, items are now sorted by date rather than by title (so newer items come first)
  • Fixed: Unresponsiveness while updating feeds due to auto-purging of older items
  • Fixed: Focused post not highlighted in newspaper when using silver theme
  • Fixed: Incorrect sizing of embedded browser after display resolution or multi-monitor settings changed
  • Fixed: Enclosure URL doesn't appear in status bar when mousing over enclosure icon
  • Fixed: Application fails to correctly minimize to the tray after clicking a mouse button that has been assigned to the "minimize" action
  • Fixed: Incorrect startup screen position on single-monitor system when taskbar docked to left
  • Fixed: Items in disabled feeds still get added during resync
  • Fixed: Unsharing a single item (ie: deleting it from your shared items) fails to sync
  • Fixed: Duplicate YouTube videos may appear in "Popular in My Subscriptions" if they use different formats
  • Fixed: Feeds with invalid/expired certificates silently fail to update
  • Fixed: Tags assigned to posts in un-synched feeds may be lost after converting the feeds to sync
  • Fixed: Twitter avatars display even when "optimize for low bandwidth" is enabled
  • Fixed: Cleanup wizard enables choosing to cleanup watches even when none exist
  • Fixed: Printing a FeedDemon newspaper crops the last line of text from each page
  • Fixed: Timeout errors with non-synched feeds that use temporary redirects to a different host name
  • Fixed: Connection reset errors with non-secure feeds that redirect to secure URL
  • Fixed: Reading all unread items in a feed doesn't remove it from the desktop alert when the desktop alert is "pinned" (so that it's always showing)
  • Fixed: Summaries shown in newspaper may be very short for articles with several long hyperlinks in the first few sentences

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.41 (Sep 25, 2009)

  • Fixed: Crash when customizing toolbuttons
  • Fixed: Feed context menu disappears when feed title extends beyond width of feedbar

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.40 (Sep 24, 2009)

  • Added: Google Reader synchronization
  • Added: Redesigned "Subscriptions Home" page with popular videos and articles extracted from your feeds
  • Added: Items can now be tagged
  • Added: "Quick Tag" menu added next to tag icon in newspaper - enables quickly adding/removing a tag
  • Added: "Share" icon added to newspaper which adds the item to your Google Reader shared items
  • Added: Ability to view all unread or flagged items at once
  • Added: Hovering over a short URL (TinyURL.com, etc.) now shows the full URL in a balloon tip so you know where the URL redirects (great when browsing Twitter). For a list of supported URL shortening services, see the file ShortUrl.xml in FeedDemon's Data subfolder.
  • Added: Automatic hyperlinking of URLs, @replies, #hashtags and author names in Twitter feeds. Profile pictures will also be displayed when subscribing to the Atom version of a Twitter feed if the feed is in a folder that isn't synchronized.
  • Added: "Reply" link in newspaper when viewing a post from a Twitter feed
  • Added: Redesigned toolbutton icons
  • Added: "Icons" button added to Options|Reading which enables choosing which icons should appear beneath each item in the newspaper (due to this addition, several of the default icons from previous versions are now hidden by default)
  • Added: Close button added to individual browser tabs
  • Added: Significant performance improvements in "Popular Topics," "Search Subscriptions," newspaper display and many other areas
  • Added: Significantly reduced memory consumption
  • Added: "Export Newspaper" added to File menu - exports all posts from all pages in the active newspaper to an external HTML document
  • Added: "Surfer" newspaper style now remembers whether thumbnails have been collapsed
  • Added: "Enable page transitions" has been added to Options|Appearance, which defaults to being enabled
  • Added: FeedDemon attempts to detect when script debugging is enabled in Internet Explorer and asks whether to turn it off (script debugging causes error dialogs to popup while browsing inside any application that embeds IE)
  • Added: Fixed header in reports/newspapers
  • Added: "Browser Home" added to tabbed browser context menu
  • Added: Hourglass icon now appears on browser tabs that are still loading
  • Added: Main menu can be toggled by right-clicking any toolbar and selecting "Show main menu"
  • Added: Theme selection added to Appearance page in Options (this replaces the "UI Style" option from previous versions)
  • Added: Newspaper now displays "new items received" message when new items are downloaded in the feed or folder showing in the newspaper
  • Added: "Export Top Feeds" added to File menu
  • Added: "Panic Button" now enables marking everything more than 12 hours old as read
  • Added: "Attention Report" now enables exporting top feeds as OPML
  • Added: Cleanup Wizard and Panic Button can now be limited to specific folders
  • Added: Feed and folder properties now enable specifying how many days to keep items
  • Added: When you switch to a language file other than the default, FeedDemon validates it to make sure it doesn't have any missing entries or arguments. If any problems are found, a dialog will alert that the language file contains errors and recommend that it not be used. Details on the errors are also shown in this dialog, which should help translators debug their work.
  • Added: Support for GIF, PNG, JPEG, BMP and truecolor ICO favicons
  • Added: Attention report now enables resetting attention rank for all feeds
  • Added: Progress bar added while synching/updating
  • Added: "Ignore new items older than" added to folder properties
  • Added: Bing search definition
  • Added: Visual enhancements in subscription tree when using Windows Vista or Windows 7
  • Added: "Express Setup" added to install - quickly installs FeedDemon using default location and program group
  • Added: "E" single-key newspaper shortcut to email active item
  • Added: Option to automatically start FeedDemon when Windows starts
  • Added: Enclosure icon added to feed preview
  • Added: Author names, re tweets and hyperlinks in Twitter status posts are now included in FeedDemon's prefetch
  • Removed: NewsGator synchronization is no longer available
  • Removed: "Feed History" report has been removed
  • Changed: Feed content is now stored in a SQLite database instead of in individual XML files
  • Changed: System requirements now state that IE7 rather than IE6 is required
  • Changed: "Always switch to new tabs" setting replaced with "Open new browser tabs" setting which enables choosing between always opening new tabs in the foreground, always opening new tabs in the background, and open new tabs in the background when CTRL is down
  • Changed: "Flags" have been renamed "Stars" for consistency with Google Reader
  • Changed: Browser toolbar simplified by hiding several toolbuttons (note: if there's a button you want back, just click the "Customize" arrow at the far right of the toolbar)
  • Changed: "Flags" have been renamed "Stars" for consistency with Google Reader
  • Changed: Browser toolbar simplified by hiding several toolbuttons (note: if there's a button you want back, just click the "Customize" arrow at the far right of the toolbar)
  • Changed: "Favorites" is now on the main menu instead of the toolbar above the browser
  • Changed: Auto-discovered feed icon is now part of the address bar
  • Changed: Check for new version and "what's new" are now integrated into the subscription home report
  • Changed: Panic Button results now shown in "timed" dialog which automatically disappears after 60 seconds
  • Changed: Surfer newspaper now shows friendlier message when no items match the current filter
  • Changed: Simplified Options dialog by removing outdated settings
  • Changed: New browser tabs are now opened adjacent to the active tab instead of after the last tab (similar to IE7 and Chrome)
  • Changed: Language files ("FDLANGs") are now installed under the user's local application data folder (previous versions stored FDLANGs in a subfolder of Program FilesFeedDemon, which caused Vista's folder virtualization to kick in when a non-admin user attempted to download an FDLANG)
  • Changed: Inline search bar flashes briefly when displayed to draw attention to it (some customers expected Ctrl+F to show IE's "Find" dialog and didn't notice inline search bar)
  • Changed: Email icon now shown in newspaper by default
  • Changed: Simplified Cleanup Wizard (now a simple dialog instead of a wizard)
  • Changed: "Feeds with HTTP Errors" report renamed "Feeds with Errors"
  • Changed: FeedDemon's install is almost 30% smaller than before
  • Changed: The default # of items per newspaper page is now 25 instead of 10
  • Changed: Search results now use "surfer" style
  • Changed: Setup now defaults to installing under the local appdata folder when run by non-admin user (since "Program Files" requires admin rights on Vista/Win7).
  • Changed: Feed updating is now paused while performing an action that may modify your feeds (unsubscribing, changing options, performing cleanup, etc.)
  • Changed: Error reporting now includes an "exit application" checkbox
  • Fixed: Import dialog appears frozen while loading very large OPML files
  • Fixed: Setup doesn't handle the situation where FeedDemon was previously installed to Program Files by an admin user, but is now being installed by a non-admin user
  • Fixed: Prefetch has been rewritten to resolve sporadic exceptions that occurred in previous versions (esp. when IE8 installed)
  • Fixed: Incorrect date grouping in news item list
  • Fixed: "Browser Home" icon on new tab page fails when IE8 is installed
  • Fixed: Clicking close button on browser tab changes the active tab
  • Fixed: Resizing columns in FeedStation sometimes leaves blank area on left
  • Fixed: FeedStation setup requires admin rights
  • Fixed: Empty hyperlinks cause extra whitespace in newspaper when showing excerpts
  • Fixed: Prefetch consumes too much memory if a large number of new items are received in a single update
  • Fixed: FeedStation creates incorrect folder names if enclosure URL contains spaces
  • Fixed: Disabled watches fail to be grayed out when they contains unread items
  • Fixed: Embedded HTML Tidy locks up when item description contains unclosed XML instruction
  • Fixed: Unsubscribing from multiple feeds is slow
  • Fixed: Left/right arrow keys don't work in the inline search box
  • Fixed: Bad comments in feed prevent some items from being shown in FeedDemon newspaper
  • Fixed: Excessive flicker when selecting "Close Other Tabs"
  • Fixed: EOutOfResources error when running FeedDemon in a remote session
  • Fixed: FeedDemon comes to the front of other applications when the desktop alert's close button is clicked
  • Fixed: FeedDemon warns that you're subscribing to a feed you're already subscribed to even when it's a secure feed that you've supplied a different login to
  • Fixed: Items deleted from non-synched feeds reappear during a later update
  • Fixed: J/K newspaper shortcuts scroll too far
  • Fixed: URLs in address bar dropdown can be wider than address bar itself
  • Fixed: Cancelling "Panic Button" still causes "No items marked read" to appear in the status bar
  • Fixed: FeedDemon blocks enclosure URLs that end in whitespace
  • Fixed: Google AdSense image ads aren't skipped by FeedDemon's prefetch, and they appear even when showing excerpts
  • Fixed: FeedDemon can't subscribe to feeds containing numerous encoding errors
  • Fixed: When IE's popup blocker is disabled, multiple IE windows are spawned when "Open external links in default browser" is enabled and feed contains Brightcove video player
  • Fixed: "Subscription Home" report not updated when FeedDemon isn't the active application
  • Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't highlight in the taskbar when it displays a dialog and it's not the active application
  • Fixed: Progress bar fails to update when backing up cache folder on Windows Vista
  • Fixed: Many missing menu mnemonics (say that five times fast)
  • Fixed: Ctrl+Alt+Home opens feed's home page in new browser tab instead of current one
  • Fixed: Clicking "Next Page" does nothing when root watches or shared items node is selected
  • Fixed: "Import Feeds" slow to show list of feeds
  • Fixed: Choosing "Show in External Browser" sometimes fails when Google Chrome is the default browser
  • Fixed: Icon for "Show in default browser" not always correct after installing IE8
  • Fixed: EOleException or EInvalidPointer exception when closing a browser tab (automatic error reporting showed this as the #1 bug)
  • Fixed: ESQLite3 exception when feed auto-discovered
  • Fixed: EIntOverflow exception caused by converting invalid dates
  • Fixed: EListError exception when importing feeds
  • Fixed: EStringListError exception with duplicate language resources
  • Fixed: EListError exception when accessing favorites offline
  • Fixed: EOleSysError exception when emailing post with Microsoft Outlook
  • Fixed: EnbFeedXmlParser exception parsing feed that has no node
  • Fixed: EWriteError exception saving invalid favicon
  • Fixed: EAccessViolation exception after hitting "Panic Button"
  • Fixed: EAccessViolation exception after moving feed

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.39 Pre-Release (Sep 21, 2009)

  • Added: Further sync enhancements
  • Added: FeedDemon now confirms whether to remove feeds that no longer exist in your Google Reader subscriptions
  • Changed: Removed blocking "Synchronization" dialog from most places
  • Changed: Simplified cleanup wizard
  • Fixed: Synched Yahoo! Pipes feeds fail to update in FeedDemon
  • Fixed: FeedDemon fails to download more than 250 new items even when a feed contains many more items than that
  • Fixed: Separators in newspaper filter can be highlighted
  • Fixed: Tray icon continues to show unread items after synching even when all unread items were marked read outside of FeedDemon

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.38 Pre-Release (Sep 18, 2009)

  • Added: Significantly improved synchronization performance, especially when a large number of unread items exist
  • Changed: Simplified connection settings dialog - max # of connections is no longer configurable (instead, the number of feeds to update at once is determined internally)
  • Changed: Synchronization progress redesigned to look more "infinite"
  • Fixed: FeedDemon opens new tabs for links double-clicked in the news item list
  • Fixed: Crash when updating tags
  • Fixed: Unescaped ampersand in English language file
  • Fixed: Older shared items coming back as unread
  • Fixed: Shared items aren't re-created if cache folder is deleted

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.37 Pre-Release (Sep 17, 2009)

  • Added: Attention report now enables resetting attention rank for all feeds
  • Added: Progress bar added while synching/updating
  • Changed: "Always switch to new tabs" setting replaced with "Open new browser tabs" setting which enables choosing between always opening new tabs in the foreground, always opening new tabs in the background, and open new tabs in the background when CTRL is down
  • Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't remove shared items that were unshared outside of that copy of FeedDemon
  • Fixed: If FeedDemon is left running, it won't see changes to tags, stars and shared items made on another computer unless it's restarted or "Update All" is selected
  • Fixed: Occasional duplication of shared items that were shared in that copy of FeedDemon from a browser tab or a non-synched feed
  • Fixed: Updating may still occur even when it should be paused (such as when the Options dialog is shown)

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.36 Pre-Release (Sep 15, 2009)

  • Added: Performance improvements when browsing inside FeedDemon, and when FeedDemon is restored after being minimized
  • Added: "Download additional languages" added to Languages submenu (page will be updated with available language files after the final release of v3.0)
  • Added: FeedDemon now checks whether you have over 2000 unread items in Google Reader, and if so it asks whether to mark some of them as read before synching (similar to the "Panic Button," but items are marked read in Google Reader directly)
  • Changed: FeedDemon now warns before adding a tag with the same name as an existing folder (necessary since Google Reader treats folders as tags)
  • Changed: When an item is shared, it's no longer marked unread when added to your shared items
  • Changed: Removed the workaround added in build 3.0.0.31 to resolve problem where Google Reader sends FeedDemon more starred items than it actually has (apologies for people who are experiencing this problem, but the workaround was preventing other customers from getting older starred items)
  • Changed: "Open new tabs in the background" has been removed and replaced with "Always switch to new tabs when they are created" to more closely mimic default browser behavior (links are opened in a background tab when CTRL is held unless this setting is enabled)
  • Fixed: Flag icons appearing in various places where star icons should appear
  • Fixed: Double-clicking the news item list opens the wrong external link if the mouse is moved before the second click completes
  • Fixed: Exception caused by feeds updating while database is being compacted
  • Fixed: "Update Shared Items" context menu item doesn't work
  • Fixed: Unicode favorites don't display correctly and fail to navigate to URL
  • Fixed: In rare cases, FeedDemon would stop synching until it's restarted
  • Fixed: Watches appear to miss new items in synched feeds
  • Fixed: Crash at startup if cache folder no longer exists
  • Fixed: When renaming a synched tag, the tag gets renamed in FeedDemon even when it fails to be renamed in Google Reader
  • Fixed: FeedDemon fails to show synched tags that have the same name as a synched folder but use different casing (ex: "local" vs "Local")

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.35 Pre-Release (Sep 10, 2009)

  • The exact steps to reproduce the problem
  • The URL of the feed you're seeing the problem with (if applicable)
  • The versions of Windows and IE you're using
  • The anti-virus and/or firewall software you're using

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.34 Pre-Release (Sep 8, 2009)

  • The exact steps to reproduce the problem
  • The URL of the feed you're seeing the problem with (if applicable)
  • The versions of Windows and IE you're using
  • The anti-virus and/or firewall software you're using

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.33 Pre-Release (Sep 7, 2009)

  • The exact steps to reproduce the problem
  • The URL of the feed you're seeing the problem with (if applicable)
  • The versions of Windows and IE you're using
  • The anti-virus and/or firewall software you're using

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.32 Pre-Release (Sep 4, 2009)

  • Added: Database size now displayed in Manage Cache dialog
  • Added: j.mp added to ShortUrl support
  • Changed: Overlay icon on synched folders changed to one that more closely resembles Google Reader logo
  • Changed: "Resync Now" now gets recently read items that don't already exist in that copy of FeedDemon
  • Fixed: Splitter which hides news item list disappears after being clicked
  • Fixed: Sync conversion displays message stating that existing subscriptions will be imported into Google Reader even when there aren't any existing subscriptions
  • Fixed: Clipped posts in synched feeds marked read while synching

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.31 Pre-Release (Sep 3, 2009)

  • Added: Status/progress dialog added when importing synched feeds
  • Added: Improved performance and responsiveness while updating feeds
  • Added: "Go straight to item link" (re)added to Reading page in Options
  • Changed: "Next Unread" now skips disabled feeds
  • Changed: Auto-preview in the news item list now extends to the right edge (previously stopped at flag/enclosure icon)
  • Changed: "Feeds with HTTP Errors" report renamed "Feeds with Errors"
  • Changed: Serial number validation is now performed in a background thread and times out if the validation service can't be reached
  • Fixed: Severe performance problem after resizing news item list when auto-preview enabled
  • Fixed: Groups in surfer newspaper style aren't collapsible if their captions include Unicode characters
  • Fixed: Serial number overlaps translator credit in About box
  • Fixed: Purchase dialog can't be translated
  • Fixed: Unfocused selected in subscriptions is hard to see
  • Fixed: FeedDemon version information missing in the Windows Uninstall Control Panel applet
  • Fixed: FeedDemon crashes or disappears when it starts to update synched tags
  • Fixed: Tags added via "Quick Tag" menu aren't synched
  • Fixed: Synchronize checkbox in "New Folder" dialog is enabled even when not synching with Google Reader
  • Fixed: First submenu in Favorites is disabled
  • Fixed: Status dialog stays on top of other apps during some lengthy operations
  • Fixed: Missing items in some feeds due to replication delays
  • Fixed: Sporadic EListError exceptions while updating feeds
  • Fixed: Workaround added to resolve problem where Google Reader sends FeedDemon more starred items than it actually has

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.30 Pre-Release (Sep 1, 2009)

  • Added: Ability to purchase a serial number to turn off the ads (Help | Purchase)
  • Added: More improvements to Google Reader synchronization
  • Added: "Show item descriptions" has been added back to the toolbar above the news item list
  • Added: Conversion from non-sync to Google Reader sync now enables choosing which folders to sync
  • Added: Synchronization options now enables choosing which folders to sync
  • Changed: "Subscribe to comments" icon has returned to the newspaper (non-synched feeds only)
  • Fixed: Slow performance when using the news item list to delete or mark read/unread a large number of items
  • Fixed: FeedDemon should warn about adding an authenticated feed to Google Reader
  • Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't delete the ".journal" file when you compact the database
  • Fixed: Single-key newspaper shortcuts get incorrectly assigned after customizing them
  • Fixed: Tags added to shared items don't appear in Google Reader
  • Fixed: Updating a single synched feed marks it as read
  • Fixed: Older posts in synched feeds incorrectly marked as read
  • Fixed: FeedDemon shouldn't enable changing the URL of a synched feed
  • Fixed: Incorrect context menu for shared items
  • Fixed: Google login error dialog doesn't differentiate between a bad login and a more general connection error

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.29 Pre-Release (Aug 29, 2009)

  • Added: Conversion to Google Reader is now done in a separate thread
  • Added: Tray icon tooltip now includes unread count
  • Added: Subscription report now includes a reminder to compact FeedDemon's database when it's highly fragmented
  • Added: Reworked Folder Properties to more closely match Feed Properties, added "Enable," "Exclude from all watches" and "Collect attention data" checkboxes
  • Added: Subscription Home now includes link to HTTP error report if any HTTP errors exit
  • Added: Behavior of spacebar in the newspaper can now be customized (Tools | Keyboard Shortcuts | Newspaper)
  • Changed: "Quick Tag" menu has been redesigned - suggested tags are shown in blue, existing tags are bolded
  • Changed: Resync moved to first tab in synchronization options, "Advanced" tab renamed to "Account," "Disable synchronization" renamed to "Remove account"
  • Changed: HTTP error report now skips disabled feeds
  • Changed: Newspaper debug setting no longer saved between sessions (defaults to off)
  • Fixed: FeedStation fails to clean up old temporary files
  • Fixed: Crash at startup in some environments
  • Fixed: Folder properties doesn't enable entering more than two digits in the update frequency setting
  • Fixed: FeedStation fails to follow more than two redirects, causing problems with feeds like those from Scientific American whose enclosure URLs redirect more than twice
  • Fixed: Synchronization options dialog doesn't save changes to settings before performing resync
  • Fixed: "Rerun watch" doesn't skip feeds excluded from all watches
  • Fixed: "Check My Podcasts Now" shouldn't appear on FeedStation's tray icon menu
  • Fixed: "Add Subscription" sometimes fails with valid feeds if the previous feed was invalid

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.28 Pre-Release (Aug 22, 2009)

  • Added: Google Reader sync is now more efficient, reliable and bandwidth-friendly
  • Added: Synchronization options dialog now enables switching to a different Google Reader account
  • Added: Application event log - select "Export event log" from the File menu for a human-readable XML version (useful primarily for support/debugging)
  • Added: Tools | Options | Passwords now enables adding a login to a feed that didn't previously have one
  • Changed: When using spacebar to navigate posts in the newspaper, FeedDemon now scrolls the page instead of moving to the next post if the selected post extends beyond the page
  • Fixed: News item list doesn't reload search results
  • Fixed: "Column does not exist" error after upgrading from an old beta version
  • Fixed: Feeds added to root folder show up under "[My Feeds]" in Google Reader
  • Fixed: After converting to Google Reader sync, auto-download of enclosures re-occurs with previously downloaded enclosures
  • Fixed: Progress dialog "flashes" on screen and then quickly disappears after synching downloaded podcasts
  • Fixed: Crash when running panic filter
  • Fixed: Synchronization sometimes fails to detect when there are no unread posts in Google Reader

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.27 Pre-Release (Aug 19, 2009)

  • Rewritten: Retrieval of synched feeds has been completely rewritten. Note that due to this change, the first feed update after FeedDemon starts may be noticeably slower than in previous builds, but subsequent updates will be much faster.
  • Added: "Quick Tag" menu added next to tag icon in newspaper - enables quickly adding/removing a tag
  • Added: Hitting spacebar in the newspaper now moves to the next post
  • Added: FAQ added to FeedDemon's online help
  • Added: Improved synching of flagged items that existed prior to converting to Google Reader
  • Added: wp.me added to ShortUrl support
  • Added: Prefetch options now enable skipping items older than a specific number of days (the default is five)
  • Added: Converting a folder to/from Google Reader sync now shows a progress dialog
  • Added: Converting a folder to Google Reader now attempts to sync pre-existing flags
  • Changed: When updating synched feeds, FeedDemon now requests more items from high-traffic feeds
  • Changed: Resync no longer marks synched feeds as read before unread posts have been retrieved from Google Reader
  • Removed: Automatic prefetch is no longer available
  • Fixed: Deleting or renaming a tag doesn't sync with Google Reader
  • Fixed: "Outland" newspaper style missing author and source
  • Fixed: FeedDemon fails to record the "gr:original-id" of items in synched feeds
  • Fixed: Clippings export uses cryptic title
  • Fixed: Dragging a tag onto a browser tab causes the subscription dialog to appear
  • Fixed: FeedDemon fails to ask whether to stop working offline when synched feeds are moved
  • Fixed: Reappearance of unread/flagged items deleted from synched feeds
  • Fixed: Flags in shared items fail to sync
  • Fixed: Tags deleted from all items in Google Reader aren't removed from FeedDemon
  • Fixed: Database locking error on startup
  • Fixed: Items incorrectly grouped as "Older" in newspaper
  • Fixed: Images appear in expanded items even when "optimize for slow connections" is enabled
  • Fixed: Synchronization update frequency not always honored
  • Fixed: FeedDemon waits several minutes before updating feeds after converting to Google Reader

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.25 RC4 (Aug 7, 2009)

  • Removed: NewsGator synchronization is no longer available
  • Added: At startup, FeedDemon now provides the ability to convert your NewsGator subscriptions to Google Reader
  • Added: "Create Google Account" hyperlink added to Google Account dialog
  • Added: "Execute Feed Database SQL" added to Debug menu (useful for support reasons - I don't recommend using this yourself)
  • Added: "Export Clippings" added to clippings context menu (exports clippings as RSS)
  • Added: Twitpic URLs in Twitter feeds now show an image icon
  • Changed: Converting your NewsGator subscriptions to Google Reader subscriptions has been rewritten
  • Changed: "Resynchronize" has been completely rewritten to address a number of problems customers have been reporting (it's also much faster now)
  • Changed: Google Reader only considers the 10 most recent items from the past 30 days to be unread when subscribing to a feed. This is now reflected in FeedDemon after an existing feed is synched with Google Reader.
  • Changed: Clippings are now deprecated. Existing clippings folders are still supported, but clippings won't be available to new users. The main reason for this change is that the new tagging features provide similar functionality.
  • Fixed: "Source" column lost after re-running watch
  • Fixed: tags in description result in unreadable text
  • Fixed: Conversion to Google Reader fails to check whether FeedDemon is working offline
  • Fixed: "Update Shared Items" and "Update Synchronized Tags" don't first sync recent changes with Google Reader
  • Fixed: Authenticated feeds in NewsGator aren't moved to a non-synched folder when converting (must happen since Google Reader doesn't support authenticated feeds)
  • Fixed: FeedDemon's help doesn't reflect changes in the new version

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.24 RC3 (Jul 15, 2009)

  • Added: "Disable synchronization" added to Google Reader synchronization options - permanently disables sync between FeedDemon and Google Reader without affecting your Google Reader subscriptions
  • Added: "Send anonymous usage data" added to General page in Options (anonymously sends URLs of read/flagged/emailed posts and URLs of added/deleted feeds to NewsGator). This is basically the same as the attention data reporting in previous versions, except that it can be disabled for all feeds instead of just on a per-feed basis.
  • Changed: Improved performance when copying or deleting from the news item list
  • Changed: "Rerun watch" is significantly faster
  • Changed: FeedDemon no longer automatically creates a backup of the feed database - instead, the subscription report reminds to create a backup every two weeks
  • Fixed: Accelerators missing from install
  • Fixed: Range error editing various numeric settings when current locale uses a thousands separator other than a comma
  • Fixed: "File in use" error when rapidly switching between "All Unread Items" and "All Flagged Items"
  • Fixed: "Resynchronize" is unreliable
  • Fixed: HTTP 404 when updating synched Google Reader feeds containing spaces in their URLs
  • Fixed: If FeedDemon detects at startup that an existing instance is already running and is hung, the second instance continues to execute after choosing not to kill first instance
  • Fixed: Cleanup Wizard "don't remind me" link appears to do nothing
  • Fixed: Google Reader sync options doesn't enforce limit of 500 new items to retrieve per feed
  • Fixed: "Database is locked" error at startup

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.23 RC2 (Jun 4, 2009)

  • Added: Bing search definition
  • Fixed: Older tagged/starred posts aren't retrieved when synching with Google Reader
  • Fixed: "Find Feeds" inoperable when synching with Google Reader
  • Fixed: Outlook used when emailing posts even when Windows Mail set as the default email client
  • Fixed: "New items received" message appears offscreen when newspaper is scrolled
  • Fixed: "SQLite Error 5 - database is locked" error at startup or after running cleanup wizard
  • Fixed: "Update all" icon remains as hourglass following connection failure
  • Fixed: Newspaper shortcut for "Next item (automatically move to next feed)" doesn't correctly navigate folders
  • Fixed: Misaligned highlight in "Photo Strip" newspaper style
  • Fixed: "Access denied" error downloading FDXSL/FDLANG/FDSRCH files from within FeedDemon when not logged into Windows as an admin
  • Fixed: "Error saving file" dialog blocks FeedDemon until dialog is dismissed
  • Fixed: Slow performance using J/K to navigate newspaper

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.22 RC1 (May 21, 2009)

  • Added: "Express Setup" added to install - quickly installs FeedDemon using default location and program group
  • Added: Performance improvements to subscription search, cleanup wizard and panic button
  • Added: "E" single-key newspaper shortcut to email active item
  • Added: Option to automatically start FeedDemon when Windows starts
  • Changed: "Filters & Watches" renamed to simply "Watches"
  • Changed: FeedStation no longer prompts for "MyPodcasts" login at startup
  • Changed: "Open in external browser" single-key newspaper shortcut changed from "E" to "X"
  • Changed: "Popular in My Subscriptions" fills in the blanks using the most recent posts across all your feeds
  • Fixed: Prefetch has been rewritten to resolve sporadic exceptions that occured in previous versions (esp. when IE8 installed)
  • Fixed: Posts starred in Google Reader don't get flagged in FeedDemon
  • Fixed: New posts tagged in Google Reader don't get tagged in FeedDemon
  • Fixed: "Mark all read" missing from Google Reader Shared Items context menu
  • Fixed: Can't login to Google Reader if password contains non-alphanumeric characters
  • Fixed: Incorrect date grouping in news item list
  • Fixed: "Browser Home" icon on new tab page fails when IE8 is installed
  • Fixed: Clicking close button on browser tab changes the active tab
  • Fixed: Disabled feeds still updated when synched with Google Reader
  • Fixed: Resizing columns in FeedStations sometimes leaves blank area on left

New in FeedDemon Pro 3.0.0.7 Beta 1 (Mar 31, 2009)

  • Added: Redesigned "Subscriptions Home" page with popular videos and articles extracted from your feeds
  • Added: Items can now be tagged Tags are synchronized with NewsGator "Subscriptions Home" includes a tag cloud Tags can be dragged from the tree and dropped onto a post in a FeedDemon newspaper Tagged items can be excluded by the Cleanup Wizard Tagging is now included in the attention algorithm "G" single-key newspaper shortcut displays tag editor for current item
  • Added: "Share" icon added to newspaper which adds the item to your shared clippings. Note: If you have multiple shared clippings folders, you can change which one this feature uses by right-clicking on "Clippings" and selecting "Choose default clippings folder."
  • Added: Ability to view all unread or flagged items at once
  • Added: Hovering over a short URL (TinyURL.com, etc.) now shows the full URL in a balloon tip so you know where the URL redirects (great when browsing Twitter). For a list of supported URL shortening services, see the file ShortUrl.xml in FeedDemon's Data subfolder.
  • Added: Automatic hyperlinking of URLs, @replies, #hashtags and author names in Twitter feeds. Profile pictures will also be displayed when subscribing to the Atom version of a Twitter feed if the feed is in a folder that isn't synchronized.
  • Added: "Reply" link in newspaper when viewing a post from a Twitter feed Added: Redesigned toolbutton icons
  • Added: "Icons" button added to Options|Reading which enables choosing which icons should appear beneath each item in the newspaper (due to this addition, several of the default icons from previous versions are now hidden by default)
  • Added: Startup and Import wizards now enable importing your Google Reader subscriptions
  • Added: Close button added to individual browser tabs
  • Added: Significant performance improvements in "Popular Topics," "Search Subscriptions," newspaper display and many other areas
  • Added: "Export Newspaper" added to File menu - exports all posts from all pages in the active newspaper to an external HTML document Added: "Surfer" newspaper style now remembers whether thumbnails have been collapsed
  • Added: "Enable page transitions" has been added to Options|Appearance, which defaults to being enabled unless IE8 is installed (a bug in IE8 Beta 2 causes the transitions to fail)
  • Added: FeedDemon attempts to detect when script debugging is enabled in Internet Explorer and asks whether to turn it off (script debugging causes error dialogs to popup while browsing inside any application that embeds IE) Added: Fixed header in reports/newspapers (requires IE7 or later) Added: "Browser Home" added to tabbed browser context menu
  • Added: Hourglass icon now appears on browser tabs that are still loading Added: Main menu can be toggled by right-clicking any toolbar and selecting "Show main menu"
  • Added: Theme selection added to Appearance page in Options (this replaces the "UI Style" option from previous versions)
  • Added: Newspaper now displays "new items received" message when new items are downloaded in the feed or folder showing in the newspaper Added: "Export Top Feeds" added to File menu
  • Added: "Panic Button" now enables marking everything more than 12 hours old as read
  • Added: "Attention Report" now enables exporting top feeds as OPML
  • Added: Embedded ads via The Deck
  • Added: Support for NGES ratings and group clippings (NewsGator Enterprise Server only)
  • Added: Cleanup Wizard and Panic Button can now be limited to specific folders
  • Added: Feed and folder properties now enable specifying how many days to keep items
  • Added: When you switch to a language file other than the default, FeedDemon validates it to make sure it doesn't have any missing entries or arguments. If any problems are found, a dialog will alert that the language file contains errors and recommend that it not be used. Details on the errors are also shown in this dialog, which should help translators debug their work. Added: Support for GIF, PNG, JPEG, BMP and truecolor ICO favicons (149843) Added: "Ignore new items older than" added to folder properties
  • Added: Enclosure icon added to feed preview (138822)
  • Changed: Feed content is now stored in a SQLite database instead of in individual XML files Changed: System requirements now include IE7 rather than IE6
  • Changed: Browser toolbar simplified by hiding several toolbuttons (note: if there's a button you want back, just click the "Customize" arrow at the far right of the toolbar)
  • Changed: "Favorites" is now on the main menu instead of the toolbar above the browser
  • Changed: Auto-discovered feed icon is now part of the address bar
  • Changed: Items are now added to synchronized clippings in a background thread
  • Changed: Check for new version and "what's new" are now integrated into the subscription home report
  • Changed: Panic Button results now shown in "timed" dialog which automatically disappears after 60 seconds
  • Changed: The default clippings folder is selected from the clippings context menu rather than through a checkbox on the clippings properties Changed: "My Clippings" can no longer be hidden
  • Changed: Sounds for "Desktop alert" and "Add to clippings" are now enabled by default
  • Changed: Surfer newspaper now shows friendlier message when no items match the current filter
  • Changed: Simplified Options dialog by removing outdated settings
  • Changed: New browser tabs are now opened adjacent to the active tab instead of after the last tab (similar to IE7 and Chrome)
  • Changed: Language files ("FDLANGs") are now installed under the user's local application data folder (previous versions stored FDLANGs in a subfolder of Program FilesFeedDemon, which caused Vista's folder virtualization to kick in when a non-admin user attempted to download an FDLANG)
  • Changed: Inline search bar flashes briefly when displayed to draw attention to it (some customers expected Ctrl+F to show IE's "Find" dialog and didn't notice inline search bar)
  • Changed: Email icon now shown in newspaper by default
  • Changed: Simplified Cleanup Wizard (now a simple dialog instead of a wizard)
  • Changed: "Feed History" report has been removed - my impression is that this feature was rarely (if ever) used, so let me know if you relied upon it Fixed: FeedStation creates incorrect folder names if enclosure URL contains spaces Fixed: Disabled watches fail to be grayed out when they contains unread items
  • Fixed: Embedded HTML Tidy locks up when item description contains unclosed XML instruction Fixed: Unsubscribing from multiple feeds is slow Fixed: Left/right arrow keys don't work in the inline search box
  • Fixed: Bad comments in feed prevent some items from being shown in FeedDemon newspaper (discovered with this French Gizmodo feed)
  • Fixed: Excessive flicker when selecting "Close Other Tabs"
  • Fixed: EOutOfResources error when running FeedDemon in a remote session Fixed: FeedDemon comes to the front of other applications when the desktop alert's close button is clicked
  • Fixed: FeedDemon warns that you're subscribing to a feed you're already subscribed to even when it's a secure feed that you've supplied a different login to
  • Fixed: Items deleted from non-synched feeds reappear during a later update
  • Fixed: J/K newspaper shortcuts scroll too far (149242)
  • Fixed: Can't delete "My Clippings" when NewsGator login isn't known
  • Fixed: Login dialog displayed when "My Clippings" updated and NewsGator login isn't known
  • Fixed: "Unable to clip this post" error when clipping old posts
  • Fixed: URLs in address bar dropdown can be wider than address bar itself Fixed: Cancelling "Panic Button" still causes "No items marked read" to appear in the status bar
  • Fixed: FeedDemon blocks enclosure URLs that end in whitespace
  • Fixed: Subscription tree indentation incorrect on Windows Vista after hitting "Reset to Defaults" on Options|Appearance
  • Fixed: Google AdSense image ads aren't skipped by FeedDemon's prefetch, and they appear even when showing excerpts (137930)
  • Fixed: FeedDemon can't subscribe to feeds containing numerous encoding errors (138759)
  • Fixed: When IE's popup blocker is disabled, multiple IE windows are spawned when "Open external links in default browser" is enabled and feed contains Brightcove video player
  • Fixed: "Subscription Home" report not updated when FeedDemon isn't the active application
  • Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't highlight in the taskbar when it displays a dialog and it's not the active application
  • Fixed: Progress bar fails to update when backing up cache folder on Windows Vista
  • Fixed: Many missing menu mnemonics (say that five times fast)
  • Fixed: Ctrl+Alt+Home opens feed's home page in new browser tab instead of current one
  • Fixed: Clicking "Next Page" does nothing when root watches or clippings node is selected
  • Fixed: "Import Feeds" slow to show list of feeds
  • Fixed: Choosing "Show in External Browser" sometimes fails when Google Chrome is the default browser
  • Fixed: Icon for "Show in default browser" not always correct after installing IE8 (158851)
  • Fixed: EOleException or EInvalidPointer exception when closing a browser tab (automatic error reporting showed this as the #1 bug)
  • Fixed: ESQLite3 exception when feed auto-discovered Fixed: EIntOverflow exception caused by converting invalid dates
  • Fixed: EListError exception when importing feeds
  • Fixed: EStringListError exception with duplicate language resources
  • Fixed: EListError exception when accessing favorites offline
  • Fixed: EOleSysError exception when emailing post with Microsoft Outlook Fixed: EnbFeedXmlParser exception parsing feed that has no node
  • Fixed: EWriteError exception saving invalid favicon
  • Fixed: EAccessViolation exception after hitting "Panic Button"
  • Fixed: EAccessViolation exception after moving feed Known IssuesRatings applied in NewsGator Enterprise Server aren't reflected in FeedDemon Tags added in FeedDemon are synched with NewsGator, but tags added in another NewsGator application/service may not be reflected in FeedDemon "Organize Favorites" fails after installing IE8 (this appears to be an IE8 bug)

New in FeedDemon Pro 2.8.0.8 RC1 (Dec 11, 2008)

  • Added: Embedded ads via The Deck
  • Added: Cleanup Wizard and Panic Button can now be limited to specific folders
  • Added: Separate confirmation before removing a feed, watch or clippings folder that contains tagged items
  • Changed: Simplified Cleanup Wizard (now a simple dialog instead of a wizard)
  • Changed: Cleanup Wizard now defaults to not removing tagged items
  • Fixed: Embedded video overlaps fixed header in newspaper (only partially fixed in previous versions)
  • Fixed: "Share" icon fails when synching with NGES (150640)
  • Fixed: Clicking the previously selected feed/folder doesn't refresh the newspaper

New in FeedDemon Pro 2.8.0.6 Beta 3a (Nov 24, 2008)

  • Added: Feed and folder properties now enable specifying how many days to keep items
  • Added: When you switch to a language file other than the default, FeedDemon validates it to make sure it doesn't have any missing entries or arguments. If any problems are found, a dialog will alert that the language file contains errors and recommend that it not be used. Details on the errors are also shown in this dialog, which should help translators debug their work.
  • Added: The "What's New" page is now translatable
  • Fixed: Items deleted from non-synched feeds reappear during a later update

New in FeedDemon Pro 2.6.0.21 Final (Jan 15, 2008)

  • New instance of FeedDemon loads with misleading "application is hung" error message when attempting to subscribe from Firefox
  • Cyrillic characters don't display correctly in FeedDemon's desktop alert
  • Buttons cut off on keyboard shortcuts dialog when running at 120dpi
  • Exception when importing invalid OPML
  • Exception after synching on Windows 98
  • Exception in prefetch options when setting "max items to prefetch"
  • Wrong/ugly colors in newspaper header with some XP or WindowBlinds themes

New in FeedDemon Pro 2.6.0.20 Final (Jan 9, 2008)

  • "Panic Button" � detects when you have a ton of unread items and offers to mark them (or a subset of them) as read
  • Significant performance improvements
  • Redesigned newspaper UI
  • Significant improvements to offline reading support, including redesigned "prefetching" of feeds
  • Inline page search
  • Attention reporting/APML export

New in FeedDemon Pro 2.1.0.8 RC2 (Nov 6, 2006)

  • Added: "Send To" functionality is now dynamic, so power users can add their own items to the various "Send To" menus. Check FeedDemon's UserDataSendTo folder for details
  • Changed: Search box moved back to browser toolbar
  • Changed: If you choose to have FeedStation start with Windows, it will now always start minimized
  • Changed: The "action icons" in Surfer style have been moved to the bottom of each item
  • Fixed: Clicking a single item in a feed doesn't use that feed's newspaper style if one has been assigned to it
  • Fixed: Clicking "open in new tab" in newspaper opens should open in FeedDemon regardless of external browser setting
  • Fixed: Search box appears mid-screen if hidden in previous session
  • Fixed: After right-clicking an inactive feed or folder, the newspaper doesn't appear when clicking an item in the active feed
  • Fixed: "Search Options" toolbutton shows wrong name in toolbar customization menu
  • Fixed: Bogus newspaper title link when a group is selected in the news item list (76450)
  • Fixed: FeedStation displays multiple login dialogs when checking "My Podcasts" if login is incorrect (76464)
  • Fixed: Maximized FeedDemon not correctly restored
  • Fixed: Hitting Enter in the newspaper doesn't mark the selected item as read
  • Fixed: Unexpected scrolling when navigating back in newspaper
  • Fixed: Embedded browser displays JavaScript error alerts even when "Suppress dialogs and error messages in browser" is enabled (76623)