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Portable RSS Xpress Changelog

What's new in Portable RSS Xpress 2.11.11

Jul 4, 2011
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Application crashing when the VS 2010 C++ Redistributable package was not installed. This package is no more necessary to run RSS Xpress

New in Portable RSS Xpress 2.11.7 (Jun 18, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Application crashing when trying to delete numerous news at once

New in Portable RSS Xpress 2.10.2 (Apr 21, 2011)

  • Improvements:
  • Modification of the official website (http://rssxpress.lesrayms.fr/en/) and of the auto-update functionality

New in Portable RSS Xpress 2.9.22 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Improvements:
  • Some invalid feeds (which do not comply with the RSS/atom standard) are now accepted
  • RSS Xpress now checks if the proxy address is valid
  • RSS Xpress now supports the NTLM protocol
  • RSS Xpress proposes, for proxies, an "auto-detection" mode
  • The last version of ADO.net for SQLite is used
  • It is no more necessary to launch the application with administrator rights, even for using the feed protocol (Firefox)
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Bug when launching for the first time RSS Xpress under Windows 7
  • An error was sometime raised after moving a folder. Then, RSS Xpress could not be launched anymore
  • Bug with the headers of columns in the list of news when clicking on them for sorting news
  • After searching for a keyword, an error was raised when one clicks immediately after on the red cross of the toolbar
  • Bug with the setup under Windows 7 (the desktop shortcut was not correctly created)
  • The feeds catalogue was not working
  • Translations were incomplete

New in Portable RSS Xpress 2.8.6 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Improvements:
  • Administrative rights are no longer needed to run RSS Xpress (Vista)
  • It is now possible to add a feed even if it contains no news
  • A new language is available: Spanish (Spain) in addition to the existing Spanish (Latin America)
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Feedback Links (suggestions & bug) were not working
  • After installation, the web page did not open always in the right language (EN or FR)

New in Portable RSS Xpress 2.7.46 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • For the users with a proxy, each time RSS Xpress was launched, the proxy login and password were requested
  • When clicking on "Protect this news" from the context menu of the tab of a news open in the integrated browser, the news was not always effectively protected

New in Portable RSS Xpress 2.7.45 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • A minor functionality of RSS Xpress (feed protocol) is not compatible with the prior version of Windows NT (generation of an error message when launching the application). This functionality is now automatically disable for the operating systems concerned.

New in Portable RSS Xpress 2.7.44 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • When a news GUID contained a quote ('), the news was not retrieved
  • When a news date (pubdate) had the year on two digits, the news was not retrieved
  • Bug when searching for news if the "News recently deleted" was selected in the treeview
  • Bug when selecting the "Edition" menu after searching for news
  • Improvements:
  • New version of the SQLite wrapper
  • Now, RSS Xpress always checks new release when starting the application

New in Portable RSS Xpress 2.7.34 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Links "Help / FAQ" has been updated to open the online help forum
  • The toolbar "Default 32px" was not working anymore (the toolbar "Example" has been removed)
  • When adding a feed from Firefox, when RSS Xpress worked on a USB key, the language was asked again
  • Logs for RSS parser were not written
  • When doing a drag & drop of a category, it was not moved
  • FeedValidator URL has been updated
  • Improvements:
  • When selecting a feed, only news of the current month and the previous month are displayed by default. A link has been added to display all under the list. The following exceptions are taken into consideration:
  • By default, not more than 100 news are displayed
  • If the number of news of the current month and the previous one is not higher than 30, the 30 more recent news are displayed without date limitation
  • By default, all the protected news are displayed without date limitation
  • • A node “News recently deleted” has been added to the treeview to retrieve news deleted by mistake
  • The auto-update device of RSS Xpress has been revised. Now, the error message is not displayed when checking at the application start. Besides, the device checks for update weekly (and not daily)
  • Proxy: it is anew possible to enter manually the login/password of the proxy
  • The SQLite dll has been updated
  • When entering * in the quick search, all the news are displayed
  • The size of the proxy address field has been increased to 128 characters

New in Portable RSS Xpress 2.6.186 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • The feeds which answer to a http request had to value for LastModified were not updated
  • It was sometimes impossible to add a feed when using a proxy
  • Bug with the filter to delete news
  • Bug when adding a feed if its URL does not start by HTTP://
  • Improvements:
  • RSS Xpress can now be used on an USB key
  • Some shortcuts has been updated (Ctrl-R, etc.)
  • Possibility to (un-)activate in the options for the news preview frame, the ActiveX, Javascript and videos
  • The options to keep all the news or only the ones for the last X months have been modified (to be more comprehensible)
  • The time to display news has been optimised
  • The time to mark news of feed or of category as read has been optimised
  • The time to close RSS Xpress has been optimised when closing the Windows session
  • The time to launch RSS Xpress has been optimised
  • RSS Xpress is now compatible with Firefox 2.0
  • Few optimisations of connexions to the database
  • RSS Xpress retrieve automatically the login/password of the proxy
  • It is now possible in the options to define the IP or domains of exception for using the proxy
  • The feeds which update frequency is set to nether are no more updated when starting the application (only during manual updates)

New in Portable RSS Xpress 2.5.159 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Critical bug: the feeds were not updated when the english version of the framework .net 2.0 was installed
  • Bug when trying to delete the news of a category

New in Portable RSS Xpress 2.5.158 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • When the option "Keep all news" was checked, each time the options window was opened, the message "It is recommanded to... " was displayed
  • The pubDate tag was considered for RSS 0.91 et 0.92
  • Bug the news date when the day was composed of one digit
  • Bug in some case when loading the application after having moved categories in the treeview
  • Bug when selecting "Never" as frequency in the options
  • The choice of the notifier sound had disappeared in the options
  • The text displayed when typing keyword when adding a feed was not translated
  • When double-clicking on a news, the preview disappeared
  • When adding an official feed by the Feed protocol, the feed was not placed under the RSS Xpress news node
  • Category renaming is now case sensitive. So, renaming "FEED" in "feed" is now accepted
  • Favicons were not retrieved by using the feed login/pass
  • When updating the first time feeds, favicons were moving from one node to another
  • Bug when middle-clicking on the news list but not on a news (blank space)
  • The Gmail feed is working again
  • Bug when selecting the high priority for the application
  • The function "Check feed validity" did not work correctly if the URL was composed of the & char
  • A translation was missing in the OPML import window
  • An error occurred when using the function "Inform a friend of this news by Microsoft Messenger" when Windows Messenger was not installed
  • When clicking on "Access to the full news", the news did not open in the tab or the default browser
  • No news were displayed in the list if a filter was created with a keyword containing one of the following chars: %, *, [ or ]
  • The welcome page opened, according to the options, in the default browser
  • Improvements:
  • RSS Xpress is now multi-users
  • Atom 1.0 is now supported
  • Security: javascript is now unable in the preview frame
  • Optimisation of the time to display news preview
  • Optimisation of the launching of the application
  • Optimisation of the closing of RSS Xpress when shutting down Windows
  • Optimisation of the time to mark feeds as read
  • It is now possible to filter news by Author
  • Treeview flashing when updating feeds has been reduced
  • When minimising RSS Xpress, the news list is updated (in order not to see for instance the read news in My Feeds except the selected one)
  • My Feeds in the treeview is now translated
  • A contextual menu has been added for the feeds proposed in the catalogue in order to alert moderators of litigious feeds
  • When using the mouse wheel above the news list and if the treeview has the focus, the list obtain it automatically
  • Feeds compressed with Gzip are not supported
  • The languages parameters in the feeds catalogue are now saved
  • A sorting sign has been added in the column label for the news list
  • The RSS Xpress icon in the systray is now display since the launching in orange
  • The time of the last update is now displayed in the feed properties
  • The RSS Xpress closing is now done more properly when updates are in progress
  • The default icons in the treeview for the categories and feeds has been updated (thanks Sylvie)
  • The shortcut ctrl-R of the treeview is not also available from the news list
  • When a feed is selected, the shorcuts Ctrl + Up/down arrow select the next feed with unread news
  • The tag can not be closed by middle-clicking (in addition to the double-clicking)
  • The button "Mark all feeds as read" has been added to the toolbar
  • A new option has been added to the "News" category : "Minimise the application after marking all news as read"
  • The general feeds informations (website, author, image, etc.) are now automatically updated
  • The interface of the auto-update window has been updated

New in Portable RSS Xpress 2.0.105 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • The feeds updates were blocked in some cases
  • When displaying the options for the first time after launching the application, an error occured
  • Some feeds displayed an error when updated
  • When unchecking "Protected by a password" in feed properties, the username and password were still displayed
  • When clicking on a headline, the focus did not stay on the news list
  • Bug when deleting, marking as read/unread too much news at the same time
  • Bug when minimizing the application if more than 40 tabs were open
  • Bug when deleting a feed when it was updated for the first time (icon currently used)
  • Auto-update did not work with a proxy
  • Favicons were not retrieved with a proxy
  • Bug when deleting quickly and successively some news
  • The link "Access to the full news" did not work with URL containing the character #
  • Feeds 0.91 were not updated behind a proxy
  • The auto-update window was modal
  • When a feed contained several tags for a headline, RSS Xpress used always the first one
  • News which category text exceeded 255 character were not retrieved
  • Error when downloading an update if the website was inaccessible
  • Some minor bugs
  • Improvements:
  • Feeds Importation / Exportation
  • New import wizard much more intuitive
  • The feeds exportation include now the categories
  • Feeds update
  • New version of the parser (which fixes some bugs regarding not updated feeds)
  • When updating all feeds, buttons are deactivated during 5 seconds to prevent repeated requests
  • Management and lecture of news
  • News filter: in Tools / News filter, it is now possible to delete automatically for instance headlines which start by ADV (adds), to change the colour of those including a keyword in order to highlight it, etc.
  • It is no more possible to delete a headline which is currently open in a tab
  • The headline preview frame is emptied when unselecting headline in the list
  • Possibility to download attachment (for instance for podcasting) since the headline preview frame
  • The author of a headline has been added in a separated column in the list
  • Possibility to inform a friend of one or several headlines by Windows MSN Messenger: by right clicking on the title in the list, then "Inform a friend of this news" / "By Microsoft Messenger"
  • Adding of the author in the headline preview frame
  • Feeds management
  • Setting up of a feeds catalogue updated in real-time: from the menu Tools / Feeds catalogue, you access to a panel of feeds classified by categories. To do so, you need firstly to share your public feeds (those for which no password is necessary). Your feeds, after been moderated, will be accessible too in the following days!
  • New shortcut to go directly to the next feed / category of the list with unread headlines (ctrl + top/bottom arrow)
  • Adding, in the context menu of feeds, of the action "Check feed validity"
  • When adding a new feed, it is possible to type its url or a keyword (linked to the catalogue): type for instance "geek" and RSS Xpress will propose you all feeds which contain this keyword
  • Possibility to define individually the refresh frequency of feeds
  • The refresh frequency is defined in a drop-down list
  • Possibility to create sub-categories
  • RSS Xpress official feeds are now automatically stored below "RSS Xpress News" node
  • Adding of a tab "Details" in the feed properties window
  • Adding, when right clicking on a feed, of the possibility to copy the feed url (or with ctrl-c)
  • Adding, in the context menu of "My Feeds", of an action to create a new category
  • Optimization
  • Optimization of the processor use during feeds updates
  • Optimization of the time of feeds updates
  • The database is only compressed when closing manually RSS Xpress (and no more when closing Windows). This for preventing Windows messages saying that RSS Xpress does not reply
  • Options
  • Simplification of drop-down lists for notifiers / headline preview options
  • Possibility to hide/display the toolbar/menu
  • Adding of an "Apply" button
  • Options has been reorganised
  • Interface
  • New icons for the toolbar
  • Possibility to customize the toolbar icons
  • The "About" window has been updated
  • The official notifier has been updated
  • Installation
  • The installation is now available in English but also in French
  • The installation has been redeveloped by SpawnX (thanks to him!)
  • Miscellaneous
  • Possibility to reduce the application priority regarding others in the advanced options
  • Possibility to choose the number of feeds simultaneous updated
  • Compatibility with the "feed protocol" : behind this name which could seem barbarian is hiding a very useful functionality! If you are using like me Firefox, install the extension "Feed your reader". You will see an orange-rectangle-shaped icon on the bottom right which will inform you of feeds available for the website you are currently browsing (try it with the one of RSS Xpress). With a simple click, you will be able to add these feeds in RSS Xpress directly from your favourite browser!
  • The user-agent is better informed in order to retrieve RSS Xpress version and also the operating system
  • When clicking again on the systray icon, RSS Xpress is minimized

New in Portable RSS Xpress 1.4.1 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fatal error sometimes when loading RSS Xpress
  • Improvements:
  • Integration of a first version of logs which will help fixing future bugs

New in Portable RSS Xpress 1.4 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • The « address » field for the proxy has been extended
  • The update of the feeds via a proxy did not work
  • "fluttering" effect when displaying lot of news in the list
  • When added a folder or a feed, the font used was not the one defined in the options
  • The different links (official website, official forums, notifiers, etc.) did not work correctly due to a security update of the website
  • Error when displaying a headline without description in a tab
  • Error when removing an UNread headline
  • Problem with the fields’ controls (update frequency > 5, etc.) : no way to cancel the window without modifying the value before
  • If several headlines were opened in tabs, and the user inform a friend of one using the button "@", it was always the last headline in the tab which was forward by email
  • Some minor bugs
  • Improvements:
  • Optimisation of the time to display the news list
  • Optimisation of the time to update the feeds
  • Optimisation of the time to open RSS Xpress
  • Optimisation of the time to close RSS Xpress
  • When the application is reduced in the systray, it does not g????*?o throw the intermediate size step
  • RSS Xpress use now the GUID field to compare news
  • The passwords are not encrypted. IMPORTANT: thus, you have to type them all again (for the proxy in the options and for feeds, from the “properties” window)
  • For those who use the Gmail feed, now it works perfectly!
  • Suppression of the window « Rename » (un-useful as this functionality is already in the “properties” window)
  • The sub-menu has been moved from the Options menu to the File menu
  • Minor improvements

New in Portable RSS Xpress 1.31 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Some headlines were deleted by mistake when exiting the application
  • The fields "Username" and "Password" for the proxy were limited to 5 characters
  • Some minor bugs
  • Improvements:
  • A new language file is available for the interface: German (thank you Danbel!)
  • Minor improvements

New in Portable RSS Xpress 1.3 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Error with atom feeds without description
  • Bug when clicking on "exit" from the systray icon when the window of closing confirmation was displayed
  • Problem when drag & dropping feeds in the treeview: the scrolling was not automatic
  • The User-Agent is now informed for the http requests
  • Problem with several feeds corrected thank to the new library fully re-coded!
  • Some minor bugs

New in Portable RSS Xpress 1.2 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • The welcome page was opened in the default browser when launching RSS Xpress if the advanced option was checked (open in the default browser)
  • Error message when the window was minimized and a lot of tabs were opened
  • A message appeared when opening the options window and “Keep all news” was checked
  • Some minor bugs
  • Improvements:
  • Refresh options has been added for feeds in the property window
  • The icon in the systray is now blinking when news are downloaded
  • The tab “Navigation” has been added to the options window for even more customization
  • Minor improvements

New in Portable RSS Xpress 1.0 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • When double clicking on the cross of the treeview and a feed was selected, its website was opened in a tag
  • By the end of the refresh of a folder or a single feed, the button of the toolbar was not initialised
  • When deleting read news, the ones which was protected were delected toossi effacées
  • Some minor bugs
  • Improvements:
  • A new logo and so a new default notifier has been created
  • The icons used in the treeview are now stored locally
  • In the search window, the keywords used during the last launching are kept in a dropping list
  • A backup of the database is done when closing RSS Xpress in case the base is corrupted
  • Minor improvement